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The Tennessee Holler
@thetnholler.bsky.social
Jul 8, 06:30 PM
HAYES: “Flo Balogun is American, and that is a wonderful thing. We are a nation of immigrants, birthright citizens — and that rules.” @chrislhayes points out Balogun is exactly the kind of American Rep Ogles, Stephen Miller and Republicans call a “scourge” 🤔 ⚽️
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"But here's the thing, if you go a little deeper, you hit the wildest part of the story, something I have just been savoring all weekend, which is that the player at the center of the storm, Valoran Baligan, he is essentially an accidental American. My journey to team's a little bit unique. My mom always told me the story growing up, but I never really paid it any mind. She came to the US to visit her sister and she had her return ticket, but then they said that she was too pregnant. So I was born in New York, but grew up in London. Grew up in London, you hear that accent? That's not a Brooklyn accent. In other words, the best player on the US team, the one that we're all hoping plays and kicks butt, is a United States citizen by virtue of one thing and one thing only, and that is having been born here. And being born here makes you a citizen, clear as day in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, passed out of the Civil War, a constitutional right the Trump administration has tried tooth and nail to erase and tried to erase at the Supreme Court just a week ago and failed. In fact, Flo Baligan's situation is exactly, exactly, precisely the same sort of very rare edge case that MAGA has absolutely lost their minds about in the wake of that loss at the Supreme Court to the point they are now trying to call women, like Baligan's mother, a scourge on American society. They need to get moving and start deporting people as fast as possible, starting with birthing aged women, the birthing persons, as the Democrats call it. If a person comes here nine months pregnant to go look around at some things in a couple of weeks, that is the mother of a lifetime American citizen and a direct line into American cash and welfare for the rest of that child's life. Look, if you're pregnant and you're from a foreign nation, you know what? It's time for Congress to pass a law to say you can't come here. I wonder if there's any examples out there of the unique advantages that birthright citizenship might confer on a society. I wonder if there's any benefits to having a country like that where it's just clear as day if you're born here, you're a citizen. Oh, look at that. Thank you, soccer gods. Here's one right there on the soccer pitch. Flo Baligan is American and that is a wonderful thing. We are a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of birthright citizens and that rules."
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The Tennessee Holler
@thetnholler.bsky.social
· Jul 7, 03:05 AM
HAYES: “Flo Balogun is American, and that is a wonderful thing. We are a nation of immigrants, birthright citizens — and that rules.” @chrislhayes points out Balogun is exactly the kind of American Rep Ogles, Stephen Miller and Republicans call a “scourge” 🤔 ⚽️
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 05:42 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Flo Balogun is” the full Landen innit!”</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 04:11 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">They’re going to turn on him now. He is no longer useful. You know that, right?</p>
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<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@mac124.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 04:29 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Trump and his deep-state billionaire partners in crime are pilfering the U.S. treasury while feeding MAGA culture wars and lies they eat up. Trump made $2.2 billion in 2025 per the Wall Street Journal as our ctzns go bankrupt w/inflation. His policies are only for the rich!😰posting on maga x accts</p>
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<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@howard-1931.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 03:49 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">As usual, MSNBC is not interested in real news. Just grabbing headlines for ratings. Corpo-media at its 'finest.'</p>
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<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@richinottawa.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 03:58 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Why would this player want to represent the US? If politicians called my mother the names that this admin is calling people in Flo Balogun's mother's situation, no way in hell would I even want to set foot in such a country.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Raised by Voles</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@raisedbyvoles.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 03:48 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">So is he a hero or a pawn?
Stay tuned and don't touch that dial...</p>
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<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@thatmanglenn.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 04:06 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">But Hayes looks like the Dem version of Mal y Lardo face.
He makes maddow look masculine</p>
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<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@patriciarc58.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 03:44 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">maga morons condone birther tourism with trump
he gets 10 per cent of every deal</p>
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<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@deon-botl.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 03:07 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">First and only journalist to say the thing I've been yelling since the second this ruling happened. They want to kill the amendment that makes it possible for him to be on the team and almost no one else has made this connection</p>
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<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@carlosdecolorado.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 03:42 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Who cares? Can yall look into mitch and why the hell his widow is paying visits to the Chinese veep??</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Jazzy girl 🐸💙🐾</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@jazzygirl.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 12:30 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Unless it benefits them in someway.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">DC3 in the 'sky ✈️</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@dc3inthesky.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 03:27 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Imagine the &quot;Win One For Balogun&quot; rally if DJT hadn't interfered.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Feed the Guillotine; Eat the Rich</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@mscrabappletree.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 04:42 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Thanks to Balogun's accidental American citizenship (visiting pregnant mom was not allowed to fly home), Dump will be signing an EO instructing all airlines to honor, in fact insist upon, return tickets of all visiting pregnant women - even if they're in labor.</p>
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<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@sharkastic.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 01:49 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">It's spelled Flo BaloGUN. You can't get more American than that</p>
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<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@s-vdb.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 01:29 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">7 million natives.
300+ million migrants.
200 000 white supremacists all migrants, claim the US.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">cactus297.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@cactus297.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 01:48 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Republicans only support it if it's a benefit for them. Just like everything else!</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Roy B ☮️</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@rewerbyor.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 06:27 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Also a loser.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Melinda L</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@mjl2.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 7, 03:54 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Now that he didn’t give them the result they so desperately wanted, waiting for them to nab and deport him even though he’s a citizen.</p>
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