just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026@jddinbobo.bsky.social Hello, would you please unfollow me? I'm not on here for followers. Thanks for understanding. 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A more accurate headline would be: "trump admin planning to violate Constitution, again " 0110
Reposted by just gilBerin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel 399208734813
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026he got what he paid for. buy the ticket, take the ride. 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 25/08/2026way to minimize the involvement of an all-white crew, and pivot to something else completely. bravo 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 15/08/2026stop framing this as a "backlog" and start reporting it for what it is: racism 040
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 10/08/2026that's kinda the point, isn't it? with the entirety of the epstien class in charge, and their endless ties to foreign money... our adversaries didn't need to fire a single shot, they just bought the corrupt and had them slash all of our safety nets. 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Translation: "You don't need a 401k because we're going to work you to death" 001
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 26/07/2026how many people will have to die from preventable diseases for you to stop publishing these bullshit opinions? 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 22/07/2026alternative headline: Trump's failures are a sight to be seen 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I'm sure it's a coincidence and Epstein learned his lesson 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 18/07/2026putting the iran war in the same framing as the iraq and afghan wars is incredibly short-sighted. do better, NPR 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 09/07/2026You mean, "after falling asleep at a meeting in front of the whole world" ?... 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 06/07/2026with all due disrespect, FUCK ENGLAND! as a Mexican Immigrant who grew up in California, I feel like I can say that 010
Reposted by just gilderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ 3854091491
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I'll say it again, it sucks that vets volunteers are needed to take care of the grounds that are supposed to help them. this is not a feel-good story 100
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 02/06/2026it sucks that vets volunteers are needed to take care of the grounds that are supposed to help them. this is not a feel-good story 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 03/05/2026this is called "alcoholism" , and a lot of vets are affected by it 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 02/05/2026stop giving this clown and circus of an administration any legitimacy 010
Reposted by just gilderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/04/2026how it feels to say "sprezzatura" 404140731557
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I like to get there early, too. I usually smoke a blunt right before walking into the airport. if you've never experienced being baked at the airport, you are missing out. listen to some classical music and just watch the dance that unfolds. truly a great experience 130
Reposted by just gilRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Great speech, dude. 782183085664
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 27/03/2026please be safe out there @ricksteves.bsky.social may peace be upon you 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 27/03/2026stay safe out there @ricksteves.bsky.social We still need you 000
just gil @giltoken.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Hey Mark, that "truth" post doesn't look real. look at the year in the date area. it says 22026 120
Reposted by just gilOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Boy if only the Bezos Post had some example in the real world, like a major American city, of congestion pricing working just fine. @postopinions.bsky.social 22826152
![Still, most freed Blacks resisted the pressure to self-deport. Instead, many started organizing toward the creation of the kind of Nation the colonizationists opposed—one that guaranteed liberty and justice for all. In the decades leading up to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Black Americans organized and gathered at more than 600 local and national conventions across the country. There, delegates erected the political and intellectual scaffolding for the Fourteenth Amendment and, later, for the Black Civil Rights Movement more generally.
Critically for present purposes, these visionaries already understood themselves to be American citizens. “The refrains ‘we are Americans’ and ‘we are citizens’ echoed in conferences throughout the North.” Moreover, “[b]irthright figured importantly” as “delegates frequently characterized their status as that of native-born citizens.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreieuwdbxpjo22e7fg26a65dobwofwaytq6ilqp4cy7bcicw5fsk63a)
![The delegates argued that, as such, they had the requisite allegiance, so, at a minimum, the Federal Government owed them the duty of protection.
The famed orator Frederick Douglass was one of these delegates. Capturing the spirit of the moment, Douglass proclaimed that Chief Justice Taney—the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857)—“[could] do many things, but he [could not] … change the essential nature of things.” In the absence of the artificial evils of slavery and racial subordination, Douglass explained, “the glorious birthright of our common humanity, will become the inheritance of all the inhabitants of this highly favored country.”
Do note this: The citizenship thesis of the Colored Conventions was thus not that some new status should be created and conferred on freed Blacks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreidxenf7ggfe5sghdwpe5v7pwn3kfh4mqkxiccusnrknq7zfr7qhtm)
![It was instead that freed Blacks already had a rightful claim to citizenship because they had been born on American soil. After all, the Nation, from its founding, had “boldly proclaim[ed] that all men are born free and equal, and that consequently life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are inherent in every individual, vested inalienably by natural birthright.” No ideal was more inherently American. Now, “rest[ing their] cause on the republican standard of the revolutionary Fathers,” freed Blacks were “knock[ing] at the doors of the constitution and demand[ing] an entrance.” And “[i]f … asked what evidence [they] bring to sustain [their] qualifications for citizenship, [they would] offer them certificates of … BIRTH and NATIVITY.” Would the Nation live up to its promise?
Such universalist appeals were a conscious choice. Yes, Black Americans had suffered a singular wrong. And yes, they had “fought and bled” for the Union, paying a steep price for their freedom. But the delegates did not rest on these laurels. Rather, they drew upon the moral and political force of the universal principles that were already core to the Nation’s identity.
That bears repeating: Freed Blacks did not advocate for a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation. Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to, or at the expense and exclusion of, other marginalized groups.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreig7o5wpfpkbjt7zcvghbco4zafj6m64etq7blz7r542gh7b3gn3oa)
![Instead, those whose gatherings helped galvanize the push for full equality understood that “[a] diverse origin does not disprove a common nature, nor does it disprove a united destiny.” The firmest foundation for freedom would require an anticaste reset—“both for his sake and for ours”—and would benefit all.
During his U. S. Senate candidacy, Abraham Lincoln developed a similar vision. In the lead-up to the now-famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln explained that the promise of liberty and equality in the Declaration of Independence “was held sacred by all, and thought to include all.” Lincoln expressly and intentionally linked the fate of Black Americans and immigrant groups (“among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all” of the Founders), and noted that the Nation’s future hinged on a universal definition of citizenship that excluded neither. He explained that the Declaration’s promise that “all men are created equal” was the “electric cord … that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together,” regardless of race or descent.
The case was made. First, there was war. And then, the delegates’ (and Lincoln’s) universalist view of citizenship made its mark on the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreigucpltb6mmwuwxswipazl56ki3v4dmsr7fx4lkmf5jncrsuvwp4a)
