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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 3h

Again I dont put much into norms or institutions when issues like poverty exist but a president demolishing much of a publicly owned building in plain sight to build a vanity project funded by bribes during a shutdown as people lose food assistance, troops aren't sure if they'll get paid, etc is bad

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4h

The East Wing is totally gone. I can’t believe it

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 17h

I cordially invite you to my city of Los Angeles to see just how well that’s working out for us (I say after a two-hour commute home).

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 18h

Your posts are a daily delight. ❤️ Thank you for bringing such lovely charm onto the timeline.

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 18h

If you have the means, please support your local food bank. ($$ donations rather than food drop offs are best as they can buy in bulk, based on need, and your dollar will go farther). It won’t solve everything but you can at least lighten the load for your neighbors. ❤️ Volunteering is good too!

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 18h

Step 1: levy tariffs & terrorize/kidnap farm workers so food prices soar
Step 2: fire countless fed employees & embrace policies guaranteed to put other people out of work (withholding grants, embracing AI etc)
Step 3: Shut down govt so that SNAP benefits expire
Step 4:

ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 19h

Break out the hot dog guy playing a tiny violin

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

ok who did this? ☹️

a doctored photo of the back of a $20 bill featuring the White House being demolished by an excavator

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 1d

Love this! Incredible paint-on-glass artistry and visual storytelling. Pulls you immediately into Dostoevsky's dark dream and carries you in its flow. (Would love to see this animator do a Kafka story!)

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d

From: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992), dir. Alexander Petrov, Sverdlovsk Film Studio

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 1d

lol man oh man ☠️

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

Michael Rapaport tweets: "How’s a so-called “working class” mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani eating at OMEN SUSHI tonight — one of the priciest joints in NYC? 🍣💰
This clown lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens but dines like a diplomat on a Qatar-funded per diem.
Who’s paying for that toro, “Zoron the Moron”?"

There are two photos of Zohran Mamdani and his wife eating at a restaurant.

Michael Rapaport eating outside of a restaurant. There are some white canopy umbrellas around him and a tree in the background. Also the ocean and some fence.

Two photos. The first shows the outside of Nobu in Malibu. The second shows the area where Michael sat. There is the same tree, ocean, white canopy umbrellas, and fence.

The menu for Nobu in Malibu shows prices around $60. The menu for Omen Sushi in NYC shows prices around $35.

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 1d

The whole thing is going to collapse, isn’t it 😕

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 1d

I somehow missed this and I’m 😂 thank you!🙏😄 h t m l

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · Apr 2

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

why not
isn’t this something they are proud of

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

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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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 2d

It’s horrifying. Just an ongoing desecration of this country in every way imaginable by the shallowest, ugliest fools who ever drew a breath.

d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been on a steady rotation of heartbreak & seething rage over this all day. The cavalier disregard for anything meaningful or symbolic of what America once aspired to be. It wouldn’t surprise me if King Slob whips out a sharpie & decides to add his name to the original Constitution on a whim.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 2d

Drag him, Senator. 👏

d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 2d

Looking at you Tim Apple, @microsoft.com, and T-mobile. (I gave up on Meta & Amazon ages ago.)

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 2d

See thread for the full, long list of backers helping him desecrate the White House. If you have any dealings with these jerks and enablers, maybe a good idea to let them know how you feel.

Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 2d

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Ben Lewis @theuniversalben.bsky.social · 3d

Really good idea for an exhibition here that other museums could learn from. Artists created a set of VR interventions on existing works in a museum so anyone with the VR headset got the 'new' exhibition.

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/13/i...

Indigenous artists transform works at Metropolitan Museum in unsanctioned augmented reality project

The digital interventions by 17 Native artists, launched on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, put pointed twists on works in the museum’s American Wing

www.theartnewspaper.com

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 3d

I am not, generally, a sentimental person. But this feels like a stab in the heart of the country I love (despite its many flaws) and thought I knew. American history and its founding ideals mean less than nothing to these soulless, avaricious, shallow, and breathtakingly stupid trolls.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 3d

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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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 3d

“Whistlemania” across the Chicago area, as anti-ICE activists get ready to create a derisive, high-pitched cacophony wherever masked feds are sighted chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

To stand up to ICE agents, some Chicagoans are arming themselves with whistles

The plastic whistles have become a way to loudly resist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and warn those who may be in danger.

chicago.suntimes.com

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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 3d

Well, if Trump’s goal with the pardon was to draw media attention away from the NK protests, it worked! 🫤

d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 3d

This is bonkers. What the absolute fuck to the moon & back. (And as an Angeleno prof, though not at UCLA, this is too close to home.) Again, I wonder: who or what will ever stop him? (other than arterial plaque with an assist from a stack of double cheeseburgers 🙏)

Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 3d

Un-American insanity.

The 28-page letter — whose full contents have not been made public — also lays out in sweeping detail how it wants the university to enforce new policies that adhere to the president’s conservative agenda.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Here are the details of Trump's $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image

The Times describes the details, for the first time, of the 28-page proposal the Trump administration has made to remake the UCLA campus.

www.latimes.com

d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Birthday! I appreciate you so much for sharing your wonderful photos with us. Hoping the year ahead is a good one for you!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 5d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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