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My thoughts on birthright citizenship, gathered in one place. adfinemfidelis.net/2026/07/birt...

I'm not sure if Ken Paxton heard these questions about the pedophile he pardoned, so everyone in Texas should keep asking Paxton about the pedophile he pardoned, and maybe ask other Republicans about the pedophile Paxton pardoned and see if local media cares about the pedophile Paxton pardoned and

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022... The image is cool, too, but today's Astronomy Picture of the Day title -- "Shadows of a Martian Robot" -- is amazing. It sounds like a noir-pulp treatment of the psychological torment of a veteran of the War of the Worlds.

@talkingpointsmemo.com I don't want to be overly negative, but I'm not a fan of the apparent redesign of the front page and site. It's aggressively unaesthetic.

@puzzmo.com The website says "Gift a Subscription for $29". Clicking the button leads to a checkout that lists the price as $39. Which is it?

@ap-trevor.bsky.social Any comment about the capitulation by College Board and retreat from its commitment to lifting up ALL students? Is the AP Program specifically planning on following the corporate concession? www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Just a reminder: There is no United States Department of War. The Department of Defense is established by law, and no President -- not even a toddler-king one -- can simply change it. Trump's executive order is essentially a command to the executive branch to give the DoD a nickname.

January 6 was a violent insurrection, not a peaceful protest. Just posting this periodically to make sure we remember.

I believe Trump when he claims he's trying to tackle violent crime in the Capital. He's just 1678 days late.

Also... >> the state of California gets not one dime << I guess she doesn't know that California pays $83 billion more in federal taxes (every year!) than it receives back.

Age verification? I utterly disdained Dinesh D'Souza when he wasn't known anywhere but in DC local rags.

We are a mongrel nation, and so long as we remain so purely impure, we will continue to eat the world's lunch

I'm not generally a fan of the Big Blue Boy Scout, but these day are making me reconsider.

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.

Perfection.

Excellent resource. We too often leave people in the weeds and then scoff when they don't understand. Tariff policy sounds like it is complicated but this boils it down nicely.

Painting over the black stripes on all the zebras

This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.

“The 5 things Pete Hegseth did last week” - Shared classified attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application. - Denied doing it. - Denied the plans were classified. - Denied the plans were plans. - Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying.

Attacking Columbia b/c of a property dispute from the New Aughts. Erasing Bea Arthur b/c Golden Girls made fun of him in the 1980s. Is Trump executing long-held grudges? Or has Trump has been such a mess for so long that any controversy has some connection to him?

There's a certain irony in a US Vice President, of all people, wondering if someone has a real job...

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Everyone should know that Social Security is massively efficient. It's the most efficient program we have. Its overhead is only 0.5%. Cutting Social Security staff will do nothing to improve that and only result in problems with people getting the payments they are legally owed.

We wanted them to have healthcare and a high paying job and a planet to live on and freedom. They want us to suffer. The parties are not the same.

White House defying court orders, persisting with illegal action, and usurping Congress’ power of the purse, which would effectively end checks and balances. If that’s not a Constitutional crisis, what is? Sorry, media, but like climate change, Constitutional crisis is out of “some say” territory.

Every dollar Musk claims to have "discovered being stolen" is detailed on usaspending.gov which was created by Senators Cobern, McCain, Carper, and Obama and was signed into law by G.W. Bush in 2006. There is NOTHING DOGE is uncovering that wasn't available for public scrutiny for nearly 2 decades.