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This is just blatant racism. Its disgusting.

We aint got no quarterback Randy!!

Doomsday plane flying around with callsign Order66. Absolutely nothing to be worried about.

Worse yet, after 3 K in the 1st.

Yeah, I think you were on your annual "summer vacation" when the trade went down. What do you think about the deal?

Great game. Eyes bulging on the Carson Beck eye test!

Well, Griffin got shelled yesterday

Actually, the game last night was a like the best HOF game I can remember lol

thanks guys. I would love the idea of keeping real turf at least. But I also liked the idea of keeping some of the outdoor elements in CLE

I think it will be Watson too - and he'll have the first few weeks IMO

Verse is definitely a different variable than Myles. He's much more engaged with energy/teammates IMO

And he still can't let it go. Nothing new there...................

Trump orders limits on birthright citizenship, targets ‘birth tourism’

President Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders again aimed at restricting birthright citizenship, an apparent attempt to circumvent a recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the constitutional protection.

In late June, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s Day 1 executive order that sought to end automatic birthright citizenship for nearly all children born on U.S. soil, holding it violated the 14th Amendment.

“We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “It was close, but a very, very unfortunate decision. So we’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair.”

Someone may wish to tell both him and Stephen Miller that if your sole intent is to circumvent a previous SCOTUS ruling, you may not want to tell them that out loud when you know this too will eventually reach the SCOTUS.

One of the president’s orders expands the definition of who would be ineligible for automatic citizenship, including “alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations” as well as the children of diplomats and other recognized international organizations.

Courts have historically recognized four exceptions to the Citizenship Clause: children born in the U.S. to foreign sovereigns and diplomats now referenced in the executive order as well as children of foreign forces during a hostile occupation; children born on foreign public ships and children of Native Americans tribes.

“It ensures that large numbers of people who wrongly would be getting birthright citizenship will no longer be eligible for those benefits,” said White House chief of staff Stephen Miller.

The second executive order seeks to ban the practice of “birth tourism,” which involves traveling to another country for the primary purpose of giving birth on its soil so that the child automatically has citizenship. The practice, which constitutes a form of obtaining a visa on fraudulent grounds, is already illegal and studies suggest the practice is rare, but it has become a target of the right.

Trump maintained that the original birthright citizenship was for “the babies of slaves.”

“What’s happening now are people are building businesses around it; wealthy people are building businesses around birthright citizenship,” he said. “That’s not the way it’s supposed to work. It’s a disgrace. They’re buying their way in, and we’re not going to let that happen.”

While he is selling "Gold Card" paths to citizenship to the wealthy? I guess when he gets paid for it that somehow makes it different? There's a word for taking something you claim is illegal and making it legal if someone pays you for it.

Trump claimed “hundreds of thousands” people take advantage of birth tourism.

However, data suggests his claims are significantly inflated.

“Though hard to know for certain, the most expansive albeit contested estimate based on review of U.S. Census Bureau data is that up to 26,000 babies born in the United States annually could be attributed to birth tourism—a tiny fraction of the more than 3.5 million U.S. births yearly,” the Migration Policy Institute wrote in a review earlier this year.

Miller argued Trump has the authority to do this under Section 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, a statute he said is “very rarely used, probably one of the strongest laws in the entire federal code.”

Section 215(a) governs the travel of noncitizens into and out of the country.

“If you’re telling a consular officer you’re here as a tourist, but your true purpose and intent is to go to a baby mill, give birth, and try to mint an American citizen while you’re here, then you’re committing a fraud against the American government, and by definition, that visa can and should and will be now denied,” Miller said.

The Supreme Court has already blocked a previous attempt by the president to curb birthright citizenship, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett siding with the three liberal justices. Justice Brett Kavanaugh also voted to block Trump’s order but only on statutory grounds.

The two new executive orders are almost certain to face legal challenges, but Trump told reporters he believes the narrower restrictions would pass constitutional muster this time around.

“I think it will,” he said, calling on White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf for further explanation.

“What we’re doing is taking legally validated means clearly within our disposal and targeting them square on to this birth tourism industry,” Scharf added. “There’s absolutely nothing in here that runs afoul of any of the Supreme Court’s opinions on the subject.”

Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement on Thursday that any new attempt by the president to “rewrite” birthright citizenship “will meet the same fate as the last one.”

“The Supreme Court already decided this issue: Birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Constitution,” said Wofsy, who served as lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case. “No additional executive order can change the meaning of the Constitution.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...rs-birthright-citizenship-birth-tourism/

She has a voice made for singing the blues.

Gov. DeWine says not in Ohio's best interest for force Haitians to leave Springfield | WHIO-TV

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of its $400 million ballroom at the White House because the project lacks congressional approval.

President Donald Trump doesn’t have the unilateral authority to build a 90,000-square-foot (8,400-square-meter) ballroom where the White House’s East Wing stood before he ordered its demolition last fall, according to the decision by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Friday’s ruling marked the second time this week that the administration has made headlines for construction plans that have been called into question. An assessment by the National Park Service found that a 250-foot-tall (76-meter) triumphal arch that Trump has proposed building could compromise the historical significance of dozens of sites near its planned location on a traffic circle between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.

In a 2-1 decision on the ballroom, the appeals court sided with historic preservationists who sued to stop construction of the massive structure, which has begun to rise above ground on the east side of the White House, according to the most recent aerial photos of the site. The court said it would stay its ruling for two weeks to give the administration time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help,” the court wrote.

“This holding has nothing at all to do with whether the proposed ballroom is desirable, or not, as a matter of policy. This ruling does not even necessarily mean that the Defendants may not ultimately construct the ballroom.

“What it does mean,” the court continued, “is that the Defendants may not do so during the district court’s expeditious litigation without securing Congress’s authorization, as the Constitution and laws require.”
Trump insists Congress’ approval is unnecessary

There was no immediate comment from the White House or Trump. After the lower court earlier this year ordered a halt to aboveground construction, the president argued that permission from Congress to build the ballroom was unnecessary because public money was not being used to pay for it.

Trump has said he has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from corporations and wealthy individuals, including himself, to cover the construction costs.

“He’s saying I need congressional approval and he’s so wrong,” Trump said in March after U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s ruling against the ballroom. “This is being financed privately.”

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, the nonprofit organization that brought the lawsuit against the administration, said Friday’s decision affirmed “the American people’s right to voice their opinions about the historic places they cherish,” including the White House.

“From the beginning, our position has been clear and consistent: the law states that only Congress can authorize the construction of a ballroom at the White House,” Brent Leggs, the group’s president and CEO said in a statement. “We are pleased with the DC Circuit Court’s decision to uphold the District Court’s preliminary injunction, which although stayed for 14 days will block any above-ground ballroom construction unless and until Congress takes action.”

The divided appeals court panel upheld an April 16 order from Leon for the administration to halt above-ground work on the ballroom. Leon, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush, allowed construction to continue on below-ground work on a bunker and other “national security facilities” at the site.

Trump, a Republican, railed against Leon’s decision on social media, calling him a “Trump Hating” judge who “has gone out of his way to undermine National Security, and to make sure that this Great Gift to America gets delayed, or doesn’t get built.”

The appeals court case was assigned to Judges Patricia Millett, Neomi Rao and Bradley Garcia. Millett was nominated to the court by Democratic President Barack Obama. Trump nominated Rao. Garcia was nominated by Democratic President Joe Biden. Both Millett and Garcia backed the decision, while Rao opposed it.

Preservationists challenge Trump in court

The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued to challenge the project in December 2025, a week after completion of the East Wing demolition to make way for a ballroom that Trump says will hold 999 people.

Government lawyers have argued that the project — the biggest structural change to the White House in more than 70 years — must move forward because it includes critical security features to guard against a range of threats, such as drones, ballistic missiles and biohazards.

“These upgrades, alterations, and improvements are essential to protecting the President, his family, and his staff, as well as the White House itself, and the entire project flows from them,” government attorneys wrote in a court filing.

Attorneys for the preservation group countered that the lack of a White House ballroom doesn’t constitute a national security emergency.

“That commonsense conclusion is not clearly erroneous, and there is no basis to disturb it,” they wrote.

In an initial ruling that the government also appealed, Leon barred aboveground work on the ballroom from proceeding without congressional approval. In response, the appeals court instructed the judge to reconsider the national security implications of stopping construction.

In his most recent decision, Leon ordered a stop only to the aboveground construction of the planned ballroom. The judge stressed that the White House is free to proceed with below-ground work, including the construction of any bunkers, military installations and medical facilities.

On April 2, Trump’s ballroom won final approval from the 12-member National Capital Planning Commission, which is charged with approving construction on federal property in the Washington region.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ballroom-court-ruling-1528247275ec6103da892d271d4ee883

Trump Meets With Zelenskyy To Ask For U.S. Missiles

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-meets-with-zelenskyy-to-ask-for-us-missiles

Unfortunately, you could replace Gabriel with Watson and/or Sanders and your critique would probably be more accurate.

Jade's mother sang behind Van Morrison and Sting. Her father Dave MacRae is a brilliant keyboard player who played with the Buddy Rich Band, and alongside illustrious figures like Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus, and Cannonball Adderley.

Jade plays piano and violin. But she has been a vocalist since very early on. She has a trained voice that she has worked on for over 30 years.

She is a real professional and has worked with many famous musicians.

Her vocals are superb.

Irish be like...

Damn. Camp is closed to the public due to weather.

Hell yeah, Irish! Enjoy!

Give us a full report when you get back. 👊

Thanks Fate, I was genuinely wondering, lol.

Today I go to training camp. I’ll get to see with my own eyes for a couple of hours where we stand.

Yesterday was the last day of install, so I am hoping to get into the meat and potatoes today. Could get a little wet, Monken doesn’t seem like the type to take it inside.. it’s going to be a good day.