Congress should not be codifying Trump's socialist behavior and should not be making it easier (and legal) for future presidents to follow suit. reason.com/2026/06/18/trump-…

📰ETGE Demands Parity With Tibet as U.S. Senate Committee Advances Uyghur Policy Act Exile government says decades of a failed human-rights-only framework prove only decolonization can guarantee the East Turkistani people’s survival. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) today welcomed the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s advancement of the Uyghur Policy Act of 2025 (S.1542), urging the full Senate to enact it and pressing Congress and the @realDonaldTrump Administration to go further by appointing a Special Coordinator for East Turkistani Issues at the @StateDept and treating East Turkistan on par with Tibet. Introduced by Senator @SenJohnCurtis, cosponsored by @SenJeffMerkley, and originally authored by Secretary of State @MarcoRubio during his Senate tenure, the bill directs the Department of State to prioritize support for Uyghurs in diplomacy and foreign aid, train Foreign Service Officers in the Uyghur language, and counter Beijing’s efforts to block consideration of Uyghur issues in international forums. A companion bill, H.R. 2635, introduced by Congresswoman @RepYoungKim passed the House in September 2025. “We commend Senators Curtis and Merkley and the committee for advancing this bill, and we urge its swift passage,” said Dr. @MamtiminAla, President of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile. “Yet five years after the United States formally recognized this genocide in January 2021, no meaningful action has been taken to end it. So long as the world treats it as a human rights problem rather than the product of Chinese colonial occupation, the systematic erasure of our nation will continue unabated.” The ETGE warned that by branding the East Turkistani people — Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples who form the majority population of East Turkistan — as “minority groups” within the so-called “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” the bill adopts the very vocabulary Beijing engineered to bury its crimes as an “internal affair,” deny the East Turkistani people’s inalienable right to self-determination, and colonize and erase an entire nation with impunity. The international community must recognize these atrocities as instruments of genocide and colonial subjugation rooted in China’s illegal occupation of East Turkistan, not isolated human rights violations to be managed. Beijing has signaled no intention of stopping its campaign of genocide and colonial subjugation. During a tour of East Turkistan earlier this month, Wang Huning, Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee and a member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, ordered “regular counterterrorist efforts” and urged enforcement of the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, which the ETGE has condemned as codifying genocide. May 23, 2026 marked twelve years since China launched its so-called “Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism,” the euphemism for an ongoing campaign of genocide and crimes against humanity carried out through mass internment, enslavement through forced labor, forced sterilizations and abortions, industrial-scale organ harvesting, and the systematic destruction of Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic cultures across occupied East Turkistan. That the genocide continues into its thirteenth year is itself proof that a human rights framework alone cannot end it. Without confronting the colonial occupation that drives these crimes, international condemnation has neither constrained China nor slowed the destruction of the East Turkistani nation. Only the speedy restoration of East Turkistan’s independence can guarantee the fundamental human rights and very survival of its people. “Tibet has a Special Coordinator at the State Department. East Turkistan deserves no less,” said @SalihHudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security of the ETGE and President of the East Turkistan National Movement. “The United States and Western democracies must, at a minimum, treat us on par with Tibet by recognizing our right to self-determination, using our country’s actual name instead of a Chinese colonial term, and extending the support long given to the Tibetan cause.” The ETGE further called on the United States to impose new targeted sanctions on the Chinese officials and entities driving these crimes, and to support East Turkistan’s petition before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization (@UNDPPA), to guarantee the fundamental human rights and self-determination of the East Turkistani people. east-turkistan.net/etge-dema…

Interesting explanation from @grok on its explanation of changing illegal to undocumented in a discussion we had. See last paragraph. Glad to see it's still in the learning phase and not part of the propaganda! Q: Why did you refer to people here as undocumented rather than illegal? They violated federal law coming here or overstaying their legal status. Illegal is a more accurate description rather than the political term undocumented. Both parties referred to them as Illegal until the last 10-20 years. Using undocumented is why people claim they are not here illegally, despite the fact they clearly are. A: Fair point on terminology. I used "undocumented" in prior responses because it's common in much recent legal analysis, court opinions, and media coverage of these specific local voting programs (e.g., San Francisco's). But you're correct that it's a softer, more recent framing that can obscure the underlying legal violation for many people present without authorization. Legal Accuracy Under U.S. immigration law (Immigration and Nationality Act, Title 8 U.S. Code): An "alien" is any person who is not a U.S. citizen or national (8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(3)). Federal statutes explicitly use "illegal alien" for those in the country unlawfully—whether by unlawful entry (a misdemeanor under 8 U.S.C. § 1325) or overstaying a visa (unlawful presence, generally a civil violation but triggering removability). Examples include 8 U.S.C. § 1365 (reimbursement for incarcerating "illegal aliens") and others. "Illegal immigrant" is also widely used and descriptive of the status. "Undocumented" emerged more prominently in the 1960s–1990s and gained traction in the 2000s–2010s via advocacy groups, media style guides (e.g., AP updates discouraging "illegal immigrant" as a label for people), and some Democratic messaging. It emphasizes lack of paperwork rather than the violation of law. Critics (including Heritage Foundation, FAIR, and some courts/doj guidance under prior administrations) call it a euphemism that downplays the breach of federal immigration statutes. Historical Bipartisan Usage Both parties routinely used "illegal" or "illegal alien" for decades: President Bill Clinton, Barack Obama-era speeches, and many Democrats referred to "illegal immigrants. "The shift accelerated post-2010 with campaigns like "Drop the I-Word" from advocacy organizations. Biden's administration directed agencies to prefer "undocumented noncitizen." Earlier Republican and Democratic presidents (Reagan, etc.) operated under laws codifying "illegal alien." The core reality doesn't change with wording: Entering or remaining without legal authorization violates federal law for the vast majority in that category. Not every case is a criminal "illegal entry" (e.g., visa overstays), but unlawful presence has clear legal consequences (deportability, bars on benefits, etc.). In the LA voting context, the distinction matters less for the legal analysis I provided earlier—federal law's carve-out for local elections applies based on residency, not immigration compliance. Programs can include people who are here unlawfully. That said, precise language like "illegal alien" or "noncitizen present in violation of immigration law" better reflects the statutory framework without softening it. I'll stick closer to statutory terms going forward where it fits. The policy debate over noncitizen local voting stands on its own merits regardless.

They are not getting anything done, no codifying @POTUS EO's, though @SpeakerJohnson swore he would do that First thing...crickets...we have allot of traitors in government and we need to vote them out!!!

Not the same way codifying it into law does, no, and neither do you.

There’s no way you looked at the photos of Michael displayed on the screen and your first thought was “gorgeous”. He’s hideous. And his husband needs to be tried for treason for codifying propaganda and allowing people like Brittney here to capitalize off of it.

They’re simply codifying what they’ve been doing, since they’ve discovered it works.

It’s pretty obvious to me. Remember when we were told that in Jan 2026 they were going to go gang buster on codifying EOs…🦗? They are stalling everything including appointments.

yeah exactly, ai is already extractively harvesting taste from ppl/creators. codifying human preferences into usable infra is at least an attempt to keep people in control rather than letting models flatten everything. still grim overall, but a smarter use of effort than just blind extraction (and frankly futile complaining)

🧵 ISW June 18 with two updates that receive less attention than burning refineries but matter more for the long term: First: Russia facilitated the deportation of Ukrainian children from occupied Enerhodar to Russian-run summer camps in occupied Crimea - organized by Rosenergoatom, the nuclear energy operator. Russian occupation officials are restricting these transfers in response to Ukraine's strike campaign making the camps less accessible. Second: Putin signed a decree codifying Russia's penetration into the most local level of the legal system in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Russian state-owned Sberbank is expanding in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk. Teenagers in occupied Donetsk received first-time Russian passports in a Russia Day ceremony. Ukraine's strike campaign is generating economic pain in occupied Crimea and limiting Russia's ability to transfer children. Both are documented by ISW on the same day Moscow's largest refinery burns for the second time in a week. 🧵 ⬇️ x.com/BrennpunktUA/status/20…

W! Though I may be 21 now, but codifying the 18-20-year-old carry ruling into state law is still very important to me.

sure, and i'll restate orthos are very pro jewish, they have sections of your church specifically for hebrews as part of the architecture. and as i stated earlier, codifying jewish foundational myths as true serves no one except the jews.

Ask Nanak, he was very vocal about Hindus. Sikhs till today are still codifying sikhi. Sikhi is not a religion but copy paste work of multiple people. Hindus, Muslim verses are copied into Sikh book. It’s the most confused and third class ideology.

The fruit of Vatican II says otherwise. "Calling the Church back to the Bible and early Fathers and Councils"? Tell me where in the Bible blessings for those in 'irregular relationships' is approved. Tell me where a Synod is mentioned for Church leadership. Explain to me why the Latin Mass is being choked out of existence. Explain to me the approving of the homosexual lifestyle and practice. Explain to me why after Vatican II belief in transubstantiation plummeted if Vatican II called the Church back to it's roots (I can, when we stopped treating the Eucharist and the actual body and blood of our Savior, people believed accordingly). Vatican II was a disaster for the Church, and Leo is codifying it.

The Media Industrial Complex is in full, flailing retreat along Overton’s Goalpost, discombobulated by the very off-ramp it spent months insisting Donald Trump could never locate without catastrophic loss of face or strategic leverage. Because they never understood the game Trump was playing until it was too late. During the controlled burn of the Iranian theater, the same media voices and their Uniparty representatives declared confidently that no diplomatic path existed short of their preferred endpoints: perpetual entanglement or a decisive regime change operation on their terms, which they conflated with Trump's. Now, with the 14-point memorandum of understanding signed ahead of schedule—codifying an immediate and permanent ceasefire, phased sanctions relief, a $300 billion rehabilitation framework, the urgent reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a 60-day window for final (and also fake) nuclear negotiations—the narrative has inverted with comical speed, leaving the Media Protectorate in the unfortunate position of needing to present the solution as the problem. To wit, they now claim that Trump's off-ramp with the Iranian Regime (the very one they claimed was impossible for months) is itself suddenly representative of the true crisis. 'Trump is making concessions to a terrorist regime!' They cry. 'He has squandered leverage it took a generation of Proxy War to acquire!' They exclaim. 'He has extended a lifeline to a once-proud empire we almost squeezed into dust that leaves nuclear infrastructure, defensive autonomy and financial networks intact!' Overton's Goalpost has not just shifted; it has been torn from the earth and hurled backward in a display of narrative desperation that borders on self-parody. This is an untenable and absurd position, and one into which the enemy has been deliberately trapped. The same apparatus that spent the better part of a year decrying the absence of diplomacy now treats its arrival as proof of strategic malpractice. In doing so, it reveals one of the great second-order effects of Trump’s joint mass psychological operation conducted with elements of the Iranian regime: the systematic exposure of the War Hawks and NeoCons who have long pretended to forward his agenda in the region and beyond while harboring singular devotion to the perpetuation of the very Forever War construct they pretend to oppose. These are the voices—embedded across the Uniparty, within the media protectorate, and even among self-styled America First hearts and minds—who cheered throatily for the surface kinetics Trump kicked off in February, only to recoil when the deeper actuals began to codify the sort of peace through pragmatic strength Trump has always been in service to, and that some of us never lost sight of. Theater by theater, from the Venezuela model to the current Iranian recalibration and no doubt a few to follow, story by story, Trump's masterclass in narrative control is dismantling the pressure valves that has perpetuated the Unipolar Regime for decades by depriving the Invisible Enemy, the System itself of each of its core animating engines of war. Its reasons. Its anti-purpose. As I said at the beginning of my Iran War series, the fog is not obscuring the war. The fog is the war. And the war is a story whose ending they cannot abide. And nowhere is the exposure of this dialectic rendered more cleanly visible than among the hardline factions in Israel and their Uniparty echoes on either side of the Atlantic. Livid at Trump's memorandum, what remains of the Israeli hardliner regime is framing the deal as an existential threat while vowing to pursue “real regime change” through creative means unbound by any agreement. They insist the deal does not bind Israel, demand the continuation of maximalist campaigns to dismantle Hezbollah and topple the Iranian order without compromise or negotiation, and treat any cessation of hostilities as strategic surrender. In their fury, they confirm what the Invisible Enemy has always known, but which it has rarely been forced to articulate so nakedly: that Trump’s operations constitute the continuance of the Sovereign Disentanglement playbook I first named in January, and which was designed precisely to thwart the real, chaotic regime change operations favored by globalist architects—operations that would and have fractured once-sovereign structures into perpetual proxy hellscapes serving only the Collectorate’s interests. A template they have perfected over generations, and one they have cleverly disguised through the provacation and perpetuation of war and all the real it hath wrought across the reality divide. By declaring, in effect that they will not and cannot suffer peace to endure, they say the quiet part aloud, stripping the mask from a mechanistic and monstrous paradigm that requires war as its oxygen and the blood of the innocent to fill veins gone barren and cold under God's disregard. It is for this reason that 'strength' has always been the operative word in the doctrine of peace that Trump embodies, a legacy most notably radiated by John F. Kennedy before him, and whose legacy he embodies. Trump, by wielding the Story of War with aplomb and drama, and yes, by cultivating mass psychological mandate AGAINST his Story's perpetuation than in favor of it has created the conditions under which genuine rapprochement becomes possible, not as supplication or submission, but as catharsis and resolution. Trump has never been alone in this endeavor. The Sovereign Alliance—that decentralized convergence of sovereign poles, coordinated pincer maneuvers and aligned elements within once-adversarial states themselves—continues to supply the narrative shielding each requires to construct an actual multipolar mesh made up of the emergent regions of responsibility that will render unilateral action at once unnecessary and impossible. And the Invisible Enemy knows this, which is why their panic at the deal’s advancement, their rush to reframe negotiation as capitulation and their open calls for the very Regime Change they once opposed are the final proof: they know the game is up, and that the Peacemakers have turned their own Hegelian machinery against them. So, as the story of Donald Trump continues, and as the Sovereign Alliance is increasingly-revealed to those who doubted its existence, and as the Actuals of the Multipolar World emerge out of the wreckage of the Narratives that once bound it, the warmongers, stripped of narrative cover are left arguing that peace itself is the problem. While acknowledging a truth I first communicated at the start of Trump's Kobayashi Maru: That peace was always an option. And that it will have its day when we have ours.

In July the Kenosha County Board will consider codifying a one-year moratorium on the approval of battery energy storage systems across all county jurisdictions. It will also consider its first kenoshanews.com/news/local/a…

But they think they do own it . They are being emboldened to think so and codifying UNDRIP was a deeply stupid thing to do.