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Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice​

Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.

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Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice

Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
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“… Fagan, a four-star admiral and the first woman to lead a branch of the military, was removed from her post as the Coast Guard’s top officer on Trump’s second day in office. Officials at the Homeland Security Department — which oversees the Coast Guard — cited border security issues and an “excessive focus”on diversity, equity and inclusion among the reasons for her dismissal.

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Fagan, who was named commandant in 2022, made a convenient target for a new president who wanted to flex his muscle. The process for firing her was less complex than for dismissing chiefs of the four main branches of the military. More than that, the move allowed him to send signals about his anti-DEI agenda and desire to stem the flow of illegal immigrants and goods into the United States.

Throwing her out of her house on short notice went a step further.

"It's petty and it's personal," one Fagan ally said.

But a DHS official countered that it made sense for her to be moved out of the home at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling.

"She was terminated with cause two weeks ago today and she was still living in those admiral quarters," the official said, confirming that Fagan had been told to leave. The official said they could not confirm or deny the three-hour timeline.

Coast Guard leaders had given Fagan a 60-day waiver to find new housing, according to one of the sources. But on Tuesday, Homeland Security officials told the acting commandant, Kevin Lunday, that he had to kick her out because "the president wants her out of quarters," according to one of the people familiar with the incident. …”
 
“Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said Wednesday his country will accept migrants from other countries who are being deported from the United States, the second deportation deal that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reached during a Central America trip that has been focused mainly on immigration.

Under the agreement announced by Arévalo, the deportees would be returned to their home countries at U.S. expense.

"We have agreed to increase by 40% the number of flights of deportees both of our nationality as well as deportees from other nationalities," Arévalo said at a news conference with Rubio.

Previously, including under the Biden administration, Guatemala had been accepting on average seven to eight flights of its citizens from the U.S. per week. Under President Donald Trump it's also been one of the countries that have had migrants returned on U.S. military planes. …”

 

Justice Dept. Says It Will Not Bring Charges in Investigation of Project Veritas​

Prosecutors in New York had spent years pursuing a case against the conservative group over its role in the theft of a diary kept by Ashley Biden.

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Justice Dept. Says It Will Not Bring Charges in Investigation of Project Veritas

Prosecutors in New York had spent years pursuing a case against the conservative group over its role in the theft of a diary kept by Ashley Biden.
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“… The prosecutors, who made their announcement in a one-paragraph letter to a judge overseeing the matter, did not say why they were declining to bring additional charges in the long running investigation.

In court filings in related cases, the Justice Department had laid out evidence of the group’s involvement in the effort to acquire and publish the diary, and had fought in court for access to evidence that investigators had obtained from the group’s operatives.

The investigation had raised difficult legal questions about the extent to which the First Amendment protected the publication of stolen materials.

But it was unclear whether the decision was part of a larger pattern by the Justice Department since President Trump took office to walk away from cases involving his allies. Project Veritas and its founder, James O’Keefe, have long been favorites of Mr. Trump’s and gained attention by using sting operations and undercover videos to seek to embarrass liberal groups and mainstream news organizations, among others. …”
 
DOGE kid appears to be a hacker

Bluesky

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DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers​

Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

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DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers

Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
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“… Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old high school graduate, established at least five different companies in the last four years, with entities registered in Connecticut, Delaware, and the United Kingdom, most of which were not listed on his now-deleted LinkedIn profile. Coristine also briefly worked in 2022 at Path Network, a network monitoring firm known for hiring reformed black-hat hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle tied to Coristine also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service later that year. …”

Kid’s LLC also owns a couple of Russian domain names, which likely would have ended any chance he would get security clearance via regular process. Also being 19 would have been a problem.
 
“… At Path Network, Coristine worked as a systems engineer from April to June of 2022, according to his now-deleted LinkedIn resume. Path has at times listed as employees Eric Taylor, also known as Cosmo the God, a well-known former cybercriminal and member of the hacker group UGNazis, as well as Matthew Flannery, an Australian convicted hacker whom police allege was a member of the hacker group LulzSec.

It’s unclear whether Coristine worked at Path concurrently with those hackers, and WIRED found no evidence that either Coristine or other Path employees engaged in illegal activity while at the company. …”
 
nycfan said:
Hegseth is not the first politician to get caught in this trap — it happened to Biden when he was first elected POTUS, though his public info was mostly a list of family, so it didn’t get a ton of media attention.

In any event, an excellent reminder to check your privacy settings in Venmo.
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why would you need to change settings if youre not doing anything shady?

dc is a cesspool of red and blue thieves
 
OGtruthhurts said:
why would you need to change settings if youre not doing anything shady?

dc is a cesspool of red and blue thieves
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Do you use Venmo? If you don’t mark info private anyone using it can see who you are doing business with.
 
UHG would eviscerate the VA. Their approach would be marginally distinct from private equity, which should be outlawed from holding managing share of any healthcare org. I know we have a few vets here; what’s your experience with the VA? How has your experience changed, over the years?

I encounter numerous vets per day, in clinical settings. I have yet to hear a single complaint about the local VA hospital and clinics.

My grandfathers served, and through the 80s and 90s I recall their complaints, as well as a few high profile investigations into VA quality of care. My understanding is that those public injuries sparked very real change for the better. I know that by 2005, at the latest, my grandparents gave the VA plaudits, which extended through the end of life.
 
Callatoroy said:
You mean this meaningless piece of shit: The Iran Nuclear Deal: What's Wrong With It And What Can We Do Now?

He is talking about one that actually has some teeth to it and would actually achieve the goal of preventing them from having a bomb. Not the bullshit Obama rolled out. You know, limited access to inspections. Call ahead to reserve inspection time like they are reserving dinner reservations. Easing of sanctions to free up billions to spend on terror. But hey, at least we could call it a deal right?
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Iran’s nuclear program has advanced since don’s veto of the nuclear deal.
 
nycfan said:

Rubio Snubs G-20 Meeting Citing South Africa’s Focus on Equality​

  • Trump vowed to cut off funds to South Africa over new land law
  • Rubio also cites country’s effort to address racial inequality
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Awesome. So we’ve now imported South Africa’s racists and are substantially to the right of the country that held onto apartheid longer than almost any other.
 
Sometimes he says stuff that is out of left field and I don’t even know where to put it.



“[says you can’t have multiple companies run ATC, system, it must be one company] … there are some countries that have unbelievable air controller systems and they bells would have gone off [for helicopter altitude in DC crash] but bells and whistles would have gone off, they have them where they can virtually turn the thing around it just would have never happened if we had the right equipment. [we need a bill to built the best control system]

… When I land in my plane, privately, I use a system from another country because my captain tells me, I’m landing in New York, I won't tell you what country, but I use a system from another country because the captain says the thing is so bad. … so we’re going to have the best system, it’s a lot of money but it’s not that much money …”

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I don’t actually think they can use a foreign system to land at a US airport, but would be curious what foreign country he trusts to track his plane.
 
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Trump was going to do so regardless but still one of those frustrating conflicts the Trump Administration seems to favor.
 
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