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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

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Stephen Hawking.

Feels like things are going really well for Trump

Enough US Senate Democrats have now voted in favor of a government funding measure for it to advance.

Update: Oregon was able to get all its EBT cards loaded for November, in the window they had between order to release, and stay of that order.

The national picture is mixed.

#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.

The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.

Oregonian here. Can say I just used my SNAP card hours ago, it has some carryover from previous months.

State DHS website assure us that the cards will still work if they have balance. Dunno if it will be refilled yet.

Trump's incoherent answers to Norah O'Donnell raise new questions about Joe Biden's mental fitness.

after months of focus on Biden’s autopen pardons:

NYPost headline reading “Prince Andrew had a network of staff, pals to ‘arrange girls’ for sex – and he had a type: biographer”

People kvetch about the chaos-inducing serial comma, but you can also do a lot with a colon! Beware, biographers!!

crypto bro pretending he's rich and that a woman can tolerate him for likes on the X platform formerly known as Twitter

The thing about these grindset lifestyle posts is that they're all fake. None of it is real.

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Doing the Juan Guaidó thing. Appear on conservative media and encourage the west to do regime change and be installed as leader instead of Maduro.

It's kinda sad.

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

New from @agreenberg.bsky.social and me: For three years, security researchers pointed a satellite at the sky and found highly sensitive data being sent unencrypted

They found: calls and texts on T-Mobile’s network; military info from the US and Mexico; in-flight Wi-Fi browsing, and a lot more

Portland is so peaceful Republicans had to go all the way to South America to find photos from years ago for their bad memes.

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

I thought that was an AI edit at first, but no, he really said that.

Politicians need outreach. Twitter still has users to reach.

Why do addicts go to sordid places? To obtain what they need.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

FBI Readies New War on Trans People “We’re looking at the entire spider web”

I say this in seriousness and not at all lightly, the entire rainbow is under extreme threat. Consider asylum abroad if you are able. Really and truly. Prepare while it is still possible to do so.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

This leads to posts like this where faces dreamed up by the LLM are used to match the FBI's photos to trans people.

You don't *have* to put your every thought out on Sky.

Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky’s Community Guidelines. We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse, and we’re committed to fostering healthy, open conversations

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

A screenshot of a post on X. It's a double quote tweet. The original post is a photo of bacon in a frying pan and the caption says, "Just wanting to share some bacon with all my lovable Muslim peeps this monning. It's the least I can do." Then another account quotes that with the caption, "Hey @ZohranKMamdani this is for you, Bone-petite!" And finally Zohran quote tweets that with the caption, "my brother, this isn't garlic and we're not vampires."

Tweet from Stuart Stevens: When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party. They are a dissident movement. Act like it. First day: - cut off all funding of Exec. Branch -vote to nationalize Starlink and SpaceX -defund ICE That's the first day. On the second, get more aggressive. There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos.

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

it's very true that Nazis can be welcoming and accommodating TO INFLUENCERS who they want to help them spread their message. if Nazis are being nice to you it isn't a sign they are more "welcoming". it's a sign they find you useful.

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments. By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova 08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

Here's a version that was archived.

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