US Senator Ron Wyden asked for a detailed account of Trump’s acceptance of a Rolex table clock and gold bar from Swiss businessmen shortly before slashing tariffs he previously imposed on Switzerland

there we go

holy smokes

enzo!

@wyden.senate.gov is going off on the Senate floor right now www.senate.gov/legislative/...

at this point I don't think @ddotdc.bsky.social is ever going to plow my street. waiting for spring to come

This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

this is the same person who won't release an unclassified report about how insecure US phone networks are, btw.

is this cybersecurity? anime butterfly meme etc

Ron Wyden has been right on the surveillance state and pushing legislation on these issues for 20 years now

I need a cablethanos drop stat

Hawks!!!!!!! Let’s go win a super bowl

One more first down

Come on now

This is stressing me out

Bobo baby

Seeya

@wyden.senate.gov first introduced a bill five years ago that would have banned ice and other agencies from purchasing this data. It passed the house in 2024 but the house refused take it up

This video shows Donald Trump’s lawless federal agents again out of control. The Senate cannot vote to keep funding this. Every single agent complicit in these horrors should be put on trial at the state level for real accountability.

A secret memo allowing federal agents to invade Americans' homes without a warrant would be a historic violation of the Constitution and further justification for the immediate removal of Kristi Noem.

"china wins" - GOP 2026 slogan great stuff China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/b...

what is the historical analog for congressional republicans defending a -80 policy instead of disagreeing with their leader?

How can you give the government power to regulate misinformation when multiple arms of the federal government are telling clear lies, big and small, every day??

Ahahaha Hawks let’s goooooo

A new bill to stop humanitarian aid from being used as a weapon of war was introduced this week. Here's the press release from Senator Ron Wyden: https://tinyurl.com/56vpr59y

This is about scaring anyone who would report on things the Trump administration wants to keep secret. Intimidating a free press is a hallmark of authoritarians.

Quoting @wyden.senate.gov: "It makes a mockery of the idea that ICE is trying to make our country safer. Rather, agents are reportedly picking people to deport from our country the same way you'd choose a nearby coffee shop."

@wyden.senate.gov - "The fact ICE is using this app proves the completely indiscriminate nature of the agency's aggressive and violent incursions into our communities ... Agents are reportedly picking people to deport from our country the same way you'd choose a nearby coffee shop.”

while the trump administration takes away investigators and people responsible for locking up child predators, there's a bill to demand resources go directly to stopping kids from being victimized and arresting and prosecuting people who harm kids dcjournal.com/we-have-the-...

good. @wyden.senate.gov on January 6- "States must step in to hold X and Musk accountable. gizmodo.com/section-230-...

and yet you can't say this enough

This was the plan

what a time to be alive

Mike Tomin, what a legend. my dad's favorite non-seahawks coach

NEW: 6 federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned today because of DOJ's push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Unc is relative

On Friday, Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., wrote to Apple’s and Google’s chief executives, asking them to “enforce your apps stores’ terms of service against X.” via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/senators-ask...

tfw when @hunterw.bsky.social has verified you but @bsky.app hasn't

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

@wyden.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov and @lujan.senate.gov question why Apple and Google aren't enforcing their app store policies against generating horrific sexualized deepfakes

Wait wait wait, while Americans have to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in new tariffs, Trump is going send over $10,000 to each person in *Greenland*????????? This is a joke right ? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

A woman was shot dead on camera and Trump’s ICE is launching a full scale coverup. Nobody is above the law. Federal agents who break the law in Minnesota, Oregon or anywhere else, must be prosecuted.

love this movie

this is actually incredible

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

this is the kind of hand-crafted seahawks content we need

That 4th down:

This defense is too good

"not afraid of boots on the ground."