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Melico
@melico.bsky.social
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Extremely online and leftist but not an extremely online leftist. You will see lots of photos of my cat and dogs. Support your local library!! She/her
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I guess I just feel like it should be a bigger deal that Penske Media owns the Golden Globes and ALSO Rolling Stone, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, GoldDerby, and Deadline, plus 20% of Vox Media
Scoop: Jay Penske, who owns the Golden Globes, is pitching far-right podcasters with a proposal that they spend upwards of $75,000 to boost their chances of winning this year's inaugural podcasting award.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/golden-glo...
Penske and the Podcasters
Jay Penske’s Golden Globes are debuting a “Best Podcast” award—and documents obtained by Status show he’s trying to sell pricey packages that could boost the chances of right-wing extremists winning t...
www.status.news
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Elite institutions capitulating all over the place and gaslighting us into thinking this is just the way it is now, and millions of people stand up and say you're not crazy and you're not alone and you're not afraid. That's the thing itself.
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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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The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.
I'm abuzz in the sense that I'm mad as a hornet.
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A historic number of Americans took to the streets to wave US flags and say that kings do not belong in America and elected Republicans CONDEMNED IT, don’t ever let them forget that.
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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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All these freaks boycotted Superman for being Woke and as a result they missed its 10 minute scene about how Off The Record works
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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Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/
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shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
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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The good news: Democrats were just given the singular best possible visual analogy of the Trump Presidency and Republicans writ large to run in every single ad.

The bad news: We're gonna have to demolish the whole fucking White House, salt the goddamned ground, and start fresh.
DEAR GOD.
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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If Obama or Biden or Clinton had demolished a significant part of the White House to build a privately funded edition that they commissioned and approved without public input they would have been summarily impeached.
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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About this time last year, the Biden administration dispensed $250 billion to develop 30,000 affordable housing units.
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
My point is that the government is shutdown yet this continues
That's nice, thousands of people are about to lose SNAP benefits
Nationwide: shows that there is an active, engaged majority opposing Trump, whatever Republicans and the media say.

Locally: huge opportunity to recruit for community organizations
Rio
Straight to Hell
The Ghost in You
Yeah, it's not the medium, it's the whole 'leaving the house and talking to other humans' bit people are really nostalgic for
That he felt comfortable saying that out loud is indicative that we had not been bullying these people hard enough, at any rate
Nah, NYT (or WaPo, Politico, Axios, etc.) reporters who make dishonest claims and reply to any and all criticism with smug condescension are asking for the full pile because they are repeat offenders.
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Republican Leaders are simultaneously saying that the Jews funded No Kings rallies AND No Kings rallies were promoting antisemitic h/t @atrupar.com