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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Translation: if Dems don’t cave this week, Donald Trump and Republicans are going to turn up the pain level on the American people.

📌 “The Schumer shutdown is likely to end sometime this week… if it doesn’t… the White House…will have to look at stronger measures…to bring them to the table.”

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 11h

Kudos to AP for getting this absolutely right. This isn't the country's ballroom, the people's ballroom, or frankly even the White House's ballroom.

It's Trump's. For, by, and about Trump - another edifice to his ego. Another vanity project that will fail to sate his appetites.

AP headline: The White House Starts Demolishing Part of the East Wing to Build Trump's Ballroom

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 17h

As I was saying, I'm not construction expert, but I don't think this is how you build an extension.

One side of the White House has just been ripped out

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18h

WTAF—why does ICE need “guided missile warheads”?!

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ICE boosts weapons spending 700%

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 22h

Jamie Dimon really thinks Congress and the American people will believe that only one top exec at his multi-billion dollar bank enabled Epstein. Be serious. Today I’m giving Dimon and JPMC another chance to explain why they appeared to enable Epstein's trafficking for years.

With JPMorgan Chase Dodging Epstein Inquiry, Wyden Investigation Drills Down On Bank Executives’ Unexplained Conduct | The United States Senate Committee on Finance

With JPMorgan Chase Dodging Epstein Inquiry, Wyden Investigation Drills Down On Bank Executives’ Unexplained Conduct

www.finance.senate.gov

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

As predicted.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 19h

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

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

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 15h

It’s clear at pretty much every turn that none of these people have any experience with anything they’re doing and are just playacting what they’ve seen in movies.

It’s a government run by people whose experience amounts to the “I’m not a doctor but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night” ads.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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

It's not just that the NYT chose to ignore the massive protests -- 300,000 in their city alone! -- but that the piece they *did* run on the front page about Democrats is almost cartoonishly bad in how much it whines that they're just not doing what A.G. Sulzberger LXVII wants them to do.

Democrats' Ads Make Old Pitch: Stopping Trump
Well-Worn Playbook
Some See It as a Missed Chance to Advance a Positive Message

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Daniel Emerson @doktorfuttocks.bsky.social · 21h

Someone took that ball and ran with it.
youtu.be/FBAi_leb6xA?...

MST3K Tusk

YouTube video by Preferred Image

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 3d

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 2d

At Oakland #NoKings, I asked Justin here if, as a Black man, he had particular concerns w the Trump admin's actions. Loved his answer.

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 7d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 2d

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 2d

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2d

Top story when you go to The Guardian this AM. Which it is not when you go to the Washington Post or the NY Times. Apt language here, whereas WaPo describes the day as an airing of grievances as though we are a bunch of whining George Costanzas, not a vast public fearful of losing everything.

Millions across all 50 US states march in No Kings protests against Trump

Crowds of Americans, many in costumes, aligned behind message that US is sliding into authoritarianism

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 2d

The top of two prominent newspapers’ mobile editions right now—and the reason that, despite growing up in New York, I always read @theguardian.com first (and rarely open @nytimes.com):