“White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters: ‘This country doesn’t have a future if we don’t end birthright citizenship…. One way or another, this nation has to end birthright citizenship.’” That “one way or another” is ominous. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

Posted from here:

absolutely. i think that there should be more of these big, federally organized civic activities. an annual fair where each state showcases their best food and fare is actually a great idea.

On a long enough timescale even JD Vance was bound to do something based

Is this 🦋 Freedom(TM)?

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

Turn from the ruin. Turn and go *forward*.

Does Trump know who and what passports are for

Kim Jong Un thinks this is a bit much

Dictator shit so pure, the fascism-addicts out there are OD-ing

I bless the Raynes down in Anrica

And now graduated to hospitalized, not entirely sure what's wrong

The French should repossess the Statue of Liberty

BTW, racist Americans have hated Haiti since 1791, because Haiti was the first successful revolution against enslavement. And I want to note how Justice Jackson included a detailed discussion of the Black Codes in her defense of Hawaiian historical sovereignty in another case today.

RIP Rosa Luxemburg, you would have hated the SED, Die Linke, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, the DSA, and DataRepublican nearly equally

This passage threatened my ability to continue wanting to live

Just finished @garethgore.bsky.social ’s “OPUS” and man, Opus Dei is a demonic organization of serial sadistic abuse, fascist and plutocratic individual and social manipulation and filth. Leo needs to cut that cancer out of the Body of Christ with extreme prejudice

“Frog, can you be as wonderful as this?” said Toad as he danced all over the stage. There was no answer.

The "infallible" claim of Josemaria Escriva's "sainthood" is one of the most potent counterwitnesses to Roman Catholicism's supposed authoritativeness in my book. The guy was a malignant narcissist, a manipulator, and an architect of a serially abusive, mendacious totalitarian organization

Samuel Alito's dad was born in Calabria, Italy in 1914, which was a completely failed state shithole at the time. You either spent your life farming dirt or got killed at 16 working for an Ndrangheta underboss. Now his son spends all day panicking about uncivilized Haitians.

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.

The Republican Party has abandoned the American project and are laser-focused on waging war against the American people, the only sovereign that our Law recognizes

[RHETORIC / AUTHORITY / COMPOSURE - Trivial: Failure]

The Holy Roman Empire was holier, more Roman, and more of an empire, than right-wing "classical education" is either "classical" or "education"

Alito same type of guy who'd argue the Civil War was about "tariffs"

Deep Substrate Foliated Kalkite

It's going to be sadly hilarious when Ted Cruz phone banks for Tucker Carlson in 2028.

NEW from me for @immcouncil.org's blog. Today the Supreme Court issued two major decisions in immigration cases, on Temporary Protected States and on "turn-backs" of asylum seekers at the border. Here's a top-level summary of what you need to know: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/supreme...

All you can really ask for is that they obey the laws of the country and treat their neighbors with respect. And by all accounts, this is what the vast majority of all immigrants of any background do.

More broadly it is always just a bad faith invocation to absolve hosts of their own violent inhospitality since to those who fixate on “assimilation” absolutely nothing is ever enough

It occurred to me that when they say “assimilate” they mean either “magically turn into white people” or “disappear from society”

I still can't believe Trump hired Walter Tusk to do the Reflecting Pool cleanup

"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors

"As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion;... it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen" (Art. 11, Treaty of Tripoli between the United States and Ottoman Tripolitania, 1796)

Love The Aeneid by Virmer

Does anyone have a screenshot of his now-deleted “Latin: how to teach what I do not know?” tweet

New from me: Bari Weiss's Free Press has been amplifying the lie that "Biden's open borders policy" pushed thousands of kids into sex slavery -- and that Trump is now rushing to rescue them. What Trump is actually doing: separating kids from their families, jailing them, and deporting them.

Russia is closing the Romanian consulate in Saint Petersburg. The propaganda machine against the Romanian state has already been set in motion. I am also looking forward to the closure of the embassy in Moscow, to see even more how the propagandists squirm on social media.

BREAKING: Per WaPo, a new whistleblower report alleges a former DOGE member said he kept his SSA computer & credentials, giving him “God-level” access to Social Security systems. Meanwhile, Trump wants to force every state to rely on SSA data for voter roll purges under the SAVE America Act. 1/

Excuse me what

For years, the anti-immigrant go-to line was that they were anti *illegal* immigration, because they believed in rule of law and had compassion for immigrants who "did it the right way." Now, from the White House and Supreme Court on down, it's openly anti-rule-of-law and anti-nonwhite-immigration.

Cluj may be *the* city most bizarrely obsessed with allowing and disallowing specific flags. In the 90s the far-right nationalist mayor Gheorghe Funar had all park benches and trash cans (!) painted in Romania's blue, yellow and red, to sock it to the Hungarian minority

An extended family member in Eastern Europe just got his 3rd BYD, they're fantastic cars, and also banned in the U.S. for similar reasons. It's amazing how America is gratuitously shooting itself in both feet when it comes to the EV future

This is a pure giveaway to Musk

In America, they put out emergency bulletins to arrest kids who put their hands in the supreme leader’s reflecting pool

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...