Pdxeagle
@pdxeagle.bsky.social
SGI Buddhist. Active in 1960’s and 1970’s protests, having déjà vu. Committed to dialogue.
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Gallego: "This is the Iraq War 2.0 with a South American flavor. I'm hoping this doesn't happen, but I'm telling you - if you look at what they have down there, all the assets they have down there, all the actions they're taking, this is absolutely an effort to get us involved in a war in Venezuela"
December 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Gallego: "This is the Iraq War 2.0 with a South American flavor. I'm hoping this doesn't happen, but I'm telling you - if you look at what they have down there, all the assets they have down there, all the actions they're taking, this is absolutely an effort to get us involved in a war in Venezuela"
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Gallego: "Let's be clear -- the goal of what they're doing right now is to get us into war. They're not gonna be able to stop the drug trade, they're not effectively gonna be going after narcos in this way."
December 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Gallego: "Let's be clear -- the goal of what they're doing right now is to get us into war. They're not gonna be able to stop the drug trade, they're not effectively gonna be going after narcos in this way."
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Sadness on top of sadness on top of sadness. 💔
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This Weekend Hurt
Grief doesn’t arrive one at a time—but neither do we.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sadness on top of sadness on top of sadness. 💔
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Workers who had been repaying their student loans via President Joe Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program are looking down the barrel of an even more diffi...
GOP Forcing Eight Million Student Loan Borrowers Into Repayment - The American Prospect
The most affordable of all the federal repayment programs is ending sooner than planned after Trump conspired with red-state attorneys general to kill it.
prospect.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Workers who had been repaying their student loans via President Joe Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program are looking down the barrel of an even more diffi...
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Mike Johnson and House republicans have ditched the vote on ACA funding. Their promise to end the shut down has collapsed.
Your health insurance premiums will triple.
Merry Christmas.
Your health insurance premiums will triple.
Merry Christmas.
December 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Mike Johnson and House republicans have ditched the vote on ACA funding. Their promise to end the shut down has collapsed.
Your health insurance premiums will triple.
Merry Christmas.
Your health insurance premiums will triple.
Merry Christmas.
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this is just historical and legal fan fiction. made up bullshit designed to vindicate trump's lawlessness
This is a startling read of history & precedent. He has a lot to distinguish. But for him, Supreme Court precedent isn't very relevant when its not tied to originalist reasoning? & the Alien & Sedition Acts are *positive* evidence for how to interpret the 1st Am? Bring back seditious libel, anyone?
December 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
this is just historical and legal fan fiction. made up bullshit designed to vindicate trump's lawlessness
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Another example of how fucked originalism is as a methodology. Basically directly imports schmittian colonialism into the constitution, like hey there were some white guys who made an apartheid state and hoarded the weapons for themselves and so we have to read it like a settler colonial hoard law
NEW: 6th Cir upholds the fed law barring undocumented immigrants from having guns.
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Another example of how fucked originalism is as a methodology. Basically directly imports schmittian colonialism into the constitution, like hey there were some white guys who made an apartheid state and hoarded the weapons for themselves and so we have to read it like a settler colonial hoard law
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Stephen Miller made an odious threat on X Monday against “the violent fifth column of domestic terrorists” after the Department of Justice announced it had stopped a bombing plot in California.“Fol...
Stephen Miller Announces Chilling Hunt for “Fifth Column”
The top White House adviser is applying an old antisemitic trope to his next group of targets.
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Stephen Miller made an odious threat on X Monday against “the violent fifth column of domestic terrorists” after the Department of Justice announced it had stopped a bombing plot in California.“Fol...
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In other words, they broke the law first and then claimed it was too late to challenge it. They further asserted that the White House ballroom project must continue for reasons of “national security”.
Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for reasons of national security.
apnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
In other words, they broke the law first and then claimed it was too late to challenge it. They further asserted that the White House ballroom project must continue for reasons of “national security”.
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They don't have any internal ability to say this is a bad idea, so they're doing it even though it's a bad idea & most of them know it. A study in organizational dysfunction
December 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
They don't have any internal ability to say this is a bad idea, so they're doing it even though it's a bad idea & most of them know it. A study in organizational dysfunction
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OAN’s Chief Pentagon Correspondent with an update on the latest Trump admin gift to Democrats for the midterms.
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
OAN’s Chief Pentagon Correspondent with an update on the latest Trump admin gift to Democrats for the midterms.
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After taking over housing and healthcare, private equity is now buying up software used by volunteer fire departments — making it even harder for rural communities to respond to emergencies.
The only winners from private equity's price-gouging spree are wealthy investors.
The only winners from private equity's price-gouging spree are wealthy investors.
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
After taking over housing and healthcare, private equity is now buying up software used by volunteer fire departments — making it even harder for rural communities to respond to emergencies.
The only winners from private equity's price-gouging spree are wealthy investors.
The only winners from private equity's price-gouging spree are wealthy investors.
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Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.
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The State Department is evidently going all in defending a meeting with a known Russian asset from a far-right party in Germany. Helluva look, even for this administration. x.com/michaeldweis...
Michael Weiss on X: "Surely one can be anti-censorship without being under the "absolute control" of the Russian Presidential Administration, as Markus Fronhmaier is described as being in two separate documents obtained by @derspiegel. You just returned from Europe where you spent much of your time https://t.co/sa6Vva56u6" / X
Surely one can be anti-censorship without being under the "absolute control" of the Russian Presidential Administration, as Markus Fronhmaier is described as being in two separate documents obtained by @derspiegel. You just returned from Europe where you spent much of your time https://t.co/sa6Vva56u6
x.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The State Department is evidently going all in defending a meeting with a known Russian asset from a far-right party in Germany. Helluva look, even for this administration. x.com/michaeldweis...
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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Thank goodness tragedy was averted. But we shouldn't even be there with our military in the first place.
December 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Thank goodness tragedy was averted. But we shouldn't even be there with our military in the first place.
Michelle Singer Reiner was also killed, you know.
December 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Michelle Singer Reiner was also killed, you know.
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The "60 Minutes" interview with Rob Reiner, aired just two months ago on CBS News.
Rob Reiner: The 60 Minutes Interview
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The "60 Minutes" interview with Rob Reiner, aired just two months ago on CBS News.
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Rob Reiner on the murder of Charlie Kirk. Bookmark this.
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Rob Reiner on the murder of Charlie Kirk. Bookmark this.
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FWIW, yesterday I learned there is a new Spinal Tap from 2025 and it's now available on HBO.
It's adding to my whole surreal sadness now that I just learned about and enjoyed this movie yesterday.
If you liked Spinal Tap, you will get a kick out them 40 years later. And the new drummer rocks!😉
It's adding to my whole surreal sadness now that I just learned about and enjoyed this movie yesterday.
If you liked Spinal Tap, you will get a kick out them 40 years later. And the new drummer rocks!😉
The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
FWIW, yesterday I learned there is a new Spinal Tap from 2025 and it's now available on HBO.
It's adding to my whole surreal sadness now that I just learned about and enjoyed this movie yesterday.
If you liked Spinal Tap, you will get a kick out them 40 years later. And the new drummer rocks!😉
It's adding to my whole surreal sadness now that I just learned about and enjoyed this movie yesterday.
If you liked Spinal Tap, you will get a kick out them 40 years later. And the new drummer rocks!😉
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Per the Rhode Island AG: the evidence “now points in a different direction”
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Police release man detained earlier in connection with deadly Brown University shooting, mayor says | CNN
The person of interest detained in connection with yesterday’s deadly shooting at Brown University has been identified as 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson of Wisconsin, multiple law enforcement sources t...
www.cnn.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Per the Rhode Island AG: the evidence “now points in a different direction”
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
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One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her.
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her.
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.
Major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall telecast Saturday, moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring an interview with Erika Kirk.
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News’ Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
Many major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall format moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring a conversation with Erika Kirk
variety.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.
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