The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom The White House has started tearing down part of the East Wing to build the ballroom President Donald Trump wants added to the building. Demolition started Monday.

We are 20 days into the Republican Shutdown — health care costs are skyrocketing and federal workers aren’t getting paid.

What is Trump doing? Building his gold plated ballroom.

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THE CONFUCIAN SECRET POLICE PLACED 274 BARBARIANS INTO THE CROWD AT THE DAZEXIANG UPRISING. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good officials will be owed big posthumous apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! Emperor QSH

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

today an IRL prestige cleric used an IRL magic item (not kidding) to upcast Turn Evil (not kidding) IRL on ICE and reality is so borked that it actually worked

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

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Press warned to back up as DHS police take lawmakers were taken away in zip ties, among them Comptroller Brad Lander and 10 other state reps including Bobby Carol, Marcela Mitayanes, Julia Salazar, Emily Gallagher, Jabari Brisport, Jessica Gonzalez Rojas,... story TK

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

For folks asking, Pastor (Reverend? Sorry, we keep messing this one up, lol) Black is okay. He's still OTG right now, checking on others in the dark, after taking multiple volleys of pepper balls to the face and being repeatedly brutalized by ICE:

35th Ward Alderperson Anthony Quezada just walked up to the scene and grabbed a mask.

State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.

the uselessness of national Dems is thrown into such sharp relief as Illinois state senators physically take ICE on and Illinois congressional candidates, one of whom is the mayor of Evanston, get beaten and tear gassed at an ICE facility

How to win over Trump supporters. (It's not complicated).

In the richest country on Earth, hospitals are closing en masse. In rural Maine you’re driving an hour to the nearest birthing center. The hospital in Blue Hill where I was born is closed. It’s a disaster brought on by decades of pure greed, and nothing short of Medicare for All can turn the tide.

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Welcome to the many, many people who have found this campaign in the last week.

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

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My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

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bsky.app/profile/grah... hes already here

yo this guy is cooking

For Platner, it’s about proximity. Persuasion starts by having the shared space for a conversation, whether that’s sitting by the water or just room in your schedule. “Individualism and hustle culture mean we’re always killing ourselves with work,” he says. “You’re too busy to talk to your neighbors.” Platner treasures the freedom that his disability pension gives him: He gets to choose to keep his company small, he gets to work the hours that make sense for him. Everyone should be able to. Precarity can spark the political division that Star Trek-style post-scarcity might alleviate, but Platner thinks its most pervasive damage to our society is more subtle: We just don’t have time for each other. This is not just a political crisis. It’s an existential one.

- Contact your congresspeople to support the Housing not Handcuffs Act and ‪@raskin.house.gov‬ and ‪@vanhollen.senate.gov‬'s termination resolution
- If you live in a state that has sent troops to DC, demand your governor withdraw them
- figure out what your plan is when this comes to your town.

Trump's goal is to stop dissent, get people used to a permanent military presence & control cities w/ large Black communities + those who didn't vote for him.
He said he'll launch similar occupations across the US What will it take for you to believe him?

Action steps below

For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

Wow.

Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.

“I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”

Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.

We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.

We must fight age verification with all we have | Taylor Lorenz Get more from Taylor Lorenz on Patreon

SO thrilled to publish this fantastic piece outlining the problems with age verification and "child safety" by Pratika Katiyar and Rebecca Williams at the ACLU and Cynthia Conti Cook who leads the Surveillance Resistance Lab.

This, I think, may end up being an underrated factor. The Trump voters I know - and I do know a few - all voted the way they did assuming Trump II would be a rerun of Trump I, which they understood as 'some bad tweets, but mostly normal GOP policy,' minus the early 'new at this' growing pains.

SAY THIS FUCKING LOUDER

Hey remember ten seconds ago when SCOTUS was allowing Trump to fire everyone except - because they have 401(k)s too - except very specifically the Fed board? Like they went out of their way to say, "he can fire everyone, except THESE people upon whom our wealth depends."

Aaaaand here we are.