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Mena Burke
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Soccer/football; history; sanity; beagles; too much coffee; percussion; reading (not the fc); women’s sports. Crystal Palace FC. Washington Spirit. Also - FC Wimbledon fan by marriage
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Former University of Mississippi employee Lauren Stokes is suing Chancellor Glenn Boyce for firing her after she criticized Charlie Kirk.
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We asked Donald Trump to cut health care costs. Instead, he cut off a wing of the White House.
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Maybe run some commercials with this in every fucking state as kids can't eat because SNAP is cut off.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
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Around 500 residents of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, turned out to a No Kings protest against the Trump administration on Saturday, Oct. 18.

Here are some photos of those who showed up and the protest signs they carried.
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Photos: No Kings Protest in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Around 500 residents of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, turned out to a No Kings protest against the Trump administration on Oct. 18, 2025.
www.mississippifreepress.org
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Display is a map highlighting London and Leipzig as a reference to the Conference League final location in Germany #CPFC
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It’s gameday, Palace fans… and it’s not just any old gameday! 🙌

Oliver Glasner’s Eagles take on Imanol Idiakez’s AEK Larnaca in the UEFA Conference League. 🦅

It’s an 8pm kick off at Selhurst Park. 🏟️

#UECL #CPFC
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Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.
OMG

#WhiteHouse destroyed by Trump
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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How about a press conference made up of Democratic leadership near the White House with the demolished East Wing in the background, talking about the government shutdown and Trump's warped priorities and demolition of public goods, including not just the East Wing but health care and so much else?
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
Totally pissed that I can watch NFO but not Palace today
European nights!
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Now you see why Trump bankrupted so many businesses.
“.. The American intervention to prop up the Argentinian peso has failed. Despite the United States intervening .., the Argentine peso lost 10% of its value in the first two weeks of October, pushing the overnight interest rate to 157%.”

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The use of "surge" here is so fucking grotesque. Trump is using Iraq War language against the citizens of his own country.
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We saw the same move in Los Angeles this summer. Very good and helpful. Not sustainable long term but helps in the short term.
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I'm taking it in the context of him soliciting bribes to build a monument to himself on MY land while my friends haven't been paid for 3 weeks, Bogogage.
Don't take this quote out of context. The question was specifically about it Trump had additional priorities for redoing parts of the White House grounds.

Think whatever you want about what Trump is doing or not doing.

But understand the context of this quote, not just this selective snippet.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
Psst: if you’re talking about Truman, he and his family were forced to live at Blair House while major repairs were done to fix structural issues that made the #WhiteHouse unsafe. It wasn’t a wannabe king destroying part of it because he hates our country.
They know the East Wing demolition is bad optics for them that’s why so many have suddenly “come to life” on this platform today armed w/inaccurate talking points about earlier renovations at the WH.
How many of Trump’s buds is this now?
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Not the WSJ having the only even moderately acceptable push alert here.

NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.
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funny how our garbage telecoms are always at the front of the line of kissing authoritarian ass
UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
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Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study.
Study finds mRNA coronavirus vaccines prolonged life of cancer patients
A study found that covid-19 vaccines appeared to awaken the immune system in lung and skin cancer patients, helping them live longer than those not vaccinated.
www.washingtonpost.com
The corruption is right out in the open

This guy pleaded guilty. How much do you think Trump or his family/friends got for this????

Maybe the #WhiteHouse destruction is deflecting from this too?
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President Trump has pardoned Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge in 2023. https://cnn.it/42X8gqR
Trump #WhiteHouse destruction is below the fold with no photo on the front page but we do get to see Epstein’s buddy in a photo.

Hey Speaker Johnson, why haven’t you sworn in Rep elect Grijalva? Is all this to hide Trump’s Epstein and whoever visited Maxwell?