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WASHINGTON (7News) — While President Donald Trump will be hosting a military parade in Washington, people across the country are getting together to protest his administration. According to organizers, this mobilization is inspired by the success of the Hands Off! and May Day protests. The NO KINGS Nationwide Day of Defiance is set to take place on Flag Day, June 14, at over 100 locations. Gatherings in the area include: Garrett Park, MD: Strathmore Avenue, Garrett Park **SNIP** You can find a full list of them all here. Indivisible is organizing the protests with the following partners: 50501, American Federation...

On two occasions in 2020 and 2023, all nominations for general and flag officers (GFOs) were on a blanket hold from Senate confirmation. The 2023 hold lasted approximately 10 months, not two weeks. Senior leaders within DOD, including the Secretary of Defense at the time and a group of former Secretaries of Defense who served in bipartisan administrations, expressed concerns that the nomination hold in 2023 posed a risk to national security and the well-being of military families, among other things.You asked us to review issues surrounding past holds on GFO nominations. This report describes effects on military readiness, leadership...

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok The city council of Providence, Rhode Island, is hosting a flag raising ceremony at the City Hall.What flag, you ask? A Palestinian flag... Providence, RI has been conquered.

A man who was using a small American flag to guide a tour group through the Smithsonian’s American History Museum was told to put away Old Glory because it might offend people.Austin Petersen, a well-known broadcaster, was guiding a group of his fans through the museum when he was approached by a guard.“This flag is forbidden from being displayed at the Smithsonian American History Museum because the guards said this symbol may be offensive to some who are visiting,” he wrote on X. “I was using this flag to coordinate my tour group.”

The Camping World CEO claims he was forced to close down one of his North Carolina stores as he defied local politicians over the massive American flags flying over the locations. Marcus Lemonis made the shocking revelation that one of the national RV dealerships in Greenville, NC, was shuttered on April 18. Lemonis says he was forced to shut down operations at the smaller of the two locations after the city council sued him and the company for violating city ordinance with the larger-than-life flags, and continues to impose fines. “We think the ordinance is wrong,” Lemonis told local radio...

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is apparently going to outline in an upcoming speech a “war plan” to defeat President Donald Trump (R) who won her state during the 2024 presidential election. During an interview with Politico about the speech she will deliver in Lansing on Thursday, Slotkin claimed the president is doing “a whole bunch of things that I think are a threat to our economy and a threat to our Democracy and I have a responsibility on behalf of my state to point that out and try to do something about that,” the outlet reported on Thursday. A recent...

All federal and state flags will be displayed at half-staff this week in a show of respect for the recent passing of Pope Francis.

Idaho’s chief lawyer has asked the city of Boise to comply with a new law that limits what flags may be flown by government buildings and warned that the state may try to withhold sales tax revenues if the city refuses. Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador wrote a letter to Boise Mayor Lauren McLean on Tuesday requesting that she take down the prohibited flags outside city hall — as of Wednesday morning, the city displayed a Pride flag and a flag honoring organ and tissue donors, along with an American flag, city of Boise flag, state of Idaho flag and...

Some students get suspended for fighting, others for wanting the American flag in the classroom. The latter, WBFF-TV reported Wednesday, happened to high school senior and aspiring U.S. Marine Parker Jensen, a student at Townson High School in Baltimore, Maryland. Jensen noticed classrooms at his high school did not display the American flag. According to WBFF, the Baltimore County school board policy and the Maryland Education Code both require the flag to be present in every room. When Jensen went to the Board of Education to ask about the lack of flags at school, he did not get answers. Instead,...

This just makes my blood really boil. I have family members who gave their lives for this country and this flag. I have not seen the flag of any other country defaced in public in just this way, only America's. Wearing it on your shoes? Who the hell are the makers of these products? And who the hell are these illegal SOB's who break into our country, steal our Social Security benefits, vote in our elections, drive with no insurance, crowd our hospitals and doctors offices and school rooms, criminalize our neighborhoods, with no consequences for their horrific behavior, and...

The CEO of Camping World, a national RV dealer with stores in 200-plus locations, is facing a lawsuit by another city over its massive American flag that waves outside a dealership. City leaders in Greenville, N.C., voted 4-2 last week to initiate legal action to take down the American flag at a Camping World dealership. The vote came amid another lawsuit filed by the city of Sevierville, Tennessee. "Not when they sue, not when I lose, not if they take me to jail, the flag is not coming down," Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis said last week after the city...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced the Make American Flags in America Act of 2025. This legislation closes loopholes in existing law meant to ensure that American flags displayed on federal property or procured by federal agencies to be manufactured completely in the United States from American materials. Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said, "There is bipartisan agreement that American flags should be produced in America using American materials, but loopholes in existing laws still allow Chinese manufacturers to sell flags, including through fraudulently-branded websites. This bill would close those loopholes. Congress should take it up and expeditiously...

...that was displayed in the police gym and then sent an unauthorized individual into the police facility to check.

Palestinian "nationhood" and Fun with Flags (thanks, Sheldon Cooper)

A flag reading "Support your local ICE raids" has been spotted in California, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to social media posts. Why It Matters California is grappling with how to counter some of President Trump's policies, especially his immigration agenda, which he has said will involve ICE raids and mass deportations. Immigration and mass deportations were a key component of Trump's 2024 campaign. Americans largely support the president's mass deportation plans, but disagree about how policies should be carried out. A poll by The New York Times and Ipsos conducted from January 2 to 10 found that...

A California woman has protested mass deportations by tearing down a US flag and hanging a Mexican one before threatening to kill a police officer's family as she was being placed in handcuffs. Crystal Aguilar, 24, of Bakersfield, was arrested on Thursday by Kern County Sheriff's Officer after multiple people reported her for trying to steal an American flag off a flagpole in Hart Park in her hometown around 9:30 am. Aguilar, whose parents were deported when she was a child, threw the US flag into the mud after cutting the chain. She then raised a Mexican flag up on...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A woman was arrested Thursday morning for vandalism and resisting arrest after she allegedly took down a United States flag at Hart Park and raised the Mexican flag in its place, according to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office released an edited video of a portion of the incident and arrest on YouTube. Officials said county park rangers were called to Hart Park for multiple reports of someone trying to steal the U.S. flag at the park entrance a little after 9:30 a.m. The sheriff’s office video appears to show a person raising the...

Independent journalists report that LAPD officers pulled back and surrendered the streets to Mexican flag-waving protesters Sunday night. Earlier reports showed the LAPD in riot gear carrying zip ties and threatening to arrest protesters blocking the city’s streets. An independent journalist’s video post on X shows Los Angeles police officers wearing riot helmets and armed with nightsticks ordering a group of Mexican flag-waving protesters. The officers appear to be pushing the crowd back from an intersection as they issued a one-minute order to disband. Journalist Anthony Cabassa posted that just as officers were about to make arrest, “all the police...

Tackle football currently dominates the landscape of our national culture like no sport has done for almost a century. Almost single-handedly, it is keeping the major television networks—otherwise in a death spiral of their own badly broken business model’s making—alive. The Super Bowl is now the last remaining annual non-holiday happening we can legitimately consider a communal event, uniting Americans of virtually all demographics, at least for about five hours. Paradoxically, tackle football, at least in the form we have come to know it, is also vanishing right before our eyes. Remarkably, though we live in a social media era...

Migrants burn an American flag while waving foreign flags during a protest against the deportations in Oxnard, CA