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Two more members of a Young Republican group chat strewn with racist epithets and hateful jokes stepped down from their jobs Tuesday after POLITICO published an exclusive report on the Telegram exchanges.

Peter Giunta’s time working with New York Assemblymember Mike Reilly “has ended,” the Republican lawmaker said. Giunta served as chair of the New York State Young Republicans when the chat took place. Joseph Maligno, who previously identified himself as the general counsel for that group, is no longer an employee of the New York State Unified Court System, a courts spokesperson confirmed.

Another chat member, Vermont state Senator Sam Douglass, faced mounting calls for his resignation as well, including from the state’s Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, and Douglass’fellow Republican lawmakers, who called his statements “deeply disturbing.”

From Bryce Gaudian

At a friend's farm up the road. This Gray Morph Eastern Screech Owl has resided in his castle high up in this fir tree for a 4th year now. The past three years usually sometime in June, he and his mate have successfully fledged five Eastern Screech Owlets. He is the most chill Owl I've ever observed. The family's children have a virtual playground in the entire area surrounding the tree. He is completely content and at peace with this lovely family. Rural Hayward, Minnesota. October 6, 2025.

From Perry Norgarb

This spotted eagle owl allowed me to slowly wind down my window and take this shot, while s/he stared right through me!

Trekoskraal (South Africa)

Home affairs minister’s 2024 decision to reject visa application for planned speaking tour on character grounds upheld

Australia’s high court has unanimously backed the government’s 2024 decision to refuse the rightwing provocateur Candace Owens a visa to enter the country.

The full bench of the court ruled on Wednesday that the minister’s denial did not infringe an implied constitutional freedom of political communication.

Last October the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, refused Owens’ visa application before a planned national speaking tour, arguing that she had the “capacity to incite discord”.

Burke said at the time the US conservative influencer and podcast host, who has advanced conspiracy theories and antisemitic rhetoric – including allegedly minimising Nazi medical experiments in concentration camps – did not pass the “character test” to receive a visa under the Migration Act.

From MN Owl Tours

That nut(hatch) still behind me?

Barred Owl

From Kr Navneet

Indian Scops owl

Nagpur | Maharashtra | India | 18 May 2025

This is actually a good thing for Labour, I think. Although not for, e.g., Labour councillors in cities in the short term.

It’s a challenge that plenty in Labour are taking seriously. “Polanski is a real threat,” says a senior source, warning that the old assumption that “these people have nowhere else to go” no longer holds. No 10 has long believed that the Greens [...] pose the biggest threat (a prediction that has so far been borne out).

If 'senior source' here is actually being listened to, that's all to the good.

This is not about me or the others from the flotilla. There are thousands of Palestinians, hundreds of whom are children, who are being held without trial right now, and many of them are most likely being tortured, says Greta Thunberg.

What we have been through is only a small, small part of what Palestinians have experienced. On the walls of our prison cells, we saw bullet holes with bloodstains and messages carved into the walls by Palestinian prisoners who had been there before us.

When I’m about to get off the boat, there are a bunch of police officers waiting for me. They grab me, pull me to the ground, and throw an Israeli flag over me.

Greta Thunberg describes how she is dragged to a paved area fenced in with iron fences. This is a protracted scene that lasts for over six hours, according to Greta, and is confirmed by several participants in the flotilla that Aftonbladet talks to.

It was kind of dystopian. I saw maybe 50 people sitting in a row on their knees with handcuffs and their foreheads against the ground. They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me.

They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. ‘A special place for a special lady’, they said. And then they had learned ‘Lilla hora’ (Little removed) and ‘Hora Greta’ (removed Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time.

The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted ‘Don’t touch the flag’ and kicked me in the side. After a while, my hands were tied with cable ties, very tightly. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me while I was sitting like that.

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/35819875