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erbmike.bsky.social
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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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That guy’s brain is completely busted.
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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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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.
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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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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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
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.
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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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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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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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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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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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.
wapo.st
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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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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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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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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
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.
wapo.st
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Trump: You get that visual allegory of my second term? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin dystopian just like you asked.
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This is insane. If Obama did this the GOP would impeach
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 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.