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But really, this is about how far down the bloody lobotomized and Stepford Wives rabbit hole Americans have traveled since way before ‘si se puede’ and ‘it’s the economy, stupid.”

Paulo Kirk

Apr 03, 2026

First, though, it is always about one stinking pilot versus how many girls murdered by, err, pilots?

Yikes, the crocodile tears, man, for American murderers who exact death from the sky.

I was confused and kept searching for my children’s classrooms. My daughter’s classroom was entirely flattened.

The strike killed up to 168 people and is the worst mass casualty of the Iran war

Fucking Ritter:

A US pilot has been shot down over Iran. US Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) teams have been dispatched to effect a rescue. History shows just how dangerous–and ultimately futile–such ops can be. Scott Ritter

And Scott and Trump watch the same movies: The Werner Herzog film starring Christian Bale is Rescue Dawn (2006), a war survival drama based on the true story of Dieter Dengler, a US pilot shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. Bale plays Dengler, enduring extreme captivity and conducting a daring escape.

Movies movies movies: Growing up in Germany during the 1930s and ‘40s, Dieter Dengler was no stranger to war, and it was during an Allied bombing raid that he first caught sight of airplanes and became obsessed with the notion of becoming a pilot. After moving to the United States, he joined the Navy to pursue his dream of flying, which took him to the skies over Vietnam and, in February 1966, Dengler was shot down in Laos, captured by enemy forces, and marched to a prison camp.

Movie movies movies: Having been interrogated, beaten, and tortured for months, Dengler and several fellow captives devised a daring escape plan. After he evaded the prison camp guards, Dengler — alongside American prisoner Duane Martin (Steve Zahn) — spent days facing the unforgiving terrain and monsoon rains of the jungle, with Martin ultimately being killed by the enemy. Alone, riddled with disease, and weighing only 98 pounds, Dengler miraculously caught the eye of an American pilot and was rescued after six months. A national hero, he was awarded the Navy Cross and returned to the cockpit as a pilot for TWA.

Movies movies movies: Much has been made about Christian Bale and Wernor Herzog’s respective on-set temperaments, with each man known for a tendency to ruffle feathers and push the envelope in pursuit of authenticity. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Bale’s commitment to playing Dieter Dengler amounted to losing weight, frequently putting himself in physical danger, and chowing down on some unsavory snacks. “One of the best memories I have of being in the jungle is looking at Steve Zahn and Jeremy Davies’ faces as I’m tucking into a bowl of live maggots and pig offal,” Bale told GQ. “It was great. I couldn’t stop laughing.”

A photo shows severe damage to the Pasteur Institute of Iran following an alleged US-Israeli airstrike on April 2, 2026.

Israel-US kill negotiators, destroy civilian structures, but Iran’s military capabilities are still largely intact –

Now now now, of course we can root for Iran, for the Houthis, for the Iraqis, of course of course, and yet, NO WE CANNOT if you want a fucking city job. Here, briefly, my little bit of hell in AmeriKKKa.

I applied to be a building attendant, part-time, with the City of Newport. For the Recreation Center, up to 29 hours a week. The director and others encouraged me to apply, and they told me they’d make sure I got an interview.

So, that was done, I had a phone interview, and then I was invited for a three-person interview in person. I did well. I was called and said I got the job. I was then sent a letter of employment, contingent on a reference check, and I passed the background check. My references all called and said they did great favors for me. But then, crickets for a week, and today, after I inquired about the status. Nothing pushy, etc.

But, while heading home, I got an email from someone in HR: rescinding the job offer.

Hello Paul,

I am writing to inform you that, after careful consideration and completing the preemployment screening process, we must rescind the employment offer previously extended to you. This decision was not made lightly, and we understand the inconvenience this may cause. Attached to this email is the formal notice.

Here:

[Hundreds of university students in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis have begun attending in-person classes for the first time since the start of the conflict, in Gaza City, Palestine, on March 31, 2026]

The hell holes USA and Israel have created, the ICE dungeons, the billionaires and millionaires sacking us all, yep. Yeah, yeah, I know, in the scheme of fucking things, no big deal, got hired for a job, but never went to the first day of work before getting, err, sort of fired, that’s a first for me . . . but wait?

Nope, I am not here yet: Heavily armed Israeli soldiers conduct a military operation in the West Bank. Such operations have increased significantly in frequency and intensity since October 2023. These operations often involve searches, arrests, and confrontations with residents, who are generally unarmed.

Yeah, I know, I know: I’m not in these fucking dirty Jewish-Led Dire Straits. Recently released Palestinian prisoners show signs of malnutrition, medical negligence, and torture. Many reportedly had their legs bound too tightly for so long that they got gangrene and were subject to amputations (without anesthesia) while in prison.

Yes, yes, in the scheme of things, just take your lumps and swallow, Paulokirk:

STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – APRIL 2, 2026*:

  • At least 73,432 Palestinians killed, 183,740 injured – including:
  • At least 72,289 killed (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls), 172,040 injured in Gaza
  • At least 1,143 killed (~232 children)11,700 injured in the West Bank

*NOTE: Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 8,000 more are still buried under rubble (some sources put the number of missing as high as 14,000); 3,000 more are reportedly missingOnly the dead who are brought to hospitals are included in the official fatality count. Additionally, the numbers of injured are very conservative estimates.

Yeah, at least I still have a bridge to cross to get back home to lick my fucking mini-fascist-inflicted wounds:

By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 282 Palestinian journalists and media workers (most recent March 9, 2026 (other groups have tallied between 215 and 356 Palestinian journalists killed, depending on the criteria used).

Now now, did I get the rescinding letter because of THIS, Paulo Kirk, Substack, or just a plain Google Search with Paul Haeder put in?

Oregon HR departments can screen public social media accounts of job applicants, but they are strictly prohibited from requiring access to private, password-protected accounts. Under Oregon law, it is illegal to ask for login credentials, force a connection (like a “friend request”), or require applicants to log in in the employer’s presence.

Ah, replace: “fire” with “not hire” and “employee” with “applicant for employment”:

“In general, an employer could fire an employee for just about anything, including criticizing the company on social media or anywhere else,” said Jeffrey Hirsch, a professor of labor and employment law at the University of North Carolina.

Imagine someone like me who criticizes almost EVERYTHING about America and governments, politicians, HR Departments, and the Nanny State and the Lobotomized Masses? I shall and can rejoice, but this post then goes through the AI crap HR departments deploy:

This photo below brings tears of joy to my eyes; therefore, YOU ARE UNEMPLOYABLE.

Or, the guy on the left below is a hero, the one on the right epitomizes the Epstein Class, both the Democrats and Republicans in lower office.

Is this a non-hirable offense? BREAKING: Some real hope: I still have good news. The search for the pilot of the USAF F-15E (494th FS) shot down over Iran is still ongoing. He has not been rescued. It was the pilot of an A-10C shot down over the Persian Gulf who was recovered. The Islamic Regime of Iran might have the F-15E pilot, fortunately.

Is this how I get cancelled from working at the City of Newport, reposting things? Alon Mizrahi, an Israeli journalist, one of the most worthy Jews in the world:

“We are witnessing history. Iran, to everyone’s surprise, is destroying American bases so thoroughly, on such a large scale, and so decisively that the world is not ready for this.

In 4 days, Iran has managed to expand its sphere of military dominance in the region. Iran has destroyed the most valuable and expensive military bases, property, and equipment in the entire world.

The American bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are among the largest military facilities in the entire world. These facilities have cost trillions of dollars over several decades to build. We are talking about the fact that the bulk of the military spending that has been made over more than 30 years has gone up in smoke.

We see radars costing hundreds of millions of dollars each being destroyed in an instant. We see entire military bases being abandoned and burned, looted, and destroyed. And I’m telling you, as far as I know, the U.S. has never suffered such destruction in its entire history, except perhaps for Pearl Harbor, but that was just one attack.

No enemy in a conventional war has ever done this to American military forces as Iran is doing right now. It’s hard to believe. The military situation is so serious that censorship is blocking almost all new information about this war. If you’ve noticed, we’re getting less and less information every day.

Thirty-five years ago, during the first Iraqi war, we were shown endless footage from Iraq. Back then, smart bombs and cameras were a novelty, but every night we were shown night-time footage. Now we hardly see any videos at all.

Understand this! Supposedly, this is the world’s largest military power, with the world’s largest air capabilities, and on the fourth day of the U.S. offensive, supposedly and supposedly breaking through Iranian defenses, we don’t see any signs of American dominance in the Iranian sky. Where are all the video recordings of our planes flying over Tehran or any other part of Iran, for that matter?

American soldiers can’t even dream of setting foot on Iranian soil. And to understand how desperate this war is, on the fourth day you’re already hearing the most insane proposals and ideas from the Trump administration. They’re proposing sending military escorts for oil tankers leaving the Persian Gulf. What are you even talking about! You want to send American ships into the zone of destruction of thousands of Iranian missiles? NOW no one can get through the Strait of Hormuz.

The Iranians have been preparing for this for decades. They’re flaunting the idea of arming Kurdish militias to invade Iran. What the hell are you talking about? Have you seen a map of Iran!? It seems the Trump administration has never seen a map of Iran! Do you know how vast it is? What does it mean to invade Iran!? Do you think a militia of 10,000 people could invade Iran!? Or even 50,000? Or 100,000? Iran will swallow them up.

The U.S. and Israel have already lost this war. The U.S. and Israel can kill millions of civilians in their homes. They have powerful bombs and can blow up buildings, but they won’t win this war. Iran’s military infrastructure and weaponry is deep underground all over IRAN. Neither the Americans nor, especially, the Israelis have any chance of reaching any of it. They’re in deep shit.

They started something they have no chance of finishing. When this all ends, the U.S. will never return to West Asia. There will be no American presence in the Middle East. I’m telling you this now with certainty.”

Yeah, so here’s my email, since the City of Newport is closed on Friday, even though I got the “dear fucking Paul, you illegitimate bastard, unemployable and dirty rotten to the core for being anti-American.”

This is, of course, upsetting. First, I applied in earnest for the building attendent job, and went through the necessary hoops to work for the Recreation Center. Second, BS sent me a letter of contingency hiring and then did her interviews with references. I received the results of the background check, as you did, and there was nothing there.

Third, today I casually asked JR today if she had heard anything about the building attendant position and getting me onboarded. She said she had not heard, but she also told me she’d look into it, and I asked her to limit her sleuthing to see what the holdup was or if I missed anything.

Within 20 minutes of that conversation with Jenni, I received your email and the attached letter from Ms. W.

I called BS today, left a message, and then I called Ms. W, but her voicemail sent me back to Bonnie’s voicemail.

There is, in my opinion, a complete lack of professionalism and lack of courtesy and trauma-informed awareness in what just occurred regarding my application and my reaching out to see what the holdup was.

  • Do you not think that I was confident about the position after you had sent me the letter of hire (contingent, albeit)?
  • Do you not think that the 20 to 29 hours a week at $20.63 an hour would have been important income for me, a senior on a fixed income?
  • Do you not think that I am now concerned about being “blacklisted” from ever applying for another city job ever?

BOLI and Oregon labor statutes have much to say about the rights of employers and some things to say about the rights of people applying for jobs, in this case, a municipal position. I can only speculate as to why the position was rescinded. I am not going to speculate, though. This is troubling, and to me, these actions speak of discrimination against me based on whatever matrix or screening methods you have deployed beyond the work, reference, and background checks.

You never gave me a solid reason why a job offer was rescinded. This is terribly upsetting and deeply concerning to me how HR works within the City of Newport. It should be concerning to any taxpayer in the City of Newport.

So in the end, who the fuck do these goddamned people think they are? I passed a background check to drive as a volunteer for the city, and I have background checks yearly for working with children and adults with developmental disabilities. Fucking creeps everywhere, whichever way I turn.

  • Nanny state
  • Professional Managerial Class
  • Admin Class
  • HR Class
  • Rules up their Asses Class
  • Government jobs
  • A city that runs through dozens of employees a year
  • The end of the road middlings and milquetoast folk

Christ, the dudette who ran the interview and who sent me the rescinding letter, yes, again, another fucking German (last name) who has derailed my livelihood.

March 26, 2026

Dear Paul,

I am pleased to make you a contingent offer of employment with the City of Newport (the ‘city’) as a Building Attendant in the Recreation Division of the Parks and Recreation Department.

Employment at the City of Newport is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation and reference checks on all of its potential employees. Your job offer, therefore, is contingent upon a successful clearance of such a background investigation, and reference checks.

Once your background investigation and references have been successfully completed, and I am able to confirm your job offer, the terms of your employment will be as such:

Reports to: Recreation Superintendent

Classification: Regular, Part-Time, Non-Exempt, Non-Bargaining Unit Member

Rate of Pay: Range P102 /Step 3= $20.63/hour

The City is excited about your joining us and we look forward to a beneficial and productive relationship. Your first six (6) months of employment is considered your trial service period. During this period, you are considered to be in training and under observation and evaluation by your supervisor. Evaluation of your adjustment to work tasks, conduct, and other work rules, attendance and job responsibilities will be conducted during the trial service period. This period gives you an opportunity to demonstrate satisfactory performance for the position, and also provides an opportunity to determine if your knowledge/skills/abilities (KSAs) match the requirements of the position. It is also a chance for you to decide if the city meets your expectations as an employer.

As a City employee, you will be expected to abide by the City’s policies, rules and standards. Specifically, you will be required to sign an acknowledgment that you have read and that you understand and agree to comply with the City’s rules of conduct, which are included in the City Handbook, which you will be given on your first day of employment. You should note that the City may modify job titles, salaries and benefits from time to time as it deems necessary.

This letter sets forth the terms of your employment with the city and supersedes any prior representations or agreements including, but not limited to, any representations made during your recruitment, interviews or pre-employment negotiations, whether written or oral. Once we have completed your background investigation and references, we can determine a start work date.

To accept the City’s offer, please sign and date this letter in the space provided below. Once we have completed the pre-employment process, we will be able to confirm the job offer and determine a start work date.

We look forward to your acceptance of the job offer and to working with you at the City of Newport.

Sincerely,

Ahh, the shame, the shame:

Of course, working for tech companies, hmm, that is the problem to begin with. But here you go:

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Tech Workers for Kshama national meeting. The energy was incredible, and we’re just getting started. During our discussion, one tech worker asked a question that I think is on every tech worker’s mind right now: how do we fight against the mass layoffs happening in the tech sector?

Barely 24 hours after our meeting, we saw exactly why this matters: on March 31st, between 20,000 and 30,000 Oracle workers, roughly 18% of the company’s global workforce, woke up to a cold five-line email from “Oracle Leadership” at 6 am. No phone call. No meeting with HR. No warning from their managers. Just a message telling them their roles had been eliminated, that today was their last working day, and that their access to company systems had already been cut.

Oracle is not a company in distress. It posted a 95% jump in profits last quarter, $6.13 billion in a single quarter. The principal owner of Oracle stock, Larry Ellison, owns $200 billion in wealth and is the sixth-richest person in the world. Other top Oracle executives and major shareholders are also billionaires and multimillionaires. Like Jeffrey Henley and Clayton Magouyrk, who have an estimated net worth of a billion dollars and nearly $44 million, respectively.

This layoff “bloodbath,” as it’s being called, is about profit-hoarding by billionaires and multimillionaires and redirecting tens of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure while discarding the workers who built the company.

Oracle is far from an exception. In just the first three months of 2026, tech workers have been hit by a layoff wave unlike anything we’ve seen in years. Amazon has cut over 30,000 jobs since late 2025, including 16,000 corporate roles in January, its second major round of cuts in three months. Microsoft has cut over 15,000 workers. Google, Meta, Block, Intel, Pinterest, Autodesk — the list goes on. In total, over 85,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2026 alone. Nearly a thousand layoffs per day.

The bosses have a name for this: “efficiency.” We should call it what it really is: class war by the bosses against the working class. Capitalism IS class war.

The profits of the tech bosses, like all billionaires and multimillionaires, come from the wealth produced by the labor of tech workers and all the other workers who make all the corporations run every single day. The vast majority of the wealth is then stolen by the bosses.

That’s why any gains workers can win in the form of job protection, wage increases, and improvements in benefits and working conditions can only come out of the profits of the bosses. That means our interests and the bosses’ interests are fundamentally opposed, and no amount of polite negotiating changes that.

What we need is a class struggle-based fightback. In the labor movement, it means we need class struggle unionism: the understanding that the only way workers can build leverage is by shutting down production and profits until management is forced to concede. That means boldly exposing the bosses, building solidarity across the entire working class, and connecting our workplace fights to the broader political struggle for free healthcare, rent control, and taxes on the rich, and against imperialist war, ICE terror, and the cost-of-living crisis.

It also means breaking from the Democratic and Republican parties, both parties of the bosses. For decades, the leadership of the labor movement has funneled money, volunteers, and political support into the Democratic Party, and workers and rank-and-file union members have gotten betrayal after betrayal in return. Most of the billionaires and multimillionaires donate to both Democratic and Republican politicians. Adam Smith, the Democratic incumbent Kshama is running against, has taken money from numerous wealthy individuals, including executives and major shareholders of Microsoft and Palantir.

From Rainer:

To find an alternative to AOC’s “democratic socialism,” we must investigate why exactly these politics are harmful to Palestine, and all other areas in the popular struggle. Putting forth such an alternative is an important part of critiquing social democrats, because without presenting a credible solution, we’ll fall into ultra-leftist patterns. When I decry social democrat politicians as a Marxist, I am doing so with the awareness that these figures are the only version of “socialism” which their supporters have been exposed to. And to draw these working-class Americans away from social democracy, which is now a highly urgent task, we must explain which forces of popular revolution the socdems have set themselves up against.

In global terms, these forces are the mass movements that have been waging wars of resistance against U.S. imperial aggression, with the Palestinian resistance being the foremost struggle that leaders like AOC oppose. We know they oppose this struggle because every one of these “progressive” leaders, when they’ve come across opportunities to align with Palestine’s fight for liberation, has done what the occupier prefers. They’ve served as “progressive” launderers for Zionism at a moment when Zionism is in unprecedented existential danger, is surrounded by a world that hates it more than ever, and needs spokespeople who can put a friendly face on it.

Because the bulk of Gen Z have come to understand why Zionism is irredeemable, every time these politicians betray the Palestinian cause, they further alienate themselves from their primary base. Bernie Sanders and AOC have voted to continue funding the Zionist occupier’s “defensive” military equipment, and Zohran has taken the Zionist position by affirming the occupier’s supposed right to exist. Now, AOC has again shown a lack of commitment to fighting against aid to the occupation by stating that, due to existing U.S. foreign aid policies, “I believe the Israeli government is well able to fund the Iron Dome system, which has proven critical to keep innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment.” This was how AOC qualified her pledge not to continue voting for the Iron Dome aid, which evidently still comes with a fundamental desire to counter Gaza’s resistance coalition; AOC’s language clearly implies that this choice comes from a confidence in the occupier being able to wage its colonial war without her help. When this changes, AOC will get behind the occupier, along with every other “soft” Zionist leader.

These fucking HR departments, man:

Here are the primary ways city departments control free speech in the workplace:

1. Distinguishing Job Duties from Personal Speech

  • Official Duty Restriction (Garcetti v. Ceballos): When public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, they are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the city can restrict this speech.
  • Limiting Workplace Advocacy: Departments can prohibit employees from engaging in political, social, or personal speech while actively performing their job functions (e.g., advising a supervisor, interacting with the public).

2. Implementing Content-Neutral Policies

  • Clear Workplace Policies: Departments develop policies that regulate when and where speech can occur, focusing on reducing disruption.
  • Uniform Application: To avoid claims of viewpoint discrimination, policies must be enforced consistently across all employees, not selectively.
  • Time, Place, and Manner Restrictions: Employers can limit political activities to non-working hours or areas, and prohibit the use of city equipment (email, copiers) for private, political speech.

3. Applying the Pickering Balancing Test

When employees speak as citizens on matters of public concern, departments must show that the disruption caused by the speech outweighs the employee’s interest in speaking. Controls are often justified if speech:

  • Disrupts Harmony: Impairs discipline, harmony, or working relationships among co-workers.
  • Impairs Functionality: Hinders the normal, efficient operation of the department.
  • Misrepresents the Agency: Causes the public to confuse personal employee views with official city policy.

4. Enforcing Anti-Discrimination and Harassment Policies

  • Duty to Protect Workers: Cities have a legal duty (under Title VII) to maintain a workplace free from harassment and discrimination.
  • Controlling Hateful Speech: If employee speech creates a hostile work environment based on protected characteristics (race, gender, religion), the city must regulate or prohibit it.

5. Managing Social Media Usage

  • Off-Duty Conduct Monitoring: While off-duty speech is generally protected, it can be regulated if it has a direct nexus to the disruption of workplace operations.
  • Policy Compliance: Cities create social media policies that prohibit employees from posting confidential information or engaging in speech that violates city workplace policies, even outside of working hours.

Key Takeaway for Compliance: To successfully control speech without violating legal rights, city departments often conduct investigations to document the specific disruption caused before taking disciplinary action.

And so AmeriKKKa is the lobotomized — no critical thinking in the public spaces, no robust debate without fistacuffs, no deep thinking about the issues of our time and systems that oppress and suppress and harm us as citizens, communities. We have to bow to the admin class, to the fucking lawyers or city and county manager, all of that, until some schmuck like me applies for a fancy-named janitorial job and gets culled for unstated reasons, but boy oh boy, the fuckers went to social media, and did this on Google Gulag search: Paul Haeder Then, put in Paul K. Haeder and you get a different take. Hundreds of “pages” on the Jewish Gulag Google.

The Pickering Connick test takes its name from two public employee free speech decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. One of the decisions involved Harry Connick Sr., who served as district attorney in New Orleans for three decades. The case arose when Connick fired an employee for questioning the office’s policies. (Connick is the father of famous pianist-singer-actor Harry Connick Jr.) The test asks if the employee spoke on matters of public concern, and if the free speech rights of the government employee outweighs the interest in a disruptive-free workplace. (In this photo, Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick answers questions during a news conference in New Orleans Friday, May 25, 2001.]

The Pickering-Connick test refers to a longstanding test in First Amendment law used by courts to determine whether a public employer violated an employee’s free-expression rights.

The test takes its name from two public-employee free-speech decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court: Pickering v. Board of Education (1968) and Connick v. Myers (1983).

Did the public employee speak on matters of public concern?

The test has two parts. The threshold part asks whether a public employee spoke on a matter of public concern, defined as a matter of larger societal significance or importance. If a public employee was disciplined for expression that is characterized as more of a private grievance, then the employer prevails.

If, however, a public employee spoke on a matter of public concern, then the court proceeds to the second part of the test, often called the balancing prong. Under this prong, the court must balance the employee’s right to free speech against the employer’s interests in an efficient, disruption-free workplace.

As mentioned, the Supreme Court developed this test in Pickering, a case involving a public high school science teacher named Marvin Pickering, who was terminated after writing a letter to the editor of his local newspaper that was highly critical of school district officials but not people he worked with on a day-to-day basis. The Supreme Court reasoned that Pickering spoke on a matter of public concern – whether the school district spent too much money on athletics as opposed to academics.

The Court then held that Pickering’s rights to free speech outweighed the school board’s interests in a disruptive free workplace, largely because Pickering did not criticize people that he worked with daily, such as fellow teachers or his principal.

Balancing test weighs free speech against a disruptive-free workplace

In Connick, New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick Sr. fired assistant district attorney Sheila Myers after learning that Myers distributed a questionnaire to fellow employees, questioning various policies in the district attorney’s office. Myers sued, alleging a violation of her free-speech rights.

The Court applied the Pickering-Connick test, finding that most of the questions on her questionnaire were closer to a private grievance than matters of public concern. However, the Court found that one question – whether employees felt pressured to support political candidates backed by the district attorney – touched on a matter of public concern. The Court then balanced Myers’ free-speech rights against the district attorney’s interests in an efficient disruptive-free workplace. The Court, by a 5-4 vote, struck the balance in favor of D.A. Connick, crediting testimony from another district attorney that Myer’s questionnaire caused a “mini-insurrection” in the office.

For several decades, the Pickering-Connick test served as the guidepost for public employee First Amendment free-speech claims. Then, in Garcetti v. Ceballos (2006), the Court introduced a new threshold inquiry by holding that when public employees make statements pursuant to their official job duties they have no First Amendment protections.

PMC, man, including the fucking HR administrators: LISTEN UP.

I am not socially acceptable to the German HR Newport woman, nor to the City in General. Morality at the wrong end of the alimentary canal.

Soooo . . . Sure, some of us DO need a few shekels for these rants, this railing on Subterranean Substack, so thanks to those subscribers who have thrown in a few to me, not just to the Big Boys and Girls like Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate and Katie Halper.

Link.

Ahh, speaking of Blumenthal: Fuck, right before my 8 pm Wednesday show, two nights ago, kyuaq.org, Finding Fringe, this daily show, Background Briefing. On a community radio station, with Democracy Now and Thom Hartmann? Fuck. Blumenthal, man, the fucking Hillary and Bill cunt:

Then, finally, we speak with Sidney Blumenthal, the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He has been a national staff reporter for The Washington Post, Washington editor and staff writer for The New Yorker and his books include the bestsellers The Clinton Wars, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment and The Permanent Campaign. His latest book is All the Powers on Earth, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln 1856-1860, and his latest article at The Guardian we discuss is “Trump’s war is holding him hostage.”

If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences.

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