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Rose @starlightwishes.bsky.social · 2h

They're leaving that bunker to rot uncovered through the winter. If the bunker was the point, they would be reinforcing it without taking down the East Wing ... if only to mask what they were doing from their enemies. This pile of destruction is an obvious target from the air.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11h

Every aspect of this boondoggle will get worse. And I'm leaving out so much that I'm enormously concerned about—such as the fact that he is doing this during an economic collapse and government shutdown, using dark money, and clearly is building this because he believes he will be president forever.

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Rose @starlightwishes.bsky.social · 2h

I bet it won't even be built. And that they will likely tear down the rest of the White House. No Reputable Construction Company leaves the building next to it without protection like they did - unless they intended to tear that building down too.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11h

There's not a single reason to believe this project is anything but a giant scam—and possible criminal conspiracy. Not only is the ballroom unneeded; not only has Trump lied about a historical desire for such a space among past administrations; but he's already lied about all aspects of the project.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11h

It gets worse. No one who reports on Trump regularly believed he'd allow private donations earmarked for his political operation to be used to construct this ballroom. The universal view was that Trump would do what he usually does and steal the money from taxpayers. That now appears to be the plan.

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Rose @starlightwishes.bsky.social · 2h

He learned all this from Duterte ... Who's now in jail for his crimes.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Trump Confirms That He Prefers Illegal Extrajudicial Murder to Constitutionally Required Due Process, a Violation of His Oath of Office and Yet Another Basis for Immediate Impeachment

Everyone with any sense knows that before this is all over, Trump will apply this new maxim to Americans.

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Rose @starlightwishes.bsky.social · 2h

This picture shows NO PROTECTION OF THE BUILDING NEXT TO THE EAST WING!!! ... No Mesh, No Scaffolding, No Protection for Windows!

No REPUTABLE Construction Company would do this - UNLESS THEY INTEND TO DESTROY THE WHOLE WH!!!

With winter close we will see that empty space for MONTHS & remember.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11h

Per usual, Trump has lied about every aspect of this. He now says it'll cost 50% more than when he announced it. He now says it'll be much bigger than originally planned. He said he wouldn't touch the East Wing, and he's now demolishing it. He said he would accept input from US agencies, but hasn't.

Trump plows past concerns over East Wing demolition — and envisions an even bigger ballroom than initially planned | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump has proceeded with enormous latitude as he constructs his massive new ballroom, bypassing concerns raised by preservationists and so far stopping short of seeking approval from ...

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Rose @starlightwishes.bsky.social · 2h

Conquerors like to destroy the cultural monuments of those they are trying to destroy.

ISIS, Trump, they're all the same.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11h

Oh God I just had a vision of what he could do to the FDR and King memorials make it stop

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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Rose @starlightwishes.bsky.social · 2h

It looks like 9/11.

Everybody needs to realize that winter is on the way. No one is going to build now. That whole area will be rotting away till at least March. To remind us all.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h

Very good.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas dismissed a GOP lawsuit against California’s new congressional redistricting plan ruling that the plaintiff, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), had no right to sue over another state’s election laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Court Tosses Another GOP Lawsuit Against California’s Redistricting Plan

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h

Extrajudicial mass murder eventually leads to war.

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 7h

Trump: "I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people... Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead."

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h

For example: your license plate can be tracked basically anywhere in the US right now— not just at ezpass checkpoints. Everywhere.

Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 5h

I don’t too quite enough people realize how little privacy we have nowadays — even in day-to-day life — compared to 15 or 20 years ago.

onion person @junlper.beer · 13h

a noticable shift in culture is that when the original google glass released 13 years ago, one kid in my highschool had one and we all bullied him for how weird it was you could take photos with it and he stopped wearing after 1 day. that anti-invasive tech culture is dead with modern social media

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4h

GOOOOOO.

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 5h

Congressman Don Beyer just laid down the fire 🔥 🔥 at the King Kennedy dinner. Virginia is redrawing the maps in response to Republican gerrymandering.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

"More than 200 protesters demonstrated and tried to block the entrance to Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., on Thursday morning." - People are in motion everywhere...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

Bay Area Protesters Try to Block Base Entrance Before Immigration Operation

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4h

Teenage boys being kidnapped by ICE.

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 8h

a video of the young man's arrest shows him backing up, following commands, while having a weapon drawn on him. He's then surrounded, thrown to the ground, jumped on, and detained. shared with permission.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.

That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

“.. Villagers said the corpse had burn marks on its face and was missing limbs, as if it had been mangled by an explosion.

.. Who were they? Did a U.S. strike kill them? Will more bodies appear on Trinidad’s beaches?”

@nytimes.com
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 9h

I want to do that thing where I log off until I'm done writing my book, but holy hell. A venture capitalist and an AI chipmaker negotiating with a crypto billionaire president to stop a federal goon invasion of San Francisco...I'll be re-writing until midnight on deadline.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago.

She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish."

It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 6h

Again, it's all spelled out in Carl Schmitt:

Religious narrative (divine mission) ➡️ existential crisis (Antichrist, demons) ➡️ power grab ("state of exception").

This is what Peter Thiel is going on about. The man who brought you Curtis Yarvin presents: Antichrist 2028.

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