The National Guard’s takeover of Washington was not legal, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Thursday. The U.S. Coast Guard is no longer going to consider the swastika a hate symbol.  The Washington Post reports that a new policy will take effect next month at the military branch that will reclassify the swastika, used by the German Nazi Party and adopted as a global symbol of fascism and white supremacy, as “potentially divisive.” Other symbols being reclassified include the Confederate flag