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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Reporter: The president had initially said that this project wouldn't interfere with or touch the current structure.

Leavitt: If you look at the renderings, it's very clear the east wing was going to be modernized.

Reporter: But modernizing and tearing down are two different things.

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/ MOSA / @mosaisms.bsky.social · 2h

If you're not angry af, you're not American.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: Can the president tear down anything he wants without oversight? Could he demolish this building or the Jefferson Memorial?

LEAVITT: Only for vertical construction will a submission be required.

Q: So it sounds like the answer is yes

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 2h

Call this what it is: rank corruption.

Major corporations funding a president's vanity project is a textbook model for pay-to-play. Why else would tech giants, crypto firms, and defense contractors care about a 90,000 sq ft ballroom?

A photo of former President Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office, holding up a large architectural rendering of an opulent ballroom interior. He is looking at the image seriously. The background features ornate gold decor. Below the image, a news article headline reads “White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom,” and highlighted text names major companies such as Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast, and Meta as donors for the proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

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Boston Emergency Management @alert.boston.gov · 2h

Power Outages can happen for a number of reasons, here are some ways you can be prepared! #ReadyBoston

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 2h

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

October planet imagery showing the east wing demolished

September planet imagery showing the east wing before work took place

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2h

oh indeed

interccect.com/2025/09/26/w...

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 9h

I know it’s scary to hear the truth. That the system you were taught to love is the problem. That one that allowed someone like Trump to rise to power is the issue. That the way out of this will not be neatly packaged so you can make it to brunch in time.

It’s okay to be scared. Im scared too.

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mofusand（ぢゅの） @sharkcat.bsky.social · 9h

☕️🫖よくやる

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 10h

They are literally destroying EVERYTHING.

www.space.com/space-explor...

The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces

"You'd be doing irreparable damage."

www.space.com

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hotoynoodle @hotoynoodle.bsky.social · 9h

MA passed a millionaire's tax &it was the same chicken little propaganda.
Only 16k had to pay in & we had a net positive of people moving into the state.

Meanwhile, now ALL kids get free school meals all year, community college, UMass, MassArt and other 4 year schools are all free, etc, etc

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Dave Stieber @dstieber.bsky.social · 9h

“To be clear, the federal government is intent on abusing its power to kidnap and violate the rights of our friends and neighbors, and now, they say it is a crime to tell your neighbors this is happening…”
As always, great reporting from the @thetriibe.com
thetriibe.com/2025/10/chir...

‘Chiraq Team 2’: Oak Park attorney catches glimpse of federal agents’ group chat during arrest • The TRiiBE

Scott Sakiyama supported a neighboring Black family while federal prosecutors accused their son of assaulting a Border Patrol agent. Ten days later, federal agents arrested Sakiyama himself.

thetriibe.com

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 9h

We didnt vote our way out of slavery. We didnt vote our way out of Jim Crow. It took a war to stop the Confederates. Another to stop the Nazis. There is no way out of this, especially against an enemy willing to die for their cause.

☀︎☆ @sunshue.bsky.social · 9h

Never in the history of ever has fascism been peacefully voted out of office

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 19h

Updating my LEGO White House

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 9h

What Trump has destroyed of America's past in demolishing the East Wing of the White House:

Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 9h

Gift link:

From the Roosevelts to the Kennedys: A Look Back at the White House East Wing

www.nytimes.com

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 9h

What will it take to get major media outlets to even just stop granting the presumption of good faith? Not to say they’re lying even, but just to treat claims as claims rather than facts?

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 9h

This is sort of a pattern: See also naive parroting of the claim that troops are being deployed to cities “to fight crime”. You don’t have to do admin propaganda by laundering their falsehoods in your headlines.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.”

Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?

Or do they just sorta do it?

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Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

The piercing blow of a whistle has become a Chicago-wide means of signaling that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are present.

How plastic whistles are becoming an anti-ICE resistance tool in Chicago

The piercing blow of a whistle has become a Chicago-wide means of signaling that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are present.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10h

If only they’d been proclaiming their love of Hitler, they could count as children well into their 40s.

Kyle Pfannenstiel @pfannyyy.bsky.social · 22h

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.

The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 9h

The Raine family, which claimed the AI bot "coached" their son to suicide, is now accusing the company of intentional misconduct rather than reckless indifference.

Wrongful Death Suit Against OpenAI Now Claims Company Removed ChatGPT's Suicide Guardrails

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 9h

#OnThisDay - 23 October - in 42 BC the Caesarean forces defeated those of the Liberators at the Battle of Philippi, resulting in Marcus Junius Brutus taking his own life in the aftermath. #AncientHistory 🏺

Image: RRC 500/6; BnF (REP-21411). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...

Obverse of a Roman aureus: Axe, culullus and knife . Border of dots.

Reverse of a Roman aureus: Jug and lituus. Border of dots.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 14h

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 9h

there's something really dark in the fact that a court can acknowledge that a military unit committed a bunch of murders, that they did so after "losing all sense of military discipline," and yet they can't sentence anyone for it.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is literally destroying the White House. This is so on-brand.

Portions of White House East Wing being demolished amid ballroom construction

Part of the White House East Wing was demolished on Monday as President Donald Trump sets out to build a massive ballroom.

abcnews.go.com

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 10h

Every day brings something new for Herald readers to be afraid of, page after page. Be very afraid! 🎃

The Herald loves to cast Mayor Wu as anti-development. But when the first major rezoning of Downtown in a half-century is approved, it’s too much. Common theme? Fear. ☠️

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10h

I think the ballroom story is gonna mushroom into a much much much much bigger thing. I see the visceral reaction people have towards the videos.

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