On October 1, 2025, after successfully completing 16 weeks of the FBI Academy's
19-week training program, Maltinsky was handed a letter terminating his employment with the
FBI. The letter was signed by Defendant Patel ("Patel"). In the letter, Patel wrote that he had
"determined that [Maltinsky] exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in [his] work area during [his] previous assignment at the Los Angeles Field Office." In short, Patel fired Maltinsky for displaying a pride flag at his workstation that had been flown by the FBI at the LAFO and then given by the FBI to Maltinsky.
The Defendants' discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech
was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution.
Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
20.11.2025 21:56 β π 4247 π 1152 π¬ 18 π 32
OK SOOOOO... I'm having problems with The Book of Face yet again. long story and anyone sees me face to face IRL I'd explain it but fck this sht. *sigh* lets hope this gets to those who check in occasionally and who'd worry if I disappear.
( aaaaaaw how sweet XD )
18.11.2025 09:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
more chill than NIN "Down in it"? (oh wait thats the Humpty dance remix of Down in it, lol )
01.11.2025 00:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Joined a neighborhood app and literally every post is like βwhat was that explosionβ like they never heard thunder or fireworks before. They are constantly thinking itβs gun fire. Maybe Iβve just live in the city too long but itβs clear when someone has never heard a gun IRL.
13.10.2025 04:09 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
My new preset pack M8 Toolz Vol.2 is out now for the Dirtywave M8!
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90+ high quality sounds to help you up your production!
#m8tracker #diy #musicproduction
15.09.2025 02:29 β π 38 π 17 π¬ 0 π 1
Since itβs almost Halloween I thought Iβd share #chiptune #LSDJ compilation I was one from 2019 called βHeebie-GBsβ released on physical gameboy cart by ASM Retro.
30.10.2025 21:02 β π 12 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1
This comic aged like fine wine
13.09.2025 18:58 β π 27 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
wtf screw that. you will PAY FOR IT if you UNKNOWINGLY let it happen. whats with the escape clause of "knowingly"
30.08.2025 05:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
*sigh* ffs
30.08.2025 05:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
those AI 80s nostalgia videos going viral are weird! and bad! here's why
listen here: www.404media.co/podcast-the-...
27.08.2025 17:45 β π 199 π 45 π¬ 7 π 5
14.08.2025 17:20 β π 305 π 57 π¬ 2 π 0
"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army.
I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.
14.08.2025 16:01 β π 4281 π 1341 π¬ 109 π 29
Metaβs AI rules have let bots hold βsensualβ chats with children
An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giantβs rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it.
AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
14.08.2025 14:11 β π 379 π 154 π¬ 36 π 113
Pentagon draws up plans to send troops to American cities
The Trump administration is considering plans for a 'Reaction Force' of National Guard troops to deploy to American cities with signs of civil unrest.
"This is Donald Trump's attempt to create his own de facto Praetorian Guard," @pgeddington.com, senior fellow at the @cato.org Institute, tells Reason. "These acts by the Trump regime have nothing to do with crime and everything to do with armed, coercive political intimidation and repression."
14.08.2025 01:47 β π 446 π 186 π¬ 26 π 15
Federal court refuses to block Alabamaβs βdivisive conceptsβ law, says university faculty classroom speech is government speech with no First Amendment protection. This dangerous development allows lawmakers to dictate what professors say in class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
14.08.2025 12:28 β π 956 π 459 π¬ 53 π 105
Iβm trying to figure out what caused Trump to target these particular mayors
14.08.2025 19:07 β π 1399 π 389 π¬ 51 π 8
Videographer is 20-30 feet away from this interaction. The whole situation is low-key and quiet.
Cop brandishes his steel asp (expandable, telescoping baton) to menace this journalist.
There is no basis whatsoever for this behavior. Zero threat.
14.08.2025 19:42 β π 714 π 210 π¬ 35 π 12
Piece of shit ICE fascists are swarming Little Tokyo. Posted up outside the Japanese American Museum threatening people with internment. Impossible to overstate how disgusting these people are.
14.08.2025 18:34 β π 4093 π 1402 π¬ 122 π 227
Trump sending ICE agents to Newsomβs press conference is thuggish totalitarian behavior, but more than that itβs deeply pathetic, insecure, and petty.
14.08.2025 19:52 β π 4592 π 923 π¬ 106 π 46
wait wut? oooh so cool its back and restored!!
14.08.2025 21:39 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
an strange and interesting work around, for me at least, is to have three tasks I think are important, then bounce between them when I become uncomfortable focusing. eventually all three get done. obviously I dont assume it'd work for anyone else but meh..
14.08.2025 21:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
Trump gets RUDE AWAKENING as EVENT SPELLS DOOM
ignore the sensational headline, this post does a great job explaining the math involved with the current state of the U.S. economy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZDe...
14.08.2025 21:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Talarico and Texas Dems break quorum to Halt Gerrymandering Vote.
03.08.2025 23:48 β π 22097 π 5634 π¬ 652 π 388
These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.
07.05.2025 01:03 β π 9395 π 2359 π¬ 268 π 330
good choice of roll model for aesthetics. reminds me of how my very first avatar on the Book of Face was Re-L Mayer from Ergo Proxy cause she looked amazing and a straight friend pestered me weirdly until I changed it. XD
15.07.2025 16:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
if you do a good deed and you dont post about it for clout it doesn't count
ur karma is measured in post engagement
13.07.2025 02:40 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
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11.07.2025 10:33 β π 17013 π 4792 π¬ 209 π 220
Honestly, I'm happy for Canada. She's been putting up with America's toxic shit for too long. Live your life, bestie
14.07.2025 20:51 β π 17 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
is this populism? cutting social services and replacing immigrant labor with robots, the elderly, and people with disabilities?
09.07.2025 07:41 β π 3512 π 597 π¬ 336 π 77
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