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A government shutdown at the end of the month is not the only thing that we need. Other steps have to take place too. A shutdown by itself creates sympathy for the impacted workers and creates a bad frame. We need to look at a shutdown instead as part of an overarching plan.

Here are scattered incomplete parts for a whole of society plan:

• A government shutdown to cut off funding to all agencies reliant on appropriations
• Suppliers to federal agencies must immediately switch to "cash up-front" terms and not allow Net30 or Net10 terms
• Beefed-up private security to all the legislators helping keep the government shuttered
• Encourage friendly states to negotiate with friendly states under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact to jointly deploy their National Guard elements for mutual support in response to problems
• Strengthen and support Internet backbone transport providers to keep systems online during troubles
• Remember that this would be a waiting game that would be longer than a month, at

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It is a time to choose.  A continuing resolution is coming before you in the week ahead for a vote.  I strongly urge you to vote against it.  Congress needs to assert its prerogatives relative to the Executive branch.  

As Elon Musk's merry band continues to defy the Constitution by illegally impounding funds and defying appropriations laws, what exactly is the point of passing further appropriations to keep the government running?  These choices are not for Mr. Musk to make.  They are yours.  

A government shutdown would at least provide an opportunity to bring Musk to heel and stop the reckless cuts across federal agencies.  The functions being carried out by the workers of DOGE do not fit any conceivable definition of essential-exempt and would have to stop in a shutdown.  DOGE is destroying our federal tier of government for the sake of destruction with ignorant young adults lacking in life experience being less graceful than bulls in china shops.  I'm especially unamused by the accidental disclosure by

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Okay, now what?

Various bits and bobs of systems architecture are being migrated.  I'm not sure where everything will wind up.  I do know that I need to get remote online backups in place.  The situation is changing to where I pretty much need to have access to my files somewhere even if I lose access to my computer.  Losing access can take many, many forms.

Why even go down this road?  Well, I live within the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  It just decided to allow an age-verification law for access to online sites in Tennessee to go into effect.  Yes, there is a case pending in the United States Supreme Court.  Until that gets resolved it is good law in Ohio to have an age-verification law and our grand-standing state attorney general is likely to go to court to get the injunction on Ohio's age verification law dissolved.  See https://www.wsmv.com/2025/01/14/tns-age-verification-law-allowed-take-effect/

Intellectual Freedom is not a hypothetical.  It is the now.

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