🧵Let's talk about the obvious: Where in the fuck did all the historic artwork and priceless furnishings go, including the gold leaf Steinway piano that was presented to FDR from the Steinway family? Did Trump steal all this when he demolished the East Wing? Why aren't Dems demanding to know?

Yikes

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We had a DANCING MAILBOX PARTY during Creative Portland's First Friday Art Walk on October 3rd and it was a blast! Enjoy the video and VOTE NO on Question 1! #NOon1 #SaveMaineAbsenteeVoting #VotingRights #NOVoterSuppression #rocktheVOTE #yourvotecounts @lwvme.bsky.social

Hey Maine lobstermen and lobsterwomen, if Trump succeeds in opening up the East Coast near Maine to offshore drilling if there’s a spill, you can kiss your industry bye-bye. #MePolitics

Is there any group this guy didn’t feel superior to and feel that it’s a OK to denigrate? (and no, these are not comments made way back when when he was a baby soldier) Time to end this travesty. #MePolitics www.advocate.com/politics/gra...

Am I wrong? Isn’t there a bunker somewhere under the East Wing? How have they kept the communications, ventilation, water, and electricity secure given the large scale demolition above?

It’s fascinating that these pictures cause me a visceral reaction. I feel sick to my stomach when I see them tearing down the east wing of the White House.

I am going to leave the Platner thing alone soon I swear, once I'm done being disappointed at people for whom "no literal Nazi tattoos" is a bridge too far, but I want to point out something is off here about his statements and I think this might be another lie. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The advantage of supporting people who hold or who have held prior elected office is that they can’t just “disappear”. Their record as officeholders show how they react to winning to losing to criticism to praise and how they react to being under pressure. Graham has no such track record.

Amazingly disappointing, but true, no one talks about the #1 issue anymore…

Wells Police Department cancels contract with ICE mainemorningstar.com/briefs/wells...

Photos obtained exclusively by Law Dork on Tuesday show that President Donald Trump is completely demolishing the East Wing of the White House as part of his stated plan to build a ballroom befitting his standards on the White House grounds. NEW: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-demo...

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I bet a candidate could do well with “yeah, I said some awful things online when I was younger, but I see why it was wrong, and I’m familiar with extremist spaces online, how young men get radicalized by them, and what we can do about it.” Less good is “it’s wrong of you to care about what I said.”

Sounds about right.

Buh-bye

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

Let's check in on what the paramilitary secret police are up to...shooting other federal law enforcement it appears.

He knew it was a Totenkopf all along and yet didn’t have it removed or covered.

“He doesn’t take a paycheck”

Via @newyorker.com

Family is usually are the first to know when things are about to go really really wrong when people who shouldn’t have guns go off the rails. Thankfully, this family called.

Oh to all you contractors do you really think you’re gonna get actually paid to do work on this project?

Fascinating that someone who says that he is a student, a very devoted student of history, would not know the symbol used by those who ran the death camps and the SS Waffen

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Don’t let anyone tell you that a certain tattoo could’ve been (mistakenly) thought of as ‘merely’ a Croatian or Ustasa rather than a Nazi symbol Ustasa (Croatia’s home grown fascists) were allied with Nazi Germany, slaughtered tens of thousand of Gypsies, Jews, and Serbs with exceptional brutality

Poland won't guarantee passage to Vladimir Putin's plane en route to Budapest. "I cannot guarantee that an independent Polish court won't order the government to escort such an aircraft down to hand the suspect to the court in The Hague," Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.

Mike Michaud is political legend in #ME02 - a classic FDR Dem who based his politics around helping working class/labor and underdogs. Canvassed w his team back in the day. This is a meaningful endorsement imho for Dunlap. ht @collinswatch.bsky.social #mepolitics

we're not talking about a generic skull and crossbones tattoo here - Graham Platner's tattoo appears to be a straight-up 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf. not subtle! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_SS_...

Fantastic News: Mike Michaud endorses Matt Dunlap. #mepolitics www.midcoastvillager.com/news/politic...

Southern Mainers: Longfellow Books and Mechanics Hall are hosting the (world premier) launch event for Nations Apart the evening of Nov. 3 in Portland. Ticket proceeds benefit them (and/or get you a book.) Alison Beyea from Colby's Goldfarb Center moderates. mechanicshallmaine.org/events/colin...

You know if I found out that I had a tattoo that was a symbol used by very notorious Nazi SS groups, I might, now hear me out, RUN, not walk to the nearest tattoo removal practitioner. But that’s me. #MePolitics

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.

"The 1.5-mile run, in particular, has toppled more trainees than any other requirement, two officials said." Democrats need to propose a bill that requires ICE agents to run 2 miles. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

so that was money well spent then, hey? america firrrrst! "The Argentine peso has fallen below the level it reached before the US Treasury began purchases this month, in a sign that the Trump administration’s financial support is failing to halt the currency’s slide..." www.ft.com/content/815e...

Do you think the GOP will take any notice if he starts building a moat?

Hey Senator Susan Collins did your committee appropriate the funds for this? No, you did not what the F are you doing there anyway?

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Regarding Chellie Pingree: #mepolitics

Susan Collins could hold hearings on this (or a hundred other things). She could subpoena administration officials and if they failed to comply she could put a 'hold' on nominations or simply vote against Trump nominees. She continues to do none of these thing and no one asks her why. #MEpolitics

FAFO

You may ask, why does it matter what somebody wrote years ago? In the absence of a legislative or executive branch record or even an advocacy record all we have to go to predict future performance on policy issues is is by reading previous writings. #Mepolitics

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets

If you knew someone really preferred those imperialistic colonizer wars such as Indian wars, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Haiti over those ‘big’ wars involving existential threats to freedom and democracy (WWII or Civil War), what would YOU think of them? #MePolitics

it's also particularly telling that when given the chance to volunteer for historical wars, thus knowing how they were fought and how they turned out, he does not volunteer for fighting Rebels or Nazis