Randactyl
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
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The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
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Slotkin: Do you believe there is such a thing as an illegal order? Something the president could ask you to do that violates the constitution?
Hegseth: Anyone of any party could give an illegal order.
Slotkin: Will you stand in the breach if Trump does?
Hegseth: I reject the premise
Hegseth: Anyone of any party could give an illegal order.
Slotkin: Will you stand in the breach if Trump does?
Hegseth: I reject the premise
January 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Slotkin: Do you believe there is such a thing as an illegal order? Something the president could ask you to do that violates the constitution?
Hegseth: Anyone of any party could give an illegal order.
Slotkin: Will you stand in the breach if Trump does?
Hegseth: I reject the premise
Hegseth: Anyone of any party could give an illegal order.
Slotkin: Will you stand in the breach if Trump does?
Hegseth: I reject the premise
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The newest committee member, Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), has the floor now.
Slotkin: No president has the right to use the military in a way that violates the constitution. She observes that Hegseth will be the one person standing in the breach if Trump gives an illegal order.
Slotkin: No president has the right to use the military in a way that violates the constitution. She observes that Hegseth will be the one person standing in the breach if Trump gives an illegal order.
January 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The newest committee member, Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), has the floor now.
Slotkin: No president has the right to use the military in a way that violates the constitution. She observes that Hegseth will be the one person standing in the breach if Trump gives an illegal order.
Slotkin: No president has the right to use the military in a way that violates the constitution. She observes that Hegseth will be the one person standing in the breach if Trump gives an illegal order.
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Kaine: You've denied showing up to work drunk but you would agree that of true that would be disqualifying for Secretary of Defense?
Hegseth: Those are false anonymous claims...
Kaine: One your colleagues said you got drunk and chanted "KILL ALL MUSLIMS...."
Hegseth: Those are false anonymous claims...
Kaine: One your colleagues said you got drunk and chanted "KILL ALL MUSLIMS...."
January 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Kaine: You've denied showing up to work drunk but you would agree that of true that would be disqualifying for Secretary of Defense?
Hegseth: Those are false anonymous claims...
Kaine: One your colleagues said you got drunk and chanted "KILL ALL MUSLIMS...."
Hegseth: Those are false anonymous claims...
Kaine: One your colleagues said you got drunk and chanted "KILL ALL MUSLIMS...."
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King: Should the law incorporating the Geneva Conventions not be on the books?
Hegseth: We must follow rules, but we don't need burdensome rules of engagement that make it impossible for us to win these wars
Hegseth: We must follow rules, but we don't need burdensome rules of engagement that make it impossible for us to win these wars
January 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
King: Should the law incorporating the Geneva Conventions not be on the books?
Hegseth: We must follow rules, but we don't need burdensome rules of engagement that make it impossible for us to win these wars
Hegseth: We must follow rules, but we don't need burdensome rules of engagement that make it impossible for us to win these wars
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King: Are you saying Geneva Conventions shouldn't be followed in the future?
Hegseth: Rules about how we treat prisoners, etc., in the geneva convention is important but we have to acknowledge that how was fought when they were drafted is not the reality of how war is fought now..
Hegseth: Rules about how we treat prisoners, etc., in the geneva convention is important but we have to acknowledge that how was fought when they were drafted is not the reality of how war is fought now..
January 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
King: Are you saying Geneva Conventions shouldn't be followed in the future?
Hegseth: Rules about how we treat prisoners, etc., in the geneva convention is important but we have to acknowledge that how was fought when they were drafted is not the reality of how war is fought now..
Hegseth: Rules about how we treat prisoners, etc., in the geneva convention is important but we have to acknowledge that how was fought when they were drafted is not the reality of how war is fought now..
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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We choose to deploy on a Friday and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
We choose to deploy on a Friday and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
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According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.
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Get in loser … we’re reinventing the rule of law from first principles
November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Get in loser … we’re reinventing the rule of law from first principles
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Another way of looking at this is if each of the US’s 19,000 cities, towns & villages had their own solar thermal plant, THE MEAN AVERAGE would be 2sq km or .77sq miles.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Another way of looking at this is if each of the US’s 19,000 cities, towns & villages had their own solar thermal plant, THE MEAN AVERAGE would be 2sq km or .77sq miles.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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On the 50-yr mortgage, $100,000k loan, after the first year paying $526.40/mo:
You paid: $6,316.86
You owe: $99,674.28
Interest paid: $5,991.14
Principal paid: $325.72
After 12 payments your amount owed isn't even close to 1 payment amount less.
#finance #mortgage #50yearmortgage
You paid: $6,316.86
You owe: $99,674.28
Interest paid: $5,991.14
Principal paid: $325.72
After 12 payments your amount owed isn't even close to 1 payment amount less.
#finance #mortgage #50yearmortgage
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
On the 50-yr mortgage, $100,000k loan, after the first year paying $526.40/mo:
You paid: $6,316.86
You owe: $99,674.28
Interest paid: $5,991.14
Principal paid: $325.72
After 12 payments your amount owed isn't even close to 1 payment amount less.
#finance #mortgage #50yearmortgage
You paid: $6,316.86
You owe: $99,674.28
Interest paid: $5,991.14
Principal paid: $325.72
After 12 payments your amount owed isn't even close to 1 payment amount less.
#finance #mortgage #50yearmortgage
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This is the thing that drives me insane. Things aren't normal; this isn't politics as usual. And when you accurately describe everything this administration is doing, it's so lawless, radical, and authoritarian that *you* sound like a partisan extremist.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is the thing that drives me insane. Things aren't normal; this isn't politics as usual. And when you accurately describe everything this administration is doing, it's so lawless, radical, and authoritarian that *you* sound like a partisan extremist.
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It's like the democratic establishment couldn't stand not losing on Tuesday, and had to make up for it by undermining the will of the people in order to gain *checks notes* nothing.
Suffering in service of nothing.
Fools.
Suffering in service of nothing.
Fools.
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It's like the democratic establishment couldn't stand not losing on Tuesday, and had to make up for it by undermining the will of the people in order to gain *checks notes* nothing.
Suffering in service of nothing.
Fools.
Suffering in service of nothing.
Fools.
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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I’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
LIVE: I Won't Support Doubling Health Care Premiums
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
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One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law!
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law!
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.