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Cake day: May 3rd, 2024

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  • A US judge ordered a pause on the White House east wing ballroom project until it gets congressional approval, from the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/judge-blocks-trump-white-house-ballroom-plan)

    US district judge Richard Leon in Washington granted a request for a preliminary injunction by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a non-profit organization that brought a lawsuit alleging that Trump had exceeded his authority by razing the East Wing and beginning construction without approval from Congress.

    The decision by Leon, an appointee of George W Bush, leaves the 90,000-sq-ft ballroom project on hold unless it receives approval from Congress.

    There was a substack post going around arguing they are building an underground reinforced data center. Describing the contractors on the project, all of them involved in either data center construction or secure military facilities, and the cost estimate is nearly the same amount (300 million) that was the cost for Oracle’s secure data center in Jerusalem in 2021 (319 million). Other details such as the sudden plans for improving water and power infrastructure in the area. (https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt-building-a-ballroom)

    The Guardian article also mentions this list of donors: “…private donors and large corporations including Meta, Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Palantir, Google and Comcast.” Why would these companies be interested in investing in a ballroom?

    It’s been said here plenty I’m sure but it seems obvious that it isn’t just a fancy ballroom being built, I haven’t seen any mainstream media even hint at this idea. They just talk about the waste and cost of it, implying as they always do that Trump/MAGA is just a silly self-centered guy and not helping build the infrastructure to cement the power of technofeudalism/fascism in the US.









  • That’s some bullshit, I would finish early a lot, I was really fortunate I had reasonable teachers mostly. It was common they would say “since you’re done why don’t you help your neighbors if they’re having trouble?” I felt like an achiever and it also instilled more of a helper mindstate in me at a young age.


  • It’s wild how distinct the racial stratification in the US is in labor types especially, it’s de facto apartheid. I feel like we don’t even think about it because it’s so normal. Compared to most blue collar jobs mine is super cushy, nearly everyone in our department and the admin levels above are white, wheras at the same organization every security guard and cleaner is BIPOC. This is in an area with a very high level of racial diversity. There is one cleaner I can think of that is white I’ve ever seen there.