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Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

Also a lesson in why “debate me” is a sham exercise, designed only to platform and amplify purely shit arguments.

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far

Donald Trump's wildly inappropriate reaction to this (quite impressive) piece of Reaganite advertising ought to cause so many people to view the ad he doesn't want them to see that we'll have to rename the Streisand Effect the Ontario Effect.

Washington Post editorial board: Right-wing idiots who also cannot spell.

I suspect that the tech moguls just fed him platitudes (you’re the best president EVER) and promises (we’ll give you more money and golden trinkets).

The best time to abolish ICE would have been in 2021. The next best time is if we win in 2028. At this point, any Democrat unwilling to abolish ICE must be drummed out of the primary.

I’m less concerned about part of the White House being torn down, and more concerned about the fact that it’s being replaced with a $250m privately funded ballroom. I don’t think people who intend to leave office in 3 years typically spend a quarter of a billon on a 4 year construction project.

Are there any national security implications here? I’ve always sort of figured that the White House is like a giant Faraday cage to prevent snooping by baddies. If you just blast away a whole side of the building, does that compromise security?

B&W photo of a building facace

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Photo of the White House being torn apart

Seeing the White House torn apart is really emblematic of the times we’re in

The only thing that anyone ever needs to know about Bill Ackman is that he once joined a group of avid long distance bikers from NYC to Montauk and back without training or preparation, arrogant in his ability to "lead the pack" and ended up screaming in agony

The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.

Mark my words.

Taps the sign bsky.app/profile/bmce...

A good list of accounts to preemptively block.

Cowards

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

How does a government that is not currently funded to operate effectuate a $20 billion bailout of a foreign country?

a real water is wet scenario here

a black and white photo of a man in a pinstripe worsted suit, white shirt, and textured necktie. the tie has a nice dimple under the knot.

a photo of donald trump upside down. there is also a nice dimple on his red tie

when you tie a tie, try to put in a dimple, like so

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

Sam Douglass, Vermont state senator

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

If Jan 6 was all Antifa then why did you pardon them?

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.”

He was definitely hired *because* he's this kind of person, not in spite of it.

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

The soldiers don’t care, alas