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The entire #WhiteHouse #EastWing is demolished as #Trump moves forward with his #ballroom, AP photos show.
The East Wing, where #FirstLadies created #history, planned state dinners & promoted causes, is now history itself. The 2-story structure of drawing rooms & offices, including workspace for first ladies & their staffs, has been turned into rubble, demolished as part of Trump’s plan to build what he said is now a $300M ballroom nearly 2X the size of the White House.
”#Trump Media and Technology Group's shares dropped nearly 10% on Tuesday, bringing the stock's total slide to nearly 40% since Trump -- the company's majority shareholder -- was convicted last month.
In addition to falling 9.8% Tuesday to close at $31.31 on high trading volume of 7.52 million shares, Trump Media shares plummeted more than 17% in after-hours trading to close at $27.08”
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/06/18/trump-media-shares-drop/2071718752386/
Wallace on MSBNC: “Trump unhinged, rambling, incoherent after teleprompter fails at rally…
Trump is, of course, a convicted felon. His worldview is devoid of facts and untethered to reality. He offers no vision for the future and instead rants and rambles about sharks, electric boats, windmills, & toilets. He constantly lies about the border, even though he was the person who killed the bipartisan border deal. He lies 1/2
R/t Biden- Harris HQ
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#Trump is calling off, at least for now, plans that would have surged federal agents into #SanFrancisco this weekend. Mayor Daniel Lurie said Trump & #DHS Secy #KristiNoem assured him in separate calls that #BorderPatrol agents would not be deployed to his city. Trump confirmed the decision in a social media post, writing that “friends of mine who live in the area” had asked him to reconsider.
WTF? Why do #Chicago & other cities have to endure his #assault?
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/23/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
No jobs report from BLS today (delayed until Dec. 16), but before the shutdown, the pre-Trump / post-Trump comparison in BLS data was very close to pre-Trump / post-Trump comparison in the ADP data.
This week, we got the latest jobs data comparison from ADP, through November:
Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
#News #Oklahoma #Trump #Education #Teaching #School #GOP #Project2025
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#Trump Empowers #ElectionDeniers, Still Fixated on False 2020 Grievances
Trump has placed proponents of his #BigLie into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over #elections ahead of next year’s #midterms.
#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/trump-election-deniers-voting-security.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Exclusive: #US considering curbs on #exports to #China made with #US #software, sources say
The #Trump admin is considering a plan to curb a dizzying array of software-powered exports to China, from laptops to jet engines, to retaliate against Beijing's latest round of #RareEarth export restrictions, according to a US official & 3 people briefed by US authorities.
#economy #inflation #jobs #recession
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-considering-curbs-exports-china-made-with-us-software-sources-say-2025-10-22/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Nothing to see here, move along…
#Trump Dismisses Yet Another #InspectorGeneral, Fueling #Oversight Alarms
With the firing of the #ExportImport #Bank’s inspector general, Trump has sidelined around two dozen of the #watchdogs who seek out #fraud & #mismanagement in #FederalAgencies.
#law #accountability #corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-inspectors-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Trump's "Peace" efforts result in 40% increase of Russian aerial bombs attacking civilians in Ukraine.
You won't hear this from US Corporate media though - we have to rely on foreign journalists to actually set foot in the war zone and report the truth they find there.
So thank you to Georgio from Italy, who shares the friend link to enable the truth to be spread. He needs your support, please share.
#ukraine #warcrimes #trump #corruption #putin #criminal #genocide #journalism #press #news #USA #corporateMedia #ghoulishGreed
'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024
Team #Trump sees #Georgia as 'a road map' for putting Trump's heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of #elections into practice
The Peach State is unique—it's the sole battleground state in which the #Republican Party has total #control over the levers of #power: a trifecta in state #House, #Senate, & governorship
#ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #law #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-georgia-laboratory-rig-2024-1235034510/
The #UniversityOfVirginia, facing immense pressure from the White House, struck a deal with the #Trump admin on Wednesday that removed, at least temporarily, the threat of a federal *investigation*.
The #DOJ announced the deal. It was the first time a public #university had cut a far-reaching agreement with the Trump admin, which is carrying out an extraordinary campaign to shift the ideological tilt of the higher #education system.
#law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/university-of-virginia-trump-agreement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
wake up babe new $20 bill just dropped
#meme #memes #eastwing #whitehouse #uspol #uspolitics #trump
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Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPolitics #Government #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Trump #Texas
Hey look! After 5½ years they found ONE. Oops, she’s a #Republican.
Colorado woman found guilty of #VoterFraud for casting ballots for late ex-husband & son
#Trump #BigLie #law
https://apnews.com/article/voting-fraud-ballots-colorado-guilty-forgery-6c11a89d629947dc4d76321d5e60cb70
"One of the first orders of business of any authoritarian movement is to destroy national symbols and historic landmarks."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/trump-bulldozes-the-white-housewhats
Average #ACA premiums are set to rise 30% due to #Republicans, documents show
The price increases — affecting up to 17 million Americans who buy coverage on the federal marketplace — are by far the largest annual premium increases in recent years.
#law #HealthInsurance #healthcare #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/10/24/obamacare-premiums-rise-30-percent/
#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction
#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption #bribery #extortion #law #antitrust #regulations #AI #energy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/
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#Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticized the latest #US #military strikes against suspected drug smugglers off the coast of #SouthAmerica.
"If this becomes the norm, everyone will believe they can invade another country's territory to do whatever they want," #Lula said on Friday during a trip to Indonesia, acc/to TV Globo. "Where does that leave respect for the #sovereignty of countries?"
Lula could meet #Trump on Sunday at the ASEAN summit in Malaysia.
https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:251024-99-428993/
#Trump admin imposes #sanctions on #Colombia president & his family
The #Treasury Dept leveled the penalties against President #GustavoPetro; his wife, Veronica del Socorro Alcocer Garcia; his son, Nicolas Fernando Petro Burgos; & Colombian Interior Minister Armando Alberto Benedetti.
The admin is accusing Petro’s govt of involvement in the global drug trade, sharply escalating tensions with the leftist leader of one of the closest US #allies in #SouthAmerica.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-24-2025#0000019a-179a-dde3-a1df-97bfc3c80000
It wasn’t the week-old #Ontario anti-tariff Reagan ad that pissed off #Trump. That’s orange bluster.
It was this speech by #Canada’s PM last night.
Carney vows to double non-U.S. exports, says Canada must ‘play to win’
https://globalnews.ca/news/11489014/mark-carney-economic-speech-budget/
I don't understand why #Trump needs a ballroom with his lack of balls
#DOJ Will Monitor #Elections in #California & #NewJersey ahead of the Nov 4 election.
The #Trump admin said that monitors will watch polling in 2 states, led by #Democrats, where key races or issues are on the ballot.
Voter fraud is exceedingly rare, but Trump & other #Republicans since Trump lost to Biden in 2020 continue to spread disinformation about election integrity.
#law #VoterSuppression
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/doj-election-monitors-california-new-jersey.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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The #Trump admin is drawing up plans for a shake-up at #ICE, with officials looking to replace several senior leaders in field offices across the country, according to 3 people familiar with the plans.
The proposal stems from frustration in the White House & the #DHS over the pace of #deportations, which are lagging behind Trump’s goal of more than a million by the end of the first year of his 2nd term.
#law #immigration #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/trump-deportations-ice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare