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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 7h

ok who did this? ☹️

a doctored photo of the back of a $20 bill featuring the White House being demolished by an excavator

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 2h

That’s the only way it makes sense. Foreign embassies will be the biggest bribers - er, I mean, renters.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6h

“We will rebuild the White House as it was and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, the Trump Organization, and his family.”

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 8h

None of this is legal! People are choosing to break the law! Other people are choosing not to hold them accountable! What the fuck!!!

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

Oh

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 2h

And the point of that kind of legal relief is to make a person whole who has been harmed. If Trump can afford to donate the settlement to charity, then by definition he hasn’t been harmed enough to deserve the settlement.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 2h

I say as a white Christian who regularly attends Sunday worship and notices who else is in the pews. Surveys say the gender divide is even starker in Evangelical congregations than my own Mainline church.

R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 2h

Challenge: Next Sunday morning, find a white man who identifies as Christian who is actually in church with his family. It’s not as rare as a white Christian who regularly reads the Bible, but it’s pretty darn rare. Also, um, many believing Americans worship on Friday and Saturday.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 2h

“Responsible gun ownership” means gun owners taking responsibility for their conduct. Personally, that’s all the gun control I want: Take gun nuts seriously and hold them to the standard they pretend to believe in. And apply that standard to cops as well as to civilians.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 2h

Gun folks like to talk big about basic safety rules like don’t point at anything you don’t intend to shoot, a gun in the hand is a gun fired, trigger control, etc. Until the moment when someone suggests holding people liable for actually following the basic rules of gun safety.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 2h

For ordinary Americans, brandishing a firearm often carries similar legal consequences to actually discharging the weapon. And rightly so! The same standard should apply to all cops. Drawing and pointing the gun should be as career-risking as firing the gun.

Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2h

Let’s be clear on what this is:

State sanctioned gun violence.

CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 4h

🚨ICE puts a gun in the FACE of a pregnant woman as she drives with her toddler in the vehicle. 1/2

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 2h

This is a 1980s arcade game level of kill shot. FINISH HIM.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.

She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.

So I confronted him.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 2h

“Cook meals for their families?” So is it that ICE agents are such dickheads that they can’t cook Kraft dinner or a frozen pizza? Or is it that ICE agents are so poorly paid that they can’t afford to feed their families? Either way, we’ve got an HR problem here.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

'the Democratic Party should be less dominated by out-of-touch gerontocrats' is a principle that also applies to Bernie Sanders, 84.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

The question to ask all young men is 'how many people have you helped this week? how many have you cared for?"

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 3h

One of the other Democrats currently running is a union member, not a business owner, with years of public service, and a long record of stronger public support for DSA issues and policies. If Bernie or his bros actually cared about the issues they claim, they’d be endorsing her.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3h

There probably are more important issues, and I feel confident we can find someone who has never had a Nazi tattoo to confront them.

Axios @axios.com · 5h

Sen. Bernie Sanders is doubling down on his support for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, saying there might be "one or two more important issues" than the Marine veteran's tattoos.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

OK, so we get the state intervening in the market, but not in a socialist way, in a right-wing nationalist way that’s corrupt and corporatist. A social nationalism, if you will. We can workshop the name later.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3h

Exclusive: Several quantum-computing companies are in talks to give the Commerce Department equity stakes in exchange for federal funding.

Exclusive | Trump Administration in Talks to Take Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms

The discussions signal Washington’s wider involvement in critical parts of the economy.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 5h

In terms of balance and mechanics, as you’d evaluate a good board game, my list of the best sports is:
1) Ice hockey
2) Cricket
3) Snooker

Baseball would be not far behind, but it’s not top 3 for me.

R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 6h

Also, an agenda for congressional Democrats: Zero out all funding for East Wing executive branch activities until the East Wing is restored. Specifically outlaw spending on any staff who report to or support FLOTUS other than Secret Service security officers. No CoS, no spokesperson, nothing.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 6h

Dumbest president ever.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "The ocean drugs and the sea drugs, drugs by sea they call it also, that's almost down to nothing."

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 8h

Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 6h

No, they won’t. They’re not silent because they’re scared, they’re silent because they’re on board.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is tearing down the East Wing of the White House because he wants you to feel violated. He wants it to serve as metaphor for what he thinks he can do, at his whim, to your life and the lives of your loved-ones.

Do not submit.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 6h

Decades ago, Eisenhower or Kennedy, I forget which, hosted a state dinner at Mount Vernon. Do something like that instead of the White House or the obscene Trump ballroom. National Cathedral! Golden Gate Park! Mount Rushmore! America is full of impressive places to host a state dinner.

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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 8h

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7h

Blow your paycheck like a well-informed citizen.
https://store.theonion.com/products/tu-stultus-es-banner-shirt?variant=42918365790277

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 7h

Sure, that would require some added security & logistical expenses, but also Trump incurs crazy travel/golf security costs, and also just steals money from the Secret Service, so the next Dem president can offset against those savings.

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