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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2h

🚨Governor Pritzker - protect children from being slammed into the ground and then taken to an undisclosed location. Keep ICE away from kids. 1/2

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

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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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h

Ben Meiselas calls on those with standing to act: seek an injunction to halt Trump’s White House ballroom. Argue fraud—Trump claimed he’d pay and not alter the structure—and use the damage to the East Wing as the emergency basis. Demand discovery now.

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Debbie L @watsurvision.bsky.social · 1h

Honest question. Don't we all have standing as citizens? It's peoples house. Doesn't the Whitehouse technically belong to all of us?

Debbie L @watsurvision.bsky.social · 1h

They're trying to raise $800 to buy more frog costumes and frog swag to give away. #PortlandFrogBrigade #NoKings

Donate to Support Slurmit's Portland Frog Brigade, organized by Portland Frog Brigade

Hi! I’m Slurmit with the Portland Frog Brigade (you might have spotted … Portland Frog Brigade needs your support for Support Slurmit's Portland Frog Brigade

www.gofundme.com

Debbie L @watsurvision.bsky.social · 1h

Love this!
"When one frog stands, others will rise to join him." #PortlandFrogBrigade #NoKings

eliko thalia 🐸 @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 12h

www.tiktok.com/@slurmit?_t=...

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Debbie L @watsurvision.bsky.social · 1h

😂😂😂 Of course their ICE recruits are so out of shape they can't pass the simplest of PT tests. They're pitiful. I'm 59 and could pass that test.

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 6h

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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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

There it is. Sua sponte.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4h

Sua sponte call for en banc less than two hours after the 9th Cir decision to let loose the National Guard into Portland

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ArizonaTerry.bsky.social @arizonaterry.bsky.social · 2h

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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Debbie L @watsurvision.bsky.social · 3h

So what's our alternative when we can no longer trust or depend on the courts to uphold our laws?
#VetsAgainstTrump

Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 4h

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

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Debbie L @watsurvision.bsky.social · 3h

Fuck this contractor, ACECO LLC, Contact info is in the thread. Call them and let them know how you feel about them demolishing part of the Whitehouse.

capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 6h

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 6h

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”

Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 7h

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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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah. So The White House
is designated a National Historic Landmark.

That means:

It’s formally recognized as having exceptional national historical significance.

Any substantial changes, demolitions, or new construction affecting it are tightly restricted.

It’s not his house! WTF.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 6h

Hey Rep. Chip Roy: You're lying your arse off, your religiosity is repugnant AF, and separation of church and state is the law of the land. Take your authoritarianism, your religion, and your mouth-mullet and go crawl under a rock.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 8h

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

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Debbie L @watsurvision.bsky.social · 4h

It's this even legal??
The White House is historically protected, designated a National Historic Landmark and considered a historic house museum with its own Committee for the Preservation of the White House.

Debbie L @watsurvision.bsky.social · 5h

As it should be.

ACLU @aclu.org · 8h

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5h

This is insane. If Obama did this the GOP would impeach

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9h

omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

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

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

OMG! In Comey's motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution, he points to others who have lied to Congress that were NOT prosecuted. Number one is JEFF SESSIONS when he said "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two, but I did not have contact with the Russians." 1/

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

Literally

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6h

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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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Literally the Republicans are keeping government closed because they are that against making healthcare affordable. That’s jacked up

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

The words "indiscriminate murder" come to mind.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Goldman: The notion that Tom Homan does official consulting business by receiving $50,000 in cash in a Cava bag is preposterous.

And the fact that they closed that investigation while charging Jim Comey and Tish James with bogus charges at Trump’s direction is completely destroying the DOJ.

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