They thought they could erase birthright citizenship by executive order. They came closer than it ever should have. They were originalists until the text of the Fourteenth Amendment got in the way. So did 128 years of settled Supreme Court precedent. open.substack.com/pub/marksj…

LeBron James Says Stephen A. Smith Is ONLY Relevant Because LeBron Responds. LeBron: When you take it and get personal… LeBron: It’s my job to protect my damn household. LeBron: i think a lot of the media, including him… LeBron: He’s gonna be smiling ear to ear when he hears me talking about him.

I got the “Fork in the Road” email. Russell Vought—OMB director and a chief architect of Project 2025—can’t name one thing DOGE did right. Just the billions they paid people not to work. Started as a joke. Ended as one. I wrote about what it cost. open.substack.com/pub/marksj…

Couldn’t name a single successful DOGE initiative. Unless traumatizing the workforce and spending billions to pay people not to work counts as efficiency. They handed Musk the chainsaw. Now: no report. No audit. No receipts. open.substack.com/pub/marksj…

DAMN -- Sen. Thom Tillis destroys Ross Vought about DOGE's fake budget cuts, and accusing him of "word salad answers" "You worked in the business world at B. Dalton's books through law school... I don't love the idea of DOGE because people did it wrong"

A joke became a federal demolition project. The damage: incalculable. We’ll never know what DOGE cost. No audit. No closing report. No receipts. Nothing. Who needs lawyers and lobbyists when the president lets you inside the computer? open.substack.com/pub/marksj…

Outstanding piece by @washingtonsun. I spoke with @AlmsNatalie for this story. The U.S. refugee program is now working almost entirely for one population. Not Afghans. Not Syrians. Not Congolese. Not Sudanese. White South Africans.

Legal yesterday. Removable tomorrow. This is what it looks like when lawful presence is converted into deportability at scale. I wrote about this today in Volume IV of The Project 2025 Chronicles: The Court Clears the Path. open.substack.com/pub/marksj…

One of the largest de-legalizations of an authorized workforce in modern U.S. history is now underway. DHS has informed employers through E-Verify that TPS-based work authorization for nationals of Syria, Haiti, Somalia, Yemen, 1/2

Quoted in today’s NYT on the absurdity of what’s become of the refugee program: “It’s the moral and legal inversion of what this work is about.” Fantastic reporting by @Haleaziz and @KannoYoungs.

They wrote the blueprint. Now the planes are leaving. Last Friday, the U.S. deported people to the Central African Republic — a country where our own government tells Americans to leave DNA samples before entering. The Project 2025 Chronicles, Vol II marksjasond.substack.com/p/w…

State tells Americans to draft a will before traveling to the Central African Republic. The U.S. is sending people there a judge found would likely be tortured if sent home. The US spent decades protecting people from places like this. Now we’re the ones sending them.

The Project 2025 Chronicles Vol. I: The Refugee Officer Was on the List A blueprint becomes a government at blinding speed — I spent eleven years inside the systems it's taking apart. marksjasond.substack.com/p/t…

War with Iran has uprooted millions across a region already carrying massive displacement. The U.S. found the money, resources, and refugee processing capacity — but chose one emergency to prioritize. For white Afrikaners. The Emergency America Chose open.substack.com/pub/marksj…

Most people think becoming a refugee means fleeing danger. That's not quite how it works. The legal standard is exacting. The process is brutal. And the system America built to resettle refugees is closing its gates. What It Takes to Become a Refugee: open.substack.com/pub/marksj…

100,000 conditionally approved. That means years of vetting, biometrics, interagency security checks, medical screenings, interviews, and adjudication. The cruelty here is not abstract. These were people who had already done everything the system asked of them.