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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

I mean it’s already extremely on the nose but if their plans get repeatedly denied and we just go the remainder of the term with a crater where the East Wing used to be it will be the best visual metaphor for this administration imaginable

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6h

lol, lmao even www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Reuters headline:

White House says it will submit ballroom plans for review, with demolition already under way

By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 7h

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening.

Make statues of this.

A woman in what looks like business attire with a black handbag over her shoulder stands in front of an armed vehicle flipping the bird with both hands. Unfortunately a friend sent this to me, I don’t know who the hero woman is or the photographer

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

This is from the Washington Times. The reason he is trying to arm up ICE and DHS is because the military won't do his bidding to take over cities

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6h

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former ...

www.washingtontimes.com

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 6h

it’s not a nazi tattoo, but if it is, he didn’t know it, and if he did know, he didn’t mean it, and if he meant it, he’s grown since then

no, fuck you

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 9h

whomst amongst us

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Smug Orange Man says “Let he who has NOT had a Nazi phase cast the first stone”

Panel 2: Orange man shits his pants as he is simultaneously pelted with a shitload of stones

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 12h

"The White House account has drawn only around 12,000 followers. More than 100,000 users have the account blocked."

makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: Inside the Trump Administration's Bluesky Invasion

Spoke with some administration officials who said the move was about "reaching new audiences." It's amounted to trench warfare.
www.wired.com/story/inside...

Inside the Trump Adminstration's Bluesky Invasion

On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

www.wired.com

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Wade Minter @wademinter.com · 6h

MEEEEEEETAPHOR!

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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cassie @dagmar27.bsky.social · 6h

Aaannd we're back to the 1980s again, I see. This is what happens when Congress turns into a nursing home. 😕

Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 7h

“the way to win men is by showing them that you don’t have standards” is advice I’ve heard before but generally it was in a context involving Jell-O shots and desperation, not the United States Senate

cassie @dagmar27.bsky.social · 6h

Um...no. 😐

Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 7h

A proposal to reduce the U.S. from 50 states to 38

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 7h

Thread.

McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 7h

So, I have a bag that I like. Super durable, holds a lot of stuff. I had a patch that I sewed on it, that I did not know when I sewed it on was a hate symbol. I found out. First thing I did was rip that patch right the fuck off the bag. Then I saw that there was sun fading.

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 7h

Did you know that if your ADHD is acting up and the thought of trying to find a measuring container for the rice is debilitating, you can just use the same container. A mug? Sure. One mug of rice, two mugs of water.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

I should clarify that I meant “I am skeptical that the Supreme Court will ultimately allow a lower court to do this, whatever the actual law is,” not that it isn’t obviously right under the law.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

I’m skeptical that a court can or will do this, but i think it has to be tried, because the GOP has descended to full lawlessness, and we don’t have any kind of government if the majority party can just refuse to recognize others.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 8h

NEW: The State of Arizona sues the House of Representatives, demanding that Speaker Mike Johnson seat Adelita Grijalva or that someone else be allowed to swear her in. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

PRAYER FOR RELIEF
Because there is no dispute as to Ms. Grijalva's election or qualifications, the Court should:
A. Issue a declaratory judgment stating that Ms. Grijalva shall be deemed a Member of the House of Representatives once she has taken the oath prescribed by law, see 5 U.S.C. § 3331;
B.
Issue a declaratory judgment stating that if Speaker Johnson has not administered
the oath, the oath may be administered to Ms. Grijalva by any person authorized by law to administer oaths under the law of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the State of
Arizona; and
C. Award other relief as the Court deems just and proper.
Dated: October 21, 2025
Respectfully submitted,
KRISTIN K. MAYES
Attorney General for the State of Arizona
By: /s/ Joshua D. Bendor
Joshua D. Bendor
D.D.C. Bar ID 031908
Solicitor General
Joshua A. Katz
Assistant Attorney General

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

ICE has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office.

You read that right — SEVEN HUNDRED PERCENT.

Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 8h

I’ll say it again. Not only did they invent this theory. They CHOSE to deliver it to THIS guy, a dangerous raving selfish moron. They could have waited four years and given it all to President Vance or whatever. They chose to give it to Trump.

Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 9h

Unitary executive theory is not wearing well, to say the least. Soon the judges and legal scholars who hatched it (based mostly on some tiny bits and pieces of constitutional text and a tendentious historical account) are going to be lepers. And they are going to richly deserve it.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if that new ballroom will be big enough to hold a Nuremberg trial.

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PWHL Seattle @pwhl--seattle.bsky.social · 9h

It's the dawn of a new era, and now we're dressed for the moment ✨

Shop home replica jerseys (limited quantities available!) here 👉 bit.ly/3WKOUSi

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s an email to send feedback:

[email protected]

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

ESPN running ICE ads. Just saw at the gym.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 9h

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 9h

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

— Elie Wiesel

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 11h

A great thing about our current moment is not being able to guess what "this" is, it could be any one of 10–15 things just in the last week

𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 11h

In any somewhat functioning country this would lead to the fall of the government

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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J.J. @jjfromkansas.bsky.social · 11h

Send this to the federal employee you know who is about to go without their paycheck again

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING

President Trump is demanding that the DOJ pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Any settlement will ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.

Full Story: nyti.ms/3WNm2sv

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

"the president is literally stealing $230 million of taxpayer money to pay himself and knocking down a wing of the white house in order to build a giant ballroom"

I dunno I feel like staggering levels of corruption could still be an effective campaign message

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 11h

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

A plane traveling from Omaha, Nebraska, to Los Angeles made an emergency landing after pilots mistakenly thought someone was trying to breach the cockpit.

A plane returned to a Nebraska airport over fear someone was trying to break into the cockpit

A plane traveling from Omaha, Nebraska, to Los Angeles made an emergency landing after pilots mistakenly thought someone was trying to breach the cockpit.

bit.ly

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

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