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Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 19h

Now this is how you write a headline - truthful, clear, direct

“Trump Keeps Musing About an Unconstitutional 3rd Term”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."

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Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 1d

NO third term

NO more judicial coup

NO KINGS

Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 1d

Better headline:

“Will SCOTUS Formally Replace ‘Major Questions Test’ With ‘Is Is the President a Democrat or a Republican?’ Test?”

Or

“How Long Can the Roberts Court’s Fig Leaf Cover Their Big, Hairy Coup?”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

Will Trump’s Tariffs Survive Supreme Court’s ‘Major Questions’ Test?

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Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 1d

I would fire him if he were a clerk in the mailroom

Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 2d

This is the most dishonest, empty pile of Quisling horseshit ever to be disgorged by the disgraceful Mr. Douthat.

If you read it, you will need to cleanse your senses with caustic surfactants. I have omitted the link for your safety.

Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 2d

Refusing to spend $6B set aside for SNAP makes absolutely zero sense as leverage to get Democrats to a budget deal.

It’s saying “it doesn’t matter if you appropriate money for feeding the hungry. I won’t spend it anyway. I’m willing to let them die.”

You can’t negotiate with evil like this.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

October 25, 2025

Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S.

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Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 3d

Sitting alone in the Reichstag, flicking his Bic

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

News Analysis: It has been over a month since there has been a policy debate or vote on the House floor. Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to hold the House in an indefinite hiatus during the government shutdown is his latest move to diminish the role of the legislative branch — and his own post.

Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself

The speaker’s decision to hold the House in an indefinite hiatus during the shutdown is his latest move to diminish the role of the legislative branch — and his own post.

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Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 3d

<reviewing legal options >

“Nope, got nothing”

Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 4d

“‘Don’t protest’ or else we’ll use force” is the very definition of an unconstitutional constraint on free speech.

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 5d

It's clear from today's AP photos that Trump has entirely demolished the East Colonnade—added to the White House by Thomas Jefferson in 1805—and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.

The East Colonnade didn't occupy the footprint of the Trump "ballroom"—its demolition was completely unnecessary.

Diagrams showing the evolution of Thomas Jefferson's low east and west terrace colonnades from 1803 to 1819.
Both the east and west terrace colonnades were set half-underground to be visually subservient to the White House main building, and were inspired by Jefferson's similar design at Monticello.
From: McDonald, Travis, "The East and West Wings of the White House: History in Architecture and Building", White House History, White House Historical Association, No. 29, Summer 2011
Source: https://www.poplarforest.org/wp-content/uploads/white-house-wings-article.pdf

McKim Mead and White
White House, Theodore Roosevelt East Wing expansion and East Terrace Colonnade restoration (1902)
Detroit Photographic Co. (1904)
collection: Library of Congress

View of the now-demolished East Colonnade and Terrace which was first built by Thomas Jefferson in 1805 and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 looking towards the East Garden, designed by First Lady Edith Roosevelt, shortly after its completion. The East Garden is now called the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden. (1904)
Collection. Library of Congress
Source: https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/white-house-east-garden-1904

Views of Franklin D. Roosevelt's enlarged East Wing connected to the main body of the White House by the now-demolished East Colonnade and terrace which was first built by Thomas Jefferson in 1805 and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.

Photo credits: Aerial Views of the White House East Wing and colonnade from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) by Jack Boucher (1992) from the North-East (above) and South-East (below).

East Wing from the "East Garden" side in 1952, showing the gallery colonnade glassed in, and FDR's second floor added (Truman Library - Abbie Rowe)

East Colonnade from the now-destroyed Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks (2020)

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Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 4d

No, the president cannot decline to negotiate a budget with Congress and instead put out a GoFundMe for bribes to fund the United States armed forces. (Or any other government function.)

There is so much wrong with this that it sets the conscience of any respectable government official on fire.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

Breaking News: The U.S. military accepted a private donation of $130 million to help pay troops during the shutdown. The move is highly unusual and a potential violation of federal law.

Trump to Use $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops

It is not clear how far the gift will go toward covering the salaries of the nation’s 1.3 million troops.

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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 4d

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is a con man, pocketing billions in bribes and theft from US taxpayers.

He lies to divide and distract, to amass more money and power.

Americans love freedom and democracy. He hates and aims to destroy them.

Despite our differences, we must come together to end this threat and rebuild 🇺🇸

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Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 6d

We really need to be working on our strategy for turning the White House Grifter’s Ballroom into a monument to the resilience of democracy.

Like turning Robert E Lee’s estate into Arlington National Cemetery.

What should it be?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

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Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone who knows their way around a cocktail knows that ICE has no place in a Manhattan

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6d

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 6d

Everyday New Yorkers don’t take shit from NObody

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6d

Anthony DiLorenzo: PIX-11 was tipped about ICE raid. NYers react:

"People just stopped in their tracks. People were going to school. People were coming home from work or just commuting. And stopped to scream at these ICE agents. Pulled out their phones started recording and telling them to leave."

ICE agents clash with large crowd in Lower Manhattan: ‘Shame’

YouTube video by PIX11 News

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents.

“Abject lies,” he wrote.

Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.

Because...we do our homework.

propub.li/4o2eeiL

StephenMiller calling description of our story "abject lies."

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Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 7d

So while the government is shut down and unable to pay workers or provide a wide range of services to the taxpayer, the Grifter-in-Chief continues to demolish the House of the People for a monument to himself.

America, never forget how little he thinks of you.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

Construction workers ripped the face off the East Wing to begin building President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom. nyti.ms/43oS9T1

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 9d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10d

Guy passing out constitutions who didn’t want me to show his face is where we are as a nation

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9d

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD

50+: Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

~130: Agents also can arrest U.S. citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

~20: Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 12d

Nazi adults are just “kids,” while actual kids should be prosecuted as adults

The levels of racism at work here would make. Klansman’s hood blush

www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...

Trump wants DC to charge 14-year-olds as adults. Here’s where the district’s laws stand | CNN Politics

As hundreds of federal law enforcement officers and National Guard troops descend on Washington as part of President Donald Trump’s public display of force against crime in the nation’s capital, the p...

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