You will not be able to find prior examples where the DoD secretary removed people from the O-7 promotion list.

You will not be able to find prior examples where the secretary of the army's objections to the handling of the O-7 promotion list was made public.

You will not be able to find prior examples where the army chief of staff was forced out due to objections about the O-7 promotion list.

You will not be able to find prior examples where the pentagon chapel did not hold some sort of Catholic service on Good Friday. You will, however, be able to find times that Hegseth's favorite pastor has called for the removal of catholic displays from the United States.

You will not be able to find any examples where Hegseth has blocked promotions of white males or fired white males because they were 'not warriors'.

Whoops. Thought I was just clarifying MLK's words; didn't realize this would trigger a podcast-pilled collection of nutwingery. My mistake.

I have neither the time or interest to respond to all of your BS, so I'll just point this out:
Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0...

The bigotry was so obvious, another Trump appointee refused to go along. The Army chief of staff was forced to resign after he objected.

The black general in charge of the army's chaplain corp was fired, apparently after he objected to Hegseth only allowing Protestant services in the Pentagon on Good Friday; Catholics were excluded.

In case the fucking obvious racism is still not obvious, this is a quote from the Christian nationalist Hegseth has invited to lead prayers at the Pentagon:
"slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races that we believe we can say has never existed in any nation before the War or since"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He has also called for the repeal ot the 19th amendment.

And here's Hegseth prioritizing politics over the chain of command and combat readiness:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/m...

That was MLK's ideal, but he was explicit that it was not reality - that was the "I have a dream" speech, after all. The rest of that speech was very detailed about how far we were from that ideal.

We are still very far from that ideal. The president is making open racial slurs against Somali-Americans. Hegseth is firing generals because they are black. Miller has unleashed mass deportations against immigrants who are not white.

But here on Slashdot, the most frequent whines about racism have been in response to people noting that the makeup of the Artemis II crew is unique, despite that the fact that it is unique and ground-breaking.

Pretending that we live in a color-blind society, and that any mention of race is pejorative racism, is insane. But common.

Trump has been in office for months, so I'm having doubts on who did what when.
That's because you're ignoring all of the evidence, apparently from some bizarre need to exonerate Donald Trump of responsibility.

Trump campaigned on mass deportations; he's talked multiple times about getting sending people back to "shithole countries". He appointed people who are doing exactly that.

He is responsible; your attempts to deflect that responsibility are just ridiculous distractions.

The Trump administration is literally sending people to concentration camps and sending people to countries where they will die. Quit defending that callous awfulness.

At least fifty of the Venezuelans that were sent to El Salvador were here legally.

https://www.cato.org/blog/50-v...
https://www.miamiherald.com/ne...

Let's be clear about what happened:
- They applied for, and were granted, refugee status or some other legal status.
- The arrived in the United States legally.
- They committed no crimes while they were here.
- Trump sent them to a concentration camp in El Salvador.

These actions by the Trump administration are abhorrent and indefensible.

and this looks like a matter of their status as temporary refugees has expired
What's with the passive voice bs? The Trump administration changed their status; it's not some clock that was already ticking, this was directly caused by Noem.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...

many returned to Afghanistan willingly
Bullshit.
https://www.unhcr.org/us/news/...

why didn't anyone stop the Trump administration
I don't have the words to describe how truly fucked-up that paragraph is.

At the same time Trump expedited the refugees from South Africa, he reversed the status of refugees from Afghanistan.

These were people who had directly helped the United States. They had demonstrated this work ethic you claim to be worried about over and over again, in incredibly difficult circumstances. Many acted as translators, and already speak English.

Trump wants to send these people back to a country where they will be tortured and killed.

The racism is obvious. The only reason you don't see it is because you choose to ignore tit.

The goal was/is to make money via insider trading.

The [1952 Immigration and Nationality Act] also has an exemption that prohibits an alien's removal "because of the alien's past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations, if such beliefs, statements, or associations would be lawful within the United States." But the law allows the government to proceed with a deportation if the Secretary of State "personally determines that the alien's admission would compromise a compelling United States foreign policy interest."

https://constitutioncenter.org...

Does the INA only apply to people who are attempting to immigrate to the US (e.g. green card holders) or does it apply to visa holders as well? The citation I was trying to find said student visa holders were also covered. The fact that Marco Rubio is personally signing all of the visa revocations is a very strong indication that the law does cover them.

From the Wikipedia page on Bouarfa v. Mayorkas:

revocation of an approved visa petition under s1155 based on a sham-marriage determination by the Secretary of Homeland Security is the kind of discretionary decision that falls within the purview of 8 U.S.C. s1252(a)(2)(B)(ii), which strips federal courts of jurisdiction to review certain actions 'in the discretion of' the agency."

That's not a blank check. I don't know what's in the cited section, but I doubt 'wrote an op-ed' is one of the 'certain actions'.

If I do find more information, I'll be sure to not let you know, since you asked so nicely.

Nostromo?

They really should check to see what the Weyland-Yutani Corporation has hidden in the ice.

Following up would have been watching the video, realizing the statement was not even close to meeting the threshold laid out in Counterman v. Colorado, and moving on. It's almost unheard of for US Attorneys to send letters like this; if this were a real case, his statements would have made it almost impossible to prosecute. Apparently he sent a copy of this letter to WaPo but did not send one to the congressman:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Ed Martin is rather famously a hack - already at least six prosecutors have resigned rather than follow his order to lie to the court about why they were dismissing the charges against Eric Adams.

Trump's DOJ is sending letters to members of congress who called Musk a 'dick':
https://bsky.app/profile/rober...

From whitehouse.gov: people with autism, asthma, auto-immune disease, and ADHD are a "dire threat to the American people and our way of life."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/pre...

Wago lever nuts are absolutely better - you can visually inspect the connections, and reconfigure a box without degrading the integrity of the wire. They work better with stranded wire, can be installed correctly by almost anyone, and have a host of other benefits.

They are not used much in the US due to cost and tradition. The cost difference is substantial; you can something like five to ten times more wire nuts for the same price as wagos. But in several European jurisdictions lever nuts are the standard; using twist-on nuts is considered poor and shoddy work.

This also happened in Manhattan that week:

Migrant teen killed, another injured, after being asked if they spoke English: New York police

https://abc7chicago.com/post/m...

Obviously this isn't getting near the same level of effort as the CEO case.