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skindnwalkerdad 🧌 @ndndad.bsky.social · 1h

Heads up Minneapolis - we're next.

Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 3h

"The lowest for any president ever." He is figuratively tearing down the country and literally tearing down the White House. And he is WILDLY unpopular! Don't cooperate with him on anything (including cloture on nominees) @klobuchar.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 3h

Corruption can't get any nakeder

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

Breaking News: President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao. Zhao admitted in 2023 to money-laundering violations that allowed terrorists, drug traffickers and other criminals to move money on the platform. nyti.ms/3J9mazz

Changpeng Zhao, wearing a dark suit and light blue tie, walks while holding a folder. A headline reads: "Trump Pardons Binance Founder With Ties to First Family’s Crypto Venture." Photo by Grant Hindsley for The New York Times.

Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 6h

It’s Rappaport

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 19h

Paragraph at the bottom confirms my suspicion that he’s ordering the DOJ to pay him $230 million so he can finance his ballroom. The Epstein Ballroom.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

This little item by Luke Broadwater on the abrupt, wholly unannounced destruction of a major component of the White House complex is a microcosm of the dysfunctional relationship the press has with this mendacious administration. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 18h

President Bartlett from the West Wing saying, “you told the press I have a secret plan to fight inflation?”

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

You guys, the person exercising the powers of the presidency is constitutionally disqualified from holding the office and he’s having the White House bulldozed. This is true and it’s happening, right? I’m not dreaming this?

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 23h

He'll do the residence next. It's not gaudy enough for him and isn't yet named after him.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: President Trump is having the White House’s entire East Wing demolished to make way for his $200 million ballroom. The project is far more extensive than he initially let on.

Trump Will Demolish Entire White House East Wing for Ballroom: Live Updates

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 23h

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 1d

One of the better photographs depicting modernity, I'd say:

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The first two posts Mark Zuckerberg’s flagship app chose to show me when I logged in tonight. I don’t follow either account. For context, I’m Jewish. Amazing how sinisterly dark shit has gotten.

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Jews are not saved outside of Christ Jews in Christ are part of the Church Jews are not saved apart from the Church
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Defend your hearth and home.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

Does seem like there’s a non-zero chance that the shutdown never really ends and that Congress has already abolished itself.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

I find it amazing too that Republicans’ boycott of Washington isn’t the biggest story of them all.

The shutdown can’t end if they refuse to show up for work.

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 1d

“Sir, our plans to tear down the federal government are proceeding according to plan”

“I see no tearing. No cranes, no excavators. Where are the steam shovels? Remember steam shovels folks?”

“Haha good one sir”

“…Start with the East Wing”

“…..yes sir”

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 1d

He's destroyed the entire East Wing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

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 · 2d

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.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 2d

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Of course

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 2d

Dems/Ind Senators voting in favor: Coons, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Heinrich, Kaine, Kelly, King (I), Klobuchar, Reed, Schiff, Shaheen, Welch, & Whitehouse.

Senators not voting: Duckworth & Tillis

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Don't even have to look at the voting record to know that @amyklobuchar.com will be one of the Dems who voted to advance another Trump nominee. She is not up to this moment.

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 2d

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 2d

It’s back

youtu.be/r-uSWAJd9GE?...

Roundball Rock - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 3d

Also why MN pedestrians give you the counter-wave when you stop to let them cross 😂

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#NYC #NoKings 👑

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 5d

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

Watergate every day

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 5d

Two more career prosecutors fired for refusing to indict NY AG Letitia James because they could not find probable cause to charge her. 🎁

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 5d

My friend Andrew Lih @fuzheado.bsky.social is a freakin hero. A gunman came into his Wikipedia event, and he grabbed and disarmed him. Thanks to him and another brave volunteer, no one was hurt—not even the gunman.

Now let’s ask why we accept a society where this can happen at any large gathering.

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

This picture is from about 5 minutes after being hit. A visible bruise is forming on my right cheekbone and by my right eye.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 6d

A reminder that Trump and his supporters violently attacked the seat of our democracy in 2021. Same people who are trying to frame "No Kings" protesters as the hate America crowd.

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