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dhode.bsky.social
@dhode.bsky.social
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Retired federal employee. History buff and progressive. Happily married. Cancer survivor. Life is hard but it’s worth fighting for. Dog lover.
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brucedlittle.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
👇👇
December 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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votebiue.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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moranstephen1000.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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darren32359.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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bluemaninredok.bsky.social
America could NEVER have been ready for a President likeTrump
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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mjfree.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Man @gavinnewsom’s team doesn’t mess around
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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doomscroling.bsky.social
This is the sad simple truth ⤵️
November 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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normajeen.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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azraelthunderbolt.bsky.social
Spread this one around
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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normajeen.bsky.social
And remember, at least your kids can get 1 doll & a pencil for Christmas this year so no complaining.
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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nothoodlum.bsky.social
The squeaker of the house.
October 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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democracyactionnet.bsky.social
There are no plans for the ballroom
Here's why the new White House ballroom project is not real. (The demo is obviously real.) Some background - I am a licensed Architect with 20+ years of experience. I have worked on multiple Federal projects with sensitive building programs that required background checks. 1. With a projected size of 90,000sf and a newly revised budget of $300M, the cost per square foot would be $3,333. No building costs anywhere near that. $1,000/sf is astronomical. 2. Let's assume, since we are drawing in the classical, style, that the proportions of the building adhere to the Golden Ratio. A 90,000sf would be a building with a footprint roughly 380' x 235'. Longer than a football field and 1.5x as wide. 2. The building is projected to accommodate 999 people. 15sf/person is required for a banquet area; 20sf/person is pretty comfortable. What you see in the rendering below is closer to 20sf/person. That's only 20,000sf, or a space that is 200'x100'. It's supposed to be a ballroom, so let's be extraordinarily generous and provide 10,000sf for the ballroom support functions, and another 10,000sf for pre-function. Extraordinarily generous. That's STILL only 40,000sf, not even half of the supposed building. 3. There are no drawings for the building. The renderings are poorly coordinated - exterior views do not match the interior views. See below - the White House is 70 feet tall, to the roof. The interior renderings show a room that is roughly 100' x 200', with a ~20 foot ceiling. The exterior renderings show a building footprint of 4.5x that amount. Those are renderings that could be produced by young staff in a week or two, at most. Nothing else exists.
October 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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anthropocenempg.bsky.social
getting done, what Bin Laden couldn’t 🆘
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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kackbro.bsky.social
Say Goodbye To Pristine Wilderness and Hello To Chump's
Big Oil Donors. Chump's Greed
Is Killing Our Wildlife, And Our
Planet.......
October 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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mouthyrenegade.bsky.social
And that's bullshit.
October 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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joes-spot.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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kackbro.bsky.social
We're ANTIFAscist and We're Not
Going To Take It From The
Authoritarian Regime Anymore,
Without A Fight......
October 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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fooyoo2.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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mary1kathy.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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nashishereforit.bsky.social
It’s hard to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a guy that maybe brokered a temporary peace deal after he ordered 500 tons of nutrient rich biscuits destroyed instead of saving the lives of desperate, starving babies.
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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insuret.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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darren32359.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM