I regret that I actually understand what Trump is babbling about. He's claiming that birthright citizenship promise of the 14th amendment was ONLY supposed to apply to the babies of slaves born in the US. The "same year" is about it applying to people when 14A happened. He's also completely wrong. RE:
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Constantine (@ajaxsinger.bsky.social)
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Alito includes screenshots from the books he thinks parents should be able to bar schools from letting their children read. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreibpdpptvhjnhnayzse7ongibsfho44tu43yn74vld6apngdvyc2cy
I mean, the ridiculous bit is how often Stephen Miller and MAGA folks focused on getting universal injunctions against Biden. So I'm assuming this is going to be another one of these "well it only applies during GOP presidency" type SCOTUS rulings. RE:
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Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority and rolls back the injunctions prot...
I actually think the paper is better and more accurate than Eliot suggests, but it does have an unfortunate blindspot that Eliot highlights. Both things can be true: many people have completely overreacted in a moral panic manner to claims of mis- and disinformation. But also... RE:
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Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social)
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real...
This is super frustratingly wrong [@rokhanna.bsky.social](
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Ro Khanna (@rokhanna.bsky.social)
New Economic Patriotism: Good Jobs, Low Costs, No Dumb Wars. 21st century Marshall Plan for America. M4A. $10 day childcare. Tax ultra wealth. Tex...
 ). Censorship is not "private bookstore choosing not to carry a book" (something it does every day). I have written a book, and no book store carries it. That's not censorship. It's the book store making its own decisions about what to carry. RE:
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Alexander Howard (@digiphile.bsky.social)
Being “for free speech” means 1) not supporting state censorship of any books, newspapers, or stations because we disagree with the viewpoint...
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Straight out of Mountainhead. RE:
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Screamer Jim (@screamerjim.bsky.social)
This morning I wrote about Judge Alsup's ruling in the Anthropic case and now I compare it to Judge Chhabria's ruling in the Meta case. I think Chhabria's analysis is really wrong (which surprises me as I usually find him good on copyright). RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Two Judges, Same District, Opposite Conclusions: The Messy Reality Of AI Training Copyright Cases Within days of each other, two federal judges i...
Very normal reaction to seeing the will of the people voting in a city a thousand miles away from where you live. RE:
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Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)
Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and depor...
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Even worse than a disaster, many people will assume the completely fabricated story he's looking to tell will be an accurate depiction of what happened. RE:
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jamelle (@jamellebouie.net)
oh this looks like it could be a disaster https://variety.com/2025/film/news/the-social-network-2-aaron-sorkin-directing-1236440596/
Gosh. Imagine if instead of running on being "tough on immigration" the Dems had run on giving them a path to citizenship? Every time the Dems let MAGA set the framing, they fail. Stop it. RE:
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Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social)
This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want mos...