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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

Also, the fact that some Republican governors are turning down this expansion, allowing millions of poor people in their states to suffer unnecessarily, is just a massive, horrific crime taking place right in public. It has become so familiar we don't talk about it anymore.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

one of the consistently interesting things about ACA criticism since it was signed into law is how critics discount or ignore the medicaid expansion

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 3h

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 17h

A reminder that the GOP could stop this man from literally tearing down our country at any time, and they are *choosing* not to

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 18h

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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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16h

Someone is going to write a “tearing down parts of the WH without permission is good, actually” op-ed

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 4h

Nero had his Golden House. The 🍊💩 has this monstrosity.

The first was demolished with malice. And Nero certainly didn't come to a good end.

Eric Ansley Díaz @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 17h

Nothing sums up the Trump presidency more than this photo of his bulldozers demolishing a historic part of the White House for his insanely tacky ego project. You just can't make this shit up. They serve it to you on a platter.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

The Republican shutdown means that nonessential federal employees like soldiers and TSA agents aren't being paid anymore, but rest assured that the truly vital work of this administration -- building a Dancing with the Stars ballroom for the dementia-addled president -- still goes on.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 18h

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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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 4h

It would help our blood pressure if we regarded journalists as mere peddlers of product and propaganda rather than as dedicated pursuers of truth. It's the exceptions to this we should note, not the countless examples.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 5h

Holy shit, this sign was SAVAGE. 💀💀💀

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

Kristi Noem's stupidity is only exceeded by her dishonesty.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17h

jake tapper and maggie haberman would like you to know joe biden is old

Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 18h

Hey so the President took an AI dump on America and then tore down part of the White House.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18h

any democrat running for the presidency must promise to obliterate trump's ballroom. starting on day one. im serious.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Blue Woman Voting 📎 @bluewomanvoting123.bsky.social · 11h

Today I am thinking about farmers who voted against themselves 3 times for the top 1% and now are on the brink of losing everything and wondering this third time, if they learned any lessons or if they would still vote for racism against their own well-being.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The “you can’t trust the government or the media” crowd voted to give full control of the federal government to an administration that lies shamelessly to them nonstop through media outlets and platforms slavishly beholden to the party, and the “you can’t trust…” crowd appears to be loving it.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

The destruction of the East Wing really bums me out in a way that I wasn't expecting.

I guess some of it is about the destruction of history. But I think it's mostly about the feeling of helplessness. There's nothing we can do to stop him.

Nobody is coming to save us. And it's going to get worse.

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 7h

This despicable picture is the perfect expression of what happens to America under conservatives.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

The White White East Wing has a big gaping hole.

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Dann @dann1960.bsky.social · 16h

There is a BOYCOTT of Spotify now that they have decided to run ICE recruitment ads. #boycottspotify

Let's give them the treatment we gave Disney not long ago.

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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 16h

So, which media outlet is digging into the White House general contractor's background and supply chains?

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Scarecasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 17h

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 15h

All this cruelty and ugliness because these fuckers couldn't accept a country that elected a black president.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12h

Thou shalt accept that the Republican party is filled to the brim with self-avowed and proud Nazis (according to their own text messages).

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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 14h

This circus sucks and the bread is $8.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Literally

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 14h

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

The current iteration of the Republican Party consists of two competing factions:

Fuck Them Kids (figuratively) and Fuck Them Kids (literally).

In this essay I will

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

in a sane word it would be considered wildly inappropriate for the Deputy FBI Director to go on Fox & Friends and cut WWE-style promos on sitting governors

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