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In the past 24 hours we’ve learned Trump is talking about firing like 3 different people in the DoJ and now the DNI. So either: * They are refusing to do something very illegal - which for them is a far out line. Or * There is a major intelligence scandal happening and Trump is going to throw people under the bus

This story👇nicely illustrates why the US constitutional order has such trouble accomodating Trump The unwritten expectation is that POTUS has some basic public-spiritedness or civic-mindedess, that he's in office to do good for the public, albeit in contestation with the other party. Even Nixon felt obliged to lie about his crimes and resign when they were fully revealed What the system can't handle is someone as venal and openly factional as Trump. Trump keeps finding ways to abuse the office which no one ever thought of - like using his presidential library to scam taxpayers, denying federal funds to states which voted for his opponents, or staffing his goverment with indefinitely unconfirmed appointees - because no other president saw the office as a selfish business opportunity If it weren't so malign, it would almost be creative

We lost a vanity war in the Persian Gulf and created a huge new problem for our allies. And now we say that it is their fault and that they must solve the problem we created.

@christen_rexing Yay for mice! I hate trackpads. But unlike you, I'm old, definitely not young and hip.

Coffee on campus! Working in the student union. Totally blending in. Looking young and hip as I use my laptop mouse.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷US: "Dear Iranians, we have come to liberate you from the evil oppressive Regime which is trying to kill you." Two weeks later: US: "Dear Iranians, sorry, Plan A didn't work. Plan B is we bomb you into the Stone Age."

Trump: "We're gonna bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong". Keep in mind that an initial justification for the war was to "help" Iranians.

@CarilynJohnson I just saw that post a few minutes ago... 😅

OMG. I can’t stop laughing. 😂😂😂

Spot-on post ⤵️

@TeahCartel Although trump is far too ignorant to know any of these details, it's no accident that he idolizes Jackson as one of his favorite presidents. They both were/are reprehensible.

During his campaign, Andrew Jackson promised political positions to his key supporters. Then, “on the night of his inauguration, office-seekers so crowded the White House that the party devolved into a near riot.” Instead of ending corruption (as was part of his populist message), Jackson’s administration has been credited with creating a “spoils system” — in which Jackson purged federal employees in favor of those who had supported him. At the start of his presidency, Jackson removed 919 government officials (a full 10% of all government employees), and, “Within the first year, the new administration dismissed 423 postmasters, many with long and credible records of service.” When abolitionist literature began to flood the American South, Andrew Jackson did exactly what a man who had recently established unlimited martial law would do: He banned it. In the mid-1830s, abolitionists started what has to be the first direct-mail campaign by sending their unsolicited materials to mailboxes around the American South. Upon hearing about the mailed literature and the chaos it was causing, Jackson said: “I have read with great sorrow and regret that such men live in our happy country — I might have said monsters — as to be guilty of the attempt to stir up amongst the South the horrors of a servile war... [They deserve] to atone for this wicked attempt with their lives.” The Jackson administration would seek to ban all "inflammatory" abolitionist material from being delivered by the postal service service. When Jackson agreed with the Supreme Court — like he did when the court sided with him against South Carolina’s federal nullification laws — he said the Court as the country’s ultimate power that must be obeyed. Whenever Jackson disagreed with the Supreme Court, he got upset and outright ignored them. In Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Marshall, stated: "Georgia laws that purported to seize Cherokee lands on which gold had been found violated federal treaties.” Jackson, who sought to steal that Native American land and gold, reportedly responded by saying: “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it." While historians are unsure if Jackson ever actually said that, they are sure both he and Georgia completely ignored the ruling and stole the land and the gold.

The United States was never a “dead and crippled country,” Donald. When you took office, our economy was the envy of the world. This was the Economist cover in October 2024. Don’t lie.

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How many of you will be watching the launch?

@PitneyApril @OccupyDemocrats @1debbur Yes yes yes! I've been making this point for forever. Unless your family has ALWAYS lived in a few select areas of Africa, EVERYONE in the world, wherever they live, is the descendant of immigrants. Even native Americans. Their ancestors simply made it to the Americas' first.

@OccupyDemocrats @1debbur By the way none of us are Polish Greek Swedish German English French etc.. we’re all immigrants to everywhere because we’re all African- and migrated out of Africa. So we shouldn’t be having this ridiculous argument!

BREAKING: Trump’s birthright citizenship scheme implodes after lawyer’s JAW-DROPPING courtroom blunder about Native Americans. Donald Trump sent his top lawyer to the Supreme Court to argue that birthright citizenship should be stripped from hundreds of thousands of American-born babies. It went so badly that his own solicitor general nearly argued Native Americans aren't citizens either — and had to be rescued by a Trump-appointed justice. In one of the most jaw-dropping exchanges of Wednesday's already disastrous hearing, Justice Neil Gorsuch — appointed by Trump himself — pressed Solicitor General D. John Sauer on the logical consequences of the administration's own legal theory. The exchange was as stunning as it was revealing. Gorsuch asked a simple question: under the administration's proposed test for birthright citizenship, are Native Americans born today automatically citizens? Sauer's answer was a slow-motion legal train wreck. First, he said yes — obviously. Then Gorsuch pushed him to set aside the statutes granting Native Americans citizenship and answer based purely on the administration's own constitutional theory. Sauer's answer changed: "No." Under the 1868 congressional debates, he explained, children of tribal Indians were not considered birthright citizens. The courtroom went quiet. Gorsuch pressed harder. But under your test — the domicile test you want this court to adopt today — are tribal Native Americans born on U.S. soil birthright citizens? Sauer fumbled. "I think so... I have to think that through, but that's my reaction." "I'll take the yes," Gorsuch replied — essentially throwing the solicitor general a life preserver before he could drown any further. Let's be absolutely clear about what just happened. The Trump administration walked into the highest court in the land with a legal theory so sweeping, so poorly thought through, that when a justice applied it logically, the government's own lawyer couldn't guarantee that Native Americans — people whose nations existed on this continent thousands of years before the United States did — would qualify as birthright citizens. This is the constitutional chaos that Trump's executive order invites. Once you start unraveling the 14th Amendment's guarantee that all persons born on American soil are citizens, there is no clean stopping point. The administration's own lawyer proved that in real time, in front of the entire nation, while Trump was still in the building — before he turned tail and fled. The 14th Amendment was written to be clear precisely because America had already lived through the horror of deciding that some people born here weren't really citizens. The Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship for 157 years. And Trump's lawyer just demonstrated, in spectacular fashion, exactly why those 157 years of precedent exist. Please like and share this post if you believe the Constitution means what it says — for everyone born on American soil.

@NathalieR71 I wish, but I believe it's true 😡

@TX_UltraRunner April fools I hope?!

This infuriates me beyond belief 🤬😡🤬

She had an ectopic pregnancy. Non-viable. Dangerous. The pharmacist refused the medication. Cited "conscience clause." She went to the ER. Her tube ruptured. She lost her fertility. He kept his license. They call it religious freedom. I call it medical malpractice sanctioned by the state. But go ahead, keep saying no one d!es from these aws.

@CarilynJohnson Amazing effort, Carilyn! I’ve fallen pretty far off my 5 million step goal, probably won’t catch up, but will still keep moving.

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@christen_rexing Love this ♥️

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@aosleather Can relate...

@StronGingerMama Great run, Nicole! Awesome job! 👏👏

New distance PR unlocked! 🎉 I crushed the first 15 miles, the last two were awful. Also, Strava logged me out mid run which definitely affected my time. 5 weeks till marathon…