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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 10h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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cherfan75.bsky.social @cherfan75.bsky.social · 4h

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

christ almighty what is this guy doing

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16h

I’m disgusted by the photos of Ttump’s demolition at the East Wing, but I’m even more sickened by the renderings of his mar-a-lago ballroom dwarfing our White House. Once we’re rid of this despicable man, that ballroom must also be removed.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 3h

If the GOP had ANY shred of decency, Trump's crime spree in public life would have ended immediately with the revelation of the recording of his attempt to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" 11,780 votes.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

Justice Department Scrutinizes a Trip Fani Willis Took to the Bahamas

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

Since @jkbjournalist.bsky.social hasn't posted this here yet:
"Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with, a former top Florida prosecutor who worked on his sweetheart plea deal, new docs show." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show

Matthew Menchel, who spearheaded Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 criminal prosecution, left the DOJ in 2008 to take a job as a trial lawyer at Kobre & Kim. Epstein’s calendars show Menchel met with Epstein in ...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

Full report here at Law Dork, with an additional new photo and more background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-demo...

Exclusive: Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing is nearly complete

Photos obtained by Law Dork show the dramatic extent of the first step in Trump's purported plan to build a new ballroom on White House grounds with private funds.

www.lawdork.com

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Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 7h

Goldman should have stuck to the legal sphere. Crap political savvy.

Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 7h

In the movie version, there's an ancient Piscataway burial ground.

Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 7h

Next-level karma?

Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 7h

Grift shop?

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Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 7h

I have a head start on the socially appropriate activity for that space.

Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 7h

So pretty

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Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 7h

One and done, he was hoping to do better than Don and Eric.

Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 7h

No names.

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 10h

Photo of the White House being destroyed in the shape of an outline of the USA.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

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Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 10h

I wonder how many ICE agents used to appear to arrest one guy before ICE became a full-employment-for-J6ers program.

Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 10h

His estate needs to be expropriated and all the money from dodgy deals done by the kids and in-laws, including Tiffany's.

Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 11h

The ugly one.

Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 11h

🎉 to the expert

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ct @cteeze-nuts.bsky.social · 13h

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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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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Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦 @spacely.bsky.social · 11h

And the ones who just reflexively voted for the opposite party of the sitting president because eggs were expensive.

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