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travelincatdoc dvm jd @travelincatdoc.bsky.social · 2h

just like he's demolishing the country

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2h

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.

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gophergrad צדק צדק תרדף @gophergrad.bsky.social · 2h

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2h

taking an actual wrecking ball to the White House is a little on the nose as far as metaphors go

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2h

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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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 2h

Sketched a shitty cartoon

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gophergrad צדק צדק תרדף @gophergrad.bsky.social · 4h

Please keep your fairy tales out of the law. Thank you for your time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 4h

2024 exit poll, Jewish voters:

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Jason Pontius @ponti.us · 6h

Doesn’t “I’m not paying income tax to a government that posts videos shitting on me” seem like a movement waiting to happen?

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 7h

A federal judge in Chicago is set to grill a pair of immigration officials about law enforcement tactics employed during the Trump administration’s ongoing “Operation Midway Blitz” that allegedly are in violation of a restraining order.

Federal judge to quiz immigration officials over ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ tactics

A federal judge in Chicago is set to grill a pair of immigration officials Monday about law enforcement tactics employed during the Trump administration’s ongoing “Operation Midway Blit…

trib.al

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 7h

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO WIN A RIGHTEOUS BATTLE.

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · Aug 7

Did a new one

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 22h

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 8h

Where this weekend’s millions of protestors messed up was not sitting around at a diner in rural Pennsylvania waiting to be interviewed

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 8h

cuomo: nah

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Giridharadas to Andrew Cuomo: "It's been 8 years since the peak of the Me Too movement ... I'm wondering if you pursued any changes in yourself that would allow you to come back to City Hall and tell voters you'd be different when it comes to dealing with women?"

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Dave @daveamp.bsky.social · 11h

Happy Ron Gant was clearly out anniversary to all who celebrate.

youtu.be/MiraekmCNv4?...

1991 WS Gm2: Hrbek lifts Gant off the bag for the out

YouTube video by MLB

youtu.be

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

Pedro Pascal was spotted at the LA No Kings protest with the best sign there.

Pedro Pascal at an outdoor protest holds a bright red and yellow sign that reads “NO KINGS ONLY QUEENS” with a black-and-white photo of Divine and Trump. Pascalis wearing glasses and a yellow T-shirt, pursing their lips playfully while pointing at the sign. They stand among a crowd of people holding various protest signs; the scene appears to be in a city street on a sunny day.

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gophergrad צדק צדק תרדף @gophergrad.bsky.social · 7h

So much winning

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

> @reuters.com

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 8h

America is not feeling the full effect of the shutdown because so many people are working without pay.

While I respect their dedication (or fear of losing their jobs), that needs to stop.

All federal workers should refuse to work without pay. Give Congress 10 days to get its shit together, or

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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🇺🇸 RULE OF LAW MATTERS @mke-voter.bsky.social · 16h

Omission of news is propaganda too.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

DoD has adopted this position wholesale now and frankly every commander who has done so needs to face an Article 32 hearing when this is over with, and any JAG who has gone along with it needs to be disbarred

Big boy crimes need big boy consequences, at all levels of the chain

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

This is well-stated, and most welcome

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Some Trump administration officials, including Marco Rubio, who is both the secretary of state and the national security adviser, have argued that designating a drug cartel as a terrorist organization brings with it the authority to use military force against it.
rhat is false as a matter of legal reality; the law that empowers the executive branch to deem foreign groups terrorists enables steps like freezing their assets and making it a crime to do business with them — not to attack them.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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gophergrad צדק צדק תרדף @gophergrad.bsky.social · 7h

What could possibly go wrong

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 8h

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information.

Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

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gophergrad צדק צדק תרדף @gophergrad.bsky.social · 7h

Hahahaha health savings account

He means "tax dodge so high income people can save more for retirement"

Because median wage workers can't put money in an HSA, they have to pay rent

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gophergrad צדק צדק תרדף @gophergrad.bsky.social · 7h

DeSantis has his head so far up his ass he needs a window in his belly button so he can see where he's going.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10h

DeSantis said “Most people, particularly under 50, what they really need is a catastrophic plan that’s affordable, where then they can pay whatever they’re doing out of a health savings account.”
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...

Ron DeSantis says people under 50 don’t have much use for comprehensive health insurance

'Catastrophic care' should be enough for them.

floridapolitics.com

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 8h

Homeless shelters reduce crime.

"Our findings suggest that shelter functions as a public good with high social benefits."

www.nber.org/papers/w34376

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