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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 20h

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 6h

Texas officials say food stamp benefits, which go to 1.7 million children, would not be distributed in November under an extended shutdown.

3.5 million Texans will see food assistance halted if government shutdown continues

Texas officials say food stamp benefits, which go to 1.7 million children, would not be distributed in November under an extended shutdown.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 5h

Immigration judge?

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 6h

Out of touch with reality.

Not a true news editor. Whose living and breathing instincts are to seek, find, report, assign crew to hunt truths, shake up the powerful, question everything.

Go and find out.

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Alex Mazza @mrmazzaball.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, I appreciate that he basically says with zero self awareness “I am fucking clueless and live in a bubble.”

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 5h

Trump: post images of himself wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump”

NYT: I don’t where the left gets this whole “Trump wants to be a monarch” thing.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 21h

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 19h

Edward and Shari Glazer
Harold Hamm
Benjamin Leon, Jr.
The Lutnick Family
The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Konstantin Sokolov
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
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Source: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Trump Hosts Corporate Ballroom Donors at Glitzy White House Dinner

The event included representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon.com and Palantir.

www.wsj.com

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 19h

Micron Technology Inc.
Microsoft Corp.
NextEra Energy Inc.
Palantir Technologies Inc.
Ripple
Reynolds American Inc.
T-Mobile US Inc.
Tether
Union Pacific Railroad
J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
Adelson Family Foundation
Stefan E. Brodie
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 19h

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Seth Andrews @sethandrews.com · 7h

Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African American justice.

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 1d

early voting starts today in TX and the @houstonchronicle.com has the paywall up on their voter guide. please be serious

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

With Trump and his cronies using the shutdown as cover to shut off the food stamp program, food banks will soon be flooded with demand from the 42 million Americans--including 16 million kids--who rely on the program. Which means the rest of us will need to step up and give whatever we can.

Thanks to Trump's Shutdown, Food Stamps Funding is About to Run Out.

Republicans have just days to reopen the government before the crucial program is forced to halt.

Article in the New Republic by Edith Olmstead, with a cover photo of Trump with his mouth open, looking like he's either yelling or just swallowed a fly.

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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 6h

More than half of new Texas classroom teachers who joined the profession last year lacked certification. Education leaders say that's hurting students and district budgets.

Half of new Texas teachers aren’t certified. State legislation tries to change that

More than half of new Texas classroom teachers who joined the profession last year lacked certification. Education leaders say that's hurting students and district budgets.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 20h

Our essay on the standard for responding to racist and antisemitic texts:
substack.com/@johnfdicker...

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 16h

Reject tariffs! History has shown us that they only lead to economic depression and military aggression.

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 18h

📌This Ontario, Canada, commercial is the truth, sheer brilliance, and should spread like wildfire across the United States.

Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs.

YouTube video by Toronto Sun

www.youtube.com

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is once again targeting rideshare divers at O’hare parking lots. The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights says that multiple people have been detained. This is at least the third incident in the last few weeks involving ICE and rideshare drivers at O’hare.

ICIRR alert in which they describe ICE arrests of rideshare drivers at an O’hare lot.

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 18h

PLEASE SHARE

blackoutthesystem.com

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

This is very very very very, very very little work for people who make more than $100,000 and have staffs of more than three people.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

There was a minor scandal early in the Obama admin about people disrespecting the White House by wearing jeans in the Oval Office bsky.app/profile/jbf1...

Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 11h

This makes me sick.
That’s our House, our history.

The fact that it happened today stinks of retribution for Saturday.

A post—and photo—showing the demolition of the White House East Wing.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

It looks even worse by video 😢

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 21h

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”

Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.

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