Silentrex
@silentrex.bsky.social
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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RBG letting Scalia — Scalia!! — bully her out of accurately describing Jeb Bush’s racially targeted voter purges as he was signing onto an ”equal protection” holding that was a monument to bad faith was really the canary in the coal mine
The reaction of the 4 centrist and liberal SCOTUS justices in December 2000, when they discovered that Kennedy, O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas were determined to intervene and decide the presidential election, rather than let events play out in Florida.
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RBG letting Scalia — Scalia!! — bully her out of accurately describing Jeb Bush’s racially targeted voter purges as he was signing onto an ”equal protection” holding that was a monument to bad faith was really the canary in the coal mine
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the TSA went from security theater to Schutzstaffel spies in one easy step
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
the TSA went from security theater to Schutzstaffel spies in one easy step
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Biden could have been the legal weed president and secured the stoner vote eternally but nooo
🍃 SCOOP 🍃
President Trump is preparing to order his administration to dramatically loosen restrictions on MARIJUANA.
The order would reclassify cannabis from Schedule I — the same level as heroin — to Schedule III — the same level as Tylenol and codeine and some steroids.
President Trump is preparing to order his administration to dramatically loosen restrictions on MARIJUANA.
The order would reclassify cannabis from Schedule I — the same level as heroin — to Schedule III — the same level as Tylenol and codeine and some steroids.
Trump seeks to cut restrictions on marijuana through planned order
The president is expected to attempt to classify marijuana similar to some common prescription painkillers and other drugs.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Biden could have been the legal weed president and secured the stoner vote eternally but nooo
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Not beating the “treated like a toddler” charges
December 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Not beating the “treated like a toddler” charges
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Nurses at Legacy Emanuel hospital are raising alarm bells, saying hospital policies accommodating immigration enforcement agents violate the code of ethics they swore to uphold.
Legacy Staff and Nurses Union Say Hospital Policies Harm Immigrants
Jeremiah Hayden
www.portlandmercury.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Nurses at Legacy Emanuel hospital are raising alarm bells, saying hospital policies accommodating immigration enforcement agents violate the code of ethics they swore to uphold.
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I will say that here in Michigan - a legitimately purple state - local Democratic parties break out the popcorn when we see local GOP parties literally _punching each other_ during party meetings. Note: these are _multiple different incidents_.
December 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I will say that here in Michigan - a legitimately purple state - local Democratic parties break out the popcorn when we see local GOP parties literally _punching each other_ during party meetings. Note: these are _multiple different incidents_.
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Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
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Please get vaccinated. This doesn’t have to happen. But it will happen more, and with more fatalities as long as RFK Jr and his anti-science enablers continue to spread disinformation. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
www.nbcnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please get vaccinated. This doesn’t have to happen. But it will happen more, and with more fatalities as long as RFK Jr and his anti-science enablers continue to spread disinformation. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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There are reports that the FDA intends to put a “black box” warning on COVID-19 vaccines.
This is not in line with the science, which shows that COVID-19 are safe and have saved millions of lives.
This would be a serious abuse of power by FDA officials to further antivax political goals.
This is not in line with the science, which shows that COVID-19 are safe and have saved millions of lives.
This would be a serious abuse of power by FDA officials to further antivax political goals.
December 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
There are reports that the FDA intends to put a “black box” warning on COVID-19 vaccines.
This is not in line with the science, which shows that COVID-19 are safe and have saved millions of lives.
This would be a serious abuse of power by FDA officials to further antivax political goals.
This is not in line with the science, which shows that COVID-19 are safe and have saved millions of lives.
This would be a serious abuse of power by FDA officials to further antivax political goals.
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Half the world holds its breath any time we haven't seen him in 24 hours. At least now I know collective manifestation isn't real.
Live your life in such a way that if you’re late to a meeting people don’t break out the champagne in anticipation of it happening.
It could've happened. It might happen. One day, it will definitely happen.
He's at the stage where we should always have some champagne on ice (or whatever your preferred beverage for celebrating might be) because it could come at any moment
He's at the stage where we should always have some champagne on ice (or whatever your preferred beverage for celebrating might be) because it could come at any moment
December 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Half the world holds its breath any time we haven't seen him in 24 hours. At least now I know collective manifestation isn't real.
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Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
Putin said Russia had taken Kupiansk weeks ago.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
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One way of thinking about the AI bubble is that it's the final gasp of a grift based on specialized GPU's instead of tulips, a logical continuation from crypto and NFT's and the metaverse.
Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.
Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.
October 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
One way of thinking about the AI bubble is that it's the final gasp of a grift based on specialized GPU's instead of tulips, a logical continuation from crypto and NFT's and the metaverse.
Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.
Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.
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I love how the piranha is like I'm not stuck in here with you you're stuck in here with me
December 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I love how the piranha is like I'm not stuck in here with you you're stuck in here with me
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live feed from the white house
December 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
live feed from the white house
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Getting an awful lot more pictures of our big wet president regressing further into childhood costume play.
December 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Getting an awful lot more pictures of our big wet president regressing further into childhood costume play.
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Beyond parody.
"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
Democrats Return Henry Cuellar to Powerful Spending Post After Trump Pardon
“We got ratified,” Cuellar told reporters after the vote.
www.notus.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Beyond parody.
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He doesn’t have any basic answers for Rep. Thompson. This is an entirely fabricated threat.
December 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
He doesn’t have any basic answers for Rep. Thompson. This is an entirely fabricated threat.
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An analysis of 700,000+ climate change papers found that the five most climate-vulnerable countries produced 0.04% of them. US, China, Uk, Germany, Australia, meanwhile, account for 52%.
Bridging the climate research divide: A global imperative for equitable resilience
Nations most vulnerable to climate contribute minimally to climate research, creating stark global disparities. Such imbalances undermine resilience, perpetuate injustice, and threaten effective adapt...
www.science.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
An analysis of 700,000+ climate change papers found that the five most climate-vulnerable countries produced 0.04% of them. US, China, Uk, Germany, Australia, meanwhile, account for 52%.
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the way the 1980 US hockey team is fellating trump. mortifying.
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
the way the 1980 US hockey team is fellating trump. mortifying.
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Prairie Band Potawatomi intends to ditch $30M ICE contract, chairman announces | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg
Prairie Band Potawatomi intends to ditch $30M ICE contract, chairman announces • Kansas Reflector
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe’s chairman compared immigrant detention to Indian reservations in an online video address Friday, and declared the tribe’s intention to jettison a recently secured co...
kansasreflector.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Prairie Band Potawatomi intends to ditch $30M ICE contract, chairman announces | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg
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Two immigrant rights groups are asking a judge to order policy changes at the jail.
Lawsuit claims Multnomah County jail illegally detained federal immigration suspects
Two immigrant rights groups are asking a judge to order policy changes at the jail.
www.oregonlive.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Two immigrant rights groups are asking a judge to order policy changes at the jail.
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When your appearance with Trump has to be blocked out for your own protection
Trump appears 4 times in newly released Epstein photos released by House Democrats. Here they are. www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...
December 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
When your appearance with Trump has to be blocked out for your own protection
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