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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

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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.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

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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mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 1d

[Katsushika Hokusai](www.wikiart.org/en/katsushik...), *Woman Looking at Herself in a Mirror*, 1805, ukyoi-e woodblock print, Getty Museum, Los Angeles CA

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mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 1d

[Mihnea Cernat](www.wikiart.org/en/mihnea-ce...), *Store Shop Boy*, 2021, gelatin silver print, ©Mihnea Cernat

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 3d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 1d

In Sylva, NC

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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sharonfisher68.bsky.social @sharonfisher68.bsky.social · 1d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one of the consistently interesting things about ACA criticism since it was signed into law is how critics discount or ignore the medicaid expansion

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 2d

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Jennie Cell, *Butchering Day* , ca. 1955, oil on fiberboard, 16 1⁄8 x 26 1⁄2 in. (40.8 x 67.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Mundis, 1972.55.1

mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 2d

Jennie Cell, *Butchering Day* , ca. 1955, oil on fiberboard, 16 1⁄8 x 26 1⁄2 in. (40.8 x 67.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Mundis, 1972.55.1

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Mozelle Victory @godswrath699.bsky.social · 2d

maybe2020.bsky.social @maybe2020.bsky.social · 2d

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Where Are the Detainees? Hundreds of “Alligator Alcatraz” Prisoners Disappear from ICE Database

Hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” have disappeared. Democracy Now! speaks with Shirsho Dasgupta, a Miam...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California.

Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2d

‘The exceptionally limited edition book.’ (My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

They use govt accounts, employees & resources to make partisan political messages.

They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely.

They get pardoned when they commit crimes.

They ignore the laws.

There is zero congressional oversight.

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings is about the Constitution:
✅ No bullying of law firms, universities
✅ No militarization of ICE
✅ No politicizing the Justice Dept.
✅ No firing comedians & dissenters
✅ No troops on our streets

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

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