Jim O'Leary

“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.” Psalms 23:1-3

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Ending or curtailing birthright citizenship would imperil the rights of every natural-born American citizen, regardless of ancestry, says the Cato Institute’s @David_J_Bier.

Your daily reminder that Native Americans weren’t granted citizenship, of our own land, until the until Indian Citizenship Act was passed in 1924.

When you’re threatening to reduce civilian living conditions in a foreign country to stone age levels, you need to ask yourself some questions.

"Chief Justice Roberts had the line of the morning when he said, ‘It's a new world, but it's the same Constitution.' That really does sum up why the government's policy-based arguments had no bearing on the constitutional question,” says Cato’s @Thomas_A_Berry, commenting on the birthright citizenship SCOTUS case.

NOT FLAT…

Today 1917, President Wilson went to the U.S. Capitol and asked Congress to pass a declaration of war against Germany:

Remember the largely blind, elderly genocide survivor from Myanmar, Mr. Shah Alam, whom immigration officers picked up and then dumped on the street near a CLOSED cafe in Buffalo in the middle of the winter? Mr. Shah Alam died trying to get home, and the medical examiner has found that he perished of dehydration and hypothermia. Immigration agents never bothered to call his family. I'm sure they didn't intend for him to die, but the incident speaks to the casual disregard they show for the lives and dignity of those they deal with. Having covered the Rohingya genocide, I think of this man who survived so much, then is admitted to America -- and perishes because immigration agents can't be bothered to make a call. nytimes.com/2026/04/01/nyr…

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"In this country, states are in charge of running federal elections, and Donald Trump isn't. He keeps trying to usurp this constitutionally acknowledged role in defiance of both the law and the Constitution,” says Walter Olson commenting on the new elections executive order.

@SloeGymFizz @LizziePFletcher Voting fraud is not rampant by any stretch of the imagination.

@LizziePFletcher They will still be allowed. The order was for universal mail in for no reason. Fraud is rampant.

Just a reminder that: Disabled people vote by mail. Seniors vote by mail. Military personnel overseas vote by mail. Finally, Donald Trump votes by mail.

An abandoned stadium in Taipei has been transformed into a community garden where locals grow fresh food

and yet the refrain among so many Wisconsin Republicans is “don’t Minnesota my Wisconsin” 🤔

Marco Rubio: “Just because you’re born on U.S. soil doesn’t make you a citizen. Your parents must be U.S. citizens.” Grok: “Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971. His parents became citizens in 1975. Rubio is a beneficiary of birthright citizenship.”

Cato scholars contend that the Supreme Court should affirm birthright citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment is clear. Cato has filed an amicus brief, explaining how and why President Trump’s executive order contravenes the Fourteenth Amendment. ow.ly/qMg150YBStg

For trying to provoke a (failed) coup against Weimar German government by leading Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler was sentenced to prison on April 1, 1924:

News of today 1968, reported by New York Times:

There is nothing wrong with our voting system. There is nothing wrong with mail-in votes. Nothing wrong, or inaccurate, with any voting procedure in any state. All secure and safeguarded. What's wrong is a madman's devotion to a lie, and the ongoing price American democracy pays.

The USPS has lost $5–$10 billion a year for over a decade. Falling mail volumes and high labor costs mean half-measures won’t fix it. Congress should close little-used post offices, reduce delivery frequency, and move towards privatization, says Cato’s @CatoEdwards. ow.ly/VaMo50YBka9