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

Well, the nazi salute was modeled on the roman salute so its the same fucking thing

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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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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

You had literally one job, Brandon, flip the damn burgers. Nobody is paying you to snitch.

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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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Vlad @phdredsox.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

He did it to own the libs

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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

I believe it's also rooted in the belief that if society is not structured exactly like the ones in "the west," or if its anything different than what Westerners are used to its immediately labeled as fundamentally wrong or bad.

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

Not really. It was expensive back then, but it was still cheaper than the alternatives. Back then, the government charged high customs on anything over 50 german marks. But people smuggled components. My father had cousins in Austria who did that for him.

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

Ha, my father had one of these when i was a kid in Yugoslavia.

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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 · 07/12/2024

As long as he pinky swears not to do it again, i think we can forgive this man. A coup can happen to all of us.

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

It's not that bad, really. It gets way rougher in the Caribbean.

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

I did take the boat from Vancouver to NZ. An about 4000 people with me. I worked on cruise ships.

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

Oh no, you mean parents are not happy when you deny necessary medical treatments to their kids? How dare they? Will anyone think about profits?

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

I read at least two books a month. But I also like doing other things, so sometimes it takes me longer than that. It's not really a competition. i read as much as i can and like, and other people should do what they like according to their free time and interests.

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

Gonna report on the end of WW1 soon or what?

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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

I think London is an exception because i don't think that there is a city in the world that has a bigger concentration of cameras.

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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

I actually think that the world would continue to function nay thrive without CEOs. Hell, the Coloseum and pyramids were built without them...

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

Yeah, i am with you on this. There is no such thing as anonymity in big cities in the year 2024.

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

The whole crypto is another ponzi scheme created by the rich to redistribute wealth to them from the poor. And I'm sorry, but not sorry anybody who is dumb enough to fall for it has no sympathy from me

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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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