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Kleptocracy
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Andrew Lorimer @drew04.bsky.social · 2m

Kleptocracy
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Andrew Lorimer @drew04.bsky.social · 1h

Oct 21, 2025 #trump #trumpadministration #whitehouse
“Donald Trump wants to be a king.That is the best explanation for everything he has been doing in recent days. Just look at what he is doing to the White House,” says Chris Hayes.
@pelosi.house.gov @barackobama.bsky.social
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‘He lied’: Fury grows over Trump’s White House demolition for $250 million ballroom

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Andrew Lorimer @drew04.bsky.social · 1h

Oct 21, 2025 #trump #trumpadministration #whitehouse
“Donald Trump wants to be a king.That is the best explanation for everything he has been doing in recent days. Just look at what he is doing to the White House,” says Chris Hayes.
@pelosi.house.gov @barackobama.bsky.social
youtu.be/379WhCHW2vc

‘He lied’: Fury grows over Trump’s White House demolition for $250 million ballroom

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 10h

It's extremely unlikely that Regina Santos-Aviles lit her self on fire.

Rep. Tony Gonzales, what say you?

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 6h

Holy fucking shit!! The East Wing is gone. It’s fucking gone.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 10h

Tonight on The Briefing!

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The Weeknight on MSNBC @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social · 8h

"She exposed names, broke silences, and inspired countless survivors”: Attorney Jennifer Freeman reads tributes to Virginia Giuffre, whose posthumous memoir offers a searing account of Epstein’s abuse. Giuffre had been working with a co-author on the book before her death by suicide in April.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 8h

I’m obligated to see my psychiatrist every three months for basic brain meds that keep me from having panic attacks and he’s my age and we understand each other and today I walked in for the three monther and just said, yeah I dunno, I’m just tired and he sighed and said, yeah I understand.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h

NEWS: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva have SUED the U.S. House of Representatives in federal court in Washington, D.C. over Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to swear in Grijalva.

Grijalva would be the 218th vote for the Epstein Files discharge petition.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 6h

Arizona A.G. Kris Mayes explains why she is suing Mike Johnson for not swearing Adelita Grijalva into office. "By not swearing her in he's depriving 813,000 Arizonans of representation. That's called taxation without representation. We fought a revolutionary war over that."

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 10h

$250 million to build that stupid ballroom while Alaska is asking for $20 million EPA & FEMA funds to be released for their devastation

if you're not realizing you're looking at a poor man's excuse of a King Louis XIV in the face, i'm not sure you have eyes anymore

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1h

I went on German television last night for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of American politics - about where this moment sits in history, what America would look like if the Trumpists got what what wanted, and what needs to happen to prevent authoritarian consolidation:

Thomas Zimmer, Historiker, über den Stand des "Project 2025"

www.tagesschau.de

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Aaron McCall @aaronmccall.bsky.social · 17h

I will also say while I’m at it, that for every argument that you can make for the need to have new / younger / different reps, you can and should dissect how those arguments are ableist and ageist.

I’d rather hear how “X” elected is disconnected than trotting out their age like they’re disposable.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

christ almighty what is this guy doing

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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 1d

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 18h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 16h

So now the White House confirms the summit is off. So does that mean sanctions on Russia and Tomahawks for Ukraine? Not likely. Another Putin win. But at least we don’t risk the potential disaster of another summit where Putin gets even more.

Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 18h

Russian comments on Monday suggest that the Kremlin may not even agree to a Budapest summit. So the only point of the Putin-Trump phone call was to dissuade Trump from providing Tomahawks to Ukraine. Once again, Putin gets his way with the US president.

Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 1d

Putin is Lucy, Trump is Charlie Brown, and peace in Ukraine is the football. wapo.st/49eip6r

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Andrew Lorimer @drew04.bsky.social · 13h

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 15h

You say thieves pulled off a heist at the Louvre at 9:30 on a Sunday morning? Well, Donald Trump is stripping America down to it's foundation in broad daylight. All the while, those who think of themselves as 'good people' stand by and let the world be destroyed.

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Andrew Lorimer @drew04.bsky.social · 14h

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@Fahrenthold
NEW: The Secret Service spent $250K at
@realdonaldtrump
's properties in his first 5 months in office -- paying POTUS's business ***$2,000 a day*** in taxpayer funds, new documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sec...

Secret Service spent more than $250,000 at Trump’s properties in first five months of his term, records show

The documents, obtained by a liberal watchdog group, show his properties received an average of nearly $2,000 per day.

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Andrew Lorimer @drew04.bsky.social · 14h

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@Fahrenthold
NEW: The Secret Service spent $250K at
@realdonaldtrump
's properties in his first 5 months in office -- paying POTUS's business ***$2,000 a day*** in taxpayer funds, new documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sec...

Secret Service spent more than $250,000 at Trump’s properties in first five months of his term, records show

The documents, obtained by a liberal watchdog group, show his properties received an average of nearly $2,000 per day.

www.washingtonpost.com

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