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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

He is literally not paying for it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump notes the sound of construction of his new ballroom at the White House and says, "that's music to my ears. When I hear that sound, it reminds me of money. In this case it reminds me of lack of money because I'm paying for it."

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1h

If it turns out that a social media savvy political candidate who you like has a Nazi tattoo and your first reaction is to defensively seek out ways to justify or minimize it rather than to be pissed at the candidate and seek accountability, then congrats: you're practicing politics as fandom

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 2h

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2h

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 · 3h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

We are not releasing the files, but Trump's employees (including one who had to quit when it was discovered he gave a sweetheart deal to Epstein as prosecutor) vouch for him, so that should be good enough for you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Comer: "They are both Republicans and both former Trump cabinet secretaries. And guess what? Those interviews completely debunked the Democrats' smear against President Trump. Barr stated there was no evidence that President Trump was involved in Epstein's criminal activities. Acosta confirmed ... "

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

I guess where I’m landing is less “oh no he’s a Nazi” and more “I just went through this shit with Fetterman and Sinema and a six year term is too long for me to take on faith that your Nazi tattoo was the accident but what you’re saying now is the truth.”

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bluegirlredstate.bsky.social @bluegirlredstate.bsky.social · 4h

Of course Mills would be better than Collins. That kind of logic is the same as “Trump and Hillary” are just the same that we saw from the left in 2016. How did that work out?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Per the Foundation's website, past recipients of this award include Henry Kissinger (twice), Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld.

Jennifer Jacobs @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social · 6h

News: Trump will receive the "Architect of Peace" award today from the Nixon Foundation. Among those who will be at White House to present it are Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia Nixon Cox, ex national security advisor Robert O'Brien, Jim Byron, the acting archivist of the US, sources tell CBS News

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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 7h

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

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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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10h

If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise. The woods are gone. There’s a road called ‘The Woods’ there instead, containing a load of fucking ghastly overpriced executive houses with identical shiny light grey interiors and pointless giant clocks in their living rooms.

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 21h

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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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 20h

When this is over, no matter the effort and no matter the cost, we tear down Trump's ballroom and restore the White House to the way it was.

And then we take a wrecking ball to Mar-a-Lago.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 21h

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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bluegirlredstate.bsky.social @bluegirlredstate.bsky.social · 21h

Obama moved a bust and Jake Tapper covered it for six weeks.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace

our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning

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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 23h

The longer this goes on, the more Americans want to know why Republicans are protecting pedophiles.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a 20th day.

Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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bluegirlredstate.bsky.social @bluegirlredstate.bsky.social · 1d

I posted about Trump’s vile video on Next Door and his MAGA base are all claiming it’s a lie because FOX isn’t covering it. Unbelievable.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Perfection

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump shelled J.D. Vance's security detail.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1d

You're never going to get banner New York Times coverage of No Kings unless they're given reason to impugn the protestors. It's time to start measuring the lack of coverage as evidence of how effective this dissident movement is.

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

We're calling him Diarrhea Don. He's owning the libs so hard with this, it's brilliant. Everyone talking about the president's uncontrollable bowels, how manly and cool his uncontrollably explosive shits are.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the people CNN could’ve platformed to tell a personal redemption story, they chose the least authentic and deserving person in America for their dwindling audience.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?

You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?

Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

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bluegirlredstate.bsky.social @bluegirlredstate.bsky.social · 2d

Complete black out on FOX as well.

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