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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 1h

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...

www.bloomberg.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h

Reminiscin’ this’n that and havin’ such a good time. Oo-De-Lally, Oo-De-Lally golly what a day.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

It looks even worse by video 😢

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 14h

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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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 18h

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 15h

In 1925, Congress felt it needed to pass a joint resolution to authorize Grace Coolidge to accept gifts of furniture

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

The White House keeps making a big deal of the fact that the ballroom is privately funded but that’s one of the worst things about it.

These people and companies are buying influence. None of this is okay.

Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
X.com
A lot of FAKE OUTRAGE over construction of the big, beautiful (and privately funded) White House Ballroom.
FACT: Presidents have been renovating and expanding the White House for more than 100 years.
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt built the West Wing.
In 1909, President William Howard Taft added the first Oval Office during a West Wing expansion.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 15h

both myself and my band @ekkoastral.bsky.social stand with the many dc venue workers who are tonight demanding their union be voluntarily recognized

for too long their labor needs have been ignored

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Workers at Major D.C. Concert Venues Launch Unionization Effort

There are more than 300 staff members aiming to unionize at the 9:30 Club, The Anthem, The Atlantis and Lincoln Theatre.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 17h

This is very sad news. Eugene was a Charlottesville icon. Civil rights organizer. (He led he fight to desegregate the schools.) Affordable-housing innovator. Exceedingly generous to all with his time and, to the poor, his money. Successful businessman. A kind, loving man. We'll miss him terribly.

DTM @thedtm.bsky.social · 19h

Eugene Williams, the local civil rights leader and affordable housing advocate, has died at 97. One of the last cover stories in The Hook was about Eugene Williams and his experience growing up in Jim Crow Charlottesville.

Read more: web.archive.org/web/20200815...

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 17h

I guess I just feel like it should be a bigger deal that Penske Media owns the Golden Globes and ALSO Rolling Stone, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, GoldDerby, and Deadline, plus 20% of Vox Media

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Jay Penske, who owns the Golden Globes, is pitching far-right podcasters with a proposal that they spend upwards of $75,000 to boost their chances of winning this year's inaugural podcasting award.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/golden-glo...

Penske and the Podcasters

Jay Penske’s Golden Globes are debuting a “Best Podcast” award—and documents obtained by Status show he’s trying to sell pricey packages that could boost the chances of right-wing extremists winning t...

www.status.news

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

You know shit's getting serious once they start using words you usually only hear over a boiling cauldron.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 16h

Sua sponte call for en banc less than two hours after the 9th Cir decision to let loose the National Guard into Portland

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Mia she/her @miamullane.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, there is a new study. Several, I think, that have now found long covid surpasses asthma as the most common chronic illness in children.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16h

But remember — it was “mild for children” 🙃

By tern

Just think about it.

Seriously.

They told you that covid infection would not harm children, and now long covid is the *most common chronic illness in children*.

Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...

tern @1goodtern

Just think about it.

Seriously.

They told you that covid infection would not harm children, and now long covid is the *most common chronic illness in children*.

7:50 AM · Oct 11, 2025 · 27.4K Views

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 16h

This represents a profound failure of leadership and vision.

The party needs to move left and embrace the next generation of leaders—and their progressive ideas.

Polls reveal warning signs for Democrats ahead of midterms

Democrats' generic ballot advantage is smaller than it was six years ago ahead of the 2018 midterms, recent polling shows.

www.newsweek.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

Know something that’s never down due to AWS? A gosh dang newspaper.

The newest edition of The Onion featuring the headline Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled Don and Jeff: Time Pedophiles

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

futurism.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22h

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22h

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 21h

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 19h

The White House (2028)

Picture of Biff Tannen's casino from "Back to the Future Part II". The sign says "Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise" and includes a picture of him burning a wad of cash with his lit cigar.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 19h

Tweet that says “i do not want to save to onedrive. i want to save to the documents folder. on my computer. that i have. in my house.” And it’s quote tweeted by @old_ric with a still of Hank hill talking to someone at the counter of a computer business center

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 19h

aht aht cook a meal for WHO? you want us to quarter some soldiers in our kitchens while we're at it?

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 19h

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday criticized the media and politicians, including Gov. JB Pritzker, for “trying to demonize” federal immigration agents and she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and “cook a meal for their families.”

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses Gov. JB Pritzker and media of ‘trying to demonize’ immigration officers

Speaking in Florida, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the media, and she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and “cook the…

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 19h

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

How to Join ICE

theonion.com/how-to-join-...

STEP 1
Be born with something just…missing

STEP 2
Try deporting a few neighbors without the constitutional authority to do so, to see if it’s for you

STEP 3
Unlearn any secondary languages you may know

STEP 4
If filling out the application form presents a challenge, candidates may instead demonstrate how hard they can punch a dog

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

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Braddington @bradwhipple.bsky.social · 18h

whelp, I’ll be thinking about the Steven Soderbergh movie about Ben Solo until the day I die, I guess. we could’ve had it all.

apnews.com/article/adam...

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