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Article excerpt: When ProPublica emailed questions to Newby’s daughter, the North Carolina Republican Party’s communications director, Matt Mercer, responded, writing that ProPublica was waging a “jihad” against “NC Republicans,” which would “not be met with dignifying any comments whatsoever.”

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,” Mercer said in his email. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

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HaleyNMS @haleynms.bsky.social · 4d

Ditto Rachel, Theo Vaughan, and Kennedy.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

ICE followed the mother into a school and aggressively detained her along with her children.
This is so heartbreaking 💔

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

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 · 11d

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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12d

This is definitely one of those things that people would’ve called you hysterical for predicting a year ago.

Trump is going to destroy the East Room of the White House without even asking Congress and build a ballroom with funds from private companies that are seeking favors? Settle down, lib.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 12d

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.

wapo.st

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HaleyNMS @haleynms.bsky.social · 12d

Ah, he's divorced. This explains so much.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 16d

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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HaleyNMS @haleynms.bsky.social · 16d

Could have just skipped all that and told us she's a boy mom.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 18d

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 21d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Veruca's Alt @verucas-alt.bsky.social · 20d

Not only do I want to be ungovernable, I want to be unalgorithmable.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25d

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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HaleyNMS @haleynms.bsky.social · 28d

I cried bc Im a cringey millennial but I listened to it with my 17 yo eldest daughter. She rolled her eyes at the first verse but the second verse had her tearing up too. Cant we all relate to the feeling of trying so hard not to be vulnerable, and be cool, only to realize that's a trap?

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HaleyNMS @haleynms.bsky.social · 29d

A woman of great range

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