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sheilacanavan1.bsky.social @sheilacanavan1.bsky.social · 19h

Will Katy Tur continue to ask the question every day - who is right - as if guests on her show had not answered that question for her and MSNBC repeatedly for weeks now?

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2d

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RIO LINDA MEX 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇨🇦🦍 @riolindamex.bsky.social · 1d

YOUR SERVE, LIL’ STEPH.🥴

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Aunt Jules @japulver.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sick of Republicans & their repressed sexuality. Deal w your psychosis & stop taking your sex issues out on the rest of us!

Hypocrites & prudes.

We all have sex. It’s ok. Be into whatever you’re (consensually) into & STOP JUDGING EVERYONE ELSE’S SEX LIFE!

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State Rep. Josh Schriver Called Queers Perverts. Guess Who Had The Fling Account?

According to records obtained by Metro Times, State Rep. Josh Schriver (R-Oxford) — the same lawmaker who introduced legislation in September to ban

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🦋 Still Standing 🦋 @imstillstanding.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 1d

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sheilacanavan1.bsky.social @sheilacanavan1.bsky.social · 1d

What vile b.s. to assert that people will "choose" to go without coverage. Being unable to afford coverage is not the same thing as choosing to go without.

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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 1d

Best sign I’ve seen recently…

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

OPINION | For months, everywhere our commander-in-chief looks, he appears to see a national crisis, an invasion or even a war.

This Is the Real Reason Trump's a Disaster Merchant

Declare anyone you like a national security threat. In fact, declare everything a threat to national security that only can be addressed by Draconian measures.

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Manny V. @phuckemaga.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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sheilacanavan1.bsky.social @sheilacanavan1.bsky.social · 1d

and AIPAC

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Rebecca 🦋 @rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 1d

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2d

Ex-Marine Amy McGrath announces bid for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat

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Ex-Marine Amy McGrath announces bid for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat - UPI.com

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sheilacanavan1.bsky.social @sheilacanavan1.bsky.social · 2d

@agdanrayfield.bsky.social Mr Attorney General, Thank you for the excellent work that your office has done re National Guard. That said, your media appearances today, overshadowed the fine work your office has done. Please leave politics at home in performing your duties.

sheilacanavan1.bsky.social @sheilacanavan1.bsky.social · 2d

But the oregon AG should be very cautious in his appearances and make certain that he does not follow up his effective legal action with politics. He violated that standard today.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 2d

Just thinking about how bland an all-white MAGA society would be makes my gay designer gene shrivel.

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sheilacanavan1.bsky.social @sheilacanavan1.bsky.social · 2d

Oregon AG was in court 6 hours after learning that Trump was going to order in the National Guard. Illinois was threatened for how many hours/days/weeks? Where was the Illinois Ag - not the Governor - the AG?

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sheilacanavan1.bsky.social @sheilacanavan1.bsky.social · 2d

Have Trump, Johnson or Patel issued a statement?

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sheilacanavan1.bsky.social @sheilacanavan1.bsky.social · 2d

Has the Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives been called in to consult on the investigation of the potential bombing/arson of Judge Goldstein's home?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

There’s no reason the Supreme Court should even grant cert.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary
injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The
Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause
sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119
How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States
citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into
this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that
just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United
States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in
passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore
wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in
showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this
country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that
various limits on our remedial power independently require us to
reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one.
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is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even
more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the
need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court
again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied
"administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to
conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in
fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159
F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general
rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue"
because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to
"consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary,
without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be
wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our
established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to
make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather
than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact
of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332
U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break
with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than
does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong
Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or
Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S.
Code.
The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary
injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for
further consideration consistent with this decision.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 5d

Horrendous attack

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester

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rnelsen.bsky.social @rnelsen.bsky.social · 5d

What happens when you give grade school dropouts a gun and a badge.

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sheilacanavan1.bsky.social @sheilacanavan1.bsky.social · 5d

Has created a king

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

Unanimous First Circuit takes pains to emphasize that this was an incredibly easy case to decide, despite writing a very long opinion knocking down every ridiculous argument the Trump admin made.

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