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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 6h

trump seeing the no kings numbers and punching a hole in the drywall to rival a thousand kyles

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h

JUST IN: The White House has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 14h

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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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11h

That’s right AI is ushering in the wonderful age of human utopia: working 72 hours a week for a pervert

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11h

The grind culture that birthed many Big Tech companies from Google to Amazon is back.

As the AI race heats up, startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996,” or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.

Why these companies insist on a 72-hour work week

Start-ups are promoting hardcore cultures such as “996,” meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week, as they race to compete in AI.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

"sir a second Nazi groupchat infodump has hit Politico"

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 16h

the most mystifying element of the cuomo campaign is that andrew cuomo is a man who has been in politics for decades and has deep ties to the media and Democratic Party but his team both during the primary and general are remarkably amateurish and slapdash.

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 12h

I think it would be funny if a bunch of people filled out fake job applications to confuse and disorient ICE

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Lætus @bajamothblast.bsky.social · 1d

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 12h

I just wanted to use the Kermit gif.

Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 12h

Mind you his ideas were dumb and reactionary. Like Nordau dawg what the fuck you doing calling stuff degenerate art?

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 12h

Max Nordau after finding out Zionism did not in fact create a Muscular Judaism

a kermit the frog is sitting on a ledge with his arms outstretched

ALT: a kermit the frog is sitting on a ledge with his arms outstretched

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

i am so tired of hearing about jesus!!!!!! if you like jesus that is totally fine but please stop telling me about him!!!!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

the truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 14h

Drill corncob tweet

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 3d

I don't see how New York can allow a single Trump family property to remain while these Nazi mobsters are illegally starving the state of its own funds.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

Also, they want to make content. And that means they are going to take the worst stuff people say in response to them (this being the internet, some of which might be quite bad) and splash it across the official comms organs of every major federal law enforcement agency. So take that into mind.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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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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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 2d

You’d think if the Trump admin was so certain they were drug trafficking terrorists that it tried to kill them, it would have enough evidence to prosecute them. But like with Abrego Garcia, Trump sees deportation as a way to avoid the justice system: to accuse without having to prove guilt.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: The Trump administration has decided to repatriate two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike this week on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute them or hold them in military detention, people with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.

U.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel

The U.S. military rescued the two men in the Caribbean Sea after Special Operations forces fired on a semi-submersible that was assessed to be smuggling drugs.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

According to Russ Vought, this is essential government work that must be continued throughout the shutdown

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

This is what the Department of Transportation is tweeting out today.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 1d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

Another lethal strike, this time allegedly against a vessel affiliated with the ELN.

And no, the ELN is not like al Qaeda.

The ELN has not attacked the United States like AQ did on 9/11.

And Congress has not authorized the use of force.

On October 17th, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), a Designated Terrorist Organization, that was operating in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.

The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route, and was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics. There were three male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel during the strike—which was conducted in international waters. All three terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.

These cartels are the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere, using violence, murder and terrorism to impose their will, threaten our national security and poison our people. The United States military will treat these organizations like the terrorists they are—they will be hunted, and killed, just like Al Qaeda.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Welp.

They added that the US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier.
Though Ukraine ultimately managed to swing Trump back to endorsing a freeze of the current front lines, the acrimonious meeting appeared to reflect the capricious nature of Trump's position on the war and his willingness to endorse Putin's maximalist demands.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump Administration made a deal with El Salvador that threatened years of U.S. law enforcement work to fight MS-13 so they could send people to CECOT—one of the most inhumane prisons in the world.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: In order to deport immigrants to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised President Nayib Bukele to betray arrangements protecting some U.S. informants.

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21h

“What is to stop Trump from making comparably inflated claims about the situations on the ground in other American cities as a pretextual basis for deploying troops? And what’s to stop him from making those claims not tomorrow, but next November—on the eve of the midterms?”

Me, via “One First”:

184. The Massive Stakes of Trump v. Illinois

The Trump administration's 29th emergency application—to let it deploy federalized National Guard troops in Chicago on a profoundly dubious factual predicate—is a make-or-break moment for the Court.

www.stevevladeck.com

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 17h

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench for a hearing about to use tear gas during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social:

Judge Set to Question Federal Officials About Use of Tear Gas During Immigration Raids

U.S. District Judge Sarah Ellis said Thursday she was “not happy” that immigration agents appear to have violated her order not to use tear gas and other weapons against journalists, protesters and an...

news.wttw.com

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