Silentrex
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They/them. Eternal student. Crankypants. Neurounpalatable. PDX music/tech, language, lefty+queer stuff, apocalyptic freakout. Dog and cat hair stuck to every surface.
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Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
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Keep in mind, Trump's pardons meant that a great many Jan6 criminals didn't pay off their debt for ransacking the Capitol.
So these Senators are adding to the cost of Trump's attack on the Capitol even while taxpayers ALSO have to pay for his attack.
So these Senators are adding to the cost of Trump's attack on the Capitol even while taxpayers ALSO have to pay for his attack.
"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 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Keep in mind, Trump's pardons meant that a great many Jan6 criminals didn't pay off their debt for ransacking the Capitol.
So these Senators are adding to the cost of Trump's attack on the Capitol even while taxpayers ALSO have to pay for his attack.
So these Senators are adding to the cost of Trump's attack on the Capitol even while taxpayers ALSO have to pay for his attack.
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It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.
Breaking MSNBC:
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign
Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.
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You'd think a dude with all his "man" stuff in the background wouldn't be afraid of Charlotte of all places.
Rep. Pat Harrigan: "I have asked Josh Stein, our governor, to consider working with President Trump to allow the National Guard to come into Charlotte ... use the National Guard as a force multiplier and they can a lot of load off the Charlotte PD."
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
You'd think a dude with all his "man" stuff in the background wouldn't be afraid of Charlotte of all places.
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They’re gonna kill SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, social security, etc. ANYWAY. It’s all in project 2025.
Caring about people is the right intent, but whether short term or long term approach actually accomplishes that mattered here. This was not the obvious win you think it is.
Caring about people is the right intent, but whether short term or long term approach actually accomplishes that mattered here. This was not the obvious win you think it is.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
They’re gonna kill SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, social security, etc. ANYWAY. It’s all in project 2025.
Caring about people is the right intent, but whether short term or long term approach actually accomplishes that mattered here. This was not the obvious win you think it is.
Caring about people is the right intent, but whether short term or long term approach actually accomplishes that mattered here. This was not the obvious win you think it is.
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I get the argument for the cave that says "but they were going to kill/starve people!"
My problem with it is that there is NO sign they aren't STILL going to kill/starve people. Just they'll still have the filibuster to hide behind.
He's STILL gonna cut SNAP and the ACA. Still. (And blame Dems)
My problem with it is that there is NO sign they aren't STILL going to kill/starve people. Just they'll still have the filibuster to hide behind.
He's STILL gonna cut SNAP and the ACA. Still. (And blame Dems)
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I get the argument for the cave that says "but they were going to kill/starve people!"
My problem with it is that there is NO sign they aren't STILL going to kill/starve people. Just they'll still have the filibuster to hide behind.
He's STILL gonna cut SNAP and the ACA. Still. (And blame Dems)
My problem with it is that there is NO sign they aren't STILL going to kill/starve people. Just they'll still have the filibuster to hide behind.
He's STILL gonna cut SNAP and the ACA. Still. (And blame Dems)
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Democrats caved on ACA subsidies thinking the GOP will “show their cards” later. Are you kidding me? These people burn down their own farms, deport their own families, lose their union jobs, veterans benefits & still vote for Trump. You can't outsmart stupidity with compassion and logic.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Democrats caved on ACA subsidies thinking the GOP will “show their cards” later. Are you kidding me? These people burn down their own farms, deport their own families, lose their union jobs, veterans benefits & still vote for Trump. You can't outsmart stupidity with compassion and logic.
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The term of art for this in a bankruptcy court is "fraudulent conveyance". Stealing money that isn't yours and then transferring it to a third party to defraud creditors is also a crime. It doesn't eliminate the possibility for judgment on the first charge.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The term of art for this in a bankruptcy court is "fraudulent conveyance". Stealing money that isn't yours and then transferring it to a third party to defraud creditors is also a crime. It doesn't eliminate the possibility for judgment on the first charge.
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At the very site of the Free Speech Movement 61 years ago. www.dailycal.org/opinion/edit...
UCPD arrests over anti-TPUSA art installation dangerously criminalize student protests
The students’ arrest and subsequent jailing are a clear overreaction on the part of UCPD, dangerously criminalizing students’ right to protest.
www.dailycal.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
At the very site of the Free Speech Movement 61 years ago. www.dailycal.org/opinion/edit...
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Felony vandalism? They were hanging a cardboard bug on a wall.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Felony vandalism? They were hanging a cardboard bug on a wall.
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A very brave person and one of the most familiar faces at the Broadview detention facility.
Come join with others to stand against Trump's political prosecutions, against ICE's attacks on our communities, and for freedom of speech and the right to protest.
See you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow.
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A very brave person and one of the most familiar faces at the Broadview detention facility.
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"But the true message—the prospective message—is that pardons will be available to everyone who joins him in election subversion in 2026 and 2028. This wave of preemptive pardons is a permission slip, an encouragement for election subversion in the future."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Pardon the Corruption
Trump’s blanket pardons for stop-the-steal illegality aren’t only about settling scores from past elections. They’re about laying the groundwork to subvert future ones.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"But the true message—the prospective message—is that pardons will be available to everyone who joins him in election subversion in 2026 and 2028. This wave of preemptive pardons is a permission slip, an encouragement for election subversion in the future."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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This is the kind of question you ask when you don’t have any idea how to run a news room because you’ve only run a propaganda rag
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is the kind of question you ask when you don’t have any idea how to run a news room because you’ve only run a propaganda rag
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trump STOLE our Resolute Desk.
So, how do we get it back?
Call the cop? The FBI? The DOJ?
They, like trump, are corrupt enough to turn a blind 👁️.
They all belong in prison. Someone like trump might evade it. But the others in this administration surely have their tickets stamped #USDemocracy
So, how do we get it back?
Call the cop? The FBI? The DOJ?
They, like trump, are corrupt enough to turn a blind 👁️.
They all belong in prison. Someone like trump might evade it. But the others in this administration surely have their tickets stamped #USDemocracy
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
trump STOLE our Resolute Desk.
So, how do we get it back?
Call the cop? The FBI? The DOJ?
They, like trump, are corrupt enough to turn a blind 👁️.
They all belong in prison. Someone like trump might evade it. But the others in this administration surely have their tickets stamped #USDemocracy
So, how do we get it back?
Call the cop? The FBI? The DOJ?
They, like trump, are corrupt enough to turn a blind 👁️.
They all belong in prison. Someone like trump might evade it. But the others in this administration surely have their tickets stamped #USDemocracy
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Trying to piece together footage from the last few months in any coherent way just feels like making a trailer for a horror movie starring the feds...and all things considered, that's probably about where we're at.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Trying to piece together footage from the last few months in any coherent way just feels like making a trailer for a horror movie starring the feds...and all things considered, that's probably about where we're at.
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So much evil from Hegseth, Miller, and the rest who support the ugly toad that is our "president" slips through the news cracks as the news gets more outrageous every day.
Under Trump, a memorial to Black soldiers killed in WWII was quietly removed from the cemetery
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
So much evil from Hegseth, Miller, and the rest who support the ugly toad that is our "president" slips through the news cracks as the news gets more outrageous every day.
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If you're bleeding internally you just uhh call around and compare health care plans. Make a budget spreadsheet and see what you can afford. Do I have to spell it out for you. I have a ballroom to build
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
If you're bleeding internally you just uhh call around and compare health care plans. Make a budget spreadsheet and see what you can afford. Do I have to spell it out for you. I have a ballroom to build
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I don’t mean to dilute Stella’s message, but I want to add that Elián González grew up to be a member of the Cuban National Assembly. “I will fight from whatever trench the revolution demands.”
There is no “bright side” to the trauma we are inflicting. But revolutionaries are being made every day.
There is no “bright side” to the trauma we are inflicting. But revolutionaries are being made every day.
Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I don’t mean to dilute Stella’s message, but I want to add that Elián González grew up to be a member of the Cuban National Assembly. “I will fight from whatever trench the revolution demands.”
There is no “bright side” to the trauma we are inflicting. But revolutionaries are being made every day.
There is no “bright side” to the trauma we are inflicting. But revolutionaries are being made every day.
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getting ratio'ed into oblivion
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
getting ratio'ed into oblivion
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Senate Dems are out here posting noise like "omg the Senate GOP just voted against healthcare subsidies and are trying to sneak a bunch of terrible shit into the funding bill" — and people are flooding their mentions with "bitch, please, GTFOH"
Never seen such a dramatic swing in political momentum
Never seen such a dramatic swing in political momentum
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Senate Dems are out here posting noise like "omg the Senate GOP just voted against healthcare subsidies and are trying to sneak a bunch of terrible shit into the funding bill" — and people are flooding their mentions with "bitch, please, GTFOH"
Never seen such a dramatic swing in political momentum
Never seen such a dramatic swing in political momentum
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There was a similar thermostatic anti-287(g) backlash during Trump 1.0. On a local levels, non-cooperation policies have had enormous success in recent years. Unfortunately, that has also led to a backlash, with multiple GOP states *mandating* cooperation through new state laws.
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
There was a similar thermostatic anti-287(g) backlash during Trump 1.0. On a local levels, non-cooperation policies have had enormous success in recent years. Unfortunately, that has also led to a backlash, with multiple GOP states *mandating* cooperation through new state laws.
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lol - here is the giveaway:
“Schumer persuaded the moderates to hold out until at least the beginning of November, when open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act began.”
Basically he wanted to hold out a little while longer before caving so that Ds could campaign on healthcare.
Beyond cynical.
“Schumer persuaded the moderates to hold out until at least the beginning of November, when open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act began.”
Basically he wanted to hold out a little while longer before caving so that Ds could campaign on healthcare.
Beyond cynical.
SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).
www.axios.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
lol - here is the giveaway:
“Schumer persuaded the moderates to hold out until at least the beginning of November, when open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act began.”
Basically he wanted to hold out a little while longer before caving so that Ds could campaign on healthcare.
Beyond cynical.
“Schumer persuaded the moderates to hold out until at least the beginning of November, when open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act began.”
Basically he wanted to hold out a little while longer before caving so that Ds could campaign on healthcare.
Beyond cynical.
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Starting now: Press conference announcing a motion for a temporary restraining order challenging USDA's unlawful attempt to withhold SNAP benefits, featuring Attorneys General of CA, NY, MN, NJ and leaders from City Harvest, Food Action Research Center and No Kid Hungry.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Starting now: Press conference announcing a motion for a temporary restraining order challenging USDA's unlawful attempt to withhold SNAP benefits, featuring Attorneys General of CA, NY, MN, NJ and leaders from City Harvest, Food Action Research Center and No Kid Hungry.
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Republicans want to kill us all and we are making them do pinky promises
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Republicans want to kill us all and we are making them do pinky promises
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These people are going to send their life savings to a Macedonian server farm the second they don't have aides reading all their emails
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
These people are going to send their life savings to a Macedonian server farm the second they don't have aides reading all their emails