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Reclaiming our own birthright: We might need to amend the Constitution

Jonathan Turley
The Hill
Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:38 UTC
birth tourism us citizenship fraud
© AP Photo/Iuliia StashevskaRestricting birth tourism is one of the Trump administration's concerns.
"Well, it's a new world. It's the same Constitution."

Those words from Chief Justice John Roberts during this week's oral arguments signaled that the conservative justices are unlikely to reject birthright citizenship. Of course, nothing is certain until this summer when the Court issues its opinion in Trump v. Barbara. However, we need to consider the need for a 28th Amendment to reaffirm the meaning of citizenship.

As some of us stressed before the oral argument, the odds were against the administration prevailing in the case, given more than a century of countervailing precedent. There are good-faith arguments against reading the 14th Amendment as supporting citizenship for any child born in this country. It is doubtful that the drafters of the 14th Amendment could have envisioned millions of births to illegal aliens. They surely did not imagine foreigners coming to this country for the purpose of giving birth — or even, without ever entering the U.S., contracting multiple U.S. residents to carry babies to term for them as surrogates.
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Briefcase

Colorado forcing lawyers to swear they won't help feds catch illegals

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:16 UTC
tren de aragua
© Edward RomeroNovember 2024, Aurora Colorado police announced the arrest of 10 members of the Tren de Aragua gang in connection with criminal activity around apartment buildings.
Lawyers in the Mile High State are now being strong-armed by Democrats into signing a radical anti-immigration-enforcement pledge just to do their jobs.

Starting March 30, 2026, every private attorney logging into Colorado's official Courts E-Filing system (CCE) must certify - under penalty of perjury - that they will never use or share non-public personal information from court records to assist federal immigration authorities. Refuse? You're shut out of the system entirely. No filing lawsuits, no checking case files, no representing clients in state court. Period.

The certification reads in part: "I certify under penalty of perjury that I will not use personal identifying information obtained from the database... for the purpose of investigating for, participating in, cooperating with, or assisting in federal immigration enforcement, including enforcement of civil immigration laws and 8 U.S.C. sec. 1325 or 1326, unless required by federal or state law or to comply with a court-issued subpoena, warrant, or order."

Comment: So yeah, legal beagles, Colorado wants you to keep your noses out of this sort of thing:



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Black Cat

ActBlue lawyers privately feared the organization likely lied to Congress about illegal foreign donations

Brianna Lyman
The Federalist
Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:41 UTC
ActBlue Chief Executive Regina Wallace-Jones
ActBlue Chief Executive Regina Wallace-Jones
ActBlue told Congress in 2023 that it took "multilayered" steps to "root out" illegal donations from foreign citizens. But it turns out "some of the steps ... described were not always followed," according to a new report from The New York Times

ActBlue Chief Executive Regina Wallace-Jones claimed in a 2023 letter to Congress that ActBlue conducted "'multilayered' screenings of contributions that helped 'root out' those from overseas," the New York Times reported. Such screening claimed to have included processing donations that came from foreign mailing addresses only if the donor had a U.S. passport number. Wallace-Jones also reportedly told Congress that ActBlue would refund donations to those who did not provide a passport number.

But Covington & Burling, the firm then representing ActBlue, found "some of the steps [Wallace-Jones] had described were not always followed." As The Times reported, citing a memo Covington sent to ActBlue, donors who used Apple Pay, PayPal or Venmo were not asked to provide their passport information.

Comment: ActBlue also originated the strategy of 'smurfing'. Smurfing takes overlarge donations and breaks them into smaller amounts, then feeds them into the organization using information from unsuspecting voters. James O'Keefe was on the story years ago:





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Attention

Sharia Law in Texas: Rep exposes Muslim-only enclaves operating next to police HQs

Steve Watson
modernity
Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:02 UTC
Keith Self/Map Plano
© Daily Mail/www.12newsnowTexas Congressman Keith Self • Map of Plano, Texas
Parallel societies are already functioning in defiance of American law.

Texas Congressman Keith Self has dropped a bombshell on the growing reality of Sharia-adherent communities taking root inside the United States. Far from some future hypothetical, these enclaves are here, now, and operating openly in his own district.

Self laid it out plainly:
"Sharia is alive, well, and operating in Plano, Texas. Right now, as I speak, there is an existing Sharia-adherent enclave run by the East Plano Islamic Center in my congressional district. It's been functioning for 12 years right in our midst. This is not a hypothetical or future threat. It is here, now and operational.

"It is a parallel society, a de facto Sharia enclave operating in defiance of full assimilation into American law situated immediately adjacent to the very law enforcement facilities meant to protect our communities."
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Oil Well

America's socalled energy independence

No1
Gold and Geopolitics
Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:57 UTC
Stages of oil production - graph
You've heard it. Trump says it. Energy secretaries say it on Fox News with straight faces. "America is energy independent. We produce more oil than we consume. We're a net exporter".

It sounds great. It's also, at best, a half-truth dressed up in a tuxedo.

I went down this particular rabbit hole so you don't have to.

As this is not my main area of expertise: if (when) I get something wrong → the comments are right there below.

Crude oil is what comes out of the ground. It's the raw stuff. You ship it to a refinery, the refinery cooks it, and out the other end comes gasoline, diesel, jet fuel. That's what moves your car, your truck, and your country.
US crude oil export in the last century.
The US produces a lot of crude. Record amounts, actually - around 13.6 million barrels a day in 2025. Nobody produces more. And yes, the US does export some of that crude to other countries.

But the US also imports crude. A lot of it. 6.2 million barrels a day, to be exact.

Comment: When Trump says that the US doesn't care whether the Strait of Hormuz is closed or not, he is not being serious.

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Red Flag

Foreigners now commit nearly half of all rapes in Austria, Syrians largest foreign group of suspects


Remix
Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:23 UTC
rape
The number of rape suspects in Austria has more than doubled since 2015, with foreign nationals — and Syrians in particular — driving a disproportionate share of the increase. In addition, foreigners nare now responsible for nearly half of all rapes, a major increase from 2015 as well.

The figures, provided by Austria's Interior Ministry in response to a request by Austrian newspaper exxpress, paint a striking picture of a decade-long trend.

The composition of those suspects has shifted markedly. In 2015, 250 of the 688 suspects were foreign nationals — 36.3 percent of the total. By 2025, that number had risen to 538, representing 46.9 percent of all suspects, despite foreign nationals making up only 20.5 percent of Austria's population.
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Shopping Bag

Inside Gavin Newsom's empire of fraud

Christopher Rufo, Ryan Thorpe
New York Post
Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:00 UTC
Newsom
© Anadolu/Getty ImagesCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom speaks to the press
California is a cash machine.

The state collects some of the country's highest income, business, and fuel taxes, and now spends more than $300 billion per year.

And yet, everywhere you look, California seems to be falling apart.

The roads are crumbling. Mismanaged wildfires have turned neighborhoods into ash. Drug addiction and homelessness have metastasized, turning parts of Los Angeles and San Francisco into no-go zones.

And the cost-of-living crisis is pricing middle-class taxpayers out of basic necessities like groceries and gas, even as the state spends billions on welfare programs that never seem to lift anyone out of poverty.

Californians are beginning to ask: Where is all this money going?

On paper, it funds public services. But beneath the surface, something else is happening: massive, systematic, brazen fraud.
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Take 2

BBC embroiled in another pedophile scandal


RT
Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:20 UTC
Scott Mills
© Getty Images / Danny Lawson/PA ImagesFormer BBC presenter Scott Mills
The BBC has been embroiled in yet another scandal involving child sexual abuse allegations against one of its top presenters.

On Monday, the British state broadcaster confirmed that it fired the star of its Radio 2 breakfast show, Scott Mills, "following allegations about his personal conduct." It did not elaborate further.

According to Sky News, the BBC presenter was being probed over past allegations of sexually abusing a child under the age of 16 - the UK's age of consent.

The Metropolitan Police had initially launched an investigation in December 2016 relating to "allegations of serious sexual offenses against a teenage boy," the news channel reported on Tuesday, citing law enforcement.
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Arrow Down

Poland rejects 'unofficial' US request to redeploy Patriot batteries to West Asia


The Cradle.co
Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00 UTC
Patriot systems
© NATO LibraryPatriot Air Defense Systems
Poland has rejected an "unofficial" US request to deploy one of its Patriot air defense systems to West Asia, Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz announced on 31 March, following reports by Polish daily Rzeczpospolita that Washington had informally approached Warsaw amid rising regional tensions.

Kosiniak-Kamysz stated:
"Our Patriot batteries and their armaments are used to protect Polish airspace and NATO's eastern flank. Nothing is changing in this regard and we are not planning to move them anywhere! Our allies are well aware of and understand how important our tasks are here. Poland's security is an absolute priority."
Rzeczpospolita reported that the US approach was informal and did not involve a formal request, adding that Washington sought to temporarily borrow one of Poland's two Patriot batteries as part of efforts to defend US-linked assets across West Asia from Iranian strikes.
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Syringe

Drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech halt US COVID vaccine study after recruitment struggles

Bhanvi Satija
Reuters
Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:11 UTC
Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine
© Getty Images / Ezra AcayanA healthcare worker prepares a dose of Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Manila, Philippines, January 19, 2022.
Vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech halted a large U.S. trial of their updated COVID-19 ​vaccine in healthy adults aged 50 to 64, saying enrollment in the trials had been too low to generate the needed data.

In a letter to trial investigators dated March 30, seen by Reuters and previously unreported, Pfizer said it would stop surveillance for signs of COVID illness for all participants in the study after April 3.

Enrollment was closed on March 6, following a review of current epidemiological trends, it said.

The move comes as COVID vaccine makers grapple with pushback from the U.S. administration and weak U.S. demand for the shots.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration toughened requirements for COVID ​vaccine use last year, including asking for large, placebo-controlled trials in the 50-64 age group for it to be included in recommendations.

Comment: So no one's interested in signing themselves or their kids up for a potential death sentence? Who'da thunk it?

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