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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 1h

What Trump and Vance have done to our White House.

Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t have words

A whole side of the white house has been trashed as if by a hurricane

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 3h

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · Jul 2

The GOP's Medicaid-busting tax scheme is filled with poison pills antithetical to the values of our people. So I wrote a proper preamble for their big, ugly bill.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 2h

Echoes of the 1980s: “Trump himself ensured workers were told to remove the bronze latticework with blowtorches, separate the friezes from the walls with jackhammers, and throw them down into the interior of the building where they shattered into a million pieces.” news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

Headline: When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 2h

"The bedrock principles of due process and equal protection have long ensured that government officials may not use courts to punish and imprison their perceived personal and political enemies."

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

James Comey wants 'vindictive' case dropped and Trump's prosecutor disqualified

The Constitution "forbids the government from retaliating against individuals for their protected speech," the former FBI director's team argued in a court filing.

www.nbcnews.com

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 2h

Local news appears to be leaning heavily on him being "mentally ill" and a "convicted felon". Certainly not looking at his social media yet.

Anyway I'm glad no one was hurt.

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2h

This is the man who almost shot up Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta.

A news article which states:

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A Cartersville man is facing several charges after law enforcement said he went to the world’s busiest airport on Monday to “shoot it up.”

Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said Billy Joe Cagle, 49, was arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

At around 9:40 a.m., Cartersville police informed the Atlanta Police Department of a threat to the airport.

Cagle’s family told Cartersville police that he was heading to the airport and had threatened to shoot. His family also told police that he had been livestreaming on social media before he got into the airport shortly after 9:30 a.m.

A Facebook prof8pe for Billy Cagle with the title "Traditional Man."

Billy Cagle shared a facebook post from the Donald Trump for President Facebook Group which says:

"I worked for everything i have. Most auccessful people have done the same. No, you arent "entitled" to it. Too damn bad. Get it the way i did. WORK FOR IT.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 2h

As some of my moots can tell you, I am a member of _many_ Dem group chats and listservs — perhaps too many. You know what never crops up in them?

Open racism and eliminationist threats. In 20 years of stuffed inboxes and notification pings, I can't recall coming across it.

Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 2h

These are actually worse than the "young" Republican texts www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 4h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Denise Lee @dadavies.bsky.social · 2h

The Irish giving The Onion a run for their 💰

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 2h

@thetattooedprof.bsky.social bringing heat

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4h

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Blind man handcuffed, dragged by federal agents at ICE facility, he says

Quinn Haberl, a blind protester, says federal agents at Portland's ICE facility dragged and handcuffed him twice. Both incidents were on video.

www.kgw.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2h

The imagery of the destruction of the White House would be good material for @democrats.org.

Instead of “Build that Wall,” Trump voters are getting “Build that Ballroom!”

(Add in the gilded Oval Office and contrast it all with the cuts to healthcare, SNAP, etc. There’s just so much to work with.)

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

Voters will consider whether to adopt Voter ID For ME, a Republican-backed ballot measure, also known as Question 1. Part of a far broader GOP war on mail voting nationwide, Question 1 contains 25 different provisions affecting voting rules, many of them restricting access to mail voting.

A GOP-Backed Ballot Measure Could Radically Restrict Mail Voting in Maine

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

1. I am happy these stories are getting written
2. None of them are the least bit surprising, least of all this one about edgelord too squeamish to use the real word so he uses an italian american substitute instead www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Denise Lee @dadavies.bsky.social · 2h

It makes 🤮 when their defense is always “they clearly read as self-deprecating and satirical humor making fun of the fact that liberals outlandishly and routinely call MAGA supporters ‘Nazis,’” said his lawyer. They’re racist POS, & that’s not funny, in English or Italian.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 3h

Also...

Remind me again who hates America?

Which guy, which party started the week by literally ripping up the fabric of the center of American democracy?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4h

omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 5h

If a "clean CR" spikes my constituents’ health insurance premiums, it’s not clean. It’s dirty and puts the interests of the richest Americans ahead of Minnesota and I won’t vote for it.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 6h

Got buried in the news this weekend, but President Jesus said the F word on CNN at like 2pm in the afternoon. The next day he posted a poop-filled scat video, but tell Me more about the dignity of the office of the presidency.

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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 5h

"Old Joe" was put there during Jim Crow

No other invading army or terrorist organization gets to build monuments on US Soil

Confederate "soldiers" died as pardoned traitorous...not veterans

Washington's army = Lincoln's army = My Army

No monuments to traitorous bigots

I'm American. I fucking HATE nazis. I'm a homicidal maniac, not a traitorous bigot.
~Joker

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

What did Andrew Cuomo learn from his #metoo experience?

That kids these days are "hypersensitive" and he did nothing wrong.

I asked Andrew Cuomo some questions

On "Morning Joe," I asked the mayoral hopeful if his #MeToo scandals had changed him, and what he missed about Zohran's appeal. Also, I tried to teach him how to say "Mamdani"

the.ink

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 8h

“The goal of this strategy is to eliminate independent media which both enables robust public discourse, and serves as a check on the government. This is part of a broader pattern of attacking civil society...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5h

💥New from Drop Site: “We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

Gaza journalist Mohamed Suleiman reports farmers are missing their third olive harvest as Israel’s war devastates the industry.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-olive...

“We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

Gaza’s olive groves have been bulldozed by the Israeli military, dried up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving Palestinian farmers with little to harvest.

www.dropsitenews.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5h

"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese

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Denise Lee @dadavies.bsky.social · 5h

And it was a gamble using money illegally diverted by Trump. He stole that money from Congressionally-designated programs. So tired of how the press frames Trump as a simple rogue & not the criminal he is.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5h

Not to be THAT dictionary, but…

It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

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