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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

#TrumpHatesOurHealthCare
Regular Americans don’t give a shit about a clean CR. They care that they can afford their insurance premiums.

NEW POLL…

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

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Cynthia Fraase @cfraase.bsky.social · 1h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

Trump already made the Oval Office look like a movie-set whorehouse; imagine the White House ballroom he’s building.

Money doesn’t buy class.

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Catherine @cats75.bsky.social · 3h

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else

The Trump administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans as refugees coincides with plans for overall admissions set as low as 7,500.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Catherine @cats75.bsky.social · 3h

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Is this the most dangerous man in the US Senate?

Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans.

www.motherjones.com

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3h

A U.S. marshal and the target of an immigration traffic stop are wounded in a shooting by an ICE agent after the man tried to flee, DHS says.

U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say

Federal officers said they opened fire after an undocumented immigrant “weaponized" his vehicle and began ramming a law enforcement vehicle.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

“Are you asking the DOJ to pay you? How much?"

TRUMP: *pretends not to understand the Q 🤷🏼 … says he’ll give it to charity 🤥 … rambles for 2 minutes about how the election was stolen from him 🥸*

Endless corruption and greed

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 2h

Jackie Kennedy talks about the history of the White House during her tour in 1962.
This feels especially relevant today as parts of the WH are currently being demolished!
What a travesty this regime has imposed upon us.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

Washington Post's Monday report: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3h

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

The president of the United States (the position) is a public servant. Taxpayers don’t owe this man anything.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump on asking taxpayers to compensate him: "They probably owe me a lot of money. But if I get money from uhhhhh our country I'll do something nice with it, like give it to charity or give it to the White House where we restore the White House."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.

But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II.

“He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 5h

I know everyone’s following the Louvre heist but I would like to point your attention to the California LEGO LOOTER

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring, Recovering Hundreds of Beheaded Figurines
Officials said they had discovered tens of thousands of Lego pieces at a California home and arrested a man who trafficked in the stolen collectibles.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 3h

NEW: A coalition of pro-voting groups sues Indiana over two new anti-voting laws that mandate documentary proof of citizenship for certain people. The group argues the laws unfairly target naturalized citizens and threaten to remove eligible voters from the rolls.

Indiana’s New Anti-Voting Laws Challenged for Targeting Naturalized Citizens - Democracy Docket

A coalition of pro-voting groups is suing Indiana over two new anti-voting laws they say unfairly target naturalized citizens and threaten to remove eligible voters from the rolls.

www.democracydocket.com

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Mickey @mamick.bsky.social · 3h

@davidfrum.bsky.social nailed it. This ballroom is “monument to bribery.”

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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 9h

And not for nothing—this is the same guy who said women need to not get so drunk they get assaulted. And he was espousing that shortly after the time when he got so drunk he got a Nazi tattoo. Authoritarianism is built on “rules for thee not for me.”

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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 10h

Man I think the lesson the DNC needs to take from this is not that we need more geriatric centrist candidates but that Platner’s campaign platform was so popular it made the secret king of bad vibes mountain a serious contender

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "It looks like we're gonna have a Communist as the mayor of New York. But here's the good news -- he's gotta go through the White House. Everything goes through the White House. At least this White House it does."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump says he's refusing to meet with Democratic leaders unless they open up the government first

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump on Russia's war on Ukraine: "It doesn't really affect us."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We have the right to use the National Guard to put out trouble. That's how I got elected, one of the reasons I got elected."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: An appeals court ruled you can send the National Guard into Portland. Do you feel unfettered to send the Guard into whatever city you want now?

TRUMP: Well I guess so

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

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