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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1h

Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅

#Ugh🤢✅

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 2h

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

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Jane @janetea4.bsky.social · 41m

#Murder. They’re murdering unknowns to cover up the #EpsteinFiles
Murder. No other way to see it.

RELEASE THE FILES NOW

We Rise Up Again @weriseupagain.bsky.social · 47m

YUP!
youtu.be/ASOiLS6PODA?...

Trump KILLED an INNOCENT MAN... and Colombia JUST PROVED IT!

YouTube video by Keith Edwards

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ArizonaTerry.bsky.social @arizonaterry.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Kristi Noem is now under Congressional investigation. Rep Garcia and Senator Blumenthal are demanding records from her for detaining 170 American citizens without warrants, charge, or lawyers.

Get her. 😡

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

Ted finally deleted this lie over 24 hours later. Only the 900th time he has posted a fake right-wing internet lie. You would think a US Senator would take a few minutes to make sure these things are legit, but we are talking about Ted Cruz.

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Jeffrey Phillips @11thjeff.bsky.social · 1h

Need a #WealthTax in California, but @governor.ca.gov Newsom would never hurt his donor class...

Dave Lee @davelee.me · 2h

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 5h

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h

Trump's handpicked U.S. attorney targeting James Comey and Letitia James texted with reporter Anna Bower for more than a day — alluding to sensitive grand jury matters in the process — and never said the conversation was off the record. tinyurl.com/4uptcupk

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House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Democrats @democrats-veterans.house.gov · 1d

"We have an active duty servicemember swept up in an ICE raid who hasn't been allowed to talk to his family since September 3rd."

During last week's roundtable, Col. Saenz called for immediate Congressional oversight to protect veterans and servicemembers from ICE agents.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

The corrupt begat corruption

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 4h

"Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same." Miles Bruner

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party

Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.

www.thebulwark.com

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Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 20h

Just a reminder

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3h

There are no mainstream Republicans or media elites or corporate leaders riding to our rescue.

The only people who are going to save our democracy is us. Regular, everyday Americans. Like the record setting 7 million who turned out this weekend.

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Leslie Potter 🦋🫘🇺🇸🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇴🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @mudlady64.bsky.social · 3h

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The People’s House Is Becoming a Party House

The East Wing of the White House is being torn down to make room for a ballroom.

open.substack.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h

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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Blip@Blackhat_1 @blip-blackhat-1.bsky.social · 3h

Below is what Trump says, here's what the Constitution says:

Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 restricts the executive branch (including the President) from spending money unless Congress has specifically authorized it by law.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Trump Wildly Claims All Federal Funding ‘Comes Through the White House’ — Threatens to Cut Off NYC

"He hates the Jewish people. So it comes through the White House. The funding for New York and for every place comes through to the White House”

www.yahoo.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe it was a sign when the person Trump put in charge of the DOJ's Civil Rights division was a protege of Jeffrey Hart at Dartmouth, a man who wrote this column in 1977.

'Roots' Was a Racist Attack on White People
THIS IS
going to be a harsher co-
lumn than I
ordinarily care to write,
but the whole "Roots"
phenomenon
deserves some blunt comment.
Tens of millions of Americans sat through the eight TV episodes of
"Roots" and apparently did not understand that they themselves were being
attacked
both directly and
unjustifiably. This fact is at once alarming and profoundly depressing.
The attack made by "Roots," more. over, was deeply racist, practically all of the whites being unattractive louts, practically all of the blacks nature's noblemen.
This is the sort of thing many of the
commentators are calling
mythic
truth." That is, people with white skins are, morally speaking, unattractive louts. As Susan Sontag once put it, whites are the cancer of the human race.
"Roots" was just as blunt.
Is it possible that the white audience for "Roots"
was unaware that it
was being assaulted?
If so, then perhaps that audience really does deserve to be ripped off,
PRoos" is realty al about "Rootst
does not have much to do with histo-ry, which is scarcely present at all in the series, but with concrete political claims in the present.
The message comes through loud and clear, viz., because of the slavery experience in the past, contemporary
Jeffrey
Hart
blacks have special valid claims on contemporary whites. Contemporary whites, indeed, should feel guilty in connection with blacks. now awarded
"victim
status"
by
Alex
Haley.
"Roots" means to offer blacks a moral blank check, figures to be filled in at leisure: quotas in jobs and colleges, privileged access to the federal kitty, favorable court decisions on highly disputed matters, and so forth. An au• dience willing to ooh and aah over
"Roots" is not about to resist very strongly when the political rip-offs arrive.
To achieve its propagandistic goals,
"Roots" makes a mish-mash of histo-ry. In historical fact,
marauding
bands of whites did not go into the African bush and
Blacks were almest
ways seiz…

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 19h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

We sure do

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

New in PN: No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response.

"Calling this movement 'No Kings' turns out to have been a stroke of genius, because Trump’s response was to essentially say *Yeah, I’m the king — and because I’m the king, I can poop on people!*"

No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response.

Turnout was enormous. There was no violence. And the wannabe king is triggered.

www.publicnotice.co

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90for90.bsky.social @90for90.bsky.social · 14h

Small dollar contributions from regular Democratic activists & donors all over the country allow heroic (D) candidates like Dr. Jena Crisler in Va. HD 35 to share their messages with their rural, overwhelmingly (R) leaning voters. Thanks @charlesgaba.com !
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