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How do they write this story without mentioning the executive order?

  The head of each agency shall include in every contract or grant award:
  (A) A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws is material to the government’s payment decisions for purposes of section 3729(b)(4) of title 31, United States Code; and
  (B) A term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws".
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...

The Stargate initiative will invest at least $500B. Whoever wouldn't scrub their website for a chunk of that is unusually principled.



As I read this, that executive order is only relevant if the DEI program would violate Federal anti-discrimination laws.


The current attorney general interprets most DEI activities just that way. It is her justification for attempting to eradicate it.

It's also the premise of the order. The title starts with "Ending Illegal Discrimination".


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There is a real tension between equality and equity, and federal discrimination law was written in an era that favored the former.


MLK didn't "dream that his message would be perverted to Idiocracy levels.


Stargate is a funding initiative by Sam Altman and principally backed by Softbank. It was announced at the white house to curry favor. Trump's stated commitment to the project is to wave environmental and possibly labor rules for all the data centers Altman wants to build.


The government has nothing to do with Stargate.


Unsure how declaring intentions to be deliberately racist and sexist is considered 'principled'.




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