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TheGreat_Kramer1™️🏁 @thegreatkramer.bsky.social · 8h

The follow up is the real kicker.

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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 8h

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Gingerbird🦉 @gingerbird.bsky.social · 4h

a black and white photo of a woman saying `` see what i mean ? not very bright '' .

ALT: a black and white photo of a woman saying `` see what i mean ? not very bright '' .

media.tenor.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Literally

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WE ARE FED UP! @val.sheshed.rocks · 8h

Happy Birthday @kamalaharris! The truth you spoke and the warnings you gave are now our reality. We will not give up the fight but are here to win our country back! Thank you for all you’ve done and continue to do for the American people.
#Pinks #SheShed

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Overstaying its welcome. Making New Yorkers’ days grimmer. Something we should relegate to the past.

No, we're not talking about Andrew Cuomo. We're talking about scaffolding.

Today we released our plan to take it down more quickly.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 7h

Motherfucker is shitting on people and tearing the White House down hoping we’ll forget about the Epstein files.

Bitch, we didn’t forget.

Tick tock.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 7h

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 7h

“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.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

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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Gingerbird🦉 @gingerbird.bsky.social · 4h

That’s the idea!🙄

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 7h

Whoever made this sign is my new hero.
Also, bahahaha...🤭😅🤣

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 7h

It’s so fucked up.
substack.com/@logicallyjc...

The People’s House Is Becoming a Party House

The East Wing of the White House is being torn down to make room for a ballroom.

substack.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7h

This is insane. If Obama did this the GOP would impeach

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 10h

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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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Biden has finished several weeks of radiation therapy treatment Monday at Penn Medicine Radiation Oncology in Philadelphia. A very positive sign for the former president and amazing human being.

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 6h

Every. Day.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Raskin: I heard speaker Mike Johnson refer to a hate America rally, but that one already happened on January 6th, 2021

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Gingerbird🦉 @gingerbird.bsky.social · 8h

Well, elections have consequences.

a woman in a suit stands in front of a microphone and looks at the camera

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 9h

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 9h

Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

Trump using a Chinese* excavator to destroy the White House is a bit on the nose as metaphors go.

*Volvo is owned by Geely Holding, a Chinese company.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

NEW: Comey has filed his motion to dismiss based on the unlawful appointment of Lindsay Halligan. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

NEW: In addition to his motion to dismiss based on the unlawful appointment of Lindsay Halligan, Mr. Comey has also filed a motion to dismiss the charges on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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