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A top American Federation of Government Employees official made life miserable for his employees while leading an office dedicated to ensuring that federal employees are not mistreated, an investigation found. Jeremy A. Lannan, the union’s National Vice President for Women and Fair Practices (WFP), was tasked with “promot[ing] civil, human, and workers’ rights for the more than 700,000 federal and D.C. government employees represented by AFGE.” But an internal investigation obtained by The Daily Wire shows that Lannan frequently engaged in the type of behavior he was meant to prevent. Lannan oversaw “a workplace where it is not uncommon for WFP employees to be demeaned… and intimidated,” an investigation by the Potomac Law Group found. AFGE hired Potomac to investigate Lannan after two employees complained about his leadership. The investigation also found turnover among Lannan’s employees was “extremely high.” Lannan’s executive assistant told the Potomac Law Group that the union boss “acts like he owns me.” She said he uses a “fear factor” to manage his employees to the point where she had trouble eating or sleeping, and that he is “spiraling.” Another subordinate, who manages cases in which the union fights for employees who say the federal government discriminated against them, said Lannan “may be Jekyll or Hyde on any given day” and is “losing it.” She said she receives “barrages of emails accusing” her of being disrespectful of his position, and his “combative” “outbursts” are so common that she has sought therapy. On May 7, AFGE National Vice President Arnold Scott charged Lannan with violating AFGE’s constitution by “bullying and creating a hostile work environment,” adding that “his retaliation against these employees for filing is conduct unbecoming a union member.” “These charges are so serious that removal should be the penalty because of the legal liability that AFGE could face. There needs to be a clear message sent that this type of conduct will not be tolerated by officers of AFGE,” the charging document said. AFGE and Lannan did not return requests for comment from The Daily Wire. Lannan is still listed on the web page listing the union’s top three leaders, and is running for president of the public-sector union in its election next month. Appointed to his position in 2018, Lannan boasted that he was “making history” as the first man to oversee the woman-centric office. Lannan, who is gay, called himself “my sister’s keeper,” given his mandate to stop federal bosses from mistreating employees, particularly females. His official AFGE bio states that under Lannan’s leadership, “AFGE furthered its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts by developing additional programs and constituency groups” including black, Asian, and Hispanic union members. Jeremy Lannan, national vice president, AFGE Women and Fair Practices, was the guest speaker for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Pride Month program held in the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia / Department of Defense Five additional employees told the Potomac Law Group that Lannan had treated them similarly, evidence of “a prevalent trend of employee mistreatment,” the report concluded. One described a pattern of “erratic” behavior and “manipulation,” calling Lannan a “bully.” For example, she said at AFGE’s 2023 Legislative and Grassroots Mobilization Conference, Lannan “slammed his hand down” so hard “that the table shook.” Another employee said Lannan frequently yelled and treated his employees as “indentured servants.” Another employee said he “bullies, berates, and belittles” employees. Still another said he made “demeaning comments.” In response, Lannan—whom the Department of Defense tapped to lead a Pride Month celebration—denied the allegations, telling the investigator that one of the complainants had engaged in misconduct. Lannan also claimed that he “receives unfavorable treatment by AFGE” because he is gay, and called the investigation “an example of negative action being taken against him because he is gay.” Union presidency campaign flier / JeremyLannan.com

One woman found the most wholesome note from a neighbor in her building, and she just had to post it on social media! Margaret Brennan discovered the handwritten message tacked to a bulletin board in the basement of the complex. A man named Ed, age 60, was looking to take up a new hobby. He was hoping that someone else in the building might be able to show him the ropes! “I’d love to go sailing — I’ve never been,” Ed wrote in his message. “I’m very interested to learn more about it. Please consider me if an opportunity arises.” Screengrab from TikTok However, this man wasn’t expecting his neighbors to give him sailing lessons for free. In his adorably wholesome note, he explained what he was willing to bring to the table. “I’ll be a good helper!” he said. “I will make all a nice boxed lunch!” This wholesome note is melting hearts. At the end of the message, Ed added a few more details about himself. Apparently, he’s 60 years old, “physically fit,” and “a good swimmer.” Margaret was absolutely touched by this wholesome guy and his lovely note. Personally, we couldn’t see why anyone wouldn’t want this absolute sweetheart on their boat! Screengrab from TikTok “Someone please take Ed sailing,” Margaret wrote in her social media post. Commenters were also rooting for this man to live out his sailing dreams. “I better see Ed on a sailboat by the end of this year,” one user wrote. Another added, “I am actually crying can someone take him.” @bostonsailingcenter Replying to @luthea.dowdall update: Ed finally got his wish to go sailing! #bostonsailingcenter #boston #sailing Go to @Margaret Brennan’s post for the full story ♬ Come and Get Your Love – Redbone Well, you’ll be glad to hear that this man’s wholesome note did, indeed, finally get him on a sailboat! Boston Sailing Center posted a photo of Ed enjoying a ride on one of their vessels. Lots of commenters had tagged the sailing school on Margaret’s post, and they eventually took the man out to sea. He looks so happy in the picture! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Wholesome: Woman Finds Note With The Sweetest Request In Her Building’s Basement appeared first on InspireMore.

Be encouraged to focus on gratitude and mindfulness and embrace a more joyful and fulfilling life.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The introduction of digital public infrastructure (DPI) – that’s the buzzword preferred by the EU, the UN, WEF, and Gates Foundation, as they push for digital ID and payments – has been making good progress in Pakistan. And a blog post on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website praises this as a development “transforming lives” (namely, in a positive manner). The post is authored by some of the usual suspects – representatives of the World Bank and the UN-based “Better Than Cash Alliance” and is especially focused on the fact Pakistan has so far issued digital ID cards to over 240 million citizens. World Bank’s DPI technical adviser Tariq Malik and Better Than Cash Alliance’s Prerna Saxena write that Pakistan’s “digital transformation” has the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) at its core. Various elements of the controversial DPI scheme are at this time “tested” in less developed countries around the world (referred to in the article as “a select group of nations”), and invariably, the benefits of DPI are advertised as helping, in particular, (financially) underprivileged communities. The take on what is currently going on in Pakistan is no different: NANDRA’s Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) integrates digital ID with opening bank accounts, getting a driver’s license, social welfare, etc. What an opponent may see as dangerous (privacy, but also security-wise) centralization of people’s identities and activities, opening up enormous possibilities for mass surveillance – is “seamless identity authentication for every citizen” as far as the WEF blog post authors are concerned. Here’s an interesting piece of information: “Within four years of launching the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) – a social protection initiative to alleviate poverty – CNIC issuance to adults increased by 72%,” the article says. And during Covid, it proved useful in managing lockdowns by transferring $75 to 12 million households (this was supposed to sustain them for three months.) Drawing conclusions from Pakistan’s “success story,” the authors stress the need to ensure that regardless of who is in power, they remain committed to implementing DPI, and push for its adoption with “robust legal frameworks.” Last – and probably, really last, as far as fervent DPI proponents go – there’s a mention of “ethical principles.” Meanwhile, Pakistan’s DPI project is next expected to produce a nationwide digital health records system, among several other initiatives. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post World Bank Advisor Praises Pakistan’s Digital ID Push appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

When you think of the longest-living animals, chances are your brain doesn’t automatically go for “relatively small breed of parrot”. But when Cocky Bennett, a cockatoo and local legend from Sydney, Australia, died in 1916, he had reached an age that even most humans can only dream of.At a reported 120 years old, Cocky was born at a time when a man named George Washington was calling himself President of some new upstart country in the West, and Napoleon was just some guy in the French army. He predated the discoveries of both the Rosetta Stone and the platypus; he may even have been older than the first vaccine.In contrast, the world he left was one deep into one of the deadliest conflicts in history, in which tanks and machine guns had replaced muskets and horses. By the time he died, planes could fly on autopilot; Londoners were taking the escalator down to catch the Tube to work every morning; and Hollywood had fallen in love with a little Cockney clown named Charlie Chaplin.How unusual was his lifespan? As a domesticated sulfur-crested cockatoo, Cocky could have expected to live a good 80 years or so – roughly the same lifespan as the humans who looked after him. Beating that threshold by a full 50 percent, then, is remarkable – and it’s not surprising that Cocky outlived at least two of his owners over the years.“Cocky spent his first 78 years travelling the world with Captain [George] Ellis, his owner, who plied his ship in the South Sea Islands' trade,” wrote historian Catie Gilchrist in 2014.But when Ellis died at the ripe old age of 87, Cocky was taken in by the captain’s nephew. After having circumnavigated the globe a reported seven times with his previous owner, Cocky took a nice quiet retirement with a couple named Joseph and Sarah Bowden – “then probably the licensees of Bowden's Clubhouse near the corner of Hunter and Castlereagh streets, Sydney,” Gilchrist wrote.But it wasn’t until 1889, when Joseph died, Sarah remarried, and the new couple moved to a place named (really) Tom Ugly’s Point, in the south of Sydney, that Cocky really came into his own as a celebrity. After Sarah and her new husband Charles Bennett bought the local Sea Breeze Hotel, the geriatric cockatoo “lived in the hotel and for many years he ruled as 'Cock of the Bar',” described Gilchrist. “He was extremely talkative and popular and known to many thousands of residents and visitors far and wide who became acquainted with his colorful character,” she wrote. “Cocky had a cage on the hotel's front verandah where he could watch the passing parade, greeting old friends in his raucous and inimitable style.”The bird was known for his comic catchphrases, such as “one at time gentlemen, please” when other birds harassed him, and, famously, “if I had another bloody feather I'd fly!” Of course, that latter joke needs some context: thanks to a bout with psittacine beak and feather – a common viral disease that even today kills up to 50 percent of cockatoos before they reach sexual maturity, per The Sydney Morning Herald – Cocky spent the last few decades of his life virtually bald.Cocky Bennett on his perch at the Sea Breeze Hotel, aged 118 years, 1914.Image credit: Sutherland Shire Library (Public Domain)The same disease was responsible for his unusual beak: long, gnarled, and twisted, it was only by eating pre-mashed food that Cocky could get any nutrients at all by the end of his life.He died on May 26, 1916 – he “maintained [his] ‘patter’ till the day before [his] death,” according to reports of the time – and you might think that would be the end of his story. A remarkably long life, but still, just a bird. You’d be wrong.In fact, Cocky left an impressive impact for one so small and featherless: “Sarah Bennett attached a collection box to Cocky's cage, and his chatter invited donations for St. George Hospital,” notes the Sutherland Shire Libraries local history resource.He didn't raise enough for a wing – a shame, since he evidently needed one – but “enough funds were raised to supply the hospital with three beds, each bearing a plaque inscribed with the words: 'Cocky Bennett Cot'.”