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Dumbledoresarmy @atlantadem.bsky.social · 14h

During the civil rights movement, the National Guard was not there to protect federal agents, but to protect little black children from local police

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Markwayne Mullin: "This makes the point why President Trump needs to deploy these National Guard members. There is a federal role. We have seen this in the Civil Rights Movement all the way with JFK, LBJ, we've seen it in history before where National Guard has been used to protect federal agents."

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Sarahbeth Maney @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social · 11h

@propublica.org found more than 170 U.S. citizens who have been held against their will by immigration agents. They’ve been kicked, dragged and detained for days.

Full story by immigration reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by me here: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15h

I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.

So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.

Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

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masspatriot.bsky.social @masspatriot.bsky.social · 17h

“Not sure”?!
One thing you can be sure of—if the protests and marches had been violent, the press coverage would have been massive, and there wouldn’t be so much “uncertainty.”
Blissful ignorance and MAGA blindness also certainly factor in to such an idiotic response.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

All the things folks pretended were happening in 2022-23 under Joe Biden are actually happening now under Donald Trump

Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 1d

Highest credit card delinquency since the financial crisis 14 years ago.

Add that to home sellers outnumbering homebuyers, consumer confiance plummeting, consumer spending plummeting, inflation increasing, growth decreasing unemployment increasing… a brewing storm.

Good economic news all around👍👍

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 18h

“They’re wrecking it,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist and professor emeritus at Towson University in Maryland. “And these are changes that can’t be undone. They’re destroying that history forever.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

White House expands East Wing demolition as critics decry Trump overreach

More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,

www.washingtonpost.com

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masspatriot.bsky.social @masspatriot.bsky.social · 1d

Call me ignorant, but I thought that special rules had to be followed in destroying parts or all of any building on the National Register of Historic Places. But since Trump makes and breaks all the rules, I suppose it doesn’t matter to anyone outside the MAGA-sphere. 😡

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

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.

masspatriot.bsky.social @masspatriot.bsky.social · 1d

Probably even more than one.

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats V @TheDemocrats
The government's shut down and Trump and Republicans are:
- Demolishing part of the White House to make room for a $200M
golden ballroom
— Trying to send Argentina a $40
BILLION bailout
- Refusing to swear in Rep-elect
Adelita Grijalva
- Buying Kristi Noem 2 luxury private jets
—Considering commuting Diddy's sentence
Americans deserve better.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance, probably: "These are just kids. Would you expect a two-year old to know they are supposed to pay for cocktails?"

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The Young Republicans of New York appears to have been mostly a dine and dash club for grifter racists. At least three incidents of stiffing hospitality bills: "a former Donald Trump campaign staffer alleged the group owed $7,000 to Redneck Riviera, a bar and live music venue in Nashville"

Giunta resigned just before Politico reported that his group had not paid off a bill of more than $14,000 for a holiday party in December 2023 at the National Women’s Republican Club in Manhattan.

The Young Republicans’ previously unreported debt in Syracuse followed on the heels of the Manhattan party and a trip by Giunta and club leaders to Nashville last year when he was campaigning for a position to lead the Young Republicans on a national level.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d

Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.

www.wsj.com/finance/arge...

www.wsj.com

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d

And Zelenskyy confirmed this in his talks with reporters in Kyiv on Sunday.

Translated from Ukrainian, this is what Zelenskyy said:

The position of the Russians hasn't changed. They want us to withdraw from Donbas - not the entire East, but specifically Donbas, that is, completely from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. I made it clear that Ukraine's stance in this context remains unchanged. I explained this both to President Trump and to Mr. Witkoff. We understand that Mr.
Witkoff is simply conveying what Russia means; this does not necessarily reflect his own view, at least according to him. I made it clear to him that there are some misleading impressions. The story is that the Russians claim they supposedly held a referendum among the Russian people in Donbas, and that they supposedly want to join Russia. But first there was the occupation, and only afterward did something uncontrolled and clearly illegal happen, which they called a "referendum." Moreover, I would say that these signals from the Russians are so far from reality that ten years passed between the start of the occupation and the so-called "referendum." Do you see where it doesn't add up? Mr. Witkoff points out that it was incorporated into their constitution. So I explained to Mr. Witkoff once again that if tomorrow Putin adds something else to their constitution, after the war ends in one way or another, will we need to withdraw from some territory again? And if, for example, I amend the Constitution of Ukraine to include two regions of the Russian Federation, would they then leave those territories? This is a non-functional model.

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AJT @ajt329.bsky.social · 2d

I feel sick every time I see these photos.

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Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 2d

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Bubba's Dad @bubsdad.bsky.social · 2d

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

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masspatriot.bsky.social @masspatriot.bsky.social · 2d

He lives to demolish things.

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masspatriot.bsky.social @masspatriot.bsky.social · 2d

“We have to get to the bottom of all these people thinking they have the Constitutional right to peacefully protest an authoritarian regime.”
The nerve of them!

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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 2d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“President Poop, we’ll call him.” 💩

@usatoday.com @rexhuppke.bsky.social @willbunch.bsky.social
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 2d

🧊✈️ BROKEN WINGS❓😬

👉 Sunday, an Eastern 737 (tail: N660CP) arrived at about 9:30am on an ICE mission to Hanscom Airfield outside Boston.

But instead of proceeding south to Louisiana, it unloaded all the detainees and returned to its home base in Youngstown OH, where it remains idle.

Continued ⤵️

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social · 2d

The New York Times is full of “brown liquid”
www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york...

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masspatriot.bsky.social @masspatriot.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, he again insulted a woman reporter in today’s (10/20) press conference, saying she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been waiting for many years for a prominent Democrat to relentlessly fact-check their lies in real time rather than issuing press statements days later when it’s too late.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

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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