[U] Overnight, Apparently -- OPM / Musk / DOGE Sent A NEW Batch Of Dot Point Memo Demands (Though More Politely) To All Fed. Agencies. Sheesh!

Updated: we are reliably informed as follows, at NIH: "...All immediate management is pushing up ladder to get senior management position on responses. None of them responded to prior [OPM demand for dot points] email(s)..." End, update.

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 about 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 listed above 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.

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