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This is from Foner's "The Second Founding."

Sen. Jacob Howard said birthright citizenship was "the law of the land already," but "We wanted to put this question beyond legislative power, beyond the reach of [those] who would pull the whole system up by the roots and destroy it."
I stopped keeping a list of drumpf-collaborating elites.

It's easier just to keep a list of elites who aren't.

It's a very very short list.
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The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias

Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican

And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem
Are you for real?!

David Brooks who f-d his research assistant while married to his first wife shouldn't be allowed to use the word "morality" in any context!
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Trump is turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System, or BDS. He's creating many new avenues for media companies, law firms, universities, etc to channel tribute payments as he directs. Feeding the BDS is the cost of doing business in Trump's America.

newrepublic.com/article/2021...
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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Do we know that him being there wasn't intentional?
BREAKING: Per new reporting, ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting under Kristi Noem. One was discovered to have a history of robbery and battery related to domestic violence while already in training.
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9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.

Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter
Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes, "Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist
www.gofundme.com
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This says a lot about British politics at the moment.
Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here
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NEW: Senate just invoked cloture on nomination of Rebecca Taibleson to serve on 7th Circuit.

Her confirmation will mean that Trump has appointed more white judges to the 7th Circuit (6) than judges of color who have EVER served on the court in history (5). patrickryne.substack.com/p/the-sevent...
The Seventh Circuit Has Only Had Five Judges of Color. Trump’s About to Get His Sixth White Appointee.
His nominations today continue a troubling trend he started during his first term.
patrickryne.substack.com
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Actually, if one considers the political conditions which allowed Trump to ascend to the throne and carry out his reign of madness, it is far more accurate to say Trump is working to finish the job Bin Laden started.
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Did Time magazine swap out the photo that Trump didn't like?

Time posted this new cover to Twitter and it has the same date, Nov. 10, 2025, but a different photo, and a different headline to replace the story about "His Triumph."
Thank you again for saying these things.
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Russia is protecting its nuclear submarine fleet in the Arctic with an undersea surveillance system built using equipment acquired from U.S. and European companies through a secret procurement network, according to financial records, court documents and officials.
Russia acquired Western technology to protect its nuclear submarine fleet
Russia secretly used front companies to buy Western technology and erect a surveillance net in the Arctic where its submarines operate, an investigation shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
I wish that a major news network would spend a week covering in detail the history of the Constitution and another week talking about the Constitutional crises happening.

It won't happen though.
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the ghost of liberace is all "whew tone it down gurl"
Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold