“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

I grew up with kids fed by SNAP. In 4th grade, I stayed with a friend...woke up to snow covering our blanket, blown in through cracks in the wall. That’s what poverty looks like. And now Trump’s people want to cut that lifeline. Fuck Trump and every suit who thinks that’s leadership.

“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries. Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...

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I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

A family member in Portland Oregon died unexpectedly and left behind a 2 year old husky who is currently on a 5 day hold in a shelter while I try to figure out a way to get her to me here in Portland Maine so that I can adopt her...without it costing All the Money. Anyone have any ideas?

I think it’s actually okay to be upset about the White House and it doesn’t have to mean that you don’t care about any of the other horrible and corrupt and destructive things this administration’s doing. I think it would really suck to bully ourselves into not being angry about this too

The sooner folks come to understand that the law no longer constrains him the better.

Why aren’t elected Dems publicly telling Trump that they’re going to raze the ballroom the minute the next D is elected? He would lose his shit.

Republican senators have lost all autonomy and are no more than Trump’s puppets. Don’t mistake them for democratic leaders. Listen to Stuart Stevens on MSNBC

I will vote for the Dem in 2028 who vows to put the WH back the way it was. Literally.

Struck me at the end of Trump's first term, post-impeachment, that even when he got bipartisan support (like for CARES) he didn't invite Dems to the bill signing. I think about this bc there's a kneejerk political media instinct to ask Dems how they'll unify the country and it's getting very silly.

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"

People abducted off the streets, children in zip ties, prices shooting through the roof, fishermen murdered by air strikes, unbridled corruption, alliances destroyed, the White House itself being demolished…but Kamala Harris laughed too much or something./s

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

Oh yeah, I’m sure if Pres. Obama or Pres. Biden had torn down the entire East Wing of the White House for any reason, Republicans and conservatives would be very chill about it. Sure, bud. Whatever helps you work through your cognitive dissonance.

I know those of you with red reps have mostly given up because no amount of logic or pleading will make them do the right thing, but they really need to hear from you again. Let them know how you feel about Trump paying himself to profit from his crimes, and also about the destruction of the WH.

"The United States is now the proud owner of $20 billion in increasingly worthless Argentinian currency. America First, baby!" www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-cry-f...

Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that

NEW: California Gov. Gavin Newsom just announced that he'll deploy the California National Guard and California Volunteers "on a humanitarian mission to support food banks as the federal government shutdown delays food benefits for millions of California families."

Trump’s construction of the Epstein Ballroom continues today. Can only imagine he’ll be renting it out for many junior proms.

I, on the other hand, am not so pretty with the words & all I have to say is this - When that fucker is dead, Americans need to pull down every single building he ever built, & ban his family from ever building anything. The Trump name is a disgrace & everything that bears his stupid, obscene, name.

The East Wing Obscenity This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

I think the photo of the White House demolition is going to matter in a way that words could not. Some images--Napalm Girl, Kent State--really crystalize the state of things.

Stop saying “renovation.” Better words: Desecration Violation Demolition Destruction Retribution Vanity-wrecking-ball

Tiny criminal, photographed this morning. She jumped in the plant and promptly got digging zoomies.

Every Democratic election ad should be "A vote for [Republican candidate] is a vote for this [picture of White House demolition]

"Trump is tearing down the White House." Hit that. It's not exactly true, but it's not lie. You have the photos. Poll it. The poll is not the point, of course.

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

uh ... guided missile warheads?

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress could stop this nonsense from the president at any time. Literally any minute they wanted to.

Seems like the week for this.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

people voted for a guy who in the last couple of days posted a video fantasy of himself shitting on americans, torn down the fucking east wing, and declared that the treasury has to pay him $230 million for reasons. And Lemon, it's Tuesday.

Jeffrey, I believe he has a Nazi tattoo which means at some point in his life he was enamored enough by Nazi ideas to permanently ink a Nazi symbol on his skin. I also believe voters deserve better. Not perfect. Better. There are thousands of eligible Mainers without Nazi tattoos.

Jim Acosta (my guest on today’s podcast) asks: “So any president can just start destroying portions of the White House? Is that how this works?” The answer appears to be: Yeah. He can enshittify it down anytime he likes. The symbolism. It burns. charliesykes.substack.com/p/vandalizin...

Put this picture in a billion 2026 ads

“Hello, is this the Way Too On The Nose Symbolism Department? Great! I need a really, really on the nose image to represent US politics…”

Amazon enjoys an estimated $11 BILLION in state and local subsidies, largely based on expectations of job creation. Leaked documents show Amazon is working to automate 75% of the companies operations, eliminating 600,000 workers.

Reminder that we have a rogue president who disregards his oath of office, is an enemy of the Constitution, orders the murder of foreign nationals, and has partially demolished the White House.

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.   During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

Nope, you cant make us. We have a 1st amendment right to post our images. Treasury just asking for new lawsuits. Openly. #whitehouse

"That divine kingship is not manifested in the physical world around us, whether that be a heavily-gilded Oval Office or arguments over human-made laws or the crowns worn by monarchs all over the world or the loud declarations of any aspiring tyrants."

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.

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No. I think it would be better for senior commanders (four-stars) to go to Trump and say: If you give this order, we won't do it and we'll resign publicly.