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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

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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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 1d

Edward and Shari Glazer
Harold Hamm
Benjamin Leon, Jr.
The Lutnick Family
The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Konstantin Sokolov
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
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Source: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Trump Hosts Corporate Ballroom Donors at Glitzy White House Dinner

The event included representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon.com and Palantir.

www.wsj.com

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2h

lol, lmao even www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Reuters headline:

White House says it will submit ballroom plans for review, with demolition already under way

By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2h

Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents.

“Abject lies,” he wrote.

Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.

Because...we do our homework.

propub.li/4o2eeiL

StephenMiller calling description of our story "abject lies."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1h

Much of the East Wing of the White House was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency.

White House continues East Wing demolition amid cries of Trump overreach

More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,

www.washingtonpost.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4h

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

This is a great target!!

Target the corporations that, Trump says, are paying for the ballroom.

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 4h

Which corporate entities paid for the demolition of the White House as a bribe to the felon Donald Trump? We need names.

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 4h

“Can you imagine if Obama had bulldozed the W…” NO. We just need leaders who respond the way Republicans would have responded if Obama had bulldozed the White House to build himself a palace ballroom. Removal from office. Criminal prosecution. Confiscate Mar a Lago. Sell it to finance rebuilding.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 9h

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3h

Sending troops to San Francisco? Do it and we’ll sue.

We don’t bow to kings. We defend the Constitution.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

Q: Are you going to send federal troops and the National Guard to San Francisco?

Trump: "We're going to go to San Francisco...We're going to go to San Francisco and we're going to make it great...Don't forget, I can use the Insurrection Act."

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 15h

"Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity towards Putin, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump." My column. www.ft.com/content/7deb...

Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump

Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield

www.ft.com

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Todd H. Baker @tbakerbroadmoor.bsky.social · 14h

AI LLM in a nutshell

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Todd H. Baker @tbakerbroadmoor.bsky.social · 14h

Headed by fraudster

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h

"the way chatbots play with your mind isn’t new. Sycophancy has been sending people into delusional spirals and destructive behavior for millennia. In the past, however, sycophancy was reserved for the rich and powerful. AI’s innovation is to democratize the experience."

Donald Trump Has Lost Touch With Reality

And it’s getting worse. When will we acknowledge the obvious?

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

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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Todd H. Baker @tbakerbroadmoor.bsky.social · 1d

Standard NYT San Francisco is full of wackos story…

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Sep 6

I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

My latest: Trump is slowly but surely desensitizing the public to a brand of authoritarianism aimed at subverting the will of the electorate. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

Trump’s Plan To Remain on His Throne

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

No other U.S. president has used the military as their own personal police force against the American people.

We implore the courts to reject Donald Trump's ongoing, illegal actions and definitively affirm states' sovereign right to handle public safety matters.

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

The Republican shutdown means that nonessential federal employees like soldiers and TSA agents aren't being paid anymore, but rest assured that the truly vital work of this administration -- building a Dancing with the Stars ballroom for the dementia-addled president -- still goes on.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

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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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 1d

An image of the Trump-Vance presidency smashing a wrecking ball into the White House to build a monument to Dear Leader—during a government shutdown—captures 2025 pretty well

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

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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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 1d

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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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 1d

Good reminder that there is no “going back” from this, we only get out of it by going through.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT THE FUCK

One side of the White House has just been ripped out

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

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

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

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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Todd H. Baker @tbakerbroadmoor.bsky.social · 1d

What a jerk

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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