The Political Thread

[Comrade Khan]

So ya its a full on coup happening

 

[Comrade Khan]

Tik Tok and Fox gonna be your info networks after they shut down the rest of the networks and censor all the isps. Wonder how much longer we have to talk

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Getting half their staff fired.

Context:

 

[Chris]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/politics/judge-blocks-birthright-citizenship-executive-order/index.html

A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, saying it’s likely unconstitutional and “runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth.”

The nationwide preliminary injunction from US District Judge Deborah Boardman is a significant ruling against Trump’s Day 1 order, which was swiftly met with legal challenges and put on hold days later by a separate judge.

The order “conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment, contradicts 125-year old binding Supreme Court precedent and runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth,” Boardman said during a hearing on Wednesday.

 

[Chris]

Context:

C.I.A. Sends White House an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees

The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force.

www.nytimes.com

The C.I.A. sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force, in a move that former officials say risked the list leaking to adversaries.

The list included first names and the first initial of the last name of the new hires, who are still on probation — and thus easy to dismiss. It included a large crop of young analysts and operatives who were hired specifically to focus on China, and whose identities are usually closely guarded because Chinese hackers are constantly seeking them to identify them.

The agency normally would prefer not to put these names in an unclassified system. Some former officials said they worried that the list could be passed on to a team of newly hired young software experts working with Elon Musk and his government efficiency team. If that happened, the names of the employees might be more easily targeted by China, Russia or other foreign intelligence services.

 

[Chris]

What the fuck

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-us-will-take-over-gaza-strip-2025-02-05/

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States will take over and own the Gaza Strip, adding that "the same people" should not be in charge of rebuilding and occupying the land.

I'm so tired of "yes he said this but I think he actually meant this" with the president, that is rationalizations you make for mentally unstable children

Secretary of State Marco Rubio attempted to clarify President Donald Trump’s radical assertion the US should “take over” and “own” Gaza by saying that Trump was only offering for the US “to become responsible for the reconstruction of that area” and for Gazans to temporarily move out during the process.

“The only thing President Trump has done, very generously, in my view, is offer the United States’ willingness to step in, clear the debris, clean the place up from all the destruction that’s on the ground, clean it up of all these unexploded munitions,” Rubio said at a news conference in Guatemala City with Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo,

He said “in the meantime, the people living there, the people who call that home will not be able to live there while you have crews coming in and removing debris, while you have munitions being removed, etc.”