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Chartoc @chartoc.bsky.social · 1m

Well, this will be a fun day. I have my check for the award dinner Wednesday evening.

But i don't know how to deposit it mobile.

Plus? I am near my bank, which is on base.

So I am debating either trying to deposit it via mobile or walk nearly 2 hours to do it in person.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

This is Trump’s make-believe story to justify murder.

The Times never says so.

The closest the Times gets to anything like that in the first eight grafs is calling it “legally questionable” in graf four.

Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

President Trump said on Thursday that he would bypass Congress rather than seek its approval to carry out military strikes against drug cartels that traffic narcotics to the United States, even as he vowed to expand the operation from attacks at sea to targets on land.
"I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war," Mr. Trump told reporters of his campaign of deadly strikes against vessels in the Caribbean Sea near Colombia and Venezuela. "I think we are going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK? We are going to kill them, you know? They are going to be, like, dead."

He made the remarks during a news conference at the White House to promote the work of agencies that Mr. Trump said were working to "arrest, prosecute and permanently remove" people who were part of an elaborate drug cartel operation inside the United States.
They came as the president has talked about expanding the legally questionable military operation he has undertaken over the past several weeks, in which nine airstrikes at sea have resulted in 37 acknowledged deaths.

The Senate is expected to vote next week on a bipartisan resolution that would bar the United States from engaging in hostilities inside Venezuela without explicit authorization by Congress.
The Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war, but formal declarations are rare and have not been issued since World War II. Lawmakers have more often passed authorizations for the use of military force to grant the president permission to use force against specific targets.

The last time a president sought such a resolution was in October 2002, when President George W. Bush asked for authorization to use military force against Iraq. Congress approved that measure, and it has been cited for decades as the legal basis for military operations around the world carried out by subsequent administrations of both parties.
Though he repeatedly referred to the military operation targeting drug trafficking as a "war," Mr. Trump said he would not seek any formal approval from lawmakers to continue striking boats or expand it to include airstrikes against countries like Venezuela, where he says the cartels originate.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

This is openly and clearly illegal based on the public statements and justifications from the Admin (specifically continuing to reference the FTO designation), and everyone in uniform involved down to the individual trigger pullers and analysts doing targeting need to face Article 32 hearings

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12h

No punishment any future admin could realistically deliver will be enough for this murderous regime. archive.today/sYuw3

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James Bennett @ubernostrum.bsky.social · 9h

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all" is a line that goes hard.

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James Bennett @ubernostrum.bsky.social · 9h

Chesterton, maddeningly, had it right and people like that one have it completely wrong.

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James Bennett @ubernostrum.bsky.social · Aug 24

G.K. Chesterton had a line about this in “The Man Who Was Thursday”:

"Mere mobs!" repeated his new friend with a snort of scorn. "So you talk about mobs and the working classes as if they were the question. You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars."

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 1h

yeah, seems necessary to point out at a moment like this that the last *major* physical expansion to the bunker (Bush 41) was a four year-plus project (that we know of?), and the last major technical overhaul (Bush 43) was almost as long. security requirements have only gotten MORE onerous since.

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 1h

Yup.

Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 15h

And because we know this is being done quickly, cheaply and with Trump-friendly but un-vetted contractors, we can now assume the previously secure President’s Emergency Operations Center will now be riddled with security holes—physical and electronic.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h

The bunker under the East Wing will also be upgraded, sources told CBS News. The White House Military Office is handling the renovation of the bunker, which is known as the President's Emergency Operations Center.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

Can someone like @davidpriess.bsky.social @tim-weiner.bsky.social explain what it will take to securely rebuild Presidential bunker, so we can understand what it's going to take to do 2X--this time, when Trump rebuilds *that kind* of bunker, & then again when President @aoc.bsky.social replaces it?

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 47m

Yeah, like — I get what she’s saying, but also we’re the coalition of folks that are in the tedious position of persuading our elites rather than the normies.

It’s the opposite dynamic she’s describing.

Dem elites are the ones out of step, not the damned normies. Jfc.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 1h

also, the historical consensus today is that most normies were decidedly *ahead* of the elite consensus when it came to the abolition of slavery. it was literally a whole thing we went through! neighbor against neighbor, man against the system, all that stuff!

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 1h

okay, I appreciate the point that is being made here, but this list is also ... mostly bullshit? all but like three and a half items on this particular list enjoyed fairly overwhelming public support when they were passed / fixed.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

“redoing part of the white house grounds” is, itself, an inaccurate description of what’s actually fucking happening here, you twit

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

counterpoint: i have seen democratic lawmakers, especially presidents, be quoted out of context like this for my entire adult life, and in this case, it’s arguably more true than those cases typically are

Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 17h

Don't take this quote out of context. The question was specifically about it Trump had additional priorities for redoing parts of the White House grounds.

Think whatever you want about what Trump is doing or not doing.

But understand the context of this quote, not just this selective snippet.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 11h

Also: the fact is that he suddenly demolished the East Wing during a shutdown and is not actually doing anything else, this ballroom is demonstrably his priority

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Are You Being Detained @sailbarque.bsky.social · 12h

We must be accurate about what the woman who answered a journalist’s question with “Your Mom.”

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

i will not be fucking lectured about context and accuracy by the papers and propagandists who brought us to this point

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 12h

Seriously. We do not need to give literal fascists the benefit of the most charitable interpretations of their words nor needs.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 13h

Fuck this liar, Platner has changed his story too many times, other people knew, *he* knew, he had stated nothing at all during the interview about covering it up!

We're to believe he *waited weeks* to get this dollar store special of a tattoo cover-up? And didn't mention it until the next day?

Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 13h

so…several weeks ago, he heard rumours his tattoo was a Nazi symbol but dismissed it as insane and didn’t look into it at all, not even to proactively prepare to address potential political attacks? instead, he waited for a news outlet to contact him with proof that it was a Nazi symbol?

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 10h

People talk about how bad it is to soak in the nazi stew of Twitter, but at some point we've got to talk about the edgelord nihilism of Bluesky and what that does to our worldviews and politics.

Blocking is better and more effective here, but it's gotta have some effect greater than zero, right?

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 11h

You guys the comrades on here are anxious to let you know they don’t care about the White House AT ALL because they are not privileged like you. Meanwhile their friend is like “pfft hold my beer, I am so advanced I am indifferent to 9/11. Top that, bitches.”

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 10h

Yes. Some louder than others

A black and white cat screaming at a moth on the ceiling

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 9h

Okay I guess you guys really like the cats so I’m going to drop one more link just in case anyone wants to support the shelter. Florence says thank you for your attention to this matter 🫡

southshorehumane.org

A mottled gray cat sitting on a desk and looking at the camera

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 10h

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Two cats sitting on top of cages and looking at the ceiling

Two cars on the floor staring up at the ceiling

Two young kittens in a cage taking notice

A cat standing on her hind legs to reach for a moth

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Jeffries on a death threat made against him by a pardoned J6 criminal: "Not a single Republican has reached out to me since that incident occurred, and that's no surprise because they cannot defend the fact that Donald Trump pardoned hundreds of violent felons who brutally beat police officers."

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Cass @caveatofcass.bsky.social · 16h

Me, having the hot take of the fucking century, and it's just "the senate minority leader knows how to do his job, unlike random dumbasses on Bluesky"

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Cass @caveatofcass.bsky.social · 16h

Being old is not equivalent to being a fucking Nazi. These people are fucking morons who won't ever admit that maybe Senator Schumer does, in fact, know what he's doing.

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OMC Panda @omcpanda.bsky.social · 20h

I sense that the media is starting to blame the Democratic Party for Platner, rather than the Bernietariat.

Mainstream Dems saw the danger and Mills entered the primary.

It’s Bernie, the Do Somethings, and DSA who have been doubling down.

Don’t get it twisted.

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