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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1h

Still mad that the football team picked on you in high school and no one would go to the prom with you? Well do I have the job for you. You are a fat uncoordinated loser NO MORE

Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 5h

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

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Barney T @omnibarn.bsky.social · 1h

The Winklevosses and Lutnicks. 24 karat assholes to produce Gilded Age 2.0

Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 2h

Edward and Shari Glazer
Harold Hamm
Benjamin Leon, Jr.
The Lutnick Family
The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Konstantin Sokolov
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
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Source: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Trump Hosts Corporate Ballroom Donors at Glitzy White House Dinner

The event included representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon.com and Palantir.

www.wsj.com

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 2h

I dedicate this post to the formidable @annabower.bsky.social

Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme but about everything being off the record

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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 14h

Update from the Mayor of Fairhope, who is hopelessly wrong: 1819news.com/news/item/pe...

Wearing a costume is peaceful.

This is not profanity, but profanity is protected by the First Amendment. Cohen v. California.

This is not obscene. If you think this is erotic, you are alone.

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Barney T @omnibarn.bsky.social · 2h

What POTUS is doing with the White House is putting the irons in me. He is a functioning King. Not because he is smart, clever or powerful......but because Congress has abrogated their authority. Democracy is on life support because the GOP wants it to be.

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Barney T @omnibarn.bsky.social · 2h

Just a visible go fuck yourself, a middle finger to everyone. That is the whole thing. That is the People's House. And he thinks it's his. He is despicable.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8h

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 8h

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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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 5h

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 4h

My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.

The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.

Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.

data4democracy.substack.com

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Scarecasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 6h

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

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India May for Iowa House @mayforiowa.bsky.social · 3h

The results are in: 429 fewer AEA employees. This isn't "reform." It's a direct cut to special education services for Iowa's most vulnerable kids, and for what? FULLY FUNDING our schools would solve this, but Republicans won't do it. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/08/29/i...

Iowa AEAs see 429 fewer staff as school year begins, Democratic lawmakers say • Iowa Capital Dispatch

Democratic legislative leaders argued that the 2024 law making changes to Iowa's Area Education Agencies led to the sizable staff reductions.

iowacapitaldispatch.com

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Barney T @omnibarn.bsky.social · 4h

Hey! That means we get refunds, right? Is that how this works?

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fivesixzero @fivesixzero.bsky.social · 8h

Just witnessed someone trying to fireb*mb Fletcher’s Ice Cream in NE. Saw a dude acting weird next to a parked car in front of the place. I walked by, heard a smash through my earbuds, smelled gasoline/kerosine. Turned around, snapped some photos instinctively. Thankfully they suck at molot*vs.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

it is funny how much studio executives dislike making money

Braddington @bradwhipple.bsky.social · 4h

whelp, I’ll be thinking about the Steven Soderbergh movie about Ben Solo until the day I die, I guess. we could’ve had it all.

apnews.com/article/adam...

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Braddington @bradwhipple.bsky.social · 4h

whelp, I’ll be thinking about the Steven Soderbergh movie about Ben Solo until the day I die, I guess. we could’ve had it all.

apnews.com/article/adam...

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · Oct 20

Such a gorgeous photo.
The way the kid looks up to his dad, it's beautiful.

Penn Station, New York City in 1948 by Ruth Orkin.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4h

Lindsey Halligan says I’m not a journalist.

But if you think I am, and you value our our non-profit legal news and analysis, you can support our work here: givebutter.com/journalism/a...

You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about

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You don't get to say that in retrospect.
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Senator Jacky Rosen @rosen.senate.gov · 5d

Unbelievable, Argentina gets double the bailout $ from Trump while Nevada families get slapped with double the cost for their health insurance.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4h

I feel like I am losing my mind reading this exchange

Lindsey Halligan is just word salad personified

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

/4 The last time I saw a reach-out this undisciplined it was when Michael Avenatti called me at work to tell me that everyone was laughing about what a nobody I am.

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Barney T @omnibarn.bsky.social · 4h

Dear God. All of my crummy vacation pics without the food, drinks, meeting people and the joy of finding that one perfect spot that you remember for years. Where do I sign up?

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Barney T @omnibarn.bsky.social · 4h

This is just bizarre. And silly. And bizarrely silly. But also important.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”

My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

www.lawfaremedia.org

Barney T @omnibarn.bsky.social · 4h

I mean this could all be a coincidence. Like the coincidence in 1997 when I woke up the next morning very hungover after a friend's bachelor party.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7h

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 8h

Congratulations to every Democratic House and Senate candidate for the next two years for this photograph.

Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 8h

Trump has begun tearing down some of the White House, for his ballroom. 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.

wapo.st

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