also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

This should be a massive scandal

I can confirm the second point Years ago, the former USTR Susan Schwab told us that she and her European counterparts found negotiating with the Chinese frustrating, because their negotiators are empowered to do basically nothing without first relaying it through several layers of the Party

"Governing" is a niche journal that focuses on government. It is impossible to do their job without covering topics that will criticize incumbent officials. The editor was told not to run articles that would set off alarm bells with the Trump administration. So he quit.

I promise this is very funny if you’re a huge dork

Peltola +2 over Sullivan in AK-SEN polling!

Remarkable graph showing how renewable have cut need to important fossil fuels in many countries, improving their budgets and global climate. www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

“.. It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Senator Jeff Merkley just crossed 20 hours in his marathon floor speech on authoritarianism. He began speaking at 6:20pm yesterday.

Everyone who carefully constructed obfuscations in politics over the last hundred years must feel like a real dummy. Actually you can call it The Department of Murder. You can post a video of yourself dumping diarrhea on the public. You can go on TV and say "I am stealing from you lol"

Mike Johnson has not heard anything about the entire East Wing being demolished and cannot speak to that.

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity. "We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes. Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

If you’re too goddamn stupid to do your own oppo knowing you have unsavory shit in your background, you’re not fit for office no matter what your skeletons are.

disgusting to insinuate that I knew or should have known that eating an entire sleeve of pumpkin joe-joes would make my tummy hurt

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

NYT White House desk not beating the Stenography charges.

Enough time has passed that I can definitively say that the “everyone is 12 now” post is THE load bearing post of Bluesky. The hall of famer Bluesky post. It commands respect even from Bluesky skeptics and haters

The Platner stuff reminds me of the Kavanaugh confirmation, because of the sneering at the idea that we should have high standards for a man who wants to be one of the most powerful people in the country.

Important to note that it's New York STATE that brought charges against the J6er that threatened Hakeem Jeffries. Not the DOJ.

Hahahahah Gotta say, I’ve heard some incredible “off the record” jokes over the past 24 hours

A conspiracy theory I have is that people put hot sauces like Tabasco on everything not so much for the pepper as they do for the benefits of adding vinegar to a dish and that’s what they should be focusing on and recognizing. This conspiracy theory has not gotten traction due to “lack of interest”

This is among the most corrupt things a president has ever suggested, and I hope the press treats it that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

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

If it's Washington Times it's a warning or a trial balloon at the very, very least.

lol, lmao even www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Just reading the summary, it seems to say "the rural people have militarily occupied urban centers, how do we win rural people back so they stop violently assaulting us?" And it's like a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social sketch

“We asked ourselves and we all agreed we are innocent”

L’état, c’est moi apnews.com/article/trum...

christ almighty what is this guy doing www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The Maine primary is in what, June? People really wanna die on the unrepentant Nazi tattoo hill instead of, idk, using the next eight months to support somebody else?

Genuinely what an insane image

Kristi Noem is preparing to go to war against America, arming Trump's secret police as if it were an invading army

Has anyone before figured out you can use lawsuit settlements as facially legal bribes or is this a Trump innovation?

NEW: The State of Arizona sues the House of Representatives, demanding that Speaker Mike Johnson seat Adelita Grijalva or that someone else be allowed to swear her in. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

This is… not the way you’d do renovations on a historically significant building. This is vandalism on a huge scale.

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

I think it’s very interesting that Mamdani gets all this fan mail as a mere candidate, yet Wu has been in office for years modeling a more equitable way of governing, has been facing vitriolic detractors and left the GOP Congress stumped as to how to cow her-I feel like no one pays attention but us

Tariff revenues are great for DOJ compensation, I hear. And you don’t even need Congress to do it.

#AZ07 @acyn.bsky.social

god grant me the confidence of a man with a nazi tattoo to run as a democrat for senate

That clampdown on the Pentagon press corps has done wonders. 🤡 @jamiedupree.bsky.social www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

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