Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "NY Mayor Mamdani said this past weekend that the Democratic Socialists could win anywhere in the USA. I'm not sure that makes sense.

Most Americans understand that New York City is not the United States of America by nearly every measure.
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Yet, the NY-based media gives everyone a different image, making it seem that what happens in NYC actually is like America and represents a lot about American thought and life.
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These Democratic Socialists who are getting elected in NYC could not get elected with their rhetoric in any other state in the Union in any numbers. It is the particular population mix in NY that makes those people successful, but it won’t work in almost the rest of the USA.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Democratic Socialists

Look at their goals.

Democratic socialists want to replace capitalism with an economic system where ordinary people collectively own and manage the key drivers of the economy.
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They aim to dismantle corporate power, shift wealth and decision-making to the working class, and establish universal social and economic rights through democratic means. Official position of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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While the long-term vision calls for ending the profit-driven capitalist framework, in the short term, democratic socialists often advocate for massive redistributive policies similar to Scandinavian social democracies to immediately lessen inequality.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "In a way, history repeats—Russia 1920, the USA 2026

In Russia 1920, Russia ended its revolution with two parties, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Both were socialist-oriented, but the first, the Bolsheviks, was pure Marxist-Communist,
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desiring to impose fast change—a dictatorship controlling events and development—while the Mensheviks were more for civil liberties and gradual change and a more democratic system.
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The Duma, the legislature, had an absolute majority for the Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks (though their name indicated that they were the 'big' party) were a minority in the Duma, but what they did was organize street gangs to protest, and their Duma members disrupted,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Glenn Beck recently suggested that Israel is the core of the worldwide struggle for moral values and freedom, and that people need to choose sides now—and can do so publicly by wearing lapel pins with the U.S. flag and the Israeli flag.
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Just a thought, but Israel's problem is that it is a small country that makes for an easy victim, even more so as it is seen as a target for bullies because of ingrained cultural antisemitism that has affected Christian Europe like a disease for centuries,
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and infects Muslim nations today.

Think about all the other nations in the world that are small and can be bullied by the powerful—by an EU that wants to control every detail of life in every member nation to the benefit of France and Germany,
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Supreme Court Opinions: Trump v. Barbara. Chief Justice Roberts writes, holding that the Constitution "guarantees citizenship to children born of parents unlawfully or temporarily present in the United States." The Constitutional holding is only 5-4, as Kavanaugh doesn't join.

Justice Jackson and Sotomayor concur to respond to Justice Thomas's dissent. "The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

Justice Kavanaugh concurs in the Judgment. He would issue a narrower ruling. He would find that the Executive Order does *not* violate the Constitution, but is precluded by statute.

Male victims of rape take note. If you are raped by a man who told you he's a woman, @CPSUK are already thinking you probably made it up, due to your self-disgust.

You're not the victim here apparently.

And there's more ....
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Gay men are apparently likely to become violent if they have sex with a woman identifying as a man.

This all comes from an CPS Toolkit for Prosecutors 👇
The same Prosecutors who will decide whether a charge is supported.

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cps.gov.uk/prosecution-gu…

And it goes on.

In the 'Myths and Stereotypes' section of the CPS Toolkit, Prosecutors are reassured that men who want to be women, are not dangerous.

That's a transphobic myth apparently.

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More than any other term, we now have the Roberts Court.

Alito solo dissent: the Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship on only those children who, at birth, owe allegiance solely to this country.

In solo dissent, Gorsuch expresses doubts that executive order can lawfully apply "to children born in this country to parents who make their permanent home here, but do so in defiance of federal immigration laws."

@iain_monty @shivmalik Really? Shiv Malik's map in the FT suggested the massive "forest" talked about for FC would, in fact, be strips of suburban parkland. Surrounded by development, with all its air, noise & light pollution + disturbance, they would be little use for nature, let alone trees. 1.⬇️

@iain_monty @shivmalik Housing shortages are best addressed by providing the type of houses needed where they are needed.
While rural Suffolk may need a relatively small no. of social-rent homes, that's not what FC would provide. 2.⬇️

@iain_monty @shivmalik Infrastructure is expensive, very expensive. Making best use of existing infrastructure means best value for money and this involves directing development to existing urban areas. FC would be many miles away from such infrastructure. 3.⬇️

Supreme Court Opinions: NRSC v. FEC. Can Congress violate the First Amendment by limiting coordinated expenditures between candidates for office and their parties? No, per Justice Kavanaugh. Looks like @SeanJCooksey has officially won his Super Bowl. (Super Bowl FEC?)

First mootness. One question is whether Vice President Vance could bring this challenge. "The Court need not speculate about Vice President Vance’s future runs for office, however, because the Vice President still maintains an active 'Statement of Candidacy' on file."

Justice Kagan, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson, dissent. They believe that these restrictions pass constitutional muster "with flying colors."

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Court in NRSC v. FEC overrules what remains of 2001 ruling (Colorado II):
Ultimately, the First Amendment question in this case boils down to whether FECA’s limits on political-party coordinated expenditures are permissible in order to prevent circumvention of the base limits on contributions to candidates through earmarked contributions to parties. In Colorado II, this Court said that they were. But Colorado II applied deferential scrutiny to Congress’s politicalparty coordinated-expenditure limits. Since Colorado II, however, the Court has emphasized that under the closely drawn test, judicial review must be “rigorous.” Under that more demanding standard, the Court agrees with petitioners that the political-party coordinated-expenditure limits are not proportionate, necessary, and narrowly tailored given the other less-speech-restrictive tools available to the Government to prevent circumvention—in particular, earmarking and disclosure laws.

Ruling on birthright citizenship. Chief: Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. 5-4.

Here are the opinions: supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…