Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Labor Department Official Warns That Staff Who Speak With Journalists Face 'Serious Legal Consequences'

Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer's chief of staff issued the warning as department employees have spoken to the news media about harms they see resulting from the dismantling of their agency, which enforces laws guaranteeing workers' rights.

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What exactly are the serious legal consequences we American Citizens must endure, for exercising our First Amendment rights?

Hopefully a Republican can clear that up for me.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 12:33 PM

Free speech is back!

#2 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-04-23 12:59 PM

Trump, the worst president in American history.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-23 01:04 PM

Stinky Pete Hegseth has been warned. And it goes double for texting ...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2025-04-23 01:13 PM

We would not want Americans to see how them Nazis sausages are made.

But no worries folks. Our resident Free Speech Expert, DingaLing, will be all over this.

And I am certain it will be discussed in the next monthly militia meeting. They will need a plan for what to do after they catch a Leaker. They still need to vote in that.

Right now it's a tie between deportation, hanging and drawn and quartered.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-23 01:42 PM

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