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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com

It’s quite a thing seeing the “shall not be infringed” crowd try to argue that birthright citizenship doesn’t exist.

apr 27, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1,848 366

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tburgerd.bsky.social @tburgerd.bsky.social

Love your courage and your podcast and the excellent insight you bring. You're a national treasure, Andrew.

apr 28, 2025, 10:44 am • 0 0 • view
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ANGEL - BadAss Resister @nivula.bsky.social

Immigrants made them billionaires. They are so F*cking themselves. Just because you have money doesn't mean your are smart.

apr 28, 2025, 12:17 am • 2 0 • view
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Greenstone @berncomar.bsky.social

This is how we win: It’s time all Democrat governors, Congressional Representatives and Senators unite and tell Trump ICE isn’t allowed to operate in their state unless everyone has due process. Local law enforcement must stand against illegal arrests & deportations.

apr 28, 2025, 1:04 am • 7 1 • view
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roadsister.bsky.social @roadsister.bsky.social

They are stupid

apr 28, 2025, 9:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social

Just like the 2nd Amendment crowd sure is quiet about the government asserting the right to send masked gunmen to force their way into people's homes.

apr 28, 2025, 12:17 am • 1 0 • view
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Jacob Schimelman, PhD @schimelman.bsky.social

Easy, it's the same cognitive dissonance they use to interpret the Christian Bible.

apr 27, 2025, 10:16 pm • 4 0 • view
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Tipsy @tipsybellows.bsky.social

Or that the fifth refers to no “person”

apr 28, 2025, 8:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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robynblasco.bsky.social @robynblasco.bsky.social

Think about it like this, every one of HUMPTY DUMPTY'S children except Tiffany. (I think) 🙎‍♀️ Is a BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN they were all born to foreign born mothers 🤷‍♀️🤔😏 JUST SAYING What do you think?

apr 28, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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gene-bernache.bsky.social @gene-bernache.bsky.social

No fucking kidding!

apr 27, 2025, 9:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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dooley59.bsky.social @dooley59.bsky.social

Where does this leave Barron?

apr 29, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social

Or the ppl who are trigger happy when any solar salesman knocks or teen eggs their house on Halloween be fine with unidentified masked “ICE” officers entering homes without a warrant on mere suspicion of a migrant being present

apr 27, 2025, 10:36 pm • 3 0 • view
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Daniel B. @danbad23.bsky.social

Let’s reinterpret the 2nd amendment. And let stand the 14th.

apr 28, 2025, 1:22 am • 1 0 • view
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🇨🇦🇨🇦loripeterson 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @loripeterson.bsky.social

Don't most of his kids fall under that category? Barron at least

apr 27, 2025, 11:51 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jubilado0505🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jubilado251.bsky.social

And the people who railed against “lawfare” last year are now enthusiastically engaging in it.

apr 27, 2025, 10:05 pm • 3 0 • view
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Jo Smith-Dromey @jsmithdromey.bsky.social

Hypocrisy is rampant throughout the GOP. Makes me agog, too.

apr 28, 2025, 7:03 pm • 6 0 • view
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Pat Riot @kimokirkpatrick.bsky.social

I can't waste any more energy focusing on MAGA idiots. Life is too short.

apr 27, 2025, 11:18 pm • 4 0 • view
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TrueBlue @anniepatriotic.bsky.social

I still go round and round with my lifetime NRA member father, who refuses to listen to the part about a well-regulated militia being necessary.

apr 28, 2025, 12:20 am • 3 0 • view
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jdog001.bsky.social @jdog001.bsky.social

Situational ethics

apr 28, 2025, 12:58 pm • 3 0 • view
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Just Jenni 🟨🟣🟨🏳️‍⚧️ @cowgirljenni.bsky.social

Plus, we have the docuements, senat discussion, and legal cases and everything they are saying about it has long been settled. The Senate knew wheat they were passing when they passed the constitutional amendment in the first place.

apr 28, 2025, 5:18 am • 0 0 • view
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En0 (he/him) @abandoned-ally.bsky.social

I mean, the Venn diagram of maga and those that cherry-pick religious beliefs is nearly a full set intersection. Why not cherry-pick from the constitution as well?

apr 28, 2025, 1:50 am • 9 0 • view
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WhatWouldShermanDo @name-is-the-byline.bsky.social

Lots of 'em are also fine with a state religion, too. And don't care about due process (...for brown people). To be clear, I'm *also* a 'shall not be infringed' person, but I extend that to **ALL** civil liberties and rights.

apr 28, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view
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sunnyglen.bsky.social @sunnyglen.bsky.social

They just want to keep their killing toys. The 2nd Amendment and rabid faketriotism are just convenient crutches to avoid civic duty and responsibility

apr 28, 2025, 3:01 am • 1 0 • view
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Kevin Ashworth @kevinashworth.com

Shocked that people whose main thing is selecting pieces of law that suit them, want to continue to only select the pieces of law that suit them. Jk. Not shocking. They’re misanthropic through and through.

apr 28, 2025, 1:13 am • 5 1 • view
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broderham.bsky.social @broderham.bsky.social

The constitution as salad bar.

apr 28, 2025, 1:23 pm • 3 0 • view
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☘️🦌🤙TreeHuggin @roberthernon.bsky.social

Amendments ala'cart

apr 27, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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Amy @amymialia.bsky.social

Probably because they’ve never read past the second amendment (or, in all likelihood, even read the second amendment).

apr 28, 2025, 3:59 pm • 4 0 • view
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Pepys's Montamore Cheddar @cromgood.bsky.social

It's an infuriating, disgusting, racist thing. You can say it.

apr 27, 2025, 10:55 pm • 6 0 • view
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Aleutian Stares @guasha.bsky.social

Guns in America have more rights than women babies and schoolchildren.

apr 27, 2025, 10:30 pm • 3 0 • view
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Stark @dean-stark.bsky.social

They don't understand? Tunnel vision. Blinded by the rage.

apr 28, 2025, 4:35 am • 1 0 • view
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social

....and now believing that "innocent until proven guilty" was never a thing.

apr 27, 2025, 10:07 pm • 3 0 • view
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SMS @snydersm.bsky.social

How does anyone, who isn’t a naturalized citizen, become a United States citizen if not for being born here? I swear to god my head is going to explode.

apr 28, 2025, 9:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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VLK @v1kpt.bsky.social

Isn’t Marco Rubio himself a birthright citizen?

apr 28, 2025, 10:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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quantum-man.bsky.social @quantum-man.bsky.social

He was defecated, not born... so, who knows!

apr 28, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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Margaret McG🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @caledoni4.bsky.social

Doesn’t that technically mean that no Americans have birthright citizenship rights? How do they define it? Isn’t DJT in that category? His mother was an immigrant. His children are born of immigrant mothers. So they can have their citizenship rights removed? Seems fair….

apr 28, 2025, 10:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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carelesswhisperer.bsky.social @carelesswhisperer.bsky.social

It’s a selective infringement. Let a dude named Zeke or Jim Bob buy ammo from a vending machine but if a guy of a different shade with an accent checks out a gun rental range, it’s Patriot Act or ICE mode.

apr 28, 2025, 4:27 am • 0 0 • view
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chillipeppers.bsky.social @chillipeppers.bsky.social

They will do it with no shame. They will look you in the eye, lie and argue even though they do not believe it! Look at Rubio!

apr 27, 2025, 9:46 pm • 5 0 • view
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Elon Musk Ate My Cat 🇳🇴 @elonmuskatemycat.bsky.social

U.S. birthright citizenship is quite disgusting really. Forcing somebody to be American before they are old enough to make an informed decision..

apr 29, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
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lou-from-cleveland.bsky.social @lou-from-cleveland.bsky.social

It’s à la carte democracy just like their Christianity. They pick and choose what they want to have.

apr 27, 2025, 10:00 pm • 7 1 • view
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MadiFromVA 🏳️‍⚧️💙🏳️‍🌈 @madiwatkins.bsky.social

You have to love the way they scream bloody murder when they feel their rights are being infringed on but tell others to get over it when the opposite happens

apr 27, 2025, 11:10 pm • 6 0 • view
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trixie3400.bsky.social @trixie3400.bsky.social

Suddenly the Constitution doesn't matter anymore to them.

apr 28, 2025, 1:03 am • 3 0 • view
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Students for Democracy @studentsdemocracy.bsky.social

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apr 28, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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WatergirL @coolwatergirl.bsky.social

So… if a child who was born here to a non-citizen isn’t actually a citizen, then, extrapolated out, everyone except the descendants of the 2.5 million Americans who were here in 1776 are illegal. Therefor, Trump is not allowed to be president.

apr 27, 2025, 10:20 pm • 8 0 • view
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BlueSparkler2 @sparklerblue2.bsky.social

😏✅

apr 27, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sybil Schwartzbach, LMT @greathands4you.bsky.social

These MAGA folks, believe that they are entitled. No one is.

apr 27, 2025, 10:59 pm • 2 0 • view
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jeromecylin @jeromecylin.bsky.social

And having no issues with ICE entering homes without a warrant.

apr 27, 2025, 10:09 pm • 2 0 • view
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KatLouise @jesusforgives.bsky.social

Conned.

apr 27, 2025, 10:47 pm • 2 0 • view
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YaYa Designs @yayadesigns.bsky.social

#NoRightsNoWorkers DON'T GO TO WORK ON MAY 1ST!

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social

Or due process. Or free speech. Free press. Religion. Cruel and unusual punishment. Unreasonable search and seizures. Equal protection. States rights. It’s easier to make a list of the amendments they support. 2nd

apr 27, 2025, 9:54 pm • 17 1 • view
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Daskid @daskid.bsky.social

Or 3rd presidential terms

apr 27, 2025, 11:13 pm • 3 0 • view
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bluestatedon.bsky.social @bluestatedon.bsky.social

If birthright citizenship doesn’t exist, then this guy is not a U.S. citizen.

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StuffAboutHockey @stuffabouthockey.bsky.social

Same people want fetuses to have rights despite citizenship occurring when 'born'.

apr 28, 2025, 3:08 am • 1 0 • view
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Travlinnseed @travlinnseed.bsky.social

Ya gotta be white male to enjoy some, most, ok all rights

apr 27, 2025, 10:04 pm • 3 0 • view
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☁ 𝖕ø𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖆𝖈𝖗ø𝖍𝖓𝖘 ☁ @postmacrohns.bsky.social

They’ve abandoned the constitution at every turn, they’re all dishonest grifters.

apr 29, 2025, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
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JetCetera @jetcetera.bsky.social

Infringement for thee, but not for me.

apr 27, 2025, 9:46 pm • 3 0 • view
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qconcordia.bsky.social @qconcordia.bsky.social

They are ok treading on others, but don't tread on them. I live in among that crowd. It sucks.

apr 28, 2025, 7:53 pm • 3 0 • view
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Will D 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷 @willd99.bsky.social

The USA built on immigration where its population are children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc of immigrants. The stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming.

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abbydoull.bsky.social @abbydoull.bsky.social

The same crowd that harps all over “deliberate” use of that “shall not be infringed” phrase are same ones that won’t accept how same Framers deliberately used “persons” instead of “citizens” throughout the Constitution. It truly proves their love isn’t the Constitution; it’s simply they love guns.

apr 28, 2025, 8:59 pm • 3 0 • view
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Midwest Human @riz4robot.bsky.social

IMPEACH the fascist pig in the white house

apr 28, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
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HappyCamper22 @happycamper22.bsky.social

Most MAGA have a very low intelligence and literacy rate. I'm not saying this to be mean. They've been pummelled constantly for 8 years now with multimillion $ propaganda machines Putin/Fox. Also have a maturity rate of 10 to 14 yr olds or narcisstic. Now they are staying willfully ignorant.

apr 27, 2025, 10:33 pm • 13 0 • view
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Bütt Kraken @paranew.bsky.social

My parents are intelligent - retired doctor and socialite “homemaker”, and all about turnip. They are narcissistic, though.

apr 27, 2025, 11:20 pm • 8 0 • view
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abbydoull.bsky.social @abbydoull.bsky.social

Not low intelligence. It’s willful ignorance mixed w/narcissism (their refusal to admit they were wrong &/or easily manipulated). They’re more than capable of learning; they just don’t want to make that effort. Admitting their fault is too hurtful to their ego. Easier to simply be ignorant.

apr 28, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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annemkh.bsky.social @annemkh.bsky.social

This is a form ethnic cleansing Miller and Homan remind me of Milosevic and of Hitler

apr 28, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
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Dr Hell-Mart @hockeyeeyore.bsky.social

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social

I mean the only part of the Constitution that conservatives have ever cared about is 2A. None of the rest matters to them.

apr 27, 2025, 9:44 pm • 4 0 • view
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Heavily Sedated @dudesomewhere.bsky.social

They only care about it for themselves. Reagan was ALL ABOUT gun control when the Black Panthers showed up with guns. They only thing they care about is themselves. Everything else they say is bullshit.

apr 27, 2025, 11:52 pm • 3 0 • view
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Big$C @iamagrip.bsky.social

These are same folks that are terrified at 78% of the populace being Christian and worried about an unnoticed uptick in anti Christian bias, in a country designed to be free from religion.

apr 27, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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a-truth-seeker.bsky.social @a-truth-seeker.bsky.social

It's ridiculous that Trump is trying to take away birth right citizenship considering that some of his own spawn earned that right. In fact his own father earned that right too.

apr 28, 2025, 10:57 am • 2 0 • view
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thegregshea.bsky.social @thegregshea.bsky.social

US citizens are not being deported, because we can’t be. We are being exiled.

apr 28, 2025, 12:52 am • 4 1 • view
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Tired Greg 📎🍉 @gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social

They thought it said “birth white”

apr 29, 2025, 2:38 am • 0 0 • view
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Larry Jackson @ljlawyers.bsky.social

Also when they infringed/abridged the right to vote in Brnovich & other cases. God damn John Roberts, but especially Sam Alito.

apr 28, 2025, 2:17 am • 1 0 • view
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Tim Knudson @sooper-t.bsky.social

They disappeared the “well-regulated militia” part. Maybe they thought they could make the 14th go away too.

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joshuaseattle1 @joshuaseattle1.bsky.social

"They Disappeared?" Tim, we don't have well-regulated militias, but we DO have the right to bear arms. But you're right about the Trump administration attacking birthright citizenship.

apr 28, 2025, 1:39 am • 0 0 • view
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Tim Knudson @sooper-t.bsky.social

Did you forget the sarcasm alert?

apr 28, 2025, 2:20 am • 1 0 • view
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joshuaseattle1 @joshuaseattle1.bsky.social

Oh CRAP I did it AGAIN!!!! 😮

apr 28, 2025, 4:48 am • 1 0 • view
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bsscroom.bsky.social @bsscroom.bsky.social

Or due process

apr 27, 2025, 9:45 pm • 2 0 • view
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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social

I only have two persistent legal questions of late: 1) If not birthright, how do any of us "born & bred, true to the red, white, and blue" Americans have our citizenship? 2) Why SCOTUS's contextualists, keep over turning laws? That's not an enumerated power in the Constitution or any federal law?

apr 27, 2025, 10:20 pm • 10 0 • view
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Tourton - Political GBUS 💙- Climate change is real 💙 @tourton.bsky.social

Hypocrisy is off the scale

apr 27, 2025, 10:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social

It is a racism thing. There is no question that a person born in your country should be considered a citizen of your country, as all other arguments seem foolish and wrong to anyone who does not have a hateful motivation to their argument. Aside from basic logic, there is the Fourteenth Amendment.

apr 27, 2025, 11:32 pm • 17 0 • view
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Don Anderson @bg-don.bsky.social

Have they checked their own family tree?

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WorseThanItSeems @worsethanitseems.bsky.social

The "shall not be infringed crowd" also tend to argue that "any person" doesn't include undocumented aliens.

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