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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1h

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting

The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

www.nbcnews.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 55m

“How DARE Cracker Barrel change their logo 😡🤬😡🤬 I’ll never eat there again!”

“Destroy the White House harder, daddy 🥵🤤”

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 1h

Trump: To touch Confederate monuments is to launch an attack on our collective history.

Also Trump: I unilaterally decided to destroy a third of the White House because I see Americans’ treasures as my own. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Literally and figuratively, Trump is trashing the entirety of the White House’s East Wing

In July, the president said his ballroom project wouldn’t “interfere with” the current White House structure. So much for that idea.

www.msnbc.com

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Liz @yellingatthesky85.bsky.social · 1h

This is why I got so mad at the Dem leadership during the primaries. They support an unrepentant sex pest. What, am I, a woman with daughters, supposed to take away from that? That there was no one else in NYC that they found more palatable than an old sex pest?

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2h

Since the “ceasefire,” Netanyahu has killed 100+ Palestinians, has continued to restrict aid into Gaza, banned all UN investigators, & still enforces an international media blackout.

And billionaire owned Washington Post runs this pro genocide editorial. Why do you still have a Wash Post sub?

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h

It's worth noting that Truman's reconstruction of the White House was necessary because the building was literally falling apart, and was conducted under the direction of a congressionally-appointed commission.

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Disgraziato @primaryschool.bsky.social · 9h

blood-and-soil nativism repels me on a cellular level

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Liz @yellingatthesky85.bsky.social · 2h

That's been your point all along?

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 14h

People who screamed “our history!” when we took down statues of disgraced slavers and traitors are curiously silent about an entire WING of the White House being illegally razed.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h

Well, well, well...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

All of the Clinton-era conservative pearl clutching about the sanctity of the White House and the Democrats’ disrespect seems like it’s from another world now.

There was a whole scandal because Al Gore made fundraising calls from inside the building. They investigated the Clintons’ cat!

Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 17h

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans claimed to believe that the White House was such sacred space that getting a blow job in the Oval Office was grounds to remove a president from office.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah a little part of my brain is just screaming 24/7 HOW IS NO ONE STOPPING THIS

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Tim the Enchanter @cthulul.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like he's been screaming some truly unhinged orders at people and we only know about the ones that get followed

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

The press treated Biden pardoning his son to shield him from the obviously malicious and lawless incoming Trump administration as a bigger scandal than anything Trump has done with DOJ since. (Guess why this is the case)

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 20h

In the long run, Biden keeping that wall between himself and DOJ - leading to the conviction and humiliation of his son - achieved absolutely nothing. The standard is gone. The incentive for future presidents is to punish your enemies and say "your mom, lol" when reporters ask about it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15h

“We will rebuild the White House as it was and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, the Trump Organization, and his family.”

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 17h

None of this is legal! People are choosing to break the law! Other people are choosing not to hold them accountable! What the fuck!!!

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 19h

Oh

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d

I think it’s sick how the President is both physically and symbolically destroying every single icon of America. This is great. I like how things are going. I love living through national decline.

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teleri dockworkers union @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 16h

it is kinda amazing that despite being world-emperor trumps brain can only think to run slightly larger-scale scams than the scams he ran when he as just a new york real estate mogul

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Liz @yellingatthesky85.bsky.social · 17h

It is honestly terrible trying to explain what is going on to people who are not on The Internet and who get their news from traditional sources. You sound crazy. I hate this timeline.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h

There are prominent, open Nazis who are followed by the Vice President of the United States and that fact and those people have literally never been reported on in a major outlet. It's an insane state of affairs built entirely around denial.

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