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Did things. Doing stuff now. Probably doing stuff some time from now. Work stuff, food stuff, things and junk. Pictured is my bestest buddy, Chunk. 2008-1/24/2024. Miss him more than ever. Rest easy, sweet Chunkums. #darkesttimeline Dogs on my TL
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erbmike.bsky.social @erbmike.bsky.social · 31m
That guy’s brain is completely busted.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h
Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d
So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 3h
Farmer John Bartman and heiress @abigaildisney.bsky.social offer fascinating perspectives on the economic and moral impact of Trump 2.0. All you never knew you wanted to know about scarce combine parts, historic estate tax rates, and much more. @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/heiress-so...
The Disney Heiress, the Soybean Farmer, and Trump’s Dangerous Decisions
Two views of how the president’s senseless economic and moral acts put the country at risk.
www.thebulwark.com
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erbmike.bsky.social @erbmike.bsky.social · 37m
And if you ask him “what’s an SFP for, then?”, he’ll probably start wondering if he forgot to take a pill that day.
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erbmike.bsky.social @erbmike.bsky.social · 42m
He is the most gigantic of morons to ever walk this planet.
Glass does go into copper. It has to in order to connect almost everything end-to-end. Fiber converters to copper, whether network oriented, or any data+ conversions necessitate this use and purpose. It’s global.
“It’s all computer!”
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ct @cteeze-nuts.bsky.social · 1h
I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.
Quote text from article: Lawyers said the nature of the claims posed undeniable ethics challenges. "What a travesty," said Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. "The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don't need a law professor to explain it."
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 1h
Yeah, physically trashing the WH (and everything else) is bad, but good case that Roberts has done more to desecrate the Supreme Court than Trump has for the presidency.
lemieuxlgm.bsky.social Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1h
The Supreme Court announcing that a president cannot not be held criminally liable for virtually anything he does in office based on nothing in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution was extremely bad, IMHO
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
Ben Meiselas doesn't hold back after Meriwether Farms gushes over Trump but begs him not to "betray" them by propping up Argentina: What are you doing? Like, you realize he’s destroying you. He hates you. He absolutely hates you and thinks you’re dumb and stupid.
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erbmike.bsky.social @erbmike.bsky.social · 3h
That’s exactly it. What was that initial $20B for? Argentina? No. It was for a select few American ultra-wealthy who had some bad exposure to sectors in ARG. This allows them to skate with minimal pain. But the $20B we taxpayers gave to this? Poof. Gone.
The $ was to save those billionaires only.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 7h
Trump is responsible for the soybean and beef farmer chaos we are watching unfold right now. Now, he wants to buy beef from Argentina, hanging our farmers out to dry. Until the GOP breaks from him on his mission of economic arson, they're #ArgentinaFirst
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 7h
East Wing ballroom construction at the White House "will be near it but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of." - President Trump, July 31, 2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.

And after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam.

And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.

Today it roars once more — at the tyrant in the Oval Office.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6h
Trump suggested that the construction would not affect the existing White House.

“It won’t interfere with the current building. It won’t be,” he said during an executive order signing in July.

Read more here:
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h
Why so embarrassed? 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d
…and Santos is small change compared to the other pardons:
Trump Pardoned Him. Now He Won't Have to Pay Back $660 Million
Trevor Milton and his wife donated $1.8 million to Trump in 2024.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h
Our aging president's tendency to blurt stuff out led to an amazing moment in Egypt as Trump gave a seeming admission of unsavory ties with their dictator, alleged to have given him a $10M bribe

It was a stark reminder of a presidency built on graft. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Did a $10M bribe break the soul of America? | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, an inside look at who really went to “No Kings.”
www.inquirer.com
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4h
A criminal who incited a violent insurrection and brags about running and winning in 2028 and is building a $250 million White House ballroom is a man who doesn't plan on leaving.

Trump is going to stay in office until he dies.

Should be clear to everyone but we normalized it.
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 21h
So.

Trump posts AI video in which he shits on America

Now, Trump tears down part of the White House after promising not to, to make room for one of his tasteless, ugly, gaudy, badly-built white trash crapshacks
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 1d
An image of the Trump-Vance presidency smashing a wrecking ball into the White House to build a monument to Dear Leader—during a government shutdown—captures 2025 pretty well
jonathanreports.bsky.social Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
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erbmike.bsky.social @erbmike.bsky.social · 21h
Just enraging.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 23h
Trump: You get that visual allegory of my second term? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin dystopian just like you asked.
Picture of the demolition of the East Wing.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22h
This is insane. If Obama did this the GOP would impeach
maddow.msnbc.com Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d
omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 22h
The president and his party want the American people to believe that the Republicans – and the Republicans alone – are the real arbiters of reality. They want us to believe that only Republicans have the true authority to define America.

With one voice, more than 7 million Americans said no.
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