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After two Mamdani-backed, card-carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) political party won their respective House primaries last Tuesday in New York, all eyes turned to Colorado's 1st Congressional District Democrat primary, which featured longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette facing off against DSA member Melat Kiros.
The primary was Tuesday night, and, with 78 percent reporting as of this writing, Decision Desk HQ has called it for Kiros in what may be the biggest primary upset for an incumbent Democrat House member this midterm election cycle. DeGette, 68, is Colorado's longest-serving member of Congress, having been in office since 1997 in a district drawn for Democrat victories.
Insurgent socialist candidate Melat Kiros defeated longtime Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) Tuesday in Colorado’s 1st District House primary, marking the latest blow to the establishment wing of the Democratic Party.
Kiros came out on top of the incumbent, 49.3% to 43.5%, by the time the Associated Press called the race late Tuesday.
Kiros’s win in the solidly blue district follows a string of victories by socialist and far-left candidates over incumbent and establishment-backed Democrats in New York in June, and it’s expected to tilt the political makeup of the House Democratic caucus even further to the left after the midterm elections.
Conservative figures are torching a Supreme Court justice after her vote helped defeat Donald Trump's push to restrict birthright citizenship.
Amy Coney Barrett, taking office in 2020, was the final of three justices appointed by the President during his first term.
But she sided with Chief Justice John Roberts, also a Republican appointee, and the Court's three liberals to overrule the dissent of justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's second appointee, concurred with the judgment but disagreed with the majority's argument.
The court cited the 14th Amendment to hold that 'children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are "subject to the jurisdiction"
Colorado Democrats vote Tuesday in primaries that could hand Republicans their most useful campaign weapon of the 2026 midterms: proof that the socialist wave crashing through New York City was never just a New York problem. Three weeks ago, the Democratic Socialists of America notched a trio of wins in New York City that sent establishment Democrats into a panic. Darializa Avila Chevalier knocked off Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in the 13th District on a platform that included shutting down prisons, eliminating ICE, erasing the southern border, and opposing the deportation of illegal immigrants regardless of criminal record.
A spate of rulings from the Supreme Court couldn’t be more of a mandate if they were handed down, gift-wrapped, and sealed with a kiss by God: The mass deportation of illegal aliens is legal and imperative if there’s any hope of saving this country.
One ruling declared it within the president’s authority to interpret the word “temporary” as the opposite of “permanent” with regard to migrants who have been permitted to live within the U.S. for what is understood to be a finite period. He can order their removal. (Good!) A separate ruling, on the other hand, affirmed automatic American citizenship to babies born
President Donald Trump just gave Republicans something they usually lack in a midterm year: a national stage they control.
The Republican Party will hold a first-ever midterm convention in Dallas on Sept. 9 and Sept. 10, less than two months before voters decide control of Congress on Nov. 3. For a party defending narrow majorities, the move is bold and risky.
And smart.
Midterms typically punish the party in the White House. Gallup's history shows the president's party has lost an average of 25 House seats in midterm elections since 1946.
Ed wrote earlier today about the SCOTUS decision in West Virginia et al—the case where the Supreme Court upheld laws that exclude transgender "women," i.e., men, from women's sports.
I don't usually write about legal issues because I am simply not competent to do so. Ed is much better at that sort of thing, so rather than wallow in my ignorance, I pass up those stories unless there is an angle on it that goes beyond the norm in legal decisions.
But as I read Ed's piece, I was struck by the constant reference to sex differences, and how important
The Department of Justice has taken a big, if somewhat unheralded, step to reverse the trend of deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill in America.
Earlier in June, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel announced in a memorandum that it would update its treatment of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The section of a law passed by Congress in 1973 prohibited discrimination based on disability by “any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Following the 1999 Supreme Court case Olmstead v. L.C.,
Of 257 Democrats in Congress, just 15 were willing to sign onto a coalition to combat rising socialism and communism. As part of their “Promise to America,” the 15 Democrats declare (among other things): “We are capitalist, not socialist,” “We want safety, not lawlessness,” “We are proud, not ashamed of America.”
In other words, more than 90% of congressional Democrats declined to sign onto a statement opposing socialism, at a time when Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates are surging. Yet rather than mount a group effort to stop the growing rise of socialism, most Democrats appear to have no problem with it.
As U.S. Nears Its 250th Birthday, Nearly
3/4 Still Say They’re Proud To Be American:
I&I/TIPP Poll replies
3/4 Still Say They’re Proud To Be American:
I&I/TIPP Poll replies
The poll, taken from May 26 through May 28, has a +/-2.7 percentage point margin of error.
But there might be an asterisk on the poll, at least as far as the demographic breakdown goes.
For instance, as a matter of politics, one group is far more proud to be American than others: Republicans. They tip the scale at 89% proud vs. just 9% not proud. Democrats are least proud (but still a majority): 62% proud, 36% not proud. Independents are slightly more: 64% proud, 29% not proud.
What’s behind this? The real dividing line isn’t party affiliation, but ideology.
Among those who describe themselves as “conservative,”
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states can bar transgender female competitors from playing girls’ sports in a landmark decision with major implications for more than half the country, where such policies are in place.
In a 6-3 opinion, the high court determined that neither Idaho nor West Virginia had violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment with their bans, as well as that Title IX allowed states to separate sports teams on the basis of biological sex.
But the majority opinion by conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh also underscored the importance of treating transgender athletes with respect.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has issued his first public statement after the Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned his executive order restricting birthright citizenship.
The president said the Supreme Court’s decision upholding that anyone born in the United States automatically becomes an American citizen was “too bad for our Country," but that Congress could “easily” address it with legislation.
Trump declared that “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!”
However, the Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday makes it clear that it would be necessary to amend the Constitution.
Nobody is less motivated to watch a WNBA game than I am.
In fact, the only WNBA action that I have ever seen is clips on X that I scroll by, mostly without watching.
But even I know who Caitlin Clark is and why she is so popular among basketball fans. She is the person who put the WNBA on the map, whose jersey sales, along with her now-famous teammate Sophie Cunningham, outsell those of every other WNBA player combined by a whopping 2-1 margin.
In case you didn't know, Cunningham is the woman in the now-viral meme template: Both Clark and Cunningham are absolutely despised
What a can of frickin' worms SCOTUS opened up today with that birthright decision.
I mean, God bless the president for being magnanimous - if ever you expected him to blow, it would have been that one.
Guy's full of surprises and even sometimes springs them at the most opportune moment.
But the decision has opened a Pandora's box of 'What are we gonna do NOW, George?' speculation that's some part fantasy and some parts that have you thinking, 'There may be something to that...'
...You don’t need to worry about waiting in line, assimilating or learning English. Just break into McAllen, TX and pop out a baby in the McDonald’s bathroom.
The song “Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones opens with the line, “A woman on the radio talks about revolution, when it's already passed her by.” There are some people who peaked in high school and never got over it – never changing their hair or general style from when they were at the pinnacle of popularity. It’s sad, really, not that the person seems frozen in the midst of good memories from long ago, but that they haven’t continued to advance since then. Life has lapped them; passed them by and left them in the dust. In many ways, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is like that person who hasn’t
Justice Clarence Thomas, in a lengthy dissent, took the majority to task for interpreting the Constitution to mean that citizenship is automatically conferred on anyone born in the United States, regardless of the legal status of the parents.
Thomas argued that the ruling “devalues” what it means to be an American citizen.
In a 6-3 decision on Tuesday, the majority held that an executive order President Donald Trump issued on the first day of his second term violated the Constitution. The order directed that only children born on American soil to legal residents are automatically citizens of the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment states, in part, “All persons born or naturalized in
If only the memories of Joe Biden’s presidency could fade as fast.
Former First Lady Jill Biden’s memoir “View from the East Wing” has drawn its share of much-deserved mockery since its June 2 release, but nothing describes its failure better than the speed that it disappeared from the New York Times Best Sellers list after debuting at No. 1 a few short weeks ago. It’s enough to make an American wonder if maybe there was something fishy about it in the first place. Well, turns out there was — and for a change, The New York Times itself provided the clues.
EXCLUSIVE — The author of multiple books on healthcare compliance was sentenced Tuesday to federal prison for fraudulently billing Medicare as part of a $136 million scheme that spanned several U.S. states, the Washington Examiner has learned.
Jean Wilson, 54, received a 10-year prison sentence, followed by three years of supervised release, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey for her role in the medical billing scam involving illegal kickbacks and massive quantities of phony prescriptions. According to the superseding indictment, Wilson owned and operated two telehealth companies that paid medical providers to place bulk orders of orthotic devices and prescription drugs for Medicare patients
The U.S. Supreme Court just handed birthright citizenship to illegal immigrants’ children and birth tourists; the implications for young Americans will be severe.
In Trump v. Barbara, SCOTUS struck down President Donald Trump’s January 2025 executive order that would have denied automatic U.S. citizenship to children born in the U.S. if neither parent was a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. This part of the decision was somewhat expected. However, Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution the principle that nearly all children born on U.S. soil are citizens at birth. There is a narrow exception for children born to foreign diplomats, but other than
Alito: John Roberts Sold Out The Declaration
Of Independence ‘Only Days Before’
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Of Independence ‘Only Days Before’
250th Anniversary replies
Chief Justice John Roberts declared Tuesday that all foreigners have a claim to American citizenship, so long as they happen to be born here. In doing so, as Justice Samuel Alito pointed out, he reimposed the British system of subjecthood totally rejected by the American founders “only days before” the country is set to celebrate its 250th anniversary of independence from that very system.
“According to the Court, the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause codified the British rule of birthright subjecthood with only one new exception, which was needed to accommodate the unique status of American Indians,” Alito wrote, dissenting from Roberts’ attempt to reimpose medieval feudalism. “That is a curious claim,
In dissents released today, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito slammed the historical illiteracy of Chief Justice John Roberts in imposing a “medieval English ‘feudal’ principle” on the American people, allowing any foreigner to become a citizen simply by being born on American soil.
In his majority opinion for the court, Roberts strained to reimpose a form of feudalism soundly rejected by the American Founding. That legal principle guarantees random foreigners the privilege of American citizenship through an English common law basis that the Founders rejected. Feudalism reflected a king-subject relationship based on soil, and the Roberts court’s reasoning imposed that alien tradition
Highmore, South Dakota, population 647 according to the 2024 census, looks like the classic, tiny American farming community. There are all of two notable facts in the Wiki entry for the wee burg - one is that it was named for its 'lofty altitude.' No further explanation for that is available other than a footnote referencing a 1908 railway guide. And that there's been a local post office in operation since 1882. Hardy souls those early folks in the high plains.
Had to be tough.
And I'm pretty sure it still is if the town has remained at its close-knit size. As of early yesterday morning, Highmore is going to have
Congressional conservatives are slamming the Supreme Court of the United States after it ruled to strike down a request from the president to redefine birthright citizenship.
The 6-3 decision comes after President Donald Trump’s administration argued that the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution applied to descendants of slaves in the 1800s, and not to the chain migration the United States has been subject to in recent decades.
Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Brett Kavanaugh concurs in part in the judgment and dissents in part.
As U.S. Nears Its 250th Birthday, Nearly
3/4 Still Say They’re Proud To Be American:
I&I/TIPP Poll replies
3/4 Still Say They’re Proud To Be American:
I&I/TIPP Poll replies
The Fourth of July is usually a time for fireworks, picnics and, for some, quiet reflection on what it means to be an American. But this Fourth is special, marking the 250th anniversary of the United States. Are Americans still proud of what they’ve built? A solid majority says yes, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
The national online I&I/TIPP Poll asked 1,589 adults: “As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, how proud are you to be an American?” The response was strong: 72% said they were either “very proud” (48%) or “somewhat proud” (24%), while 24% said they were