DHS cut this quote off one sentence early. Here’s how Roosevelt actually finished the thought, same speech, 1915:
“But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.”
He also said he wasn’t talking about naturalized citizens (“some of the very best Americans I have ever known”) and that “any discrimination against aliens is a wrong.”
Teddy Roosevelt’s descendants asked Congress to protect his legacy. Trump’s admin answered by perverting TR’s words to push their anti-immigrant agenda.
The 1st Amendment never contemplated mass media reaching billions in seconds.
The 2nd never contemplated firearms capable of firing dozens of rounds without reloading.
The 4th never contemplated a phone holding a decade of your private life.
We don't treat any of those as grounds to shrink the right.
Scale changing isn't grounds to infringe on people's liberty.
I'm always for being open about mental health, but important context is that Kean, as a state rep, voted against the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act, which established 40 hours of sick leave for employees a year.
Kean just took *4 months* of paid sick leave.
MAJOR BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, ruling that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are U.S. citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment.
AIPAC and its allies have already spent $50 million this election cycle.
AI has spent $185 million.
Crypto has spent $288 million.
This is legalized bribery.
End Citizens United and move to the public funding of elections NOW.
If Mitch McConnell and family want privacy, that's fine, but he should resign. Otherwise, he needs to reveal his condition and his ability to do his job.
Planned Parenthood provides millions of people with cancer screenings, birth control, STI testing and treatment, annual exams, and other preventive health care. It should never lose federal funding.
The first SENTENCE of the 1st Amendment states:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
SERIOUS QUESTION: When did “if you work full-time, you should be able to comfortably afford shelter, food, and the basics” become an extreme leftist belief ??
IDF "soldiers shot a 16-year-old boy and then ran over his body with a tank, mutilating it.
"a 15-year-old boy holding a white flag — and his brother who came to his rescue, as well as their mother — were shot by .338-caliber Israeli sniper rounds from 200 meters away"
THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING:
1. There are cameras monitoring the Reflecting Pool.
2. No one entered and made a 350 foot gash.
3. No one dumped massive amounts of fertilizer into a 6.5 million gallon pool.
Because if anyone did, trump would be shoving that video in our faces.
A note to my friends who still back Trump:
I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.
Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.
And the green water?
A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.
Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.
That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.
The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.
Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.
Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.
Prove them wrong.
The Texas screwworm story is a version of this. The Reflecting Pool fiasco is a version of this. The Iranian war is a very large and ongoing version of this.
Everywhere you look, incompetence is having its natural consequences, with more to come. Much more, I'm afraid.