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Trump is gilding the White House
-- using his so-called "gold guy" to add gold touches to the Oval Office on the taxpayer dime
-- to make the historic building look like his tacky Mar-a-Lago club in Florida
https://www.dailykos.…

Trump is turning the White House into Mar-a-Lago—at taxpayers' expense
President Donald Trump is gilding the White House, using his so-called "gold guy" to add gold touches to the Oval Office on the taxpayer dime to make the historic building look like his tacky Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, The Wall Street Journal...

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agency, who admits he sometimes made things worse.

From a Metropolitan Police Officer in Washington DC:
“I can’t say how this will end, but I can say what I will do in the meantime. I won’t be intimidated into silence about the failures and dangers posed to the country by the federal police takeover of the city. I will quit my job before I ever help Trump’s goons kidnap some random person for the crime of not being white enough.”

I’m a DC police officer. Here’s what Trump’s takeover is really about.
The federal occupation is terrorizing citizens, wasting taxpayer dollars, and actively making local law enforcement’s jobs harder.

Kennedy Center ticket sales take a nosedive after Trump takeover | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/05/kennedy-center-ticket-sales-trump-takeover

Kennedy Center ticket sales take a nosedive after Trump takeover (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/05/kennedy-center-ticket-sales-trump-takeover
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p123#a250905p123

Sources: SoftBank explored a potential takeover of Marvell earlier this year to merge it with Arm, in what would have been the chip industry's largest-ever deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

Sturgeon’s law remains my biggest reassurance against LLM world takeover. As far as I can tell, that law is as solid as gravity. Humans on average not giving a shit IS the training material poison pill.
yes, I have just looked at random GitHub code again, why do you ask

Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., may have helped Republican congressman
Cory Lee Mills
get off scot-free after he allegedly assaulted a woman. 
In February, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department arrived at Mills’s luxury penthouse on the Wharf in response to a call about a domestic disturbance.
There they found Mills’s “significant other” of a year, 27, “physically shaking and scared,” according to a police report.
Mills and his wife, Rana Al Saadi,…

D.C. Police Stops Investigating GOP Congressman as Trump Takes Over
The Metropolitan Police Department has closed its investigation into a Republican congressman accused of assault.

Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump 'takeover' (Charlotte Higgins/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/washington-national-opera-kennedy-center
http://www.memeorandum.com/251107/p67#a251107p67

Democracy Noir, the 90-minute documentary
– opening in the US this week and portraying Orbšn’s creeping authoritarian takeover of an erstwhile liberal democracy through the eyes of three women;
Timea Szabó, an opposition politician,
Babette Oroszi, a television journalist,
and Niko Antal, a nurse
– has universal resonance and urgent relevance for American audiences grappling with the consequences of Trump.
“I’d say this is the most ‘hitting the zeitgeist’…