Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

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“[T]here’s a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing, and it was just destroyed without any conversation in the American public, without any consent of Congress. It was absolutely illegal…. [T]hat visual is powerful because …”

How can anyone make the MAGA crowd understand that he’s stealing millions of their tax dollars at the same time his GOP Congress is making their healthcare impossible to afford? If only you could take over Fox News for one day …

“[H]ow do you top ordering your appointees to cut you a check for $230 million taxpayer dollars…. What thing can be more unimaginable and beyond belief than the president just saying, Cut me a check for a quarter billion dollars?” (cont.)

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were. The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

You can’t call it a ballroom if it’s not meant for ballroom dancing. I saw the sketch. It’s a dining hall.

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These are the organizations that are bulldozing the White House.

Alphabet Altria Amazon Apple Blackstone Booz Allen Hamilton Carrier Caterpillar Coinbase Comcast Google Hard Rock International HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Meta Microsoft New York Jets OpenAI Palantir Reynolds American Ripple Roblox T-Mobile Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tether Union Pacific Railroad

Many people are saying the Republicans shut down the government to bulldoze the White House without permission and build the Epstein ballroom.

A man who can barely walk does not need a ballroom

I came here to talk about The Epstein Ballroom.

It is incredibly difficult to get folks to understand that there are literally 20-30 people in DC who could end all of this tomorrow, & all of them are Republicans in Congress, & no one in the National Conversation seems interested in paying attention to that.

Shouldn’t you be required to demonstrate publicly your ballroom dancing skills before you’re allowed to build a ballroom?

This is not a legally difficult question. You can't tear down part of a building just because you reside in it if you don't own the building. Even if you pay to tear it down you can't do that.

All of those reports saying the facade was demolished but well. Nope. That’s the building.

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

Started / Going Every part of me is nauseated.

We can reframe this in amusing ways

We currently have a president who is so childishly crude and grotesque that newspapers consider it indecent to accurately describe the video he recently posted, and TV shows think it is indecent to show it. But many Americans are OK that the Oval Office is home to the nation's crassest toddler.

This AWS Outage is proving it may not be the best idea for us to rely on a few tech monopolies and their billionaire founders to control the core infrastructure of the internet. While it’s top of mind, cancel your Amazon Prime. Let’s kick em’ while they’re down, literally.

It is my understanding that a new meme shows us that Donald Trump produces so much fecal material every day that it is necessary for him to dump it out of an airplane. (Don’t repost the meme. Just make fun of it!)

You know the shutdown headline on Page One these days should just be a highlight box that says, “Government still shut down. Republicans refuse to protect healthcare for millions. Details on page 12.”

Top story when you go to The Guardian this AM. Which it is not when you go to the Washington Post or the NY Times. Apt language here, whereas WaPo describes the day as an airing of grievances as though we are a bunch of whining George Costanzas, not a vast public fearful of losing everything.

It is my understanding that a new meme shows us that Donald Trump produces so much fecal material every day that it is necessary for him to dump it out of an airplane. (Don’t repost the meme. Just make fun of it!)

It took three big manly men cops to subdue and arrest this 53-year-old woman wearing an inflatable penis costume at a No Kings protest — she was rocking the slogan “No dick-taters!”

Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them: MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING. This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.

Thread, very helpful for appreciating peaceful protests 🧵

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

What surprised me at my local #nokings protest today: So many American flags! Not upside-down. Not burning. Not altered with embedded symbols of any kind. People came out FOR America. Against authoritarianism. Against kleptocracy. Against lawlessness.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Congrats to every Republican who warned about the massively dangerous pro-terrorist “I Hate America” rallies who now gets to see their words featured in a Daily Show montage with images of sweet little grandmothers waving little American flags

Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the Dept. of Education would eliminate the team that helps families navigate their children’s special education rights, and ensure their kids receive the services they need. An education policy researcher explains how this will affect children:

BREAKING Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show Full Story: bit.ly/4nVTRUe

Trump's big IVF announcement is a retreat from his campaign promise. It doesn't make IVF available for all. 1. Employers don't have to offer the "fertility benefit" it creates 2. The benefit doesn't have to cover IVF 3. It could cover the conservative alternatives criticized by mainstream med

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Thinking about the MAGA parents of special needs children who can’t leech off the rest of us by taking vouchers because the charter schools won’t accommodate special needs children and now the GOP is gunning for special needs education funding

“The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union … “… the forced collectivization of agriculture … [and] a massive investment in heavy industry decreased the agricultural workforce.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Drugstore chain sends me a text saying I can get $4 off $60 in purchases. Hello? That’s not even 10%, you morons.

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education