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A federal judge has ordered half a dozen federal agencies to “immediately” reinstate probationary employees fired last month as part of the Trump administration’s effort to rapidly shrink the federal workforce, calling the effort a “sham.”
The preliminary injunction issued from the bench Thursday by US District Judge William Alsup requires the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior and Treasury to rehire the employees. The judge said that he might extend the order to cover other federal agencies at a later time
Here’s a fun theory about why we’ve been inundated with superhero movies for the past 30 years:
By always portraying supernaturally powerful beings as the sole arbiters of righteous action, it makes all us normies feel like we don’t have what it takes to stop bad guys. We need a benevolent bat or iron man with insane tech advantage or mutants or orphaned altruistic aliens to do the dirty work for us. So we’ve been pacified and made to believe we can’t save ourselves, but don’t worry, superbatironxman will be here any minute to enforce those judge’s orders with extreme prejudice…
This is why I liked Civil War. It gave a really ambiguous look at the different sides. Very interesting.