SHOULD HAVE BEEN 9-0
Fourteenth Amendment
Section 1All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
5-4
F-O-H
SCOTUSblog
@SCOTUSblogThe court strikes down President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, holding that children born in the U.S. to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. and are citizens at birth.
supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
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Justice Kavanaugh filed an opinion concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part. Justice Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justice Gorsuch. Justices Gorsuch and Alito also wrote dissenting opinions.
TRUTH
Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
The explosion of MAGA rage at birthright citizenship ruling confirms again that MAGA is really a movement for ethnic cleansing.As we discuss on the pod, it’s telling that sealed border and end to TPS/asylum don’t sate MAGA. They want dramatic ethnic purges.
Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2125…Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
Here’s the argument: MAGA can’t accept a sealed border, an end to TPS/asylum, and the closing of other legal pathways as success. Their movement isn’t really about securing the border. It’s about ethnically cleansing the country.My exchange with Raul Pinto on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2125…
https://bsky.app/profile/gregsargent.bsky.social/post/3mplnyybibk26
I’m still a citizen?
Posted by Liberal Librarian
July 01, 2026
Well, you’ll all be happy to know that your favorite librarian is still an American citizen. For now.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court—oh, how I choke writing that title—affirmed that the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship. Just as it did in 1898 in US v. Wong Kim Ark. One would have thought it “settled law”. But many things that we thought were settled seem to not be so in this our Brave New World.
Of course, as a birthright citizen, this case is of special concern to me. My parents had green cards when I was born; would that have been enough? Would that have been enough for any current green card holders who bore children in the US?
And, contrary to the headlines, the decision was not 6-3 against the regime. It was 5-4 on the core constitutional question, as to whether the amendment guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the United States. Four of the justices have decided that no, it doesn’t. That, my friends, is no balm to my soul.
My fate and the fates of millions rests on the geometry of politics. And there is a good percentage of my for-now-fellow-citizens who see me as illegitimate. As other. As an unperson. I am improperly American. I should, at best, have been allowed succor in this country as a second-class dweller, a sojourner, with no right to any of the benefits of citizenship. And I should have considered myself lucky for that. But, really, what they want is for me to not exist. To have never had a chance in this land of the free and home of the brave.
This is what happens when voters who should know better don’t take their responsibilities with the seriousness they merit. When we have a political culture which values spectacle over sobriety. When voters across the political spectrum which to be plied with pleasing bromides rather than hard truths. When anyone expects anything out of voters in the world’s oldest democracy.
This nation is broken. Its people are broken. And you can blame Russia and China and Saudi Arabia and psyops and influence campaigns all you want. But at the core this is a Republic which is sick. Its people are sick. Any campaigns by foreign enemies would have no purchase had we a common sense of being American. We do not. No, I have not been subjected to the same racism as my Black brothers and sisters. Their strength is a model for me. But I am no stranger to racist asides, disguised as amazement that I’m so well-spoken and well-educated. And along with that amazement, disdain, because at heart I don’t belong here.
Immigrants and children of immigrants have to take this into the core of our beings: Our place here is always conditional. It always has been, from the first waves of Irish immigration in the mid-19th century to today. In her senescence my mother would repeat some “fact” she heard: that not until you’ve been in the country for four generations are you considered “American”. And I cannot deny there’s wisdom in that. But here’s the greater truth: unless you’re part of the normative white majority, your status is always at risk, always at sufferance. It is never secure. The fact that this case was decided so closely is evidence of that. And is of no comfort.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Told the True Story of Birthright Citizenship
About the anti-transgender decision 😒😒
https://youtu.be/EM4UZF30Trg?is=TI8Q410ydzOrrTen
The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
DSA is so addicted to defeating “centrist” Dems primary elections in navy-blue districts that they never once pay attention to how to defeat Republicans in a very purple general election
this dynamic does not occur in red states or red districts
2:18 PM · Jul 1, 2026
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2072324048366022677
ABSOLUTELY
The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant[image or embed]— Nancy Armour (@nrarmour.bsky.social) June 30, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Guaranteed:
1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are.
2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.[image or embed]— Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) June 30, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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We need to recognize what happened to Scott Wiener at the San Francisco Trans Pride March as antisemitism, and finally purge this poison from left wing movements. A new opinion piece by Evan Urquhart,
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, only on Assigned Media.
assignedmedia.org/breaking-new…
https://bsky.app/profile/assignedmedia.org/post/3mpgk2rewwc24
Dan Silverman
@dmsilverman.bsky.social
I do want to clear this up for the record as some of the discussion about Wiener on here got muddied
Yelling at an American Jew, “where are your Israeli handlers?” is antisemitic. Full stop
It is accusing them of being an Israeli spy, of being really *loyal* to Israel — aka the dual loyalty trope
https://bsky.app/profile/dmsilverman.bsky.social/post/3mplgclrgrs2h
derek guy
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Justice Brown Jackson’s argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below.
“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ
https://bsky.app/profile/dieworkwear.bsky.social/post/3mpkbrfreck2t
CLAP CLAP CLAP
Mariama James 詹 瑪 麗
@MariamaJames13
I was asked what are my thoughts when I’m asked about DSA:
The organization itself based on its own data is over 85% White, mostly male and mostly wealthy. I’ll add to that the members share a collective White supremacist I know better for you than you know for yourself mindset.
They didn’t listen to the ppl of Palestine in 2024 who wanted them to support Kamala Harris nor did they listen to Black ppl here who told them what a Trump reelection would mean for BIPOC and other marginalized communities and they didn’t listen to us in 2016 either and we ended up with a conservative SCOTUS that’s now stripping us of our constitutional rights one at a time. They are racist, anti-Black, anti-semitic, anti-East Asian non-Democrats who follow the teachings of a registered Independent who’s never passed any legislation and is the senator of the literal Whitest state in the union.
They have no clue what middle, working and low income Americans need because those labels have never applied to them and if they really cared about POC, they would amplify our movements rather than try to force theirs upon us
3:24 PM · Jul 1, 2026
https://x.com/MariamaJames13/status/2072340515257782299
A nun.
A N-U-N
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja was walking to Sunday Mass in McAllen, Texas, when federal immigration officers stopped her, confiscated her rosary, and put her in handcuffs.
DHS would not respond to requests for comment.
The Catholic nun from Nigeria is a nurse who entered the country legally.
washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2072379733887623280
UH HUH
UH HUH
THIS
Sir Rottweiler 🐾 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
@SireRottweiler
Friendly reminder that Morris Katz, the man behind Platner’s and El Sayed’s campaign, did not vote for either Biden or Kamala, despite larping as a “young voter.”
Keep this in mind when he tells you his goal is to win. It isn’t b/c it doesn’t benefit his consulting career.
https://x.com/SireRottweiler/status/2072323520064045203
Tim Wise
@timjacobwise
MAGA: Illegals are coming to take American jobs
Also MAGA: Illegals are coming to lounge around and live off welfare
MAGA: Black people don’t value education enough
Also MAGA: Black people are taking white kids’ slots at the best colleges
Racists need to pick a lane…
11:57 AM · Jul 1, 2026
https://x.com/timjacobwise/status/2072288370781311187
@resistancesean.bsky.social
@ResistanceSean
Platner and Talarico are losing white non college educated voters badly. The left keeps saying they can win these voters. Well it’s time to start winning them.
8:02 PM · Jun 30, 2026
https://x.com/ResistanceSean/status/2072048186961658337
UH HUH
UH HUH
Elizabeth Booker Houston
@booker_squared
Clarence “DEI Hire Affirmative Action” Thomas calling us, “blacks” in his dissent is unsurprising.
3:46 PM · Jun 30, 2026
https://x.com/booker_squared/status/2071983831305920676
Andrew Weinstein
@Weinsteinlaw
The same people shouting “shall not be infringed” now claim birthright citizenship was never real. It’s amazing how fast “absolute rights” turn negotiable the moment they belong to someone else.
4:33 PM · Jul 1, 2026
https://x.com/Weinsteinlaw/status/2072357958038495407
ICAM
PETTY HATER
@river_dusty
The conversation around Clark can never be normal because unlike most athletes (LeBron, Curry, Kobe) her rise to fame has little to do with on court performance. Her elevation was built on a faulty foundation of white grievance and misogynoir. That’s not sustainable
3:50 PM · Jun 30, 2026
https://x.com/river_dusty/status/2071984607742898301
Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
One thing you can see with the reaction to birthright citizenship decision is that Great Replacement Theory is now pretty much the center of the American Right’s whole project.
9:55 AM · Jul 1, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/resnikoff.bsky.social/post/3mplrlncdbs2v
Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
I did not realize how crooked an outfit “Track AIPAC” seems to be. They appear to list J Street contributions as being part of AIPAC or functionally the same thing. Their “individual expenditures” list seems to include a lot of giving from people who are simply Jews.
8:45 PM · Jun 30, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3mpkfgbegyc2p
The Editorial Board
@editorialboard.bsky.social
There it is. The press corps made us think maga was so popular that Trump’s victory signaled a paradigm shift so big it looked like America had thrown away wokeness. But guess what?
http://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...
https://bsky.app/profile/editorialboard.bsky.social/post/3mplonxdwvc2r
Ragnarok Lobster
@eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social
10 years ago, Tad Devine helped Bernie Sanders ratfck the 2016 Democratic primaries. In 2018, Devine testified about working with Paul Manafort as media consultant for Russian asset Viktor Yanukovych. Guess who’s releasing a new book next month to help leftists ratfck the 2026 midterms?
https://bsky.app/profile/eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social/post/3mpkbhcmj3c2a
Democratic Wins Media
@DemocraticWins
BREAKING: Under the leadership of Governor Wes Moore and Mayor Brandon Scott, Baltimore just recorded the fewest homicides in the first half of a year ever. This is huge.
https://x.com/DemocraticWins/status/2072343950829011305
ACLU
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls from school sports.
This is a devastating ruling for trans students across the country who simply want the freedom to play with their friends.
ACLU
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Importantly, the court did not grant politicians what we know they wanted from the start: a broad precedent restricting the freedom of all transgender people in our schools, workplaces, and communities.
We will never stop defending trans people’s equality and freedom.
https://bsky.app/profile/aclu.org/post/3mpj7maoaqs2c
Kate Riga
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The Trump administration did not get its biggest ask of the term from the Court. But celebration must be muted; only two Republican appointees agreed that birthright citizenship given to all born on American soil is a constitutional guarantee
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme…
https://bsky.app/profile/kateriga.bsky.social/post/3mpjgpn2s5c2b
Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd…
https://bsky.app/profile/adamserwer.bsky.social/post/3mpjab2v3us2u
Gabriel Malor
@gabrielmalor.bsky.social
Justice Alito, in dissent, says the constitution does not “degrade the concept of United States citizenship” by confering citizenship on the children of “birth tourists.” Degrade.
As if the quality of Alito’s citizenship depends on excluding others from citizenship.
https://bsky.app/profile/gabrielmalor.bsky.social/post/3mpjbfofex623
Andrew Fleischman
@ASFleischman
Alito’s dissent gives the game away:
“This Court adopts a rule that even England abandoned”
Yeah. England changed the ancient common law rule by passing a law.
Not by asking their courts to rewrite history.
https://x.com/ASFleischman/status/2071972339093258465
Covie
@covie_93
Somebody should tell clarence thomas that if the 14th amendment was only meant for slaves then the 2nd Amendment was only meant for a musket.
3:29 PM · Jun 30, 202686.4KViews
https://x.com/covie_93/status/2071979502066917510
SEE….
SEE….
THAT’S HOW I SEE IT TOO.
Alex Cole
@acnewsitics
So 3 judges says the POTUS can change the Constitution with an EO? So they agree a Dem POTUS can end the 2nd Amendment?
3:28 PM · Jun 30, 2026195.5KViews
https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/2071979075510702511
NOT SURPRISING..
INSANE…
BUT NOT SURPRISING
Marc E. Elias
@marceelias
This morning, the Supreme Court struck down the limits on how much a political party can spend in coordination with its candidates. This required it to ignore prior precedent and to adopt a strained reading of the Constitution. The fight continues…
https://x.com/marceelias/status/2071992067216060428
The attacks have always been against Black Americans.
So obvious.
Never forget.
The 14th Amendment is the foundation of Brown v Board.
And Brown v Board is the foundation of every inch of progress this country has made since 1954.
https://youtu.be/tZQXRw0p4ac?si=REy2LpmxkROEoiij
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
The conservative Court just struck down limits on coordinated spending between candidates and political parties — a massive win for Republicans that will fundamentally change how tens of millions of dollars are spent in congressional elections.
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2071964399577768131
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
FROM SCOTUS:
Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2071966285609517482
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch just essentially said there can be an executive order that changes the Constitution. — Catherine Christian on MS NOW
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2071968159859405228
Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 10:43 AM · Jun 30, 2026