Swan Lake on every channel
Through an occupied city
Notes on the Putsch
observations on the dismantling of the federal civil service
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The Leftovers
Dispatches from the Guilty Remnant
You were never really here
A protest and a departure
Aftermath
In private life
A life rebuilt, a future now in doubt
This post is from a fellow former federal employee who goes by the name Jim Casy Lives.
Hats on hats on hats on hats
A hatchet to the Hatch Act
From a guest: Carriers of Secrets
This is the second post at “Notes on the Putsch” from a contributing writer, who remains a federal employee.
Goodbye to all that
I was never twenty or twenty-one or even twenty-three here, and the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary, has ever happened to anyone before had long since dissipated when I arrived in the federal government at thirty.
Exodus
We're leaving Babylon
Another glorious week in the Golden Age
And a beloved character from Book One returns