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🦋 Resister. Anti -Fascist. MAGA is a threat to our democracy. Progressive to the bone. Marine vet and retired Navy⚓️ Vegan for the planet and the animals 🐰🐠🐄🐖🐥🦆🌱 #Democracy #Resist #Bluewave2026 #Bluewave2028 🚫DM’s

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Scott @scott1140.bsky.social · Feb 19

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 1d

Still not distracted. Release the Epstein files!

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 23h

The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt welcomed all visitors to the White House.

That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.

This photo, taken on April 1, 1941, shows First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt sitting in front of a fireplace, accompanied by her staffers Malvina Thompson and Edith Helm at the White House in Washington, D.C.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

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MLS1 @mls1.bsky.social · 3h

www.alternet.org/hegseth-trum...

'He lost us': Top military leaders unleash on Trump's Pentagon chief

Senior military officers are criticizing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for focusing on appearance and fitness standards rather than strategic military concerns. The Washington Times reported Tuesday ...

www.alternet.org

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FrodoLove @frodolove.bsky.social · 10h

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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 8h

“Victory belongs to the most persevering.” - Napoleon I of France

#RadioFreeAmerica

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Pissed_off_liberal @toddcopper.bsky.social · 23h

Joni "everyone dies" Ernst says she wants to investigate the No King rallies and who funded them. Why doesn't she start with who supported January 6 since we already know...

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GrandmaDeb @deebee54.bsky.social · 11h

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 13h

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know who needs to be reminded of this, but the President of the United States is a public servant and so are senators and representatives. They’re paid in American taxpayer money and votes. They work for you. Not the other way around.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 12h

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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 13h

First he tore down our ppl, then he tore down our laws now he’s tearing down our history & foundation. He is no King, his is no God, he is a cancer & we’re at stage 4.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Literally

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 21h

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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

The destruction of the East Wing really bums me out in a way that I wasn't expecting.

I guess some of it is about the destruction of history. But I think it's mostly about the feeling of helplessness. There's nothing we can do to stop him.

Nobody is coming to save us. And it's going to get worse.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22h

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

It looks even worse by video 😢

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Luba Howard @marynlm.bsky.social · 20h

Today in Politics, Bulletin 232. 10/20/24
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 232. 10/20/24

… Trump began the physical destruction of the East Wing of the White House today to make room for his Mar-a-Lago style ballroom monstrosity.

open.substack.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

The East Wing was first added in 1942, under Franklin D. Roosevelt, primarily to provide office space for the First Lady’s staff and to conceal a newly built underground bunker known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) during World War II.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.

But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Scott @scott1140.bsky.social · 1d

www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party

Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.

www.thebulwark.com

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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