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History / Constitution & the Courts / GeoPolitics / Political Science “We the People: Power, Law, and Government” https://open.substack.com/pub/selenalong (Solicitation = block)

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EXTRA: Citizenship and Voting in TN Keep your eye on TN's legislature.

TN - already gerrymandered - is slowly suppressing the vote even more.

16.02.2026 00:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

TN is the gold standard for nationalizing the regime’s policies. What you see here is the plan for the nation. Keep your eyes on Cameron Sexton.

15.02.2026 22:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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This is wild.

41 DUI arrests by a Tennessee trooper. All dismissed. 22 drivers were completely sober.

He “resigned”. No explanation. No accountability. No apology. His personnel file doesn’t even mention the cases.

Police departments shouldn’t be in the business of shielding corrupt officers.
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15.02.2026 19:48 — 👍 5787    🔁 2046    💬 295    📌 89
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A short note to Kristi Noem To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

15.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 13911    🔁 5429    💬 1271    📌 631
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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. U.S. courts have found at least 4,400 cases since October in which judges ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained people unlawfully, but the administration has largely continued its im...

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

15.02.2026 21:51 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Narrator: No, you most certainly do not.

15.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 844    🔁 205    💬 65    📌 17
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If the GOP didn't feel those who don't subscribe to their ideology—in Texas—breathing down their necks, they wouldn't be this desperate. People need to remember that after Gov. Ann Richards, the GOP took over via cheating, & the Corp-DNC hasn't invested tangiblly in Texas since; they've forgone us.

19.08.2025 05:42 — 👍 258    🔁 88    💬 16    📌 13
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BREAKING: AOC in Germany:

“You are the Attorney General of the United States of America and you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable? Resign or be impeached!"

15.02.2026 21:54 — 👍 2703    🔁 852    💬 60    📌 29
15.02.2026 21:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

15.02.2026 01:54 — 👍 5255    🔁 1674    💬 101    📌 95
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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Today, we're going to learn about The USS Sumter Three — and the mutiny charges that should never have happened. It's apropos for #BlackHistoryMonth—because most people never knew about it.

Pull up a seat. 🪑 (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

15.02.2026 06:20 — 👍 900    🔁 442    💬 21    📌 43
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For nearly a year, the administration has said that DOGE had no unauthorized access to your Social Security data. A new government filing admits that was false.

04.02.2026 18:31 — 👍 1889    🔁 937    💬 60    📌 100
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Epstein Files?

Nothing will work
There is too much money at play from too many 'important people' and Republicans worship money above all else

Donors give orders to the Trump administration,
'give those files a very slow walk, protect us or else'.
By the time there is any action, it will be years.

15.02.2026 20:15 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Rain moving out. Sun returns tomorrow. 60's and 70's all week. Don't forget Severe Weather Awareness Week. www.tn.gov/tema/news/20....

15.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 28    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Nonprofit libraries ordered by State Department to stop processing passport applications The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall, informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport...

Don’t miss this little gem: www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

15.02.2026 18:53 — 👍 92    🔁 59    💬 10    📌 3

Back in the good old Twitter days, you were expected the have LITERACY and knowledge of HISTORY to comment. Those days are gone now, and so many people just respond to meme-ified pictures from a blank slate and with a blank stare.

15.02.2026 16:50 — 👍 197    🔁 14    💬 7    📌 1
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Here's the document: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here are the lawyers doing this:

15.02.2026 18:42 — 👍 74    🔁 19    💬 5    📌 1

UPDATE: Newest DOJ/DHS effort to block congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities launched on Valentine's Day. It's not a new one, it's a renewal of the "because of the (latest) shutdown, there is no 527, so we can't violate 527, so there is nothing to enjoin" argument.

15.02.2026 18:39 — 👍 272    🔁 96    💬 12    📌 3

Quoting Kavanaugh … neat.

15.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m pretty confident in calling this fake. The user who posted it seems to be part of a substantial network of accounts with similar usernames all posting and commenting on each other’s content. Ironically it’s a great example of an AI agent making stuff up to tell you what you want to hear

15.02.2026 09:50 — 👍 358    🔁 109    💬 14    📌 19
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Courts just handed Trump massive back-to-back losses: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/aoc-and-ne...

15.02.2026 14:59 — 👍 137    🔁 29    💬 2    📌 1

SCOTUS effectively OK’ed third-country removals as the Trump admin is using them on the shadow docket, staying lower court orders reining them in. Further, the specific questions raised here — about refoulement — have come up before, like in this case: www.lawdork.com/p/ghana-refo...

15.02.2026 04:04 — 👍 1256    🔁 510    💬 17    📌 16
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What is “Un-American”? We must acknowledge America’s history of state authoritarianism and racial violence – but also dare to claim its aspirational tradition. Make MAGA un-American, finally.

What is “Un-American”?

We must acknowledge America’s history of state authoritarianism and racial violence – but also dare to claim its aspirational tradition of egalitarian democracy.

Let’s Make MAGA un-American, finally.

My new piece (free to read):

15.02.2026 13:02 — 👍 156    🔁 57    💬 6    📌 2
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“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials.

With @texastribune.org

15.02.2026 02:00 — 👍 1798    🔁 893    💬 74    📌 88
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Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...

12.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 141    🔁 71    💬 63    📌 42
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The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back

I'm halfway through @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social 's The Originalism Trap and am enamored with it. It teaches about the Court's past decisions, originalism's flawed roots, and offers real hope and optimism for the future. Let's not suffer today's originalist fools!

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

14.02.2026 22:18 — 👍 36    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

A Texas man murdered his own daughter over Trump and Texas didn’t even charge him with a crime.

15.02.2026 00:47 — 👍 1484    🔁 387    💬 107    📌 13

Tired of hearing "Minneapolis won" or "Minnesota won." No. We lost bigtime. Our state government failed to activate the National Guard to do anything more than serve donuts and coffee. State/local cops aided the enemy. It was only the citizenry's refusal to capitulate that's driving ICE off.

14.02.2026 21:07 — 👍 296    🔁 63    💬 26    📌 6
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From: John Brockman 
Sent: Mon 8/17/2009 10:20:09 PM 
Subject: Re: Thiel 
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I'm on the case re: Thiel. Let's talk tomorrow. I'm at the farm_ 
But why Thiel (another libertarian type) and not Hon Musk, a truly brilliant physicist who you would benefit from knowing. 
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To: Jeffrey Epstein
From: John Brockman
Sent: Mon 8/17/2009
Subject: Thiel

'Thiel professes he is unable to engage in "unacceptable compromise, politics", considers democracy failed experiment
doubting "the wisdom of granting women / the poor" voting rights. This portion received hard criticism"

15.02.2026 01:26 — 👍 34    🔁 20    💬 6    📌 3
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This is what a rigged economy looks like.

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