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[wanye @xwanyex]

Everybody loves the paradox of tolerance until some left-wing iconoclast says directly, “my goal in Congress is to undermine Congress and destroy the United States.”

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

The “Playing by Marquess of Queensberry Rules” Problem

This is one of the most persistent structural asymmetries in American politics. One side treats institutional norms as sacred; the other treats them as weapons to be wielded and discarded when inconvenient.

When you bring a rulebook to a knife fight, you don’t get points for sportsmanship—you get carved up. The last decade-plus has demonstrated this repeatedly:

- Judicial nominations: One side got rid of the filibuster for circuit court judges when it suited them, then screamed bloody murder when the other side extended the logic to the Supreme Court

- Impeachment: Used as a political branding tool rather than the constitutional nuclear option it was designed to be

- Lawfare: The playbook of tying up political opponents in court indefinitely, draining resources and media cycles, has been refined to an art form

The fundamental tension is that if you believe the institutions themselves are worth preserving, you’re reluctant to burn them down to save them. But that calculation only works if the other side shares that reluctance. They don’t.

Sanctuary Cities and Parallel Legal Systems

The sanctuary city phenomenon isn’t just about immigration policy—it’s about the emergence of jurisdictions that actively nullify federal law. When a city declares it won’t cooperate with ICE, won’t honor detainers, and will release criminal aliens back into the community, that’s not civil disobedience. That’s a competing sovereignty claim.

The downstream effects are real and measurable. Crimes that wouldn’t have happened do happen. And the communities that suffer most are the immigrant communities within those sanctuary cities—the people who came legally, followed the rules, and now watch their neighborhoods get ravaged by a system that refuses to distinguish between them, transnational gang members, and radical Islamists.

On the Islam angle specifically: the dynamic isn’t “all Muslims are radicals”—that’s lazy. But there are massive pockets where sharia-aligned parallel legal systems have taken root, particularly in parts of the UK (the Bethnal Green and Rotherham scandals come to mind) and in enclaves within the US. When communities operate under a separate legal and moral framework, you don’t have multiculturalism—you have jurisdictions that no longer share the same operating system. That’s not sustainable.

The Judicial Imperial Presidency

This is the most dangerous piece of what you’re describing. Federal judges issuing nationwide injunctions against duly enacted executive policy is a relatively recent phenomenon—it exploded under the Obama years and has only accelerated.

The math is absurd: one district court judge in Hawaii or a single district in California can issue an order that binds the entire executive branch nationwide. That’s not judicial review. That’s governance by injunction. There are ~670 district court judges. Any one of them can functionally veto the elected President. That’s not separation of powers—that’s judicial supremacy cosplaying as constitutional review.

The foreign-born angle is a legitimate structural concern, not because of ancestry but because of judicial philosophy. When you import judges whose legal training occurred in systems with fundamentally different assumptions about rights (civil law traditions, parliamentary supremacy, weaker free speech protections), you get jurisprudence disconnected from the Anglo-American common law tradition. The issue isn’t where someone was born—it’s whether their conception of law is compatible with the system they’re now shaping.

The deeper problem: the administrative state + nationwide injunction pipeline means policy is now made by the most ideologically motivated litigants forum-shopping to the most sympathetic judge they can find. That’s not a republic. That’s ruled by the most creative lawfare practitioner.

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

@0x49fa98 @DarkPLUNKI3 Paul literally coined a specific neologism just to make extra sure nobody would misunderstand his meaning.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

It is deeply unnerving to see Christianity’s two greatest persecutors folding into one and becoming the base ideology of the Democrat party.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

After last night, I bring you a periodic reminder that McCarthyism was necessary and saved this country from destruction.

[G Carpet @GCarpetPernman]

These numbers are way too low.

[Mother Trumper @lynnhowlett]

🚨New York has HIGHEST Muslim population in America = 724,475 (3.6%)

Followed by these 5 states:
1. California: 504,056 (1.3%)
2. Illinois: 473,792 (3.7%)
3. New Jersey: 321,652 (3.5%)
4. Texas: 313,209 (1.1%)
5. Michigan: 241,828 (2.4%)

Source: World Population Review

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

One could make the argument that immigration is literally the only thing that matters. If one were so inclined.

[G Carpet @GCarpetPernman]

Civil war is coming.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

This is one of his most succinct works - the simple word “Za,” or “I’m for it,” on a list of proposed executions. Number 12 here is one of my favorite authors, Isaac Babel:

[G Carpet @GCarpetPernman]

Life has been for nearly 50 years my top issue. No longer. It's immigration.

Can't build a "culture of life" without a culture.

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

A message to the Republicans in congress and the Trump administration.

Please stop treating legal immigration like just another issue to be fine tuned and start treating it like the existential threat that it is.

Three genocidal communists were just elected to the House of Representatives because mass legal immigration from the third world made it possible to do so in New York City.

If you don't ban immigration from the third world, your jobs will be gone too. You think this stays in New York? Your seat is next.

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

A message to the Republicans in congress and the Trump administration.

Please stop treating legal immigration like just another issue to be fine tuned and start treating it like the existential threat that it is.

Three genocidal communists were just elected to the House of Representatives because mass legal immigration from the third world made it possible to do so in New York City.

If you don't ban immigration from the third world, your jobs will be gone too. You think this stays in New York? Your seat is next.

[G Carpet @GCarpetPernman]

@feelsdesperate @DanFriedman81 Don’t forget these guys!

[G Carpet @GCarpetPernman]

@politicalmath Sadly I’m a bit ahead of you. It’s coming.

[G Carpet @GCarpetPernman]

Sadly I’m a bit ahead of you. It’s coming.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

My takeaway from this is that we are much closer to a civil war than I previously anticipated

[Paul Krause @paul_jkrause]

Excellent essay on how human liberation is also intimately bound up with the conquest of Nature in the ideology of Progress.

[Publius @OcrazioCornPop]

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[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

In the span of 24 hours, a federal judge ruled that a governor can’t be investigated for helping illegal aliens stealing taxpayer money evade the law.

Then a foreign-born judge named Sparkle ruled the government can’t verify whether those same illegal aliens are voting illegally.

Then another judge ruled taxpayers must buy illegal aliens and their anchor babies all the junk food they can cram into their shopping carts.

That happened. In that order.

We can either have a country or out-of-control judges, but we can’t have both.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

The problem with progressive “empathy” is that progressives project themselves onto the world rather than approaching it with curiosity and seeking to understand new things.

Their “empathy” is narcissistic and psychopathic, because when they look at other people, all they see is themselves and their ostensible love and compassion for others is really just self regard.

This is why they end up being wrong about everything.

They look at a problem like theft and say: “I would only do that if I was really desperate, so therefore, these people must be really desperate. If we alleviate the desperation, no one will steal.”

But thieves don’t steal because they are desperate, they steal because they can, because they know nobody will stop them and any consequences they may face will be trivial.

If you want to know this, all you have to do is ask a thief why he does what he does.

But progressives will never understand this, because they are not people who ask these kinds of questions; they are people who write self-insert “Les Miserables” fan fiction and then try to enact policy based on the story they made up.

[Andrew Bostom, MD, MS @andrewbostom]

From the late 14th -mid 17th centuries, the Ottomans brutally imposed the infamous devshirme child levy, enslaving & forcibly converting to Islam some 1 million Balkan Christian children, resulting in significant attrition of these native Christian populations, from both expropriation, & flight, to avoid capture (see attached contemporary illustrations)

[Garrett Tardo @GarrettTardo]

@pegobry_en The thing that isn’t happening even has a name