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The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case challenging birthright citizenship, aka the Trump administration’s attempt to write a major portion of the 14th Amendment out of existence—and even ...
by Lisa Needham
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"All person born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Amendment XIV Section 1. A child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese...
by commander ogg
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President Donald Trump received a made-up peace prize from the International Federation of Association Football ahead of the 2026 World Cup, ...
by Walter Einenkel
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In May 1943 my father was flight crew on an allied bomber that was shot out of the sky in Germany by a Nazi fighter plane while returning from a raid on Hamburg. The Luftwaffe fighter pilot did not shoot the parachuting “enemies of the Reich” as my...
by integrate
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President Donald Trump initially picked a rando architecture firm to build his stupid enormous bribe palace —er, ballroom, but that firm is now dunzo.
McCrery Architects, you’re fired.
by Lisa Needham
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For decades, the United States has played a major role in reducing child mortality. The Trump administration’s stance seems to be “well, what if we didn’t?”
The Gates Foundation issued a ...
by Lisa Needham
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I’m sure most folks here remember this Politico story from October about a group of Young Republicans exchanging Signal chats about their admiration for Hitler, wanting to shove their opponents into gas chambers and making virulently antisemitic,...
by Bob Johnson
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One of the things one tries to do when relating current events or news stories is to keep a distance from one’s feelings that compromise the truth. Anger can take your stories to a place of unfair or biased commentary. When I write something, a lot of...
by ReasonaBill
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This will be brief because I have written about it before. The White House cover-up artists have stated that the bruises on the President’s right hand are due to his use of aspirin and trauma from shaking hands. But the American Heart Association and...
by mrli
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We sometimes forget that while super gross hyperconservative tech creep Peter Thiel founded Palantir Technologies, the data management/AI/surveillance juggernaut, it was co-founded and is currently ...
by Lisa Needham
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