David Sandahl

Also Justin Pearson, running for Congress in Tennessee. Go Polar Bears.

John Dickerson, with a distinguished journalistic history, announced he's leaving CBS at the end of the year.

Watch and see what other CBS journalists do, whether they stand up for professional standards or knuckle under to the money lords who put Weiss in charge.

But he will have shown a new way to win elections. Elections change things.

The ballroom is a safe space for the ultrawealthy, like Bezos, who can also protect their business interests by supporting Trump.

They will gather there with their own kind, unknowing and untroubled by the lives of most Americans.

Meanwhile, taxing the top 1% a little more could erase the budget deficit.

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What are we doing here?

McCrery is the project's architect. In addition to the interior view, McCrery shows a number of exterior views of the project on their website

Some have noted that the models Trump has shown feature details that don't make sense, such as stairs that lead nowhere.

Here is website for the architect, which also features those odd ballroom exterior renderings in whited out settings. Hmm.

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The ballroom will also give them, like Mar-a-Lago, a safe place where they can mingle with the mega-rich. This protects their businesses from regulation/legal enforcement while filling Trump's coffers.

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@karaswisher.bsky.social, this should be right up your alley. The ballroom is a lonely boys club for the megarich you've chronicled. A safe space for them to appreciate one another and protect their gilded way of life.

So you're saying the wealth of the top 1% is 7x the entire federal budget and over 25x the deficit?

You've been right about many things. Hard to predict the friction free way modern tech oligarchs make fortunes, largely free from competition. And their insatiable need for approval, which can only come from their own super wealthy cohort.

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The billionaires are circling their wagons in Trump's ballroom, grateful for the camaraderie and fearful of Trump's retribution.

Once a "conservative" force in the actual meaning of the word, they're now glad to see our institutions torn down as long as they're part of Trump's protected class.

A inflatable frog with a blue cape faces off against ICE officers dressed in military camo gear and police in riot gear.

Instead of orange Mussolini, this should be Time Magazine’s 2025 Photo of the Year:

1. It's against the law.
2. $130M is about $100 per service member.

Optics exploiting ignorance.

This is the best insight, relating Trump's power over elites to the ballroom.

Very rich, very needy men who crave the approval of each other. No other people matter.

And Trump II can make or break them.

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Here’s Why Travelers Can Expect Longer Airport Lines Starting Friday The first missed paycheck was an inflection point in previous government shutdowns and TSA workers expect the same this time around.

Delays for air travelers to increase, as TSA agent paychecks end. As it is, agents, key to air travel safety, average less than $25 per hour.

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From the project architect renderings.

Here's an interior view from the project architect. The other building in the WH complex are for work.

Why do we need a 90,000 sq ft entertainment space?

I’m shocked the guy who hired undocumented immigrants (Polish laborers) w/no safety equipment and paid them $4 an hour in 1980 (then stiffed them) to tear down Bonwit Teller (including art deco friezes promised to the MET) is demolishing the East Wing of White House w/bad intent.

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I worked at OMB for 6 years and remember the White House and Executive Office Bldgs as well-used, even crowded, working spaces.

It is disgusting to see an out of scale entertainment space with murky financing dominating the WH complex.

It was the people's house. Now, who owns it/us?

Beware.

Just a week or so ago, Wall Street was advising we buy gold.

That didn't last long, per Business Week:

"Gold extended losses in European trading after suffering the biggest rout in more than 12 years yesterday on concern its rally had run too far, too fast."

"Trump is going to invade American cities and bulldoze the White House" would have been seen as an alarmist liberal fever dream thing to say a year ago

Vote by mail started in NJ in mid-September. Over a third of votes (at least) have already been cast. An earlier start to the "all out sprint" in 2026 please.

Grant Republicans moral courage.

While certainly true, wasn't this the same Tom Nichols saying don't call Trump fascist just a week or two ago?