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  Pentagon diversity chief 'reassigned' after comparing Trump to Hitler on social media https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-diversity-chief-compared-trump-to-hitler-on-social-media

https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-announces-goal-cut-solar-costs-more-half-2030

  LLNL lab director pushes critical race theory and fabrication on recent massage parlor shootings. To: Kim's Connection Colleagues, Today I am writing to you with great sadness and frustration as I read about the continuing, and escalating, violence against Asian and Asian-American members in our community and across the country. People simply going about their day being targeted and scapegoated, harassed and injured, and in the recent violence in Atlanta, killed. I cannot imagine the fear, anxiety, and grief these incidents have caused for our Asian colleagues and friends, and their families, but I write today to express my empathy, my support, and my commitment to strive to make our Lab a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment for all. Unfortunately, xenophobia, prejudice, and violence toward Asians are not new phenomena in our country. The heated political rhetoric surrounding the pandemic and its origins did not create this bigotry, but it amplified and empowered those wh...

  NNSA releases performance evaluation summaries for contractors that run its labs, plants, and sites https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/nnsa-releases-performance-evaluation-summaries-contractors-run-its-labs-plants-and LANL 88% LLNL 91%

  Within LLNS, is there a difference between PhD and non-PhD acceptable behavior? If there are differences, how does this impact the acceptance or understanding of "Me Too" concerns at LLNL? What PhD scope of conduct is allowable and accepted with LLNS that is clearly not allowable or accepted among non-PhDs employed by LLNS?

  When will the labs going to clean up its act and stop using male last names for scientific phenomena or mathematical rules or theories. https://ordinary-times.com/2021/03/10/they-are-newtons-laws-of-motion/ But physics looks different these days. “We don’t call them Newton’s laws anymore,” an upperclassman at the school informs me. “We call them the three fundamental laws of physics. They say we need to ‘decenter whiteness,’ and we need to acknowledge that there’s more than just Newton in physics.” What are they going to do about units: newtons, ohms, farads, hertz, amps (officially amperes), siemans, tesla, watts, joules, kelvin, pascals… They’re all named after dead white European men who all had the advantages Vikram talks about. Are they going to clean out calculus? What happens to my anecdote about how L’Hospital’s Rule was actually developed by one of the Bernoulli brothers, whom rich L’Hospital was paying to do theoretical math with one of the conditions being he could att...

  I’m noticing a lot of the new hires at the labs are washouts from industry. A friend of mine washed out of Silicon Valley and got a cushy job at one of the labs. He even got several of his former coworkers and his C-student wife jobs. Is this a trend because of the rapid expansion of the lab workforce?

Nuclear weapons are emerging as one of the top political brawls in the brewing battle over next year's defense budget...   https://thehill.com/policy/defense/541906-lawmakers-gird-for-spending-battle-over-nuclear-weapons

  A LLNS NIF Engineering Mansplainer Like Governor Cuomo, a male LLNS NIF Engineering Manager by the name of “Dr. B” verbally attacked his much younger female subordinate so hard, that she sought protection and shelter from an understanding and tall 300 series Supervisor as she cried for abuse relief and wished to go home. This occurred during the NIF “Pulse Sync” first test. “Dr. B.” was well known among NIF workers for his frequent anger outbursts or what one may call low emotional intelligence. Did “Dr. B” ever receive any official written warning of his inappropriate actions against this young female engineer from LSEO management?

  Seems to be pushback on the W-93, the newly proposed warhead for submarine launched missiles https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2021/03/04/lawmakers-aim-to-prevent-sea-based-nuclear-cruise-missile/

  1/3 of Americans support breaking the nation up or secession. If it it comes to that who gets to run the labs. https://www.studyfinds.org/stimulus-check-secession-americans-agree-split-country-into-regions/ One the things that is kind of interesting is that on the west coast 41% Democrats want succession, while the mountain zone it is 36% Republicans and the south 50% of Republicans, so it is not some simple thing as saying only Republicans want it or only the south wants it. It could be interesting if the west coast becomes Californation with LLNL and New Mexico joins Flyaoverlandia with LANL, ORNL and Y12 join the New Confederacy, and DC joins "New Europe" I sort of thought the insanity would end once Trump was gone but I think was just a catalyst to get us over the sanity barrier. People are still fighting and in some ways it is getting worse. Sure this sounds crazy but after all we have seen I can believe anything possible at this point.

  Will the alleged sexual misconduct review ground swell of Governor Cuomo, prompt Federal or State sexual misconduct reviews of LLNS managers, or are LLNS Managers overly protected by LLNS and the NNSA for that to ever happen?

  LLNL Public Affairs Office Date: March 2, 2021 A message from the new LLNL Drector, Kim Budil Colleagues, I’m very excited and honored to be writing my first email update as Lab director. I look forward to using these notes to update you on what I have been up to, new directions the Lab is taking, the news of the day, or whatever else is consuming my thoughts at the moment. I hope you find this bit of insight valuable and look forward to hearing back from you when something resonates or begs a question. I also am looking forward to my first all hands meeting as director, where I can provide a view into my early days on the job and plans for the future. One of my strongest beliefs as a leader is that you cannot communicate too much and I hope to test that maxim. As I noted when I was announced, being selected as the director of LLNL is the honor of a lifetime. Having the opportunity to take the helm when the Lab is in such a good place and has been so ably led is a gift. But that ...

  .. Steven Chu’s 5 Tips For New Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm: Lead With Questions, Find A Watering Hole... Jeff McMahon - Forbes March 1, 2021 Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm may have to do some of the work herself that normally would fall to staff, according to former Secretary Steven Chu, during what are sure to be slow first days in office... Granholm was nominated Dec. 17 but not confirmed until Feb. 27. Even with an earlier start Chu said his first days at DOE were difficult. “I had been confirmed a week before the inauguration—which was good!” Chu said, “and so I was able to start the very next day, but some of the other confirmations take a while, and so you're really there sort of trying to maintain the ship in a very interesting way.” Until Chu’s deputy secretaries and undersecretaries were confirmed, and until the department’s 140 political appointees were seated, he was doing things himself like making phone calls to check the references of employees at ARPA-E, then...

  Nobel Prize winners come out in favor of lying and tax evasion in the case of Charles Lieber. Note that he’s supported by Harvard professors NOT Harvard which has refused to pay his legal fees. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nobel-prize-winners-and-other-scientists-come-to-defense-of-harvard-professor-charles-lieber/ar-BB1e7uvR?ocid=uxbndlbing