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Keith Chu
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Comms for Sen. Wyden of Oregon but takes are my own. Guinea pig friend, kid dad, soccer enthusiast, seattle sports, KTBFFH.

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"Legislation to reopen the government would allow [8 Republican senators] to sue for $500,000 each - www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Each violation would be worth at least $500,000 in any legal claim, according to the bill language. The bill would also sharply limit the way the government could resist such a claim, taking away any government claims of qualified or sovereign immunity to fight a lawsuit over the issue. The Republican senators whose phone records were subpoenaed as part of the investigation were: Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming. Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, accused Republicans of hiding a provision in the funding bill that would give millions of taxpayer dollars “to a handful of Republican senators who helped Trump try to overthrow the government on Jan. 6, 2020.” Mr. Wyden said in a statement that every American “should have the right to be told if the government spies on them,” but added that this bill “takes a reasonable protection against government surveillance and wraps it in an unacceptable giveaway of your tax dollars to Republican senators.”
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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incredible
The Register bluesky post: CISA caves to Wyden, agrees to release US telco insecurity report- but won't say when subhead: the security nerds' equivalent of the Epstein files saga
July 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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predict this will not age well
NYT Headline: The Economy Seems Healthy. Were the warnings about tariffs overblown?
July 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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inflation for us profits for banks growth for china and no tomato great job trump
NYT headline: inflation accelerated in June as trumps tariffs pushed up prices NYT headlines about tariffs helping china, banks and meaning no more always-in-season tomatos
July 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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@wyden.senate.gov posted this over on the other site -->
Picture of Ron Wyden tweet: Buried in the Republican budget bill: a provision preventing states from regulating AI for a decade. Everything from rent-setting algorithms to facial recognition to hiring systems would be unregulated. I'm working to remove it.
June 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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here are some takeaways in handy chart form
Picture of a chart Title: Do Wireless Carriers Notify Customers About Government Surveillance? Category head: Notifies Customers?* AT&T No Boost Mobile No Cape Yes Charter No Comcast No Google Fi Wireless Yes T-Mobile No U.S. Mobile Yes Verizon No
May 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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if only there were a way to stop the tariff insanity oh wait there's a bipartisan bill getting a vote today tell your friends
washington post headlines: US economy shrank in first quarter of 2025 as tarifs sapped growth, UPS set to lay off 20,000 workers as it reduces business with amazon, After signaling restraint trump renews criticism of federal reserve. Bar graf of GDP by quarter, 2025 Q1 is negative
April 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Lots of talk about deals but bottom line the huge taxes on stuff people buy are going into effect tomorrow
CNN Headline: Trade Concerns won't be solved overnight, top Trump official says. Picture of USTR Jameison Greer Subhead: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says Trump is still planning for his massive reciprocal tariffs to go into effect tomorrow
April 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Headline: S&P still has plenty of room to fall if recession is inevitable scrawl: is this good?
April 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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cool cool cool
Stocks suffer biggest one day wipeout in value since March 2020
April 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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is this American dominance butterfly meme etc
WSJ headline: US Stocks, Dollar Tumble after Trump Tariffs Blitz Subhead: Dow industrials fall more than 1,000 points; Nasdaq plunges 4%, S&P slides 3%
April 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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trump: make America Saudi Arabia
NBC News has requested comment from the White House about concerns over the Trump family’s relations with Riyadh. But “there has never been a sharp distinction in Saudi Arabia between family business and the state’s business,” said F. Gregory Gause III, a visiting scholar at the Middle East Institute. “In the Trump era, that element is entering American politics.”
March 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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sorry i'm spamming but this is a unique situation
CNN graphic: Extreme Fear is driving the US market
March 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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seems ... bad
WSJ headline: stocks slide as trump confirms tariffs on canada, mexico subhead: Stocks fell sharply in afternoon trading as president trump said his administration will go ahead with the 25% levies
March 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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is this good
screenshot of bloomberg homepage showing headlines of high inflation
February 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Ready to pounce
A tan and white guinea pig looks at the camera
February 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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personally not my metric but Trump allegedly cares about the stock market?
Headline: STOCK Market News - dow falls after white house tariff comments
January 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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AT&T hack was even worse than previously known, according to 404. Now it's on the Trump FCC to shore up our country's woeful phone network security
“It is clearer than ever that AT&T's lax cybersecurity and Trump's ineffective, corrupt FCC pose a serious threat to U.S. national security,” Senator Ron Wyden told 404 Media in a statement. “Instead of throwing the book at AT&T for failing to secure Americans' sensitive data, FCC Chairman Carr is coddling Trump's corporate donors and raising the white flag to hackers. It's time for the public and the U.S. government to stop relying on the insecure voice and text message services provided by phone companies, which are beyond salvaging, and embrace secure, end-to-end encrypted voice, video and text communications.”
January 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Strongly agree
Wyden Statement on firing of Inspectors General:“Donald Trump is systematically dismantling the protections against abuse, corruption and fraud within the federal government,” Wyden said. “Courts should immediately strike down this blatantly illegal action. Firing IGs without notifying Congress 30 days in advance is clearly illegal. The only reason for Trump to carry out the midnight massacre of more than a dozen inspectors general without notice is to make it easier for him to break the law and help him and his wealthy cronies profit from the government without anyone looking over his shoulder.”
January 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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You know who warned that a TikTok ban would lead to a Trump crony getting ahold of it?? Yes it was @wyden.senate.gov
January 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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chutzpah intensifying
Ron Wyden and Cory booker high five at a bookstore
January 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Merry Christmas, you filthy animals
Photo of Joe Pesci in home alone 2
December 24, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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Wot
December 13, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Big story from @wired.com overnight on data brokers selling location information about US military bases overseas. btw @wyden.senate.gov has been warning about this for A WHILE NOW
Experts caution that foreign governments could use this data to identify individuals with access to sensitive areas; terrorists or criminals could decipher when US nuclear weapons are least guarded; or spies and other nefarious actors could leverage embarrassing information for blackmail. “The unregulated data broker industry poses a clear threat to national security,” says Ron Wyden, a US senator from Oregon with more than 20 years overseeing intelligence work. “It is outrageous that American data brokers are selling location data collected from thousands of brave members of the armed forces who serve in harms’ way around the world.” Wyden approached the US Defense Department in September after initial reporting by BR and netzpolitik.org raised concerns about the tracking of potential US service members. DoD failed to respond. Likewise, Wyden's office has yet to hear back from members of US president Joe Biden's National Security Council, despite repeated inquiries. The NSC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “There is ample blame to go around,” says Wyden, “but unless the incoming administration and Congress act, these kinds of abuses will keep happening, and they'll cost service members' lives.”
November 20, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Pigs stand with cat ladies
Guinea pig looking into camera
July 26, 2024 at 5:46 PM