Trump on demolishing the East Wing: "After really a tremendous amount of study with some of the best architects in the world, we determined that really knocking it down, trying to use a little section. The East Wing was not much. There was not much left from the original."

This is very good

First thing we do is rip his name off of every federal building anywhere it was placed. Straight into a dumpster.

Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…

Mike Lindell says he only has 5 more days to file an appeal of the defamation case he lost last month, but he only has half the money so he needs people to send him money right away.

well that just about said it all

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Maybe this is obvious to everyone but…why does the White House need a ballroom? It has enough space for state dinners, no? Is this for dances? Weddings? Storing classified documents? Just confused so the reason would be helpful thx

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Our leader has gone completely fucking mad.

oops we don't have a Constitutional republic any more

Well, well, well...

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. We obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. (Published Nov. 2024)

Who could have seen this coming

Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.

Stefanik endorsed, campaigned, and fundraised for George Santos.

Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

If Trump does manage to coerce a settlement out of his loyal DOJ appointees, there’s nothing to indicate it’ll be used to pay anyone but himself.

As a matter of current law, could the president just…knock down the entire White House? Just raze the whole thing to the ground?

Trump on the "fake" Wall Street Journal: "It said I gave Ukraine permission to shoot missiles deep into Russia. I didn't do that."

My god it’s hideous

Trump on China: "We'll make a deal on I think everything. I think we're gonna make a deal on soybeans on the farmers. I think we're gonna make a deal on maybe even nuclear."

He’s just gonna keep going and take down the whole White House, isn’t he

Trump on his new White House ballroom: "In order to do it properly we had to take down the existing structure."

A new poll shows Americans blame Trump and Republicans over Democrats for the shutdown 53%-37%. (Independents blame Trump by a nearly 3-to-1 margin, 58%-21%.). People aren’t dumb.

Trump: "We did the Middle East plus seven, so we did seven different wars. All these wars I did. We have one left. It'll be nine."

Not sure having your brand associated with destroying the White House is the best look

In case you need a refresher on how Fetterman went from being the fave of grassroots progressives to "Trump's favorite Democrat," check out @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social's profile of the senator here:

Lindsey Halligan is a disaster at media, and somehow even worse at the law

oh

What Governor Whitmer has ACCOMPLISHED in Michigan is EXACTLY why we need MORE bad ass Governors like Mickie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger to join her in the fight. These women kick ass and Virginia and New Jersey can vote for them on November 4th!

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

It looks like the new Pentagon press corps has come together.

Awful: Trump's $230 million shakedown from DOJ can be paid to him confidentially at first, without the public ever finding out about it until later, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me. Raskin will formally demand full communications between WH and DOJ on this. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2021...

North Carolina will be sued.

Trump attacks the cattle ranchers and basically says he knows what’s best for them and that they should be grateful for him

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Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Warren: So now Trump wants to give Argentina $40 billion. He talked about how tough things are for the people in Argentina and how hard they’re fighting for their economic survival. Look around America. Look at all the farmers sitting on soybeans they’ve got no buyer for now.

NEW EPISODE: Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to undermine the 2026 elections — filling his administration with election deniers, weaponizing the Justice Department, and attacking the rule of law. Trump’s allies are preparing to control every part of the election process.

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans. (Published July) By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

Common themes

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Trump has believed, since his first term, that the U.S. treasury is his personal piggy bank (as he did with his personal charity). The entire purpose of his presidency is to funnel as much of it as he can to himself and his family

Listen, we can’t send this guy enough of our money. Most trustworthy investment ever.