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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 50m

They release the guy who survived an illegal US attack because they found no evidence he as committing crime.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1h

Ecuador says no evidence to detain survivor of US strike on suspected drug vessel reut.rs/48GiDmO

Ecuador says no evidence to detain survivor of US strike on suspected drug vessel

Ecuador's prosecutor's office said on Monday it would not detain the Ecuadorean survivor of a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean.

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 1h

republicans: it’s inappropriate to call your political opponents nazis

republicans in group chats: hey guys jim “the nazi” hitler here and yes i do have the mustache

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2h

Trump carrying on the effort of Major General Robert Ross the British officer who torched the White House in war of 1812

NPR @npr.org · 3h

Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2

The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom

Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2h

from the cover of Time magazine blaring HIS TRIUMPH to this in a week

NYT Breaking News
American officials said they were increasingly concerned that Benjamin Netanyahu could dismantle the Gaza peace deal.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

these are a different set of republican racist texts than the previous set of republican racist and nazi texts

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h

So the dealbreaker is admitting you’re a Nazi

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Republicans set to reject Trump nominee Ingrassia after offensive texts

His confirmation to lead the Office of Special Counsel was already set to be rocky after previous allegations of sexual harassment.

www.semafor.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

just a reminder that there were people of the time — and of the same class and station — who saw this stuff and thought, "yeah this is bullshit"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3h

Bruh

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 5h

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5h

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

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

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

This shows in so many ways Halligan is unsuited to be United States Dogcatcher, let alone United States Attorney. She writes a reporter whining about reporting but not offering any actionable specific things the reporter got wrong. There's NO WAY that helps anything.
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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Lindsey Halligan is a fucking moron.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 5h

I just voted NO on the Republican funding bill.

Just like the last ten (10!!) times we voted on this exact same bill, it includes absolutely NOTHING to save health care tax credits that millions of Americans rely on.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 6h

Rx is so fucked up in the US. List medicine price is $1200, but then the pharmacist happens to find a magic coupon for you, and suddenly it's $25.

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 6h

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

"sir a second Nazi groupchat infodump has hit Politico"

President George W. Bush being informed about the second plane reaction jpg

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 6h

If a D is ever elected POTUS, razing the Trump ballroom and restoring the White House to pre-Trump status is non-negotiable.

You have to tear down the physical manifestations of authoritarianism.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 9h

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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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

That’s right AI is ushering in the wonderful age of human utopia: working 72 hours a week for a pervert

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h

The grind culture that birthed many Big Tech companies from Google to Amazon is back.

As the AI race heats up, startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996,” or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.

Why these companies insist on a 72-hour work week

Start-ups are promoting hardcore cultures such as “996,” meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week, as they race to compete in AI.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: In Minneapolis, Soren Stevenson lost an eye from a police officer throwing a projectile during the BLM protests. Now he's running for a seat on the city council.

And what's interesting is how he says he intends to keep police violence in the spotlight—and not let it go into backseat.

As Minneapolis Votes, Some Struggle to Keep Police Violence in the Spotlight - Bolts

Five years after George Floyd, the mayor and his allies on city council claim credit for vast improvements, but critics keep pressing the case for more discipline and police alternatives.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10h

"liberals lack a theory of change" is one of the things that gets me every time. like what's the leftist theory of change. how is its track record. what number general strike, seizure of the means of production, workers' revolution are we on.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 9h

The article also argues, in a way intended to make you think these designations were widely accepted at the time, that JFK and Obama and Clinton were all moderates.

Buddy, I was alive in 2007 and 2008. In neither the primary nor the GE was Obama regarded as a distinctly moderate figure.

Sophistry.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 9h

Do they define what moderate is? No. They consider both Tammy Baldwin and Joe Manchin moderates. Do they define what unpopular issues Democrats need to move away from? Also no.

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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 8h

I would posit that the reason so many people are shocked by the image of the White House being demolished is because it shows that Trump views it 1) entirely as his property and 2) that he doesn't really expect anybody else to live there.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 8h

This is fucking wild.

Trump can just divert resources for whatever reason and then claim it's a "drain on resources" in order to call the National Guard.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

The majority finds that Trump was justified not just because of the threats (and also says Judge Immergut committed clear error by characterizing protests in September as mostly peaceful), but also because the deployment of FPS officers to Portland was a major drain on resources.

Moreover, § 12406(3) cannot be analyzed solely based on external protests
and violence. We must also consider the executive’s internal assessment of its
ability to enforce the laws. The record reflects that 115 FPS officers—nearly 25%
of FPS officers nationwide—were diverted to Portland. The President may
reasonably rely on this evidence in determining whether he is unable to execute the
law.
12 The dissent only reaches a different conclusion by characterizing this
evidence as “staffing difficulties” and committing the same error as the district court
in discounting, minimizing, and discrediting Defendants’ undisputed evidence on
this point

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 8h

Insane. Tearing down the White House without legal authorization in order to build a palace ballroom for himself. It will of course need to be demolished.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 9h

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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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 8h

Experts disagreed on whether portions of the facade of the White House were literally being torn down by an excavator. A spokesperson for Just Rip It To Shreds With A Fucking Excavator, a nonpartisan environmental policy think-tank, said that the photographs were “unconvincing Marxist propaganda”.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 9h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 9h

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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