Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice (www.nbcnews.com)

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Trump evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her military housing with just three hours' notice, despite an earlier 60-day waiver.

Fagan, the first woman to lead a military branch, was dismissed on Trump's second day in office over concerns about DEI policies and border security.

Homeland Security officials cited her termination as justification, though sources called it a "petty" move.

Fagan was forced to leave most belongings behind, spending the night with friends while awaiting relocation of her personal items.

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[-] loudiamond@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

the sheer amount of my taxpayer dollars that will go into lawsuit settlements over the next 20 years is infuriating

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Why do you think any lawsuits for any of these things would actually get anywhere at this point?

[-] loudiamond@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

The repercussions of this administration will be going on for decades

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 5 months ago

Class fucking act. Man I get the problems folks had with Obama but class, dignity, just fucking cool. I yearn for those times.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 0 points 5 months ago

Ain’t nothing classy or dignified about drone bombing kids at a wedding.

Obama had great P.R.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

That’s a fun ratio of votes. Do people not know about the wedding drone strike or is it just that he’s polite and people don’t want to say anything bad about him? He also ordered a strike that killed a sixteen year old citizen.

Was he better than trump? Yes. That doesn’t mean he’s beyond reproach.

[-] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Obama was another shitty corporate president with a cabinet picked by Goldman Sachs. Anything seems better, compared to Trump, but his inaction on the economy to help the working class is why Trump followed and not another Democrat.

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I guess her crime was to try to employ more people who weren't cishet white men. Unforgivable to the fascists in charge. And anyway, they just get off on cruelty because it distracts them from the emptiness inside.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Given their recent demand that NASA remove information about "women in leadership", it paints a pretty clear picture of why she was fired. Nothing to do with capability, competence, or any issues with her command.

[-] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Margaret fucking Hamilton, got us to the moon.

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