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7 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
"Shameful, vindictive erasure": Hegseth orders removal of Harvey Milk's name from Navy ship
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to remove the name of gay rights icon and Navy veteran Harvey Milk from one of its ships. Per a report from the order was passed down in a memo from Navy Secretary John Phelan. The memo said that the redesignation of the oil tanker USNS Harvey Milk was an attempt to get into "alignment with president and SECDEF objectives and SECNAV priorities of reestablishing the warrior culture." A defense official who spoke to the outlet said that the directive came from Hegseth, adding that the Pentagon had intentionally timed the announcement to coincide with the start of Pride Month. The renaming is expected to become official next week. Milk was the first openly gay man to hold elected office in the United States after winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. He was assassinated less than one year after assuming office. Milk was also a commissioned naval officer who served in the Korean War, and came from a family with a history of service in the branch. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose district contains much of San Francisco, called the decision "a shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers for all to chase the American Dream.""Our military is the most powerful in the world – but this spiteful move does not strengthen our national security or the 'warrior' ethos," she shared in a statement. "Instead, it is a surrender of a fundamental American value: to honor the legacy of those who worked to build a better country." Hegseth has made the war against 'wokeness' and the restoration of what he calls a 'warrior ethos' central to his scandal-ridden tenure. This decision was reportedly framed as part of that effort. On Tuesday, CBS News reported that the Navy was looking into changing the names of other ships named after prominent civil rights leaders and icons, including Thurgood Marshall, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriett Tubman, Cesar Chavez and Medgar Evers.
Washington Post
20-04-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Doonesbury Comic Strips by Garry Trudeau - April 19, 2025
........Trump: "Foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American Dream."....Andrew Sullivan on Trump: "He is precisely -- almost uncannily -- what this country was founded to oppose: an arbitrary, corrupt, mendacious, and utterly incompetent king."....Tina Brown: "There is a sense that we are in full-on Caligular madness, that Emperor Trump's next step could be to appoint his horse as proconsul of Florida."....Maureen Dowd: "The White House was not meant for petty tyrants on revenge tours. In the biggest job in the world, Trump seems like a very small man."....Trump on former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, who anonymously wrote a highly-critical 2018 op-ed: "Guilty of treason."....Rachel Maddow on Trump admin handling of Abrego Garcia case: "Like Kafka mixed with Bozo the Clown."....David Axelrod: "We're living in a bizarro world where heroes are being targeted and scoundrels are in a position to target them."....biographer Tim O'Brien on Trump: "Revenge is the oxygen that keeps him the kid in the garage with matches, standing next to the gasoline tank."....Rep. Jamie Raskin: "Instead of removing books from the shelves about America's history and constitutional values, Secretary Hegseth should try reading them."....economic analyst Steve Rattner: "My border collie could do a better job managing this economy than this administration has done so far."....Nobel laurate economist Paul Krugman: "Trump is stupid, erratic, and weak."....former Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen on Trump tariff policy: "The worst self-inflicted wound that I have ever seen an administration impose on a well-functioning economy."....Chris Hayes to Trump: "You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially-burned house. Great job."....George Conway on Trump: "What an incredibly incompetent clown. He's like a monkey on a keyboard."....Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro on Elon Musk: "He is not a car manufacturer, he's a car assembler in many cases."....Musk: "Navarro is truly a than a sack of ain't built sh*t."....Vivian Wilson, Musk's trans daughter, on her father: "A pathetic man-child."....Sen. John Kennedy on Rep. AOC: "Our plan for dealing with her is Operation Let Her Speak."....Fox host Jesse Watters: "When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman. Studies have shown this."....Robert Reich on Trump administration: "It is by far the worst presidency in American regime is filled with bottom-feeders, frauds, fanatics, and fools."....fired FDA vaccine regulator Dr. Peter Marks on RFK Jr.: "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."....Will Saletan: "The American Age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it."....Sen. Brian Schatz simulating Trump: "OUR PLAN IS WORKING PERFECTLY AND IS JUST A NEGOTIATING TACTIC BUT IT IS ALSO GOING TO BE PERMANENT AND WE WILL BE THE WORLD LEADER IN TEXTILES AND NOW THERE IS A PAUSE AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHILL BUT ALSO WE WILL NEVER BACK DOWN AAAAAAHHHHHH."....WaPo's Catherine Rampell: "Who will tell Trump he's naked?".... ........Trump: "Foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American Dream."....Andrew Sullivan on Trump: "He is precisely -- almost uncannily -- what this country was founded to oppose: an arbitrary, corrupt, mendacious, and utterly incompetent king."....Tina Brown: "There is a sense that we are in full-on Caligular madness, that Emperor Trump's next step could be to appoint his horse as proconsul of Florida."....Maureen Dowd: "The White House was not meant for petty tyrants on revenge tours. In the biggest job in the world, Trump seems like a very small man."....Trump on former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, who anonymously wrote a highly-critical 2018 op-ed: "Guilty of treason."....Rachel Maddow on Trump admin handling of Abrego Garcia case: "Like Kafka mixed with Bozo the Clown."....David Axelrod: "We're living in a bizarro world where heroes are being targeted and scoundrels are in a position to target them."....biographer Tim O'Brien on Trump: "Revenge is the oxygen that keeps him the kid in the garage with matches, standing next to the gasoline tank."....Rep. Jamie Raskin: "Instead of removing books from the shelves about America's history and constitutional values, Secretary Hegseth should try reading them."....economic analyst Steve Rattner: "My border collie could do a better job managing this economy than this administration has done so far."....Nobel laurate economist Paul Krugman: "Trump is stupid, erratic, and weak."....former Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen on Trump tariff policy: "The worst self-inflicted wound that I have ever seen an administration impose on a well-functioning economy."....Chris Hayes to Trump: "You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially-burned house. Great job."....George Conway on Trump: "What an incredibly incompetent clown. He's like a monkey on a keyboard."....Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro on Elon Musk: "He is not a car manufacturer, he's a car assembler in many cases."....Musk: "Navarro is truly a than a sack of ain't built sh*t."....Vivian Wilson, Musk's trans daughter, on her father: "A pathetic man-child."....Sen. John Kennedy on Rep. AOC: "Our plan for dealing with her is Operation Let Her Speak."....Fox host Jesse Watters: "When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman. Studies have shown this."....Robert Reich on Trump administration: "It is by far the worst presidency in American regime is filled with bottom-feeders, frauds, fanatics, and fools."....fired FDA vaccine regulator Dr. Peter Marks on RFK Jr.: "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."....Will Saletan: "The American Age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it."....Sen. Brian Schatz simulating Trump: "OUR PLAN IS WORKING PERFECTLY AND IS JUST A NEGOTIATING TACTIC BUT IT IS ALSO GOING TO BE PERMANENT AND WE WILL BE THE WORLD LEADER IN TEXTILES AND NOW THERE IS A PAUSE AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHILL BUT ALSO WE WILL NEVER BACK DOWN AAAAAAHHHHHH."....WaPo's Catherine Rampell: "Who will tell Trump he's naked?".... ........Trump: "Foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American Dream."....Andrew Sullivan on Trump: "He is precisely -- almost uncannily -- what this country was founded to oppose: an arbitrary, corrupt, mendacious, and utterly incompetent king."....Tina Brown: "There is a sense that we are in full-on Caligular madness, that Emperor Trump's next step could be to appoint his horse as proconsul of Florida."....Maureen Dowd: "The White House was not meant for petty tyrants on revenge tours. In the biggest job in the world, Trump seems like a very small man."....Trump on former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, who anonymously wrote a highly-critical 2018 op-ed: "Guilty of treason."....Rachel Maddow on Trump admin handling of Abrego Garcia case: "Like Kafka mixed with Bozo the Clown."....David Axelrod: "We're living in a bizarro world where heroes are being targeted and scoundrels are in a position to target them."....biographer Tim O'Brien on Trump: "Revenge is the oxygen that keeps him the kid in the garage with matches, standing next to the gasoline tank."....Rep. Jamie Raskin: "Instead of removing books from the shelves about America's history and constitutional values, Secretary Hegseth should try reading them."....economic analyst Steve Rattner: "My border collie could do a better job managing this economy than this administration has done so far."....Nobel laurate economist Paul Krugman: "Trump is stupid, erratic, and weak."....former Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen on Trump tariff policy: "The worst self-inflicted wound that I have ever seen an administration impose on a well-functioning economy."....Chris Hayes to Trump: "You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially-burned house. Great job."....George Conway on Trump: "What an incredibly incompetent clown. He's like a monkey on a keyboard."....Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro on Elon Musk: "He is not a car manufacturer, he's a car assembler in many cases."....Musk: "Navarro is truly a than a sack of ain't built sh*t."....Vivian Wilson, Musk's trans daughter, on her father: "A pathetic man-child."....Sen. John Kennedy on Rep. AOC: "Our plan for dealing with her is Operation Let Her Speak."....Fox host Jesse Watters: "When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman. Studies have shown this."....Robert Reich on Trump administration: "It is by far the worst presidency in American regime is filled with bottom-feeders, frauds, fanatics, and fools."....fired FDA vaccine regulator Dr. Peter Marks on RFK Jr.: "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."....Will Saletan: "The American Age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it."....Sen. Brian Schatz simulating Trump: "OUR PLAN IS WORKING PERFECTLY AND IS JUST A NEGOTIATING TACTIC BUT IT IS ALSO GOING TO BE PERMANENT AND WE WILL BE THE WORLD LEADER IN TEXTILES AND NOW THERE IS A PAUSE AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHILL BUT ALSO WE WILL NEVER BACK DOWN AAAAAAHHHHHH."....WaPo's Catherine Rampell: "Who will tell Trump he's naked?"....
