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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 15m

A massive $250 million vehicle for bribes to the person running the national regime. And construction on that monument to bribes is happening amid a shutdown engineered by that person. nypost.com/2025/10/20/u...

Demolition begins on East Wing of White House for Trump’s new $250 million ballroom

WASHINGTON — Demolition began Monday on the East Wing of the White House to make way for President Trump’s massive new $250 million ballroom.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 14m

I'm in the business of pointing out tech-enabled abuse, this will be used by an abuser/stalker/harasser to target people outside their remit. Guaranteed it will happen, because these creepy weirdo assholes cannot stop themselves.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 35m

this shit is blatantly unconstitutional and really, really, REALLY bad

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Screenshot from Washington Post: ICE also reported a $2 million contract for Penlink’s Tangles and Weblocs data systems on Sept. 25, which combine social media and dark web data to build detailed portraits of individuals. Weblocs allows clients to track the mobile phone location data of targeted individuals, information that government officials would otherwise need a warrant to obtain. Penlink did not respond to a request for comment.
In another project, ICE has disclosed in recent days its potential plans to set up a social media monitoring team of 16 analysts who would sift through information from social media platforms and other databases to generate leads to locate targeted individuals. An Oct. 2 “request for information,” which comes before soliciting bids for a project that could change, listed Facebook, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, WhatsApp, YouTube, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Myspace and Google+ as some of the platforms that the team would scour to find clues about the possible location of the target individual. The target’s family, friends and co-workers could also be probed.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 35m

this shit is blatantly unconstitutional and really, really, REALLY bad

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 56m

"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."

ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa

Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.

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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 11m

I wanted to share this photo of my family standing by a historic part of the White House that was just torn down today by Trump. We didn’t need a billionaire-funded ballroom to celebrate America. Disgusting what Trump is doing.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2h

Rule of law is not in effect if they can violate your rights and then just lie about it

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 12m

Yep. Guy who’s up for the job leading the agency that investigates federal whistleblower & discrimination complaints, gets the whistle blown on him for making discriminatory comments & yapping about being a bigoted Nazi in a group chat.

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 13m

But it definitely read as a different, more cautious, less tribally-bigoted group chat, compared to the Young Republicans group texts.

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 14m

I was surprised that the guy got repeated push-back & reprimanding by fellow right-wingers in the chat. And at least a few of them blew the whistle on him, not wanting him in that govt oversight job.

Tho I bet they just personally loathe the guy, more than that they’re taking an ethical stance.

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 20m

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 40m

it is impossible to convince normal people that this is the median republican operative but this is the median republican operative

Politico @politico.com · 1h

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 20m

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 40m

it is impossible to convince normal people that this is the median republican operative but this is the median republican operative

Politico @politico.com · 1h

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 21m

They cost that much because they only come in a 12-pack.

Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 31m

tariffs are crazy, I can't even afford a kirkland grand piano for my family.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 31m

Tom Homan be like

TonyC. @tonystillsang.bsky.social · 47m

Who keeping Chipotle in business when CAVA is RIGHT there? 🤨

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 30m

Love it:

Guy who’s up for the job leading the agency that investigates federal whistleblower & discrimination complaints, gets the whistle blown on him for making discriminatory comments & yapping about being a bigoted Nazi in a group chat. Even his fellow right-wingers found him too vile to chat w

Politico @politico.com · 1h

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 59m

Good to see some Dems hammering Trump & Johnson on the poop-jet video. But they need to emphasize that only an unfit POTUS with scrambled brains would post such a thing. And call for his removal/impeachment.

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1h

Trump sharing that obscene video was totally disgusting. Any regular person could say as much.

It's genuinely pathetic to see elected leaders like Speaker Johnson twisting themselves into pretzels to put on a show for the President like this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 1h

Mamdani needs to make Sliwa the Commissioner of Weird-Ass NY Guys Who Came Up In The 70s & 80s, for our entertainment.

Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 2h

Bars

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 1h

Meta is trash, guys.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1h

Absolute bombshell from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social:

Meta's internal research found that Instagram's algorithms preferentially displayed harmful content to vulnerable teens.

I'm glad I left Instagram back when I did, even if it was for other reasons (their anti-LGBTQ policies).

Exclusive: Instagram shows more ‘eating disorder adjacent’ content to vulnerable teens, internal Meta research shows

Meta researchers found that teens who report that Instagram regularly made them feel bad about their bodies saw significantly more “eating disorder adjacent content” than those who did not, according to an internal document reviewed by Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 1h

If a tenant starts ripping down the building I rent out to him, do I have standing in a lawsuit? Asking for over 300 million people.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1h

The president shouldn't tear down the White House

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 1h

Trump lied about not destroying the White House just like he lied about not destroying our democracy. This is not his house, it’s the people’s house, & AFAIK this destructive “ballroom” project is illegal.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2h

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.

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 1h

Need more reporting, like this, on the right-wingers intent to commit violence against No Kings protestors.

You can be sure it’d be a massive story if even one lefty pulled this stuff at, say, Charlie Kirk’s funeral, or a “Boaters For Trump” event.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h

While Republican lawmakers spent the days leading up to No Kings fearmongering about the protesters themselves, early reports show that only MAGA troublemakers were responsible for violence as an estimated 7M people peacefully demonstrated. trib.al/MZmc1Yx

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1h

Guys, I don’t mean to sound like this but there is a felon down the street making AI videos of himself as a king shitting on Americans and the American flag and he is literally tearing down the White House as we speak

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Bukkakestocracy (free link) @boo.bsky.social · 2h

What a perfect visual encapsulation of this presidency

Photo depicts white house east wing being demolished by an excavator

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Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 1h

Ok, but is that your anecdotal experience, or a very common British thing? (I have some British friends, & have lived w a couple of Brits over the years, & have never come across this.)

Serenity Now! @cpo10za.bsky.social · 2h

It remains very bad that the Trump admin has done nothing to establish that people doing detainment & deportation are legitimately ICE/DHS/CBP officials, in official govt vehicles. They look & act no differently from kidnappers & brutes, but we’re expected to believe they are who they claim to be.

Excerpt from ProPublica article. Highlighted section:

Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves. There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents or imposters. In six of the calls to Santa Ana police, residents described what they were seeing as kidnappings.

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