Trump/Admin Policies

mickeyrat said:

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The Justice Department just identified 384 naturalized Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke and they won’t say why they picked those 384 people specifically. No public criteria or explanation. Just a list and a directive to start filing cases.

Under federal law, the government can strip citizenship if it was obtained through fraud or misrepresentation. That process has always been rare and handled by specialists an average of 11 cases per year for most of modern history, with just 120 total filed over the entire span from 2017 to 2025. These cases are legally complex, time-consuming, and require the government to actually present evidence in court.

Now the Trump administration wants to blow past all of that. They’ve ordered DHS to refer between 100 and 200 denaturalization cases per month (potentially 2,400 per year) and they’re farming the caseload out to 39 regional offices staffed by general civil litigators with no specialization in immigration law. The official who announced this program called the 384 “the first wave.” The DOJ spokesperson called it the highest volume of referrals in history and framed that as something “to be proud of”.

Naturalization already involves extensive vetting. Applicants disclose their full travel history, any legal issues, and their affiliations. They pass background checks. They go through the process. These 384 people did all of that and were granted citizenship and now the government wants a do-over with no public explanation for why these individuals were targeted in the first place.

When the government can build a secret list of citizens to strip of their status, and then distribute that list to dozens of offices with instructions to start filing, you don’t have law enforcement you have a program. And citizenship itself becomes something the government can claw back at scale and at speed without transparency.

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“Because they can and do”. Just a matter of time before they can deem anyone a non-citizen, particularly if the SCROTUM rules against birthright citizenship.

gimmesometruth27 said:

did anybody see that new hulk hogan documentary on netflix?

hogan was maga to the core. disgustingly so. he actually believed all of trump's bs. he was high fiving fans saying things like "we took our country back, brother" etc. it was actually sickening. plus trump is shown throughout the documentary and he actually sat for an interview on hogan, as president. 

what a letdown. i knew hogan was a piece of shit but i was hoping to see something redeeming in that documentary. i didn't. they did show him get booed out of the arena after he spoke at trump's convention though. i am surprised they did not try to hide that. 

gimmesometruth27 said:

at least trump brought back firing squad executions today.

tackling the pressing issues, i see. 

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Nobody is tougher, many people are saying. And tough on Iran too. Criminals better watch out because instead of 8 loaded high powered rifles and one with blanks, it’s gonna be 8 blanks and one with a .22 shell so it’ll be a slow death, but maybe not, because we’ll have a couple blind people on the firing line and you never know, clean shot to the heart or not, we’ll see. Tough.

mickeyrat said:

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The Trump administration asked Congress to fund smart glasses that can identify you by your face in real time, just by an ICE agent looking at you on the street. No warrant, no arrest, no charges required.

DHS buried a $7.5 million line item in their 2027 budget to build what they’re internally calling “ICE Glasses” wearable glasses that pull from federal databases containing 200 million images and can match your face, your walk, even your gait, on the spot. They say it’s for finding undocumented immigrants. 

But a DHS attorney told the journalist who broke this story something very different, “It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens on the streets, but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protesters.”

And this isn’t some future threat. ICE agents in six states are already wearing Meta’s AI glasses in the field right now, without formal approval and without oversight. The custom government version is just the next step.

Here’s what makes this different from any surveillance tool that came before it. You can change your address, your phone number, and even change your name. You cannot change your face. Once it’s in the database, it’s there forever, tied to every protest you attended, every rally you showed up to, every time you stood on a public sidewalk and disagreed with your government.

Congress was notified about this program. They said nothing. This is what a surveillance state looks like when it’s being built in plain sight.

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Say goodnight, Irene. 

darwinstheory said:

And just like that, more theatrics. Nothing ensured his reelection like the alleged assassination attempt. Why not put on another show when his ratings are at anall time low.

bootlegger10 said:

Staged

darwinstheory said:

Have they confirmed the shooter was also trans, or are they waiting a day or two? 

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We need to wait for the definitive confirmation from Sheky. That said, Linda “Off The Turnbuckle” McMahon is a cabinet secretary and a billionaire. She knows marks when she sees them. Seriously, though, who’s running the Secret Service?