Summary
Karen Ortiz, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) administrative judge, defied Trump administration policies limiting LGBTQ+ protections by urging colleagues to resist “illegal mandates.”
After sending a mass email criticizing leadership, her email was deleted, and she faced disciplinary action.
Ortiz’s stand gained widespread online support but little public backing from colleagues, who fear retaliation. Experts say federal employees often stay silent to protect their jobs.
Ortiz, prepared for potential fallout, sees her actions as protected whistleblower activity and remains committed to civil rights advocacy, regardless of her job security.
Thank You, Justice Ortiz!!
One administrative judge at Equal Employment Opportunity Commission speaks out for equal employment opportunity, as the Commission turns the other way.
This is not rogue. DOGE and the president are rogue. This person is following the law.
Title should be:
Meet the federal worker who did not blindly follow rogue president: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’
This is what it means to be an American. You do something that you feel is right in this matter.
It never was and never should be about how much shit you can roll yourself in and taking others along with it.
I mean to an outsider- the Red, Pink Lavender, Scares, McCarthyism, slavery, war on drugs, terrorism, citizens united, world police, Vietnam, jim crow/segregation, prohibition, womens suffrage, strikebreaking, company towns… are all examples of freedoms being restricted by the government and applauded by the press and culture at large at the time, and later reflected on as a terrible thing.
Civil Disobedience has always been anti-American.
I’m from a company town. I had no idea that was ever seen as a bad thing. Locally, we saw it as a source of pride. Never heard anything bad about it.
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That’s nice, edgelord. Your mom is calling you to get your pizza rolls now.
what we did to snowden and manning was a damn shame. there is so much on the last two decades to be ashamed of. smh.
This smells of American patriotism.
thanks Ortiz for doing more than even Biden ever would have done during any of his time as a politician
maybe real Democrats do exist
He’s gone. Let it go.
Nah he can still win in 2028
