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US Senators Launch Inquiry into Privacy Risks of Meta AI-Enabled Smart Glasses
Democratic senators Ed Markey and Ron Wyden have demanded answers from Mark Zuckerberg over serious privacy and safety concerns linked to Meta AI smart glasses. SN How Streamline reports this story Build your reading streak0/3 today·Counts at 25% No sign-in required. Choose up to two. This captures your response to the story—it is not a vote on whether the reporting is true. 2 source references Sources linked in this article’s evidence ledger.
Oregon Senator Wyden: Trump Stripped 86 Million Acres of Public Land from Federal Protection for Privatization by Billionaires
Friends, Today is Public Lands Day. But what should be a day to celebrate our treasured outdoor spaces and national parks is a reminder of something much more sinister: Trump’s endless attacks on our public lands and attempts to give them away for the benefit of corporations. During his second term, Trump has moved to strip more than 86 million acres of public land of their federal protections. His priorities? Resource extraction, privatization, and commercial development for new data centers.
Oregon Senator Wyden: Working for Health Care for All & Lower Costs for This to Happen, You Must Vote
Friends, In recent weeks, I’ve held a series of health care hearings across Oregon. I wanted to give real patients and health care providers the opportunity to share how the Republican health care cuts have left them sicker, poorer, and worse off than ever before. Overwhelmingly, the message from these hearings was one that you yourself have probably experienced trying to access care, no matter where you live: health care is hard to come by, and it’s expensive when you do.
S. 5006: Work Without Worry Act of 2026
Add a note about this bill. Your note is for you and will not be shared with anyone. Because you are a member of panel, your positions on legislation and notes below will be shared with the panel administrators. (More Info) A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate work disincentives for childhood disability beneficiaries. The bill’s titles are written by its sponsor. Sponsor and status Sponsor. Senior Senator for Oregon. Democrat.
Oregon’s Senator Wyden: Today Marks Six Months the United States Has Been at War with Iran
Friends, As of today the war with Iran has lasted exactly 6 months. And what do we have to show for it? The deaths of 18 U.S. service members and thousands more civilians in the Middle East A massive global spike in oil prices, which is leading to more inflation across the board Showing that Iran has immense tactical leverage through the Strait of Hormuz Needless death. Higher costs. And zero strategic gains.
Oregon Senator Wyden: Social Security Is Earned; It Isn’t an Entitlement
CommunityHuman InterestNational RepresentativesOpinionOregon Friends, 91 years ago today, FDR signed the Social Security Act. This codified a promise: that if you work hard, you will be able to retire with dignity — and your government will be there for you. It is our duty to continue to uphold that promise. But Republicans see otherwise. They think Social Security is an “entitlement,” not something people earn.
Oregon’s Ron Wyden: Know That Mail-In Voting Is Safe, Trusted, & Successful
Friends, Last month, Trump ran to the Supreme Court in hopes that they’ll toe the line and approve his illegal executive order that restricts mail-in voting. There’s a reason this executive order has already been halted by lower courts: it’s blatant and unconstitutional federal interference in how states conduct their elections. The Constitution is unambiguous about this. So why does Trump keep trying to make mail-in voting less accessible, no matter how many times he loses in court?
Oregon’s Senator Wyden Speaks Out: Trump Is Trying to Rig the Midterm Elections – We Won’t Let Him
CommunityElectionsHuman InterestNationalOpinionU.S. Senate Friends, Trump’s speech last night was disgraceful, dangerous, and absurdly out of touch. Right now, Americans are worried about costs. Gas prices, grocery prices, energy prices — you name it. Families are worried about a seemingly endless war with Iran. Families are fearful of the unaccountable ICE agents continually endangering safety in our communities.
Guest column: Together we can make a better tomorrow - Baker City Herald
Our country is strongest when we move forward with our eyes open and a clear plan for a better future. In the wake of America’s 250th birthday, I was honored to hold open-to-all town halls last week across eastern Oregon, in Malheur, Harney, Grant, Baker, Union and Wallowa counties.
Oregon’s Senator Wyden: One Year Ago the Big Beautiful Bill Signed
Friends, Tomorrow will be our country’s 250th birthday. It will also mark exactly one year since Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law. It’s hard to ignore the sad irony of a President choosing to honor our country’s founding by signing legislation that put the American dream further out of reach for so many.
During Pride Month, Merkley, Wyden, colleagues introduce resolution apologizing for government discrimination against LGBTQ+ civil servants, servicemembers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oregon’s U.S. Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined a resolution led by U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) to acknowledge and apologize for the mistreatment of and discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals who have served in the uniformed services, as civil servants, or in the Foreign Service. “America is at its best when everyone can live as their authentic self — no matter who they are or whom they love,” said Merkley, author of the Equality Act.
Help reimagine health care for Oregonians and all - The Astorian
As America prepares to celebrate our 250th anniversary, a more recent but disturbing anniversary looms large for millions of families in Oregon and nationwide. On July 4th, 2025, congressional Republicans passed their so-called One, Big, Beautiful Bill, making the largest health care cuts in American history. These cuts, combined with the rise of corporate health care monopolies elevating profits over patients, are driving up costs and putting care out of reach for those needing it.
Help reimagine health care for Oregonians and all - The Bulletin
As America prepares to celebrate our 250th anniversary, a more recent but disturbing anniversary looms large for millions of families in Oregon and nationwide. On July 4th, 2025, congressional Republicans passed their so-called One, Big, Beautiful Bill, making the largest health care cuts in American history. These cuts, combined with the rise of corporate health care monopolies elevating profits over patients, are driving up costs and putting care out of reach for those needing it.
Trump Yönetimi 500’den Fazla Göçmen Çocuğu Hedef Aldı
Trump yönetimi, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin güney sınırından tek başına gelen ve devlet korumasındaki 500’den fazla refakatsiz göçmen çocuğun ülkeden çıkarılması için potansiyel adımlar atıyor. Demokrat Senatör Ron Wyden bu bilgiyi kamuoyuna duyurdu. Çocukların sponsor bulunamayan ve en az altı aydır devlet bakımında olanlar arasından seçildiği belirtiliyor.
Oregon’s Senator Wyden Decries GOP Plans to Cut Health Care for War & Illuminates 2026-2028 Plans
CommunityAshlandHuman InterestJackson CountyNational RepresentativesOpinionOregonRogue Valley Friends, Less than a year ago, Republicans defunded $1 trillion from health care in their Big Ugly Bill. And already we’re seeing the consequences of those cuts come to be, especially in rural areas: hospitals closing, providers laid off, and patients being forced to go without care or drive hundreds of miles to the closest hospital to get it.
Oregon’s Senator Wyden Is on To the Trump, Musk, DOGE Scam
CommunityAshlandHuman InterestJackson CountyNational RepresentativesOpinionOregonRogue Valley Oregonians, Early last year, Elon Musk and Donald Trump seized control of the highly sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department. It gave them access to a trove of highly sensitive information about Americans that pay into Social Security, receive Medicare payments, the money owed to government workers, and much more.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden Trying To Stop Trump Administration From Weaponizing Our Private Data!
CommunityAshlandBusinessEducationHuman InterestJackson CountyNational RepresentativesOpinionOregonRogue Valley Oregonians, Donald Trump has turned ICE and CBP into his personal gestapo. His federal agents are murdering American citizens in broad daylight, snatching people off the street into unmarked vans, and terrorizing our communities. This isn’t immigration enforcement, it’s intimidation.
Oregon Senator Wyden's Letter To The CIA Hints At Wrongdoing - He Has Never Been Wrong!
Sen. Ron Wyden “only talks like this when the spies do something *real* bad.” That’s how journalist Spencer Ackerman reacted Thursday to a letter from the Oregon Democrat to Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe expressing alarm over unspecified CIA activities, as observers noted Wyden’s history of heads-up previews of government wrongdoing.
Oregon Senator Wyden's Message To Oregonians Concerning The Lawless Actions Of ICE
Oregonians, As we watch the horrors wrought by ICE and mourn the killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, let’s be very clear about why this is all happening: Republicans cut funding for your health care to pay for Trump’s lawless militia. Now that militia is occupying cities, trampling upon people’s civil rights, and bringing violence to our communities. I cannot support funding for ICE until there’s accountability, an end to these abuses, and a guarantee of safety for civilians.
Oregon's Senator Wyden Wants Investigation By State & Local Authorities Into The Killing Of Minneapolis Woman
Oregonians, For months, Portlanders have felt intimidated by the troops and federal agents deployed on our streets by the Trump administration. I said from the start that Trump’s reckless actions to instill fear would only put lives in danger. Our community is reeling from the news this past week of two people shot by federal law enforcement, just hours after the entire country grappled with the horrific killing of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis by ICE agents.
Oregon's Senator Wyden Knows That When Congress & The Supreme Court Fail, It Is Up To Us, The Voters To Act In 2026
Oregonians – This weekend, Donald Trump staged a lawless attack on Venezuela. Trump’s lawless actions are exactly the same global interventionism that Americans soundly rejected after decades of failed wars and disastrous meddling in other countries’ affairs. Let me be clear: I strongly oppose Trump’s lawless, unprovoked, unauthorized attack, just like I strongly opposed sacrificing American lives in Iraq.
Secure Rural Schools legislation should move forward in Congress
I will work with anybody who is serious about moving an issue forward. In fact, I believe so strongly in this approach that I recently wrote a book — “It Takes Chutzpah” — spotlighting the need for determination among my top 12 principles of politics. In few areas has this “work with anybody who’s serious about moving forward” approach proved more fruitful and enduring than the Secure Rural Schools legislation I co-authored with a Republican senator from Idaho more than two decades ago.
Trump admin ignored “actionable” info on Jeffrey Epstein and Wall Street: Sen. Wyden
As the Paramount merger shows, major news organizations keep folding to Trump, and uncompromising journalism is more important than ever. Support independent media that keeps on top of the investigations that matter. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) told All Rise News that Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has been “sitting on” a file that he provided with “actionable” information about Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with Wall Street banks.
Why the internet still needs Section 230
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Why the internet still needs Section 230
Across U.S. politics, it’s become fashionable to blame nearly all the internet’s ills on one law I co-wrote: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Everyone from President Donald Trump to some of my Democratic colleagues argue that Section 230 has let major tech platforms moderate too much or too little. Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, has already written about his plans to reinterpret the law himself. Many of these claims give Section 230 too much credit.
JBC Bookshelf: Winter 2025
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Fair Courts Act of 2023 (S. 1758)
Add a note about this bill. Your note is for you and will not be shared with anyone. Because you are a member of panel, your positions on legislation and notes below will be shared with the panel administrators. (More Info) A bill to address the rising trend of venue-shopping in Federal courts. The bill’s titles are written by its sponsor. Sponsor and status Sponsor. Senior Senator for Oregon. Democrat.
So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast | Section 230 and online content moderation
So to Speak: The Free Speech PodcastEp. 216 June 6, 2024 Your browser does not support HTML5 audio. Did 26 words from an American law passed in 1996 create the internet? Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act says that interactive websites and applications cannot be held legally liable for the content posted on their sites by their users. Without the law, it's likely Facebook, Amazon, Reddit, Yelp, and X wouldn't exist -- at least not in their current form.
Opinion | Buy This Legislation Or We’ll Kill The Internet
Repealing Section 230 without a plan to replace it is a bipartisan idea—and a terribly reckless one. A 1973 National Lampoon cover featured a dog with a gun to its head. The headline: “If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Kill This Dog.” The image is reminiscent of how Congress approaches its most serious responsibilities. Lawmakers increasingly prefer brinkmanship to rational leadership.
Chutzpah Nation
About the Author Ron Wyden , a Democratic Senator from Oregon, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 until his 1995 election to the U.S. Senate. Oregonians—and all attentive Americans—know Wyden as a senator who listens and innovates. The son of two refugees from Nazi Germany, he was born in Wichita and lived in Chicago, St. Louis, and Washington D.C., as his father Peter Wyden, a journeyman journalist and later a best-selling author, pursued his career and curiosity.
It Takes Chutzpah
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The Facts About Electronic Surveillance Reform
Early last November, a bipartisan, bicameral group of U.S. senators and representatives introduced The sponsors of the bill, who came from across the ideological spectrum, stood for three principles: First, the surveillance law known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) should be reauthorized with reforms, rather than allowed to expire. The GSRA was in fact the first bill introduced in this Congress to reauthorize Section 702.
Drug Shortages: Examining Supply Challenges, Impacts, and Policy Solutions from a Federal Health Program Perspective | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
International institutions have introduced a new blended finance platform for climate-linked investments in developing countries Lack of knowledge and adequate risk-protection mechanisms for investors is keeping funds from reaching the world’s least developed countries Sustainable finance needs to go beyond the need for fast profits and instead focus on long-term goals Banks and financial institutions looking to make climate-linked investments in developing countries may be wary of the...
FAMILIES Act (S. 3272)
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law. Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number S. 3272. This is the one from the 118th Congress. We recommend the following MLA-formatted citation when using the information you see here in academic work: GovTrack.us. (2023). S. 3272 — 118th Congress: FAMILIES Act. Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s3272 “S.
The authors of Section 230: ‘The Supreme Court has provided much-needed certainty about the landmark internet law-but AI is uncharted territory’
Since 1996, the law known unpoetically as Section 230 has governed the liability of millions of websites, blogs, apps, social media platforms, search engines, and online services that host content created by their users. Hundreds of court decisions have created a now-venerable jurisprudence around the statute. But not until this year has the U.S. Supreme Court had an opportunity to consider its first Section 230 cases.
The Lawfare Podcast: Cox and Wyden on Section 230 and Generative AI
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Generative AI products have been tearing up the headlines recently. Among the many issues these products raise is whether or not their outputs are protected by Section 230, the foundational statute that shields websites from liability for third-party content.
Supreme Court to hear arguments on two pivotal cases
Central to the arguments is "Section 230," a federal law that's been roundly criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for different reasons but that tech companies and digital rights groups have defended as vital to a functioning internet.A set of rulings against the tech industry could significantly narrow Section 230 and its legal protections for websites and social media companies.And more could be coming: the Supreme Court is still mulling whether to hear several additional cases with...
These 26 words 'created the internet.' Now the Supreme Court may be coming for them - WISH-TV
A set of rulings against the tech industry could significantly narrow Section 230 and its legal protections for websites and social media companies.And more could be coming: the Supreme Court is still mulling whether to hear several additional cases with implications for Section 230, while members of Congress have expressed renewed enthusiasm for rolling back the law’s protections for websites, and President Joe Biden has called for the same in a recent op-ed.Here’s everything you need to...
Wyden, Merkley introduce bill to help Klamath Basin communities with severe drought
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said Friday, Feb. 17 they have introduced legislation that would support farmers and ranchers responding to severe drought and restoring Log In Sign Up You are logged in Switch accounts
Fears of renewed FBI abuse of power after informant infiltrated BLM protests
Members of the original Church committee in Washington in 1975.Photograph: Henry Griffin/AP The attempt by Trump-allied Republicans to claim the mantle of the Church committee to justify weakening federal action against far-right attacks on American democracy has incensed those who participated in the 1970s investigation.Gary Hart, the former senator from Colorado who is the only surviving member of the Church committee, told the Guardian that the new House “weaponization” panel was the...
Wyden calls for passage of the PRESS Act
If you don’t have a free press, you don’t have a democracy. Individual freedom and press freedom go hand in hand. If you want to see what happens when governments undermine and then eliminate the free press, look at Russia. Look at Saudi Arabia. Look at Iran. Information becomes a tool of power, abuse, and manipulation in the hands of the government rather than a tool of education, expression and enlightenment in the hands of the people.
Stop FBI Backdoors for Tech Products
ardly a week goes by without a new report of some massive data theft that has put financial information, trade secrets or government records into the hands of computer hackers. The best defense against these attacks is clear: strong data encryption and more secure technology systems. The leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies hold a different view.
Phil Mickelson Criticised By Senator Ron Wyden For 'taking Money From A Nation Complicit In 9/11'
Phil Mickelson came in on Friday for some serious intervention – but it wasn’t from the US Open crowd at Brookline. The shamed American came under fire from a senator in Oregon, where the next woeful episode of the Saudi-backed LIV exhibit series will take place in a fortnight.
Sen. Ron Wyden on the end of Roe and the threat to free speech online.
This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech. The impending Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade will likely be a catastrophe for the health, safety, autonomy, and privacy of pregnant people in America.
ICE’s ‘Fierce Commitment’ To Ensuring Detainees Are Cared For Properly Includes Inadequate Staffing, Unsanitary Facilities
from the inhumane dept ICE has never really cared about the people it detains and processes for removal.
A bill to suspend normal trade relations treatment for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, and for other purposes. (S. 3786)
History Mar 8, 2022 Introduced Bills and resolutions are referred to committees which debate the bill before possibly sending it on to the whole chamber. Read Text » S. 3786 is a bill in the United States Congress. A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law. Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number S. 3786. This is the one from the 117th Congress. How to cite this information.
Senator Wyden: EARN IT Will Make Children Less Safe
from the exactly-right dept Earlier this week we wrote about the problematic reintroduction of the EARN IT Act and explained how it will make children a lot less safe -- exactly the opposite of what its backers claim. Senator Ron Wyden has now put out a statement that succinctly explains the problems of EARN IT, and exactly how it will do incredible harm to the very children it pretends to protect: “This sadly misguided bill will not protect children.
Court Says That Travel Company Can't Tell Others How Much Southwest Flights Cost
from the c'mon dept A few months back, we wrote about Southwest Airlines' ridiculously antagonistic legal strategy against aggregators that would scrape information on flights and prices from Southwest.com and help people find flights and prices. The case we covered was the one against Skiplagged, but it was related to a separate case against Kiwi.com. Skiplagged had argued that it didn't violate Southwest's terms of service since it wasn't scraping info from Southwest...
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