An additional of the many problems with this idea is that it has already been held to violate the First Amendment to force someone to submit a written renunciation of foreign citizenship or to deem someone to have renounced their U.S. citizenship by inaction. We've already been through this!

fwiw, At least one MRI screening expert has told me the imaging described in WH memo is not standard medical practice: "Normally only performed if there is an underlying disease, or if there is suspicion or a reasonable likelihood of an underlying disease ..."

OVERGRAZED: With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing on public lands where they’re not supposed to. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and worsening wildfire risk. w/ @highcountrynews.org

What Sen Kelly says here is pretty much what was being said by the general and admirals he summoned to Quantico after his juvenile speech.

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

My office and NYS HCR are suing Peak, a real estate developer, for illegally deregulating rent stabilized apartments in New York City. Peak deceived tenants and housing regulators to line their pockets and overcharge New Yorkers as affordable housing grew more scarce.

Good piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net. I think there is something to be said for distinguishing fascism proper from merely illiberal right-populism. And there's no plausible narrow and precise definition of "fascist" that Musk doesn't very obviously meet.

This is why military service members should refuse to follow illegal orders. Because when the shit hits the fan, Trunp and Hegseth will deny everything and blame you. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

The best way to understand the current regime is that we're effectively being governed by an unofficial, extra-constitutional junta mostly dominated by Miller, in which Trump himself is a marginal and disengaged figurehead making few if any substantive decisions.

Turns out when you spend a bunch of time with David's Sack and the Crypto Bros, you end up absorbing a whole lot more than their dirty money www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senato...

Begging reporters to make this distinction. She did not "cite" the Bible, she *invoked* the Bible. "Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)." Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.

Remember the ominous rows of red Christmas trees that Melania used to decorate the White House in 2018? That was in the East Colonnade. The entire East Wing is gone now.

We must keep calling out those that cave to the Trump Admin, and the latest is Northwestern. As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more. Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.

BTW, there are a LOT more than 40

The "Just so you know" for today: Trump MAGA is also Trump's informal domestic terror network. I'm glad we were able to clear that up.

One sign that your brain is super good is when your doctors keep giving you cognitive tests

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

That doesn't mean Hegseth couldn't be criminally liable if the WashPost story is true. Multiple U.S. federal criminal laws prohibit deliberate killings like these, most likely applicable is the ordinary law against murder - a possibility if witnesses, evidence are preserved & facts proven. But /3

Anyone who treats violence perpetrated by the state as a joke should be nowhere near decisions regarding the use of force.

Mark Kelly: "My concern is with the service members -- we're gonna put these individuals in a really tough place. They may find our down the road that they did something that's illegal. It's not fair to them. That's why need presidents and secretaries of defense who understand the Constitution"

This is a scandal. Public universities should be banned from paying these insane buyouts for college coaches. No pro sports teams are paying $33 million to fire their incompetent coach, so why are colleges paying this kind of money?!?

And there’s another danger: the looming Great Climate Insurance Collapse, already spiraling in Florida. www.thedailybeast.com/nobel-winnin...

I’d like to point out that the OU girl’s paper would have gotten a failing grade in every one of my many many theology courses at three different schools, and invariably with far harsher commentary from the profs.

For the journalist who finally asks him “how does that 700% reduction work?” I will make a contribution to the charity of that reporter’s choice. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

One reason we failed in the past is bc we didn't build up popular opposition to the crimes, whether it's torture or drone-killing or even attacking Congress. Now is the time to do that, not after Dems retake power.

I did my part. Lukasz leaked serious safety culture issues and consumer misleading schemes at Tesla a few years back. Anyone who has followed Tesla knows Elon will use his money might to crush such with serious vengeance. Help the underdog.

there are *incredibly negative* health effects associated w/ noise annoyance, dementia, cardiac issues, death and yet we do NOT measure noise pollution in the US - don't do anything to mitigate it either in fact it's the opposite: we focus density on the loudest roads bsky.app/profile/holz...

Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.

There’s no law saying it’s ok to kill someone for being a member of a US-designated terrorist organization. It’s not even a crime to be a member! (The UK criminalizes terrorist group membership, but the US, no.) Material support of an FTO is punishable up to 20 years in prison. No death sentence.

To work for Trump, is to lie for Trump.👇

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

Asylum seeker from Texas makes a short return to Mordor. "I suspect most Texans don’t know this, because I certainly didn’t until I got back, but living in Texas turns you into a psychopath. Everything in your daily life puts you in competition with every other person you encounter."

We can’t forget that Trump once called members of our military "suckers" & "losers.” So, let’s be honest: he’s attempting to use our military as his personal political pawns and believes they owe loyalty to him and not to our Constitution and our country.

Like Jeanine Pirro, Alina Habba is the child of émigrés from the Middle East who would never have gotten into the country under Trump's new standards. The technical term for her rhetoric is hypocrisy. bsky.app/profile/atru...

One reason I raise this is bc Kristi Noem now says that Lakanwal was "radicalized" in the US (she has to say that or she herself is complicit in failing to vet him properly). But then how is he different from other Afghan/Iraq veterans who murder?

Tennessee people, vote for this lady this week. She's cool and she puts the country perilously close to having a single check and/or balance.

Now Senate Armed Services Committee and House Armed Services Committee - vow "vigorous oversight" and "full accounting" of Secretary Hegseth's alleged "kill them all" order and double-strike operation. Rare joint statements by GOP Chairman and Ranking Member on both committees

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.

This miserable pig doesn’t enjoy anything in life. The only pleasure he finds in his twisted, perverted soul is making others miserable

He means “non-white countries.”

I get in debates on X with right- wingers for fun, and the words they use now bear a one-to-one correspondence to the 1920 Klan. Read this from the grand wizard, a document everyone should know. MAGA. KKK part of our USA DNA. www.americanyawp.com/reader/22-th...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both"

There is no statue of limitations for war crimes.

Let’s be clear: these are extrajudicial killings. “Kill them all” Hegseth needs to be held accountable. What’s more, Trump promised the American people no new wars but is now manufacturing this conflict & lying about his motives. This warmongering has got to stop.

CEOs are venal and evil but most of them can see which way the wind is blowing and I don’t think they’re expecting the thousand year reich anymore they should be aware that continuing to be complicit will not go well for them

Hegseth's not the only war criminal here. "The [USSOCOM] commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets... He ordered the second strike."