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keepingtherepublic.bsky.social
@keepingtherepublic.bsky.social
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Husband, Dad, Teacher & Researcher. Trying to be a decent Citizen in an Uncivil World. The flag of my native land says “Sic Semper Tyrannis”
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Truth in cartoons, 1932/2025: John Heartfield’s cartoon explained the “meaning of the Hitler salute” (“millions stand behind us!”). Grateful we have someone in our age with Ann Telnaes’ courage to show us how wealth capitulates to Trump

[credits: Metropolitan Museum of Art; anntelnaes@substack]
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Corporations are lining up to fund Trump’s supersized ballroom.

They’re not donating out of patriotism, they’re buying access. And everyone should see the problem with that.

Pay-to-play in plain sight.
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CNN is reporting that the person shot by ICE today in south LA is gravely wounded.

A law enforcement source says the ICE agent’s weapon discharged while he was trying to grab the suspect, injuring the suspect and a US Marshall.

These thugs can’t be trusted with weapons. Abolish ICE.
2 injured, including a US Marshal, after an ICE agent’s weapon discharged during LA immigration enforcement operation | CNN
Two people were injured, including a US marshal, during an immigration enforcement operation early Tuesday in Los Angeles, a law enforcement source tells CNN.
www.cnn.com
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If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military.

The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.

Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.
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I am going to be sending angry paper letters to all the donors on the Trump list saying "why did you pay to demolish the historic White House East Wing without taxpayer consent?" not because I think this is the most important thing, but...
James Mcrery of DC is the architect. This firm should never get public contracts again.
Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.
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Trump hosted a dinner last week for White House ballroom donors.

Then he went to Mar-a-Lago for a $1 million-per-person dinner benefiting his super PAC.

Last night, he treated big GOP donors to dinner on his new White House patio.

The government has been shut down for 22 days.
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She doesn’t need you to “meet with her,” Mike—she needs to be sworn in. Do your job.
Mike Johnson says he's open to meeting with Adelita Grijalva but he's "been a little busy"
She doesn’t need you to “meet with her,” Mike—she needs to be sworn in. Do your job.
Mike Johnson says he's open to meeting with Adelita Grijalva but he's "been a little busy"
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Mike Johnson says he's open to meeting with Adelita Grijalva but he's "been a little busy"
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The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
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Why aren’t elected Dems publicly telling Trump that they’re going to raze the ballroom the minute the next D is elected?

He would lose his shit.
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I’ll say it straight: It is unbecoming, undignified, cowardly, and shameful for a institution as revered and respected as the University of Virginia to grant an audience in 2025 to those who are committed to destroying science, free thought, human rights, and the rule of law.
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The name of the firm that “designed” this fascist dancehall is McCrery Architects, Washington DC.

Hitler had his Albert Speer, and apparently the pedo-prez has his James McCrery. Well done sir. You’ll forever be remembered as architect to the pedo-fascist regime which destroyed the White House
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It's not like we did Nazi this coming!
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Thomas Jefferson is turning over in his grave rn
"The surrender by [UVA] has significant constitutional problems. And represents a huge expansion of federal power that [R's] have would have never tolerated in the past - we have the right to run our universities" - VA Senate Majority Leader @ssurovell.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/10/brea...
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If this had happened during a Democratic presidency Fox News would be 24 hours of nonstop “AMERICA DESECRATED!” headlines.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
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34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
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If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
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Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
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Why won’t Speaker Johnson swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva? Because she is the last signature needed to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein files.

This is an active coverup meant to protect powerful people from accountability.
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TRUTH! 🔥🔥
People have made more of an uproar over moving a civil war statue than the destruction of the entire East wing of the White House.
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"The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit created by Congress to help preserve historic buildings, said Tuesday that Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom would 'overwhelm the White House itself,' which is about 55,000 square feet..."

www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...
Trump's Ballroom Will 'Overwhelm' White House, National Trust Warns
Preservationists fear for how Trump's planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom will sit alongside the White House itself, which is about 55,000 square feet.
www.huffpost.com