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RE: Government News
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Countries enforcing race or gender diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies will now be at risk of the Trump administration deeming them as infringing on human rights.
The State Department is issuing the new rules to all US embassies and consulates involved in compiling its annual report on global human rights abuses.
The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.
The changes, which the State Department says are intended to stop "destructive ideologies", have been condemned by rights campaigners who argue the Trump administration is re-defining long-established human rights principles to pursue ideological goals.
The changes reflect a major shift in Washington's established focus on global human rights protection, and signal the expansion into foreign policy of the Trump administration's domestic agenda on issues that have become a lightning rod of division in the US over recent years.
A senior State Department official said the new rules were "a tool to change the behaviour of governments".
DEI policies were designed with the objective of improving outcomes for specific racial and identity-based groups. Since assuming office, US President Donald Trump has aggressively sought to terminate DEI and restore what he calls merit-based opportunity in the US.
The senior official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "The United States remains committed to the Declaration of Independence's recognition that all men are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights."
The official added that rights were "given to us by God, our creator, not by governments".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24200d7y9o.amp
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RE: Government News
Yesterday at 12:39 pm
Just days after a friendly interaction in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Sunday he still believes Trump is a fascist and a threat to democracy.
Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" if he thought Trump was a fascist, Mamdani replied, "And that's something that I've said in the past. I say it today."
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/days...=127807736
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RE: Government News
Yesterday at 2:03 pm
A federal judge on Monday ordered the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James to be dismissed on the grounds that Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney who secured their indictments, was unlawfully appointed to the role.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/james-c...-halligan/
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RE: Government News
Yesterday at 2:30 pm
^The Comey sham indictment was handled with the utmost hamfistery as meritocracy could muster.
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RE: Government News
Yesterday at 2:59 pm
Latest sham investigation just dropped
Quote:Sen. Mark Kelly faces Pentagon investigation for making video on refusing ‘unlawful orders’
The Pentagon on Monday said that it was reviewing what it called “serious allegations of misconduct” against Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona for making a video with five other Democratic lawmakers that urged members of the military to refuse to follow unlawful orders.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a statement on X announcing the probe of Kelly, who is a retired U.S. Navy captain, said, “The video made by the ‘Seditious Six’ was despicable, reckless, and false.”
“Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their Commanders undermines every aspect of ’good order and discipline,” said Hegseth.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/mark-kel...trump.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Government News
Yesterday at 3:02 pm
(Yesterday at 2:03 pm)Paraselene Wrote: A federal judge on Monday ordered the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James to be dismissed on the grounds that Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney who secured their indictments, was unlawfully appointed to the role.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/james-c...-halligan/
hahahahahahahahaha
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RE: Government News
Yesterday at 3:03 pm
(Yesterday at 2:03 pm)Paraselene Wrote: A federal judge on Monday ordered the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James to be dismissed on the grounds that Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney who secured their indictments, was unlawfully appointed to the role.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/james-c...-halligan/
Seriously, who didn’t see THAT coming?
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RE: Government News
Yesterday at 3:04 pm
(Yesterday at 2:59 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Latest sham investigation just dropped
Quote:Sen. Mark Kelly faces Pentagon investigation for making video on refusing ‘unlawful orders’
The Pentagon on Monday said that it was reviewing what it called “serious allegations of misconduct” against Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona for making a video with five other Democratic lawmakers that urged members of the military to refuse to follow unlawful orders.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a statement on X announcing the probe of Kelly, who is a retired U.S. Navy captain, said, “The video made by the ‘Seditious Six’ was despicable, reckless, and false.”
“Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their Commanders undermines every aspect of ’good order and discipline,” said Hegseth.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/mark-kel...trump.html
When you have to lie about what your target has said, you don't have a case. Hegseth couldn't lead a Radio Flyer down a sidewalk.
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RE: Government News
Yesterday at 3:05 pm
(Yesterday at 2:59 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Latest sham investigation just dropped
Quote:Sen. Mark Kelly faces Pentagon investigation for making video on refusing ‘unlawful orders’
The Pentagon on Monday said that it was reviewing what it called “serious allegations of misconduct” against Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona for making a video with five other Democratic lawmakers that urged members of the military to refuse to follow unlawful orders.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a statement on X announcing the probe of Kelly, who is a retired U.S. Navy captain, said, “The video made by the ‘Seditious Six’ was despicable, reckless, and false.”
“Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their Commanders undermines every aspect of ’good order and discipline,” said Hegseth.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/mark-kel...trump.html
Yeah, Pete might want to re-read the enlistment oath. You know, like, all of it.
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RE: Government News
Yesterday at 3:13 pm
(Yesterday at 3:05 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (Yesterday at 2:59 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Latest sham investigation just dropped
Yeah, Pete might want to re-read the enlistment oath. You know, like, all of it.
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When I was in Basic Training, we received a couple of days' classroom indoc on the UCMJ. It was repeatedly drilled into our heads, at least hourly, that we had a positive duty to refuse illegal orders. This is something the greenest E-1 learns within days of enlisting.
It's hard for me to express the depth of my contempt for Hegseth. Words fail me. He should have been fragged years ago.
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