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Happy Flapjack
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I'm a maker of things, tea drinker, gardener, foodie, lover of animals, and as liberal/progressive as they come. Equality, empathy and kindness always - or what are humans even doing here. Focused on the big picture and progress, not the noise.
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"The Jacqueline Kennedy Garden was located at the White House south of the East Colonnade. The garden balances the Rose Garden on the west side of the White House. It was demolished on October 23, 2025 to make way for President Donald Trump's ballroom."
Jacqueline Kennedy Garden - Wikipedia
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New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
It's not just the East Wing. It's the entire colonnade between them also. And just bulldozed over the Kennedy Rose Garden too. It's all gone, nothing left.
Yesterday it was just the East Wing. Today he's demolished the colonnade between it and the White House, just nothing left. He's also bulldozed the Jacquie Kennedy's Rose Garden. No approval, no transparency, just lawless. All the trees removed, the gardens. It's beyond shocking. I'm just gutted.
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And there it is, once again.

“Representatives from Trump’s family crypto business have held talks with Binance about taking a stake in the US arm of the exchange,” the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year.

Zhao disputed that he was seeking to make a deal in exchange for a pardon.
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Trump rewarded Changpeng Zhao, a business partner who boosted his crypto venture, with a pardon for crimes that Zhao pleaded guilty to.

Trading presidential favors for self-interest.

You can’t get more classically corrupt than this.
Q: On the pardon of Changpeng Zhao, Binance has significant business interests with World Liberty Financial, the president family's crypto company. How do you respond to criticisms that this is a corrupt act?

LEAVITT: I would respond and say the president is exercising his constitutional authority
He's demolished the colonnade between the White House and the East Wing also. There needs to be an emergency injunction to stop everything right now.

Caroline Leavitt thinks it's all fine, Trump could just bulldoze the Lincoln Memorial tomorrow to build his Arc de Trump if he wanted to.
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Breaking NYT:

Virginia Democrats are moving to redraw their state's congressional map.

The surprise move could give Democrats two or three additional House seats. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
Virginia Democrats Plan to Redraw House Maps in Redistricting Push
www.nytimes.com
If Biden had demolished a third of the White House without any permit, approval or plan nobody on the right would have said a peep because of these "legal opinions" that have been in effect for years and years? Absolute garbage lying and hypocrisy. It's galling.
Reporter: So it sounds like the answer is yes, Trump can tear down whatever he wants.

Leavitt: That's a legal opinion that's been held for many years
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Democrats can just run this clip as an ad
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
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We should be fighting for American farmers — not selling them out to boost someone else’s economy.
Except Fox News et al aren't talking about it, not showing it. It's only a tiny little news story on the "librul media" and most Americans don't know anything about it.
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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Yes. The through line here is nakedly corrupt self-dealing. Trump is looting the people's money while demolishing the people's White House and replacing it with a gilded monstrosity that is his own personal plaything.
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You could easily fit a single large room in place of the old East Wing, one that'd comfortably accommodate 2-3x more people than the East Room, while keeping give or take the same footprint and a very similar exterior appearance. That's what the reasonable version of the idea would have looked like.
Well that's a pipe dream. You can't "restore" the East Wing that's rubble and dust. And it would be pointless to try.

And you can't just demolish a $300 million building on the White House lawn either.

Somebody needs to step in and stop that construction before it's too late.
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Feels like a statement from a bipartisan group of former first ladies about the destruction of the east wing could capture some attention ...
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I’d say “eat the rich” but they probably taste like ketamine and microplastics
Right, "the military" is so very involved. What, transferring all the gold from Fort Knox to rococo his new ballroom? Every inch of those drawings gilded!

And to "do it properly" maybe try actually going through the plans and approval process.

150 yrs they've needed this? Such garbage.
Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
Right, "the military" is so very involved. What, transferring all the gold from Fort Knox to rococo his new ballroom? Every inch of those drawings gilded!

And to "do it properly" maybe try actually going through the plans and approval process.

150 yrs they've needed this? Such garbage.
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In case you missed it, read Andy’s deep dive on how Vought used his position as budget chief to dismantle entire federal agencies, use the government shutdown as a way to fire civil servants, and put workers “in trauma”:
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
www.propublica.org
They could have saved woodwork, doors, artifacts. This building belongs to the people, not the temporary staff. It's heartbreaking!
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34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
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I remember Fox News spending days on the scandal that was Michelle Obama’s modest little veggie garden. It was discussed and berated non-stop with the general theme being ‘how dare she desecrate those hallowed grounds.