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This is just blatant racism. Its disgusting.

We aint got no quarterback Randy!!

Doomsday plane flying around with callsign Order66. Absolutely nothing to be worried about.

Worse yet, after 3 K in the 1st.

Yeah, I think you were on your annual "summer vacation" when the trade went down. What do you think about the deal?

Great game. Eyes bulging on the Carson Beck eye test!

I think it will be Watson too - and he'll have the first few weeks IMO

And he still can't let it go. Nothing new there...................

Trump orders limits on birthright citizenship, targets ‘birth tourism’

President Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders again aimed at restricting birthright citizenship, an apparent attempt to circumvent a recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the constitutional protection.

In late June, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s Day 1 executive order that sought to end automatic birthright citizenship for nearly all children born on U.S. soil, holding it violated the 14th Amendment.

“We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “It was close, but a very, very unfortunate decision. So we’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair.”

Someone may wish to tell both him and Stephen Miller that if your sole intent is to circumvent a previous SCOTUS ruling, you may not want to tell them that out loud when you know this too will eventually reach the SCOTUS.

One of the president’s orders expands the definition of who would be ineligible for automatic citizenship, including “alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations” as well as the children of diplomats and other recognized international organizations.

Courts have historically recognized four exceptions to the Citizenship Clause: children born in the U.S. to foreign sovereigns and diplomats now referenced in the executive order as well as children of foreign forces during a hostile occupation; children born on foreign public ships and children of Native Americans tribes.

“It ensures that large numbers of people who wrongly would be getting birthright citizenship will no longer be eligible for those benefits,” said White House chief of staff Stephen Miller.

The second executive order seeks to ban the practice of “birth tourism,” which involves traveling to another country for the primary purpose of giving birth on its soil so that the child automatically has citizenship. The practice, which constitutes a form of obtaining a visa on fraudulent grounds, is already illegal and studies suggest the practice is rare, but it has become a target of the right.

Trump maintained that the original birthright citizenship was for “the babies of slaves.”

“What’s happening now are people are building businesses around it; wealthy people are building businesses around birthright citizenship,” he said. “That’s not the way it’s supposed to work. It’s a disgrace. They’re buying their way in, and we’re not going to let that happen.”

While he is selling "Gold Card" paths to citizenship to the wealthy? I guess when he gets paid for it that somehow makes it different? There's a word for taking something you claim is illegal and making it legal if someone pays you for it.

Trump claimed “hundreds of thousands” people take advantage of birth tourism.

However, data suggests his claims are significantly inflated.

“Though hard to know for certain, the most expansive albeit contested estimate based on review of U.S. Census Bureau data is that up to 26,000 babies born in the United States annually could be attributed to birth tourism—a tiny fraction of the more than 3.5 million U.S. births yearly,” the Migration Policy Institute wrote in a review earlier this year.

Miller argued Trump has the authority to do this under Section 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, a statute he said is “very rarely used, probably one of the strongest laws in the entire federal code.”

Section 215(a) governs the travel of noncitizens into and out of the country.

“If you’re telling a consular officer you’re here as a tourist, but your true purpose and intent is to go to a baby mill, give birth, and try to mint an American citizen while you’re here, then you’re committing a fraud against the American government, and by definition, that visa can and should and will be now denied,” Miller said.

The Supreme Court has already blocked a previous attempt by the president to curb birthright citizenship, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett siding with the three liberal justices. Justice Brett Kavanaugh also voted to block Trump’s order but only on statutory grounds.

The two new executive orders are almost certain to face legal challenges, but Trump told reporters he believes the narrower restrictions would pass constitutional muster this time around.

“I think it will,” he said, calling on White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf for further explanation.

“What we’re doing is taking legally validated means clearly within our disposal and targeting them square on to this birth tourism industry,” Scharf added. “There’s absolutely nothing in here that runs afoul of any of the Supreme Court’s opinions on the subject.”

Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement on Thursday that any new attempt by the president to “rewrite” birthright citizenship “will meet the same fate as the last one.”

“The Supreme Court already decided this issue: Birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Constitution,” said Wofsy, who served as lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case. “No additional executive order can change the meaning of the Constitution.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...rs-birthright-citizenship-birth-tourism/

She has a voice made for singing the blues.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of its $400 million ballroom at the White House because the project lacks congressional approval.

President Donald Trump doesn’t have the unilateral authority to build a 90,000-square-foot (8,400-square-meter) ballroom where the White House’s East Wing stood before he ordered its demolition last fall, according to the decision by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Friday’s ruling marked the second time this week that the administration has made headlines for construction plans that have been called into question. An assessment by the National Park Service found that a 250-foot-tall (76-meter) triumphal arch that Trump has proposed building could compromise the historical significance of dozens of sites near its planned location on a traffic circle between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.

In a 2-1 decision on the ballroom, the appeals court sided with historic preservationists who sued to stop construction of the massive structure, which has begun to rise above ground on the east side of the White House, according to the most recent aerial photos of the site. The court said it would stay its ruling for two weeks to give the administration time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help,” the court wrote.

“This holding has nothing at all to do with whether the proposed ballroom is desirable, or not, as a matter of policy. This ruling does not even necessarily mean that the Defendants may not ultimately construct the ballroom.

“What it does mean,” the court continued, “is that the Defendants may not do so during the district court’s expeditious litigation without securing Congress’s authorization, as the Constitution and laws require.”
Trump insists Congress’ approval is unnecessary

There was no immediate comment from the White House or Trump. After the lower court earlier this year ordered a halt to aboveground construction, the president argued that permission from Congress to build the ballroom was unnecessary because public money was not being used to pay for it.

Trump has said he has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from corporations and wealthy individuals, including himself, to cover the construction costs.

“He’s saying I need congressional approval and he’s so wrong,” Trump said in March after U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s ruling against the ballroom. “This is being financed privately.”

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, the nonprofit organization that brought the lawsuit against the administration, said Friday’s decision affirmed “the American people’s right to voice their opinions about the historic places they cherish,” including the White House.

“From the beginning, our position has been clear and consistent: the law states that only Congress can authorize the construction of a ballroom at the White House,” Brent Leggs, the group’s president and CEO said in a statement. “We are pleased with the DC Circuit Court’s decision to uphold the District Court’s preliminary injunction, which although stayed for 14 days will block any above-ground ballroom construction unless and until Congress takes action.”

The divided appeals court panel upheld an April 16 order from Leon for the administration to halt above-ground work on the ballroom. Leon, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush, allowed construction to continue on below-ground work on a bunker and other “national security facilities” at the site.

Trump, a Republican, railed against Leon’s decision on social media, calling him a “Trump Hating” judge who “has gone out of his way to undermine National Security, and to make sure that this Great Gift to America gets delayed, or doesn’t get built.”

The appeals court case was assigned to Judges Patricia Millett, Neomi Rao and Bradley Garcia. Millett was nominated to the court by Democratic President Barack Obama. Trump nominated Rao. Garcia was nominated by Democratic President Joe Biden. Both Millett and Garcia backed the decision, while Rao opposed it.

Preservationists challenge Trump in court

The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued to challenge the project in December 2025, a week after completion of the East Wing demolition to make way for a ballroom that Trump says will hold 999 people.

Government lawyers have argued that the project — the biggest structural change to the White House in more than 70 years — must move forward because it includes critical security features to guard against a range of threats, such as drones, ballistic missiles and biohazards.

“These upgrades, alterations, and improvements are essential to protecting the President, his family, and his staff, as well as the White House itself, and the entire project flows from them,” government attorneys wrote in a court filing.

Attorneys for the preservation group countered that the lack of a White House ballroom doesn’t constitute a national security emergency.

“That commonsense conclusion is not clearly erroneous, and there is no basis to disturb it,” they wrote.

In an initial ruling that the government also appealed, Leon barred aboveground work on the ballroom from proceeding without congressional approval. In response, the appeals court instructed the judge to reconsider the national security implications of stopping construction.

In his most recent decision, Leon ordered a stop only to the aboveground construction of the planned ballroom. The judge stressed that the White House is free to proceed with below-ground work, including the construction of any bunkers, military installations and medical facilities.

On April 2, Trump’s ballroom won final approval from the 12-member National Capital Planning Commission, which is charged with approving construction on federal property in the Washington region.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ballroom-court-ruling-1528247275ec6103da892d271d4ee883

This guy speaks with more common sense than almost anyone in politics. This is what I'm saying. This crap may fly in primaries, but you can't win elections when you buddy-up with a despicable commie. Piker celebrates 911 and calls for us to abolish property rights... Landlords? "Kill them. Murder those mother #$%^ in the street. Let the streets soak in their #$%^ red capitalist blood, dude."

There are parts of the series I have to fast forward.

I have seen more of the Holocaust than I want to see. I can't stomach it. What was done to Warsaw was heartbreaking.

The civilian casualties in WWII are staggering. It is interesting to see how the different countries involved treated their own civilian populations. Especially Russia, Germany, and Japan had completely different approaches.

The scale of the war and the logistics is unreal.

The ethics committee came to this conclusion...... The panel added that “his pattern of behavior would lead a reasonable observer to interpret it as such, including providing the young women with lavish and recurrent gifts, making comments regarding their appearance and dress, inviting them to intimate dinners and vacations, sending notes regarding his effusive affection, and inviting them to other activities as a way to spend time together.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...bid-censure-sexual-harassment-rcna590919

Truth is painful that is why it is currently taboo.

trump will lie when the truth is boldly before him. He does not care. He knows his gang will follow.

As of August 1, 2026, Senator Mitch McConnell has been absent from public view and the U.S. Senate for 49 consecutive days, missing 38 or more roll call votes. He was last seen casting a vote on Capitol Hill on June 11, 2026, and was officially hospitalized following a fall at his home on June 14, 2026.

Every morning I check the headlines hoping it will all go away.

That somehow some way karma will find a way.

That the scales of justice will balance. Please just disappear.

That is really interesting.

I have never gotten into photography.

I have spent a lot of time outdoors. The best times of my life have come from my time outside.

The Merlin app opens up a new road. Time has slowed me down and this gives me a chance to do something at a pace that fits.

well deserved for Grant too. He's been solid for us

I'll take this opportunity to post probably the sickest plays I ever had the privilege to watch live. Even watching the replay felt like my mind playing tricks on me. 🔥

This particular story has already been discussed in this forum. Only 400 out of those 6600 actually voted. No New jersey election was decided by 400 votes. Actually none where closer than several thousand votes.

So him posting that in response to "Can you specifically name one rigged election result" is just pure BS. But then again that's to be expected.

One thing I am sure of is that the executive branch, mainly the president holds far to much power. How much power a president has is not the same as the time of the founding fathers. It has evolved and increased greatly over time. And that's not isolated to which party or who is president. As of today we see executive orders being written on an unprecedented level pushing the boundaries of the constitution and being overturned in our courts.

I'm certainly not going to say that I agree with everything they stand for. Yet I do understand when one side goes off the rails you will get a pushback that goes off the rails as well in reaction to that.

And that's where we are now. Extremism is taking over on both sides and we are all worse off for it. Surely you must have seen something like this coming in response.

Big money QBs make plays that win games or close-out games...big money DEs should do that as well...but realistically less-often.

My memory of MG will be much more of him jumping offside on 3rd/4th and short...and getting 2+ sacks in games that were essentially blowouts...rather than frequent plays that impacted the outcome of the game.

The Ravens might have the most talent, but we'll see how Minter does in his first year.


It feels like the Bengals better figure things out on D and the OL before Burrow is wasted

My daughter just received a PhD.

Her dissertation was on large scale AI integration and scalable AI integration.

She built her own AI to handle her intellectual property at UGA.

I have begun messing around with it and it blows my mind. I feel like I am living the future.

I came from when people sold encyclopedias door to door.