Category: United States

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government’s website

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

LARGE SECTIONS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION WERE REMOVED FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S OFFICIAL PAGE
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Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government’s website (archived)

These sections largely relate to the powers that Congress has and does not have, as well as limitations on the powers of individual states. The removal includes sections relating to habeas corpus, the powers that protect citizens from unlawful detention. 

Some of the sections’ text appears missing, as indicated by a trailing semicolon at the end of Section 8, where text used to follow.

In a tweet posted on Wednesday, the Library of Congress said the sections were missing “due to a coding error” and expect it to be “resolved soon.” When contacted by TechCrunch, a spokesperson for the Library of Congress did not say what caused the coding error, or how it was introduced.

Changing the U.S. Constitution’s text on the website does not change or have any effect on U.S. law, but it nevertheless follows senior Trump administration official Stephen Miller’s threats earlier this year to suspend habeas corpus.

Poem: Fault Lines

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Lenin, V. I. (1910, November 28). L. N. Tolstoy and the Modern Labour Movement. Nash Put, (7).

Despair is a house with no windows,
where the walls hum with questions
but no one answers.
It is the silence after the sirens,
the stillness that mimics peace
but tastes like surrender.

They say evil is a shadow—
but shadows need light to exist.
What if it’s not a shadow,
but the architecture itself?
The blueprint etched in centuries,
the scaffolding of profit and power
draped in velvet myths.

I sat in that house for years,
thinking the rot was mine.
That the cracks in the ceiling
were symptoms of my softness.
But then I learned to name the mold,
to trace the fault lines
back to hands I never shook.

Struggle is not a war cry.
It is the quiet refusal
to mistake the cage for the sky.
It is patience sharpened into blade,
waiting not for rescue,
but for the moment the hinges loosen.

And when the door gives way—
not with glory, but with grit—
I will not run.
I will walk,
carrying the map I drew
in the dark.

—Tina Marie

Author’s Note:

Lenin’s words suggest that despair is not a personal failing, but a symptom of disconnection—from history, from clarity, from struggle itself. Fault Lines is my attempt to trace that disconnection, not as a descent into hopelessness, but as a quiet reckoning. What if despair isn’t the absence of light, but the architecture we’ve inherited? And what if struggle begins not with noise, but with naming?

Albert Camus: Philosophy of Absurdity and Revolt

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

My Socialist Hall of Fame

During this chaotic era of vile rhetoric and manipulative tactics from our so-called bourgeois leaders, I am invigorated by the opportunity to reflect on Socialists, Revolutionaries, Philosophers, Guerrilla Leaders, Partisans, and Critical Theory titans, champions, and martyrs who paved the way for us—my own audacious “Socialism’s Hall of Fame.” These are my heroes and fore-bearers. Not all are perfect, or even fully admirable, but all contributed in some way to our future–either as icons to emulate, or as warnings to avoid in the future.

Albert Camus: Philosophy of Absurdity and Revolt

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