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emilyspitzer.bsky.social @emilyspitzer.bsky.social · 17h

Screenshot of NYTimes this morning. Keep working! #NoKings

emilyspitzer.bsky.social @emilyspitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u.... No words.

Trump Administration Won’t Use Emergency Funds for Food Stamps During Shutdown

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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 2d

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would monitor elections in California and New Jersey, which Democrats called an attempt at voter suppression.

Justice Department Will Monitor Elections in California and New Jersey

The Trump administration said that monitors will watch polling in two states, led by Democrats, where key races or issues are on the ballot.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Voter suppression.

Trump and MAGA are planning for permanent power. All in front of us.

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Justice Department Will Monitor Elections in California and New Jersey

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Jon Martin Kitchen @kitchen5203.bsky.social · 1d

THIS!

A Must Share from Stephen Colbert...
"Ballroom Grift"
youtu.be/xT4hs2uQ_Hs?...

Ballroom Grift

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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emilyspitzer.bsky.social @emilyspitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...

The Department of Revenge and Injustice

Letitia James Case Shows Ruthlessness of Justice Dept. in Trump’s Grip

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Just keep playing this @housedemocrats.bsky.social
@democrats.senate.gov.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

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emilyspitzer.bsky.social @emilyspitzer.bsky.social · 3d

projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c.... But sure, spend $300,000,000 on a gold banquet hall.

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...

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 3d

Just published: "Trump’s White House Demolition Isn’t His First Time Leveling A Building — Or Ignoring Preservationists"

me, for @forbes.com

Trump’s White House Demolition Isn’t His First Time Leveling A Building — Or Ignoring Preservationists

In 1980, Trump destroyed Art Deco sculptures he'd promised to the Met to speed up Trump Tower's construction—now he's demolishing the White House's East Wing for a massive ballroom despite preservatio...

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3d

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

This is truly awful.

The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 3d

A 🧵
Fresh off of erasing the largest pro-democracy mobilization in American history the AGSulzberger @nytimes.com continues its institutional normalization of Pres. Trump.

Demolition of East Wing of WH for a vanity project.

🧵 contrasting NYT v WaPo

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Headline chosen by editors 10/22:

NYT

Rubble? It’s a presidential dream being realized.

WaPo

Cries of overreach as East Wing decimated further

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 4d

House Speaker Mike Johnson's refusal to seat newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva is preventing a key vote on the release of the Epstein files.

For the Republican Party, "the protection of pedophiles is above the protection of the children of this country," says colleague @ramirez.house.gov.

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emilyspitzer.bsky.social @emilyspitzer.bsky.social · 4d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

They always go after the most vulnerable.

No Education Department? No Problem, Trump’s Education Secretary Says.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 4d

Release the Epstein files.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d

Trump in July, on the WH $250MM ballroom project:

“It won’t interfere with the current building.... It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 5d

Literally everything else aside, it’s very surreal that the President of the United States posted a video of himself pooping on the general public and everyone was just like, yeah, he’ll do that.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 5d

Trump flirted with sending Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. Alarmed, Putin called up Trump on Thursday. The Tomahawk sale has been postponed indefinitely. Trump reportedly browbeat Zelensky on Friday, telling him his country would be “destroyed” if it didn’t accept Putin’s terms. wapo.st/49eip6r

Opinion | Trump keeps getting played by Putin. Will Budapest be different?

A Russia-Ukraine ceasefire might be possible if only Trump would apply more pressure on Putin.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 6d

Watch how the media reports yesterday’s march.

Outlets that don’t report it, or dramatically downplay it are showing you precisely who they are.

When it matters.

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emilyspitzer.bsky.social @emilyspitzer.bsky.social · 6d

www.rawstory.com/trump-nyt-sa... This is the same day that @NYTimes reported about No Kings Day on page A29.

New York Times accused of 'sanewashing' Trump post with report on dumping 'brown liquid'

Donald Trump posted an AI video in which "King Trump" can be seen dumping feces from a fighter jet onto protesters, but the New York Times is catching flak for its coverage of the post.The president s...

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6d

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.