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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 46m

Keep going, good people. Live long enough to see their tribunals.

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Caldera 🌋 @calderajones.bsky.social · 38m

Bob forever. 🐾

Pale beige, brown and gray striped medium-longhair cat with white whiskers and large pink nose stares at the camera with big green eyes, while sitting in a brown wooden chair.

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Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · 3h

All oaks are ecological powerhouses for the ecosystems where they are found.

Migratory birds benefit from caterpillars /
insects that inhabit canopy.

Saplings may serve as browse.

USDA fact sheet on Red Oak:
plants.usda.gov/DocumentLibr...

FS fact sheet: hort.ifas.ufl.edu/database/doc...

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Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · 3h

Detailed diagram of trees destroyed for Trump’s ballroom gobbling not just the East Wing, but many trees on the Olmsted designed WH grounds, including a commemorative northern red oak planted by Eisenhower in 1960.

If you have a chance, plant a northern red oak for Ike this Fall. They’re gorgeous.

Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · 4h

Well that definitely scratched the itch to “know,” while also sinking my heart as to the total loss.

Eisenhower’s northern red oak definitely destroyed 😭

17 inventoried trees destroyed, just in section 10 of the 2013 - 2016 inventory:

pubs.nps.gov/eTIC/WEPO-WI...

Great tip, thank you.

“Section 10” keyed to species in the vicinity of the former East Wing in the document “https://pubs.nps.gov/eTIC/WEPO-WI/WHHO_813_136039_0001_of_0058.pdf”

Trees from the 2013 - 2026 inventory of White House Grounds: KOUSA DOGWOOD
Cornus kousa 'Centennial'
2000

NORTHERN RED OAK
Quercus rubra
1960
Dwight D. Eisenhower|
10

3 EASTERN REDBUD
Cercis canadensis 'Alba'
1990
George H. W. Bush

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CHESTNUT OAK
Quercus montana
-1900

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BUR OAK
Quercus macrocarpa
-1900

BRANDYWINE CRABAPPLE
Malus 'Brandywine'
19911

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PATMORE ASHI
Fraxinus pennsylvanica 'Patmore"
1989
George H. W. Bush (Removed 2014)

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AMERICAN BEECH
Fagus grandifolia
-1900
(Removed 2015)

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TULIP TREE
Liriodendron tulipifera
1943

10
SOUTHERN MAGNOLIA
Magnolia grandiflora
1996

11| KATHERINE CRABAPPLE
Malus 'Katherine'
2003

12
PERSIAN PARROTIA
Parrotia persica
1997

13
SWAMP WHITE OAK
Quercus bicolor
-1900

14
SYCAMORE
Platanus occidentalis
1977

15
YELLOW BUCKEYE
Aesculus flava
1979
(Removed 2013)

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KATSURA TREE
Cercidiphyllum japonicum
19881
(Removed 2013)

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YOSHINO CHERRY
Prunus yedoensis
2000

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YOSHINO CHERRY
Prunus yedoensis
2007

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SAUCER MAGNOLIA
Magnolia × soulangiana
1950
(Removed 2013)

20 POTOMAC CREPE MYRTLE
Lagestroemia indica 'Potomac"
2002

21| JAPANESE MAPLE
Acer palmatum
2002

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SUGAR TYME IN CRABAPPLE
Malus Sugar TymeT™
2012

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CHEROKEE PRINCESS DOGWOOD
Cornus Florida 'Cherokee Princess'
2008
George W. and Laura Bush / Planted by Jenna B. and Henry Hager

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DISSECTED RED LEAF
Acer palmatum var. dissectum
2015

JAPANESE MAPLE
atropurpureum

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Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · 2h

On his 70th birthday, President Eisenhower “spoke from a platform on the South Grounds following the planting of a red oak tree presented to him by Commissioner Robert E. McLaughlin on behalf of the District of Columbia.”

October 14, 1960

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235565

“So as I thank the people of this city for their great kindness in coming this morning--and the Commissioners for so thoughtfully presenting to me this tree which will one day be a towering giant long after I have gone--I want to say that I believe that we can have a little stronger conviction from the words and the sentiments expressed by these 15 delegations, we can have greater confidence that the world is moving in the direction we want it to go.”

The President spoke from a platform on the South Grounds following the planting of a red oak tree presented to him by Commissioner Robert E. McLaughlin on behalf of the District of Columbia.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h

The old rulebook is gone. It's not coming back and we all need to accept that. The DOJ is weaponized. the GOP is rigging elections. Trump is literally bulldozing the White House.

Democrats need to operate under this new reality, fight hard, and play by the same rules.

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 1h

Thx to Grandparents Against Fascists

We need the Louvre Thieves to get the Epstein Files.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1h

In days when things seem to make no sense, when darkness seems to have the upper hand, we often lose hope because we wonder where the good people have gone.

This is a reminder that they haven’t gone anywhere.

Here you are.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/looking-fo...

Looking for Hope? Try here...

Running low on hope these days?

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12h

Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.

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Caldera 🌋 @calderajones.bsky.social · 2h

I also want to know this. 🧐

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 2d

people voted for a guy who in the last couple of days posted a video fantasy of himself shitting on americans, torn down the fucking east wing, and declared that the treasury has to pay him $230 million for reasons.

And Lemon, it's Tuesday.

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Caldera 🌋 @calderajones.bsky.social · 2h

This. The ballroom is just what we will be able to see from space.

Caldera 🌋 @calderajones.bsky.social · 2h

There has to be an inventory from here of what has been stolen or ruined that belonged to The People.

We have been robbed in so many ways by this administration I'm sick of it.

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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 6h

"i wont demolish the east wing" guy says "dont worry about the west bank"

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vantazach @vantazach.bsky.social · 2d

idk where you thought this was going

the domino theory meme suggesting that allowing Trump's "tacky fake gold garbage" was the starting point for knocking down "the entire White House"

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McWidget @notmuch.bsky.social · 7h

It’s not a ballroom. This is too much and too weird to just be a ballroom. Keep an eye on construction. If a guy wanted to stay in the white house and dig in with soldiers in a reinforced building , underground infrastructure, etc, how would he build this?

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crimson-rove.bsky.social @crimson-rove.bsky.social · 4h

He already Did. LoLs

a man says " the ice ... is gonna break "

ALT: a man says " the ice ... is gonna break "

media.tenor.com

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 7h

When one of the great authors of horror is horrified, we all should take notice.

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Caldera 🌋 @calderajones.bsky.social · 2h

(fixed auto-incorrected words)

This is definitely concerning. There better *not* be private assumption of ownership or rights of ownership through "improvement."

(meant like a legal definition, not intended to be descriptive of the bs happening to Our White House).

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Caldera 🌋 @calderajones.bsky.social · 7h

*of presidents since 1977.

So I can safely say polling shows he is the worst president in my lifetime.

Feels accurate. ✔️

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Caldera 🌋 @calderajones.bsky.social · 7h

It was more about the trespassing and I'm bummed that the threat of deep pockets of billionaire controlled companies win out again against smaller companies or groups.

Trespassing is wrong. Shitting up somebody else's property is wrong. Just because you're rich don't make it right.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 9h

And there it is, once again.

“Representatives from Trump’s family crypto business have held talks with Binance about taking a stake in the US arm of the exchange,” the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year.

Zhao disputed that he was seeking to make a deal in exchange for a pardon.

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Ron @carolinablueskies.bsky.social · 9h

Quid pro tRump

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 9h

There it is:

"The pardon came two months after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump family’s own crypto venture, which has generated about $4.5 billion since the 2024 election, has been helped by “a partnership with an under-the-radar trading platform quietly administered by Binance."

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 9h

There it is:

"The pardon came two months after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump family’s own crypto venture, which has generated about $4.5 billion since the 2024 election, has been helped by “a partnership with an under-the-radar trading platform quietly administered by Binance."

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 9h

The criminality here has so many layers it should be a wedding cake.

WSJ Breaking News
Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family’s own crypto venture

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