Cottage Grove armory sparks controversy
One woman is taking a stand against a new business coming into Cottage Grove.
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One woman is taking a stand against a new business coming into Cottage Grove.
What is the Biden administration going to do about it? Illustration by Deena So'Oteh In late October of 2020, Lance Corporal Joseph Mercurio, a Marine with the 2nd Battalion of the 4th Marine Regiment, hit “send” on an Instagram comment: “The Jewish religion is that of Satan,” he wrote—responding to a photograph of me. His username on Instagram, “joe88mercurio,” incorporated a known neo-Nazi code: 88 stands for “Heil Hitler,” as “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet. In his bio, he stated his affiliation with the Marines: “USMC 0331,” a numerical designation indic...
6:16 pm UTC Apr. 14, 2021 For decades, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have quietly kicked out some of the worst white supremacists in their ranks, offering them administrative discharges that leave no public record of their hateful activity, a USA TODAY review of Navy documents found. The documents, obtained via a public records request by the open government advocacy group American Oversight, detail 13 major investigations into white supremacist activity in the Navy and Marine Corps over more than 20 years. They show a pattern in which military leaders chose to deal with personnel invo...