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Trump administration plans to demolish White House's entire East Wing as ballroom cost grows to $300 million The Trump administration is planning to demolish the entirety of the White House's East Wing as early as this weekend, two senior administration officials said, part of a ballroom project championed b...

Talk about burying the lede: “The bunker under the East Wing will also be upgraded, sources told CBS News. The White House Military Office is handling the renovation of the bunker, which is known as the President's Emergency Operations Center.” 10/22/25 www.cbsnews.com/news/demolis...

I’m pretty sure Stephen Miller would steal a lifejacket from a toddler.

Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

Phone numbers for NJ congress members. DM for specific number.

Today's task:
Tell your Reps to file a motion to vacate the chair in the House.
Johnson has refused to do his job.
The motion can be filed by any Representative.
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How Speaker Mike Johnson succeeded where Trump's coup-inspired January 6 insurrection failed | Milwaukee Independent

Is it a coup? Feels like it. Really good reporting here. www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartman...

Everything is so stupid

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Fire survivors: What’s most important to you as LA rebuilds? Financial support? Fireproofing? Utilities?

Engaged California is inviting anyone who has been impacted to help create an action plan for the future.

Your voice. Your community. You help decide.

Sign up now: engaged.ca.gov/fires

Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.

It’s okay if you are feeling tired, exhausted, stressed or furious. No one should have to endure all this.

Merrick Garland couldn’t have done a worse job. What a failure.

In the 1930 census, Kristi Noem's great-grandparents, immigrants from Norway, were listed as speaking Norweigian in their South Dakota home. Her great-grandmother had lived in the US for 24 years, her great-grandfather for 44 years.

Just like they said they were going to in project 2025
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Is your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a list The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database.

The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times has obtained a list of more than 700 people who have been detained or appear to be scheduled to be sent to the Florida-run immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz.

'Save Our Signs' Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It Trump wants to erase any "negative" content from educational sites at National Parks. A group of data preservationists asks visitors to help them document placards and monuments, before they disappear...

next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...

The ICE Men Cometh ICE will soon be supercharged and more dangerous than ever—but it’s also vulnerable

An important but chilling read.

This is just sick.

via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon

Reality show flight path bungler Sean Duffey is now in charge of NASA. Apologies to the rest of the planets.

The worst chief justice of all time Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.

New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time

"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."

Trump has fired more than 2100 people from NASA and America’s space program, including several senior NASA employees.

The orange idiot appointed reality TV star (Real World) Sean Duffy as the new director of NASA🤯, in addition to him already cosplaying as the Secretary of Transportation.😳😬
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

Stop pretending. The so-called ICE agents creeping around LA aren’t chasing violent criminals.

If you don’t see the racial profiling, you’re either in denial or fine with it. And since they’re incognito, no one can give a straight answer on how we’re supposed to know they’re even legit.

ICE is going to get someone killed.

This was outside 100 Montgomery in SF’s Financial District.

If you needed proof these rookie hires aren’t trained, here it is. Real feds de-escalate. They call for backup. They don’t drag people down the street w/a car.

Hope everyone’s OK.
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The US is experiencing its worst measles outbreak in over 30 years, with 1,288 cases reported just six months into the year. The vaccine-preventable disease has led to three deaths, two children in Texas and an adult in New Mexico, and dozens of hospitalizations.

Social media graphic with dark blue background featuring decorative icons including a thumbs up, speech bubble, and exclamation mark. Main text reads 'LA fire survivors spoke.' in large white letters, followed by 'Engaged California helped amplify their voices.' Below that is 'Here are the next steps.' with a call-to-action button reading 'engaged.ca.gov'. The Engaged California logo appears in the bottom right corner.

We love to see digital civic experimentation at every level of government.

After the LA fires, impacted community members submitted over 1,300 comments through @engaged-california.bsky.social, a new platform to help people directly communicate with their neighbors and elected officials.

“lack of access to water, inadequate food, denial of religious rights, no water to take a bath, maggots in the food…” www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/a...

Unconstitutional.