Gene Okerlund
@malort.bsky.social
I don’t read any replies. So sorry.
My wild guess at this would be “yes, this was for the slaves to right a wrong but it was never intended to allow anyone at any time to give birth here. Going forward, there will be no birthright citizenship. We need to close the citizenship loophole.” I hope I’m wrong.
worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
My wild guess at this would be “yes, this was for the slaves to right a wrong but it was never intended to allow anyone at any time to give birth here. Going forward, there will be no birthright citizenship. We need to close the citizenship loophole.” I hope I’m wrong.
This is why I hate the defenders of the tech. If there was a human driver, this was totally avoidable. The woman who noticed the cat could have told a human, “don’t move. There’s a cat underneath.” And they would obey. Waymo unnecessarily killed the cat.
"Footage obtained by The New York Times of the moment a Waymo car ran over Kit Kat, a beloved San Francisco bodega cat, raises new questions about the company’s safeguards."
Waymo's robots lack situational awareness to an alarming and prob unacceptable extent.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Waymo's robots lack situational awareness to an alarming and prob unacceptable extent.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This is why I hate the defenders of the tech. If there was a human driver, this was totally avoidable. The woman who noticed the cat could have told a human, “don’t move. There’s a cat underneath.” And they would obey. Waymo unnecessarily killed the cat.
You ever heard of a Connecticut cover-up? No? We covered it up.
Lawmakers sharply divided as Congress probes killings at sea
Democrats and Republicans had demanded unedited footage of the Sept. 2 boat strike in the Caribbean after The Washington Post reported that shipwrecked survivors were targeted in a follow-up attack.
www.politico.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You ever heard of a Connecticut cover-up? No? We covered it up.
If I worked at Yelp, I’d add a feature that if you’re writing a negative review of a bar after midnight, you’d get prompted, “If you’ve been drinking before writing this review, are you sure you want this posted?”And if you click yes, you get, “we will ask again in 14 hours. Your review is saved.”
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If I worked at Yelp, I’d add a feature that if you’re writing a negative review of a bar after midnight, you’d get prompted, “If you’ve been drinking before writing this review, are you sure you want this posted?”And if you click yes, you get, “we will ask again in 14 hours. Your review is saved.”
Predictive scheduling laws are still a fairly recent intervention and corporations are already illegally circumventing them. Government needs to treat corporations like the enemy that they are.
Starbucks Agrees to Pay Workers $38 Million to Settle Scheduling Law Probe
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders joined striking employees in Brooklyn after the coffee chain agreed to the city's largest-ever worker protection settlement.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Predictive scheduling laws are still a fairly recent intervention and corporations are already illegally circumventing them. Government needs to treat corporations like the enemy that they are.
Stealing as a collective of individuals against corporations = American horror.
Stealing from collective individuals as a corporation = good and plenty.
Stealing from collective individuals as a corporation = good and plenty.
December 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Stealing as a collective of individuals against corporations = American horror.
Stealing from collective individuals as a corporation = good and plenty.
Stealing from collective individuals as a corporation = good and plenty.
Picking your moment sucks.
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Picking your moment sucks.
It’s quite startling when you realize 70% of a population agrees on something and its supposed representative government does the opposite. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It’s quite startling when you realize 70% of a population agrees on something and its supposed representative government does the opposite. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
“As we get closer and closer to killing every last Palestinian, I would like a pardon.” — Netanyahu
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“As we get closer and closer to killing every last Palestinian, I would like a pardon.” — Netanyahu
Time to red pill your friends & family.
The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Time to red pill your friends & family.
As if Mamdani isn’t “scrambling” the national Democratic Party too? So tired of the mainstream media being cute about their disdain for Mamdani. We know what you represent and it isn’t people.
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
As if Mamdani isn’t “scrambling” the national Democratic Party too? So tired of the mainstream media being cute about their disdain for Mamdani. We know what you represent and it isn’t people.
Remember, racists, you still have to be somewhat covert in your racist pursuits in the US.
Abbott, lawmaker comments helped doom Texas’ new voting map
Judge Jeffrey Brown pointed to comments from the governor and GOP legislators as the basis for his ruling that the new map can’t be used in 2026.
www.texastribune.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Remember, racists, you still have to be somewhat covert in your racist pursuits in the US.
Police chases. That thing SF banned except for extreme cases only to overturn that policy and now crashes crashes everywhere. Because of crime panic peddled online & in media. Effn stupid. Hope all of the injuries, property damage, and innocent death are worth it.!
High-speed crash lodges truck in wall of SF hotel, leaves two injured
"A medical emergency may have occurred during the collisions."
www.sfgate.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Police chases. That thing SF banned except for extreme cases only to overturn that policy and now crashes crashes everywhere. Because of crime panic peddled online & in media. Effn stupid. Hope all of the injuries, property damage, and innocent death are worth it.!
Texas: I’m not overcompensating, you’re overcompensating
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Texas: I’m not overcompensating, you’re overcompensating
Shakedown lawyer shocked lying & cheating at the federal level doesn’t work.
US judge finds evidence of ‘government misconduct’ in federal case against Comey
Judge ruled DoJ engaged in ‘profound investigative missteps’ on way to indicting the former FBI director
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Shakedown lawyer shocked lying & cheating at the federal level doesn’t work.
Like I know the SF Examiner is shit but it sucks that so many people probably read these pump pieces and think it’s actual journalism. That city is so captured by the wealthy. It’s disgusting. Oh, and the mayor celebrating Blackrock? Of course.
What DoorDash orders say about downtown SF
It’s just not what you eat, but where.
www.sfexaminer.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Like I know the SF Examiner is shit but it sucks that so many people probably read these pump pieces and think it’s actual journalism. That city is so captured by the wealthy. It’s disgusting. Oh, and the mayor celebrating Blackrock? Of course.
Sounds like they got Boebert to flip them with intimidation and/or promises of riches. No way Johnson is allowing a vote without a guarantee win.
House plans to vote Tuesday on releasing Epstein files
President Donald Trump has made repeated attempts to kill the effort, but a discharge petition has forced Speaker Mike Johnson's hand.
www.politico.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Sounds like they got Boebert to flip them with intimidation and/or promises of riches. No way Johnson is allowing a vote without a guarantee win.
I love that Palantir is already fearing Mamdani. It’s working.
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I love that Palantir is already fearing Mamdani. It’s working.
And Democrats think they should reach across the aisle to this vile shit?
Former UVA President Jim Ryan has just released a 12-page memo of his own account of his forced resignation last summer. Here’s just a bit in which Paul Manning, a member of the Board, was told by DOJ that unless Ryan departed they would “bleed UVA white.”
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
And Democrats think they should reach across the aisle to this vile shit?
Daniel Lurie’s PR team out there trying to do damage control in an attempt to make this awful pick not reflect on him. It’s so freaking transparent. #SomeoneElse2028
From the sanfrancisco community on Reddit: A More Balanced Look at the Beya Alcaraz / Animal Connection Controversy
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November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Daniel Lurie’s PR team out there trying to do damage control in an attempt to make this awful pick not reflect on him. It’s so freaking transparent. #SomeoneElse2028
Further statements from Beya Alcaraz will not sound anything like this when the political PR team that was gifted to her by Lurie is no longer at her side. Also? Once again SF has @missionlocal.org to thank for breaking another political bomb. Leanna Louie was another one.
November 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Further statements from Beya Alcaraz will not sound anything like this when the political PR team that was gifted to her by Lurie is no longer at her side. Also? Once again SF has @missionlocal.org to thank for breaking another political bomb. Leanna Louie was another one.
Good job, “moderate” SF voters. Peskin was the actual moderate choice. 3 more years of Lurie conservative incompetence.
Newly appointed San Francisco Supervisor Beya Alcaraz has agreed to resign at the request of Mayor Daniel Lurie following questions about her political qualifications and rocky management of a pet store.
San Francisco’s newest supervisor agrees to resign amid pet store controversies
Beya Alcaraz agreed to resign at Mayor Daniel Lurie's request. Leaked text messages showed she paid for her business by paying employees under the table and writing off personal expenses.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Good job, “moderate” SF voters. Peskin was the actual moderate choice. 3 more years of Lurie conservative incompetence.
This is the conservative talking point I see constantly in city subreddits. “It’s just a supply problem. The city and its liberal policies create too much expense & red tape to build.” False. You free up 30 million homes across the country and nothing will change.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is the conservative talking point I see constantly in city subreddits. “It’s just a supply problem. The city and its liberal policies create too much expense & red tape to build.” False. You free up 30 million homes across the country and nothing will change.
The next time the Democrats tell you there isn’t money for something…
Worth 1,000 words. This picture is so revealing about so much about this “administration.”
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The next time the Democrats tell you there isn’t money for something…