Folarin Balogun, who is a US citizen because he was born here, scores a go-ahead goal for the US team in a knockout game. Score one for birthright citizenship.
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No one asks non-Muslim mayors of other major cities their opinions on world politics & US foreign policy, so this explanation is not the actual explanation. Not to mention that no one constantly did this to Bill de Blasio or Ed Koch or ever really asks Mamdani about ~any other world politics issue.
Steve@swfong.bsky.social · last mo.While these questions are simply trying to trick him into saying something that will upset someone, what the NYC Mayor thinks about world politics is relevant. From the UN to the large immigrant population, Mamdani's opinion matters.
Could you rewrite this like a journalist instead of a stenographer?
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last mo.A sweeping overhaul of East Potomac Golf Links will begin Sept. 1, President Trump said Sunday after he toured the century-old municipal course with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, renowned golf course architect Tom Fazio and White House aides.
Biden: Trump wants to give your money to the January 6 insurrectionists. My god. These people don't deserve to be compensated. They deserve to be put in jail for a long, long, long time.
Vote Democratic Socialism, health care, social security, child care, education funding, gender and racial equality etc etc and etc.
Mayor says progressive peers who swept primaries speak to Americans ‘coast to coast’ as moderates have reservations
Zohran Mamdani says he and allies he endorsed carry a ‘national message’
theguardian.com
A woman in Arkansas was seeking care for a life-threatening miscarriage. Under the state’s strict abortion ban, no doctor would treat her. “Our hands are tied behind our backs,” one doctor told her. “Tell your friends to vote differently.”
She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.
Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
propublica.org
As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country’s future by bulldozing its past.
Trump's war on history
As America's 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country's future by bulldozing its past.
motherjones.com
We must call every lawmaker standing in the way of legal abortion Senator/Congressperson/Assembly member Hanger, except when we call them Senator (etc) Pedophile. Everywhere they go, ask them: How many women do you want killed before you are satisfied?
ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.A woman in Arkansas was seeking care for a life-threatening miscarriage. Under the state’s strict abortion ban, no doctor would treat her. “Our hands are tied behind our backs,” one doctor told her. “Tell your friends to vote differently.”
Read our original investigation with @sahanjournal.bsky.social (published 2022):
Real Estate Investors Sold Somali Families on a Fast Track to Homeownership in Minnesota. The Buyers Risk Losing Everything.
For Somali Muslim families in Minnesota, a contract for deed seems like an easier path to homeownership. But predatory practices and poor regulation can make it a financial trap rather than a good…
propublica.org
Trump and Republicans radically raised health insurance premium costs -- doubling them on average -- and so 5 million Americans who used to have health insurance now can't afford it. More than half the people who have this kind of health insurance live in GOP districts: www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...
5 million have dropped ACA insurance after Trump and the GOP let prices skyrocket
Enrollment in Affordable Care Act insurance fell much more sharply in the first months of 2026 than it has in years past. Trump officials blame fraud. Health policy experts blame costs.
npr.org
Update on the *first* Syracuse ICE visit on an online "threat": DHS has told NPR that Gonyea posted the officer's address online. They didn't offer evidence of the claim, which she denies: "Where is the address? I literally have looked through my social media carefully and I do not see an address."
She posted about ICE. Five months later, DHS agents told her to take her post down
In January, Paigelynne Gonyea posted about the immigration surge in Minneapolis. This week, she was visited by ICE officials who claimed one of her posts had doxxed a federal agent.
npr.org
trump is stealing a golf course used by ordinary washingtonians and giving it to his rich friends
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last mo.A sweeping overhaul of East Potomac Golf Links will begin Sept. 1, President Trump said Sunday after he toured the century-old municipal course with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, renowned golf course architect Tom Fazio and White House aides.
The Declaration of Independence famously declared that “all men are created equal.” But enslaved people, Native Americans, and women were left out of that promise. 250 years of struggle for equality, on the next Reveal.
Has America lived up to its founding promise that all men are created equal?
We look at the famous quote from the Declaration of Independence, “all men are created equal,” and the 250-year struggle to live up to that statement.
motherjones.com
