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"Now I've shot so many Nazis, Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat." (From his Wikipedia article).

Neil Munro "Bunny" Roger

June 9, 1911-April 27, 1997.

Bunny Roger killed a bunch of Nazis and then invented Capri pants.

He was expelled from Oxford for his indiscrete gayness (discrete gayness being perfectly fine at Oxford and part of the curriculum until...today probably, at least like 1992?). Then, having been sent down to London, he started his own fashion business, and his first client was Vivien Leigh.

Bunny served in WWII, killing fascists in North Africa and Italy, and often wearing a mauve scarf in the field. Roger claimed that he had gone into a battle brandishing a rolled-up copy of VOGUE and commanding: "When in doubt, powder heavily!"

Roger was known in high society for his themed soirées; Diamond, Amethyst, and Flame Balls were held to celebrate his 60th, 70th, and 80th birthdays. He wore a curious plum colored catsuit with a feathered headdress at his 70th birthday ball in 1981. At his 80th, he made his entrance in a catsuit of scarlet sequins with a cape of orange organza, greeting his guests from behind a wall of fire. His parties were covered by the newspapers, including a New Year's Eve Fetish Ball where the proper upper class mixed with young guests in rubber S/M gear.

From an obituary: "Beneath his mauve mannerisms, Bunny was stalwart, frank, dependable and undeceived; to onlookers a passing peacock, to intimates, a life enhancer and exemplary friend."

From another obituary:

He served valiantly in every way.

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this seems obvious

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Breaking news everyone

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The image of hope

The image of protest

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A California bill that restricts local and state law enforcement officials from covering their faces is a necessary, if symbolic, rebuke of the encroaching police state.

June 19, 2025, 9:00 AM MST

By Jarvis DeBerry, MSNBC Opinion Editor

As sickening as it is to see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents snatch people off our streets, it’s even more disturbing to see so many of them go about their work with their faces masked. If you were to make a list of things that viscerally register as un-American, few things would rank higher than the spectacle of secret police pouncing and disappearing meat plant workers and nannies and graduate students.

Not only have Americans been primed to expect to see police officers’ faces, we’ve also been told that we can demand an officer’s name and badge number. Granted, that has largely worked better in theory than in practice. But the basic principle is that the police are accountable to the public. And that requires, at a minimum, knowing who the police are.

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ICE already as much as $1 billion over budget: Axios

While Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces opposition in Los Angeles and other sites targeted as part of President Donald Trump’s “Mass Deportation Program,” the agency may face another threat: a funding battle in Congress.

As reported by Axios, ICE is “burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month.”

ICE is already as much as $1 billion over budget for the year, and although Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” could provide $75 billion to ICE, that doesn’t solve the short-term cash crunch, and spending money an agency doesn’t have is a violation of the Antideficiency Act, according to Axios.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ice-already-as-much-as-1-billion-over-budget-axios/