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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 3d
UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 3d
Trump calls a NYC mayoral candidate a “communist” and says “everything goes through the White House” — classic authoritarian framing: discredit the opponent, delegitimize the election, and assert control over local and state governments.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "It looks like we're gonna have a Communist as the mayor of New York. But here's the good news -- he's gotta go through the White House. Everything goes through the White House. At least this White House it does."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
it's dizzying to me that stories like this -- a corrupt grift built on democracy-wrecking lies that culminated in a coup attempt -- barely breakthrough anymore. they're just daily background noise now.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
COLLINS: The NYT is reporting your legal team is seeking $230 million from your own DOJ now in response to the investigations into you. Is that something you want?

TRUMP: It could be, yeah. I don't even talk to them about it. All I know is they would owe me a lot of money. They rigged the election.
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 4d
Update: Comey's motion to disqualify Lindsey Halligan because she was illegally appointed US Atty for EDVA has been assigned to Judge Cameron McGowan Currie of the District of South Carolina.

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Pursuant to the October 21, 2025 Order of Chief Judge Albert Diaz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, attached hereto, it is hereby ORDERED that the motion challenging the qualification of the current Interim United States Attorney in the above-entitled action (ECF 60) is hereby transferred to the Honorable Cameron McGowan Currie, Senior United States District Judge of the District of South Carolina. The Clerk of Court is directed to forward a copy of this Order to counsel of record. IT IS SO ORDERED. /s/ Michael S. Nachmanoff United States District Judge
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 4d
The incredible corruption of this is even worse because Trump didn't even pay his own legal bills (he used campaign funds) - this is purely theft for profit. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 4d
That’s called burying the lead
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d
"President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him...."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. The situation has no parallel in American history, as Mr. Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election, taking over the very government that must now review his claims. It is also the starkest example yet of potential ethical conflicts created by installing the president’s former lawyers atop the Justice Department.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5d
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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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 6d
22 arrests.
All Maga.
Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman.
I think we know who the violent ones are.
#NoKings
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d
UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs

“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 7d
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
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An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …
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Dave Gesch @davalf.bsky.social · 8d
Using an official government account as a political activity is a violation of the Hatch Act.
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Dave Gesch @davalf.bsky.social · 8d
This post violates the Hatch Act. It is illegal to keep this post up.
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Dave Gesch @davalf.bsky.social · 8d
This post violates the Hatch Act. Keeping it up is an illegal action.
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Dave Gesch @davalf.bsky.social · 8d
You are violating the Hatch Act by keeping this posts up.
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Dave Gesch @davalf.bsky.social · 8d
This post violates the Hatch Act.
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Dave Gesch @davalf.bsky.social · 8d
This post is illegal as it violates the Hatch Act
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Dave Gesch @davalf.bsky.social · 8d
This post is illegal. It is a violation of the Hatch Act.
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Dave Gesch @davalf.bsky.social · 8d
This post is a violation of the Hatch Act.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations U.S. Code Notes prev | next (a)Prohibition It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer. (b)Reporting requirement Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. (c)Exceptions Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made— (1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service; (2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or (3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy. (d)Penalty Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution. (e)Applicable person For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means— (1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and (2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 9d
“Fox 11 also claims she resigned as a board member of the Wisconsin branch of the Make a Wish Foundation.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10d
That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
ilhanmn.bsky.social Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 10d
Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.
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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 10d
Press Release, Published: Mar. 4, 2014 FACT SHEET: Lois Lerner and the Oversight Committee Investigation of the IRS Targeting Scandal
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10d
He still had this up *after* the story about the Young Republicans group chat with the Hitler praise was released.
santiagomayer.com Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10d
Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.
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