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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.

(b) The Federal contracting process shall be streamlined to enhance
speed and efficiency, reduce costs, and require Federal contractors and subcontractors to comply with our civil-rights laws. Accordingly:
(1) Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked. For 90 days from the date of this order, Federal contractors may continue to comply with the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025.
(ii) The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within the Department of Labor shall immediately cease:
(A) Promoting "diversity";
(B) Holding Federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking "affirmative action"; and
(C) Allowing or encouraging Federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin.

(iii) In accordance with Executive Order 13279 of December 12, 2002
(Equal Protection of the Laws for Faith-Based and Community
Organizations), the employment, procurement, and contracting practices of Federal contractors and subcontractors shall not consider race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin in ways that violate the Nation's civil rights laws.
(iv) The head of each agency shall include in every contract or grant
award:
(A) A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal
anti-discrimination laws is material to the government's payment
decisions for purposes of section 3729(b) (4) of title 31, United States
Code; and
(B) A term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable
Federal anti-discrimination laws.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 22/01/2025

The directive rescinding President Johnson's non-discrimination executive order doesn't simply repudiate a foundational federal civil rights policy; it's a backdoor effort to force federal contractors to dismantle diversity programs using MAGA lawyers and snitches.

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Livio De La Cruz @livio.me · 22/01/2025

Do you think the government efficiency people are gonna chastise the administration for issuing obviously unconstitutional executive orders that waste millions of dollars in legal fees and court battles

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Countries who aren’t part of the World Health Organization: - Liechtenstein - The United States Countries who are part of the World Health Organization: Literally everyone else

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The best thing i saw today is a video of nuns in Louisiana, playing with snowballs. #snow #Louisiana #nuns

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

As best you can, ignore him.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

yeremi colino, a teenager stabbed to death in NYC last night by a group of men after he told them he didn’t speak english, deserves as much attention as the healthcare CEO, if not more. let’s give it to him. www.amny.com/new-york/man...

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 09/12/2024

I'm not mad at a baseball player getting paid his money, but its wild to me that MLB has teams that can shell out over $700 million for a player and teams that apparently can't build a stadium without taxpayer money.

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Let's transport antimatter across Europe ,what can go wrong. I've seen movies that start like that. Let's hope this is not the next December suprise.

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet is the best A side in all of music history, and that's the hill i am willing to die on. #music #vinyl

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 07/12/2024

It's #DOScember! Here's DOS and Windows 3 running on a... NeXTstation color?! It's also running Mac OS. And NeXTSTEP. All at the same time. And it did that 34 years ago. SoftPC got a version of DOS/Windows from Microsoft that's (partially) compiled for the Motorola 68040. #retrocomputing

A black "pizza box" form factor computer from the very early 1990s. There's a large (21") black color monitor on top of it, showing the NeXTSTEP operating system and Solitaire running both in a Macintosh emulator and in a Windows emulator.

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I've read this book as an ebook, but today, i finally bought a paper copy. I grew up in a city centered on the car factory. Both of my parents worked at the factory, and we went from comfortably middle class to having to worry about missing meals when it closed, that is why this book hits hard 📚💙

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"Deny, deny, deny. That's how you hit your numbers." Read @propublica.org's seminal series on how insurance giants like United and Cigna systematically, cruelly—and very, very profitably—deny health coverage every day, at the expense of patients' lives.

propublica.org

Uncovered

Health insurers reject millions of claims for treatment every year in America. Corporate insiders, recordings and internal emails expose the system and its harm.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I am so tired of seeing posts by people refusing to believe others read faster than them. Some people aren’t watching tv or spending a thousand hours on their phone. You’d be amazed how many books you can read if you try. Stop judging folks for how they spend their free time gosh.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/12/2024

This is really not the point, but man is the shooter an unintentional advertisement for the fastest way to get around is by bike

a map showing that the United Healthcare CEO was shot at 640 at 54th and 6th at 6:40am and that CCTV showed him exiting Central Park along Central Park west near 85th street a little before 7am

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Yorgos Cotronis @cotronis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today's my birthday! You ain't gotta get me anything but if you're so inclined to spare a like and a RT, I'd be thankful! Trying to build up again on a new social media platform is a pain. ✨Some of my work✨

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you gonna make a movie last 3 or more hours, then you need to have an overture, an intermission, and some end movie music. I am not sitting for 4 hours straight. #movies

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today, I rewatched The Ten Commandments, and I gotta say the people freed from slavery seem a bit ungrateful. They just witnessed God free them by visiting plagues on Egypt and parting of the sea, but Moses leaves them alone for a few hours and they are like fuck it there si no god lets have an orgy

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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

United healthcare initially denied coverage for my daughter’s birth because she wasn’t named on the policy at the time of services. This is not a joke, this really happened.

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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Maybe don’t put your life savings into crypto Just sayin 🤷‍♀️

Crypto bro complains they lost their life savings after investing into hawk tuah meme coin

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

meanwhile, just a few blocks away, Samantha had her sights set on a rich CEO as well

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Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 04/12/2024

My favorite detail of that CEO shooting video is the witness that realizes what's happening and starts to run away, but can't run too fast because they're holding a coffee and don't want to spill it.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

possibly the most coldblooded live bug I’ve ever seen

Intraday quote for UnitedHealth Group in a WSJ story shows the stock is up more than one percent after the CEO of one of its business units was assassinated.

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Max’s Dad @djwyszynski.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A single death is a tragedy, a million denied claims that lead to death, and pain, and suffering, and bankruptcy is a "business."

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ok, bear with me, guys. I have a theory that we split from the main timeline in 2016, and it all happened because the Cubs won the World Series.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

listen. I do not report on Korean politics. I'm out here because my (drunk) freelancer requests received a "can't do" so I just set off on my own. this is genuinely the most clumsy scene report possible. I really want to be honest about that.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Incredible courage of South Koreans defending their parliament from President Yoon Suk Yeol's attempt to overthrow democracy.

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StokesRJ2 @stokesrj2.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

A large conscript army of young guys who'd rather be home playing videos games, having ramen with noona, or otherwise chilling. $100 says the boys don't turn on the people. This ain't Korea of the 1970s.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 03/12/2024

Democratic Party aides are shown spraying fire extinguishers at the infiltrating army to keep them back. I just want to add that I am a South Korean citizen and Seoul resident and I am *extremely* proud of South Korean democracy and this president has violated something I hold sacrosanct

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

As of now, the martial law in Korea is illegal because the Parliament just voted against it. It all comes down to the military and whom they will obey.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 03/12/2024

They can't confirm if it's a full retreat—some of the soldiers are leaving outside. Speaker has demanded the military that has entered the National Assembly to leave immediately.

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Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If I'm seeing correctly, looks like the military is leaving the National Assembly and all major broadcasting stations continue to broadcast the events without interference. Might have to add botched martial law to the list of Yoon's incompetencies.

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I did not have a "Korean coup" on my end of the year bingo. 2024 decided to go crazy at the end.

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 29/11/2024

The EU and Japan have launched negotiations for Japan to join #HorizonEurope, the EU’s research and innovation programme. Research and innovation are key for ensuring competitiveness and achieving green and digital transitions. Together, we will be able to reach them faster.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

In 2018, I published an article about the deportations of 1920 and how one bureaucrat had concerns over rapidly “mechanizing” paperwork-based bureaucracy which he though incentivized rubber stamping without reading and so he disrupted the deportation machine by actually reading the files.

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RobinLikeTheBird @dayzee634.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Wasn’t there some famous tea party in Boston over tariffs, too?

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

You know, as a kid growing up in Balkans, when i saw "My big fat Greek wedding" and one of the characters said "oh you are vegetarian, that's ok. I will cook lamb, " that made complete sense to me, lol

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The sad truth is that while smart people doubt themselves, idiots never do. A smart person will always second guess, "What if i am not that good? What if i fail?" Meanwhile, an idiot goes, " I am the best." Maybe we should all be a bit more idiotic.

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is what happens when people don't know history. Income taxes at the beginning were advocated for because tariffs were a regressive tax used by governments before income tax, but it was considered unfair because it was paid mostly by the poor, the farmers, and workers. #tax #tariffs

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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Rewatched Moneyball and Draft Day this week, both movies were endorsed by their leagues, and the difference between NFL and MLB approach to drafting players is hilarious. In Moneyball, the GM shuts down his scouts, who say nonsense like "this guy has ugly girlfriend, ergo he has low confidence"...

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