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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

That's why you sue doge, specifically if you can, otherwise supoena them as much as possible. They're young and arrogant, they're going to perjur themselves and spill things they shouldn't... Then daddy Elon will get pissed and lash out at someone, and regardless it'll take time and energy away from their efforts to destroy the government

You have to fight on every front. You don't just give it to them