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Rhiannon12866

(258,842 posts)
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 06:15 AM Aug 2025

Trump CHANGES Rule Then ARRESTS Park Ranger For Free Speech - Really American



Really American Hosts Steve Harness Breaks Down Trump sparking OUTRAGE by retroactively changing his own executive order to fire a Park Ranger for hanging a trans pride flag on El Capitan at Yosemite National Park. What a disgraceful attack on free speech and a vulnerable minority community! Can you imagine if they did this to someone who hung a MAGA flag?!

35-year-old Dr. Shannon Joslin, a nonbinary biologist, says she was fired from her “dream job” at Yosemite after climbing El Capitan with six others and hanging a massive 55-by-35-foot transgender pride flag.

Joslin argues the act was done off-duty, in her free time, and was meant as a personal expression of identity:

“Last week, I was fired from my dream job as a permanent park ranger with the NPS for practicing my First Amendment right. In May, I hung a trans flag on El Capitan that celebrated my acceptance of my identity. I want my rights, and I want my career back.”

Yosemite’s acting deputy superintendent, Danika Globokar, defended the decision, stating Joslin had “failed to demonstrate acceptable conduct” by displaying the flag. - 08/25/2025.

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Trump CHANGES Rule Then ARRESTS Park Ranger For Free Speech - Really American (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 OP
does any of this retribution seem unconstitutional? rampartd Aug 2025 #1
Are you serious about the Constitution? Trump and company along with SCOTUS aren't bothered by that ... Botany Aug 2025 #2
Hope she sues. sinkingfeeling Aug 2025 #3
Great idea - someone should try hanging a MAGA flag to see what would happen. TheRickles Aug 2025 #4
Start hanging maga flags on every public toilet. multigraincracker Aug 2025 #5

rampartd

(5,043 posts)
1. does any of this retribution seem unconstitutional?
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 07:17 AM
Aug 2025
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.


Botany

(77,863 posts)
2. Are you serious about the Constitution? Trump and company along with SCOTUS aren't bothered by that ...
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 07:53 AM
Aug 2025

… document and its amendments. The 14th amendment section 3 should have made his
running for or returning to office a non starter and his use of National Guard and Marine Troops
as “law enforcement” unconstitutional and illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act.

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