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Instead of fining democrats for waving flags, the House Sergeant at Arms just called and said I will be fined $500 if I don’t delete this video post. Mike Johnson really wants to memory hole this betrayal of America. This is the U.S. House of Representatives under the direction of Speaker Mike Johnson. Democrats are celebrating his total capitulation with no victory for securing our border. #MTV

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Democrats painted a surreal scene on the House floor Saturday as the House passed a $61 billion bill to further Ukraine’s war effort. As the inevitable outcome neared, Democrats produced dozens of miniature Ukraine flags, waiving them and cheering “Ukraine!” jubilantly.

During radical anti-Israel demonstrations in the heart of New York City, a pro-Palestinian protester waved a burning American flag as fellow activists cheered, while another set a counter-protester’s flag on fire, and yet another chanted “Death to America.” As demonstrators rallied on Monday, one protester publicly set an American flag on fire outside the Brooklyn Borough Hall building in New York City. NOW: A protester sets an American flag on fire outside Brooklyn Borough Hall as protesters rally on the steps pic.twitter.com/aZy7ZzqDzP — katie smith (@probablyreadit) April 15, 2024

A high school in southeastern Indiana came under fire on Thursday after forcing a student to remove an American flag from his vehicle. The student’s mother relayed the events in a social media post. Cameron Blasek, a senior at East Central High School in St. Leon, was called into the principal’s office on Thursday and was told to remove the flag or be written up for insubordination. The post says that after being told to take the flag off his truck, he pulled out the school’s handbook and “pointed out that nowhere in the handbook does it mention the word...

Voters in Huntington Beach approved a measure this week that limits what flags can fly on city property. Measure B passed with more than 58% of the vote following Tuesday’s polling, according to the Orange County Registrar of Voters election results. Part of the measure states that only the United States flag, the State of California flag, the County of Orange flag, the City of Huntington Beach flag, the POW-MIA flag, the six Armed Forces flags and the Olympic flag during the Summer Olympic Games be displayed on City property.

At the start of World War II, the invading Wehrmacht made swift progress through France and by 14 June 1940, they had occupied Paris. They wasted no time in raising their military flag on the Eiffel tower and the swastika above the Palace of Versailles. Naturally, such triumphant use of these flags was highly symbolic. Versailles had been the venue both for the Proclamation of the German Empire (Deutsche Reichsgründung) in January 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War, and, on 28 June 1919, it had been where the Treaty which bore its name was to conclude the First World War. Hitler...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House on Wednesday began moving forward with a proposal that would restrict the types of flags that can be displayed at government buildings and schools, including preventing the display of LGBTQ pride flags. The bill (HB 901), sponsored by Rep. David Borrero, R-Sweetwater, and Rep. Randy Fine, R-Brevard County, drew heavy opposition from LGBTQ people, activists and parents and refueled legislative battles that have raged in recent years about LGBTQ-related issues. Supporters said the bill is aimed at preventing “indoctrination” at places such as schools. “This is something that literally is bringing us back to the...

The Florida House on Wednesday began moving forward with a proposal that would restrict the types of flags that can be displayed at government buildings and schools, including preventing the display of LGBTQ pride flags. The bill (HB 901), sponsored by Rep. David Borrero, R-Sweetwater, and

A father is suing Colarado’s largest school district after he alleges that a school refused to let his children display “straight flags”. Nathan Feldman alleges that his two children have been denied their First Amendment rights at the K-8 Slavens School in Denver. He says that a “straight flag” would represent his children’s beliefs and should be allowed to be hung and displayed on campus the same way LGBTQ+ flags are. Feldman’s lawyer, Michael Yoder, has blamed equality, diversion and inclusion policies in Denver for the “overt sexualisation of content in elementary schools nationwide”. He said that books focused on...

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A 29-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly set fire to two flags at a 9/11 memorial at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, law enforcement sources said. Jeremias Venegas is accused of burning an American flag and a Port Authority World Trade Center Tribute flag around 11:30 p.m. Sunday at the north wing of the Manhattan terminal, sources told The Post. Authorities were able to get video of the alleged vandal and he was arrested early Monday morning by Port Authority officers, according to sources.

A new flag policy for the Temecula Valley Unified School District was passed, banning most flags, including Pride flags, from being displayed on school campuses.

A new controversial flag policy for the Temecula Valley Unified School District was passed with a 3-2 vote during Tuesday night’s meeting. School officials discussed whether certain flags should be limited for display, which some critics believe will be used to censor LGBTQ+ support. Following the policy’s approval, only state and U.S. flags can be displayed at schools. All other flags would require the superintendent’s approval

<p>Days after helping ban gay pride and other flags from Hamtramck property in a move he said aims to keep the city neutral, Mayor Amer Ghalib is being accused of selective enforcement for allowing a Black pride flag to fly at a city park.</p>

Many liberals celebrated when Hamtramck, Michigan, elected a Muslim-majority council in 2015 but a vote to exclude LGBTQ+ flags from city property has soured relations In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council. They viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign. This week many of those same residents watched in dismay as a now fully Muslim and...

President Joe Biden's administration is receiving backlash online over its Pride Month display at the White House on Sunday as many Twitter users are saying it violates the U.S. Flag Code. Biden celebrated the LGBT community in a post Saturday, revealing a set of flags hanging from the White House that faced the South Lawn. The display includes a rainbow-colored Pride flag flanked by two American flags. Twitter users argue the display violates a section of the U.S. Flag Code that mandates the American flag be in the center of any display featuring multiple national flags or pennants.

BIDEN: "All across my country, in big cities and small towns, Ukrainian flags fly from American homes.”

Boston has agreed to pay $2.1 million in legal fees and other expenses after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the city for refusing to allow a Christian flag to fly outside City Hall. The settlement included an agreement to pay Harold Shurtleff and his Camp Constitution non-profit for legal costs incurred during the dispute. “We are pleased that after five years of litigation and a unanimous victory at the U.S. Supreme Court, we joined with Hal Shurtleff to finally let freedom fly in Boston, the Cradle of Liberty,” Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver, whose organization represented Shurtleff, said in...

What authority does a state governor have to lower US flags?

President Joe Biden ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff to remember the life of Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday. She was 96. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine also ordered flags lowered. "In accordance with the orders issued by the President of the United States of America and in remembrance of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Governor DeWine has ordered that the flags of the United States and the State of Ohio be flown at half-staff upon all public buildings and grounds throughout the State of Ohio until sunset on the day of interment," a statement from the governor's...