chloedancer @chloedancer

If you are born in the United States, you are a citizen of the United States.

The rescue doggie Tsunami has officially found more than 350 people in Venezuela. He’s whipped. The exhaustion and Tsunami’s effort are visible in his eyes. ❤️🇻🇪

🚨🇲🇽Iran’s head coach addresses the Mexican people before leaving the country: • "We are leaving this place, but our hearts and our presence remain here." • "The country and people of Mexico have become a part of all of us. We thank you for all this hospitality you have provided" • "We love the people of Mexico like our own homeland. This is the greatest achievement we are taking with us."

The Saviour @TheSaviour

a day ago

🚨🇲🇽 Mexican fans showed up outside the Iran football team hotel before leaving Mexico to honor the victims of the Minab school tragedy.

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Another one of @MirandaDevine’s favorite sources is going to jail. Miles Guo got 30 years yesterday for a billion-dollar fraud. He was Steve Bannon’s business partner. Together they built GTV. GTV pushed the doctored photos and smears about me. They built the Laptop from Hell narrative. Devine made it famous. Guo even had a Mar-a-Lago membership. He joins Alexander Smirnov. Six years for fabricating the Burisma bribery story that drove the impeachment inquiry against my father. Smirnov admitted he made it up. And Gal Luft. Still a fugitive. Indicted for acting as an unregistered Chinese agent after paying a Trump adviser to push Beijing’s line in public. All three came after me and my father. All three are liars and frauds. All three served the interests of Donald Trump. And they are just the tip of the iceberg. Follow me on Substack where I’ll be sharing the whole story soon.

Trump: I love the inflation, I don't think about Americans’ financial situation at all, affordability is a fake word and a hoax, I don't want to drive housing prices down.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

2 days ago

Q: What are your plans for the housing bill? TRUMP: I don't know. I think it's so unimportant when compared to the SAVE America Act. It's very bipartisan. That means the Democrats like it.

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Mayor Mamdani: My recommendation to all New Yorkers is to stay inside and stay cool. And if you happen to be getting married at Madison Square Garden, you will be staying inside and you will be staying cool.

いま夜のメキシコシティで、すごく素敵なことがあった😭 メキシコ戦が終わり、街のタコス屋で夕食を…と入ったら、スペイン語のメニューしかなく、まったく読めない。 さらに運の悪いことに、スマホの電波が悪く、翻訳アプリも使えない。 困り果てていると、ふと、窓の外にいた少年たちと目が合った。 中学生くらいの男の子2人。思わず手を振ると、彼らは店の中に入ってきて、スマホの画面を見せてきた。 そこには翻訳された日本語で、こうあった。 「何を注文したいですか？」 思いがけず、驚いた。どうやら彼らは、僕が注文に困っていることに、気づいていたらしいのだ。 僕がメニューを読めないことを伝えると、彼らはメニューを一つひとつ翻訳してくれた。 「これは牛肉、これは鶏肉、これは…」 彼らが説明してくれた後で、僕は年長らしい彼に訊いた。 「君のおすすめはどれ？」 すると彼は、ステーキとソーセージのタコスを指差した。 年少の彼も頷いているので、僕がそれに決めると、また翻訳した言葉を見せてきた。 「では、この料理を注文しましょうか？」 彼は店員さんを呼ぶと、そのタコス料理を注文してくれた。 「グラシアス。ありがとう…」 そう伝えてから、僕は彼らに言った。 「よかったら、一緒に写真を撮る？」 すると彼らは、大喜びで、一緒に写真を撮った。 僕にできるお礼なんて、そのくらいしかない気がしたから。 彼らと別れ、やがて運ばれてきたステーキとソーセージのタコスを食べると、それは素晴らしく美味しい料理だった。 たぶん、彼らが助けてくれなければ、こんな幸せな夜を過ごすことはできなかっただろう。 メキシコシティは治安が悪いと聞く。実際、悪い人もたくさんいるのだと思う。 しかし同時に、彼らのような、純粋な優しさを持った少年たちもいる街であるということ。 そのことは忘れたくないな、と感じた夜だったのでした🌮

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Obama has just dropped the biggest bombshell on Trump 🔥 🇺🇸Trump at 2:00 PM: “Iran has agreed not to make a nuke. No president has done this.” 🇺🇸Obama at 3:00 PM— "We had a deal. Iran wouldn’t build nukes. Trump ripped it up. Iran ramped up its nuclear program. Then He went to war. Burned billions. Wore out our military. People died. And for what? We’re back at square one, but worse. Only a fool cheers this." 🔥 Absolute brutal by Obama 💪🔥

🚨BREAKING NEWS: Cristiano Ronaldo has sent two private planes filled with medicine, equipment, and various supplies to earthquake victims in Venezuela. They don't call him the king for nothing."

Ronald Reagan: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman…But Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness.”🇺🇸

A blatant and unabashed racist. Period.

Acyn @Acyn

23 hours ago

Stephen Miller on Birthright Citizenship Decision: I can step tomorrow onto the deck of a 747. It does not mean that I'm the pilot of that plane and I'm qualified to fly it. We have people from all over the world from third world nations, nations that on their own would have

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Then on the way home to Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 a stop over in Boston where Scots are now treated as friends by complete strangers who ask for pictures with you 😀😂 so many great memories even including the football games 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #NoScotlandNoParty #Boston #TartanArmy #LetterFromAmerica

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Would a corrupt president have a chart like this?

Steve Rattner @SteveRattner

a day ago

The number of financial side deals the Trump family is running is so shocking it can sometimes be hard to track. According to @Reuters, their crypto ventures alone have delivered $2.3 billion to Trump & co. while creating a similar-sized loss for investors.

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Paralyzed woman faces losing her in-home care due to Trump's Medicaid cuts: “I’ve been lied to. Go to college, get a good job, get married, build a life for yourself. I did all of that, and it’s all gonna go away because the government can’t afford $60,000 a year to keep me in my home?”

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This is what Trump thought his state fair was going to look like

Hater Report @HaterReport

18 hours ago

The celebration in Mexico after they beat Ecuador in the World Cup is one of the WILDEST things you’ll EVER see THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS

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The University of Tennessee at Knoxville reached a $1.9 million settlement with Tamar Shirinian, a former professor who was fired after she criticized Charlie Kirk. Shirinian claimed that the school violated her constitutional rights. wapo.st/4xYbtV0

Scotland days at school, kids faces painted in saltires at nursery, the excitement and togetherness that this tournament brought to everyone in our country means so much to us all. No one wanted to progress more than us players, and as much as the experiences and memories we’ll share will last forever, that doesn’t take away from how much this still hurts. What the gaffer has given this group, on and off the pitch, has been immense. Not only by taking us to major tournaments but by how together we have felt as a squad and as a nation. Representing Scotland means everything to us and to him I’ll be forever grateful. I hope the generation of young Scots who experienced this World Cup grow up believing that seeing Scotland on this stage is the new norm. Thanks to everyone in the stands and in the streets of Boston and Miami, and to everyone back home for the incredible support. Proud to be Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

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I am by birth and by right an American. I do not wish to change this fact, and I will not surrender to those who would change it for me. I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, a place I invariably think back to on those rare occasions when someone says, “Go back to your country.” Cleveland? You want me to go back to Cleveland? And, yes, I was born as the thing now being argued over nationwide: a birthright citizen. Which is to say, my parents were not yet American citizens when they had me. Had they given up everything they knew to come here? Yes. Had they strained family bank accounts back in India for so much as a plane ticket? Yes. Had they committed every morsel of their energy and perseverance and ingenuity to making a life here? Yes, yes, and yes. Had my father, quoting the folk singer Tom Paxton, written to my mother of their departure from India’s comfortable certainties that the two of them were now venturing “Outward bound upon a ship that sails no ocean / Outward bound, it has no crew but me and you / All alone when just a minute ago the shore was filled with people / With people that we knew”? Yes. And he still quotes it to her. But they were not yet American citizens. Nevertheless, they dared to cast the biggest vote of confidence a human being can cast in another country: creating a child who will belong first to it, and not to the country of their own certainties. To have a child is to begin to lose control from the moment of physical separation. They never go back in; eventually, they acquire minds of their own. But the loss of control is greater, the faith deeper, when you are one thing, and you engender a child who is another. My father used to introduce my sister and me as “the original Cleveland Indians.” The joke killed before the team’s name change. But really we were just Americans. Americans with masala, maybe, but Americans. Baseball and Hot Wheels and hot dogs and a big Oldsmobile and a yard and, more than anything else, a sense that history didn’t have to be some big drag, that here, eyes to the horizon, standing atop the old, not under it, you become, become, become. President Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. Because he is inelegant, his way of going about it would inevitably imperil much of the legal infrastructure that pulled America out of slavery, brought down segregation, and laid the foundation for women’s rights and equality and the freedoms of many other populations. Legal writers more knowledgeable than I have explained why Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship is both perilous and, legally speaking, hogwash. I want to make a different point, borne of my experiences in America and outside of it. Birthright citizenship is not only a profound legal foundation of the United States. It is a cultural idea that does as much to make America feel like America as any other thing. My family learned this lesson the difficile way. A dozen years after my father first touched down in America as a graduate student, a decade after my mother joined him, they decided to take their now-family of four on an adventure. We were moving to France! Now, France is a very captivating country. Don’t get me wrong. But even though I was merely seven years old when we moved there, I remember watching my parents daily confront a reality that they would have had no way of understanding from the other side of the Atlantic: in France, there is something called Frenchness, and the only way to access it or participate in it fully is to have the luck of already being French. This poses a challenge to outsiders. If the only way to become French is to have already been French, then how do you become French? The short answer is you don’t. You can live there; there are ways to finagle citizenship. But at the heart of French law and culture is the idea that Frenchness is a specific culture, French people have a specific blood, and the barriers to entry are high. You can be there. But you can never be of there. You can enjoy the place. But the place will never truly belong to you. That is changing slightly even in France, as I have seen on recent trips. But those who would open up the definition of Frenchness are, and always will be, playing defense. Many countries around the world function in this same way, with a cultural and legal idea of citizenship rooted in blood and soil and lineage. Basically, in one form or another, to be a citizen requires your parents or even grandparents to have been citizens. What this means at a philosophical level is that a citizen is something you are because they were, not something you become as you, because you were born here. I always think of something my friend Eric Liu, a former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton, said (and I paraphrase). His family came from China to the U.S. They became American, like so many before. And, Liu notes, having been rooted in China’s soil for thousands of years and uprooted into America’s for only a few decades, Eric could never “become Chinese” by moving back. One severed link: the chain ends. This is why, for all of the dangerous things President Trump has proposed in his first days, the assault on birthright citizenship strikes me as so fundamental. Because it’s an attack not just on a policy question of how and when passports are given out. It’s an attack on the idea that anyone can be part of this, that this is a nation of becoming. So fundamental is this culture of becoming that even Trump cannot escape it. He can slap 10 percent tariffs on foreign goods, but nothing will change the fact that 67 percent of his own wives were imports. And I want to say for the record that I will never use the fact that Melania Trump was not born in the United States against her. I believe she is every bit as American as I am. I used to live in the Boston area. One day, several friends and I went down to the river and laid out contiguous picnic blankets and waited hours for the Fourth of July fireworks. The bank grew more crowded by the hour. There were minor arguments about space and the obstruction of views. Most of it was totally peaceful. But at some point, our group, a large and diverse crew, came into the focus of a man who did not like how many blankets we had laid out. “Go back to your country!” the man barked at me. I remember being taken aback. Cleveland? “Why did you even come to this country?” the man persisted. His tone suggested he wasn’t thinking of Cleveland. As the situation escalated, another man came forward. He was white, in a sleeveless shirt, with a bald head, full of tattoos, and with a generous belly. He looked like he might be a Hell’s Angel or some type of biker dude. Given the argument we were in about whether we belonged, he didn’t necessarily look like he would fall on our side. But he turned to the man barking at us and said five words I will never forget — five words so simple and profound that Trump will live and die without grasping them: The man said, “These are my people, too.” It was a big idea; it is a big idea. But to him, it was also no big deal. He didn’t want to make a big fuss about it. It was just what he knew to be true. Whether or not he had ever spent much time ruminating about “birthright citizenship,” he had internalized the culture of it. These are my people. Anyone can become my people. We become. And where that story leaves me is this: I don’t think of Trump as being in a contest with me over my citizenship, or in a contest with legal scholars and the courts over the proper reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. Fundamentally, I think of Trump as being in a contest with that biker dude. With the deep and abiding culture he spoke for. With the lifeblood of a nation of becoming. I believe the biker dude will prevail.

This is the height of hypocrisy under the Trump administration. individuals who touch the peeling paint in a failing $14M Reflecting Pool renovation are facing federal charges and threats of prison time. But the Jan 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol, attacked police, and tried to overturn an election? Pardoned and set free on Day 1. op: @dcartoonist