I Am Chant
@iamchant.bsky.social
Stalking cooking, #naturalhair & makeup blogs. Dkos junkie. #WebOS faithful! Abundantly blessed & highly favored. ❤️
🐦 Twitter handle: @_Susan
🐳 Spoutible handle: @IAmChant
https://chantspeaks.wordpress.com/
🐦 Twitter handle: @_Susan
🐳 Spoutible handle: @IAmChant
https://chantspeaks.wordpress.com/
Reposted by I Am Chant
This is a beautiful paragraph:
October 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This is a beautiful paragraph:
Reposted by I Am Chant
#BREAKING: In the Illinois National Guard case, #SCOTUS is asking for additional briefing on one of the key substantive questions (and one flagged by my Georgetown colleague @martylederman.bsky.social in an amicus brief):
Among other things, this means no ruling until *at least* the week of 11/17.
Among other things, this means no ruling until *at least* the week of 11/17.
October 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
#BREAKING: In the Illinois National Guard case, #SCOTUS is asking for additional briefing on one of the key substantive questions (and one flagged by my Georgetown colleague @martylederman.bsky.social in an amicus brief):
Among other things, this means no ruling until *at least* the week of 11/17.
Among other things, this means no ruling until *at least* the week of 11/17.
Reposted by I Am Chant
At least 230 Black boys and teens died while in the care of the House of Reformation between 1870 and 1939, according to a review of state records, news reports and death certificates. This tally is likely an undercount because key records are missing for many of the years analyzed.
September 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
At least 230 Black boys and teens died while in the care of the House of Reformation between 1870 and 1939, according to a review of state records, news reports and death certificates. This tally is likely an undercount because key records are missing for many of the years analyzed.
Reposted by I Am Chant
Former DJS secretary Vincent Schiraldi, whose team launched the restoration effort before he left the administration earlier this year, said the state [of Maryland’s] decades of neglect amounts to a “deep level of depersonalization and dehumanization.” He continued...
![Screenshot of text:
“The history of institutionalization is to rob people of their personhood, and I cannot think of a better example of it than taking children, some of whom hadn’t even committed a crime, some of whom were 10 years old, having them die in custody and burying them in a potter’s field, and not acknowledging it,” [former DJS secretary Vincent] Schiraldi said. “That is not just robbing them of their personhood while they were in our care and custody, but even after death.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fpwdt23oshkqyfnjkxm6gfz2/bafkreievxgsanxpczehdgkqvpp3ojiael5ibmzkwv6lfsaofuzokmh24oi@jpeg)
September 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Former DJS secretary Vincent Schiraldi, whose team launched the restoration effort before he left the administration earlier this year, said the state [of Maryland’s] decades of neglect amounts to a “deep level of depersonalization and dehumanization.” He continued...
Reposted by I Am Chant
230 dead Black boys. A ‘secret cemetery’ at Maryland’s House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a juvenile detention facility with a documented history of abuse and neglect. Officials knew, and didn’t act. They even grossly undercounted the boys who died. wapo.st/4mphCCv
230 dead Black boys. A ‘secret cemetery.’ Officials knew, and didn’t act.
The House of Reformation juvenile detention facility was known for cases of neglect and abuse. Maryland officials allowed a graveyard next to the facility to deteriorate over decades, a Washington Pos...
wapo.st
September 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
230 dead Black boys. A ‘secret cemetery’ at Maryland’s House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a juvenile detention facility with a documented history of abuse and neglect. Officials knew, and didn’t act. They even grossly undercounted the boys who died. wapo.st/4mphCCv
Reposted by I Am Chant
Medicaid enrollees began receiving letters from hospitals last month telling them their old medical debts have been erased. ncnewsline.com/briefs/north... @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol
North Carolinians are finding out they are no longer in debt to hospitals • NC Newsline
The first wave of North Carolinians whose hospital debts are being forgiven were notified last month. Up to $4 billion in debts could vanish.
ncnewsline.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Medicaid enrollees began receiving letters from hospitals last month telling them their old medical debts have been erased. ncnewsline.com/briefs/north... @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol
Reposted by I Am Chant
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
July 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
Reposted by I Am Chant
SIXTY federal agents kitted out like they were taking on Osama Bin Laden to raid a swap meet.
The ONLY people they ended up arresting were to people already going through immigration court proceedings, seemingly rearrested because ICE agents didn’t want to go home empty-handed.
The ONLY people they ended up arresting were to people already going through immigration court proceedings, seemingly rearrested because ICE agents didn’t want to go home empty-handed.
June 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
SIXTY federal agents kitted out like they were taking on Osama Bin Laden to raid a swap meet.
The ONLY people they ended up arresting were to people already going through immigration court proceedings, seemingly rearrested because ICE agents didn’t want to go home empty-handed.
The ONLY people they ended up arresting were to people already going through immigration court proceedings, seemingly rearrested because ICE agents didn’t want to go home empty-handed.
Reposted by I Am Chant
DeLauro uses her opening statement to tear Russ Vought a new one
June 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
DeLauro uses her opening statement to tear Russ Vought a new one
Reposted by I Am Chant
Found the video from Saturday. We really minding our on business and taking care of ourselves as we should be. Because they need to learn and they are learning (FAFO). It’s day 70 of this criminal organization second term what will they destroy today?
March 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Found the video from Saturday. We really minding our on business and taking care of ourselves as we should be. Because they need to learn and they are learning (FAFO). It’s day 70 of this criminal organization second term what will they destroy today?
Reposted by I Am Chant
The citizenship question did not even show up in the goddamn book, I cannot believe I spend more time on this for a piece of romance fiction than fucking legal academics arguing in public that we can fuck over babies.
March 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The citizenship question did not even show up in the goddamn book, I cannot believe I spend more time on this for a piece of romance fiction than fucking legal academics arguing in public that we can fuck over babies.
Reposted by I Am Chant
I know this because I write historical romance and have spent time trying to figure out the citizenship of some of my characters, and apparently I take that more seriously than legal academics take the task of *checks notes* stripping innocent children of US citizenship.
March 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I know this because I write historical romance and have spent time trying to figure out the citizenship of some of my characters, and apparently I take that more seriously than legal academics take the task of *checks notes* stripping innocent children of US citizenship.
Reposted by I Am Chant
We no longer have those treaties.
Thank you, go fuck yourself with your giant, unopened history book.
Thank you, go fuck yourself with your giant, unopened history book.
March 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We no longer have those treaties.
Thank you, go fuck yourself with your giant, unopened history book.
Thank you, go fuck yourself with your giant, unopened history book.
Reposted by I Am Chant
We had treaties with Prussia and Mexico specifically saying that we would revoke citizenship of someone who later became citizens of their country as long as they did the reverse.
That's why you're seeing these cases.
That's why you're seeing these cases.
March 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We had treaties with Prussia and Mexico specifically saying that we would revoke citizenship of someone who later became citizens of their country as long as they did the reverse.
That's why you're seeing these cases.
That's why you're seeing these cases.
Reposted by I Am Chant
NONE OF THESE THINGS say that people did not have US citizenship at birth.
They say that they were treated as having revoked their birthright citizenship by later actions.
They say that they were treated as having revoked their birthright citizenship by later actions.
March 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
NONE OF THESE THINGS say that people did not have US citizenship at birth.
They say that they were treated as having revoked their birthright citizenship by later actions.
They say that they were treated as having revoked their birthright citizenship by later actions.
Reposted by I Am Chant
They are about the Bancroft Treaties, which were anti-dual-nationality treaties, in which having citizenship in another country was treated as revoking your US citizenship.
March 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
They are about the Bancroft Treaties, which were anti-dual-nationality treaties, in which having citizenship in another country was treated as revoking your US citizenship.
Reposted by I Am Chant
Legal academics understand history rather than cherry pick words that seem to apply challenge: These cases from the late 1880s about people not having citizenship are not about birthright citizenship.
Once again, I’m asking: is this how we should be doing historical work in the legal academy?
No. No, it is not.
No. No, it is not.
March 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Legal academics understand history rather than cherry pick words that seem to apply challenge: These cases from the late 1880s about people not having citizenship are not about birthright citizenship.
Reposted by I Am Chant
Reposted by I Am Chant
The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.
February 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.
Reposted by I Am Chant
Recommend to anyone who has access to ssa.gov login and print your earnings record. Also if you are collecting benefits print your benefit letter and anything else you don’t want lost
The United States Social Security Administration | SSA
Official website of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
ssa.gov
February 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Recommend to anyone who has access to ssa.gov login and print your earnings record. Also if you are collecting benefits print your benefit letter and anything else you don’t want lost
Reposted by I Am Chant
So, it turns out federal employees take their oath, their job & their duty to serve dead serious. Retirees (like me) understand the oath doesn’t expire just because you’ve left. This whole thread is giving me life, but especially this:
January 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
So, it turns out federal employees take their oath, their job & their duty to serve dead serious. Retirees (like me) understand the oath doesn’t expire just because you’ve left. This whole thread is giving me life, but especially this:
Reposted by I Am Chant
I see the Democratic weather machine is doing great work again, forcing that inauguration inside. Well done, climate controllers.
January 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I see the Democratic weather machine is doing great work again, forcing that inauguration inside. Well done, climate controllers.
Reposted by I Am Chant
BREAKING: The Trump Administration is preparing to allow ICE to detain undocumented migrants at schools, hospitals, places of worship, weddings, and funerals.
This is insane. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
This is insane. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
Trump Administration Prepares To Roll Back Immigration Protections For Migrants In Protected Areas
Under the new policy, ICE officials would be able to detain migrants in areas of worship, hospitals, schools, and elsewhere.
meidasnews.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:37 PM
BREAKING: The Trump Administration is preparing to allow ICE to detain undocumented migrants at schools, hospitals, places of worship, weddings, and funerals.
This is insane. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
This is insane. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
GOP lawmakers are already trying to overturn Missouri’s right to abortion
GOP lawmakers are already trying to overturn Missouri’s right to abortion
GOP lawmakers are already trying to overturn Missouri’s right to abortion
One month after Missouri approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion, legislators have proposed a flurry of bills to tighten abortion access or raise the bar for future ...
www.dailykos.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:36 PM
www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
GOP lawmakers are already trying to overturn Missouri’s right to abortion
GOP lawmakers are already trying to overturn Missouri’s right to abortion
