An abandoned ballroom, one of many that sit decaying in what once was East Germany.

The stunning late 1800s example retains most of its original features, from the mustard-coloured curtains that line the stage to the retro pendant light fitting hanging from the ceiling. Sadly, it suffered a fire a few months before my visit, and the smell of charred wood was still strong in the air.

#Germany #EastGermany #Photography #History #LostPlace #AbandonedPlaces #Ballroom

An abandoned ballroom, one of many that sit decaying in what once was East Germany.

The stunning late 1800s example retains most of its original features, from the mustard-coloured curtains that line the stage to the retro pendant light fitting hanging from the ceiling. Sadly, it suffered a fire a few months before my visit, and the smell of charred wood was still strong in the air.

#Germany #EastGermany #Photography #History #LostPlace #AbandonedPlaces #Ballroom

I’m giving a free public lecture at #DalhousieU on #ballroom, kiki, and how care is practised when systems are unstable or absent. We’ll talk speculative care, collective survival, and everyday acts of refusal and resistance.

#Halifax, Feb 12th @ 6pm
Register: https://carewithoutpermission-hfx.eventbrite.ca

I’m giving a free public lecture at #DalhousieU on #ballroom, kiki, and how care is practised when systems are unstable or absent. We’ll talk speculative care, collective survival, and everyday acts of refusal and resistance.

#Halifax, Feb 12th @ 6pm
Register: https://carewithoutpermission-hfx.eventbrite.ca

"Isn't it strange that this ballroom is being put together just at the exact same time that a dictatorial push is happening? It's almost like it's not just a ballroom. It's almost like it is the construction of a feudal style castle that a dictator can live in and be safe from everybody."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

"It's also a bunker. There's a bunker in there. So you're not wrong. It's a ballroom slash bunker."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #ballroom #fascism #dictator
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https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/america-is-rapidly-collapsing-as

"Isn't it strange that this ballroom is being put together just at the exact same time that a dictatorial push is happening? It's almost like it's not just a ballroom. It's almost like it is the construction of a feudal style castle that a dictator can live in and be safe from everybody."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

"It's also a bunker. There's a bunker in there. So you're not wrong. It's a ballroom slash bunker."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #ballroom #fascism #dictator
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https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/america-is-rapidly-collapsing-as

The office of the #USattorney in #DC [ #JeaninePirro] has unironically opened a #criminal “investigation” into #JeromePowell, the #FederalReserve chair, over the central bank’s renovation of its Washington HQ & whether Powell lied to Congress about the scope of the project…. [cough cough, #ballroom, cough cough, #EastWing, cough cough, #KennedyCenter…cough cough, cough cough…]

#law #economy #independence #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #tyranny #NewWorldOrder #recession #trumpcession

"The latest from the White House Dementia Care Unit is that they have told Trump he is designing a 'battleship' for the Navy to use that will have all the fanciest weapons, weapons that don’t even exist yet, weapons that are invisible. The Trump 'battleship' will look just like his ballroom, and will never be built."

~ Evan Hurst

#Trump #ballroom #battleships #monument
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/raw-uncut-60-minutes-bootlegs-tabs

"Toria Sheffield of People magazine reports that at this weekend’s Turning Point USA AmericaFest, Fox News Channel host Jesse Watters told the audience that the ballroom President Donald J. Trump wants to build next to the White House is 'four times the size of the White House.' According to Watters, Trump told him: 'Jesse, it’s a monument. I’m building a monument to myself because no one else will.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #ballroom #battleships
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-22-2025

"Make no mistake: Trump wasn’t president because of his policies, his qualifications, or even primarily because of his base. He was president because America’s wealthiest class funded his rise, protected his power, and enabled his worst instincts, at least so long as he delivered the goods."

~ Thom Hartmann

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/14

https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-5-powered-by-plutocrats

https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-ballroom-national-security-de9756118bbfca8f40af9cf89db6af5b #Ballroom #preservation #WhiteHouse #USPolitics #demolition #secrecy

Carol Quillen, #NationalTrust’s CEO said she did not have a “hard objection” to a #WhiteHouse #ballroom — so long as its size, materials & design were consistent with the White House & did not overshadow the main building. It is the National Trust’s job, she said, to preserve #Americanhistory, particularly at the White House, given the building’s iconic status & central role. She noted that the org has also brought legal challenges to past admins’ construction projects.

#Trump #law #EastWing

"Make no mistake: Trump wasn’t president because of his policies, his qualifications, or even primarily because of his base. He was president because America’s wealthiest class funded his rise, protected his power, and enabled his worst instincts, at least so long as he delivered the goods."

~ Thom Hartmann

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/14

https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-5-powered-by-plutocrats

"Which is amazing when he himself is plating everything he can in the White House in gold and building a 200, you know, actually it's now 300 or 400 million dollar glorious ballroom. And at the same time, lecturing people that they've never had it better. I don't think any of that seems to be working."

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/13

"The highlights from that speech are just... I mean, he's telling people you're doing better than you've ever done. Again, going back to you don't need 37 dolls, you know, two or three are nice. You know, school kids, children just need a few pencils, not a whole box of them."

~ Joe Trippi

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-is-weaving-right-into-an-oncoming

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/12

"Same dollar. Five commitments. Zero proof. Zero possibility. ...

The 'tariff shelf' is a prop. Trillions are fiction. Promises are illusions."

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/11

"On paper, at least. Tariff revenue has been promised to reduce the national debt. It’s been pledged for rebate checks. It’s been earmarked to bail out farmers harmed by trade disruptions. It’s been floated as funding for childcare programs. And in moments of rhetorical enthusiasm, it’s even been suggested as a substitute for federal income taxes altogether."

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/10

"We are now deep into the era of what Trump calls the tariff shelf. You’ve heard about it. It’s apparently stocked with trillions upon trillions of dollars—so many, in fact, that the number changes depending on who’s holding the microphone. ...

The administration has already spent the money it insists is sitting on that imaginary shelf."

~ Michael Cohen

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/9

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trumps-arithmetic-of-make-believe

"If you really, truly, deeply believed that Trump would lower prices quickly? I’m sorry. You’re an idiot."

~ Michael Tomasky

The truth is, it never was about the economy for a majority of Trump voters. Truth is, they knew exactly whom and what they were voting for. "The economy" was just a specious excuse. The racism and heterosexist male entitlement and immigrant bashing: that's what they wanted.

#Trump #MAGA #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #ballroom
/1

https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=980a875ff6ef9c2d75e74307cbf5d205.2475&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

"If you really, truly, deeply believed that Trump would lower prices quickly? I’m sorry. You’re an idiot."

~ Michael Tomasky

The truth is, it never was about the economy for a majority of Trump voters. Truth is, they knew exactly whom and what they were voting for. "The economy" was just a specious excuse. The racism and heterosexist male entitlement and immigrant bashing: that's what they wanted.

#Trump #MAGA #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #ballroom
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https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=980a875ff6ef9c2d75e74307cbf5d205.2475&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea