Brandon Sheldon

Avid country music and Oregon 🦆 fan.

[Brandon Sheldon @BS_heldon]

Life is not a problem to be solved but rather a reality to be experienced.
-Soren Kierkegaard

[joey spartan (or Salt🧂) @saltysparty]

ohhhhhhhh it was the secret clock, not the broadcast clock

[S1apSh0es @S1apSh0es]

IT IS CALLED PAC-12 AFTER DARK

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

ESPN after they remove the bottom line for a “cleaner presentation”

[𝔎𝔦𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔬𝔩𝔦𝔞 @kimandgo]

Dolly had this "no shit, Sherlock" approach to social issues that used to be very ingrained in the country star archetype. like, always admitting she doesn't know everything, but wanting to get it right and not taking any shit at the same time. may we all be so humble

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

Today's firings are an ugly, un-American attack on our free press. By tradition and design, the Stars and Stripes is protected by First Amendment principles. The paper has possessed editorial independence for decades. To preserve that independence, and prevent the Pentagon from censoring, Congress passed a law in 1991 creating an independent ombudsman, answerable solely to the Senate and the House.

America's brave servicemembers swore an oath to defend the Constitution. They deserve the free and independent press our Founders fought for 250 years ago, not Pravda-style propaganda. The United States is uniquely committed to freedom of the press, and has been since our founding. Accepting censorship means losing our national identity.

[enemycharlie @enemycharlie]

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was not an exaggeration. This is what happens when we privatize and deregulate.

[reason @reason]

Florida woman spent 7 months in legal hell after cops used Flock surveillance to ID the wrong car.

Full story: https://t.co/tlCYZS0YhM

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

A Travis County judge just froze a web domain worldwide.

Not by blocking it in Texas, but by ordering Verisign to lock the .com domain itself so it resolves for no one on earth until a foreign company posts a $9.14 million bond and builds Texas-mandated digital ID check.

That's a single state court with a global kill switch.

AG Paxton calls it a "huge precedent." He’s right.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

As for Flock cameras "keeping us safe," I live part-time in Las Vegas. The Strip casino-hotel district is surveilled to the millimeter, inside & out, with the very latest tech.

And in the very bullseye of this target the deadliest mass shooting in American history occurred.

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

🚨 A federal judge ruled that "tower dump" warrants, which allow police to obtain records for every cellphone that connected to nearby cell towers around a crime scene, are per se unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment as general warrants.

Thanks to @SeamusHughes for fighting to unseal these records.

[Schuyler Mitchell @schuy_ler]

this is actually a really good 30 minute long john oliver segment on surveillance tech. did not think i'd ever see a late night host explain phrases like "predictive policing" and "cell-site simulators" to suburban america. the flock effect is crazzyyyyy
https://t.co/VC2ew9ZiD7

[Dylan Allman @dylanmallman]

The Sons of Liberty destroyed private property owned by chartered corporations doing the Crown's work.

The Constitution is supposed to bind the state, so the state buys from Flock what it is forbidden to gather.

Flock scans, Flock stores, Flock sells the lookup. An officer types a plate and gets your last three weeks. All without technically violating the 4th Amendment.

The Crown had paperwork for all of it. Every one of those cameras is private property. So was the tea. Both had to come down for anyone to be free of it.

[SolomonKingston @SolomonKingsto9]

Thomas Massie tried to stop this but a bunch of boomers got tricked by AI so now we have to live in 1984

[Skate Coach 𓅄 @Sk8Couch]

People on here will ask “Is it too late to start over at 28?” and everyone will reply “Yikes. Hate to break it to you gramps but it was over for you 10 years ago.” Meanwhile my 63 year old neighbor is taking the bar exam because he has a list of pharma companies he plans to sue

[Smartphones sans Google (GAFAM) @Sans_Google]

First known US case: American charged for using a “duress” password

Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta resident, is being prosecuted for allegedly giving border agents a passcode that wiped his phone.

The feature comes from GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused Android OS. Entering the duress code triggers a full factory reset.

This is believed to be the first time federal prosecutors have brought such charges.

The incident happened in January 2025 at Atlanta airport. Agents demanded access to his phone without a warrant, saying he hadn’t yet officially entered the US. When they entered the code, the phone wiped itself.

Tunick has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers argue the seizure was unlawful and that agents were investigating his activism against “Cop City.”

The case raises big questions about digital rights at the US border.

What do you think?

Article: https://t.co/tV806yWtyW

#Privacy #GrapheneOS #DigitalRights

[PDX Real @PDXReal1]

More Blazers BS:

I say this as a person who firmly believes that the NBA is a failed league with a subpar product. Personally, if I could snap my magic fingers, I would dump the NBA and bring in the MLB, but that’s just my personal opinion. I’d rather travel to LA or San Francisco or Seattle to see a game than sit in a crumbling facility in Portland to watch a mediocre product.

The socialists, most of whom moved here within the last decade from parts of the country that didn’t appreciate their wackiness and have no concept of Blazers' history, will tell you this is about the “B word” – billionaires.

It is not. This is about the identity of the city. The Blazers ARE Portland. Even though I didn’t live here at the time, I still remember the ’77 Championship. I still remember that horrible June day in 2000 when the Blazers blew a seemingly insurmountable 4th quarter lead against the hated Lakers in the 7th game in the semi-finals, which if they had won, they would have undoubtedly crushed a far less-talented Indiana Pacers team in the finals.

This isn’t about “the money.” Portland dumps 3 quarters of a billion dollars every year towards increasingly failed homelessness policies without blinking an eye, and without a single complaint from city or county councilors. The city’s $8.5 billion annual budget is 2 to 4 times higher than many other cities of similar size in this country.

This is about Portland’s increasingly anti-business morons who run the city.

Speaking of morons, a week ago, delusional Mayor Keith Wilson excitedly sent a ridiculous term sheet to Blazers ownership that would supposedly establish a framework to renovate the Moda Center.

In the proposal, the mayor suggested a 250% increase in the taxes that the Blazers would pay to city to use the facility (which would increase yearly). It also demanded the use of union workers, which with their PLA’s (union Project Labor Agreements) would demand much higher wages and much higher numbers of workers in anything involved in projects around the Moda remodel – which will drive up costs exponentially.

$600 million? Try $1.5 billion.

As expected, Blazer ownership announced the terms of the term sheet were a “nonstarter.”

Now, county commissioners Brim-Edwards (who originally ran as a moderate but is now siding with radical left-wingers in her attempt to grab the county chair position) and Moyer have announced their intention to pull a third of their $88 million commitment to the facility’s renovation.

It is now reported that negotiations between the city and the franchise are at an all-time low. In the meantime, there are multiple cities chomping at the bit to bring an NBA franchise in with open arms. If there is one thing you can count on with this city’s leadership, from its mayor, to its city and county councilors, to its bureaucracy, is to royally f things up. At this point, it seems losing the franchise is more likely than retaining it.

Portland simply can’t stand any more loss. Losing the Blazers would be catastrophic to this city, no matter what you feel about the current ownership.

But don’t worry. The morons who got us into this mess are gonna figure out a way out of it.

Or so they say.

[Just T.J. the Army Vet @thomas_garrard]

Just because I have nothing to hide, doesn’t mean that I want the government to be able to spy on my nothing.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

Per my local police department, Flock charges approximately $3000/year per camera.

So American taxpayers are spending $349,671,000 per year to be constantly monitored. Most Americans are unaware this is happening.
@therealDeFlock

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

when people ask why i’ve changed so much in and last 6 years, i will now send them this.

this is exactly what is wrong with society.

one of the best articles i’ve read. ever.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

GOOD GOD