The OPM guidance and FAQ are not new on June 6, but they become newly relevant because the White House order activated transfers and made the appeal-rights architecture practical rather than hypothetical. [1][2][3]

The scout memo identified a possible online-mainstream gap around opm says merit remains while appeals move out, but no verified same-session status URL is attached; this article keeps that online frame unproved and anchors the compute and governance record in the cited record.

The reader test for opm says merit remains while appeals move out is the compute and governance record: if a later source changes that record, the frame changes; if it only changes the argument around the record, the article should not pretend the evidence moved.

That makes Opm the starting point rather than the whole story, because a brief still owes readers the exact object to revisit when the next update arrives and a plain reminder that the most useful follow-up will change the record, not merely the volume of attention around it, especially when the public argument is moving faster than the source trail.

The empty X stack is a boundary: without a verified status URL for opm says merit remains while appeals move out, the piece does not claim a social-media consensus.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem