SMA Michael Grinston faced intense backlash after posting about the U.S. Army's inclusion and diversity amid the attack in Kabul that killed 13 soldiers
Critics said Grinston should be solely focused on the situation in Afghanistan rather than try and promote diversity in the armed forces
'Why would you even consider posting this at a time like this,' one person asked
Grinston serves as the 16th Sergeant Major of the Army and advices on matters of enlistment efforts, with inclusion being a key factor
He has since offered his condolences to the families of the victims He should offer his resignation
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I would want more than merely condolences from the Sergeant Major of the Army, but perhaps there are subtleties here that as an ignorant civilian I am unaware.
#5
Interesting way to highlight the last six months of decision making.
Sure it will bring great pride to the parents of those soldiers that the planners were totally focused on what style of hair females and trans can wear.
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There is only one strategic and tactical mindset and that is inclusion. Any other thoughts cannot be considered unless that person has been through 40 hours of diversity training.
-George S. Patton
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And remember troopers, when you find yourselves behind enemy lines, in the dark, heading towards St. Mere-Eglise, maintain tactical formation by asking each other your preferred pronouns.
-General James Gavin
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Show me someone who thinks the vax should be a choice, and I'll show you a neighborhood which should be patrolled and curfew violators shot down.
-Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
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SMA used to be the most respected rank in the Army
Really, check out the very first SMA.
At the conclusion of his tour in 1968 as SMA, CSM Wooldridge went on to serve as the Military Assistance Command-Vietnam (MACV) CSM and was later accused of improprieties. He retired in 1972 and in 1973 pled guilty to two counts of bribery for accepting stock from a corporation that did business with NCO clubs in Vietnam.
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Procopius, I did not know that. I know and greatly respect a CSM and did not anticipate that things went to sh*t so fast in that ladder - took more steps between Captains I know and respected and the political cadre.
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... and his Department of Education are ignoring the growing exodus of students from the city’s most coveted public schools — surely because it’s a response to the DOE’s failures and de Blasio’s war on excellence.
Notably, PS 118 Maurice Sendak in Park Slope has seen its student roster lose 120 kids since the start of the pandemic. Its dismayed principal, Elizabeth Garraway, just emailed parents that the resulting budget crunch forced her to slash four teaching positions — while four others left for better opportunities. Sadly, that’s likely to send even more families fleeing.
Kindergarten enrollment at the high-performing elementary school has plunged more than 50 percent over the last two years, going from 76 in 2019 to just 37 last year.
That’s surely not just the pandemic: The DOE-engineered revamping of middle school admissions in the district, tossing out the screens that allowed some schools to be more challenging, has forced many families to rethink the public schools entirely, as did the scrapping of Gifted & Talented programs.
COVID certainly didn’t help: The DOE says citywide enrollment at its schools fell 4 percent — roughly 43,000 kids — this year, and the true figure is likely higher still. The failure to make remote learning work angered parents all across the city, and fears that in-person school still will have problems this coming year pushed many to find other alternatives, such as religious or private schools that, despite the pandemic, opened for safe, full-time schooling.
The DOE leadership’s habit of treating parental demands for excellence as nothing but racism hurts, too.
Queens state Sen. Leroy Comrie captured the sentiments of his mainly minority constituents: "If chronic underperformance doesn’t scare away successful students, then the pervasiveness of violence and bullying does. Enrollment is dipping and the DOE continues to operate as if the problem will solve itself."
If the next mayor doesn’t act fast to reverse de Blasio’s disastrous policies, every family that can will be rushing for the exits.
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The cosmopolitan mindset is that they have it "all figured out." Couple that conceit with a brain drain and just make sure you watch the ensuing fun from a distance.
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[MYNORTHWEST] Safety concerns over the scene in and around the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle have increased in recent weeks.
Lawmaker calls for shutdown of King County Courthouse after assault
These are concerns that existed even before a dozens-strong homeless encampment took hold at City Hall Park. It’s an issue that pre-dates the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Third Avenue for years has been particularly bad. There were some high-profile assaults a couple of years ago on Third Avenue to include folks who were kind of near the bus stop. There was a really terrible assault on an attorney who is walking into the courthouse, and so our court has been concerned for years about the courthouse safety issues that have been going on, in and around the courthouse," said acting presiding King County Superior Court Judge Patrick Oishi.
The concerns of staff reached a boiling point a few weeks ago when a female employee went to use the restroom, and as she entered a stall was attacked by a man lying in wait inside the stall. Nearby security heard her screams and were able to interrupt the attack, get the woman to safety, and arrest the suspect.
That attack came a short time after a deadly stabbing at the homeless encampment at nearby City Hall Park, which also had ongoing drug issues.
Following the attempted sexual assault, many who work at the courthouse took part in a rally and march around the courthouse demanding safety improvements.
Those safety concerns are now leading to another problem.
"All of our employees, whether it’s staff or judges, anyone who works in the courthouse, have to feel safe coming here," Oishi said.
But that has not been the case.
Beyond judges, their staff, or anyone else working at the courthouse, many others either have to come to the courthouse in person because they are filing for a protective order, or need to engage with eviction or rental aid, while others are compelled to come to court as witnesses or jurors.
"Those people absolutely need access to the courts, and the safety and security issues related to being in the courthouse, as well as in the city of the courthouse really has created what I have described to a number of folks as an access to justice crisis," Oishi said. "A crisis like no other we’ve seen."
"One of the things that highlights the access to justice crisis I think the most is our situation with our backlog of cases, combined with the need to really ramp up the number of trials that we are going to need to get out," Oishi explained, as an example. "And our situation with jurors — we have an immense criminal backlog of cases, and the court is ramping up, has been ramping up, and will continue to ramp up so that we can get more cases out there. But we cannot do that unless we have jurors who are willing to come to court."
#10
^ A trenchant and accurate observation. And to the extent much of it will be fought over and stolen again and again and then wasted on dancing boys and trips to camel beauty shows it will actually be dispersed rather quickly.
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CIA DELIVERED this to the terrorists via C-130?
#12
Cash and weapons DELIVERED. Ransome money and Ransome weapons. You don't leave guns laying out on pallets in the weather like that. The weapons and cash were off loaded into that tarmac, people.
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^ Mosad. Scotland yard. KGB. See, when the rest of the world starts being attacked by terrorists using weapons and financed by the Biden administration with pallets of cash that Biden and his staff shipped to them, the world will come here for his ass.
#16
^ These are the same people who shipped provided guns to Mexican cartels when Obama and Joe took control of the Whitehouse. Mexico should have come after them but they didn't.
#21
The implementation of the international standards on the prevention and fight against money laundering and terrorist
financing has become a national priority that has resulted in the adoption of legislative measures in recent years and in
the review of the prevention and repression system, with the purpose of creating the most effective framework to tackle
such criminal conducts.
Felony committed by the President and his Deep State.
[BREITBART] Former first lady Melania Trump took to social media on Thursday to share that the Trump family is praying for the families who lost loved ones in the terror attack at the Kabul airport.
The attack, which a branch of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , or ISIS, has taken credit for, killed at least 12 troops and up to 90 others, with scores injured.
"We are praying for the families and loved ones of the Marine heroes killed in Kabul and for everyone who is suffering during this difficult time," Melania Trump tweeted
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Hello. What we can do about it is be laser focused on the midterms. We must crush them. Dems and RINOs. I don't want biden to resign. I want him to continue and hang like an albatross around the necks of every dem seeking office in 22. We must work from the local level as well. Get rid of CRT schoolboards, defund people, and the like. We must be on these fools like a horde of locusts. We need to clean house in the judiciary. Trump did great on that. Another 4 years of MAGA will help. There is a lot we can do. As our great president said, never give up, never give in. Continue to fight for what you know is right. God Bless America!
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] Arrogance is the mask incompetence wears. And so, as President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. The guy who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....... ’s failures become more obvious, his spine stiffens. He reportedly ignored intelligence community assessments to make his now infamous July 8 claim that a swift Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... victory was "highly unlikely." He did not correct course even after shaken State Department officials warned of a coming crisis on July 13.
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[THEASPENBEAT] Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... recently learned a trick from Kamala. When he’s asked a legitimate question that he doesn’t want to answer, he laughs. This buys him time and maybe even avoids altogether the necessity for an answer.
Sometimes it works. But it works less well when the question is about human lives at stake.
It’s all part of his flippancy, snarkiness and gaslighting as he tries to divert attention away from the humanitarian catastrophe that he created in his Afghanistan abandonment. His strategy seems to have been something like "ready, fire, aim." It was "ready, evacuate the military, then bring them back ill-equipped and badly outnumbered to save some of the civilians." Civilians that are scattered around a country the size of Texas.
This guy couldn’t organize a company picnic.
When a Democrat news hound hand-picked for a softball interview last week asked Biden about the horrible video of an Afghan teenager falling hundreds of feet from a plane that was taking off, he angrily interrupted, "That was four days, five days ago!" as if it was ancient history (actually, it was only two days before the interview).
When a news hound asked a legitimate question of him at a presser — where he of course was refusing questions — as to what he would do if the evacuation didn’t proceed timely, he snarked to the news hound, "You’ll be the first one I’ll call." His handlers had cut his microphone because they’re terrified these days that he’ll respond to a question in exactly that way, but the news hounds heard and confirmed his snark.
Today the inevitable happened. Biden’s catastrophic handling of the evacuation detonated a bomb, literally. A suicide bomb exploded at the crowded gates to the civilian airport where the administration had instructed Americans to come for evacuation (while simultaneously telling them they couldn’t guarantee anyone’s safety in getting there, even though the Brits were doing exactly that with their people by sending out armed escorts to retrieve their civilians)
This is all being managed haphazardly from the civilian airport because Biden has already surrendered to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... the U.S. airbase along with a few zillion dollars’ worth of military equipment and weapons stored there and elsewhere. (How long before they point a U.S. made stinger missile at a departing evacuation plane?)
Official casualty reports are that the bomb blew up 12 U.S. Marines and 60-some Afghans. The maimed, maimed and crippled will be hundreds more.
This isn’t funny, and someone who tries to deflect attention from legitimate questions about it with laughter, snark and lies is sick — physically, emotionally or both. Especially if that someone is putatively the Commander in Chief of the most lethal military in history and leader of the free world.
This heartless nincompoop has blood on his hands. Biden killed those 12 brave marines and those 60 innocent Afghan men, women and kiddies as surely as if he’d been wearing that jacket wallah vest himself.
If we the people allow him to remain in office spilling more blood, then we too will have blood on our hands. Biden must go. We owe that to ourselves and to the world.
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even though the Brits were doing exactly that with their people by sending out armed escorts to retrieve their civilians
Trillions for war, not one cent for ordinary Americans. We can go fuck ourselves before they will spend one thin dime on us. They will fight anyone who says other countries can do it so why can't we.
[NYPOST] Four months after taking office, President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...... suddenly directed US intelligence agencies to probe the origins of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... that — as everyone knows by now — came from China. Interesting timing this, perhaps prompted by the fact that he had just been caught canceling the previous president’s investigation into the matter.
"Senior administration officials" are now leaking to sympathetic media outlets that the final report of the intelligence community has been sent to Biden but that it is, sadly, "inconclusive."
Don’t expect to be able to read the report for yourself anytime soon, because it is "classified."
You must simply take the word of unnamed officials that we just don’t know and we may never know whether the novel coronavirus jumped from an animal to a human naturally, or might have accidentally beat feet from a lab in China.
But they are eager — perhaps too eager — to attack the idea that it could have been a bioweapon in development. They say it has several naturally occurring features that are found in other coronaviruses.
Well, of course, it does. That’s because it was genetically engineered using the "backbone" of an existing coronavirus.
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No clue, yes.
But why did they pay millions for the study?
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Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! [a croupier hands Renault a pile of money] Croupier: 你的奖金 (Your winnings), sir.
The majority says that the CDC, in barring evictions, relied on "a decades-old statute that authorizes it to implement measures like fumigation and pest extermination."
"It strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts."
It was the second loss for the administration this week at the hands of the high court’s conservative majority. On Tuesday, the court effectively allowed the reinstatement of a Trump-era policy forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their hearings. The new administration had tried to end the Remain in Mexico program, as it is informally known.
On evictions, President Joe Biden acknowledged the legal headwinds the new moratorium would likely encounter. But Biden said that even with doubts about what courts would do, it was worth a try because it would buy at least a few weeks of time for the distribution of more of the $46.5 billion in rental assistance Congress had approved.
The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the pace of distribution has increased and nearly a million households have been helped. But only about 11% of the money, just over $5 billion, has been distributed by state and local governments, the department said.
The administration at first allowed the earlier moratorium to lapse July 31, saying it had no legal authority to allow it to continue. But the CDC issued a new moratorium days later as pressure mounted from lawmakers and others to help vulnerable renters stay in their homes as the coronavirus’ delta variant surged. The moratorium had been scheduled to expire Oct. 3.
Landlords in Alabama and Georgia who challenged the earlier evictions ban quickly returned to court, where they received a sympathetic hearing. U.S. Judge Dabney Friedrich, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said the new moratorium was beyond the CDC’s authority.
Most evictions for unpaid rent have been halted since the early days of the pandemic and there are now more than 15 million people living in households that owe as much as $20 billion in back rent, according to the Aspen Institute.
A majority of single-family rental homeowners have been impacted, according to a survey from the National Rental Home Council, and 50% say they have tenants who have missed rent during the pandemic.
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...That was fast.
Mike.
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Kavanaugh gave them a preview and yet they went ahead and did it again anyway
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The CDC's eviction moratorium, which has no legal authority in these matters.
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Like the Remain in Mexico ruling, waiting to see it actually be respected by a ruling class who don't need to follow the rules for the little people in the tax plantation....
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Between this and the Remain in Mexico rulings we will get a good read on whether the Executive branch is still subject to SCOTUS Constitutional interpretation. If not, then we are at Second Amendment time.
Because after the last two days I needed this. I hope you find it helpful, too, dear Reader.
[Townhall] Save America, former President Trump’s political action committee, is out with a new 90-second ad that absolutely destroys President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...... over the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. As my colleagues at RedState noted, the ad, which hit digital platforms on Tuesday, seemed perfectly timed to drop after the commander in chief delivered a humiliating speech in which rather than jumping straight into a discussion of Afghanistan, he started with his Build Back Better agenda. When he did move onto what should’ve been the main focus of his remarks, he humiliatingly conceded that the U.S.’s exit is dependent on the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and spoke about his virtual meeting with G7 leaders, claiming there’s "solidarity" and "unity" among them on the evacuation effort, even as public reports show otherwise. Then, Biden left without taking questions. Again.
Enter the ad, titled, "Surrenderer-in-Chief."
"Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan... promised Americans a future of growth, strength, diplomacy, and power," its description states. "He told us ’America was back.’ Instead, he withdrew troops from Afghanistan before removing our weapons, our allies, or even our own citizens."
The summary continues: "Joe Biden has backed down to our enemies and failed to protect our allies. Under Joe Biden, the Taliban is back — not America."
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... will not comply. That is the former president’s message to sweeping demands from the partisan Jan. 6 committee for privileged White House communications with his staff members and media contacts prior to the Jan. 6 events.
"Executive privilege will be defended, not just on behalf of my Administration and the Patriots who worked beside me, but on behalf of the Office of the President of the United States and the future of our Nation," Trump said in a statement.
The 45th president also has choice words for the Pelosi-led effort to publicly reveal his presidential and personal communications, which have long been considered legally protected under executive privilege.
"The Leftist ’select committee’ has further exposed itself as a partisan sham and waste of taxpayer dollars with a request that’s timed to distract Americans from historic and global catastrophes brought on by the failures of Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... and the Democrats," Trump also said in the statement. "Unfortunately, this partisan exercise is being performed at the expense of long-standing legal principles of privilege."
[BREITBART] White House press secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... confirmed Wednesday that President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. He also abandoned Afghanistan.... still intends to campaign for Gov. Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom ...the Mitt Romneyesque mayor of San Francisco as it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of California as it transforms itself into Cinderland... (D) in the Sep. 14 Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, recall election, despite the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan.
"I can confirm, the president does still plan to go and campaign for Governor Newsom in California ... that is still certainly his plan," Psaki said. Kam "Chuckles" Harris was supposed to, also, but has been postponed hidden away. Slow Joe won't help, either.
Psaki added that she did not have any particular dates or details about Biden’s plans to travel to, and campaign in, California.
Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder (R) leads most opinion polls among potential replacements for Newsom, should he be recalled. On Tuesday, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Elder dared Biden to campaign for Newsom.
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The entire liberal establishment is going tits up at the same time. It would be glorious if they weren't getting people killed and ruining lives in the process.
[POLICETRIBUNE] Newly-sworn New York Governor Kathy Hochul chose an avowed supporter of the defund-the-police movement to be her lieutenant governor on Wednesday.Hochul, who had pledged to diversify her administration, chose New York State Senator Brian Benjamin, a black Democrat from Harlem, to be her No. 2, the Times Union reported.
Benjamin, who was running for state comptroller when he was chosen by Hochul, has described himself as progressive and has loudly and publicly supported efforts to defund the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Hochul became governor at midnight on Aug. 23 after now-former New York Governor Andrew Sonny Cuomo ...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he will probably run again on his record..... resigned in disgrace amidst allegations of sexual harassment.
Benjamin publicly endorsed defunding the police in a social media post in January.
"I support the movement to defund the police because I believe that there are parts of the NYPD budget that are not essential for public safety," Benjamin tweeted along with the image of a longer, more formal statement as part of his campaign for comptroller.
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Yet another unelected official.
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I feel bad for the "Up-staters" that will get trounced but the New Yawkers will get what they voted for good and hard. You thought "Sonny" Cuomo was bad? The exodus will continue.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
[MYNORTHWEST] Safety concerns over the scene in and around the 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
A 56 year old Nancy Pelosi. Not much to look forward to here. 
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] Arrogance is the mask incompetence wears. And so, as 
...46th president of the U.S. 
...... 46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry......
...... 46th president of the U.S. 
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] 
...46th president of the U.S. 
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
Benjamin, who was running for state comptroller when he was chosen by Hochul, has described himself as progressive and has loudly and publicly supported efforts to defund the New York Police Department (
