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  #3421772 5-Oct-2025 15:22
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FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say: Reuters

An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday.
Comey was charged on September 25 with making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation, in a dramatic escalation of President Donald Trump's retribution campaign against his political enemies.
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Reuters could not immediately determine how or when senior FBI officials wanted to stage bringing Comey into the bureau's Washington field office. Only a summons to appear in court was issued in the case, and not an arrest warrant
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  #3421775 5-Oct-2025 15:36
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Disney’s Message To Employees: Shut Your Trap

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  #3421776 5-Oct-2025 15:37
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Fifteen FBI agents fired for being pictured showing respect for the death of George Floyd:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/fbi-fires-agents-conduct-george-floyd-protest-rcna234087

Random FBI guy fired for displaying a pride flag on his desk:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/kash-patel-fires-fbi-trainee-displayed-pride-flag/story?id=126218133

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  #3421779 5-Oct-2025 16:41
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/fbi-fires-agents-conduct-george-floyd-protest-rcna234087

Random FBI guy fired for displaying a pride flag on his desk:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/kash-patel-fires-fbi-trainee-displayed-pride-flag/story?id=126218133

 

https://www.thebulwark.com/i/175190355/quick-hits

 

It’s one of the endless bizarre tensions of the second Trump term. On one level, this is the most gay-friendly version of the GOP that’s ever existed, with a significant number of openly gay men—the “A-Gays of Washington,” as the New York Times notably put it this summer—staffing the top echelons of the administration. On the other, the administration is openly, nakedly hostile to anything it perceives as left-coded speech, including, apparently, a gay-pride flag that a trainee used to display. You can be gay, apparently, but being proud about it is where they draw the line.

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  #3421782 5-Oct-2025 16:53
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You can be gay, apparently, but being proud about it is where they draw the line.

For now. Imo it's likely to get worse. I'd add Trump's public shout out to Project 2025 this week.

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  #3421785 5-Oct-2025 17:21
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Pertinent questions here:

 

 

Also:

 

 

(apparently it has a permit to be there, too) 😀

 

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  #3421846 5-Oct-2025 20:54
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gzt: Random FBI guy fired for displaying a pride flag on his desk:


From an article this year from The Advocate, leading publication for news and politics in LGBTQ+, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer.

Log Cabin Republicans, still exists
  • Delusion
  • Dissonance
  • Denial
  • Detachment from reality
  • self-Deception
  • Dumb?
Who are the Log Cabin Republicans, the LGBTQ+ conservative group?

LGBTQ+ Americans vote overwhelmingly Democratic — 86 percent of voters from the community chose Kamala Harris as president in 2024, according to NBC News exit polls, and just 12 percent went for Donald Trump.

But there are LGBTQ+ Republicans, and for decades, the chief organization speaking for them has been the Log Cabin Republicans. Today, it has a record 80 chapters in 40 states and is an enthusiastic backer of Trump, who has a record of anti-LGBTQ+ policies and comments.
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Charles Moran, then Log Cabin's president, told The Advocate in 2020 that he didn’t think Trump was anti-LGBTQ+, and he echoed that sentiment in the 2024 election cycle. Log Cabin endorsed Trump in January 2024. “We will continue working to build a stronger, more inclusive Republican Party based on the principles of freedom and fairness for all Americans,” its website states. “We are proud to endorse President Trump and look forward to working with his administration.”
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Ed Williams, who succeeded Moran as head of Log Cabin this year — his title is executive director — praises most of Trump's actions in his second term as president. "Basically, the last 48 years Log Cabin has been around, it’s been advocating for equality for all Americans," he told The Advocate in a recent interview. Because of that, the Republican Party has become more welcoming to LGBTQ+ people, he said, and he sees Trump as the "culmination" of that.
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Of the anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric still being spewed by many Republicans, he told The Advocate, "We are the party of free speech, so there will always be people we disagree with." At the same time, he said, Log Cabin continues to try to change hearts and minds.

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  #3421879 6-Oct-2025 06:02
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Depressing.

 

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  #3421977 6-Oct-2025 08:08
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More verbal diarrhea from The Don:

 

The Guardian - ‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd

 

05 Oct 2025

 

extract:

 

"I’m very careful, you know, when I walk downstairs for – like I’m on stairs, like these stairs, I’m very – I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record, just try not to fall because it doesn’t work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy.

 

“We don’t want that. Need to walk nice and easy. You not have – you don’t have to set any record. Be cool, be cool when you walk down, but don’t, don’t bop down the stairs. That’s the one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs, I’ve never seen – da da da da da da, bop, bop, bop, he’d go down the stairs, wouldn’t hold on. I said, it’s great, I don’t want to do it. I guess I could do it, but eventually bad things are going to happen and it only takes once, but he did a lousy job as president.”

 

 

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  #3421981 6-Oct-2025 08:16
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The extract is from Trump's speech to the generals last week. I assume he had very few remarks prepared and mostly was not using a teleprompter and just rambling around as he often does. Completely bizarre by the standards of any previous presidents.

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  #3422023 6-Oct-2025 09:58
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Depressing.



Is that actually true?

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  #3422025 6-Oct-2025 10:04
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Apparently so - the coin had its story on the previous page of this thread; as to the Human Rights watchlist: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/us-civil-society-watchlist-trump

 

 

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  #3422027 6-Oct-2025 10:10
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Is that actually true?


United States was added to the CIVICUS Monitor “Watchlist” in March 2025, a civic-space watchlist

https://monitor.civicus.org/watchlist-march-2025/USA/

"10 March 2025
  • The United States of America is added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist due to threats to civic freedoms under Trump administration.

  • Unprecedented executive orders designed to unravel democratic institutions, rule of law, and global cooperation raise alarm.

  • In 2025, the new administration slashed federal funding for organisations supporting people most in need, dismantled USAID, and reversed progress on justice, inclusion, and diversity.


Due to the Trump administration’s assault on democratic norms and global cooperation, CIVICUS has added the United States of America (USA) to its Watchlist of countries with faltering civic freedoms.
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'The Trump administration seems hellbent on dismantling the system of checks and balances which are the pillars of a democratic society,' said Mandeep Tiwana, Interim Co-Secretary General of CIVICUS. "

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  #3422038 6-Oct-2025 10:33
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quickymart: as to the Human Rights watchlist: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/us-civil-society-watchlist-trump

That is a civic freedom watchlist. Not exactly a human rights watchlist.

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  #3422076 6-Oct-2025 11:59
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This is worth reading ...

 

The Washington Post - Supreme Court and Trump are headed for a reckoning in new term  (unlocked link)

 

05 Oct 2025

 

After months of emergency rulings, the justices will be asked to render final verdicts on economic and immigration policies at the core of Trump’s presidency.

 

Summary:

 

 

  • The Supreme Court is set for a major showdown with President Donald Trump, as it will decide on key economic and immigration policies central to his presidency.

  • The court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, will address issues like tariffs, birthright citizenship and executive authority.

  •  Experts predict a polarizing term, with potential implications for the court’s legitimacy and public opinion.

  •  The cases will force the justices to either embrace Trump’s sweeping assertions of presidential power or curb them.




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