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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 44m

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 51m

I seriously am having a hard time dealing with this. The fact that literally no one seems to be willing or able to stop it is mindblowing. This is not his house! He does not have the authority to do this! It's an insane microcosm of this entire era. Dems should be out going scorched earth on this.

Reuters @reuters.com · 57m

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Trump begins demolition to prepare for White House ballroom

Demolition crews were tearing down part of the White House's storied East Wing on Monday to begin building President Donald Trump's ballroom, a project he had said would not interfere with the existing landmark.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 2h

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1h

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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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3h

If I ran for President in 2028, I’d run on taking a bulldozer to Trump’s ballroom, an utter desecration of the peoples’ house. In fact, I’d invite the American people one weekend to bring their own sledgehammers & crowbars to the White House to help tear that abomination down.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

This is a desecration and an abomination. First he posts an AI video of himself wearing a crown dumping shit on the heads of Americans, then he starts tearing down part of the White House for his Mar-a-Lago style ballroom.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 3h

It’s just every day now.

Politico headline: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 1h

I went to high school with Ralph Hise and he is a disgusting individual. North Carolina should be ashamed to have him in public office in any capacity. It's mortifying.

Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 2h

The GOP (specifically redistricing chair Sen. Ralph Hise) can say this out loud without legal repercussions because the NC Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that partisan gerrymanders are lawful. Racially-motivated gerrymanders are (for now) not, which is why they're not (for now) talking about race here.

Wiley Nickel @wileynickel.com · 2h

North Carolina Republicans are saying the quiet part out loud. Openly admitting to drawing a congressional map for Donald Trump.

It’s not just politics — it’s corruption. North Carolinians deserve free and fair elections, not gerrymandered districts.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 2h

The White House (2028)

Picture of Biff Tannen's casino from "Back to the Future Part II". The sign says "Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise" and includes a picture of him burning a wad of cash with his lit cigar.

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 1h

The reviews for this game were some of the funniest of all time.

Bad Game Hall of Fame @bghof.com · 8h

‘Extreme Paintbrawl’ released on this day in 1998.

Marketed as "The First Non-Violent 3D Shooter." Reportedly developed in just two weeks time, and leveraging a half-finished version of the Build engine that functions exclusively within MS-DOS running on Windows 95.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

Clearly Trump lied when he said his $250 million ballroom wouldn’t “interfere” with the White House.

So who’s watching this mess; the White House Historical Association or the Office of the Curator? Because someone needs to make sure he’s not bulldozing history for a dance floor.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 3h

There’s a limit to the “imagine if Obama” retort but Christ on a cracker the man is *literally* demolishing the White House!

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 3h

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.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 4h

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

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4h

Tens of millions of people are set to lose food stamps in weeks and conservatives are celebrating it right in the open on social media. They’re gleeful about starving children, literally saying “fuck them kids.” Yet another reason that “pro-life” is a misnomer. They’re loudly pro-death

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 3h

If the next Dem administration doesn't immediately demolish the ballroom, I will lose what's left of my mind.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 4h

There used to be entire architectural associations whose whole purpose was to lose their minds when someone tried to change the way the White House looked. Taller fence? Gasp! Close the street in front? Quelle horreur! Where'd they vanish to?

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 4h

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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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 4h

unfortunately the wanton destruction of government property is allowed without congressional approval if it “makes a really good metaphor”

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 4h

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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molly ✨ @brat.fm · 4h

I know writers who use subtext, and they're all COWARDS

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 5h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 7h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 3h

I hope that place is crawling with asbestos. And lead. And killer giant scorpions.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

This is definitely one of those things that people would’ve called you hysterical for predicting a year ago.

Trump is going to destroy the East Room of the White House without even asking Congress and build a ballroom with funds from private companies that are seeking favors? Settle down, lib.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 4h

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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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 4h

The 2025 edition of our annual Top 100 list is here, running down the best PC games to play now from the perspective of PC Gamer's 30+ writers and editors.

The top 100 PC games

Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.

www.pcgamer.com

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 3h

Absolutely livid. I hope the wraiths of Dolley Madison and Jackie Kennedy haunt him nightly for the rest of his days.

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 3h

EXTREMELY SHOCKING.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3h

Not sure why this image is so shocking, given everything he’s done but: it’s shocking!

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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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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 3h

Seriously, I'm burning up with rage. This is catastrophic vandalism and probably completely illegal, but no one will say boo about it.

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 3h

I almost literally vomited when I realized what this picture was of. HOW IS THIS HAPPENING??? HOW IS THIS BEING ALLOWED???

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4h

This is insane.

“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of," Trump said in July. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.”

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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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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 8h

Speaker of the House holding a formal presser to announce that Jesus is the king of everyone in the USA should be getting more attention

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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