Brenda
@operabrendaslp.bsky.social
Team Leader, Collins View Neighborhood Emergency Team (CVNET)
Loves: horses, hiking, gardening, cooking, music, reading, Portland Trail Blazers
Retired Speech Language Pathologist, voice specialty
Opera Stage Director
she/her
Loves: horses, hiking, gardening, cooking, music, reading, Portland Trail Blazers
Retired Speech Language Pathologist, voice specialty
Opera Stage Director
she/her
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This is not good. Selling off student loans to the private market should be grounds for borrowers to not have to pay.
www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
Education Department Announces ‘Breakup.’ Here’s What It Means For Student Loans
Here’s what is happening at the Department of Education, and how the ongoing dismantling of operations may impact student loans.
www.forbes.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is not good. Selling off student loans to the private market should be grounds for borrowers to not have to pay.
www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
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ALERT: Judge blocks Texas from using new congressional map for 2026 elections
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Judge blocks Texas from using new congressional map for 2026 elections
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown ordered Texas to use House district lines adopted in 2021 for next year's congressional elections.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
ALERT: Judge blocks Texas from using new congressional map for 2026 elections
www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-c...
www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-c...
Oh, come on. I read The Travels of Monarch X when I was 7 years old! They tagged that butterfly and tracked it all the way from Canada to Mexico!
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Oh, come on. I read The Travels of Monarch X when I was 7 years old! They tagged that butterfly and tracked it all the way from Canada to Mexico!
You just know Melania is ordering these purely for the cachet, and Donald is putting ketchup on it.
Paul Kelly's family farm in England has been selling $500 heirloom turkeys for two generations. Now, after a decade breeding them in Virginia, KellyBronze birds are looking to gobble up America's Thanksgiving market.
KellyBronze, The ‘Rolls-Royce Of Turkey’ Is Coming To America
Paul Kelly's family farm in England has been selling $500 heirloom turkeys for two generations. Now, after a decade breeding them in Virginia, KellyBronze birds are looking to gobble up America's Than...
www.forbes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
You just know Melania is ordering these purely for the cachet, and Donald is putting ketchup on it.
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Let ai do your taxes?
That seems like a phenomenally stupid idea.
That seems like a phenomenally stupid idea.
November 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Let ai do your taxes?
That seems like a phenomenally stupid idea.
That seems like a phenomenally stupid idea.
If you wondered why they shut down the Federal free tax filing service, look no further...
The popular chatbot has integrated several applications in similar deals in recent months, including PayPal, Walmart and Spotify.
Intuit Will Pay OpenAI $100 Million In Deal Combining TurboTax And ChatGPT
The popular chatbot has integrated several applications in similar deals in recent months, including PayPal, Walmart and Spotify.
www.forbes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If you wondered why they shut down the Federal free tax filing service, look no further...
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I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
Wow, now that SNAP benefits have been restored, folks’ll be lining up for those $500 turkeys!
Tone deaf much, Forbes?
Tone deaf much, Forbes?
Paul Kelly's family farm in England has been selling $500 heirloom turkeys for two generations. Now, after a decade breeding them in Virginia, KellyBronze birds are looking to gobble up America's Thanksgiving market.
KellyBronze, The ‘Rolls-Royce Of Turkey’ Is Coming To America
Paul Kelly's family farm in England has been selling $500 heirloom turkeys for two generations. Now, after a decade breeding them in Virginia, KellyBronze birds are looking to gobble up America's Than...
www.forbes.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Wow, now that SNAP benefits have been restored, folks’ll be lining up for those $500 turkeys!
Tone deaf much, Forbes?
Tone deaf much, Forbes?
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Hallelujah! Equal justice under the law just took an enormous stride forward in the Senate chamber!!!
The Epstein Files Transparency Act that @lujan.senate.gov and I introduced PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act that @lujan.senate.gov and I introduced PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Hallelujah! Equal justice under the law just took an enormous stride forward in the Senate chamber!!!
The Epstein Files Transparency Act that @lujan.senate.gov and I introduced PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act that @lujan.senate.gov and I introduced PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
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Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.
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Journalists - if the person you are all trying to question insults one of your peers and them comes to you, the only reasonable response is to defer back to the insulted journo or to repeat their question. It’s not just about integrity - our main job is to make sure difficult questions are answered
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Journalists - if the person you are all trying to question insults one of your peers and them comes to you, the only reasonable response is to defer back to the insulted journo or to repeat their question. It’s not just about integrity - our main job is to make sure difficult questions are answered
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I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.
Nothing to see here. Just the President of the United States advocating for dismembering who are "extremely controversial" with a bone saw.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Nothing to see here. Just the President of the United States advocating for dismembering who are "extremely controversial" with a bone saw.
Well, chaining to him a rock to have his liver devoured by an eagle everyday isn't the worst idea I ever heard...
Bezos will serve as co-CEO of the (somewhat ostentatiously named) company Project Prometheus, which will focus on using AI to pursue breakthroughs in research, engineering, manufacturing, and other fields.
With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again
He stepped down at Amazon in 2021 and doesn’t hold a CEO title at Blue Origin.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Well, chaining to him a rock to have his liver devoured by an eagle everyday isn't the worst idea I ever heard...
OMG! Even the cats can't escape Pumpkin Spice Season:
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
OMG! Even the cats can't escape Pumpkin Spice Season:
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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The real War on Christmas thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The real War on Christmas thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
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This is bullshit! What are the charges?
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is bullshit! What are the charges?
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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The asylum and refugee system is supposed to be about helping people. It’s unconscionable that the dialogue has flipped into using it to punish people.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The asylum and refugee system is supposed to be about helping people. It’s unconscionable that the dialogue has flipped into using it to punish people.
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US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
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Since Christmas is around the corner, a reminder that Wikipedia has a store. And the profits go to a project billionaires hate, so you're buying an object and getting free spite.
Classic Collection
Inspired by infoboxes, blue hyperlinks, talkpages, and everything that makes Wikipedia unique, this collection features new and well-loved designs, reimagined.
store.wikimedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Since Christmas is around the corner, a reminder that Wikipedia has a store. And the profits go to a project billionaires hate, so you're buying an object and getting free spite.
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Ever since someone on here brought up the fact that the media literally just interviews rich people to get their thoughts on random shit, even though there’s absolutely no need to do that, it’s all that I can see everywhere
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ever since someone on here brought up the fact that the media literally just interviews rich people to get their thoughts on random shit, even though there’s absolutely no need to do that, it’s all that I can see everywhere
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“Sleep and circadian experts generally advocate for permanent Standard Time… Change between Standard Time and DST is not simply loss/gain of sleep, but rather misalignment between circadian and social clocks…”
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Sleep and circadian experts generally advocate for permanent Standard Time… Change between Standard Time and DST is not simply loss/gain of sleep, but rather misalignment between circadian and social clocks…”