Rep. @GregCasar: I wish I could stand before you today and say this ruling was only good news, but it is not. While we won the case today, we also got a grave warning about the future. What should have been a simple, unanimous, open and shut decision was dangerously close. Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh failed to recognize the fundamental Constitutional right to birthright citizenship. If these far right justices are ruling against our rights, even when they're black and white in the Constitution, then nothing we hold dear is safe.
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
You are missing the point, Senator. Our Constitution and the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights make clear that government doesn’t take sides between different religious beliefs and doesn’t interfere with the free exercise of religion. Maybe you should stress those principles on this 250th anniversary of the United States instead of trying to fit in as a Christian Nationalist.
“Just so you know, agriculture uses more water than data centres and golf courses combined.”
Yes, but we have to eat. We don’t have to use AI or play golf. This is a useless argument.
QUOTE OF A LIFETIME
"Being MAGA isn't just about being Stupid. It's about showing the World how proud you are to be Stupid."
Truer words have never been spoken.
One major reason Republicans have worked so hard to defund PBS. It actually informs the general public about the truth regarding US history, no whitewashed myths.
TAYLOR: NATO should be very interested in having Ukraine join. Ukraine has shown that it can stop Russians. That proves Ukraine can do exactly what NATO is designed to do: stop, deter, and fight Russians if they attack. So NATO would be much stronger with Ukraine as a member.
Just another reminder that the states we see rolling back voting rights today & eliminating Black representation NEVER wanted Black people to have rights to begin with: they were FORCED to do so by federal law. Now that they’re not anymore…it’s right back to their racist ways.
There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2.
SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.