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Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 5h

Someone tell me why everyone's falling on their swords for the Blackwater Redditor with the SS tattoo in a primary with a bunch of other candidates that's months away

Krystal Ball and Zaid Jilani defending Graham Platner's tattoo. Jilani calls it a "psyop"

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14h

i hope we can all agree that that ballroom should not survive the first 100 days of the next administration

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Very Tasteful Charlie Kirk Costume @dsaverthandi.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe lock the defendants inside.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 5h

A screenshot from the linked story. The texts says:

Platner has also drawn scrutiny for appearing in a photo this summer with a white supremacist agitator in Maine, Richard Ward, who is running for a Bangor City Council seat.
Ward, a far-right activist who frequently spreads neo-Nazi rhetoric and imagery, wrote on Facebook in late August that he met and shook hands with Platner during an encounter at a Maine fair, posting a photo in which they are both seen standing side by side.
“Shaking hands with Graham Platner today at Blue Hill Fair,” Ward said. “Check out Graham Platner for U.S. Senate. We have a lot in common.”
In the photo, Ward is pictured wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the number “88,” an apparent reference to a widely recognized neo-Nazi code for “Heil Hitler.” The post, a screenshot of which was obtained by JI, has since been deleted from Ward’s Facebook page.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 13h

When terrorists hit the Pentagon, 9/11

White House being demolished by POTUS47, 10/20/25

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10h

I'm going to start a thread with examples of how the NYT uses euphemism to painfully avoid saying that Trump is committing blatantly unconstitutional and lawless acts.

Let's start with this one... "stretched the limits of his spending powers"

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: The White House is reprogramming billions in congressionally approved spending during the shutdown, aiming to pay troops, ICE agents and others who work on programs that fulfill the president's political agenda. Some of the money comes from Trump's tax cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

How Trump Played ‘Budgetary Twister’ to Pay Some Workers During the Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 12h

the entire DC establishment flipped the F out over a couple Clinton staffers (supposedly!) removing the Ws from their keyboards in the way out the door in January 2001

there were investigations that dragged into the middle of 2002!

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 12h

The White House heard the complaints

Dismissed them as “manufactured outrage”

And kept demolishing the East Wing on Tuesday

New photo and update with @jonathanreports.bsky.social

White House continues East Wing demolition amid cries of Trump overreach

More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10h

lol, lmao even www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Reuters headline:

White House says it will submit ballroom plans for review, with demolition already under way

By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose

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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 9h

Reminder that Mr. “Nazi streak” still works for the White House. Withdrawing his nomination is not good enough. Ingrassia should be removed from the White House and government service altogether.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 9h

Demolishing the White House and just demanding straight up cash from the Treasury. 10 months in.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12h

The New York Times describes Trump demanding his own Justice Department pay him $230 million as a "potential" ethical conflict.

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Peter K @pjkaz.bsky.social · 8h

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Peter K @pjkaz.bsky.social · 9h

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

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Peter K @pjkaz.bsky.social · 9h

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 10h

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

ask every republican in congress whether they think the treasury should pay donald trump almost a quarter billion dollars while federal workers are in their third week of not getting paid

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 19h

also i don't even live there so i literally have no vote lol

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 19h

i made posts in the past in support of Graham Platner. i have reevaluated based on further information (Nazi tattoo) and no longer am in support of Platner. the best part about living in a democracy is being able to change my mind about my vote.

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Peter K @pjkaz.bsky.social · 18h

Great show, helluva show

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 19h

#Shrinking has booked its appointment time for season three.

The hit Apple TV series starring Jason Segel returns with a one-hour episode on Jan. 28, 2026 on Apple TV. The 11-episode season will then release new episodes weekly on Wednesdays, until the April 8 finale.

‘Shrinking’ Sets Return Date, Drops First Look at Season 3

Shrinking has booked its appointment time for season three.

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 20h

"Thank God we have in America perhaps the largest percentage of any country in the world of the pure, unadulterated Anglo-Saxon stock."--Senator Ellison DuRant Smith, arguing for the 1924 Quota Act. White supremacist exclusion, as nonsensical as it is bigoted, there & here, then & always.

Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 22h

I truly don't understand why anyone would want "cultural coherence." Are you that afraid of feeling something new, tasting different flavors, hearing new sounds, questioning why you live the way you do, considering ANY alternative to your boiled chicken, steamed broccoli life? How horrifically sad.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d

A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week

A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

www.cbsnews.com

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 21h

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

The average American millennial man has been a neocon, a pacifist, a liberal, a libertarian, a communist, a nazi, and I believe now most of us are back around to liberal again. This isn't a defense of platner it's just weird how normal this shit is for guys that age.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think we should let it go that the president posted a video of himself shitting diarrhea on us. It should be on his wikipedia page

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta imagine how weird it felt to drive that backhoe today just looking back at everybody going “you sure about this everybody’s sure about this?”

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1d

Behold: Republican permitting reform.

The White House photographed from the driveway between it and the Treasury building, with the facade of the East Wing gutted. I don’t think the caretakers of the property pulled all the proper permits before starting work!

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

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

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