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As the DOJ’s civil rights chief, Harmeet Dhillon sees a mass exodus of staffers

The head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said more than 100 employees decided “they’d rather not do what their job requires them to do.”
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As the DOJ’s civil rights chief, Harmeet Dhillon sees a mass exodus of staffers​

The head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said more than 100 employees decided “they’d rather not do what their job requires them to do.”
 
In typical trump fashion, he avoids admission of wrongness in the moment of embarrassment, creates enough space to allow himself the fantasy he wasn’t pressured into a decision, then proclaims tough guy, elite standards. Secret to Trump and maga, but no one else, it’s still really fucking embarrassing to be so goddamn incompetent, whether six weeks ago or today.
 
Oh, he wasn't fired for the Signal group chats. He did not spend enough time and do enough ass kissing at yesterday's televised disgraceful cabinet meeting. They went around the table and literally worshipped and sang the praises of the greatest American to ever walk these lands.

I presume NSA is a cabinet position? I couldn't stomach more than 20 seconds of it.
 

Amid DOGE-induced turmoil, National Science Foundation in crisis​

The $9 billion agency exists entirely to fund science researchers, projects and facilities outside its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters. It’s had to hit reverse on its main mission.


“… NSF has been forced to cancel more than a thousand active research grants. Funding for new research has slowed to a crawl, as the agency has awarded half the number of grants since President Donald Trump’s inauguration compared to the same period in 2024, according to a Washington Post analysis of the NSF grants database. On top of that, officials are running budget scenarios of drastic cuts for next year.

Now there’s a leadership vacuum. Last week, NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly resigned, writing in an email to staff: “I have done all I can.”

… “The US science machine that is the envy of the world is about to be wrecked,” Michael Turner, a cosmologist at the University of California at Los Angeles, said in an email.

“If we go down the route of dismantling the great American science machine we will suffer the consequences in all aspects of life.” …”
 

Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health​

Congress authorized the money in a bipartisan breakthrough around addressing gun violence after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers.

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Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health

Congress authorized the money in a bipartisan breakthrough around addressing gun violence after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers.
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“… Lawmakers authorized the money in 2022 after a former student opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers and injuring 17 others. The measure, known as the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, broke a decades-long impasse between congressional Republicans and Democrats on addressing gun violence by focusing largely on improving mental health support for students.

But just as some of the mental health programs are starting, the Education Department canceled the funding this week and informed grant recipients that they would have to reapply for the money because of potential violations of federal civil rights law.

The department did not specify a civil rights law or provide the grant recipients with any evidence of violations, according to the notice reviewed by The New York Times.

An Education Department spokeswoman confirmed that the grants had been discontinued because of a particular focus on increasing the diversity of psychologists, counselors and other mental health workers.

“Under the deeply flawed priorities of the Biden administration, grant recipients used the funding to implement race-based actions like recruiting quotas in ways that have nothing to do with mental health and could hurt the very students the grants are supposed to help,” said Madi Biedermann, the department’s deputy assistant secretary for communications. “We owe it to American families to ensure that taxpayer dollars are supporting evidence-based practices that are truly focused on improving students’ mental health.”

Ms. Biedermann declined to provide applications that the department viewed as discriminatory, citing privacy laws. Instead, she offered examples of specific provisions pulled from lengthy applications.…”
 
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