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@sherpa88897 @Ulfson_kibo @QuetzalPhoenix Please answer my question. I am deeply curious. Why is it important to you that people be identified as native to a place (and presumably, other people not) my grandfather came over to the US before it was a country. I am not native here and never cared.

@sherpa88897 @Ulfson_kibo @QuetzalPhoenix Dude. You can't disagree on the definition. It's what the fucking word means. That not my special little take on it. That's reality. It isn't controversial. And yes, it is highly unlikely anyone is tracably native to the area they are currently living in. It's irrelevant.

Older than the Incas Older than the Aztecs Older than the Maori in NZ Older than the Zulu in SA Older than the Lakota Older than Islam in India But the English are not officially considered "native" to England.

@glenna_opt Alternating green red and white for Cinco de mayo

@JakeSherman @TheRickWilson @SpeakerJohnson Just say disarray

☀️AM: THE WHEELS ARE COMING OFF THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE punchbowl.news/archive/42926-… In a week that was supposed to set the tone for a furious period of election-year legislating, @SpeakerJohnson's House GOP majority is once again the epitome of discord and dysfunction. It’s not really clear how House Republicans will get through the next few days. Johnson’s leadership team may lose yet another big rule vote. There’s constant grumbling inside House Republican leadership circles as people snipe at one another. Senate Republicans are furious with their House GOP counterparts. The White House seems fed up with the chaotic House GOP conference too. Plus, the stakes couldn’t be higher, politically and policy-wise. After a Rules Committee hearing that stretched from Monday to Tuesday, House GOP leadership plans to go to the floor today with a blueprint for debating several key bills. These include a FISA Section 702 renewal; a farm bill; legislation allowing the year-round sale of E15 ethanol fuel; and a budget resolution to fund ICE and Border Patrol. But that GOP-drafted rule looks destined to fail, another potentially devastating misstep for Johnson and his top lieutenants. And then what? Will Johnson keep the House in over the weekend? Will Johnson cancel the upcoming week-long May recess? Will Johnson have to punt to the Senate to ensure that the nation’s most critical foreign surveillance program doesn’t expire? House Republicans want to portray themselves as the “grownups” in Washington ahead of what’s expected to be a difficult midterm election. But at this point, they look like amateurs — and their majority is in deep trouble.

@LynneStein11 @JakeSherman @BrendanPedersen Who the fuck is we lady

@JakeSherman @BrendanPedersen I’m hearing that 6–3 they’re voting against it, which is what we want just as Alito did his opinion

BREAKING --SCOTUS IS RELEASING AN OPINION IN LOUISIANA V. CALLAIS -- THE VRA CASE

@JakeSherman 😬😬😬😬

@jadler1969 @JonahDispatch Sure it is? Trump has appointed 3 justices, so far. He might get 4 by the end of this term. Obama Bush and Clinton had 2. Biden had 1. What Trump has been allowed to do by fist, sanctioned by this SCOTUS, has been a direct result of this. Reining that in opposes those excesses.

Endorsing court packing after Trump leaves office is not opposing Trump

@BigP4P4Smurf @SlCKASSFOO @therainonasunn1 @bdquinn Clearly not my guy. Quite obviously not

@SeIpsa @SlCKASSFOO @therainonasunn1 @bdquinn How so? He could be a single issue 2A voter. Which is eminently reasonable given that it's the amendment which protects all the others

Every so often (I mean frequently) I see a voter articulate their rationale in such a way that makes me want to smash a whole whiskey bottle across my head.

@Cernovich Yea when I decide to personally threaten someone with death I will do it generally, not specifically, with a picture, using muted seashells, artfully arranged on a beach. Or maybe balloons.

8647 was always a death threat, incredibly stupid to pretend otherwise.

@BigP4P4Smurf @SlCKASSFOO @therainonasunn1 @bdquinn Sure it does. The particular issues themselves aren't a cogent or moral prioritization.

@SlCKASSFOO @therainonasunn1 @bdquinn From the graphic about "Antonio", yes. He lists three issues he disagrees with Trump on, two he agrees on, and says he voted for Trump. Nothing about that indicates anything wrong with him.

@sherpa88897 @Ulfson_kibo @QuetzalPhoenix That's not "my definition." It's what the fucking word means. *You* are attempting alter the word native form "original" to "been there a while." That is not what the word means. Why do you want or need to be native to where you live? Is it a European thing?

@SeIpsa @Ulfson_kibo @QuetzalPhoenix There are almost no groups in the world that can be called natives by your definition. You're really just pushing a personal definition that you have and then using mental gymnastics to defend it as absolute.

@YIMBYLAND @StevenTDennis Someone please explain to me when they were unbanned. I was in high school in the late 90s. If a teacher caught us with a cell phone in class. Or a discman or a graphing calculator when it wasn't allowed in math class, it was confiscated. At what point did that change

This is legitimately insane. Banning cell phones in schools might turn out to be the best thing we’ve done for our kids in a generation.

@sherpa88897 @Ulfson_kibo @QuetzalPhoenix Native is who was there 1st, and stayed and claimed the land. It is not based on length of time. If 3 distinct groups came before you and occupied the land for 100s of years each then you showed up kicked them off and kept it for 1000, it's definitely yours, but you're not native

@SeIpsa @Ulfson_kibo @QuetzalPhoenix So, what makes the Anglo-Saxon not indigenous despite a millennium and a half of stable existence on their island, when Lakota Sioux who occupied the Black Hills not even 300 years ago could be called indigenous?

@souljagoyteller @TNOQuoProQuid What exactly is the problem?

This stuff is so depressing to me, obviously she has agency but the current Hollywood economy is forcing these actors caught in career slumps to endorse degenerate male fantasies. It just reinforces porn-brain. Obviously not trying to shame Miss Elizabeth, to be clear

@pmarca I bet I know

What could it be, what could the cause be. Unfortunately, we'll never know. It'll be a mystery, like Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness Monster.

@Mark_Penn @brithume Wow. Judging the worth of a joke by it's redeeming social value? You're pearl clutching over the guy who uses the megaphone of leader of the free world to generate headlines like this? Talk about no redeeming social values and these aren't even jokes

Not Funny I don’t usually get involved in commenting on late night comedy but I have to agree a joke by Jimmy Kimmel about an “expectant widow” is in poor taste. Regardless of what happened after the joke, which compounded by what happened, the whole idea of it is a bad idea. Who jokes about someone wishing the 1st lady become a widow and by inference that the president would be dead? His explanation that it was about age differences does not cut it. He is implying that she is wishing him dead and while a humorist can and often will say and do outrageous things, this has no redeeming social value. It’s not even funny.

@glenna_opt Think of the mandatory flirting they have to do.

@glosghostgirl @QuetzalPhoenix The Britons/celts came around 3k years ago, after the breaker people who came around 4.4k years ago, who came after the neolithic farmers who built stonehenge who came around 6k years ago who came after the hunter gatherers who arrived at the end of the last ice age 11k years ago

@glosghostgirl @QuetzalPhoenix No. They were not native to the isles. The Britons and "celts" and gaelics are all basically the same people, arriving in the isles at the end of the late bronze age/beginning of the iron age. Which you will note is after the stone age (famously when stonehenge was made)

@sherpa88897 @Ulfson_kibo @QuetzalPhoenix Correct

@SeIpsa @Ulfson_kibo @QuetzalPhoenix Almost every ethnic group that lives in a place today lives in a place that has been inhabited by numerous other groups over human history, who were all displaced, left or died out in any manner of ways.