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Hamilton's (and the new nation's) worst fears have been realized.
What will we do about it?
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On this day in 1977, tragedy struck Lynyrd Skynyrd when Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and manager Dean Kilpatrick lost their lives in a plane crash in Mississippi. The music stopped that night, but their Southern rock legacy still flies high.
I'm already old.
How do you think I feel
I'm going to be so fucking old by the time any of this is okay again
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More than a third of the recruits at ICE's training academy are failing the personal-fitness test, Nick Miroff reports. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told Miroff. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
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Donald Trump is far too selfish a person to go to the trouble of building an enormous ballroom that won't be finished until his last, legal term is up if he weren't planning to use it in his next, illegal term.
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Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.
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Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.
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🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court Monday all but cleared the way for President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Appeals Judges Greenlight Trump's Portland Military Deployment
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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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...
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so, what's this i hear?

Donald Trump trolled #NoKings in a meme showing him in a plane spewing liquid down on the protesters

much like his fetish of peeing on women?

do i got that right?

#TruthWarriors #MirthWarriors #SteeleDossierIsTrue

#FBR #resist #TrumpPedoFiles #TheTrumpEpsteinFiles
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New concept photo for the White House East Wing Ballroom just dropped
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Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.

But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop
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“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.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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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...
They reveal that for years, several key members of the team of developers, engineers and architects behind 432 Park had expressed concerns about its white exterior, even before the concrete was poured.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/n...
A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?
www.nytimes.com