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Summary

Metadata from recent OPM memos on hiring freezes, firing, and in-person work reveals authors tied to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a plan to overhaul federal government staffing with conservative loyalists.

Notable contributors include Noah Peters, linked to controversial legal cases, and James Sherk, who designed the "Schedule F" worker reclassification to ease federal employee firings.

Critics say the memos reflect Trump-aligned efforts to reshape the government.

Project 2025 authors have been integrated into Trump’s administrations, despite his denial of involvement.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 60 points 3 days ago

OPM is setting up "email blasts" that go to all federal employees and I don't think it'll take long for this admin to treat it like Twitter.

They want to purge the chain of command of dissenters, so they want direct control/communication with every federal employee skipping entire chains of command.

Rather than orders being sent thru the chain of command (which is good for soooo many reasons) they want a direct pipeline to tell every federal employee to do something at the same time.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The memos are coming from inside the house!

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, isn't that weird. I thought donvict said "he doesn't know her" when it came to Project 2025. And all the qon chuds were saying that Project 2025 was just some librul conspiraceee?

Since 2016 I’ve been hearing nonstop “don’t alienate your allies,” “civilized discourse,” "both sides" and on and on. Meanwhile my enemy is rage-quoting Romans 13 and advocating for immediate executions of political opponents.

Now those sort of hateful bloodthirsty fruitloops are writing memos in the White House to get rid of anyone standing in the way of God-Trump's rule in the Whitehouse (and on earth amen). And this time they know how to break all the systems in place to protect people from evil and/or amoral folk after already having a kick at them.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God." - Paula White

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.”

—-Thomas Szaz

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"And if you speak for God, you're an asshole." - history books

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Still schizophrenic

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

No, they were sent by folks from the Heritage Foundation.

They were authored by Grok.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 days ago

Frankly, I'm shocked.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

See AI unlabeled, downvote AI unlabeled

[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Photoshop (which is what you shared) is the result of human effort and creativity. AI is crap and some people don't want to see it.

[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I generated that image with Ideogram. But if I were to make it in Photoshop these days, I'd select the wing and type "arm giving a thumbs up" into the generative fill box.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Image search result from ages ago, not generated by me. I cannot prove that it is or isn't AI generated. I did add the caption.

EDIT: I ran it through an AI image detection system. Below are the results.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

Thanks. AI detection via program is no good. The buttons make no sense, the eyes have no pupils, the lines on the mouth don't make sense. Those aren't mistakes a human artist would make (even a bad one). This is definitely AI

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

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