Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News.

Summary

Federal employees at multiple agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from email signatures by Friday, following executive orders signed by Donald Trump to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Agencies including the CDC, Department of Transportation, and Department of Energy issued directives citing the new policy.

Some employees expressed frustration, with one CDC worker calling it unprecedented.

The Office of Personnel Management also instructed agencies to disable pronoun prompts in email systems, marking another step in Trump’s broader rollback of DEI initiatives.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
    39·
    10 hours ago

    I think everyone here knew Trump would be doing a lot of stupid evil shit during his second term, but is anyone else surprised at the sheer magnitude of stupidity coming from the white house these past ten days?

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      5 hours ago

      Fuck no. Project 2025 was about making the shitshow far more efficient this time around.

      They had PLANS. They published them. Now that donvict is in there, they plan on getting as much rammed through as possible. It’s doubtful stuff like this matters very much other than as ragebait for their stupid base. The REAL agenda is the kind of looting and pillaging Felon plans on carrying out with his purchase of donvict…

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      9 hours ago

      It’s a gish gallop of petty insecurity, coming out so fast and furious that it takes people off guard.

      Two years from now, when Trump doesn’t have any more low-hanging fruit to pick at, this will seem quaint. But by then, we’re going to see the real damage these opening days inflicted on civil society. It won’t be “lolz, haha, guess we’ll be using a lot of proper nouns going forward” and a lot more “fuck, another airline accident that you can only learn about on Rednote and the forums of Pornhub, because every major journalist has been doing wall-to-wall coverage of the Trial of the Transgender Eleven caught providing underground abortion drugs to serially raped immigrant middle schoolers held in the prison camps of the hurricane blasted ruins of Miami.”

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          5 hours ago

          Bannon called it flooding the zone with shit. Some keep on saying “flooding the zone” is a donvict strategy, but he got it from Bannon, most likely.

          • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            5 hours ago

            Also: Karl Rove famously had his quote, which is basically the same thing - basically putting on a pedestal those that take bold actions and lie constantly in the process:

            “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

            Bannon saying to “flood the zone with shit” is far shorter, but basically the same thing.