Trigger warning: discussion of workplace trauma, retaliation, and bureaucratic harm. Most people don’t celebrate becoming “unemployed. ”But for me, this week, it felt like a small miracle. After surviving a near workplace-violence incident, I asked for the most basic protection any worker should expect: a safe setting to do my job. Instead of accommodations, I was boxed out. I wasn’t allowed to work for the hospital where I was under contract. I wasn’t allowed to work anywher

I want to take a moment today to give a heartfelt shoutout to the federal workers who keep the wheels of justice moving — especially the...