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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 2m

Autoerotic axphyxiation. Hanging by his belt, suspended from a closet rod, naked but for his support socks and garters, with an erection judged by the autopsy pathologist as, "In my medical opinion, not merely small, but monstrously so."

Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 3h

Separation of powers. But there's a White House Preservation body established by LBJ and some landlord-tenant setup for the president. All designed to protect the place from being "owned" by an occupant.

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 4h

Those guys at the Louvre this weekend were obviously just amateurs by comparison to Trump.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7h

Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

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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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 5h

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 5h

At some point Donald Trump will say that, since someone stole the 2020 election from him, he deserves a third term. His contention will be obviously risible, but his acolytes will take his rantings as marching orders.

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 5h

Of course, the Park Service is currently closed due to shutdown. Which is a remarkably convenient condition, here.

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 5h

And this is an audience hall for a president of fragile ego and boundless need, not a ballroom for a man whose dances resemble petit mal seizures. Besides, the White House survived the actual Gilded Age without a ballroom. Why now?

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 5h

When Federal dollars engage a property on the National Register (a designation that can apply to other than a building) it triggers a wave of mandatory analysis and consultation among us plebs. For the Trump, nothing.

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 5h

It's a separation of powers thing.

The property is managed through the NPS, the executive agency charged with expertise in historic preservation.

The Architect of the Capitol (a Congressional office) manages the Capitol and Supreme Court (which used to meet in the Old Senate Chamber).

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 5h

That's an excavator. But, everything else in the thread is💯.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

it pales in comparison to his government’s murders and abductions but it’s not his fucking house

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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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 6h

One reason, among others, one of which is simply that he's cruel, that Trump delights in blowing up small boats in the Caribbean is that he wants to be like the other kool kids, such as Polonium Putin and Mohammad bin Bonesaw, a dictator who murders without worrying that he'll be held to account.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 9h

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 7h

Yet another development that we can thank the Roberts Court for

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

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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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 7h

Why does he need the money? You know that he stiffed his lawyers.

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, Jesus fucking Christ.

Trump has finally decided to cut out the middleman.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

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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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 8h

Sure, the rule of law is good, but the important thing is that Carla Bruni is basically single again.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

Chapeau to France for holding corrupt politicians accountable.

When TF will it be our own corrupt politicians’ time to face justice?!

Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 8h

Sure, the rule of law is good, but the important thing is that Carla Bruni is basically single again.

Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 8h

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Regarding Trump's new audience hall (it's not a "ballroom").

Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 8h

My brief time as subject of a dictator tells me that it is always the way of strongmen to use public works as a teat to be milked for graft and a treat to be doled out to favorites.

No competitive bidding or fair-minded request for qualifications: if you want the job, agree to the kickbacks.

Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 8h

We've already witnessed Trump choose the least capable people for important jobs based on personal loyalty, a fidelity that he converts into his personal monetary gain.

I see comments about tearing it down later. No worries: it will probably collapse by itself in the first heavy snow.

Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 8h

It is quite literally a hidden tax on every public undertaking. The strongman and his friends get the whatever glory is reflected from the enterprise while the people pay a premium for the contractor's shoddy performance--you think a government inspector is going to object to deficient work?

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 8h

My brief time as subject of a dictator tells me that it is always the way of strongmen to use public works as a teat to be milked for graft and a treat to be doled out to favorites.

No competitive bidding or fair-minded request for qualifications: if you want the job, agree to the kickbacks.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 1d

🤔 Interaction between HuffPost and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · Feb 18

Back in 1939, Thomas Mann wrote an essay called Bruder Hitler. Esquire magazine ran it with the title “That Man Is My Brother”.

Here’s an archived link: archive.ph/kPMHn

THAT MAN IS MY BROTHER
And if genius is madness tempered with discretion, this sly sadist and plotter of revenge is a genius
MARCH 1, 1939 | THOMAS MANN

WERE it not for the frightful sacrifices which continue to be offered up to the fatal psychology of this man; were it not for the ever-widening circle of desolation which he makes, it would be easier to admit that he presents an arresting phenomenon. Yet, hard as it is, we must admit it: nobody can help being preoccupied by the deplorable spectacle. For he has chosen—in default, as we know, of capacity to wield any other-to use politics as his tool; and politics always magnify and coarsen the effects they produce. So much the worse for us all; so much the worse for all Europe today, lying helpless under his spell; where he is vouchsafed the role of the man of destiny and all-conquering hero, and where, thanks to a combination of fantastic chances -or mischances - everything is grist that comes to his mill, and he passes unopposed from one triumph to another.

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