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ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.

ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back newrepublic.com/article/2023... via @newrepublic.com

"It certainly offends me."

"un-painless"?! He's a complete liar & phony arrogant ass of a man. If only he weren't powerful and dangerous I'd dismiss him completely.The Pubs are *thrilled* about this shutdown. They'd like to keep it shut forever. Destroying the government is their plan. And they are playing us for fools.

"Freedom will come more easily than equality. I think Americans hate equality more than slavery." pg. 300 ", Frederick Douglass: A Novel" by Sidney Morrison.

Perhaps this is an opportunity to get rid of health insurance entirely and demand universal healthcare for all!

The nodding behind him as he spews nonsense is extra infuriating.

From Americans, apparently. 💔🇺🇸

What better way to wrap up a shopping strike than Giving Tuesday. It fits. 💙🫂💙

What if the biggest shopping holiday is a big bust this year? Let them *feel* us! #blackoutthesystem

This would be much stronger and more possible if the focus was simply NO SHOPPING only necessities etc. (Adding in no work, travel, projects is a privilege and dilutes the impact. IMHO.) Biggest shopping season = a big bust would be amazing!

What if the God you’ve been told is “He” is also “She,” “They,” “We”?

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Let's pretend that we are in agreement typically. Don't you have any problem with this being funded by donors and corporations looking for how it benefits them? Doesn't it frustrate you that he lied (again) and then did the exact opposite of what he said? Is there no aspect here that bothers you?

Big Tech helped bankroll the East Wing destruction Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the Trump administration. They all cut checks for the ballroom.

One last reply, since you posed a question. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

And here I thought it was because Vance is a misogynist, elitist, lying opportunist who has no decency nor real pedigree to be in the position he was given, other than his ability to raise money for his boss through cryptocurrency, which DT otherwise would not understand.

2 significant differences: 1) No other President SWORE that they *weren't* going to demo the building before skipping all approval processes and - demolishing the WH without any input. 2) No previous projects were portals for donations from high-end donors. It's not the demo that is destructive.

In his 1st term, Trump met w Putin + authoritarian leaders *alone*. I recall thinking that wasn't a standard suited to success. Instead, it would naturally provide opportunities for abuse of power and "lessons". I recall saying "DT is not encouraging democracy; he's asking how to get away from it."

..."It would be sacrilege merely to ‘redecorate’ it—a word I hate. It must be restored, and that has nothing to do with decoration. That is a question of scholarship.”

Perspective: "1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy...famously redecorated the White House with historic art and artifacts sourced from museum collections...Her goal was to use the residence to showcase American presidential history, saying, “Everything in the White House must have a reason for being there...

The Many White House Renovations Through the Years As workers break ground on President Trump’s proposed ballroom, AD takes a look back at the history of physical updates to America’s most famous residence

I was not being ironic; I do appreciate a broader context. And yet, for every historic adjustment to the WH, there has been an approval process, rather than a lie that demolition won't happen, until it does. www.architecturaldigest.com/story/white-... & www.architecturaldigest.com/story/white-...

Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir Work under way to demolish entire East Wing as president upped cost of new structure from $200m to $300m

"Billionaire Trump supporters...including Miriam Adelson, the Blackstone CEO, Stephen Schwarzman; the oil tycoon Harold Hamm; ...cryptocurrency billionaires Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss. Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary & former CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald...." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Cool perspective. Question: were those projects all funded by corporations counting on tax cuts and other favors?

How about turning it into a wing dedicated to Democracy and anti-hate history initiatives instead? That seems more suitable than flowers as a response.

Same template with sex workers. It's always about punishment and power.

I’ve got a better idea. Why doesn’t Trump reimburse the government for the expenses of having to prosecute him and all the other insurrectionists from J6.

Sigh. Yup. Template trump.

This.

The oath is literally "do no harm"!

My goodness, I read that as complete sarcasm. Glad to be wrong! (As in, it's thanks to JB that we are in this scenario).

Agreed. And also honestly confused about your handle, seemingly blaming Biden? I am not someone who judges nuance and expects cookie cutter responses in full alignment and yet isn't your message calling out to yourself, here? 🤔