They’re not just coming for immigrants.
They’re coming for us.

Trump’s EO on birthright citizenship revives Dred Scott logic—where being born here means nothing if your bloodline isn’t “approved.”

Here’s how this targets the citizenship of descendants of enslaved Africans: 🧵

1/x Birthright Citizenship Has Always Been a Shield for Black Americans

After the Civil War, the U.S. ratified the 14th Amendment specifically to overturn the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, which said Black people could never be citizens of this country. The 14th made citizenship a right for all born on U.S. soil, regardless of race or ancestry. It was one of the only structural protections Black people had in a country built on our forced labor and legal exclusion. Without it, any hostile administration could decide we don’t belong.

Trump’s executive order weakens that shield. By redefining who qualifies as "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States, it inserts a new test: parental status. This change guts the guarantee that birth alone is enough. For Black Americans, whose ancestors were denied legal personhood and whose families fought generations for that citizenship, this is more than a policy shift. It’s a targeted rollback of the very legal floor that made our rights real. If this floor collapses, we fall further than most.

You ever wonder why the U.S. is so obsessed with Iran?

Why we’ve been on the brink of war for decades?
It all traces back to one coup in 1953—a story most people in the U.S. were never taught.

But once you know what really went down?
Everything else falls into place.
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1/x The Coup That Shaped the Modern Middle East

On August 19, 1953, Iran’s experiment with democracy was violently terminated. The United States, through the CIA, and the United Kingdom, via MI6, orchestrated a covert operation—Operation Ajax—to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Why? Because he dared to nationalize Iran’s oil industry, challenging the profits and control of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, now known as BP.

Mossadegh wasn’t a revolutionary socialist—or even particularly radical. He was just about democracy. A secular nationalist with overwhelming popular support, he embodied Iran’s desire for sovereignty. But in the eyes of the “West,” that sovereignty threatened economic domination. And so, with the Shah’s complicity and CIA field agents on the ground, a violent coup ensued.

What followed was not only the installation of an authoritarian monarch but also the beginning of a long, tangled history of U.S. imperial involvement in the Middle East. The coup became a model for future interventions—in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and beyond. It taught the U.S. ruling class that if a democratically elected government gets in the way of profits, it can be dealt with.

For Iranians, the betrayal was unforgettable. It is remembered as the moment the West chose oil over justice, capital over freedom, and empire over self-determination. And the aftershocks are still felt—every drone strike, every sanction, every threat or act of war carries the echo of that fateful day in 1953.

What if I told you hospitals and state governments have been running a decades-long scam to siphon off federal Medicaid funds—legally?

Billions of taxpayer dollars. No oversight. No accountability.

Let’s break down one of the biggest cons in U.S. healthcare: 🧵 It all started in 1989.
New Hampshire’s GOP governor had a budget crisis.
Instead of raising taxes or cutting costs, they invented a loophole:

Tax hospitals → inflate Medicaid costs on paper → get more $$ from the feds.

The state keeps the extra.

“We had their ads taken down.”

That’s not a slip. That’s the Speaker of the House bragging about censorship.

And it’s even worse than it sounds. 🧵 Mike Johnson stood at a press conference today and openly admitted that Republicans pressured platforms or outlets to remove ads from Democrats in swing districts.

Not because of a court ruling.
Not because of a fact-check.
Because they didn’t like what the ads were saying.

You won’t believe how sloppy this is:
Trump’s top officials planned a bombing campaign in Yemen…

…in a Signal group chat
…with a journalist accidentally in the thread.

Yes, seriously. 🧵 They dropped war plans—including weapons, targets, and timing—in real-time…

…to the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.

He was sitting in a grocery store parking lot reading U.S. military strike updates like it was a group project gone wrong.

Neoliberalism is a Death Spiral. It’s not just harming us domestically—it shapes our foreign policy, with deadly consequences.

U.S. neoliberalism prioritizes markets and national interests over human lives and global justice. Right now, our tax dollars support and finance actions in Gaza and Lebanon that leave innocent civilians trapped in violence, yet we’re told to “accept” this as part of the election cycle. Our foreign policy has a price of real lives, lost daily, due to policies that put power and profit over accountability and human rights.

Neoliberalism doesn’t just operate within our borders; it drives a foreign policy that actively enables destruction, labeling it ‘defense’ and normalizing perpetual conflict as a necessary cost.

If we claim to value democracy, justice, and humanity, then our actions must reflect it, especially abroad. Waiting until “after the election” is not an option. U.S. foreign policy isn’t about “defending democracy” or “promoting stability”—it’s just heavily marketed that way.

In reality, U.S. foreign policy primarily serves weapons manufacturers, defense contractors, and oil companies, which shape our approach to global conflicts, especially in regions with rich oil interests.