"...we do know this: The president’s maneuvers are not even the worst thing Trump has done this month on the steal-this-election front. Not by a long shot.

The Trump regime has been signaling for months that it sees the U.S. intelligence community — spy agencies like the CIA — not as a tool for finding out what comes next in the Persian Gulf, or if or when China is invading Taiwan, or when Vladimir Putin’s Russian empire will fall. No, Trump wants secret agents who can creatively invent theories of foreign-born election fraud that would demand a strongman response.

We saw this coming back in January, when the regime dispatched Trump 47’s first director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to Fulton County, Ga. to oversee an FBI raid of voting materials from the 2020 election that Trump, with no evidence, continues to dispute. That link made clear that the regime is looking to create links to foreign actors..."

He's in my email inbox every ten freakin' minutes too 😡

Fingers crossed that he doesn't pass the post this primary election day.

I'm genuinely not sure what the answer would look like, but a part of me's increasingly pissed off every time it sees a politician do something like this and get away with no punishment at all.

Like, when a politician introduces vote suppression measures, and even in the happy scenario where the Court says it's illegal, nothing happens to the politician. He's free to just go on as before. And it's like... are you fucking shitting me? This guy violated the Constitution in order to deprive thousands of his voters of their most important right! No, it's not enough that a court restored those rights and eventually reversed his violation - that guy belongs in a fucking prison for the rest of his life, far more than if he were just some random low-level political operator who stole a ballot box!

Birthright citizenship is a huge deal to me. It doesn't hurt that I know multiple people who are only citizens because of their birthplace, that I'm myself a dual citizen, and that all those cases of what they see as liminal Americans are MAGA targets.

But beyond that it goes to the core of American identity, more than almost any other part of the Constitution. It's not just that it reiterates our identity as a nation of immigrants. It's also one of the only stopgaps against growing a permanent, multi-generational, underclass of people. As things stand, if you come to America illegally - or what MAGA decide qualifies as "illegally" - you may be fucked your entire life, but if your children are born here, at least they won't be. You're not starting a line of ten generations of indentured servants, unpersons in the eyes of the law. Your children will be able to be citizens, get better jobs than you had, and who knows, one day even be President.

Nothing wrong with being relieved with this bunch of clowns.

I mean, truthfully, they don't give a shit about any amendment (or article) and will toss them all out when convenient. See also every single case where a cop murdered somebody and justified it as "well gee I just thought they had a gun!"

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"My read on the birthright citizenship cert grant was that the court, and particularly Roberts, wanted to use it as a fig leaf—an easy way to buck Trump & distract the public from their cooperation with him. The razor-thin margin of today’s ruling makes me think even that view was too optimistic."

Well, no. Unless it's a preposterously big trash can, you couldn't actually fit nine justices in there. Especially at their very non-spry age. You'd have to, like, cut off all their limbs and cut up all their body before you could Tetris them all into a trash can...

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