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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 21m

The ballroom, now an Arlington monument: I never realized Albert Speer’s firm was still in business.

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 36m

Jesus Christ.

A model on President Trump’s desk showing a new monument across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial was photographed on Thursday during a meeting in the Oval Office with Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb.

The model arch had been placed on a map showing it and the Lincoln Memorial, with the Potomac separating the pair. A larger model of the arch, featuring a golden winged angel and two white eagles, was next to the map on the desk.

According to the AFP news agency, the model, which resembled the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, was “virtually identical” to a design shared in the ‘Donald Trump for President’ Facebook page in September. The Facebook page suggested the monument could be built to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, which takes place in 2026.

A plan for an arch across from the Lincoln Memorial is seen on the Resolute Desk as US President Donald Trump meets with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 9, 2025 (main) with a depiction of the arch produced by architecture firm Harrison Design (insert).

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Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 2h

Fuck off, Nazi freak.

Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 3h

Eat shit, you fucking aggro weirdo.

Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 5h

Fluffing?

Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 5h

For a fake peace plan.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h

Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 5h

Stalkery and rapey is no way to go through life.

Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 5h

That's stalkery and rapey. And harassment.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

One way of thinking about the Trump administration is that the worst people in American government are pushing out the best people in American government
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Their interview, described in a federal lawsuit filed last week by Mr. Driscoll and two other recently fired senior FBI officials, began with benign questions about the gravest threats to the nation and possible adjustments to the FBI's structure, but then took a swerve: Who had Mr. Driscoll voted for? When did he start supporting President Donald J. Trump? And had he voted for a Democrat in the past five elections? He declined to answer those three, noting to the 29-year-old attorney and former podcaster that the questions were inappropriate and potentially violative of the Hatch Act.

Mr. Ingrassia asked another question that would in the ensuing weeks take on greater significance: Did Mr. Driscoll think the FBI agents who had "stormed" Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 should be held accountable? Mr. Driscoll said no, since they had been executing legal search warrants.

Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 5h

That's stalkery and rapey.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 8h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 6h

"Antifa member" isn't a real thing and the TPUSA fascist goons know that.

Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 1d

Perfectly on brand.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 1d

Typical, going forward.

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Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure it's the guy who took over the op ed section. Sounds like immature, bullshit writing and reasoning, which tracks.

Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 1d

Who is the blocked qt from?

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Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 1d

Strong "Dems made Trump be a Nazi" energy.

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Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 1d

Consider the (compromised) source.

Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 1d

This is running cover for fascist criminals via the "you made us be Nazis" excuse. The Bezos Effect is in full force.

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Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 1d

And they're Nazis.

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Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 1d

It's not irresponsible, it's their new mission under Bezos.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 1d

Dull, dumb, and reliably fascist. That's our Megan!

Michael Clyne @thenoteheleft.bsky.social · 1d

Fascist so dumb she needs a crib sheet.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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