It's been clear to me a long time that Dems are weighed down by consultants and fundraisers that care more about preserving their income than winning elections, to the detriment of everyone (except themselves) involved.
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![Because the inquiry was framed only in terms of whether a project "relate[d] at all to DEI" (whatever that might mean to ChatGPT), projects whose abbreviated descriptions contained general references to "history," "culture," or "identity" were frequently identified by ChatGPT as relating to DEI. For example, a project to recover and analyze ancient writings attributed to Moses but excluded from the canonical Hebrew Bible and preserved in fragmentary form (e.g., the Book of Jubilees and the Testament of Moses) was classified as DEI because it claimed to "provide important insight into Jewish thought from two thousand years ago, complementary to insight from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament." Dkt. No. 248-11, at 99, C461-1461 (emphasis added). The project description reflects a highly technical effort involving multispectral imaging,
textual reconstruction, and the recovery of deteriorated source materials. Id. Yet, the assigned
rationale consists of a single sentence linking the project to "Jewish thought," which ChatGPT
considered to be aligned with "DEI" goals. Id.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreib6l4cxum3fr4phpnwbby6mmhtqs7sz3xx7cfcc4yeszgrcsf5swu)
![The key phrase—“an establishment of religion”—was readily
understandable to founding-era citizens. See District of Columbia v. Heller,
554 U.S. 570, 576–77 (2008) (relying on a phrase’s “[n]ormal meaning . . .
known to ordinary citizens in the founding generation”). The reason is
simple. At the time, establishments were “a familiar institution.”
McConnell, Establishment, supra note 12, at 2107.13 Someone on the streets
of 1789 Boston, reading that phrase, would have instantly thought of the
Church of England, the colonial established churches, or the current state
establishments—in other words, a polity’s official church or religion. Ibid.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aw426jbgw7drhivb4ijrizlu/bafkreiduhdy2udsogi6jjhgxmz764ne7a25cvulptoeqmzq2kevp6pe66e)
