> Malicious idiots surrounded by sheepish intelligent people.

Prefixing people with "sheepish intelligent" is bound to oversimplify this. Many of the non-DOGE employees who directly see wrongdoing are likely making calculated decisions on what to do. It depends on many factors, including the law and whistleblower protections.

Many of them are responding in various ways that they hope will have an impact. Some resign in protest. Others file lawsuits. Others leak to the press.

Could they do more? Yes. So let's help them.

What can we do? Just to give two relatively middle-of-the-ground recommendations: First, donate to legal-protection funds for whistleblowers. Second, call your representatives and demand reinstatement of the inspectors general.

The current administration is shipping people out of American territory to a hellhole in El Salvador without trial. It'd like to do that more often.

Whistleblower protections don't mean much if the brute squad snatches you off the street and throws you on a plane regardless of what the law says.

> Whistleblower protections don't mean much if the brute squad snatches you off the street and throws you on a plane regardless of what the law says.

Activism isn't either/or; do what you think is best!