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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

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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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 1h

Trump is stealing cash from taxpayers who are falling behind on car and house payments, struggling to buy food, rationing medications, and going into debt to keep up with normal expenses.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

NEW: Trump is going to steal $230M in taxpayer dollars by having his DOJ pay him a settlement for his legal trouble. Watch. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 8h

Interesting choice of photos here, given that the ones who are struggling the most right now struggle to afford non-organically grown food www.theguardian.com/business/202...

75% of Americans report soaring prices as Trump claims inflation ‘over’

Exclusive poll: Inflation remains a concern despite president’s pledge to reduce prices on ‘day one’

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h

Real talk…

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 8h

You don't say. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Fox News host Laura Ingraham joins business venture with Donald Trump Jr

Host often criticized Hunter Biden’s business on her show and said he capitalized on his father’s presidency for deals

www.theguardian.com

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 9h

Trump claimed his new 'ballroom' would not “interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it and pays total respect to the existing building." Instead, Trump stood by and watched as East Wing was demolished. He COULD have intervened. Instead, Trump stood and watched.

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 9h

Hey Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Palantir and Lockheed Martin. If you contributed to Trump's monstrous ballroom, you've got blood of patriots on your hands. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

White House’s East Wing partially demolished as work begins on Trump’s $250m ballroom

Ex-congressman calls major renovation ‘utter desecration’ as demolition in East Wing reportedly under way

www.theguardian.com

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 9h

If it were only so simple.

Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 9h

Hop to it, people!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.

But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop

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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 9h

COPS: Pardoned J6 Rioter Threatened To Kill Jeffries - Joe.My.God.

CBS News reports: A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Court documents obtained by CBS News said Christopher Moy...

www.joemygod.com

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 9h

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 20h

Hear, Hear!

𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. So The White House
is designated a National Historic Landmark.

That means:

It’s formally recognized as having exceptional national historical significance.

Any substantial changes, demolitions, or new construction affecting it are tightly restricted.

It’s not his house! WTF.

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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. So The White House
is designated a National Historic Landmark.

That means:

It’s formally recognized as having exceptional national historical significance.

Any substantial changes, demolitions, or new construction affecting it are tightly restricted.

It’s not his house! WTF.

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 1d

If one truly wants to see how far down the road of totalitarianism we have already gone, just scroll the Dep't of Homeland Security's Facebook page. It is the most Orwellian stuff I have ever seen, never thought I would see in America.

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 20h

Changes are supposed to be approved by a committee. They were not submitted to committee, nor was the paving of the Rose Garden. He thinks the People's House belongs to him.

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 22h

Me, too. He not only lacks any appreciation of our history or what the White House represents, he cares not that The People's House belongs to all of us.

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Call me Rick. @potusbumblephuq.bsky.social · 22h

This infuriates me.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

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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Dan and a half @heretowhere.bsky.social · 1d

What if everyone just decided to wear masks and jackets that say “ICE” on it? Maybe prompting the actual agents to properly identify themselves but also maybe because it would be funny.

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Scarecasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 23h

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

> @reuters.com

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 22h

RFK Jr. is erroneously claiming girls are entering puberty six years early. www.readfrontier.org/stories/we-f...

We fact-checked Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims as part of the ‘Make Oklahoma Healthy Again’ campaign

The U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary made half-true or false statements about fluoride in public drinking water, Alzheimer's disease, autism and puberty during his visit to Oklahoma.

www.readfrontier.org

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