KarmaLovesGumbo
@karmalovesgumbo.bsky.social
Left-leaning dog fanatic in Minnesota. Less focused on Berting than I used to be.
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At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Dog That Didn't Bark: Eligibility To Serve In Congress And The Original Understanding Of The Citizenship Clause
President Donald J. Trump's 2025 Executive Order restricting birthright citizenship has prompted new interest in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment'
papers.ssrn.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Dear god…trying to decide on the right path for an 88 year old mom with Alzheimer’s. Limited resources. Sooooo hard to find a good fit and impossible for me to trust anyone. But I can’t take care of her.
December 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Dear god…trying to decide on the right path for an 88 year old mom with Alzheimer’s. Limited resources. Sooooo hard to find a good fit and impossible for me to trust anyone. But I can’t take care of her.
@thebulwark.com Why is Mona saying the Dems were the ones who shut down the govt?
December 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
@thebulwark.com Why is Mona saying the Dems were the ones who shut down the govt?
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John Brennan is trying to preempt Aileen Cannon in the SDFL Grand Conspiracy conspiracy.
Of particular note, Ken Wainstein notes that she may end up being a witness in any conspiracy theory tied to the MAL search.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
Of particular note, Ken Wainstein notes that she may end up being a witness in any conspiracy theory tied to the MAL search.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
Ex-C.I.A. Chief Asks to Keep Justice Dept. From Steering Case to Favored Judge
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
John Brennan is trying to preempt Aileen Cannon in the SDFL Grand Conspiracy conspiracy.
Of particular note, Ken Wainstein notes that she may end up being a witness in any conspiracy theory tied to the MAL search.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
Of particular note, Ken Wainstein notes that she may end up being a witness in any conspiracy theory tied to the MAL search.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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“What more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
Opinion: Our petty, hollow, squalid ogre in chief
Opinion: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.
www.sltrib.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“What more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
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Hi Pam. Just a quick reminder that Nixon didn’t go to prison - but his AG did. Happy holidays.
December 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Hi Pam. Just a quick reminder that Nixon didn’t go to prison - but his AG did. Happy holidays.
Dear @nytimes.com : The time to do this story was BEFORE the 2016 election. Or even before the 2024 election. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Dear @nytimes.com : The time to do this story was BEFORE the 2016 election. Or even before the 2024 election. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Jack Smith…if I were a younger woman I would want to have your babies. Fucking hero.
December 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Jack Smith…if I were a younger woman I would want to have your babies. Fucking hero.
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MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”
Lawless.
Lawless.
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”
Lawless.
Lawless.
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This shouldn’t be a one-day story. Trump’s sick response to the brutal murder of Rob and Michelle Reiner should finally cause decent people to say enough is enough, that the 25th Amendment is there for a reason. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
A Terrible Tragedy, A Sick Response
Mad Hattery and Other Outrages: A Short Video
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This shouldn’t be a one-day story. Trump’s sick response to the brutal murder of Rob and Michelle Reiner should finally cause decent people to say enough is enough, that the 25th Amendment is there for a reason. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
I can’t remember exactly what was the first movie to make me cry. Probably something where a dog died like Where the Red Fern Grows or Old Yeller. But the movie that made me cry the hardest was Life is Beautiful.
December 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I can’t remember exactly what was the first movie to make me cry. Probably something where a dog died like Where the Red Fern Grows or Old Yeller. But the movie that made me cry the hardest was Life is Beautiful.
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I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers.
I use social media to talk to people about fish.
When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish.
When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.
I use social media to talk to people about fish.
When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish.
When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers.
I use social media to talk to people about fish.
When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish.
When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.
I use social media to talk to people about fish.
When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish.
When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.
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Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:
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For millions of us, this was the first time we ever saw Rob Reiner. …When he became “Meathead” on “All in the Family.”
He was brilliant from Day One.
He was brilliant from Day One.
December 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
For millions of us, this was the first time we ever saw Rob Reiner. …When he became “Meathead” on “All in the Family.”
He was brilliant from Day One.
He was brilliant from Day One.
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The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity.
Trump’s Wager and the Authoritarian Shift
Is Trump getting weaker, or is the authoritarian danger increasing? Yes.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity.
Dear Apple, WTAF? Do any of you actually use an iPhone? I might as well have an Android now.
December 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Dear Apple, WTAF? Do any of you actually use an iPhone? I might as well have an Android now.
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Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.
December 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.
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Dear male White House reporters,
The next time Trump insults one of your female colleagues, if one of you doesn’t interject and say “Excuse me, sir, but fuck you.” God is going to lose his mind.
Regards,
God
The next time Trump insults one of your female colleagues, if one of you doesn’t interject and say “Excuse me, sir, but fuck you.” God is going to lose his mind.
Regards,
God
December 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Dear male White House reporters,
The next time Trump insults one of your female colleagues, if one of you doesn’t interject and say “Excuse me, sir, but fuck you.” God is going to lose his mind.
Regards,
God
The next time Trump insults one of your female colleagues, if one of you doesn’t interject and say “Excuse me, sir, but fuck you.” God is going to lose his mind.
Regards,
God
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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Like QAnon, the election denial movement cannot exist if it ever finds the smoking gun of the 2020 election. Therefore, the evidence must always be just over the horizon — a movement that feeds off itself to live.
Trump: "It was a rigged election. It's gonna come out over the next couple months too, loud and clear. Because we have all the information."
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Like QAnon, the election denial movement cannot exist if it ever finds the smoking gun of the 2020 election. Therefore, the evidence must always be just over the horizon — a movement that feeds off itself to live.
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Don has been sounding the alarm about Schedule F, and was the first person I read warning about Project 2025.
We're heading toward the nightmare stage of this pretty fast, with the goal and hope of making the federal government operate like the veritable one-party rule of, say, Mississippi.
We're heading toward the nightmare stage of this pretty fast, with the goal and hope of making the federal government operate like the veritable one-party rule of, say, Mississippi.
New, from me: by embracing unitary executive theory, the Supreme Court is moving towards making all public employees fireable at the will of the President.
This will not just hurt government competence, it will aid democratic backsliding. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...
This will not just hurt government competence, it will aid democratic backsliding. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...
At will? Whose will?
Removing independent agency heads is part of a broader assault on a nonpartisan government
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Don has been sounding the alarm about Schedule F, and was the first person I read warning about Project 2025.
We're heading toward the nightmare stage of this pretty fast, with the goal and hope of making the federal government operate like the veritable one-party rule of, say, Mississippi.
We're heading toward the nightmare stage of this pretty fast, with the goal and hope of making the federal government operate like the veritable one-party rule of, say, Mississippi.
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The public must be able to read the secret memo justifying the *blatantly* illegal and lethal boat strikes.
Trump's DOJ probably won't release it, but someone in Congress could - by reading the memo into the Congressional Record.
Just like the Pentagon Papers.
Tell them to with this letter:
Trump's DOJ probably won't release it, but someone in Congress could - by reading the memo into the Congressional Record.
Just like the Pentagon Papers.
Tell them to with this letter:
Reform Government Secrecy
The government keeps too many secrets, and many shouldn’t be secrets in the first place. We must fight overclassification and defend our right to know.
freedom.press
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The public must be able to read the secret memo justifying the *blatantly* illegal and lethal boat strikes.
Trump's DOJ probably won't release it, but someone in Congress could - by reading the memo into the Congressional Record.
Just like the Pentagon Papers.
Tell them to with this letter:
Trump's DOJ probably won't release it, but someone in Congress could - by reading the memo into the Congressional Record.
Just like the Pentagon Papers.
Tell them to with this letter: