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December 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM

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Just a little anti-constitution! Definitely anti-democracy.

December 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM

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F billionaire team owners.

With the New York Jets, you always think it can’t get worse. And then there’s this new story … #jets #nyjets #newyorkjets #nfl #writersoftiktok

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December 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM

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December 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM

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TELL THE WORLD DJT HACKED 2024! 1/

El Salvador's brutal prison system and the US deportation of Venezuelans with no violent crimes | PolitiPod

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December 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM

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December 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM

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Ethan Faulkner in Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies

For fifteen years, the largest bank in America acted as the financial nervous system of a global child-trafficking ring. 📉 https://constructamiracle.com/p/jpmorgan-chase-the-unindicted-co

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December 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM

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I posted this coat last year & it went viral 😭😭

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December 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM

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December 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM

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more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 8h

I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship

'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'

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What I suggest is different. Although broadly in the spirit of Aquinas’ two-or-three generations test insofar as it emphasizes the duties rather than the rights of immigrants who becomes citizens, it is derived not from theological principles but from a civil-law analogy — an analogy to the Roman law of adoption. After all, inclusion within “our posterity” may ordinarily arise not only through natural descent, but through legal adoption. In brief, I suggest that the legal immigrant should understand himself as an adopted son of a natural and concretely existing family, the American family, and this brings with it particular duties of filial piety and reverence for that particular family and for its thick heritage and traditions. Our laws as made, interpreted and applied should reflect that understanding as well.

Because it is an analogy, not an identity, what I propose is not a set of legal rules to be directly mapped from Roman law into the American legal system. Rather it is a suggestion that the Roman law of adoption rested on a set of discernible principles of legal justice and political morality that represent the spirit of the laws bearing on immigration and citizenship in America — a time-honored mode of legal interpretation here, albeit not an originalist mode. Such principles should affect the interpretation of actually existing legal texts, rules, and doctrines; they should be understood as the soul of our law of citizenship. Needless to say, this does not answer or even purport to speak to all questions bearing on immigration. I do not speak here, for example, to the enforcement of the immigration laws against illegal immigrants, or to prospective questions of policy about exactly how much legal immigration, if any, there should be, and from where. All I address is the question what principles of legal justice and political duty apply, under existing law, to the immigrant who is already here legally. To that end I suggest a conceptual model for understanding the role and obligations of that immigrant — what justice classically understood requires of him.

December 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM

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@TikTok explain how this ad got pushed out to the fyp. Honestly, explain how this product ended up in your marketplace at all. I’m disgusted. #racism #antisemitism #tiktok #fyp

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December 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM

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Vladimir Putin, meet the Barbara Streisand Effect:

‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires

Russian state has tolerated parallel probiv market for its convenience but now Ukrainian spies are exploiting it

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December 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM

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Note the date. We knew a long time ago.

December 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM

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Christopher Webb

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If the Epstein files have proven anything, it’s that the justice system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as it was built to do: to shield the rich and powerful from accountability while victims are buried, ignored, or silenced.