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Not only does this memo give serious Handmaids Tale vibes (prioritizing the pious and the fertile while the rest of us go without)….

But don’t snooze on the fact that they’ve made it so if you get funding from the Department of Transportation you can’t have a vaccine or mask mandate.

COVID isn’t over. H5N1 is spreading rapidly and has pandemic potential.

We’ve got RFK Jr poised to take over HHS and do untold amounts of damage to public health.

Yet they’re still coming for masks and vaccines.

Please wear a mask while you still can. Mask to protect your own health and to show solidarity with disabled and marginalized people who’ve been cast aside and treated as expendable for years.

Mask to Resist.

Via Ken Klipperstein

#uspoli #dot #dei #deia #departmentoftransportation #discrimination #masks #vaccines #pandemic #publichealth #covidisnotover #h5n1
Memo from department of transportation which reads Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary of Transportation SUBJECT: ENSURING RELIANCE UPON SOUND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION POLICIES, PROGRAMS, AND ACTIVITIES DOT Order 1. PURPOSE This Order updates and resets the principles and standards underpinning U.S. Department of Transportation (Department or DOT) policies, programs, and activities to mandate reliance on rigorous economic analysis and positive cost-benefit calculations and ensure that all DOT grants, loans, contracts, and DOT-supported or -assisted State contracts bolster the American economy and benefit the American people. 2. CANCELLATION None 3. APPLICABILITY AND SCOPE. This Order applies to all the Department's Operating Administrations (OA) and the Departmental Offices in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST).' 4. EFFECTIVE DATE This Order is effective upon its date of execution. 5. POLICIES. The following principles govern the implementation and administration of all DOT policies, pro-grams, and activities: a. The Department's grantmaking, lending, policymaking, and rulemaking activities shall be based on sound economic principles and analysis supported by rigorous cost-benefit requirements and data-driven decisions. This requirement shall apply 1 The terms "Operating Administration" and "OA" hereinafter refer to both the Department's operating administrat
Page two of memo which reads ii. iii. iv. V. 3 utilize user-pay models; direct funding to local opportunity zones where permitted; to the extent practicable, relevant, appropriate, and consistent with law, mitigate the unique impacts of DOT programs, policies, and activities on families and family-specific difficulties, such as the accessibility of transportation to families with young children, and give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average (including in administering the Federal Transit Administration's Capital Investment Grant program); prohibit recipients of DOT support or assistance from imposing vaccine and mask mandates; and require local compliance or cooperation with Federal immigration enforcement and with other goals and objectives specified by the President of the United States or the Secretary.


Maybe #Republicans just hate #airtrafficcontrollers? Recall that when they wanted a raise #Reagan fired THEM ALL and replaced them with military ATCs. It was raises then, now it's #DEI.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvmdm1m7m9o


"It's because I have common sense."

The #OrangePoS's response when asked if he had any evidence the #AmericanAirlines #Plane crash was the result of a #DEI hire in the Air Traffic Control tower.

Note to Reporters: When this racist scumbag suddenly tries to blame someone else for no apparent reason, he's trying to distract you from something he heard could be connected to a decision he made. Look into it.


Summary of this week:

Trump: We banned DEI from government!

*Plane collision*

Trump: DEI is to blame.

#DCplanecrash #DEI #Satire


I like how #trump is going to make this guy the scapegoat for the #planecrash when people don't buy the #dei excuse #airdisaster #seanduffy


Last week: "#Trump Guts Key Aviation Safety Committee".

Today: The planes start crashing.

#FAA #crash #OMB #DEI #bigotry #GOP #auspol

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-aviation-safety-tsa-coast-guard_n_67912023e4b039fc12780c73


A lot of people are supporting Costco for "keeping DEI", but recall that 18,000 Costco Union workers are going on strike on Feb 1.

They are striking over: "seniority pay, paid family leave, bereavement policies, sick time, and safeguards against surveillance."

Don't wash out the labour power with your support of so-called DEI policies when they're not actively supporting the needs and rights of workers.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/business/costco-strike-teamsters/index.html

Read what the Teamsters are striking against. Union busting too.

"The Teamsters recently filed unfair labor practice charges against Costco for expelling union representatives, harassing workers for wearing union buttons, sending employees home, removing union literature, and even changing locks on union bulletin boards. Notably, Costco rejected a proposal that would protect the union’s right to post on bulletin boards without interference — an agreement that could have addressed some of these labor board complaints."

https://teamster.org/2024/12/costco-refuses-to-accept-98-of-teamsters-proposals/

#Costco #labor #DEI #solidarity


Inhaltswarnung: US politics, positive


Posting this here for, oh, no reason.

“Papers with four or five authors of multiple ethnicities have, on average, one to two more citations than those written by authors all of the same ethnicity. This effect represents a 5–10% difference in the mean number of citations for a given publication.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/513305a

#science #dei


I’ve done lots of work as a #DEI consultant, and heard all the associated complaints and fear-mongering, and the best response I ever heard was probably also the simplest:

“DEI is not lowering the bar, it is widening the gate.”

If you’re the best of the best, you’ll still rise to the top - all DEI does is allow everyone the opportunity to try. People who yell about DEI are simply announcing their insecurity about how their skills stack up in a larger pool.
#dei


This (or something along these lines) has been stuck in my head since reading all the rubbish about how the US businesses are pre-caving in to their new orange overlord and running away like the pathetic creatures they are from any semblance of decency. Needed to shake it out on to the screen to move on to something nicer.

#DEI #politics #nonsense
Two panel pop art style Lichtensteinesque comic strip (not particularly accomplished, this sort of thing is not a strong area for me). Left hand side is a close up a dotty face, a white man with brown hair looking slightly perturbed. There is a thought bubble leading to the man, reading "But what if people different to me are happy and successful too?!". The right hand panel shows an explosion in the bottom left, a huge bright yellow spiky DEI in the centre, and a man running away in the top right hand corner.


Now We’re Seeing a Conflagration of Lies and Disinformation About California

Bad-faith actors, including Donald Trump, are blaming the outcome on “diversity” in the fire department and a nonexistent “water declaration resolution.”

Had someone tell me this crap yesterday. Moron said it was #DEI that caused the fires and response and some BS about them sending equipment to #Ukraine

#California #Wildfires #LAFires

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/pacific-palisades-fire-altadena-santa-monica-los-angeles-donald-trump-elon-musk-misinformation-disinformation-lies-conspiracy-theories/


This person, who is blaming #DEI for the #fire fighting in #LA, is the latest addition to the #LATimes editorial board. Nauseating.

If you haven't canceled your subscription to #PatrickSoonShiong's campaign to undermine #democracy through #media #disinformation, now might be the right time.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/scott-jennings-says-la-firefighters-too-busy-promoting-diversity/

#PatrickSoonShiong
#LosAngelesTimes
#ScottJennings
#MAGA
#ClimateChange


This person, who is blaming #DEI for the #fire fighting in #LA, is the latest addition to the #LATimes editorial board. Nauseating.

If you haven't canceled your subscription to #PatrickSoonShiong's campaign to undermine #democracy through #media #disinformation, now might be the right time.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/scott-jennings-says-la-firefighters-too-busy-promoting-diversity/

#PatrickSoonShiong
#LosAngelesTimes
#ScottJennings
#MAGA
#ClimateChange


For those of you who are interested in seeing one reason why I do what I do in English Language Teaching, here's a blog post I wrote last year looking at some problematic materials still for sale in the ELT industry.

#LGBTQIA #DEI #Education #ESOL #Blog #InclusiveEducation

https://peterjfullagar.co.uk/a-mini-exploration-of-photocopiable-materials/


"Look, I’ve got nothing against Queequeg. He’s a nice guy. And he can spy a whale-spout in a hurricane. And swim like a dolphin. And hit a nickel-sized moving target in open water in one steel stroke. But all those “biggee” tattoos? Tell me they don’t scream “diversity hire.”

Love it!

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/id-be-lead-harpooner-on-the-pequod-if-it-wasnt-for-these-dei-hires

#DEI #Humor