This week's #GrindayFriday is 2023 EP 'A Pearl Wasted on a Swine' from Phoenix's NOOSES.

https://nooses.bandcamp.com/album/a-pearl-wasted-on-a-swine

This has some oldschool grind elements, some almost blackened vocals, powerviolence vocals sometimes, and hardcore-esque or group singalong vocals occasionally? And yeah, some d-beat! It's a wild one. All with incredibly tight, catchy, dynamic riffage and drums. A winner.

#grind #grindcore #BlackenedGrind #powerviolence #Phoenix #Arizona #metal #PhoenixGrind #ArizonaGrind #Nooses #DBeat @vanessawynn @HailsandAles @brian @guffo @c0m4 @flockofnazguls

It was not immediately clear Tuesday why publication of the new harassment policy was not paused so the “potentially divisive” language used to describe #swastikas & #nooses could be removed to align with Lunday’s directive.

#Trump #USCG #WhiteSupremacy #antisemitism

The #Trump admin called the article “false,” but within hours of its publication the service’s acting commandant, Adm. Kevin Lunday, issued a memo forcefully denouncing symbols such as #swastikas & #nooses, & emphasizing that both remain prohibited.

Lunday said at the time that his Nov 20 memo would supersede any other language.

#USCG #WhiteSupremacy #antisemitism

Spox for the #CoastGuard & #DHS, which oversees the military service, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The symbols issue is expected to come up at a #House committee hearing Tuesday.

WaPo was first to report on the #USCG’s plan to revise its workplace harassment policy last month.

#Trump #swastikas #nooses #WhiteSupremacy #antisemitism

#US #CoastGuard enacts policy calling #swastikas, #nooses ‘potentially divisive’ instead of #HateSymbols

The #USCG has allowed a new workplace harassment policy to take effect that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive” despite an uproar over the new language that forced the service’s top officer to declare that both would remain prohibited.

#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #antisemitism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/16/coast-guard-swastikas-nooses/

The latest policy that was rolled out late Thursday night also unequivocally banned the display of any divisive or #hate symbols from all #USCG locations. The earlier version stopped short of banning the symbols, instead saying that commanders could take steps to remove them from public view & that the rule did not apply to private spaces outside of public view, such as family housing.

#law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastikas #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

#Journalism matters

#USCG reverses course on policy to call #swastikas & #nooses 'potentially divisive'

The late-night change came the same day media outlets, led by WaPo, discovered that the #CoastGuard had written a policy…that called those same symbols “potentially divisive.” The term was a shift from a years-long policy…that said symbols like swastikas & nooses were “widely identified with oppression or hatred” & called their display “a potential #hate incident.”

https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-swastikas-nooses-hate-symbols-policy-43b1ff282da18694184ff20ff8ce7c4a

IS ANYBODY SURPRISED BY THIS?

"#Swastikas & #Nooses will no longer be classified as symbols of #hate" in the U.S. military.

BUT "#Pride Flags" are still #banned.

Of course. (Watch to the end. Jen covers the ad Dems put out telling members of the #military not to follow #Illegal Orders, and then provides examples of why such a reminder was necessary.)
https://www.ms.now/the-briefing/watch/trump-cracks-down-on-pride-flags-softens-on-swastikas-nooses-252528709651

New U.S. Coast Guard policy OK with some swastikas & nooses, but not transgender service members

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/coast-guard-embraces-nooses-swastikas

#U.S. #CoastGuard will no longer classify #swastikas, #nooses as hate symbols (according to a piece in the Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/20/coast-guard-swastika-noose/

In 2007 two incidents involving #nooses within the #USCG drew national attention. That summer, a #Black cadet at the service’s officer training academy found a noose in his sea bag while aboard a #CoastGuard vessel. The next month an instructor discussing #race relations in response to the first incident reported a #noose was left in her office.

#law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

Each of the #military services is also reviewing its “harassment” policies in response to #Hegseth’s directive, though unlike with the #USCG, any wording specific to #swastikas would likely appear in their separate #extremism guidelines [we’ll see]. It does not appear there is wording addressing swastikas specifically within those current policy documents.

#law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

“Conduct previously handled as a potential hate incident, including those involving symbols widely identified with oppression or hatred, is processed as a report of harassment,” the #USCG said in its new policy, which was recently published online. “The terminology ‘hate incident’ is no longer present in policy.”

https://media.defense.gov/2025/nov/14/2003820615/-1/-1/0/CI_5350_6A.pdf

#law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

The changes to the #swastika & #noose classification were part of a broader effort by the #USCG to remove the “concept” of #hate incidents from its regulations [ ala if you don’t test for COVID, then you won’t have so many reports of infection].

#WillfulIgnorance

#law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech
https://media.defense.gov/2025/nov/14/2003820615/-1/-1/0/CI_5350_6A.pdf

In securing his conviction, prosecutors cited evidence in his case showing Hasson to be an avowed #WhiteNationalist.

Over the past several years each of the other #military services has reworked their policies on #extremism within the ranks. That was a response, directed by the #Biden admin, to the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection perpetrated by #Trump supporters angry he lost the election.

#law #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

Previous guidance put in place in 2019 said #USCG commanders could order #swastikas, #nooses or other symbols to be removed even if it was determined the display did not rise to the level of a #hate incident. That policy was enacted months after a #CoastGuard officer, Lt Christopher Hasson, was charged with plotting a large-scale attack on Democratic lawmakers, including then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

#law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

That 45-day deadline will have a chilling effect, said the #USCG official who had seen the new policy.

“If you are at sea, & your shipmate has a swastika in their rack, & you are a #Black person or #Jew, & you are going to be stuck at sea with them for the next 60 days, are you going to feel safe reporting that up your chain of command?” this #CoastGuard official said.

#law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

Like the Navy, #USCG members can be deployed for months at a time. The new policy gives them 45 days to report an incident whereas the previous policy did not have a deadline other than to advise that #CoastGuard members who see a potential #hate incident “should immediately report it to a member higher in their chain of command.”

#law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

A #CoastGuard official who had seen the new wording called the policy changes chilling.

“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of #swastikas,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of #retribution.

#law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

Though the #USCG is not part of the #Defense Dept, the service has been reworking its policies to align with the #Trump admin’s changing tolerances for hazing & harassment within the #US #military. In Sept Defense Sec #PeteHegseth directed a review & overhaul of those policies, calling the military’s existing standards “overly broad” & saying they jeopardize US troops’ combat readiness.

#law #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech