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Mike Doughney 🇺🇸 @mike.doughney.net · 35m

Lindsey Halligan < Lionel Hutz

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Scarecasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 9h

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

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Levi Anthony Luckenbach @lluck002.bsky.social · 6h

Boycott Clark Construction, McCrery Architects, and AECOM for their willingness to illegally demolish The White House without Approval from Congress and the National Capital Planning Commission

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chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️ @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 2h

it's cool how we have a government that 4chans constantly on twitter and shows off videos of the president shitting on americans while also being like, "make sure nobody sees us destroying the white house"

this is super normal stuff for highly stable nations

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2h

WSJ: Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

By Natalie Andrews and Alex Leary

Treasury HQ is across the street from the White House. Trump is telling wmployees not to take pictures of the demolition and share them.

@natalieandrews.bsky.social Gift link!

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 4h

As I said earlier today, companies can obviously choose which work to bid on, or accept. Every company who was approached to do this job should have refused, and when one inevitably agreed, it's workers should have gone on strike.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 6h

The regime spokespeople are behaving in public in a way as if they think they will never be out of power.

All of this is beyond unprofessional & media entities like WHCA et al need to do more than stern statements. At this point they should give up the access and report/call things as they are.

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Mike Doughney 🇺🇸 @mike.doughney.net · 5h

Back when Bush the Second was aiming at invading Iraq, I was certain it would all come home one day. There it is.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2."

Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...

This morning masked ICE agents pulled me out of my car at gun-point, threw me in the back of a van and took me to their facility in Broadview. I had been following the van down Harvard honking my horn and blowing a whistle to alert the community that ICE was in the neighborhood.

Just across from Lincoln elementary school, where my daughter is in second grade, they jumped out of their van with guns drawn and threatened to smash my windows.

They removed me from my car and drove me to Broadview.

They tried to determine if I was an American citizen (I am). After sitting handcuffed in the van for about 30 minutes, they issued me a citation for "impeding" them, claiming I cut them off (which is not true). They then drove me back to my car. While in their van, I could see they were receiving text messages that were part of a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2." They also stated they also spoke to someone on their phone saying they were going to meet someone else near where they were dropping me off, and that they were going to proceed to conduct enforcement activities with that person.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

you’re telling me that another thirtysomething republican has nazi beliefs. wow

Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: 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.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Mike Doughney 🇺🇸 @mike.doughney.net · 8h

Someone should check to see if they're using a Canadian demolition contractor.

ghostymar @shademar.bsky.social · 8h

Confederates finally getting their chance to tear down the White House.

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Mike Doughney 🇺🇸 @mike.doughney.net · 8h

I know I've seen at least two derelict ferries, in New Jersey and Maryland, that were bought by people with big plans for them, and they were eventually scrapped after rusting for years if not decades. So no surprise here.

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♎ jentrification @jentrification.com · 10h

that is what the issue really is

Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 10h

also…you don’t spend $250 million dollars building a fancy country club expansion for a home you plan on leaving in a few years.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 15h

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15h

“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.

Curtis Yarvin & David Starkey - The End of the End of History
By Oakeshott (formerly Scruton)
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The second Oakeshott Lecture of 2025 - with perennially viral tech philosopher Curtis Yarvin and eminent historian David Starkey

In the second Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) Lecture, Curtis Yarvin will address the End of the End of History in the Post-Cold War Era.

A former software developer, Curtis Yarvin came to international prominence under the pen-name Mencius Moldbug as a critic of contemporary democracy. An avid promoter of technocracy and critic of ‘the Cathedral’, Yarvin has become an influential figure on the American right - a reliably controversial voice and a confidante of JD Vance and Peter Thiel.

Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 22h

Julia, as usual, fucking nailing it to the wall.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...

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And what of clean air? An objection I often hear is that masking is an "individual intervention" and we need institutional change.
First, your individual intervention will halt chains of transmission. You personally will save lives, save humans from disability, and your decision to introduce masking and testing within your social circle helps move culture.
Culture is critical- especially if you're somebody influential like say, a New York Times journalist. But I'd also add that we will never get clean air without public pressure, and there will never be public pressure without public awareness that COVID is dangerous. As long as the public continues to treat COVID like a cold the government has no incentive to move on clean air. Step one is admitting you have a problem. The government hates masks so much these days because they are a visual challenge to its propagandist narrative: it is perfectly fine and healthy to repeatedly contract COVID-19.
This is a lie.

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Frank Witte @alarcos.bsky.social · 22h

The study of the inability, on display from many leaders, to see the 2025 US for what it currently is, is revealing either their incapacitating focus on their own heartache over the loss of their romanticised fiction of what the US was, or their terrified paralysis and lack of imagination of what to

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Hogula 🧛🏻‍♂️🐷🎃 @jessemackinnon.com · 1d

We are at war with everyone Trump feels like attacking that day. We are allied with the last world leader to blow smoke up his ass and tell him he’s the greatest President ever.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Wait so we’re also in an armed conflict against a completely different group? Sure yeah why not

Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social · 1d

Pentagon discloses the latest strike on suspect boats in the Caribbean -- No. 7 in its current campaign -- with another video, but no evidence. In a first, this one is alleged to have ties to the Colombian insurgency group the ELN.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

It’s amazing to see what’s come of the “Twitter isn’t real life” argument.

antifa’s girlfriend @asusophomore.bsky.social · 1d

This guy was probably pretty excited when Olivia Nuzzi got hired by Vanity Fair.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

SAME!!!!!!

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

They don't let me in the White House press pool because my question every day for the next week would be, "Does the president still want to take a shit on Americans?"

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Feb 5

TRUMP: *machine-guns crowd of pedestrians at Fifth Ave*

NYT: President's most daring argument for population control brings new scrutiny.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I guess if I *had* to pick my favorite part of the video the president posted where he’s a big boy pilot and he pew pew pews his poop all over everyone, it would be the part where he shits on the American flag?

Trump’s fantasy of having one of his apparently uncontrollable liquid shits land on the American flag

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k-kelly-coho.bsky.social @k-kelly-coho.bsky.social · 1d

This country is now essentially being run by poop-throwing chimps.

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