Chuck Schulien

Hey Meta 👋 We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie Instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event.

HAPPENING NOW: 9th Circuit Oral Arguments on DOJ's lawsuit against California voters. DOJ is arguing that there is massive amounts of non-citizens voting, and the harm is irreparable because once the ballot is separated from its envelope, you can't trace it to the voter. 1/

Three days after the August primary, election workers in one Washington county went to check for late mail-in ballots. They expected no more than a few dozen. Instead, there were more than 500 — each a vote that wouldn’t count.

“ICEYE and Nokia signed a letter of intent with Ukraine's Defense Ministry on Oct. 22, formalizing a partnership aimed at developing Ukraine's own satellite communications system.” kyivindependent.com/amid-starlin...

Bleak

Exclusive: Sen. Wyden is urging the Trump administration to close an encryption gap that could let foreign adversaries track visits to sensitive government websites, including the FBI’s tip portal and a veterans crisis line. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

lol GOPer claims he's being defaming by a Dem ad saying he's endorsed by Trump (he is endorsed by Trump) ... not "Support ICE!"

Time for an era of tech trust-busting?

no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Leaked audio of Mike Rogers calling on Republicans to use off-duty police officers to intimidate voters in Detroit in an attempt to manipulate the Michigan Senate race:

THIS is the way. The grit. The determination. The gumption. A model for all of us. If ever there was a moment to use your right to speak up—and vote—it’s now.

Please everyone call your reps about this. Most of them don't like it either, but they may think you don't care.

Can we please not nominate another “neutral” attorney general in 2029? Go scorched earth.

A delusional wannabe autocrat who believes he is an autocrat.

🏆 Glad to report that my nominee for the Pritzker Environmental Genius Award just won the $100K Once she was @mongabay.com's science advisor & is now a star bioacoustics researcher ✨ “It’s huge encouragement to know that work on #biodiversity #conservation in tropical forests is seen as important"

Holy shit.

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

But look on the bright side! That increases the chance that Rob Sand will appoint his successor.

The research implies that a local newspaper creates $114 per resident per year ($84 in 2018$) in local government efficiency. A case for subsidies for local news, perhaps in the form of consumer free-subscription vouchers like @deanbaker13.bsky.social advocates

Peter Baker writing in the NYT’s current lead story: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...

When I first met Ariadna, she was still inside Delaney Hall. She translated for the other women inside, helping me learn their stories. Now that she’s out, she’s still shining a light on their experiences.

this is disappointing to me to hear. But I think Bill's right. Property is property. Absent some very binding court stipulations, I doubt this means much. My wife was also at WSJ when this happened, albeit in GC office of Dow Jones. Everyone knew what was coming.

For years, Alaska officials prosecuted (& persecuted) a community of American Samoans in the city of Whittier, threatening them with years in prison for the crime of voting. You may have read about this when we covered it in Bolts earlier this year. HUGE NEWS: Alaska just dropped all charges.

Made possible by the GOP's 11th hour power grab in late 2024: boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

This is a Portland success story, showing the power of women and perserverance.

An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved. n.pr/3UmkeZP

The five biggest defense contractors spent more than $100B on buybacks and dividends since 2020. I have a simple question for defense contractors: If taxpayers are giving you billions to build military equipment, why are you buying back your own stock? This needs to stop.

I do wonder just how much the innuendo can be dialed up before Trump responds in an insane way. Though it's likely he loves people assuming he can still bring the cheater heat at 80.

FT 2-1 Portland Thorns #BAONPDX #NWSL Days away from being called up by Emma Hayes & making her dream USWNT senior team debut, Caiya Hanks suffered an ACL injury. Exactly 14 months later, she made her return for Portland Thorns in the 88th minute. 8 minutes later, she scored the game-winner. WOW

I’ve introduced Articles of Impeachment against Hegseth. I urge my colleagues to join me and hold him accountable.

As the only lung doctor in Congress, I know we must take definitive action to protect our air quality. I introduced the No Passes for Polluters Act to stop the toxic emission exemptions that poison our air. Stay loud.

"The Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/13/o...

Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.

I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them

Implementing a universal, single-payer healthcare system would save the U.S. more than $1 trillion and some 114,000 lives every year, according to a recent Yale University preprint study

Not that this goes to the deeper issues people are discussing. But the Thanksgiving Holiday has basically nothing to do with the Pilgrims or anything to do with settlers or later white Americans interactions with American Indians. The holiday didn't start with the Pilgrims. The modern day ...

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

Good get from @davidkurtz.bsky.social: Another migrant who was wrongfully deported just got a judge to order him released from detention. He faced a lot of the horrors that Kilmar Abrego Garcia did. Quite a case: morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/first-at-t...

Chuck Edwards should resign from Congress.

@kim.senate.gov @hcrichardson.bsky.social American Conversation Thursday July 30, 2026 Hearing Sen. Kim with Dr. Richardson is always an incredible experience. www.youtube.com/live/Rp0AMyQ...

Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.

The current wildfire situation in Oregon is the worst in the nation—but FEMA denied federal resources for the East Evans Creek Fire and the Rowe Creek Fire Complex. Oregonians deserve answers—and @wyden.senate.gov and I are pressing to get them.

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

At least 52 people have died in ICE custody since Trump returned to the White House. At least 23 people have been shot at by federal immigration agents. And thousands more have been caged, separated from their families, or shipped off to dangerous countries. The cruelty is endless.

I have a question for those who study the media: Does anyone in corporate owned media wonder if their declining audience and trust is the product of events like we saw last night? Because, as someone who started an independent media outlet, it is definitely part of our growth.