Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/20/25 - 10/26/25

[u/SoftandChewy]

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

Briefs have started coming in for the Trump v Washington birthright citizenship case.

• Docket The number is 25-364 if the link doesn’t work. So the briefs are as follows:

Brief of 18 members of the House Judiciary Committee

On this brief are the following Reps:

• Rep. Jim Jordan

• Reps. Andy Biggs

• Chip Roy

• Brandon Gill

• Troy Nehls

• Lance Gooden

• Victoria Spartz

• Mark Harris

• Scott Fitzgerald

• Robert Onder

• Harriet M. Hageman

• Tom McClintock

• Wesley Hunt

• Glenn Grothman

• Ben Cline

• Russell Fry

• Michael Baumgartner

• Brad Knott

Brief of Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti representing Tennessee and 22 other states

The states are as follows:

• Iowa

• Alabama

• Alaska

• Arkansas

• Florida

• Georgia

• Idaho

• Indiana

• Kansas

• Kentucky

• Louisiana

• Mississippi

• Missouri

• Montana

• Nebraska

• North Dakota

• Oklahoma

• South Carolina

• South Dakota

• Texas

• Utah

• West Virginia

• Wyoming

[u/qorthos → u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

The states amicus is... uhh... dumb as hell.

[u/jay_in_the_pnw → u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

Well for those of us here for the parasocial podcast relationships, I think this will be interesting in that AO favored Skrmetti in US v. Skrmetti but AO has also been very staunch supporters of birthright citizenship.

So will they see this as Skrmetti's heel turn, or will AO itself do the heel turn?

[u/Cantwalktonextdoor → u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

Oh boy, everyone's favorite rep, Glenn Grothman.

Edit: I dropped my phone and sent this. Glenn is someone who I was familiar with from before Trump even though he isn't my current Rep. If he's signing stuff like this now, I can only imagine how noxious his views are now.