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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

Trump’s ICE Jacks Up Weapons Spending by 700%—Including ‘Guided Missile Warheads’

“ICE was always going to be Trump’s private military to deploy domestically against Americans,” said one critic.

Trump’s ICE Jacks Up Weapons Spending by 700%—Including ‘Guided Missile Warheads’ | Common Dreams

The Trump administration's massive increase in funding for ICE weapons is alarming. ICE is now armed to the teeth, treating its officers as a private military to deploy against Americans. Why does ICE...

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 1d

We all knew Trump was going to sell out Ukraine to Putin. All his false promises - to end the war in 24 hours, to sanction Russia, provide Tomahawks, on and on. All BS. Pro-Ukraine GOP Sens & Reps suddenly silent. The US abandons allies under Trump. Putin owns Trump like a dog. 🤬

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 16h

We are on a dangerous path in America. A panel of Ninth Circuit judges has chosen to not hold the president accountable: they just granted the federal government’s motion to stay our first TRO, which prevented the president from deploying Oregon National Guard troops in Oregon.

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Alba Dawn @albadawn.bsky.social · 12h

Why is Lindsey Graham adopting his hero’s habit of arbitrarily capitalizing common nouns?

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Alba Dawn @albadawn.bsky.social · 12h

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Madonna Lennon @madonnalennon.bsky.social · 12h

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per52oskar.bsky.social @per52oskar.bsky.social · 12h

ALL AGAINST TRUMP

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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 12h

Seeing the White House being demolished is a shocking sight, but what he’s doing to our constitution, our norms & values is far more obscene. We just don’t have a picture of it.

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WTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump @wtfgop.bsky.social · 12h

The trump Presidency in one image

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

You know it’s bad when the Dept of Labor says immigration raids are “threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

@opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 15h

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”

Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Morning Brew ☕️ @morningbrew.extwitter.link · 22h

BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3d

All the folks who say “beans keep, why don’t the soybean farmers just hold onto them until this tariff crisis is over” probably should watch this video

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 4d

A grain bin filled with soybeans collapsed in Iroquois County, Illinois, taking out power lines but causing no injuries.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

Clearly Trump lied when he said his $250 million ballroom wouldn’t “interfere” with the White House.

So who’s watching this mess; the White House Historical Association or the Office of the Curator? Because someone needs to make sure he’s not bulldozing history for a dance floor.

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 13h

Every. Day.

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 12h

It's all so fucking stupid. Like an argument could be made that the reception facilities needed expanding. Ok. Fine. But there's a way to do things. Where's the historic committee? The architectural consultation? The submission of design to the public and to open bidding? Where the fuck is Congress?

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 13h

(Photo atop this thread comes via the New York Post, which doesn’t attribute them to a named source.)

Demolition begins on East Wing of White House for Trump’s new $250 million ballroom

WASHINGTON — Demolition began Monday on the East Wing of the White House to make way for President Trump’s massive new $250 million ballroom.

nypost.com

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Alba Dawn @albadawn.bsky.social · 12h

Forgive me, but wasn’t there a better way of doing this? It seems as though they’re trying to do as much damage as possible—as in all things.

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Alba Dawn @albadawn.bsky.social · 12h

Did you take pictures? I spent two Xmas holidays in London way back and had the best time. Museums were free, pubs on every corner. This was before Abbey Rd did tours (that I knew of), so only did the crosswalk and saw the MPL offices. Buffalo VIP are out of reach—just hoping to get in the door.🤞

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Alba Dawn @albadawn.bsky.social · 13h

People keep saying that—but the Heritage Foundation + SCOTUS don’t seem to be willing to let them fail. I want to have hope…

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Alba Dawn @albadawn.bsky.social · 13h

Last time, IIRC, Mark Meadows was burning so many documents in his West Wing fireplace that his wife complained his suits reeked of smoke. Not to mention the flushed papers (who flushes torn up documents?)

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 14h

Ask her if this means everyone in the regime using Signal is using disappearing messages that aren't being properly retained according to public record laws.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

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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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 1d

#VotingRightsAct #VRA @elienyc.bsky.social
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