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Alix Breeden at Daily Kos:

Buckle up, because President Donald Trump has taken his whitewashed historical account of U.S. history on the road.  Across the nation, six extremely patriotic, federally funded “Freedom Trucks” are making stops at schools, public events, and elsewhere to share a Trump administration-approved version of history. The trucks are fitted with a “Wall of Heroes” and intertwined with Christian sentiment. The trucks have already made their way across 28 states and intend to hit nearly all 50 states (though Hawaii might be a challenge).  Looking toward George Washington, text recalls the president saying that “our rights are a gift from God, not a favor from kings or courts.” “I was looking for how whitewashed our story would be,” Erika Berg, who visited one of the trucks, told the Washington Post.  And whitewashing seems to be a consistent theme. On the walls, the display—created by the Hillsdale College’s Matthew Spalding with conservative nonprofit Prager University—made little mention of Native Americans, but did manage to include this passage from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787: “The utmost good faith shall always be observed toward the Indians their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent.”

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"If there's a PEDOPHILE at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven PEDOPHILES."

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

The Hill | by Max Rego | June 30, 2026

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson admonished fellow Justice Clarence Thomas for his dissent to the high court’s decision upholding birthright citizenship on Tuesday.

In a 20-page concurring opinion, Jackson accused Thomas of applying a “narrow vision” of the 14th Amendment in dissenting from the six-justice majority.

“Despite his longstanding endorsement of a ‘colorblind’ Constitution, Justice Thomas now surprisingly suggests that the Citizenship Clause was a race-conscious remedial measure, relating only to ‘freed slaves such as Dred Scott,’” Jackson wrote. [emphasis added]

Thomas, joined in the minority by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, wrote in his dissenting opinion the amendment... applies only to those “domiciled” in the U.S. 

The conservative justice specifically referenced the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott v. Sandford decision of 1857, in which it ruled enslaved African Americans were not U.S. citizens. Thomas argued the court got it wrong because “Blacks were entitled to citizenship” as Americans. 

“They had no other homeland, owed no allegiance to any foreign power, and were subject to no other authority,” the longest-tenured member of the court wrote.

Foreign temporary visitors, on the other hand, are “attached to their home country, lacked similar bonds to this country, and would not be called upon in time of war,” Thomas argued. [....] Jackson, whom Sotomayor partially joined in her opinion, repeatedly took Thomas to task for his interpretation of the amendment, even calling him “myopic” at one point.

Freed slaves, she noted, did not receive “new status” from the 14th Amendment. Instead, they were U.S. citizens simply because they were born in America, according to Jackson.