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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 12h

WSJ's Timiraos: Federal Reserve officials, who are unable to receive US economic statistics due to the government shutdown, recently lost access to data from ADP. The change occurred shortly after Fed's Waller cited ADP data in the footnote to a speech on the economy.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 17h

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

Reports of outages were slowly rising again Tuesday morning.

AWS Outage: What To Know As Amazon Says Cloud Service Is Back To Normal

Reports of outages were slowly rising again Tuesday morning.

www.forbes.com

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 13h

And asked for $230M from DOJ which just about covers the cost of his Versailles-like ballroom ($250m)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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grandmere21.bsky.social @grandmere21.bsky.social · 12h

Trump’s partial East Wing demolition and $250 million presidential ballroom is sponsored by Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and more.
levernews.com/who-bought-t...

Who Bought The East Wing?

Trump’s partial East Wing demolition and $250 million presidential ballroom is sponsored by Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and more.

levernews.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14h

I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.

So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.

Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Prior White House renovations were done by practical people with good taste. They made the building more functional without sacrificing its architectural and decorative refinements.

The current renovations are being done by a shockingly vulgar man and will tackily undermine the building's beauty.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Two weeks left.

It's almost GO(TV) time.

zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

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grandmere21.bsky.social @grandmere21.bsky.social · 13h

open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Pete Hegseth, Junior Officer

An unexpectedly harsh assessment of his performance comes from inside the Pentagon.

open.substack.com

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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 1d

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

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."

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

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Burns: and I'll take that statue of justice, too

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

News Alerts

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h

Super interesting analysis about why Trump has withdrawn a record number of his nominations. It's not all GOP opposition (and some of that opposition is not public). It's also Trump deciding they would not be sufficiently loyal.

www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/trump-has-...

A bar chart titled, "Number of presidential nominees withdrawn by year" showing that Trump has had far more than anyone.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 1d

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 1d

The US is set to shut down a crucial satellite that monitors how much carbon is in the atmosphere.

Record-breaking CO₂ rise shows the Amazon is faltering — yet the satellite that spotted this may soon be shut down

The US is set to shut down a crucial satellite that monitors how much carbon is in the atmosphere.

tcnv.link

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16h

It’s no surprise that Chicago is estimated to have had the largest #NoKings protest: 300,000 across the region with 250,000 downtown. Folks here abhor the ICE incursion and pretty much everything else Trump is doing.

www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/n...

Aerial video shows thousands of ‘No Kings' protesters marching in downtown Chicago

A crowd of thousands in downtown Chicago marched through multiple streets in the Loop on the same day as a military parade celebrating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, which also coincides with Pres...

www.nbcchicago.com

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 16h

BOFA’S CLIENTS ARE BACK TO SELLING STOCKS AFTER BUYING THE DIP Bank of America Securities said clients resumed selling U.S. stocks last week after briefly “buying the dip,” led by institutional and hedge fund outflows. Despite a 1.7% gain in the S&P 500, $2.1 billion in

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

"I don't know anything about that so I'm afraid I can't comment."

--Speaker Mike Johnson, repeatedly

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: Senator Elizabeth Warren is now probing the United States Treasury Department over alleged United States purchases of Argentine pesos during the massive bailout.

This is big news. meidasnews.com/news/warren-...

meidasnews.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Sen. Kevin Cramer on Mike Johnson: "It may be getting to be time for him to bring the House back into session, if for no other reason to start doing other legislation and perhaps to swear in the House member from Arizona that they're so uptight about."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"

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