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Interesting development in a never-ending story: ***This is the 15th trial to conclude so far. Another 167 trials are scheduled through 2027.***https://www.opb.org/article/2026/02/25/pacificorp-owes-one-billion-oregon-wildfire-class-action-lawsuit/
Welp: ZERO takers on the Trump administration's first lease sale for oil and gas development in the Cook Inlet, Alaska. Bidding closed today with no bids.
The lease sale was supposed to spark new interest in oil and gas development in the region. It doesn't seem to be working.
When I say white supremacy/colonialism is the #1 problem in social science today and that the theoretical foundations of all scientific fields are corrupted by unacknowledged and minimized bias, and that therefore we should question everything from said fields, white people just give me a blank look
I know itβs not everything, but itβs something: how each of us, in our little spheres of work & community, can help foster & sustain places of care, decency, & intelligence even when powerful people celebrate venal, coarse, mendacious practices. What a gift, to be able to do something so worthwhile
βWhat stood out clinically was that the chatbot interactions did not generate the illness, but appeared to scaffold and reinforce beliefs that were already becoming pathological.β
once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. youβve seen enough emails. youβre free now
The purpose of this website is to help unburden your brain by releasing horrible sentences that live in there like demons
SMUT FROM COMMUNISTS
Some excellent headlines from the April 1963 National Eagle, the Portland, OR newspaper edited by the future chair of the Oregon Republican Party.
a young person in and their parent, faces cropped out, stand in front of a marble rail, holding a handmade poster: DONβT TREAD ON ME with a riff on the Gadsen flag snake against the pastel blue/pink/white stripes of the trans pride flag. the young person has on a LOVE MORE (rainbow heart) tee; their patent is in a LOVE IS LOVE tee.
thinking of this young person I met nearly five years ago at the Texas state Capitolβwhen activists defeated a raft of anti-trans laws introduced that yearβand this sign they made:
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@apnews.com announces the launch of the Global Indigenous Reporting Network, with six network partners (and possibly more to come), to enhance the capacity of network partners for robust, multiformat Indigenous storytelling. π₯
www.ap.org/the-definiti...
It might mean you're getting a firsthand insight into how most Natives see this clown country
This is treasure.
hella stoked to tell my favorite corporations the good news
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
The passenger in the car when Texas driver Martinez was fatally shot last year by a federal immigration agent gave a lengthy statement to lawyers for the slain manβs family disputing the governmentβs version of events.
That witness died Saturday in a fiery car crash.
apnews.com/article/texa...
π Thanks for the book rec!
Black and white photo of four baddass Indigenous women on horseback, one with a baby and a jaunty tilt to her Spanish padre hat. Smiling rez dog attempts a spotlight-stealing a cameo in the foreground. There's a fancy old west hotel in the background.
I mean
Timeline cleanse: a Japanese photographer beloved by northern WA Indigenous ppl.
βThe story is not just about Frank and his charisma and his incredible body of work. Itβs about the way people uphold his memory and still talk about him 112 years after his death.β
www.hcn.org/issues/58-2/...
Thacker Pass scandal: For weeks, Public Domain and other journalists and watchdog organizations have been asking the Interior Department to turn over Budd-Falenβs ethics agreement and any waivers she received since rejoining the Trump administration.
βHard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you or why you donβt own a kelly bag,β he wrote. To which Epstein responded: βItβs the tail of distribution , no really smart women β none.β
@jkutzie.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
"The watershed is the most logical organizational concept for the region politically (though itβs a little late for that) and geographically."
My Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Sahn on why the western US needs to start thinking like watersheds.
www.pbssocal.org/thinking-lik...
I learned what a sally port was today. π€
Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people.
Me: Ok. May I talk to a person?
Corporation: No. Never again.
"The choice is not between Indigenous governance and economic stability; it is between planned restraint and chaotic collapse."
"We propose to return the governance of the Great Salt Lake to the Native nations who managed the Great Basinβs waters for generations before settlers arrived in the 1840s. The idea is to create a Great Salt Lake Inter-Tribal Coalition." π£οΈπ£οΈπ£οΈπ£οΈπ£οΈ