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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19m

Joking aside, I remain amazed at the speed with which extremely online people can form parasocial attachments. “I must debase myself to defend the honor of this guy I’ve never met running for office in a state where I don’t live, because about a month ago I really liked a campaign ad he cut.“

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a.j. porygons @porygon2s.bsky.social · 21m

I'm working at my old middle school today and it has changed so much o_o;;

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9h

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

It looks even worse by video 😢

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 3d

oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 19h

also…you don’t spend $250 million dollars building a fancy country club expansion for a home you plan on leaving in a few years.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

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 · 20h

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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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 19h

Look, "if Obama did this" is a boring counterfactual, but the shit that scanned as "defiling the office" under Obama would blow your mind.

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a.j. porygons @porygon2s.bsky.social · 21h

Free Indian food in the staff room for Diwali 👍

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a.j. porygons @porygon2s.bsky.social · 1d

the way out trans people talk about stealth trans people is fucking weird

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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 1d

THERE IS LITERALLY NO REASON TO FIRE LIVE ARTILLERY SHELLS OVER AN AMERICAN HIGHWAY.

TOTALLY STUPID, RECKLESS, AND BIZARRE ACTIONS JUST TO MAKE JD VANCE FEEL IMPORTANT.

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 1d

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

so I gather this is a lot of people's first middle east cease fire.

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a.j. porygons @porygon2s.bsky.social · 1d

Canceled mine in January and never looked back

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts

The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

www.snopes.com

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 2d

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

On his Truth Social platform on Saturday night, Trump posted a Top Gun-style AI video of himself wearing a crown and dropping raw sewage on the protesters from a military plane.

(Yes, you read that right.)

Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are melting down over "No Kings" success

Trump posted an AI video of himself dropping raw sewage on the protesters from a plane. Yes, you read that right

www.motherjones.com

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a.j. porygons @porygon2s.bsky.social · 2d

seriously, its the exact same thing that TERFs and other right-wing transphobes think and say! ffs!

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a.j. porygons @porygon2s.bsky.social · 2d

the second (non highlighted) part is also insane to me bc yes i think trans men are men and trans women are women but not bc they "opted in" to that wtf

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a.j. porygons @porygon2s.bsky.social · 2d

this kind of stuff (from tumblr) is part of why trans people as a group are now totally fucked

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sam @samveep.bsky.social · 2d

lol please watch this with sound

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Such extremism! So much terror!

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The Saturday Morning Podcast 🎙️ @satmornpod.bsky.social · 3d

#NoKings!

Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 3d

Wisdom from Schoolhouse Rock.

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 2d

Holy fuck! No Kings protesters are marching through Center City in Philadelphia. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 2d

Melissa Hortman, her husband, and her family dog were murdered by a Trump supporter because of Trump's rhetoric.

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 2d

I literally just saw an elderly woman using a walker dressed head to toe as a frog.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 3d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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