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"Karoline Leavitt: 'You’re either a U.S. citizen or not. You can’t be a U.S. citizen and a citizen of another country.'
Looking forward to waving goodbye to Elon Musk, who is a citizen of the US, Canada, and South Africa.
Also, Melania Trump and Trump's own son Barron hold dual US and Slovenian citizenship."
~ Jim Wright
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Somalis #IlhanOmar
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Jim Wright (@stonekettle) on Threads
Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not. You can’t be a U.S. citizen and a citizen of another country.” Looking forward to waving goodbye to Elon Musk, who is a citizen of the US, Canada, and South Africa.Threads
"💯percent of Somalis are made in the image of God."
~ Amy Shively Hawk
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Somalis #IlhanOmar
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"Then, when the cruelty becomes undeniable, point to the legal category as justification: 'They shouldn’t have been here. They broke the law. What happens to them is their own fault.'
By the time the pattern is complete, we’ve convinced ourselves that people are less human because of their paperwork status."
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Somalis #IlhanOmar
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"A noncitizen is not less human than a citizen."
Mike Brock describes the fascist game plan"
"First, establish a legal category that marks people as 'other.' Then, gradually, allow that legal distinction to become a moral one. Then allow the moral distinction to justify any level of dehumanization."
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Somalis #IlhanOmar
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"Somali people are made in God’s image, which means they carry unshakable dignity and worth. When you reduce people to a label, you shrink your ability to love them."
~ Dr. Derwin L. Gray
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Somalis #IlhanOmar
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“'They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country, I’ll be honest with you,' he said. He called Omar 'garbage' and said 'we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country'."
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Somalis #IlhanOmar
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"In a xenophobic rant during a cabinet meeting, Trump went off on Somalis and Ilhan Omar, the congressional representative who is from Somalia and is a US citizen. He said Somalia 'stinks' and is 'no good for a reason'."
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Somalis #IlhanOmar
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"Donald Trump on Tuesday called Somali immigrants 'garbage' and said they should be sent back home in a rant that came as the administration is reportedly increasing immigration enforcement against undocumented Somalis in Minnesota."
~ Rachel Leingang
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Somalis #IlhanOmar
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Trump calls Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ as US reportedly targets Minnesota community
US president’s xenophobic rant comes amid reports of ramped-up deportation efforts in Ilhan Omar’s districtRachel Leingang (The Guardian)
Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures
newrepublic.com/post/203619/do…
Donald Trump has now blocked three economic data reports.
"Trump accused a group of Democratic lawmakers of sedition in an outburst on #SocialMedia Thursday morning and said their behavior was “punishable by death.”
Their crime? Recording a #video that reminded members of the #military that they are not supposed to obey illegal orders."
nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/poli…
#DonaldTrump #Trump #GOP #Fascism #Corruption #Republicans #USPol #Politics #Democrats #Law #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates #America
Win! For now anyway
Federal judges block #Texas from using its new US #House map in the 2026 #midterms
TX cannot use a new congressional map drawn by #Republicans in hopes of securing the party additional US House seats, a panel of 3 federal judges ruled Tuesday.
The ruling was a blow to #Trump’s efforts to have #GOP lawmakers in multiple states redraw their maps to help the party preserve its slim House majority in the midterm #elections.
Hmmm, what’s been purged since his last refusal?
#Trump says #House #Republicans should vote to release #EpsteinFiles, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal.
“We have nothing to hide, & it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” Trump posted after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend of golf in Florida.
The President Who Cried Hoax
#Republicans went after #Epstein only when it was politically useful
By Adam Serwer
The #EpsteinFiles were the most important issue in the world, until they weren’t.
“Are you still talking about #JeffreyEpstein? This guy’s been talked about for years. Are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable,” #Trump scolded a reporter in July.
#law #criminal #BestFriendsForever #rape #RapistInChief #CoverUp
theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/…
The President Who Cried Hoax
Republicans went after Epstein only when it was politically useful.Adam Serwer (The Atlantic)
Petty little insecure man #Trump withdraws support for #MarjorieTaylorGreene
"I am withdrawing my support & endorsement of 'Congresswoman' Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the great state of #Georgia," Trump posted on Truth Social.
Greene, a member of the House of Representatives, has long been a reliable ally & fierce defender of Trump but in recent weeks she has taken positions at odds with the White House & some of her fellow #Republicans.
a 17 year-old homeless teenager prostituted herself for orthodontic care and the pedophile #MattGaetz was one of her rapists; because, let’s be clear: this is how #pedophiles #ephebophiles use poverty ―to #rape.
it’s coercion ―as in, there is no #consent―, when a teenager resorts to #prostitution to survive #poverty.
yes, teenagers have agency, but this isn’t one of those moments.
rich men exploiting poverty-stricken teenagers are rapists.
nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/poli…
Rep #AdelitaGrijalva, Democrat of Arizona, addressed #Congress for the first time as a lawmaker in a fiery speech calling out #Republicans for delaying her swearing in for the purpose of quashing the #EpsteinFiles vote. She chastised them for abdicating their #power as a coequal branch of government to #Trump & for letting millions go without benefits during the shutdown. After finishing her speech, she immediately signed the petition to release the full #Epstein files.
The messages are certain to inflame the debate on Capitol Hill over the #Trump admin’s handling of the #EpsteinFiles, & top ofcls’ decision to backtrack on a promise to fully release them. That issue, which has split #Republicans & alienated some of Trump’s right-wing supporters, had faded to the background as the govt #shutdown dragged on.
But the #House is set to return Wednesday to clear legislation to end the shutdown, & attention is likely to shift back to the #Epstein matter.
Trying to #FloodTheZone, #House #Republicans have now released 23k pages of documents from the estate of the #SexTrafficking rapist #JeffreyEpstein — shortly after Democrats released several emails that stated #Trump knew more about Epstein’s #SexCrimes than acknowledged.
They were published online ~2 hrs after House #Democrats released the emails including one from Epstein in which he wrote that Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims.
The release of documents appears to be intended to provide #Republicans with a defense against charges that they have not released all of the government’s files on #Epstein & his longtime partner in #crime #GhislaineMaxwell — & possibly to stave off demands, including from some #House Republicans, to force the release of all of the #EpsteinFiles.
#Trump #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Link to GOP’s 23k Epstein docs:
oversight.house.gov/release/ov…
Oversight Committee Releases Additional Epstein Estate Documents - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
United States House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOversight Committee Republicans Verified account
More on the #LaurenBoebert #SituationRoom meeting. Shocker, it wasn’t about the #Trump admin being transparent, but pressuring her to back down from voting to release all the #EpsteinFiles.
Trump & his admin on Wednesday ramped up a pressure campaign on congressional #Republicans who are pushing for a full release of the #DOJ’s files about the convicted #SexOffender #JeffreyEpstein, rushing to head off a #House vote on the matter.
#criminal #law #rape #felon47 #CoverUp
nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/poli…
#Trump *connected with* #LaurenBoebert by phone Tues morning, acc/to 2 people familiar with the call, a day before Speaker #MikeJohnson was set to finally swear in a #Democrat, Rep #AdelitaGrijalva of AZ, who was expected to provide the 218th signature needed to force the #Epstein vote. [Also before today’s release of emails]
Trump has also been reaching out by phone to #NancyMace (R-SC), another of the #Republicans who have signed the petition…. The two have not yet connected.
Well, there ya go, Rep #AdelitaGrijalva #Democrat of #Arizona has been sworn in.
She will be the 218th signature needed to force the #EpsteinFiles release vote, as long as no #Republicans defect.
#Trump #Epstein #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
…The development, though forecast weeks ago, appeared certain to deepen the sense of unease felt in some corners of #Congress since #Trump began to ruminate about a potential regime change in #Venezuela. Last week, admin ofcls hoping to quash bipartisan legislation aimed at restraining the president’s ability to unleash #military force there told lawmakers no active preparations were underway for such an attack — a declaration that persuaded enough #Republicans to vote down the measure.
#law
AYFKM???
And some Democrats actually voted for this?!
Deal to end #shutdown would also allow some #Republicans to sue the #US government for #Jan6 investigation
Legislation moving through #Congress that would end the longest government shutdown in US history would also allow 8 Republican senators to seek hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for alleged privacy violations stemming from the #DOJ's investigation of the Jan 6, 2021, Capitol #insurrection.
Bullshit
Enough #Democrats voted with #Republicans to allow a spending deal that would reopen the government without the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies they had originally sought.
#ACA #Healthcare #HealthInsurance
nytimes.com/live/2025/11/09/us…
Since no one seems interested in a #TLcleanse . . .
more horrific #CrimesAgainstHumanity courtesy the #UnitedStates #Trump admin:
#Immigration Agents Arrest Man in #LA Raid & Drive Off With [abduct] His Toddler
The #child was later “reunited” [granted sanctuary] with her grandmother, but the episode alarmed #ImmigrantRights groups. The father, a U.S. citizen, faces a #gun possession [cuz suddenly #Republicans don’t give a damn about the #SecondAmendment] charge.
As they should, #Democrats hold out for #healthcare talks as Thune says 'time is now' to reopen government
Senate Majority Leader John Thune asked Democrats on Friday to “end these weeks of misery” without offering anything in return, which is the way of democratic government: compromise.
Dems pledged to vote against reopening the government until #Trump & #Republicans negotiate with them on an extension of #health #care benefits.
#RepublicansDontGiveAShitAboutYoy
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"As I see it, Hispanic voters are now learning a similar lesson. Until this year many of them could brush off evidence of right-wing racism, including Trump’s tirades about Mexican rapists, as unlikely to affect their lives. Now they’re seeing friends and family grabbed on the street by masked government thugs. Many will never trust the right again."
#Trump #Republicans #Latinos #Hispanics #immigrants #Jews #antisemitism
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They won't return, he thinks, because they've learned a lesson the Jewish community has long had to learn:
"Jews have many generations’ worth of experience with right-wing antisemitism. Many of us understand, I believe, that whenever bigotry of any kind is given free rein, we’re always next in line.
And sure enough, rabid antisemitism is surging within MAGA, which should surprise absolutely nobody."
#Trump #Republicans #Latinos #Hispanics #immigrants #Jews #antisemitism
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Paul Krugman notes the sharp turn back to the Democratic fold that many Latino voters who went for Trump in 2024 made in the recent elections. He thinks the 2024 turn had to do with anger at rising prices blamed on Biden, and a refusal of many Latinos to take Trump at his word that he'd begin rounding up and deporting immigrants.
Krugman thinks Latinos won't be coming back to the GOP fold.
#Trump #Republicans #Latinos #Hispanics #immigrants
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