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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
Making Argentina Great Again. Indefensible.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 22h
This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.
kimoco.bsky.social Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · 22h
This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.
East Wing lobby from 2023
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Dr Sheri Chinen Biesen📽️🎷🎬 @sheribiesen.bsky.social · Aug 14
Film Noir Mood #film #noir #cinema #FilmNoir #movies #FilmSky 📽️🍁🎬🍂⛈️
a black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a window .
ALT: a black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a window .
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 23h
There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
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lgotts.bsky.social @lgotts.bsky.social · 20h
“And next week, we’ll take down Capitol Hill to make a much needed bowling alley.”
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 20h
That would be Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, in the Oval Office for a meeting btwn the U.S. president and the NATO Secretary-General in the middle of a brutal war in Europe, staring at plans for a ballroom that will replace the now-demolished East Wing of the White House.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
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lgotts.bsky.social @lgotts.bsky.social · 1d
Dentist employment act…. Make America get cavities again!
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d
"In the most serious category, they've now found 20 cases where judges have questioned the government's compliance with their judicial orders."

I'm grateful for this new discussion of our updated study in @60minutes.bsky.social Overtime.

Link to @justsecurity.org study:
youtu.be/VO_2nP1-e5c?...
Some courts are losing trust in Trump Justice Department, according to a study
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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lgotts.bsky.social @lgotts.bsky.social · 1d
Beverly Hillbillies strike the Peoples’ House.
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lgotts.bsky.social @lgotts.bsky.social · 1d
So helpful to future US GDP: Harvard slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for its science division by >75% due to uncertainty over research funding & tax issues. (Harvard Crimson)”
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lgotts.bsky.social @lgotts.bsky.social · 1d
Symbolism
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d
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. Monday's photo from the Washington Post
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 1d
This is among the most corrupt things a president has ever suggested, and I hope the press treats it that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
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lgotts.bsky.social @lgotts.bsky.social · 2d
What are they hiding? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Treasury’s headquarters is located next door to the East Wing, giving employees there a front-row seat to the construction of President Trump’s $250 million ballroom.
www.wsj.com
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2d
"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
www.washingtonpost.com
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gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · 2d
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pgourevitch.bsky.social Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2d
Trump carrying on the effort of Major General Robert Ross the British officer who torched the White House in war of 1812
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 2d
Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d
Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
morningbrew.extwitter.link Morning Brew ☕️ @morningbrew.extwitter.link · 3d
BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2d
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d
This is insane. If Obama did this the GOP would impeach
maddow.msnbc.com Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d
omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
But what if they hate minorities a lot? Like a lot, a lot? Can that counterbalance not being able to do a pull up?
nickmiroff.bsky.social Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 2d
SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 2d
SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
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lgotts.bsky.social @lgotts.bsky.social · 2d
The best people.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d
I am cry laughing so hard.

Purport to make an unqualified hack a federal prosecutor, don't be surprised when the unqualified hack does things an unqualified hack would do!
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d
The “No Kings” rallies were “dignified, irreverent, driven by old-fashioned love of country,” George Packer argues. “If anything can rouse the stupefied mainstream in time to stop the collapse of everything good about America, it’s a spectacle like this.”
Why the No Kings Protest Moved Me
The protesters’ depth of feeling was matched only by the modesty and decency of the event.
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