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"Congress approved funding for the renovations in 2008—before Obama took office—'after a Bush administration report revealed some systems in the White House were periodically failing.'"

Imagine if in another country the president’s masked army racially profiled in opposition areas as he enriches himself (even raiding the treasury), oligarchs renovated a massive ballroom for him, and his unofficial top advisor said he won’t leave.

Is this how democracies end?

Go Virginia!

Federal Court Tosses Another GOP Lawsuit Against California’s Redistricting Plan Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas dismissed a GOP lawsuit against California’s new congressional redistricting plan ruling that the plaintiff, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), had no right to sue over another state’s election laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

When Tish James walks into a courthouse tomorrow — the target of a political prosecution demanded by a President obsessed with revenge — she does not walk in alone.

New York has her back.

Grateful to Governor Hochul for bringing us together tonight.

Illinois has now achieved its 10th credit rating upgrade since I took office.

It reflects our continued growth in financial standing and speaks volumes to our state's commitment to fiscal discipline.

With each upgrade, it means saving Illinoisans millions of dollars.

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This young warrior lit a fire that has not gone out.
Shannen Koostachin is recognized as one of the 150 most influential women in Canadian history.
She was made a DC super comic heroine.
I think about her every single day.
I will tell her story at the Resistance and Hope gathering at Langley BC.

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

It is what you think it is… they mean to starve the poor folks.

Our national parks are increasingly stressed because of the government shutdown. With a large portion of National Park Service staff furloughed, there are fewer personnel available to enforce rules or care for the land. Across parks, reports are emerging of trash accumulating,

Hope you all are having a blessed Thursday

I don’t want to give the answer away, but his initials are DJT.

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🚨 oh look! Jack Smith is calling Marsha Blackburn’s bluff. Surely she should want him to testify publicly if she isn’t entirely full of 💩, right? Right??

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

Border Patrol Agents Detain 2 City Employees During ‘Lawless’ Little Village Raids, Ald. Rodriguez Says “These federal agents are operating lawlessly, demonstrating utter disregard for our constitutional rights,” Ald. Mike Rodriguez (22nd Ward) said.

Trump’s agents have detained innocent American citizens and residents, from children asleep in their homes to an Alderman’s staffers.
 
All demanding proof of citizenship, without probable cause, with only the victim’s skin color as a reason.
 
This isn't about crime or safety.

I am in Langley BC to give a key note address to BC teachers on resistance and hope in dark times.
I will tell the story of Shannen Koostachin the Cree youth leader who inspired the largest youth driven children's rights movement in CDN history.
#shannensdream
@meidascanada.ca
@meidastouch.com

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

“.. on Tuesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation demanded that the White House pause the demolition and submit the ballroom plans to ‘the legally required public review process.’ But it takes almost no time to reduce history to rubble ..”

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Quote: “ballroom is his main priority”. Not the shutdown. Not people going without paychecks. Not healthcare. Not people going hungry. Not farmers/ranchers going down the drain. Not the people. Just him. That’s his focus and screw everything and everybody else.

Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…

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The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

Every Republican has blood on their hands. They all need to be removed. They are letting this happen.

A timeline of U.S. military strikes on boats off South America and what Congress has said In less than two months, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say the U.S. military has killed at least 37 people in nine strikes against drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean S...

As the number of strikes has grown, a debate in Congress has escalated over the limits of the president’s power. https://to.pbs.org/4hlWI6s