Shelby Edwards

Quick blocked and already gone...

This is so great! And the winner will be decided by a mixed panel of adult and child judges, a first for a Booker award. The kids get to pick. Young reader me would have died for a chance to do this.

Put this man in prison. This isn't within his official duties, this is just straight up murder. And as a military person--anyone following this order? It's illegal so you best be saying no.

And somebody confront Roberts, ask him how he can live with unleashing this depraved criminal on the nation.

Every single one of those CEOs should be confronted and asked why the paid to destroy the White House.

Come on, this is dishonorable. You're sporting a Nazi tattoo and have been making homophobic posts. This is about a minimum standard of character. Maine can do better.

Ohio National Guard member Sgt. Devon Beck was not amused by this satire. On September 11, 2025, Mr. O’Hara saw Sgt. Beck, along with several other Guard members, walking in uniform in the Logan Circle neighborhood, near the intersection of 14th and R Streets NW. Mr. O’Hara calmly walked behind the Guard members, began playing The Imperial March aloud on his phone, and started recording. In less than two minutes, Sgt. Beck turned around and threatened to call D.C. police officers to “handle” Mr. O’Hara if he persisted. Mr. O’Hara continued recording and playing the music. Sgt. Beck contacted the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Defendant MPD Officers Brown, Campbell, Reyes-Benigno, and Lopez Martinez came to the scene and, in essence, did what Sgt. Beck had threatened, putting Mr. O’Hara in handcuffs and preventing him from continuing his peaceful protest.

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

No.

My locals, bring on the winter. 🌨️

My heartbreaks over every American who trying to justify what's happening to the East Wing or who shrugs it off or is ignoring it. I mean, I know things have gotten twisted but what the hell...

Guys I've been wrong about this before but I think we might have a genuine scandal brewing here with the East Wing stuff

How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.

(Published Dec. 2024)

They are operating without permits and outside the law. Next up their operating license and insurance. Lock the machines.

He's been wanting to do this from the start...doesn't matter that it's a losing game, that the economic hit to the states and the nation would be huge. Nobody wants this save a handful of rich petro-dudes and Trump loving sticking it to these protected places.

The firms doing the demolition aren't handling that site properly for all the hazardous asbestos and lead they're sending up in dust clouds. And they're operating without permits and against the law. Certain they have liability insurance carriers--looking forward to news that they've been cancelled.

Well, well, well...

Tree froggy survived the hedge work! Ever since he moved in, I sorta hold my breath until he sounds off again. The guys work slow enough he can get out of the way, but always have images of his untimely demise. Still haven't seen him.

"The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished" is something no American should ever forget.

That there's no way to prevent it speaks to the utter weakness of our leaders in Congress and at the local level. Clearly, laws were broken. But no one is willing or able to enforce them.

Hell. No.

Really, as a class, these man-boys need to go.

You know how when we were kids the dentist would have a treasure box and you get a prize after your visit? Mine did anyway. They need that for grownups too. Gold stars, stickers, and something silly.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

We just need to come back to our principles...

She's wearing great shoes for the action too...need those.

Excellent image, very helpful. And also, hell no.

"...we are deeply concerned that the massing and height of the proposed new construction will overwhelm the White House itself—it is 55,000 square feet—and may also permanently disrupt the carefully balanced classical design of the White House with its two smaller, and lower, East and West Wings"

Statement in Response to the Proposed Construction of the White House Ballroom | National Trust for Historic Preservation Today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation sent a letter to the National Capital Planning Commission, the National Park Service, and the Commission of Fine Arts regarding proposed constructio...

From The National Trust for Historic Preservation--"We urge...the Administration and the National Park Service to pause demolition until plans for the proposed ballroom go through the legally required public review processes..."
savingplaces.org/press-center...

Senator Merkley from Oregon has been holding the Senate floor for hours and intends to continue through the night.

I keep having this image of thousands and thousands of people in a constantly moving circle of protest around the White House. Even just on the sidewalk, fill the sidewalks, surround him. Dead silent...but maybe bring the deep drums.........

Why haven't we seen the three living Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton, together, on video condemning Trump? For the destruction of the People's house, for deploying troops on American cities, for the rank corruption? This is beyond politics. Say he's gone to far. Say it. And call on Congress.

Social Security is NOT a handout.

It is a benefit earned with every paycheck, and it must be protected and expanded, not cut, privatized, or means-tested.

I do not understand people hanging on to this guy, he just showed up on the scene yesterday and like no Nazi ink isn't exactly a high bar.