Ilan Wurman @ilan_wurman 🚨🚨🚨Columbia law professor Philip Hamburger just dropped an essay arguing that Trump is right about birthright citizenship. That now makes at least seven prominent law professors arguing to varying degrees that Trump’s EO is constitutional. Read about this development here: https://open.substack.com/pub/rationallybased/p/philip-hamburger-joins-the-birthright?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

SEVEN whole law professors?!

Here I was thinking that what mattered was every single judge who has ruled on the issue, 125+ years of accepted understanding of the 14th, and centuries of common law on the contours of jus soli. But if Ilan Wurman's side has SEVEN law professors, man, WOW. It's over.

23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23.

20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t.

They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.

Oh my god.

The Prime Minister's social media account puts out a post reflecting on the horrors of one genocide, hours after refused to explicitly condemn the threat of another.

(Not to mention the failure to close loopholes that see Canadian companies arm yet another genocide -- in Gaza)

How the Free World Can Fight Mad King Trump - The American Prospect The worst president in American history wants to conquer Greenland.

@ryanlcooper.com wrote this back in January when all the Greenland nonsense was happening, but it's worth bringing up again -- if maybe the EU decides to be a little bit brave.

prospect.org/2026/01/21/t...

Pope Leo XIV rebukes Trump' psychotic rhetoric:

“Today as we all know there was this threat against all the people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable,” the Pope said, warning that attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law.

George was right. He understood it from the start and was brave enough to speak out.

Read this lede from the NYT - Netanyahu in the Situation Room, Trump not sitting at the head of the table, etc - & then tell me again how antisemitic it is to dare suggest that Israel has undue influence over our government & helped push us into this war of choice.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Moral rot

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.”

After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

Senate Republicans refused to convict Trump after Jan 6.

Republican SCOTUS appointees gave him immunity.

Republicans in Congress today stand idly by as he unleashes death and destruction across the globe.

We are now at the whims of a mad king because GOP leaders have refused to constrain him.

Trump insane Easter post

Mamdani warm and gracious easter greetings

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

Putin and Orban coordinating on a desperate false flag operation that everyone knew was coming.

Looks like Orban’s Russia-backed false flag operation could be underway to lead to the cancelling of the Hungarian elections. Predicted recently.

Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić has informed Orban of “explosives of devastating power” found at the gas pipeline connecting the two countries.

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two men are standing next to each other with the date 1992 on the bottom ALT: two men are standing next to each other with the date 1992 on the bottom

One of the most exasperating responses I often received while phone banking and canvassing in 2024 was "I've had enough of all the warnings about Trump" or "I'm all crisised out."

Do you fucking imbeciles finally get it now?

Guess what?

The #EpsteinClass is laughing at all of you.

I said it back in early 2025 but Elon Musk seizing the Treasury's payment systems and the federal payroll systems from career bureaucrats was one of the most important steps in achieving Trump's coup against our Constitution and no one was paying attention

This is remarkable. Why in the world would anyone create and post something like this? It’s appalling that Mr. Bone Saw is coming to the White House in the first place.

The Trump Dictatorship Is Cracking Up In the president’s warped world, his increasingly deranged demands are never the problem—only his underlings’ failures to meet them.

Trump's firing of Pam Bondi and the war crimes of Pete Hegseth both illustrate the perils of personalist rule. Flattery, tribute, and the willingness to break laws for Trump are all that matter. We are seeing the disastrous consequences everywhere.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2086...

Jared Kushner is seeking peace deals in the Middle East. He’s also raising money for his own firm | Mohamad Bazzi The president’s son-in-law is acting as an envoy even as he looks to secure billions for his company from foreign governments

Jared Kushner is seeking peace deals in the Middle East. He’s also raising money for his own firm | Mohamad Bazzi

Adam does it better than anyone. But there is a prohibition against connecting the dots on Musk (and Trump).

Haney-Lopez always identified plausible deniability as a key to dog whistling. But the media has adopted the same sort of "color blind" obtuseness that the right used to kill civil rights.

Billionaire fortunes have reached all-time highs under Trump. So has the movement to tax them Residents in at least 10 states are organizing campaigns to tax wealth in order to fund schools and other social services

“People have woken up on being angry at billionaires. There’s a bigger target on their backs in terms of holding them accountable for how fucked up things are right now … it’s not just right versus left any more – it’s top versus bottom.” - Chi Ossé, DSA

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

Trump weighs broader cabinet shake-up as Iran war pressure grows U.S. President Donald Trump is considering a broader cabinet shake-up in the wake of Attorney General Pam Bondi's removal this week, as he grows increasingly frustrated with the political fallout from...

Trump is considering a broader cabinet shake-up in the wake of Pam Bondi's removal, as he grows increasingly frustrated with the political fallout from the Iran war. The war has driven up gas prices, dragged ‌down Trump's approval ratings and intensified GOP anxiety about their prospects in November.

i’ve seen every social network i love die, you cannot scare me

Trump called me a "really bad person." A "radical." An "election stealing lawyer."

I wear his scorn as a badge of honor.

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Here is a sentence I never thought I'd say: I love this pope.

🔥“You’re picking this fight with Hasan NOW? This is a moment for the anti-Trump pro-democracy coalition to say ‘come on in’ —you’re just undermining the credibility of the ‘center’ + making him more powerful. Madness.”

@timmiller.bsky.social rips “Third Way”

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DWp9XvO...

NEW REPUBLIC: “The centrist group Third Way ⚠️ accuses popular progressive streamer Hasan Piker of being a ‘Jew-hater’ — His record proves he’s the opposite of an antisemite.”

Hasan addresses the bad faith accusations: newrepublic.com/article/2084...

The NYT, a paper devoted to spreading the propaganda of rich “centrists” and right wing Trump apologists, isn’t critiquing the wealthy or defending the needy; it’s just trying to stigmatize public services and evangelize for means testing to undermine a socialist mayor.

Just my opinion!

Escalatory pressures abound with Iran hitting energy infrastructure and a desalination plant in Kuwait and a reported Iranian shoot down of a U.S. fighter jet. Regardless of Trump’s intentions, it will only get harder to contain this spiral.

The Pope just said — on Palm Sunday, no less — that God is not a weapon of war. No one had to say who he was talking about. Everyone already knew. His name begins with T.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for only they receive a Nobel Prize for Peace.