Ian Wurman today:

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

I am adopted. Like many adoptees from my era and before, I have no information about my biological parents and access to my original birth certificate. This is my contribution to the birthright citizenship debate: www.liberalcurrents.com/adoption-bel...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Have you seen this? youtu.be/vNaxTXfjfXk?...

They also conveniently gloss over the fact (which anyone actually doing work in the space is painfully aware of) that Israel is actively spying on the USG 24/7 and routinely sells our secrets to our geopolitical adversaries

This is just Orientalism in its original form lol.

pitch an unnecessary sequel: Fast and Furious 12

You do not get credit for all the times you drive sober.

The argument I've never seen anyone make is that, if the parents and kids aren't subject to legal jurisdiction, then they can't be arrested for crimes either. And if they're arrested for crimes, they're SUBJECT TO LEGAL JURISDICTION

That said I regret to inform everyone that "we won Vietnam because everything was fine when we left in 73 after both Linebackers and everything that happened after that is solely the fault of the ARVN" is an exxxxxtremely common talking point in RW circles and had been since the 80s

Every country is a country of immigrants. It's just a matter of whether they admit it.

This is one of the things that drive me insane. This town (DC) loves saying Israel is an ally while not understanding the legal definition of an ally. Meanwhile, we treat our real allies (Denmark) like dogshit.

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

If you want to be truly horrified, understand that adherence to the Laws of War, Geneva Convention, etc, functions exactly the same way and Hegseth has also explicitly said that those things don't matter either.

This is an article only a disengenous POG could write.

needed a pickmeup, thanks

What "winning" looked like. The US Navy vessel with my parents on it - enroute to Subic Bay April 1975. My dad with his medical training was in the infirmary translating for the medics. My mom is on the deck somewhere.

I can’t believe that moron mentioned Linebacker II in the same sentence as winning lmao

Let people figure out who they are. It's a hard enough thing. Love them for who they are. You don't need to understand or approve.

Sebastian Gorka thesis diagram but for Americanized Kremlinology dot jpeg

I wonder if this will destabilize the Gulf, and I am not joking

Corduroys — ribbed for her pleasure

seemingly overnight, you went from having your leadership elite assassinated to the US publicly declaring it might let you have ownership over one of the most important chokepoints in the world. If you have a reversal of fortune like that, you are gonna keep pushing and see how far it goes

If we want to be dictating how defense contractors can spend their money to include forcing them to spend money on stuff that will loose money because the govt thinks it's best, okay, but that's fundamentally upending the way this stuff has worked since at least WWII

Bryon Noem is lucky he wasn't into pet play is all I'm saying

not many people know this but lois lane has a cousin named life in the fast

So:

Bucha has come to symbolise the cruelty of Russia’s war. Of the civilians killed, many were shot at close range. Some with their hands tied behind their backs. Four years after these mass killings, we remember the victims. What happened here cannot be denied. (1/2)

I had to, sorry

It’s only Tuesday and I’ve had to see the words “Bryon Noem” “counterintelligence” and “bimbofication” in the same paragraph.

Hey team, talked this over with the other perverts and we all agreed: you can make fun of Kristi Noem and her husband over this newrepublic.com/post/208411/...

You know, as a Catholic, I’m reminded by this post that it is Catholic teaching that Jesus saw every single sin ever committed by man in the garden before being led to the cross. I’m comforted by this. I’m desperately hanging on to this, actually.

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I've had this conversation with other veterans for years and it is just beyond a lot of them. They think you can stand up alliances and airfields ad hoc crisis to crisis. I don't understand how someone who served in the military could think it works like that. But hey, America first, or something

The problem is, as always, if the things you are hitting aren't the enemy's center of gravity, they're just stats. (See the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union, for example.)

Messages - of varying types and conditions - need to go to: Canada Denmark El Salvador Ecuador Equatorial Guinea Israel Russia Venezuela Make it clear.

The U.S. Supreme Court is not a legitimate institution which respects the constitution, the people's will or our individual rights. We should not treat it as a legitimate institution while that is the case. It's just some guys with opinions!

This is just 1938's greatest hit Decree on the Elimination of the Jews from Economic Life but Americanishly

inflicting this on my following of terrorism scholars, natsec dorks, and other academics (2026)

Yeah, on second thought, maybe it's not great to teach only weapons and tactics to your junior officers while ignoring everything else that contextualizes use of weapons and tactics.

Catholic converts are overwhelmingly not people who find themselves in doctrinal agreement with Catholicism, but who have an aesthetic preference for guys in robes and censers full of incense over youth pastors with guitars singing contemporary faith tunes.

Almost twins

When Democrats retake the majority, there will be a lot of priorities. As long as I'm in the Senate, one of those priorities will be consequences and accountability for any member of this administration that commits war crimes.

(completely humiliating myself and ruining everything) alright, let's wind this thing down

“We bombed the North Vietnamese into accepting our concessions.” - John Negroponte after Linebacker II

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.