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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

Trump's FTC just deleted articles by former Chair Lina Khan about the dangers of AI.

Meanwhile, Trump is fast-tracking data center permits after Big Tech gave huge donations to his inauguration.

AI is making the richest Americans even richer while everyone else pays the price.

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 10h

A sua sponte en banc review is a step beyond ex parte. The unusual nature is res ipsa.

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 10h

I'm thinking bulldozers, subdivision, and lots of buildings with T-R-U-M-P on them. Imagine how much a Grand Canyon Rim condo might sell for! Or a 2 bedroom on the floor of Yosemite Valley!

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 11h

Metaphorically or literally?

a campfire is surrounded by rocks and leaves and is burning brightly

ALT: a campfire is surrounded by rocks and leaves and is burning brightly

media.tenor.com

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 14h

He doesn't own the building. It's not up to him to destroy part of the nation's history and take a shit on everybody in the process.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

This is so fucking wrong. He’s just ignored the entire process that must be followed to mess with the peoples’ house. Like he ignores every other rule, norm, & law. I’m so fucking pissed off at his Republican enablers who let him do this. The White House is OUR house. Not his.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: Holy shit. Trump is tearing down part of the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 14h

If dismissal is based on appointment of Halligan, the indictment is invalid, and there's no do over because limitations has run. I think the same goes for the other motion.

A dismissal may not be with prejudice, but limitations would produce the same result.

Comey's atty was a top DOJ prosecutor.

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 1d

No image has ever spoken so succinctly about the current situation in the US.

The white house, a gaping wound in the east wing. It looks like a ruin or a mound of garbage

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

Real talk…

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 16h

two women are sitting next to each other and eating popcorn

ALT: two women are sitting next to each other and eating popcorn

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 16h

Pennant of the Americas

Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 16h

He's mortal.

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 16h

I was very young, 6 or 7, but I can say I saw the Dodgers play in the Colisieum.

Wally Moon was my hero, and, true to form, he lifted a "Moon Shot" over the tall screen that subbed for an outfield.

Of course, to center, the distance was about 600 feet past the fence set up to mark the field.

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 16h

We are a nation of immigrants.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

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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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21h

why not
isn’t this something they are proud of

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22h

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 19h

His motion to dismiss the Mar-a-Lago documents case made the argument that because he had exercised control over the material, it had become *his personal property*.

That seems to be his attitude in general towards the government.

I expect to see WH items up for bid on E-Bay soon.

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 19h

Because those who might stop him are his co-conspirators (the Rs in Congress).

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT THE FUCK

One side of the White House has just been ripped out

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Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not sure he hates the Constitution. That would imply he knows something about it. I think it's more likely that he ignores it because he doesn't know anything about it. It's just irrelevant to him.

Jim Sylvester @jvsylvester.bsky.social · 23h

The king does what he wants, permission is irrelevant. He thinks he owns the government and all of its properties. He'll be going after the National Parks with ideas for commercial exploitation soon enough.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think we should let it go that the president posted a video of himself shitting diarrhea on us. It should be on his wikipedia page

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