Is it the end of DEI? Will our buildings be beautiful again?

And did Elon Musk do the Roman salute?

We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined as always by the Wright Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the grill master, Phil Klein, and The notorious MBD.

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I said anything.

So MBD, we got the big one.

We got just a few days ago,

this anti-DEI order totally extraordinary.

It's almost as if nothing else happens during the Trump term. This is a

historic achievement within the first day, extricating DEI from the federal government,

going all the way back, a series of executive orders being reversed, including this legendary

LBJ executive order that got this whole noxious ball rolling back in 1965, and then goes much

further than that.

It's going to require that federal contractors rip up their DEI programs if they conflict with federal civil rights laws and provide assurances to the federal government that they're not doing DEI.

If these assurances are false, people can go after them under the False Claims Act.

And I use the word people advisedly because it's not just

prosecutors or the government that can pursue that it's private actors and whistleblowers

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