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“There’s no existing protest at a federal building. There’s no operation that’s being impeded. I guess it’s just a ‘training ground’ for the President of United States,” Newsom said.

Applicants will do that, the DOT explains, by submitting a “personal narrative,” with “individualized proof regarding specific instances of economic hardship, systemic barriers, and denied opportunities that impeded the owner’s progress.”

The bigger lesson concerns how democracy’s error-correction function can be impeded when an unnatural uniformity prevails among elites.

Rounds of layoffs, the deferred-resignation plan and other voluntary departure programs, including an early-retirement push, slashed the number of civil servants, impeded work at government sites nationwide and reduced services that Americans rely on.

But that can be impeded by a "world filled with technological distractions", she argues.