• derfunkatron@lemmy.world
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    It works like this:

    • Teach at a public school
    • That school receives funding directly or indirectly from federal programs under the executive branch, including the Department of Education
    • DEI support disqualifies institutions from receiving Federal funds
    • Supporting DEI and trans rights while receiving Federal funds counts as defrauding the US government
    • DOJ takes up the case

    While EOs are not laws, they have the potential to do massive amounts of damage because most of the government runs on agencies under control of the Executive. And while universities and public schools are not federal, they receive shit tons of funds through grants, contracts, and subsidies from a wide array of federal agencies (see: academic panic at the NSF and NIH halting grant review and funding as a result of Trump’s recent orders).

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      We’re deciding right now how much power Executive Orders have.

      It had strict definitions for its use, now the president is trying to stretch that power further.

      How many people comply without being physcially forced is what determines how much power he truely has.

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        How many people comply without being physically forced is what determines how much power he truly has.

        That’s why the reduction of protections for federal employees was so important to implementing this phase. A lot of people have already been fired or reassigned which makes it really difficult for them to “do” anything.

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        How many people comply without being physcially forced is what determines how much power he truely has.

        Bingo.

        So far America appears to be overflowing with pussies who are willing to bend the knee to an anti-democratic felon rapist.

        Our ancestors are weeping.