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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 3h

I was looking for Toledo, because I'm basic like that.

#MASH

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 7d

Uhh at this point does Los Angeles have more allies than the United States?

A permanent sign outside LA City Hall that says sister cities and it shows them going in every direction and how many miles away the city is

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Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · 6h

From June Lockhart’s NY Times obit.

RIP to a real one.

A political liberal, Ms. Lockhart had no illusions about the good old days. In a 2004 interview with The New York Times, she recalled a connection "Lassie" script writers had with McCarthy-era blacklisting.

"When people come up to me and say, 'Well, sure wish we had wonderful American shows like that the way we used to in the '50s;
I say: 'Let me tell you who wrote those scripts' Yes, they were good Americans, and they were in jail."

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 3h

I'm just saying, I've been editing Fandoms since they were called Wikis and I've never gotten a check...

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 6h

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom

The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.

www.forbes.com

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Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow.bsky.social · 7h

Oh so he’s upgrading the super secure bunker where the president can operate without fear of death or capture. Underneath his monument to himself where the rich (& only the rich) can pay their dues for access to his power circle. How red flags of “not leaving office willingly” do we need?

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19h

Talk about burying the lede: “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.” 10/22/25 www.cbsnews.com/news/demolis...

Trump administration plans to demolish White House's entire East Wing as ballroom cost grows to $300 million

The Trump administration is planning to demolish the entirety of the White House's East Wing as early as this weekend, two senior administration officials said, part of a ballroom project championed b...

www.cbsnews.com

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 8h

Once the GOP decided it was more important to rule than to govern, Trump was an inevitability. So to stop him, we will need to dismantle them. We will need to cut out the beating heart of the party, wreck their capacity, wipe out their majorities. They were born via Lincoln, and must die with Trump.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 8h

another speaker describes waking up to ice agents detaining a woman in his backyard.

“we need our schools funded, we don’t need ice,” he says. “we need housing, we don’t need ice. we need food, we don’t need ice. and even when we get all of that, we don’t need ice!”

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

If your kid is on the spectrum, or if you're transgender, or speak Spanish, or just grow a beard, they hate you because you dare to be 'different'

Inside the war on this basic human right -- to not conform -- that is central to Trump's fascist project

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

From autism to beards, the Trump regime wages war on ‘the different’ | Will Bunch

The Trump's regime's disturbing views on everything from autism to transgender people has a scary 'master race' vibe.

www.inquirer.com

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Jackie @jackietownhq.bsky.social · 10h

Tax the rich.
Also, corporations aren’t people, and money isn’t speech.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10h

Trump’s govt shutdown is another reminder
•We dont have an energy shortage
•Or insulin shortage
•Or housing shortage
•Or teacher shortage
•Or labor shortage
•Or food shortage

We have billionaire excess who buy politicians to deny human rights. We dont suffer from scarcity—but from billionaire greed

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Dana Gould @danagould.bsky.social · 8h

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19h

Talk about burying the lede: “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.” 10/22/25 www.cbsnews.com/news/demolis...

Trump administration plans to demolish White House's entire East Wing as ballroom cost grows to $300 million

The Trump administration is planning to demolish the entirety of the White House's East Wing as early as this weekend, two senior administration officials said, part of a ballroom project championed b...

www.cbsnews.com

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 8h

If he’s going to pull this sh*t, @governor.ca.gov maybe our federal tax should go into some state controlled Escrow.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump approves disaster declarations for red states, as blue states go without

“President Trump and his administration have politicized disaster relief,” one governor said, “and our communities are the ones who will pay the price.”

www.msnbc.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff

a bar chart depicting a huge bar Wealth of the Top 1% "$47.80 trillion" dwarfing bars for the Federal deficit ($1.83 trillion), tax revenue ($4.92 trillion) and Government spending ($6.75 trillion)"

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 8h

With wealth inequality worse than the Gilded Age, Donald Trump, who is using the presidency to balloon his net worth, is tearing down the White House wing Roosevelt built for a massive ballroom funded by his oligarch pals—all while gutting regulations on their businesses and public goods.

Get it?

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 7h

LORD Garth!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8h

I recall first time I ever ran for office nearly 7 years ago my GOP opponent sent an attack mailer against me saying something like "QASIM RASHID THINKS FELONS SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET FOOD STAMPS."

Hell yes I do. Food is a human right. I will die on this hill.

Shame on the GOP for starving people.

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 18h

Can they call Turlough's lawyer?

Or Benny's dad?

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 21h

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads.

These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

Spotify stock graph showing a decrease of $28 in one day (Friday 10/24), the day after Spotify’s boycott became a trending topic on Bluesky. This is a roughly 5% decrease in value.

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 19h

America is for everybody.

This should not be controversial.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20h

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20h

His mother was also there and no one is sure whether she too was taken. They were both thrown down. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/l...

Chicago Laugh Factory manager detained by federal agents, comedy club says

The night manager of Laugh Factory in Chicago's Lake View East neighborhood was detained by federal agents Friday morning outside the comedy venue.

www.nbcchicago.com

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20h

ICE took the Laugh Factory manager.

Jesus.

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 19h

It's not canon, but there's a Psycho computer game that CAN fit between II and III, and which is strangely compelling.

It involves a detective searching the Bates house for a missing museum curator and some stolen jewels.

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 19h

Every time I watch, I play a little game of "Did Lila do that or did Emma? Or Mary?"

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