Trump giving China want it wants, from cutting edge US computer chips, to bulling the rest of Asia. In exchange, Americans are paying more for a bunch of stuff. WINNING!

Tony did a good story about data brokers in 2019 - www.cbsnews.com/news/weather...

ICE told us it had no body camera footage from Chicago in response to our FOIA — even though a federal judge ordered them to wear cameras and turn them on. So who is ICE lying to? Us, or the judge?

finger on the pulse

"Donald Trump’s trade war is taxing families, killing markets for our farm goods, and driving farmers into bankruptcy," said Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden.

do you think the FCC will try to shut down a bunch of television shows for promoting political violence over this one or nah

#GVerse #Veterans US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.

Some great news: I just got off the phone with the U.S. Coast Guard, who has returned the rescue helicopter to Newport and promised to keep it there. This is a big win to keep fishermen and the Newport community safe.

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon made a push in September to force the U.S. Treasury Department to release Jeffrey Epstein’s financial statements.

this guy has no idea his own government freeing convicted mega drug traffickers and doing war crimes? otoh the oval office looks shiny so time well spent

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden on extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies

Republicans are letting drug kingpins out of prison

This is a huge win that you might have missed last week: we successfully pressured airlines to shut down their data broker, which was selling passenger data to the government without a court order. I'm going to keep at it until other industries to follow suit.

Sen. Ron Wyden is calling on DHS to cease what he describes as an illegal abuse of customs law to reveal the identities of social media accounts tracking the activity of ICE agents.

@wyden.senate.gov right to the point

We got “liberated”, alright — from jobs that make stuff. 🤡 @justinwolfers.bsky.social #NFP

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The CIA assessed that MBS ordered the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. That report was released based on a law @wyden.senate.gov passed in 2019.

Worth a watch

Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

The “Epstein Files” saga shows that Republicans were only ever interested in using sexual assault as a pretext to smear political rivals and deprive LGBT people of their constitutional rights www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

extremely legal and cool

Cal the real mvp come on

A lot of people have helped Trump cover up his involvement with Epstein. They need to think very carefully about their choices going forward. It's one thing to cheer on his ballroom or root for DOGE. Running interference for pedophiles is something the history books won’t forget.

JD Vance in 2021: "What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh…"

ICE and another Department of Homeland Security body, Homeland Security Investigations, also have access to the system, the letter said, and the two agencies together accounted for nearly 900,000 queries against the database in the year prior to Oct. 1. www.reuters.com/world/democr...

It helps to have a reporter who lived in Portland for years around to fact-check the fire hose of lies the right-wing media has been spreading about Portland

This is what losing the trade war looks like

Is this good?

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

What a time to be alive.

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

"Legislation to reopen the government would allow [8 Republican senators] to sue for $500,000 each - www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

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war on noodles

My red line has always been lowering health costs for Americans. Donald Trump and Republicans don’t want an agreement that meets that bar. I’m a no.

everyone except the rich thinks the economy is bad and expect it will get worse

Remember House republicans can vote right this minute to end trump's tariffs and help their farmers but they won't because trump told them no

China bought 22,130,000 tons of soy beans from the US last year. This year they bought zero because of the tariffs.

who could have seen this coming!

Senator Wyden and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi have formally requested that the FTC open an investigation into Flock Safety for unnecessarily exposing billions of instances of civilian's vehicle location data to hackers and foreign adversaires. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

By “on the job every day” he means hiding at home to prevent the release of the Epstein files

New from 404 Media: logins for Flock, the company behind the nationwide AI-camera network, are included in malware infections. Includes government and police accounts, meaning hackers could potentially break in. Senator Wyden asking FTC to investigate Flock www.404media.co/flock-logins...

can someone make a supercut of johnson saying he doesn't know anything

Seahawks might be good

Very brave of House Republicans to stand up for trump's hideously unpopular tariffs and block a resolution that would help their voters