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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

Ben Meiselas calls on those with standing to act: seek an injunction to halt Trump’s White House ballroom. Argue fraud—Trump claimed he’d pay and not alter the structure—and use the damage to the East Wing as the emergency basis. Demand discovery now.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 8h

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 8h

MAGA: there wasn’t even a mishap with the artillery over I-5 you lying libtard

Marines: halted exercise after firing 6 155 mm rounds because one prematurely detonated over the highway

MAGA: DIDN’T HAPPEN NERDS

Marines: we’ve opened an investigation and believe a fuze failed

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Happy Diwali, Illinois!

I hope that the Festival of Lights brings you peace during this time of celebration and reflection — that even in the darkest of days, the light of wisdom and unity will always triumph.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

As predicted.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 7h

Tried to sneak a photo of a cute doggo and accidentally had long exposure on and I believe I have created man’s greatest expression of art

A white poodle leans out an suv with neon light streaks flashing across the surface of the car

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

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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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

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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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 10h

Tonight marks a milestone for all of us at the PBS News Hour. On this day 50 years ago, we aired our first broadcast. The show had a different name, but the same mission to deliver thoughtful & trustworthy journalism. Half a century later, we're still at it & guided by the same principles & mission.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 9h

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9h

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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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 8h

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Biden has finished several weeks of radiation therapy treatment Monday at Penn Medicine Radiation Oncology in Philadelphia. A very positive sign for the former president and amazing human being.

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 10h

Every. Day.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

That’s seven.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10h

Today former President Joe Biden got to ring the bell on this phase of his cancer treatment.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Morning Brew ☕️ @morningbrew.extwitter.link · 19h

BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h

I treat the Bolton prosecution the same as indictments of Comey and James because they are all the product of Donald Trump's vindictive abuse of the DOJ.

Also, I don't trust a single word in any of the indictments. They were drafted by prosecutors who ultimately report to Bondi and Trump.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

Real talk…

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 A woman walking to work in Chicago gets snatched up off the street by ICE. Nothing American in this video. She keeps asking for help over and over. All she gets is a photographer taking her picture and hauled off like an animal. 1/2

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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 9h

He gave $40B to a foreign dictator, millions for Noem’s jets, he’s trashing the White House for a ballroom and we’re just trying to survive. There should’ve been more than 7 million in the streets on No Kings Day. Come at me but you know I’m right.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 9h

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
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DAY 20 OCTOBER 2025

🚨VOTE YES CALIFORNIA
ON PROP 50🚨

Shout out to all Spanish Speaking, help phonebank
to Latino Voters in California for prop 50

Latino Voters are an enormous voting power
Yet not contacted

Go to
mobilize.us/cadems

www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

California labor leader predicts Latinos will determine outcome of Prop. 50

Arnulfo De La Cruz said he and other union representatives were aware of Latinos’ cooling support for Democrats.

www.sacbee.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Raskin: I heard speaker Mike Johnson refer to a hate America rally, but that one already happened on January 6th, 2021

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

You know it’s bad when this is like the 4th or 5th worst Republican scandal of the day.

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