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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 2h

Many presidents have renovated the White House. Trump’s ballroom is different. - Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Many presidents have renovated the White House. How Trump’s ballroom compares.

Construction on Trump’s massive and expensive ballroom is underway, but it’s far from the first extreme makeover made to what’s known as the People’s House.

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 2h

“If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had started taking a backhoe to the White House, they would have had a heart attack.”

The East Wing is gone, and Trump turns to damage control - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The East Wing is gone, and Trump turns to damage control

Demolition crews finished taking down the White House wing Thursday while President Donald Trump defended the project.

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 3h

Man detained for protesting National Guard with Darth Vader theme sues - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Man detained for protesting National Guard with Star Wars song sues

Sam O’Hara filmed National Guard troops in D.C. while playing “The Imperial March” on his phone. He never thought his protest would lead to his being detained.

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 3h

White House East Wing was home to theater, bunker, offices thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 4h

When AI ‘wokeness’ collides with safety - POLITICO www.politico.com/newsletters/...

When AI ‘wokeness’ collides with safety

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 4h

Quiz: Can you pass the new U.S. citizenship test? - Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

Can you pass the new U.S. citizenship test?

The federal government rolled out a longer, harder exam this month for aspiring Americans. Test your knowledge with our quiz.

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 13h

Republicans divided over Donald Trump’s role in ending shutdown thehill.com/homenews/sen...

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA’s Group-Chat Problem - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

MAGA’s Group-Chat Problem

What is it about the president’s supporters and group-texting that keeps resulting in fiascos?

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 1d

5 takeaways from Trump’s meeting with NATO chief Mark Rutte thehill.com/homenews/556...

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 1d

Beef producers hit back after Trump rips high prices thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 1d

What do major Internet outages say about future risk?

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Tonight: If you thought Monday's AWS outage was bad, just wait. Plus: Tesla profits Another chilling economic indicator shows American borrowers are falling behind on car loans. Let's get into it.

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump urges American cattle ranchers to lower prices while defending tariffs thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa Clash in Final NYC Mayoral Debate thehill.com/homenews/cam...

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 1d

Average cost of a family health insurance plan now nearly $27,000 thehill.com/policy/healt...

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 1d

"The models fed junk text experienced a kind of AI brain rot—with cognitive decline including reduced reasoning abilities and degraded memory. The models also became less ethically aligned...according to two measures."

Welcome to the AI slop singularity link.wired.com/view/5be9fbe...

Welcome to the AI slop singularity

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s Mar-a-White House - by Mona Charen - The Bulwark www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-mar-...

Trump’s Mar-a-White House

The president is desecrating a symbol of liberal democracy and replacing it with a tacky, bloated eyesore.

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 2d

Moderate Republicans push for extension of health subsidies thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 2d

The Internet Is Going to Break Again - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Internet Is Going to Break Again

The Amazon outage revealed just how consolidated the web has become.

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 2d

"or an “absolutely freezing” bed, per testimony on X.) Throughout most of yesterday, the connective tissue of modern life seemed to be under threat—a reminder that the internet is physical, fallible, and heavily reliant on just a few massive companies." - The Atlantic

Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 2d

"Snapchat and Reddit were down, as were Instagram and Hulu. Ring paused their doorbell cameras; ChatGPT stopped answering. (Some unfortunate customers of Eight Sleep, which sells AI-powered, temperature-changing mattresses, woke to bright strobe lights

Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 2d

"costing companies an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars. Venmo users were locked out of their payments, and international banks experienced major blips in their service. People struggled to book urgent doctor appointments and couldn’t access their Medicare benefits.

Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 2d

"The [Amazon outage] marked at least the third time in the past five years that Amazon Web Services’ Northern Virginia facilities contributed to a widespread internet outage. This time, more than 1,000 sites and services were affected, according to Downdetector,

Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 2d

ICE Violence Isn’t Just About Immigration | Opinion - Newsweek www.newsweek.com/ice-violence...

ICE Violence Isn’t Just About Immigration | Opinion

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is threatening to flood Portland with federal troops to “defend” ICE’s building from protestors.

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 2d

Inside the Louvre Heist: The Plot, the Players, the Purpose - Newsweek www.newsweek.com/inside-the-l...

Inside the Louvre Heist: The Plot, the Players, the Purpose

On Sunday, October 19, Paris was struck by a crime no one saw coming, and in broad daylight.

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