Trump is getting rid of all DEI programs in the government, knew that. Pissed about it, but it was predictable.

He's also getting rid of all accessibility programs, which as an Accessibility worker for a decade now, pisses me off more personally, except

the part that has me just over the fuckin moon

that includes all accessibility services provided by the VA

I think I might be fucked at this point

My current employer's biggest customer is the VA

all accessibility services, of any kind, provided to disabled veterans, including those by outside contractors, are to be discontinued within 60 days.

Sprucing up the resume for when this shitfest trickles down to contractors

and the acting director of the VA is going along with it, including auditing his underlings to make sure they're not hiding any accessibility programs

this is just cartoonishly evil

Holy fuck

I'd like to think there's going to be a huge uproar about this from the Pentagon & military brass, veterans' orgs, etc., but at this point I just don't know

I was wondering if he would go that far because he always liked mocking disabled people in general and also disabled veterans

yeah they sure tacked on "A" to that order.

now. low-level civil servants have been leaking these emails to journalists, which is the only reason we even know the extent of them

just lettin everyone know tho that they have an overall email address for snitching & i think they may need to be flooded by bee movie scripts.

fair

also interestingly I guess

the memos to HHS, DHS, State Dept, NASA, USAID, & tge Treasury Dept all use identical boilerplate language, though different officials signed off on each email

which to me means the heads of those departments & agencies were told to use that exact wording with no variation

for whatever it may be worth

Nerdorama: sorry, Rama. at least you have advance notice?

I mean I expect to get dropped at any second as a subcontractor anyway

IT, baybee

Man I don't know if it'll be safe for me to go back into federal contracting at this point because I'm not only a female programmer but obviously neurodivergent....

I hear you

there's two ppl that i know in different spheres in the internet that work in government, and they both got the exact same letters.

it's fucking haunting.

oh yeah everyone's getting the same one...

of course, my understanding of executive orders is that they modify resource allocation, enforcement & interpretation of federal law, not repeal it. & this is essentially a partial repeal of the ADA.

so there WILL be legal challenges to this

but it still.

damn.

I've just been too mad to function all day.

I hope high ranking military come for his fucking ass

me, too. I wish I had more faith that they will.

That would require anyone above the rank of sergeant to give a shit about the VA

i'm giving myself one "time to find out, all you veterans who voted for him" about this

Yeah, and the plan is probably to push out anyone who pushes back

/stares in his chosen master's program

Disability Studies sure is gonna be a Time.

nothing says "I care about troops and the vets" quite like completely kneecapping the VA

man they really thought he'd be for the VA when he literally made fun of McCain for being captured

As if Trump wouldn't be the first one to surrender if he thought his life was threatened