If a D is ever elected POTUS, razing the Trump ballroom and restoring the White House to pre-Trump status is non-negotiable. You have to tear down the physical manifestations of authoritarianism.

omg! "Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House... "Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is genuinely gut-wrenching. Anyone associated w this structure knows the endless ranks of people, over the decades, who have treated the structure and surroundings w respect—since they were symbols for traditions of America as a whole Too apt a metaphor for Trump and US institutions overall

TRUMP IS LITERALLY DEMOLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE TO BUILD HIMSELF A PALACE

The Office of Special Counsel investigates discrimination claims. This is the person Trump nominated to lead the agency. Disgraceful. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Seeing the White House torn apart is really emblematic of the times we’re in

The White House is a public building and a National Park, maintained by the National Park Service. The President is a tenant. He has zero authority to tear up this building.

We had new windows installed today and our guys showed a lot more care and concern for the rest of the house than whoever is slapdashing this godforsaken shit.

In a social media world images do really matter - and for a Trump team that has always been obsessed with winning the image war, they are sure giving up a lot of ground lately. But anyway congrats to Democratic ad makers for the next 12 months having this one in your pocket.

So it's too expensive to extend health care tax credits that millions of families rely on but not too expensive to spend $200 million on private jets for Kristi Noem? These corrupt grifters are robbing taxpayers blind.

With this poll there are now recent polls showing Dem leads in AK, ME, NC and OH Senate races. The Senate appears to be in play. bsky.app/profile/poll...

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Just another innocent kid in his 30s ....

“But today’s decision is not merely absurd,” she wrote. “It erodes core constitutional principles, including sovereign States’ control over their States’ militias and the people’s First Amendment rights to assemble and to object to the government’s policies and actions.”

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

There’s a limit to the “imagine if Obama” retort but Christ on a cracker the man is *literally* demolishing the White House!

An essential feature of authoritarianism is that the leader - not courts - decides who is guilty and who is not. Santos - who Trump said is getting a commutation bc he “votes Republican” - is the 10th high profile loyalist to get a pardon or clemency. We cannot accept this.

And that's why we're making sure sick people can't afford healthcare. That's what Jesus would do

"Kristi Noem was already a controversial figure. Then her agency spent $174 million to buy two private jets for her, at taxpayer expense..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago. The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump. zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

Democracy in action, Illinois. Proud of our state for peacefully showing up and speaking out together in one voice to fight back against Donald Trump’s takeover of our democracy.

appreciate the adams to mamdani voters

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Boise!

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

The Tesla Model 3 is so poorly made that it's skewing the fail rate for the entire EV segment #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

NY Republican Congressman Nick LaLota, who voted to expel George Santos 👇

this is from the SAME GAME. shohei ohtani the greatest to ever do it.

"They're lying about the protests... They're trying to deter people from showing up, but it's had the opposite effect." No Thrones! No Crowns! #NoKings! Peaceful protest tomorrow! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

Reminder: Ed Martin, Trump's US Pardon attorney (R) and George Santos, whose sentence he just helped commute (L) were both speakers at the Stop the Steal rally the day before the Jan 6 Capitol attack. The next day, they both sat in the VIP section at Trump's Ellipse rally. 1/

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

Shorter Mike Johnson: Beating up a woman isn’t “really serious.”

Trump kills funding previously appropriated by Congress for one of the most important infrastructure projects in the country because it involves NY and NJ, while Republicans ask for Dem votes on future government funding while refusing to talk to Dems about it.

In fact, the “Young Republicans”group extends to age 40 There is NOTHING Republicans won’t try to gaslight us about

so we have to have kings for capitalism now wtf I thought we had this sorted

MAGA Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "The economy was weaker in the first half of the year versus where it was last year ... the labor market has clearly weakened somewhat over the course of the year."

Wait one damn minute‼️ I know Lisa Murkowski isn’t up on her high horse talking about the lack of trust between Republicans and Democrats after she cast the deciding “Yes” on the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill and slipped in backroom deals for Alaska. She’s part of the problem & needs to own it!

Huh. Why.

A precondition for Republics to transition to autocracies is the politicization of the military. It is why the political & military leaders of the country have been so vigilant to keep partisanship away from it. But this admin is dismantling that concept. www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

GOP Speaker Johnson refusing to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva despite winning her election 2 weeks ago with 70% of the vote is a practice run for what GOP plans to do after 2026 election. They will not seat Democrats who won to keep control of the House. Dems need to fight hard on this now!

ICE raided a building in Chicago-using Blackhawk helicopters and flash bang grenades Destroying people’s homes-including US citizens-before dragging them out Detaining children in zip ties Arresting 37 based on Stephen Miller’s lies All for 1 person who is allegedly connected to Tren de Agua