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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.

That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

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NPR @npr.org · 16h

Over the past few days, cattle ranchers and agricultural groups have been sounding the alarm that a plan to import more foreign beef would hurt struggling ranchers. n.pr/3Wor7aG

'A slap in the face': Ranchers feel betrayed by Trump's plan to buy Argentine beef

Over the past few days, cattle ranchers and agricultural groups have been sounding the alarm that a plan to import more foreign beef would hurt struggling ranchers.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 20h

“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the President’s main priority.” — Karoline Leavitt

Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.

A ballroom.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

If tax rate was actually all that the rich cared about the way they try to scaremonger the public into believing they'd all be living in the UAE, it's literally all just a longform con

jonlink @jonlink.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone said the Massachusetts millionaires tax would result in them all fleeing. That’s proved to be demonstrably false.

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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · Jun 18

Historian Alexis Coe testified on the JFK files—and walked into a circus. GOP reps ditched facts for Fox-friendly conspiracy. The lone Democrat? Ghosted halfway through. The result? A masterclass in dysfunction.

Opinion | I testified at a congressional hearing on the JFK files — that was a mistake

As a historian invited to speak before Congress, I expected to converse with serious people. That's not what happened.

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 2d

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

The East Wing was the First Ladies' Wing. But at least now the He-Man Woman Haters' Club can proceed uninterrupted. 🙄

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 2d

„Visitors could walk through a sun-soaked colonnade, enjoying the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden & photos of significant historical moments. ‚It represented the nonpolitical side, the softer side of White House operations,‘ said James McDaniel, who served as National Park Service liaison 1984-2002.“

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Justin Burch @justinburch.bsky.social · 2d

This has legs. It will build over time. Also, most in congress (R’s or D’s) aren’t exactly the bravest leaders. Not in their nature.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing the destruction of the White House makes me emotional because Trump is so visibly flaunting the absence of constraints to his abuse of authority.

He’s tearing down parts of the People’s House to construct a massive fascist temple where people will come to pay tribute to him.

It’s grotesque.

Color photo of the East Wing of the White House in ruins behind a construction site barrier. Two American flags are visible waving in the wind.

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Justin Burch @justinburch.bsky.social · 2d

This has legs. It will build over time. Also, most in congress (R’s or D’s) aren’t exactly the bravest leaders. Not in their nature.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

yeah the privilege of being a broke ass tranny working in a dying industry.

Baddest of Bettys @bettybadazz.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoy that privilege while you can.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

i made posts in the past in support of Graham Platner. i have reevaluated based on further information (Nazi tattoo) and no longer am in support of Platner. the best part about living in a democracy is being able to change my mind about my vote.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

The first time the Confederate flag ever paraded through the US Capitol was on January 6, 2021.

The first time the White House was damaged in over 200 years since the US rebuilt in the 1820s after the British burned it in the war of 1812 was mid October, 2025.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Justin Burch @justinburch.bsky.social · 2d

The President of the United States is literally bulldozing The White House.

Incoming cliché: “We are living in the worst timeline.”

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2d

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

On state tv, Trump lapdog Jesse Watters obediently frames Trump demolishing part of the White House to build a giant ego room as though it’s some heroic act Dems are jealous of rather than an unpatriotic disgrace they’d lose their mind over if Obama or Biden had done it

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Justin Burch @justinburch.bsky.social · 2d

An incalculable historical loss.

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 2d

The White House heard the complaints

Dismissed them as “manufactured outrage”

And kept demolishing the East Wing on Tuesday

New photo and update with @jonathanreports.bsky.social

White House continues East Wing demolition amid cries of Trump overreach

More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 3d

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 5d

Franklin is like Lincoln in he can't be contained. But Brands and Wood are very good. Read them first, then the Autobiography. To appreciate the Autobiography you have to know when and how to read between the lines. Then of course Schiff on Paris. There are recent good books just on the science.

percolating.bsky.social @percolating.bsky.social · 5d

What do you recommend as far as a great book or books about Mr. Franklin?

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3d

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3d

I literally taught an entire college lecture about how you should never do exactly this.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4d

The Tony Blair Institute is heavily backed by Larry Ellison & was “involved in plans to create a new ‘Trump Riviera.’” That vision “envisages creating a ‘blockchain registry for land’ to underpin the construction of up to 8 ‘AI-powered, smart planned cities on the inner side of the Gaza Ring.“ …1/

Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza's 'Peace' Deal

Documents show Tony Blair’s Ellison-funded institute designed Gaza’s recovery plan on data-driven lines echoing Oracle-Palantir war systems.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

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SERVING SALEM, KEIZER
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"If you don't say anything, you're accepting it."
Mari Jensen, McMinnville resident
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TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal
Alan Grosso (center) of Happy Valley joins in chanting under the window of the speaker of the House on Wednesday during the Salem Tea Party protest at the Capitol.
Protesters slam Fed spending
Hundreds gather at Salem Tea Party to rally against bailouts, state-level taxes
BY DENNIS THOMPSON JR.
Statesman Journal
Hundreds of people uneasy over the future of their country gathered on the state Capitol steps on Wednesday to protest federal spending and state-level taxation.
Oregon State Police estimated more
SCRAP THE CODE
than 1,000 people attended the Salem Tea Party protest, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers placed attendance at more than 2,000 people.
The rally was passionate but peace-ful, although many people carried handmade signs bearing stark and angry messages. A fake wooden pitchfork read "Politicians take note. We the people are about to revolt." Anoth er sign read "200+ years to build the Republic, 3 mos. to destroy it."
Many attendees said they were motivated to protest by the billions in stimulus spending and bailouts that have been doled out in recent months.
Willy Lowman of Falls City wears a label on his head that reads "Scrap the Code" at the tea party protest.
West Salem resident Steve Albin said he
came to protest federal bailouts of banks and automakers.
"They need to fail. That's what capitalism is all about," said Albin, who had a tea bag dangling from the brim
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Inside
Protesters take part in Tea Party events across the nation, Page 2A
Supporters to push for immigration reform, Page 2A
• ONLINE: See photo galleries and a video from the protest at StatesmanJournal.com.

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