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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11h

Paragraph at the bottom confirms my suspicion that he’s ordering the DOJ to pay him $230 million so he can finance his ballroom. The Epstein Ballroom.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

This little item by Luke Broadwater on the abrupt, wholly unannounced destruction of a major component of the White House complex is a microcosm of the dysfunctional relationship the press has with this mendacious administration. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 10h

President Bartlett from the West Wing saying, “you told the press I have a secret plan to fight inflation?”

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h

You guys, the person exercising the powers of the presidency is constitutionally disqualified from holding the office and he’s having the White House bulldozed. This is true and it’s happening, right? I’m not dreaming this?

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 15h

He'll do the residence next. It's not gaudy enough for him and isn't yet named after him.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

Breaking News: President Trump is having the White House’s entire East Wing demolished to make way for his $200 million ballroom. The project is far more extensive than he initially let on.

Trump Will Demolish Entire White House East Wing for Ballroom: Live Updates

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 15h

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 23h

One of the better photographs depicting modernity, I'd say:

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The first two posts Mark Zuckerberg’s flagship app chose to show me when I logged in tonight. I don’t follow either account. For context, I’m Jewish. Amazing how sinisterly dark shit has gotten.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

Does seem like there’s a non-zero chance that the shutdown never really ends and that Congress has already abolished itself.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

I find it amazing too that Republicans’ boycott of Washington isn’t the biggest story of them all.

The shutdown can’t end if they refuse to show up for work.

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 1d

“Sir, our plans to tear down the federal government are proceeding according to plan”

“I see no tearing. No cranes, no excavators. Where are the steam shovels? Remember steam shovels folks?”

“Haha good one sir”

“…Start with the East Wing”

“…..yes sir”

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 1d

He's destroyed the entire East Wing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 1d

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Of course

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 1d

Dems/Ind Senators voting in favor: Coons, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Heinrich, Kaine, Kelly, King (I), Klobuchar, Reed, Schiff, Shaheen, Welch, & Whitehouse.

Senators not voting: Duckworth & Tillis

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Don't even have to look at the voting record to know that @amyklobuchar.com will be one of the Dems who voted to advance another Trump nominee. She is not up to this moment.

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 1d

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 1d

It’s back

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Roundball Rock - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 3d

Also why MN pedestrians give you the counter-wave when you stop to let them cross 😂

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#NYC #NoKings 👑

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 4d

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

Watergate every day

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 5d

Two more career prosecutors fired for refusing to indict NY AG Letitia James because they could not find probable cause to charge her. 🎁

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 5d

My friend Andrew Lih @fuzheado.bsky.social is a freakin hero. A gunman came into his Wikipedia event, and he grabbed and disarmed him. Thanks to him and another brave volunteer, no one was hurt—not even the gunman.

Now let’s ask why we accept a society where this can happen at any large gathering.

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

This picture is from about 5 minutes after being hit. A visible bruise is forming on my right cheekbone and by my right eye.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 5d

A reminder that Trump and his supporters violently attacked the seat of our democracy in 2021. Same people who are trying to frame "No Kings" protesters as the hate America crowd.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 7d

This is why I would trade Frey for a different moderate (like Jazz) in a heartbeat.

molly @mabbattista.bsky.social · 7d

At the Ward 8 for a New Mayor rally last Saturday, Commissioner Angela Conley said the county's been trying to work with the mayor on homelessness for seven years and he's shut them out.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 7d

frey is talking about working with county partners extensively…

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maasferatu (she/her) ⚰️🪦🧛🏻‍♀️ @msmaas.bsky.social · 7d

The Strib “requested records of Frey’s phone calls and texts between Oct. 23—the day Davis Moturi was shot by his neighbor—and Oct. 28, the day Frey defended the police’s handling of the case. But the mayor’s office said it had no such records. . . .”

Karlee Weinmann @karleeweinmann.bsky.social · 7d

On one hand, nationally renowned media law expert Jane Kirtley says the Frey administration's apparent efforts to circumvent open records law are astounding.

On the other hand, the city attorney appointed by Frey says it's all fine. www.startribune.com/mayor-jacob-...

Political group accuses Frey of improperly deleting texts. Some advocates and media lawyers agree.

The Minneapolis city attorney’s office says Mayor Jacob Frey is in compliance with the state transparency laws.

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Bunni😷🌍🗣️❤️✨☮️✊🏾 @bunnisays.bsky.social · 7d

This is what Ta-Nehisi Coates was talking about

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 7d

I fear that schools being willing to drop diversity programs without a fight shows how flimsy their commitment to inclusion was in the first place. People fight for things they truly believe in.

Victor Ray, a sociology professor at the University of Iowa who studies race, said in an email that OSU’s decision to interpret federal guidance in this way “reflects the real pressure universities face as the Trump administration and Republican legislators attack higher education.”

But, Ray added, it may also be exposing the true colors of many universities that were broadcasting their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion when it was politically expedient to do so just a few years ago.

“The swiftness with which these organizations have complied with legally dubious orders shows that their commitments to diversity were often paper-thin before this administration’s pressure,” he said. “In many cases, administrators with existing qualms about diversity, perhaps going too far, now have political cover to take anti-equitable actions.”

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 8d

Gotta pay me way more than $6,400 to listen to Scott Walker

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