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Anti-facist, student, dog father, Chattanoogan currently living in Western NC, I still read old school blogs like Balloon Juice, Digby, LGM and lurk in the comments. DMs, porn, crypto advocates, and scammers get ๐Ÿšซ.

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Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein โ€” once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A โ€” as new deputy editor Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like โ€œ60 Minutes,โ€ โ€œFace The Nationโ€ and โ€ฆ

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

07.10.2025 02:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8260    ๐Ÿ” 1591    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 378    ๐Ÿ“Œ 190
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I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.

07.10.2025 01:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16901    ๐Ÿ” 4468    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 552    ๐Ÿ“Œ 148
โ€œI know that there are some people in this room who donโ€™t believe that my marriage should have been legal โ€ฆ and thatโ€™s ok. Because weโ€™re all Americans who want lower taxes.โ€

โ€œI know that there are some people in this room who donโ€™t believe that my marriage should have been legal โ€ฆ and thatโ€™s ok. Because weโ€™re all Americans who want lower taxes.โ€

I kind of canโ€™t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

07.10.2025 00:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5592    ๐Ÿ” 984    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 195    ๐Ÿ“Œ 225
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the governmentโ€™s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

06.10.2025 21:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15765    ๐Ÿ” 7458    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 821    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1088
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Comer: "We care about the people that are gonna lose -- ah, that could potentially lose healthcare. But there are people that can't afford healthcare. We've gotta get people off Medicaid and into the workforce and into private healthcare."

04.10.2025 01:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2835    ๐Ÿ” 837    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1235    ๐Ÿ“Œ 307
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Bad Bunny rolling into the Super Bowl with a demonic sexual performance in Spanish.

06.10.2025 16:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8658    ๐Ÿ” 1514    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2451    ๐Ÿ“Œ 595
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Hello, fellow cadets

05.10.2025 20:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1328    ๐Ÿ” 272    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 587    ๐Ÿ“Œ 168

Theyโ€™re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because thatโ€™s where theyโ€™re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

05.10.2025 18:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13944    ๐Ÿ” 4165    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 657    ๐Ÿ“Œ 401
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behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

05.10.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16890    ๐Ÿ” 3720    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1325    ๐Ÿ“Œ 541
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wizard frog is insane

04.10.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12441    ๐Ÿ” 3485    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 220    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1106

Goddamn, this is great. The part at the end โ€” youโ€™ll know it when you see it โ€” made me laugh so hard that I startled the dogs.

05.10.2025 23:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 785    ๐Ÿ” 179    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

03.10.2025 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6926    ๐Ÿ” 1315    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1488    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1130
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Last year, CNN ran a โ€œfact checkโ€ of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trumpโ€™s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting itโ€™s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

02.10.2025 22:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8062    ๐Ÿ” 2523    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 205    ๐Ÿ“Œ 164

Opinion | My entire career is based on being a seemingly hip, young lesbian who says things that old men like to hear. Here's why DEI is wrong.

by Bari Weiss

03.10.2025 13:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1350    ๐Ÿ” 195    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary
injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The
Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause
sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119
How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States
citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into
this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that
just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United
States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in
passing ยง 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore
wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in
showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this
country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that
various limits on our remedial power independently require us to
reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119 How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in passing ยง 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that various limits on our remedial power independently require us to reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one.
โ€ขIt
is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one. โ€ขIt is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even
more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the
need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court
again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied
"administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to
conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in
fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159
F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general
rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue"
because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to
"consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary,
without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied "administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159 F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue" because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to "consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary, without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be
wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our
established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to
make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather
than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact
of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332
U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break
with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than
does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong
Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or
Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S.
Code.
The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary
injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for
further consideration consistent with this decision.

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332 U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S. Code. The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for further consideration consistent with this decision.

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

03.10.2025 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2213    ๐Ÿ” 625    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 42
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Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

03.10.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2101    ๐Ÿ” 595    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1307    ๐Ÿ“Œ 933

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality.

2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

03.10.2025 17:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5076    ๐Ÿ” 1755    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 333    ๐Ÿ“Œ 87
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South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now itโ€™s commonplace.

Thatโ€™s not making America great again.

02.10.2025 23:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28578    ๐Ÿ” 10137    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1367    ๐Ÿ“Œ 501
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How out of touch can Donald Trumpโ€™s top economic adviser be?

A 60-year-old couple making $85k/year will have to pay over $22,000 more EVERY YEAR.

TWENTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.

02.10.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1286    ๐Ÿ” 496    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 83    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20

So no Dems or major news media are going to treat the more than a thousand people disappeared from Alligator Alcatraz as a story worthy of persistent pressure?

Got it.

02.10.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1048    ๐Ÿ” 336    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

02.10.2025 13:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25186    ๐Ÿ” 8942    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1420    ๐Ÿ“Œ 428

They didnโ€™t drain the swamp. They sold VIP tickets to it.

01.10.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9026    ๐Ÿ” 1922    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 197    ๐Ÿ“Œ 50
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Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

01.10.2025 18:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36201    ๐Ÿ” 12927    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1019    ๐Ÿ“Œ 683
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Keep talking, Howard, keep talking.

01.10.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12107    ๐Ÿ” 4001    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 451    ๐Ÿ“Œ 179
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MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

02.10.2025 00:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35923    ๐Ÿ” 10722    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3555    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1813
Ted Cruz v @tedcruz
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The 44 Senate Democrats who voted for Schumer's Shutdown should know that the Sombrero posting will continue until they re-open our government.
Hey, Macarena! 

[photo of Amy Klobuchar thatโ€™s been altered]

Ted Cruz v @tedcruz X.com The 44 Senate Democrats who voted for Schumer's Shutdown should know that the Sombrero posting will continue until they re-open our government. Hey, Macarena! [photo of Amy Klobuchar thatโ€™s been altered]

Ted Cruz just posted a video montage with photos of every Democratic senator altered to make them wear sombreros and mustaches. Itโ€™s set to the song Macarena.

What the fuck are we doing here?

02.10.2025 02:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2486    ๐Ÿ” 451    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 465    ๐Ÿ“Œ 322

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

30.09.2025 14:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50021    ๐Ÿ” 15674    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 681    ๐Ÿ“Œ 724
Screenshot of Trump tweeting a racist/fake video of the Democratic leadership

Screenshot of Trump tweeting a racist/fake video of the Democratic leadership

Democrats are fighting to save millions of Americans' healthcare while Donald Trump is posting insane racist disinfo slop

30.09.2025 02:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 710    ๐Ÿ” 214    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 48    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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U.S. Border Patrol agents tried and failed to detain a man in downtown Chicago (via Christopher Sweat)

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