lisah, I didn’t realize you were federal now.

I’m back working as a federal contractor which I did for a long time before going to the private sector. I swore I’d never go back but needs must.

Yes, my housemate here in the East Bay works for the federal Department of Health and Human Services in SF, and he got a notice exactly as JenP described.

So, can confirm that it looks like a horrible template.

I work for a state university, but I'm in research administration so we're directly downstream of this shitshow given how much of our money comes from federal grants. We got notices today to stop doing anything DEI-related on those grants, and I wonder how soon it will be threats to cut all our federal funding if we continue woke activities with our state and private funding.

I just read that all funding for NIH projects has been suspended -- which affects up to 300K jobs at universities and research institutes.

I'm still sick, but at least my sinuses are no longer stopped up with concrete, and I can keep my eyes open for longer than ten minutes without them watering.

I am going to run out of Kleenex, though, so I may allow myself to resort to Instacart, which feels like such a wasteful luxury, except maybe not when you're sick.

I don't want to look at the news because I don't want to know how screwed we are.

I just want happy thoughts like Hec and Matilda in Japan .

And stuff like that.

Regarding the email to snitch about DEI I've seen some people suggest maybe flooding it with emails that are irrelevant. Some people have warned against it since they are worried about retaliation with real emails.

Another suggestion was to just use the email for a lot of websites that spam email all the time

I have no idea if that is a good idea or a bad one. But it amuses me to think of what that is signed up for

I just read that all funding for NIH projects has been suspended -- which affects up to 300K jobs at universities and research institutes.

I think that's a pause on awarding new funding--which is horrible enough, don't get me wrong--because if there was a general stop-work order on all NIH-funded work we would be in full-on panic mode right now instead of just having our ordinary discussions about our continuing struggles to do our daily work with Workday.

In a sane world, any blanket cuts to DHHS grants would run into a brick wall labeled "No" in Congress because it's such a huge hidden driver of the economy, especially if you have a big research university or two in your state, which most of them do, even a lot of red states. But we're not living in a sane world, so who knows?

Holy Shit, that required snitching line in the message gave me such 1984 vibes that I'm a little sick to my stomach.

I always wondered what living through a Cultural Revolution would be like.