Earlier this week, at least three USDC Judges ruled that Musk / OPM had no authority to send the “dot point demands”. [It seems clear that Elon Musk, stupidly, thought OPM was the “HR Department” — for the whole of the federal government, ignorantly assuming that the for profit corporate organization template would map one for one, onto the government. That’s the most charitable version I can come up with — for the below. It is more likely that he… just doesn’t care about the law, and will do whatever the hell he wants… essentially, daring the courts to stop him. Well… they have. only 3 for about 33 are remotely in his favor, now. Moreover, there are five separate TROs preventing this nonsense, nationwide.]
Indeed, toward the below, we had heard rumblings that Kash Patel at FBI had converted it to a “permissive” request, and that most FBI agents are answering by saying “all my activities are sensitive“. But now, from the front lines of non-political pure science agencies, we have an example of what has been sent at NIH — the agency overseen (indirectly, though HHS) by that loon JFK, Jr.
There are enough different commenters here at my joint — and plenty enough employees at NIH, that this won’t be matched to any specific science professional at NIH — but one of our anon. commenters has shared the below, received last night — and again, it still originates from OPM, and asks for a reply. That reply would then send the employee’s dot points to… yep, OPM. That, all three USDC judges (we’ve been covering) have ruled — Musk had and has, no authority to even attempt. One USDC Judge said “no statute in any universe” would allow this.
Do see the below — and I will have more on this later today or tomorrow. What a sordid mess these jokers are making of the premier science organization on the planet. Damnation.
…To: OPM_ALLEMPLOEE_NOTIFICATION@LIST.NIH.GOV
Message of high importance
Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets describing what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.
Going forward, please complete the above task each week by Mondays at 11:59 pm ET.
Please do not send links, attachments, or any classified/sensitive information.
If all of your activities are classified or sensitive, please write “All of my activities are sensitive….”
I think I’d reply only to my direct supervisor, and indicate that I was doing so… as a “courtesy“. But I’d NOT send it on to OPM — or RFK. Jr. [And, those of us with access to truly anonymized mail server addresses, well… we might just start sending in our favorite recipes, old jokes, and anti-tangerine memes… to that email above listed as the originator of the dot point requests. People are already spamming it, to make it largely incapable of any real use to Musk / Trump / Rubio / Patel / RFK. Jr. Heh.] Onward — crazy times. Onward — crazy times.
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