The ousted head of human resources at the IRS, Traci DiMartini, is vowing to fight back after she says she was fired for telling IRS employees that agency firings came from the DOGE-controlled Office of Personnel Management.
DiMartini was placed on leave Monday for alleged “ineffective management” of the Trump administration’s mass federal employee purge, as well as “insubordination” toward the Department of Government Efficiency. She says she was fired not only for telling IRS staff where firings were coming from but also because she refused to call employees into the office over the weekend to onboard a DOGE staffer after they were putting in “60–70 hour” workweeks in the midst of tax season.
“They’re trying to politicize human capital,” DiMartini told Government Executive. “They want to be able to hire only loyalists, ignore Title 5 [of the U.S. Code] and commit flagrant prohibited personnel practices. When you look at the Merit Systems Protections Board and what the civil protections are, we’re supposed to have a nonpartisan civil service, and we have been completely whipsawed.”
DiMartini’s firing is a warning: speak truth to power, and you’ll be crushed.
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All these recently and illegally fired people should get together, join a movement, help protestors
Also there needs to be some kind of safety net for DOGE firees so they don’t have to return to work once Musk tells them to. If he wants to brain drain agencies let him. There need to be consequences for his bs.
No, we as the third pillar of democracy are actually expected to use the second amendment right now. Four Gen Z script kiddies and an unelected foreign actor with a fridge body should not be having this easy a time hacking our government to pieces.
No… Well maybe, but they have something far more important to be doing - they should sue
Know what the goal of nonviolent resitance is? To get arrested, so you can get standing to sue. You can then challenge the law, over and over, until you find cracks. You can make them put affidavits on record.
And more importantly, you can drain resources. Tie up the courts, drain the budget, exhaust their lawyers. Make them deal with the work of going through endless depositions
All that other stuff is great… But this is a major avenue of attack, and they’ve got no idea what they’re in for
We like to forget, but civil rights weren’t a popular idea - the public being upset at the scale of disruption was what forced the white house to act back then. It might take a while, they might try to ignore the courts, but the bill will come due eventually
Project2025 already plans for jamming the courts with useless cases to distract them while the president and DOGE strips the government like a McLaren in the wrong part of town. This is not your usual government doing shit we oppose. This is a coup in plain sight. You better start treating DOGE and the MAGAts like enemy combatants. Because its how they see you.
Buddy you aren’t going to use the system to stop the system.
Trump does not care about the courts and they literally had planned to tie the courts up with useless shit, you adding to it with non-violent protest that sees you in prison and without a job or voting rights is all fine by them.
We like to forget, but its the violence behind the non-violent protests that gets governments acting on giving rights.
So… Rump and Usk are attempting to evade Al Capone’s fate?
I admire her, but… Good luck with that.
To be fair, DOGE is ran by pretty incompetent people.
DOGE only looks incompetent if you’re so naive to believe that its goals are what it claims them to be.
If you understand that its actual goals are to sow chaos and destroy the effectiveness of the government, inflicting “trauma” on long-time civil servants while installing MAGA sycophants and acting quickly to “flood the zone” to circumvent the courts trying to sanction it, it’s doing a pretty expert job.
Stop. Underestimating. The. Enemy.
Both can be true.
No, they both really can’t.
Why do you want people to not take the threat seriously?
They’re attempting to speed run a power grab and shrinking the government at the same time. Obviously, this is what Putin wants but what do the rest gain by destroying a system they benefited from? Do you see how silly that is? A monarchy would never do that so dumb.
Look at the news. They’re not just shrinking what they can control. They’re gutting infrastructure. They’re literately shrinking anything remotely federal.
They’re attempting to speed run a power grab and shrinking the government at the same time.
“Shrinking” is buying into their dishonest framing of the situation. Don’t do that. What they’re doing is purging, not “shrinking.”
FFS, I’m only human. I can’t make all of you damn happy.
