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Day 72 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: James Hannaham on How to Stay Sane

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from James Hannaham which reads “The stress and fear surrounding us should not be debilitating but energizing. If we allow the onslaught to deactivate us, we’ll be lost.”
April 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Federal union people need to keep in mind that 5 U.S.C. § 7121(b)(2)(A)(i) exists

It is possible to get an arbitrator to stay a removal. I've done it several times, and it flips the script. You need a good arbitrator and you have incredibly short timelines, but it can work.
February 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Another helpful to do:

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FOR THOSE OF YOU LOOKING TO TURN YOUR despair INTO ACTION, here's some advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now. (In...
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February 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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So, just to be clear: rescinding a 60-year-old executive order prohibiting discrimination in federal hiring and federal contracting is not ant-DEI, it is anti-civil rights. Efforts to subvert the 1964 Civil Rights Act are likely next,if you read what conservatives have said.And that's the beginning.
January 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
January 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM