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From Wenzler v. U.S. Coast Guard , decided today by Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder, joined by Judges Amy St. Eve and Joshua Kolar: James Wenzler posted a series of crass statements on LinkedIn while serving as a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and depicting himself in uniform. The Auxiliary investigated, told him to stop, and removed him from its ranks after he failed to heed its warning…. James Wenzler joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary in 2007. He held various positions over the years, eventually becoming a Vice Flotilla Commander. Wenzler publicized his affiliation with the organization on LinkedIn. His profile depicted him in uniform and represented that he served as the Auxiliary's Branch Chief for Human Resources. In May 2022, a member of the public complained to the Auxiliary about Wenzler's LinkedIn posts. One of the posts accused certain Supreme Court Justices of being racist, and another included a crude remark about the Girl Scouts. Here are the details on the posts, from the district court opinion: The first was in response to a post congratulating Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Wenzler's responsive post read: "Another racist makes the court to join racist Sotomyor and Kagn. Great job

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After rolling out its Liquid Glass redesign more broadly to iOS users last month, Meta is now moving to take the revamped look to its Mac app. Here are the details. WhatsApp for Mac could soon get the Liquid Glass revamp It would be an understatement to say that WhatsApp’s rollout of the Liquid Glass look has been slow. After rolling out a small-scale test to iOS users in October, the app finally started a broader rollout last month. Even so, many users still say they don’t have access to the new look, which includes Liquid Glass elements across the app’s top and bottom navigation bars, as well as the iOS 26 keyboard. As it works to expand Liquid Glass to more parts of WhatsApp for iOS, including the voice message player and message reactions menu, the company has begun the work to bring the new look to WhatsApp for Mac, as spotted by WABetaInfo . According to the report, the feature is currently under development, which means it is not even available to beta testers yet. However, WABetaInfo was able to activate the Liquid Glass interface (as well as macOS 26 elements), as seen below: Image: WABetaInfo That includes

A pair of Citroën Amis side-by-side the Commentry Velodrome - SylvainLyve / Twitch Despite what Formula 1 fans would have you believe, cars don't need V10 engines to put on a thrilling race. Nine internet personalities took to the high banks of a velodrome in France for a 100-lap race on Sunday. The livestreamed event was contested with a fleet of Citroën Ami cars and drew over a million viewers on three days' notice. The 8-hp electric quadricycles with numbers and Lightning McQueen decals slapped on the doors put on a show that looked like a NASCAR race at Daytona or Talladega, bump drafting included. The race, simply called La Course, was organized by Sylvain Levy and broadcast on his Twitch channel. Levy created the car-focused YouTube channel Vilebrequin and is currently a host on Top Gear France. The event's name translates into English as "The Race," but it's also a humorous backronym for "L'Ami Challenge Original Ultra Racing Sport Event." Don't like the impressive drone shots or professional graphics package fool you, this wasn't a no-nonsense affair. The drivers were encouraged to trash-talk their competitors during mid-race interviews as long as they didn't insult anyone's mom, because it was Mother's Day

Troy University’s Montgomery Metro Alumni Chapter gathered earlier this month to award scholarship to two current TROY students and one incoming student. The chapter awarded $2,000 scholarships current TROY students Jennifer Serna and Samuel Myers and incoming student Maggie Weatherford, a recent graduate of Pike Road High School. An annual golf tournament and silent auction are the chapter’s main fundraising effort to fund scholarships. “Mainly due to our golf tournament each fall and the silent auction we have along with it, we have been able to increase the amount of our scholarships,” said chapter President Bryan Hubbard. “This year we are able to give three scholarships at $2,000 each, and we are very proud of that.” Myers and Weatherford attended the gathering on May 7 at the Wynlakes home of Alumni Director Faith Byrd where they were recognized and awarded the scholarships. “I’m just very grateful to receive this scholarship,” said Weatherford, who will be studying nursing at TROY. “I have an older brother who is already in college, I will be starting my college journey in the fall, and I have a younger brother who will be a freshman after me, so I am so grateful to receive this

The Kokomo Police Department is investigating a child solicitation case after a 10-year-old boy was allegedly coerced into sending inappropriate videos to people on social media and gaming platforms, including Roblox. That's according to court documents, which also say the suspect used Snapchat to contact him. The Howard County Prosecutor's Office formally charged Dominique Jose Castrejon, of Moreno Valley, California, with one count of child solicitation. It all started when Kokomo Police got a call from the child's grandmother, stating she found her grandson had been sending inappropriate photos and videos in exchange for Robux, which is the currency used on the gaming platform Roblox. Kokomo Police found the videos and photos were sexually explicit in nature, according to court documents. During a forensic interview alongside the Indiana Howard County Department of Child Services, the 10-year-old boy stated he has accounts on multiple platforms including YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch and Zangi, using a fake birthday to get around some of the age restrictions. The boy told officers he had been contacted by strangers to send inappropriate videos on several of the platforms and that he had been both paid in Robux and, at times, threatened. In exchange for

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FOIA The cartoonist caught the FBI’s attention over a bizarre scheme involving Matt Gaetz, a CIA agent held captive in Iran, and a Florida fraudster. Matthew Petti | 6.1.2026 4:53 PM (Illustration: DAN ROSENSTRAUCH/TNS/Newscom/Rokas Tenys/Dreamstime) Most Americans knew the late Scott Adams for Dilbert , his beloved comic strip about an office worker and his dimwitted colleagues. Later in life, Adams became known as a kind of right-wing shock jockey . But the cartoonist caught the FBI's attention for something a little bit different: the sex crimes investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R–Fl.) and a bizarre blackmail scheme that grew out of it. The FBI released its files on Adams last week, five months after his death, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Reason . The records include the heavily redacted results of a background check and a request to Twitter—the social media network later renamed X—to preserve Adams' account data, including his private messages. The investigation into Adams seems to have begun in the spring of 2021, when he was entangled in the Gaetz scandal. On March 30, 2021, The New York Times reported that Gaetz was under federal investigation for having sex

BREATHITT COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Breathitt County Schools is set to receive a $27 million settlement from four social media companies. In 2023, the district filed a lawsuit against Snapchat, Meta, TikTok and YouTube, accusing the companies of creating addictive technologies that hurt student mental health and forced schools to spend more on counseling and other services. The district will receive $27 million from the companies instead of the case going to trial as scheduled next week. Bellwether case avoids trial Breathitt County Schools’ case against Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat was viewed as a bellwether case against the social media giants. According to Bloomberg News, it was set to be the first of more than 1,300 similar lawsuits filed by districts across the U.S. to go to trial. The trial was supposed to start on June 12, but instead, the companies have agreed to pay the district a combined $27 million. Bloomberg reports Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, will pay the most at $9 million. Snapchat and TikTok each agreed to pay $8 million, and YouTube will pay just over $2 million. Lawsuit claims The lawsuit claimed the companies created addictive technologies that hurt student mental health. The

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