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Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 4h

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

This is part of my concern around the focus on who ICE recruits, because while the recruits are not good people, they are also easy targets. The people setting the budget and hopping onto cable news to defend the policies are harder targets, but they’re much more responsible.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1h

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 45m

Laying out pattern pieces and cutting them always takes SO LONG!

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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 48m

My ex MIL used to live in a town so small that just her name and the town name was more than enough to get a letter delivered to her. I love all the different ways people use to direct correspondence to places, and that it generally *works*!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

No, we can’t just agree to disagree on our opinions and live peacefully together when one person’s opinion is that the other can’t live in peace. Everyone already knows this, yet people pretend otherwise when it inconveniences them

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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 2h

File this under “things I didn’t know would make me cry today”

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 3h

Righteous fucking anger.

Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 1d

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2h

Again I dont put much into norms or institutions when issues like poverty exist but a president demolishing much of a publicly owned building in plain sight to build a vanity project funded by bribes during a shutdown as people lose food assistance, troops aren't sure if they'll get paid, etc is bad

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4h

The East Wing is totally gone. I can’t believe it

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 2h

"TRUMP BUILDS BALLROOM WHILE MILLIONS GO HUNGRY"

there you go it's that easy

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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 20h

If anyone wants one of these, I’ll make you one for a mere $750

Closest Ghost @closestghost.bsky.social · 21h

This is a crochet project that takes less than a minute and is so simple that a beginner can do it. The only thing that even comes close to difficult is the clean color change. Rich people pay for labels, not imaginative products.

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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 21h

Oh hey, you were in my neighborhood! *waves*

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 21h

I wrote this mostly as a joke (about the horrendous fucking ballroom) but I actually sincerely think it’s a thing Dems should do, fucking steal my idea you goddamn cowards

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 21h

Listen, you could fucking fundraise off giving small dollar donors a sledgehammer and ten minutes to go wild and you’d fund an entire presidential campaign

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · Jul 9

My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

Newspaper clipping headlined "!2 Boys Rout Fascists." Twelve boys, some of them less than 10 years old, went to Weymouth beach and barracked Mr. Robert Saunders, a Fascist speaker. He ignored them, so they went away and returned with toffee tins half filled with stones. Using the tins as rattles, they made so much noise that Mr. Arthur England, a 63–year–old Weymouth magistrate and superintendent of the beach, approached to stop them. A crowd of holidymakers, sympathising with the children, booed Mr. England, and a sock filled with sand caught behind the ear. In the sand battle that followed the Fascists were pelted off the beach.

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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 21h

I’m tired and I wish someone would bring me a nice dinner here on the couch. They don’t have to choo-choo the spoon train directly into my mouth, but also I might not object

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 21h

Listen, you could fucking fundraise off giving small dollar donors a sledgehammer and ten minutes to go wild and you’d fund an entire presidential campaign

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 2d

Making room for the ballroom.

The white house being blasted by the city destroyer from Independence Day

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 23h

Canada watching the President tear down parts of the White House: “What the fuck, they’re just gonna do it themselves now?”

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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 22h

I’m getting very worried about my future solvency, depending on what happens with health insurance next year, but at least I’m *currently* able to pitch in a little extra to my local food bank

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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 22h

Damn, turns out there’s a lot of things crawling around under that rock

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 2d

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d

ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE re:the horror show demolition of the WH East Wing 🧵
(thx to bsky.app/profile/cali... )

SUMMARY: they rushed through demo during shutdown with zero permits, probably grift for Trump (ofc) but there are two major concerns (beyond obvious horror) & a few actions you can take:

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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · 1d

Update

Follow www.threads.com/@sarah.board...

Email CEO and CLO/GC at National Trust for Historic Preservation (savingplaces.org/executive-team) urging lawsuit

Email
[email protected]
[email protected]

Contact
nps.gov/whho/contacts.htm
whitehouse.gov/contact/
inspections.dob.dc.gov

Contact Us

Share your thoughts with President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

whitehouse.gov

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

None of this is legal! People are choosing to break the law! Other people are choosing not to hold them accountable! What the fuck!!!

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire
East Wing

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

I am going to be sending angry paper letters to all the donors on the Trump list saying "why did you pay to demolish the historic White House East Wing without taxpayer consent?" not because I think this is the most important thing, but...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.

There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.

There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.

There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.

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