Keith Chu
@keithchu.bsky.social
Comms for Sen. Wyden of Oregon but takes are my own. Guinea pig friend, kid dad, soccer enthusiast, seattle sports, KTBFFH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHLPnGuVSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHLPnGuVSQ
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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.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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.
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"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...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"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...
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"Legislation to reopen the government would allow [8 Republican senators] to sue for $500,000 each - www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
JaWboNinG
Here's the letter that Trump's lawyer Alejandro Brito sent to the BBC threatening a defamation lawsuit if it doesn't retract the Panorama documentary by Friday.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
JaWboNinG
war on noodles
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
apple.news
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
war on noodles
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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
Latest consumer sentiment data are abysmal. Well abysmal for everyone except those who own a lot of stocks (so, wealthier people) www.sca.isr.umich.edu
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
everyone except the rich thinks the economy is bad and expect it will get worse
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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
Mike Johnson: "I think the Court has to give deference to that. I think the Court has to recognize the executive is doing what they're doing -- he's using tariffs to create leverage in our trade strategy, and it's yielding great results for the American people."
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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
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China bought 22,130,000 tons of soy beans from the US last year. This year they bought zero because of the tariffs.
Trump: "We made a wonderful deal for everybody. Our farmers, as you know, with the soybeans at levels that nobody has ever seen before. If we didn't have the tariffs, we wouldn't have been able to do that."
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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!
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
who could have seen this coming!
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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...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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By “on the job every day” he means hiding at home to prevent the release of the Epstein files
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
By “on the job every day” he means hiding at home to prevent the release of the Epstein files
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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...
www.404media.co/flock-logins...
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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...
www.404media.co/flock-logins...
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can someone make a supercut of johnson saying he doesn't know anything
Raju: Last week, you were very critical of Biden, you said he didn’t even know who was pardoning. On 60 minutes, Trump admitted not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire guilty of money laundering. Is that also concerning?
Johnson: I don’t know anything about it.
Johnson: I don’t know anything about it.
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
can someone make a supercut of johnson saying he doesn't know anything
Seahawks might be good
November 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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
For the third time in three days, the Senate was asked whether it approves of President Trump’s tariffs. And for the third time, they said “no.”
But that vote is unlikely to undermine any agreements because House Republican leadership has blocked votes on Trump’s tariffs until March.
But that vote is unlikely to undermine any agreements because House Republican leadership has blocked votes on Trump’s tariffs until March.
Senate rejects Trump's global tariffs, the final vote in a series of rebukes
Once again, four Republicans joined with Democrats to approve a resolution condemning a signature part of the president's agenda.
www.politico.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Very brave of House Republicans to stand up for trump's hideously unpopular tariffs and block a resolution that would help their voters
for three days in a row, the Senate has voted on a bipartisan basis to repeal Trump's job killing tariffs. But the Republican House won't even show up to work, let alone vote on these bills.
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
for three days in a row, the Senate has voted on a bipartisan basis to repeal Trump's job killing tariffs. But the Republican House won't even show up to work, let alone vote on these bills.
there was a time when using goon tactics against national reporters would cause a guaranteed backlash,
October 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
there was a time when using goon tactics against national reporters would cause a guaranteed backlash,
If only there was something that House Republicans could do about this!
As Trump raises tariffs across Asia this week, Congress has been voicing its concern about the hit to US small businesses
Congress Sends Trump Message on Tariffs Hitting US Economy
As Trump raises tariffs across Asia this week, Congress has been voicing its concern about the hit to US small businesses
bloom.bg
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
If only there was something that House Republicans could do about this!
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My 'We're not building Skynet' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
There is a long interview with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar by columnist Ross Douthat in the Times today. "We’re explicitly not building Skynet," he reassures Douthat, in a wide ranging conversation that ranges from the company's work with ICE and Israel to Sankar's appetite for pro-American movies.
Opinion | What Palantir Sees
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
My 'We're not building Skynet' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
As @wyden.senate.gov said on Monday, “After all the chest-thumping rhetoric, the Trump administration is still getting rolled on trade by China.”
The Art of Letting Trump Claim a Win, While Walking Away Stronger
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
As @wyden.senate.gov said on Monday, “After all the chest-thumping rhetoric, the Trump administration is still getting rolled on trade by China.”
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The Senate just passed our bipartisan resolution to END Trump's tariffs on Brazil. Tonight's vote sends a clear message that Trump's tariffs are damaging and unpopular. Now it's time for the House to do its job and get this passed to bring costs down.
October 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Senate just passed our bipartisan resolution to END Trump's tariffs on Brazil. Tonight's vote sends a clear message that Trump's tariffs are damaging and unpopular. Now it's time for the House to do its job and get this passed to bring costs down.
Turns out trump‘s “deals“ that no one can read are actually not real
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Toyota says it did not explicitly promise Trump new $10 billion investment in US
Japan's Toyota Motor did not explicitly promise a new $10 billion investment in the United States, a senior executive said on Wednesday, a day after President Donald Trump mentioned a potential investment of that size.
www.reuters.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Turns out trump‘s “deals“ that no one can read are actually not real
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
www.reuters.com/business/aut...