R.G. Schoenberg
@rgschoenberg.bsky.social
Writer, Pacific Northwest, knowledgeable in both rural and urban histories of the region.
The Republicans still trying to covertly undermine mail in voting.
Well that sucks
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
December 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Republicans still trying to covertly undermine mail in voting.
Public relations professionals have been using these psychological techniques since the First World War advertising to consumers, and by the U.S. government to get us into the war. Ban advertising, ban public relations companies, and end Citizens United. Hardcore solutions.
One violent act by one perpetrator. Then suddenly an entire group is declared the enemy. If it feels like MAGA treats every tragedy as proof that “the left” or any out-group is inherently dangerous, you’re not imagining it. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-maga...
MAGA Is Weaponizing Basic Human Psychology To Declare War On The Left
The out-group homogeneity effect is having an insidious impact on our politics
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Public relations professionals have been using these psychological techniques since the First World War advertising to consumers, and by the U.S. government to get us into the war. Ban advertising, ban public relations companies, and end Citizens United. Hardcore solutions.
A message like this is now becoming common in political campaigns. It is not unique. Evangelicals have used this same language to grift from converts since for me, the 1970s in a printing shop duplicating thousands of letters for various evangelical grifters in Arizona. Rip-off artists. Shit works.
Trump tells supporters in a new fundraising email that if they don’t donate to him within the next hour, Democrats will steal their "tariff rebate checks" and give them to "illegals," that the country is "boiling over," and that only an immediate cash transfer to him can stop total disaster.
December 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A message like this is now becoming common in political campaigns. It is not unique. Evangelicals have used this same language to grift from converts since for me, the 1970s in a printing shop duplicating thousands of letters for various evangelical grifters in Arizona. Rip-off artists. Shit works.
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One person who has benefited from AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio is the town’s mayor.
His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M.
(Published Feb.)
His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M.
(Published Feb.)
The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon
AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fanc...
www.propublica.org
December 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
One person who has benefited from AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio is the town’s mayor.
His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M.
(Published Feb.)
His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M.
(Published Feb.)
Doing some scrubbing. Like Mr. Epstein and his Wikipedia page.
At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Trump — less than a day after they were posted.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after t…
trib.al
December 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Doing some scrubbing. Like Mr. Epstein and his Wikipedia page.
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Wild — as the community note says, Trump’s DOJ released a publicly available pic of MJ & Clinton & Diana Ross with their own kids and implied it’s them with victims
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Wild — as the community note says, Trump’s DOJ released a publicly available pic of MJ & Clinton & Diana Ross with their own kids and implied it’s them with victims
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring
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A real estate developer tells Willamette Week she’s “stunned by how far Portland has fallen” Meanwhile, Portlanders remain stunned at how aggressively concerned Willamette Week is for the rich.
Sorry but if we are in a position where anyone in power is supposed to give a shit what this speculator thinks about our city then we need to fundamentally reorganize everything 🤗 www.wweek.com/news/2025/12...
December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A real estate developer tells Willamette Week she’s “stunned by how far Portland has fallen” Meanwhile, Portlanders remain stunned at how aggressively concerned Willamette Week is for the rich.
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We're reopening to submissions on January 1st.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
December 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We're reopening to submissions on January 1st.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
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Former US attorney Pete Serrano's actions have implications across Eastern Washington, which RANGE has covered in Spokane. A piece from Washington State Standard explains the latest on Serrano, including his new "Special Attorney" title. Read here:
Workaround will keep WA’s Pete Serrano in federal prosecutor job – RANGE Media
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has named Serrano a “special attorney” after his temporary appointment in the Eastern District of Washington expired.
rangemedia.co
December 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Former US attorney Pete Serrano's actions have implications across Eastern Washington, which RANGE has covered in Spokane. A piece from Washington State Standard explains the latest on Serrano, including his new "Special Attorney" title. Read here:
Now that’s something. Lady Dynamite.
In a daring nighttime martime operation, U.S. veterans whisked Venezuela's María Corina Machado out of the country to claim her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo n.pr/4adj9td
'She's awesome': How U.S. veterans helped Venezuela's Machado escape
In a daring nighttime martime operation, U.S. veterans whisked Venezuela's María Corina Machado out of the country to claim her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
n.pr
December 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Now that’s something. Lady Dynamite.
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Today we hosted a drop-in workshop called FUN WITH MANUSCRIPTS, we had templates for buttons and coloring pages, we listened to holiday music and had a great time! Drollery is based on our 13th c. Bible (Ms. Codex 724). Blue Beet badge colored in by our friend Gabby!
December 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Today we hosted a drop-in workshop called FUN WITH MANUSCRIPTS, we had templates for buttons and coloring pages, we listened to holiday music and had a great time! Drollery is based on our 13th c. Bible (Ms. Codex 724). Blue Beet badge colored in by our friend Gabby!
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Today Senator Ruben Gallego introduced a bill to outlaw surveillance pricing nationwide.
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Today Senator Ruben Gallego introduced a bill to outlaw surveillance pricing nationwide.
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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The plea deal turns a potential felony sentence that could mean six years in federal prison and $250,000 in fines into three years of probation and a few thousand dollars in restitution costs.
Four of the Spokane 9 accept plea deals – RANGE Media
ICE protestors facing federal charges made a hard choice, but some fear a chilling effect: ‘They want to frighten people so they are afraid to use their First Amendment rights.’
rangemedia.co
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The plea deal turns a potential felony sentence that could mean six years in federal prison and $250,000 in fines into three years of probation and a few thousand dollars in restitution costs.
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Release the Epstein files.
Release the Jan. 6 documents.
Lock up the war criminals.
Abolish the ICE Gestapo.
Lock up the felon.
Release the Jan. 6 documents.
Lock up the war criminals.
Abolish the ICE Gestapo.
Lock up the felon.
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Release the Epstein files.
Release the Jan. 6 documents.
Lock up the war criminals.
Abolish the ICE Gestapo.
Lock up the felon.
Release the Jan. 6 documents.
Lock up the war criminals.
Abolish the ICE Gestapo.
Lock up the felon.
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A Winnipeg man has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after admitting to importing child sex dolls and using artificial intelligence to create child sex-abuse videos.
Man, 42, sent to prison for importing child sex dolls, making AI abuse videos
A Winnipeg man has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after admitting to importing child sex dolls and using artificial intelligence to create child sex-abuse videos.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
A Winnipeg man has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after admitting to importing child sex dolls and using artificial intelligence to create child sex-abuse videos.
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Wow and I haven’t even written about Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza yet
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wow and I haven’t even written about Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza yet
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Can someone explain to me how Kamala Harris went from filling arenas while he was filling gyms and parking lots to him, somehow, winning every single swing state??
This is our mess and we don’t have 3 more years of this idiotic chaos in us.
This is our mess and we don’t have 3 more years of this idiotic chaos in us.
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Can someone explain to me how Kamala Harris went from filling arenas while he was filling gyms and parking lots to him, somehow, winning every single swing state??
This is our mess and we don’t have 3 more years of this idiotic chaos in us.
This is our mess and we don’t have 3 more years of this idiotic chaos in us.
They can’t. The pages of documents are numbered, video is cataloged with dates and court filed sequence numbers, an index most likely, all sealed and unsealed by judges staff. Anything they do will live a trail of slime. All of it vetted. They can’t cook the evidence out of it and they know it.
Told ya they were fuckin' with them files.
Never understood why people kept "Asking" a corrupt DOJ to handover self incriminating evidence.
I bet it's all gone now.
Justice against a dictator isn't found in polite conversation and protests.
It's found in the blood on your knuckles.
Never understood why people kept "Asking" a corrupt DOJ to handover self incriminating evidence.
I bet it's all gone now.
Justice against a dictator isn't found in polite conversation and protests.
It's found in the blood on your knuckles.
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
They can’t. The pages of documents are numbered, video is cataloged with dates and court filed sequence numbers, an index most likely, all sealed and unsealed by judges staff. Anything they do will live a trail of slime. All of it vetted. They can’t cook the evidence out of it and they know it.
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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Amazing reporting from Range, and not that I trust the local cops, but holy shit. 95% of searches being non local is wild
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Amazing reporting from Range, and not that I trust the local cops, but holy shit. 95% of searches being non local is wild
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I’ve said this for years, but the real scandal of Russiagate wasn’t that Putin had something on Trump, but that Trump wanted to make the US like Putin’s Russia.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I’ve said this for years, but the real scandal of Russiagate wasn’t that Putin had something on Trump, but that Trump wanted to make the US like Putin’s Russia.
Watch what happens to retired Congress members. For Republicans they find their reward for being in the trenches comes after they retire. They get their commissions from the special interests they served while in office. It’s payday for a Republican.
FUN FACT: A total of 25 Republicans in the House are already planning to retire or resign, compared to only 16 Democrats (not including Mikie Sherrill, recently elected governor of NJ). The number of GOP resignations are expected to increase further over the coming months.
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Watch what happens to retired Congress members. For Republicans they find their reward for being in the trenches comes after they retire. They get their commissions from the special interests they served while in office. It’s payday for a Republican.
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National Park workers at 24 parks and offices are moving to form a union.
These National Park Service workers in Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain and nine other locations have filed petitions to hold a union election.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
These National Park Service workers in Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain and nine other locations have filed petitions to hold a union election.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Park Service Union Movement Spreads to Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree
Employees in dozens of park units are organizing to fight attempts by the Trump administration to downsize the agency.
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
National Park workers at 24 parks and offices are moving to form a union.
These National Park Service workers in Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain and nine other locations have filed petitions to hold a union election.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
These National Park Service workers in Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain and nine other locations have filed petitions to hold a union election.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Bookkeepers/CEO types who embezzle flock together. Does he pardon only Grand Old Party criminals?
Trump pardoned a Nevada Republican who raided a police memorial charity for $70K to fund her plastic surgery and her daughter’s wedding. Families of dead officers got nothing—she got a presidential pardon. Republicans preach “law and order” while celebrating thieves who steal from cops.
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Bookkeepers/CEO types who embezzle flock together. Does he pardon only Grand Old Party criminals?