American Atheists Demands Answers from Pentagon Following Removal of Atheist, Humanist Faith & Belief Codes
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Prior changes to faith codes were the result of recommendations from the Armed Forces Chaplains Board. It is unclear whether Hegseth relied on or even sought the input of the Board before making this substantial change.
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Connecticut GOP candidate’s anti-gay extremism sparks party meltdown
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Jadon MacCormack, the only Republican candidate for a State House seat from Connecticut’s 50th District, is a regular Christian shit-poster who routinely brags about how much he hates LGBTQ people.
Just last week, to mark the beginning of Pride Month, he wished everyone a “Happy Straight Month”:
As your State Representative, I, Jadon MacCormack, would stand firmly against the Transgender and LGBT movement that has for too long corrupted our families, undermined parental authority, and eroded the foundational values of our society. This ideology promotes confusion over clarity, prioritizes feelings over biological reality, and seeks to redefine the natural order of marriage, family, and human identity in ways that directly contradict God-given rights and common sense.
I will fight relentlessly in the state legislature to protect our children from premature medical interventions, indoctrination in schools, and the normalization of perverse ideologies that threaten the innocence of the next generation.
For him, it was a tame post. In 2025, when the Supreme Court hinted that it’d be open to overturning the Obergefell ruling that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, MacCormack said it’d be better off if gay people were hanged. Because Bible.
That post rivals some of his other disturbing ones. Like the one where he endorsed Holocaust denial…
… or supported the view that we should “make being a homo illegal again”…
… or this one promoting his album of Gospel music. (Watch the video. I dare you.)
That’s who the Republican Party has chosen to be their standard bearer in a District that they have a very real chance of winning. District 50 has been represented by Democrat Pat Boyd since 2017, but that hasn’t always been automatic. While Boyd ran unopposed in 2020 and 2024, he won with only 53% of the vote in 2022, 57% of the vote in 2018, and 55% of the vote in 2016.
In other words, if Republicans ran a halfway-decent candidate, they might have a shot at flipping this district.
The problem is that, in Connecticut, Republicans don’t have much of a bench. In fact, after their nominating convention in May, they had no candidates for 31 (out of 151) House seats… and some of the districts were ceded over to the only person who offered to run. That’s how MacCormack became the sole Republican option for this district. There was no vetting; the 23-year-old homeschooled bigot was just the dude who raised his hand.
It was only after he became the default nominee that everyone realized how much of a religious extremist he was. And now Republicans are scrambling to fix the mess they created before MacCormack’s candidacy drags down the rest of their already pathetic ticket. After people saw the noose image and the Happy Straight Pride post, the Connecticut Republican Party issued a formal condemnation of him, saying MacCormack “crossed a line that should never be crossed by anyone seeking public office.”
Mr. MacCormack is entitled to his personal opinions, but those opinions are not representative of the Connecticut Republican Party. His statements do not reflect our values, our principles, or our approach to public service. Republicans can and should engage in vigorous debate on public policy without resorting to language that demonizes entire groups of people or invokes historical acts of persecution.
Given the nature of these comments and the poor judgment they demonstrate, I believe Mr. MacCormack has disqualified himself from serving as a standard-bearer for the Republican Party and as a representative for all the people of the 50th House District. Accordingly, I am calling on him to immediately withdraw his candidacy and step aside.
While that statement is important, it’s laughable coming from a party that openly embraces Donald Trump, a man whose racism, sexism, and outright bigotry toward immigrants and women and non-Christians and everyone who dares to ask him a non-softball question is so glaringly evident.
What’s the line that MacCormack crossed that Trump doesn’t cross every day?
Plus, this is the same party where a congressman just tweeted “Homosexuality has no place in America” (before deleting it and blaming a staffer). Anti-LGBTQ hate is quite literally what they stand for. MacCormack isn’t some anomaly; he’s the sort of bigot the Party has been embracing as its base for years. If you’re Republican, you should be used to people like this.
That’s the argument that Connecticut Democrats are making as they aim to tie MacCormack to every other GOP candidate who will appear on November’s ballot.
That includes MacCormack’s opponent, Pat Boyd, who spiked the ball as soon as he realized the political gift he’d been given: “I am deeply embarrassed that our region is drawing statewide, and potentially national, attention for all the wrong reasons. The nomination of a major party candidate who chooses to divide our towns, spread hate, and insult our neighbors is completely tone-deaf to the decent people from all political backgrounds who live here.”
Other Democrats also jumped on the action:
“The hateful comments made repeatedly by this Republican candidate for public office are unacceptable and completely out of step with Connecticut values,” Gov. Ned Lamont said. “Connecticut is a state that welcomes people, respects differences and believes everyone deserves to be treated with dignity. Hate and discrimination have no home here, and I will continue to stand with the LGBTQ+ community to ensure our state remains a place where everyone feels safe, welcome and respected.”
US Congressman Joe Courtney, a Democrat, also released a statement on the controversy.
“The recent comments, and history of similar rhetoric, made by a candidate seeking state office in northeast Connecticut are reprehensible in every way and have no place in our public discourse,” Courtney said. “While I’m glad to see a number of Republican elected officials and party leaders condemn the statement, it is worth remembering that the Republican party gave this candidate their endorsement less than two weeks earlier.”
For the Republican Party’s part, they’re scrambling to avoid a larger headache. The deadline for all candidates to appear on November’s ballot is Tuesday. And they only began recruiting an alternative option to MacCormack on Friday.
With time running short, the next step is that Republicans have already started to collect about 240 signatures by 4 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9, in order to force a primary, House Republican Leader Vince Candelora said Friday. The candidate is Anthony J. Emilio of Pomfret, a Republican small business owner who has run previously for the board of selectmen, school board, and board of assessment appeals over the past 15 years. His wife, Martha, is currently serving a four-year term on the town’s Board of Selectmen.
Republicans started collecting signatures Friday in the hopes of reaching their goal by Sunday with volunteers from the House, Senate, and state party.
Even if Emilio gets all the necessary signatures, though, because of the way Connecticut’s election laws work, both he and MacCormack would appear on November’s ballot. Which could split the Republican vote, making it easier for Boyd to win again.
MacCormack says he fully intends to stay in the race: “I will never withdraw.”
It’s also worth noting that his X/Twitter post history includes a LOT of shares of New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist preachers, like Steven Anderson and Jonathan Shelley. Anderson has previously celebrated the deaths of murdered LGBTQ people and called on the government to execute gay people with a firing squad. His sermons have been so outrageously awful that 34 countries won’t allow him to step foot within their borders. I spoke with two of their more popular preachers a couple of summers agin. I also reached out to Shelley to see if he had any thoughts on MacCormack; he didn’t respond.
MacCormack says he’s not a New IFB member himself. He’s more of an old school IFB guy. But the tactics and dehumanizing anti-LGBTQ rhetoric are basically the same.
Regardless of how much the state’s Republican Party is trying to distance themselves from this guy, they’re going to find it impossible to do so because even if they claim his views don’t represent their positions, the fact is MacCormack felt perfectly at home within the Republican Party. Hell, he took a selfie with the GOP’s chosen candidate for governor, Ryan Fazio, calling him a “friend.”
It wasn’t just a selfie either. At one point, after MacCormack announced he’d be running in District 50, a man said he lived in that area and was represented by Pat Boyd.
“Not for long,” joked Fazio, referring to MacCormack’s campaign.
The Republican Party may not like MacCormack dragging them down, but they’ve done nothing to push bigots away from them. If anything, they’ve embraced bigotry and cruelty from the top of the ticket all the way down to local elections. You can’t run away from anti-LGBTQ rhetoric when you’re actively spreading lies about trans people and celebrating a Supreme Court that’s hell-bent on reversing civil rights progress made by LGBTQ people.
I attempted to contact MacCormack himself to chat about his positions, but he also did not respond to a request for comment.
Under guise of fighting anti-Catholic bias, Kash Patel fires FBI analysts who kept us safe
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Four FBI intelligence analysts as well as a supervisory analyst were fired by Director Kash Patel on Friday on the grounds that they wrote up a memo that conservatives insisted targeted Catholics.
That memo was one of more eye-popping examples included in a report by Trump’s sham “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias.” It was first mentioned in a detailed 2023 report by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee—titled “The FBI’s breach of religious freedom: The weaponization of law enforcement against Catholic Americans”—which said the analysts painted “certain ‘radical-traditionalist Catholics’ (RTCs) as violent extremists and proposed opportunities for the FBI to infiltrate Catholic churches as a form of ‘threat mitigation.’”
But a closer look at what those analysts actually did shows that religious animus had nothing to do with this. They were just trying to protect the country from a potential attack.
Here’s what happened, according to former Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.
Beginning in 2019, the FBI began tracking a(n unnamed) man who advocated civil war and the assassination of politicians… and then purchased semi-automatic weapons and ammo. He was then arrested for other reasons, but in jail, his online threats grew even worse. He would make phone calls to family members during which he talked about the need to “build guns, explosives, and other forms of weaponry and store them in [his] room without fear of the law finding out about it.” He also said he needed to “make total war against the Satanic occultist government and the Zionist devil worshiping bankers who control it.”
He completed his sentence in June of 2021, and once he was released, there was reason to believe this guy wanted to put his violent rhetoric into action—specifically against “pro-choice, Jewish, and LGBTQ individuals.”
Because of his status as a convicted felon and due to his plea agreement, however, he couldn’t actually purchase any weapons to carry out his planned attacks. But he did have social media accounts in which he posted Nazi symbols, talked about killing police officers, “ganging up on and beating” racial/religious minorities, carry out a mass shooting as a “school for special needs children,” etc.
In early 2022, the guy began attending a church that’s not formally affiliated with the Catholic Church but pushed “traditional Catholic theology and liturgy.” He also described himself on social media as “‘Fascist and Catholic’ and a ‘[radical-traditional (rad-trad)] Catholic clerical fascist.’” Even worse, it appeared that he was recruiting members in that church to carry out an attack.
He even made comments to members of the church saying he was going to commit violence and suggested he was building a pressure cooker bomb. (These members were not on board with any of this.)
At that point, the FBI office in Richmond send an undercover agent to the church to interact with the man and find out how serious these threats were. The answer? Very. It led the office to declare the man to be their “highest priority domestic terrorism subject.”
The man kept taking steps indicating he was going to kill people. He even purchased equipment that would let him lock the doors of commercial buildings, preventing hostages from exiting. He also bought a truck and posted a video on social media saying that was his final step before the attack.
On November 12, 2022, investigators obtained a search warrant for his home and found all kinds of disturbing stuff: ammo, a 3D printer, lock-picking devices, “multiple Molotov cocktail-type improvised incendiary devices.”
They felt like they had enough to work with here and arrested him. Crisis averted. (In June of 2023, the man was indicted in federal court and pleaded guilty.)
But part of building their case meant talking with people who may have communicated with him during his planning process. So FBI agents interviewed the church’s priest, choir director, and other members. It seemed that all of them knew exactly why the FBI wanted to speak to them.
It was that guy, wasn’t it?
They cited his “unusual” and “concerning” behavior and racism. The FBI considered reaching out to nearby churches just to let religious leaders know what potential warning signs to look out for, and to give them a way to reach out to the FBI if they saw anything suspicious.
The point is: The church wasn’t the problem. It was just that one guy.
When two FBI analysts—both with decades of experience—began drafting a memo about all this (called a Domain Analysis), noting potential areas of concern for the future, one possibility was the link between the man’s extremism and his faith. But even that possibility was dismissed by the very same analyst, who pointed out that this guy was already on the FBI’s radar before he ever joined this church.
Still, if he was recruiting members for an assault through this church, perhaps there was reason to investigate further—if for no other reason than to help churches like theirs identify potential threats in the future.
Why did their memo include language like “rad-trad Catholic clerical fascist” and “radical-traditionalist Catholic”? Both analysts said those were the words the man himself used and that phrasing was common in his corner of the internet. They never defined it, though, which became an issue later on.
In fact, when the analysts did more research, they learned there were two other men on the FBI’s radar—through their offices in Portland and Milwaukee—who had similar extremist ideologies and a connection to the same kind of church. That’s what led to the publication of a report suggesting the link.
That report even included a legal caveat saying they were not infringing upon anyone’s First Amendment freedoms to practice their faith and they weren’t monitoring anyone in this church solely because of their religious beliefs:
Potential criminality exhibited by certain members of a group referenced herein does not negate nor is it a comment on the constitutional rights of the group itself or its members to exercise their rights under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The FBI does not investigate, collect, or maintain information on U.S. persons solely for the purpose of monitoring activities protected by the First Amendment.
The analysts hoped to create a different, more simplified, version of the report that could be shared with others within the FBI—beyond their own office—so they enlisted the help of additional analysts in drafting it.
But the FBI never got around to that.
The original draft report—never meant to be seen by the public—was somehow leaked to right-wing media outlets, and conservatives began running with the story that the FBI, under the Biden administration, was targeting Catholic churches.
That was a lie. There was no anti-Christian bias here. It was a valid documentation of a potentially dangerous phenomenon. It wasn’t even against the Catholic Church, but rather a potentially extremist sect calling itself Catholic.
To ignore that possibility would have been malpractice on the FBI’s part. But right-wing websites were quick to claim the FBI was targeting Catholics who preferred a “Traditional Latin Mass.” (That was one of many descriptors of those churches.) They were misinterpreting everything those analysts had said, but true to form, conservatives began spreading those lies to feed their claims of religious persecution.
When word about this leak got back to the FBI, then-director Christopher Wray rescinded the original document, saying it “failed to adhere to FBI standards.” The agency also “formally admonish[ed] the employees involved.” Former Attorney General Merrick Garland also said he was “appalled” by the memo, but he dismissed any claims that there was discrimination against Catholics.
Conservatives used those actions to insist the FBI was trying to cover up for the religious persecution they were trying to get away with… AND WOULD HAVE, if not for the whistleblower who shared the original document.
But as the Inspector General later explained, that wasn’t the case. Documents like these go through layers of editing and there was no evidence of any malicious intent against a religious group. Just because this memo didn’t meet expectations, it didn’t mean anyone did anything wrong.
The [FBI Inspection Division (or INSD)] report found that although there was no evidence of malicious intent or an improper purpose, the [Richmond Virginia Domain Perspective or DP] failed to adhere to analytic tradecraft standards and evinced errors in professional judgment, including that it lacked sufficient evidence or articulable support for a relationship between [Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists or RMVEs] and so-called [Radical Traditionalist Catholic or RTC] ideology; incorrectly conflated the subjects’ religious views with their RMVE activities, creating the appearance that the FBI had inappropriately considered religious beliefs and affiliation as a basis for conducting investigative activity; and reflected a lack of training and awareness concerning proper domestic terrorism terminology. As a result, the INSD report concluded that the employees involved in drafting, editing, and reviewing the Richmond DP failed to adhere to FBI standards. The INSD report also examined the approval process for the Richmond DP, concluding that it was insufficient, and the circumstances surrounding its removal from FBI systems following the disclosure of the document into the public domain. Based on the results of the FBI’s Strategic Review, the FBI instituted a number of corrective actions, including enhancing approval requirements for intelligence products involving a sensitive investigative matter and formally admonishing the employees involved in the Richmond DP.
That wasn’t how everyone took it, though.
Wray, who was appointed by Trump during his first administration, said the memo “violated the agency’s policies on conducting investigations based on religious affiliation,” which was a ridiculous reason to dismiss a memo that necessitated the mention of a guy’s religious affiliation.
Whether or not you agree with the FBI’s assessment on the memo, though, it appeared that they handled it all internally. The report never should have seen the light of day for reasons they explained and the analysts were, fairly or not, admonished. That sounds like the government working as it should.
It didn’t matter to right-wing propagandists. They ran with the lie, as they so often do. The GOP-led Judiciary Committee, run by Rep. Jim Jordan, said in its report that this proved the “FBI abused its counterterrorism tools to target Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists”: “The documents received pursuant to the Committee’s subpoena show that the FBI singled out Americans who are pro-life, pro-family, and support the biological basis for sex and gender distinction as potential domestic terrorists.”
That’s not accurate.
But now, Republicans have successfully run everyone involved in this investigation out of the FBI.
Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were fired Friday, according to their lawyer, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of its director Kash Patel.
The fired employees included four intelligence analysts and a supervisory analyst. The FBI declined to comment.
“This action is manifestly unjust, completely unsupported by the facts, and subverts standard FBI policy and procedure,” their lawyer, David Laufman, said in a statement. “These individuals deserved far better for the exceptional and faithful public service they rendered to protect our country.”
The lawyer, of course, is correct. There’s no indication of any anti-religious bigotry on the part of the analysts. They successfully prevented a domestic terrorist attack, and this is the reward they get. Their only mistake, if anything, involved the technical elements of producing a report based on their findings. Substantively, however, they didn’t do anything wrong.
The Trump administration is so dead-set on pretending they’re saving the country that they’re quite literally firing the very people who keep the country safe.
Out of many, some
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White Christian Nationalists like to say there are no atheists in foxholes, but they’re wrong. I am one: a proud atheist and U.S. combat veteran.
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FFRF calls out Pentagon for sidelining ‘atheists in foxholes’ and others
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FFRF Lifetime Member Joseph Cunningham, a veteran who served in World War II, standing beside FFRF’s monument to “atheists in foxholes and other freethinkers.”
Maintaining that there are indeed many “atheists in foxholes,” the Freedom From Religion Foundation is condemning a sweeping Pentagon directive that eliminates recognition for approximately 180 religious and nonreligious belief systems, including “atheist.”
According to a May 20 memorandum obtained and reported on by Military.com, the Department of Defense has reduced its list of recognized religious affiliation codes from roughly 211 categories to just 31. The new system continues to recognize many major religious groups, including various Christian denominations, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism. Those purged include atheists, humanists, pagans, Wiccans, Druids and Unitarians. For mysterious reasons known only to the Defense Department, it will continue to list “agnostic.” Categories for “No Religion” and “Other Religions” are available. The effacement was made at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Christian nationalist, and was justified as a way to “streamline” religious support services provided by military chaplains.
FFRF objected to Hegseth’s actions back in January and filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking all records related to the directives and internal communications about chaplaincy reform, but has been informed that the records won’t be provided until August at the earliest.
This erasure of atheists makes no demographic sense, contends FFRF, the nation’s largest association of atheists and agnostics. Eighteen percent of active military members are atheist/agnostic. Another 32 percent have no religious affiliation, according to researcher Ryan Burge, putting the “Nones” overall at half of current military members! (That is a far greater percentage of nonreligious than the U.S. adult population generally, at 29 percent.)
“There are indeed atheists in foxholes, as well as humanists and Unitarians,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “That trite old chestnut about no atheists in foxholes was never true, but it’s never been less true in the United States than today.”
FFRF has erected a monument to “Atheists in Foxholes” at Freethought Hall, its office building.
The deletion follows a series of troubling statements and actions by Hegseth to reshape military culture around his preferred religious beliefs. Hegseth has openly criticized secular humanism, pledged to make the Chaplain Corps “great again,” hosted sectarian prayer events at the Pentagon and promoted what he describes as a militarywide “cultural shift” centered on “spiritual readiness.”
The military’s religious affiliation system serves important administrative and pastoral functions. For the religious, it helps ensure that service members can receive appropriate religious accommodations. For the nonreligious and everyone else being expunged from the records, it means their religious or nonreligious identification will not be accurately reflected in military records and chaplains will not be provided with such information. By removing dozens of minority belief systems — or disbelief — from official recognition, the Pentagon has marginalized thousands of service members and has flouted its constitutional obligation to protect religious freedom for all of its personnel.
“It is unacceptable to think that many members of the armed services will not be permitted to properly identify as atheists,” Gaylor adds.
The First Amendment protects freedom of conscience for everyone, not just members of favored religions. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government must maintain neutrality “between religion and religion, and between religion and nonreligion.” That principle is particularly important within the military, where service members operate within a hierarchical command structure and often have limited access to outside religious or secular support.
Gaylor charges that the Pentagon’s refusal to identify or recognize atheists, as well as the expunged religious groups, is “blatantly unconstitutional.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to defending the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters relating to nontheism. With about 41,000 members, FFRF is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics and humanists) in North America. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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Christians got Route 666 to Hel canceled. It’s finally getting resurrected.
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In 2023, the Poland bus company PKS Gdynia announced that it would officially end bus route 666 to the city of Hel, halting one of the truly great marketing opportunities for that city.
But that bus route has just been resurrected.
A quick reminder of what happened in 2023: The bus company issued a notice that Route 666 would be renumbered 669.
Why would they do that? It appeared that the link between the town name and the bus number was creating more problems for the company than it was worth, especially given that this was a coincidence to begin with. In recent years, they were getting a lot of complaints from Christians. One conservative Catholic website even lamented the “malicious” route number, saying that it “strikes at the Christian order of the Polish state and its foundations, and hence… at the good of all of us.” As if the numbering was done specifically to persecute Christians.
That theory was later confirmed. While the company offered no public explanation of their decision, one official told a local news outlet that religious complaints were the basis for the shift:
… Marcin Szwaczyk, who oversees PKS Gdynia’s route planning, confirmed that such complaints were indeed behind the firm’s decision.
“For years, we have received objections from opponents of this number,” he told local news service Trojmiasto.pl. “So we changed it from 666 to 669, [which is] less controversial and less conspicuous.”
However, he revealed that, in the two days since the change was announced, the firm has been inundated with complaints “from the other side” by those who want the old 666 back.
As for the city itself, Hel is a (very real) town on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. It’s so popular with tourists that one enthusiast noted, “Hel is like paradise on earth.” The fact that, since 2006, the “666 to Hel” had been a real journey you could take undoubtedly boosted the local economy. (Just think of the shirts!) The fact that it’s a seaside resort town only made everything better.
Such numbering isn’t even all that unique. In 2017, Finnair flight 666 flew to Helsinki on Friday the 13th, leading to all kinds of headlines about Flight 666 to HEL on the unluckiest day of the year. When you place unwarranted importance on certain numbers or places, you shouldn’t be surprised when coincidences occur.
But here’s the good news.
A private German-owned bus company called FlixBus has now launched a new seasonal route from Krakow to Hel, and you better believe they’re using Route 666 to do it. And just for good measure, the full route with all the stops takes 13 hours to complete.
A representative of FlixBus, Aleksander Kalenik, confirmed to broadcaster TVN that “the number 666 was deliberately chosen as a marketing communication element, intended to increase the visibility of the connection on the popular holiday route to Hel”.
He added that the company had, before making its decision, conducted analysis of passenger reactions and potential reputational damage, but found that the response was mainly positive or neutral.
Hey, would you look at that? Most people didn’t think anything of it because why should they?! It was just religious zealots who freaked out over it.
FlixBus is fully leaning into the joy of all this:
[FlixBus Eastern Europe managing director Michał] Leman dismissed the controversy surrounding the route.
“It’s vacations. Let’s have fun, let’s do some jokes about the thing,” he told CBS News on Monday. “I don’t think that there is anything bad in that.”
The route will run once a day during the summer season. Tickets are under $30 (USD) for anyone curious enough to go on the Highway to Hel. From what I can gather, the inaugural trip will take place on June 25 and the final one will run on August 29.
(via Notes from Poland. Portions of this article were published earlier)
