American Politics from 2019 on

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Omar's dead father to be interrogated:
• The "Derivative Citizenship" Age Discrepancy: Omar claims derivative U.S. citizenship through her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, which she received in 2000. For derivative citizenship to apply automatically, she had to be a minor (under 18). Investigators are probing discrepancies over whether her birth year was misrepresented on immigration paperwork to show she was 17 rather than 18 at the time. If she was an adult, she would have legally required her own separate naturalization process.
• Father's Background: The probe is also reviewing whether her late father, who passed away in 2020, concealed material facts—such as his background as a military colonel under the former Somali regime—on his initial refugee application.

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Omar's dead father to be interrogated:
• The "Derivative Citizenship" Age Discrepancy: Omar claims derivative U.S. citizenship through her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, which she received in 2000. For derivative citizenship to apply automatically, she had to be a minor (under 18). Investigators are probing discrepancies over whether her birth year was misrepresented on immigration paperwork to show she was 17 rather than 18 at the time. If she was an adult, she would have legally required her own separate naturalization process.
• Father's Background: The probe is also reviewing whether her late father, who passed away in 2020, concealed material facts—such as his background as a military colonel under the former Somali regime—on his initial refugee application.

Birthers gonna birth.

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Muslims who are doctors
Mehmet Oz: Good muslim. Conman (books, TV). Hydroxychloroquine not vaccines.Made the mistake of supporting Obamacare.
Abdul El-Sayed: Bad Muslim, communist. Too much science.

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Maybe Talarico was not completely in a mental health clinic? Maybe it was just one of his genders that was there!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... an-amacher

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Trump DOJ is demanding California find 28 illegal voters they have found. The also gave a memory stick with 20 000 names to investigate. Otherwise all Valifornia votes will be thrown out.

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Rapist's spouse appears in weird Ramaswamy ad. Calling daughter, raped as teen, a liar.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-gover ... ramaswamy/

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Trump DOJ sent list of 20 000 who voted illegally to CA. Most of them do not vote:

Forty-three per cent of those on the list had a voter registration record that had been cancelled, Bhullar said in his declaration. Seventy-one per cent of those in the sample never voted, and 86 people had been mailed a ballot this year.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... itizens-la

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The woman may not have a specific birth date. In adoption cases the state makes one up, for example. At issue here is whthte she was 17 or 18 in the papers.

Authorities plan to investigate whether Omar or her father misrepresented her birth date on immigration paperwork so she could qualify as a minor, which could affect whether she legally qualified for citizenship through him.
Under the law in effect at the time, children had to be under 18 to qualify for citizenship through a parent's naturalization, alongside other requirements.
What they're saying: "The truth is that Trump's push to strip her of her citizenship and deport her has no basis in the law and has no precedent," a spokesperson for Omar tells Axios in a statement.

"This isn't a legitimate law enforcement action — it is an authoritarian move to silence an opponent right before an election where he and his party will be rejected by Americans in historic proportions. To Trump, no American value or principle is too important to be shredded for his own personal gain."

https://www.axios.com/2026/10/15/ilhan- ... itizenship

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Threads lady saying Lake America and everything Trump does is "just great." It reminded the political science term I dug up a week ago.
Affective polarization. It's what 30 million trumpers have.
https://pcl.sites.stanford.edu/sites/g/ ... rigins.pdf

Partisanship is a particularly salient and powerful identifier for two main reasons. First, it is
acquired at a young age and rarely changes over the life cycle, notwithstanding significant shifts
in personal circumstances (Sears 1975). Second, political campaigns—the formal occasions for
expressing one’s partisan identity—recur frequently and last for many months (or even years) in
the contemporary United States. Indeed, some even argue that modern governance is effectively
always about the next campaign (Lee 2016), meaning that individuals constantly receive partisan
cues from elites. It is no surprise, therefore, that ordinary Americans see the political world through
a partisan prism.

From a social identity perspective, affective polarization is a natural offshoot of this sense of
partisan group identity: “the tendency of people identifying as Republicans or Democrats to view
opposing partisans negatively and copartisans positively” (Iyengar & Westwood 2015, p. 691).
However, changes in the contemporary political and media environment have exacerbated the
divide in recent years, as we explain below.

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36% say universal healthcare is dangerous

"The good news is that most Americans have recoiled against a cruel, xenophobic movement. “Nearly half of Americans (48%) say the MAGA movement poses a serious threat to the country, compared with 36% who say the same of Democratic Socialists of America,” the survey found. “Favorable views of the MAGA movement have slipped from 35% in March 2024 to 31% today, driven by declines among independents and Democrats. Republican views (72% favorable) have held steady.” Interestingly, “Half of Americans ages 18-29 and 30-49 (50% each) say the MAGA movement’s policies pose a serious threat to the country, as do 48% ages 65 and older — compared with fewer, 42%, ages 50-64.”

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/americ ... untry-with

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