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@MaeDallas @PressSec Huh. So let's take Palantir. They spent over $5M lobbying Congress annually before Trump was elected, & Nancy Pelosi owns over $1/4M in Palantir stock. Trump will move out in 3 years & the ballroom will still be at the WH, but Sherlock here just knows it's corruption! LOL! 🤡

@stateinfide @PressSec Donors funding to be awarded the biggest defense contracts - how yall out yourselves like this is crazzzzzy

The New York Times had three random people who have “studied fine arts,” “long written about urban planning,” and never built anything to write an article criticizing the new White House ballroom. President Trump and his lead architect have built world-class buildings around the world, and they are ensuring the People’s House finally has a beautiful ballroom that’s been needed for decades — at no expense to the taxpayer.

@EndWokeness Putting that aside Jackson's moronic argument, I suspect SCOTUS will punt by saying 14A gave Congress the power to decide what "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means, not the Executive. If I were @realDonaldTrump, I would get on @MikeJohnson ASAP to pass legislation.

Justice KBJ: "If I steal a wallet in Japan, I am subject to Japanese laws….. in a sense, it's allegiance." Her case for birthright citizenship:

@ThomBrady5 Since when is it the responsibility of government to "be in charge of" ensuring 17-year-olds don't make stupid choices? Not to mention: the "adult authority figures" scamming them at colleges are generally leftist faculty and administrators promoting grievance studies.

I hate all of the Boomer politicians mocking the negative ROI of college degrees. Hey bro you are supposed to be in charge of the system, this is your responsibility. Don't mock the 17 year old kids who believed in the adult authority figures scamming them.

@Cory38702438622 @shipwreckedcrew Correct. S. 5 grants power to enforce the amendment to CONGRESS, not SCOTUS. So if Congress passes a law defining "subject to the jurisdiction thereof," precedent dictates that SCOTUS's scope is to determine whether Congress has complied, not legislate from the bench.

@stateinfide @shipwreckedcrew Nope. Section 5 of the 14th permits Congress to only pass legislation to “enforce the provisions” of the 14th. Congress is not empowered to pass legislation to define what a word or phrase in the Amendment means. READ THE DAMN AMENDMENT

The birthright citizenship case this morning is really more about politics than it is the law. If the Administration loses nothing of substance will change. But the debate has been joined, and taken to the very highest level of discourse. Two years ago no one would have even imagined this issue would be before the Supreme Court. But Pres. Trump FORCED it there. As is true in many areas of his second term, he has swung for the fences on this topic. It is worth the effort but it falls in the category of "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." Even an adverse decision won't end the debate. It will simply redirect the debate to a different forum where the political branches will need to confront it. The Democrats and open border advocates among the socialists and communists never imagined that the building of their constituencies would come under attack in this fashion. But the debate has exposed that this is about so much more that migrant illegals coming to the US and starting families, with their children being citizens. This is about a vulnerability to our country, our governance, and our culture to the deliberate and purposeful colonization via mass third-world migration with malicious political, cultural, and religious goals.

@Cory38702438622 @shipwreckedcrew "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." If that phrase has no meaning in modifying the words preceding it, why are they there? It seems to me that Congress can, in fact, define what that phrase means by appropriate legislation.

@shipwreckedcrew Ship, you are cornered by the Amendment. Yes, Section 5 has the directive to pass legislation “to enforce” the Amendment; but that is no foundation to change the clear language of the Amendment. I mean - what valid legislation could even modify the birth citizenship directive?

@MaeDallas @PressSec fortune.com/2025/10/26/37-…

@stateinfide @PressSec The generous donations you speak of??? it’s the defense contractors donating and securing the biggest contracts with taxpayer funds. Crictically thinking is hard.

@MaeDallas @PressSec The WH ballroom is not at the taxpayers' expense; it has been privately funded by generous donations from companies & individuals. Large formal WH events, to date, have been held in tents with porta-potties. That you don't know this says a lot about the value of your opinion.

@PressSec When you’re using your business interest to justify a remodel at the tax payers expense- maybe before you hit send, run it through your head and think….hm could this sound like a sweetheart deal or corruption? Yall give no fucks anymore.

@David_J_Bier So: If an abusive dad beats up his wife or 1 of his children every night, having more children lessens the wife's & each of her child's odds of being beaten up on a given night. The rate is reduced, but is the family really better off? You think math addresses the real problem?

Honestly impressive statistical illiteracy on display here. No, I'm not saying that immigrants cause Americans to commit fewer crimes. Immigrants lower the crime rate by increasing the population of noncriminals more than the population of criminals. x.com/Oilfield_Rando…

If the crime rate is lower, your daughter is less likely to be harmed by anyone. Like most nativists, Oilfield Rando can't figure out the difference between a rate and level. (You're MUCH safer in NYC w/ more murders than St. Louis with fewer)

This video has more utility than 99.9% of altcoins.

@TheAtlantic @gcaw Free advice: Stop drinking your own Kool-Aid.

Pete Buttigieg—the Harvard graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and McKinsey alum—now has a beard and a splitting maul, @gcaw reports. Can he convince America he’s a man of the people? theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

@RepSwalwell Many "poor kid" US Marines are happy US finally avenged the death of 220 Marines killed in Beirut in 1983. Economic background doesn't matter in the service; our soldiers do not fear fighting; they signed up for it & spend every day preparing for it. Your post is disrespectful.

Stick to sports. You’re at least half-right there. Your whiny-ass ain’t going to an Iran battlefield anytime soon. It’ll be poor kids from where I grew up. Life must be pretty comfy in your suite. Stick to judging your favorite pizzas. The adults will sort out the wars.

@NBCNews Trump was dead-on accurate. He did not make fun of the women's team, he brought up their victory & joked that he'd "probably be impeached" if he didn't invite them. He was making fun of scolds like @NBCNews who would make a federal case out of it.

Some members of the Team USA men's hockey team are expressing regret over laughing along to President Trump's locker room joke about the women's hockey team. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u…

@TorontoStar No, he put his justifiable pride in his & his team's admirable accomplishment above your petty, whiny, pouty desire to "own" Trump. Tell you what, Damien, why don't you put together your own hockey team & win a championship, then refuse to go to the WH to show 'em whose boss.

Auston Matthews made his choice, seemingly putting the party and the president ahead of the playoffs trib.al/ZeEONEZ

@HanaHoops What the heck are they supposed to be sorry about? Listen to the exchange. Trump did not insult the women's team at all. He made a joke about the humorless Karens who "would impeach him" if he failed to invite them, and he was dead-on accurate.

Regardless of “being in the moment” they all had plenty of opportunities to apologize afterwards and not a single “I’m sorry” was uttered between anyone in that group and that will always be disappointing.

@puckempire Sure she would. All Kash would have had to do is put on a skirt and she'd be all for it.

Former US Olympian Megan Rapinoe: "I know what happens in those locker rooms. People get brought in, you have no say. To have the President on the phone, you get yourself wrapped in this moment. For me, the choice point is like, I would've never as a captain or a leader on my team, that would've been clear to our staff: Those people would never be allowed in our locker room."

@washingtonpost Wow. So the Biden DOJ and the Democrat Party kept all of that under wraps so that Trump could run again in 2024 and clean their clocks? Totally makes sense. 🙄 Cognitive dissonance is a symptom of progressivism, but it really gets turbocharged when you develop TDS.

Breaking news: The Justice Department is examining whether it wrongly withheld pages containing allegations against President Trump in the Epstein files. wapo.st/3P3Zsv3

@ABC Huh. How come we didn't hear about the "vindictive defense" when the DOJ, NY, and GA were going after Trump? You either broke the law or you didn't; as far as I know, there's no such thing; every case is a case that involves prosecutorial discretion.

A federal judge in Tennessee will hear arguments Thursday over whether the government is being vindictive in pursuing a human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. abcnews.link/RYjlPyb

@nicksortor Time to pass a federal law holding the states that issue these driver's licenses liable to injured parties? Seems like it would constitute valid interstate commerce legislation (as if enumerated powers means anything . . .).

🚨 BREAKING: The truck seen going high speeds the WRONG WAY down a Missouri highway is owned by a SOMALI IN MINNESOTA named Abdiwali Ahmed SHOCKER! Tim Walz's Minnesota granted the driver a license, and he can't even read ROAD SIGNS. It's time to TOTALLY DEFUND Minnesota. They're using federal taxpayer dollars to risk AMERICANS' lives in favor of Somalis. To make matters worse, the company is less than 3 years old, is registered to an APARTMENT, and has only two drivers — one of which can't read signs. Absolutely ABSURD.

@RealDutchsinse @TulsiGabbard God listens to every prayer, but doing His will is always paramount. Or are you claiming has God granted you the power to decide? Has God given you the power to judge others?

The quiet moments are often the most important. Last night just before Cabinet members walked onto the House floor for the President’s State of the Union, we joined together in prayer, giving all thanks and praise to God, and praying for the clarity and strength to listen to Him, serve Him, and do His will.

@RPinthehousenow @TulsiGabbard And yet: God also honors those who witness Him in public. Remember, “the greatest of these is charity.” Your post seemed full of ill will, not charity. Is it right to quote His Word to insult people? Or is that hypocrisy?

@TulsiGabbard Matthew 6:5–6 “When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites… they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others… But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.”