I think, if hell exists for me, it will be me perpetually trying to clean out my Outlook inbox and somehow only watching the number of unread emails grow, which seems to be on the agenda this afternoon.
A vending machine, but its shelves are mid-collapse.
No photo has better captured my mental state. (From a photo essay on the last days of the Lloyd Center by Michael Raines.) www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-cit...
NEW: Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.
With @oregonian.com
Iranians came together to bid a final farewell to 168 young girls, aged 7 to 12, who were killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike targeting their elementary school.
Slide 1: a blue graphic with an outline of the United States. Red and white text reads: Call. National Book Banning Bill Proposed in US House of Reps. Tell your rep: Vote no on H.R. 7661.
Slide 2: a blue and red graphic with white text that reads: House Republicans have introduced a bill to effectively grant the federal government decision-making power over what books make it into the library. Misleadingly called the "Stop the Sexualization of Children Act," H.R. 7661 is a national-level book banning bill that would ban any book that, according to the bill's language, "(ii) involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism." This means any book about a trans person or the trans experience would be banned from every public school in the United States.
Slide 3: a blue and red graphic with white text that reads: The bill has been referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. If you are represented by one of the members of this committee listed below, they need to hear from you. Rep. Kevin Kiley, California (CA-3) (Chair) - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Mary E. Miller, Illinois (Vice Chair) Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, Pennsylvania Rep. Burgess Owens, Utah Rep. Michael A. Rulli, Ohio Rep. James C. Moylan, Guam - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, Pennsylvania - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Mark Harris, North Carolina Rep. Mark B. Messmer, Indiana Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon, Ranking Member Rep. Jahana Hayes, Connecticut Rep. Summer L. Lee, Pennsylvania Rep. John W. Mannion, New York Rep. Frederica S. Wilson, Florida Rep. Alma S. Adams, North Carolina Rep. Adelita Grijalva, Arizona
Slide 4: a blue graphic with red and white text that reads: If you are represented by the congresspeople listed above: Call your reps. Tell them they must oppose this bill at every turn. It is egregiously unconstitutional, targets ideas based on ideological disapproval, and misleads parents and the public about the content of children's books. It does nothing to protect kids and will badly harm education. It will tie school material funding into knots and hurt anyone who is a library materials vendor, regardless of content. If you are a bookseller, librarian, or author, tell them your livelihood depends on the next generation of readers.
You can read the full text of the bill here: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social for these slides and the alt text, which you can also share on their insta: www.instagram.com/authorsagain...
I ultimately have such a soft spot in my heart for a combination Chinese restaurant and dive bar; this place also had some of the most confusingly-vibed karaoke I’ve ever encountered. Devastated by this news.
Rupaul and Nirvana posing with a crying baby, except *i’m* the crying baby and Thijs is Rupaul trying to calm me down by taking me to the snow. I don’t think this is particularly useful alt text, but it’s an involved meme to describe.
I’m a normal girl and I have a normal relationship with snow and the weather also
The closest Portland has come to snow all season and it turns into rain…
To “remove writing from reporters’ workloads” is to remove reporters’ critical engagement with a topic. The writing is an inextricable part of the process. It’s hard. It takes time. That’s the point! There are no shortcuts for writing and reporting, and AI can hardly approximate it. Stop doing this.
A rainbow, a family portrait, a heart.
These are the drawings found in handwritten letters we received from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center:
Etan Nechin * @Etanetan23 x.com After cutting international coverage, the books section, and visual investigation, the Washington Post now seems to be only hiring opinions. That's Bezos vision. A newspaper without reporting and built only on opinion is not a newspaper at all. It is a pamphlet.
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News of the pallet of cash comes two days after the City Council voted to open an investigation into $21 million previously found through an audit. The release of public records and oversight hearings are expected later this month and in early March.
I’ve seen the GoFundMe for @postguild.bsky.social employees impacted by layoffs circulating, but a recently laid off pal mentioned that the GoFundMe for international correspondents and employees could use some love: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
My family got a horrid cold that lasted for weeks a few months ago. We tested negative twice with PCRs, no flu, no RSV, no strep. Our doctor said there is just a truly gnarly cold out there that he was seeing constantly—*everyone* came in for covid tests because they were so sure it was covid.
NEW: Experts say there aren’t enough state and federal inspectors to adequately vet whether labor contractors who oversee farmworkers are following the rules.
Nor is there broad political support to invest more resources to protect foreign workers.
as a journalist, the gutting of wapo makes me anxious; as an american, it makes me terrified
If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at councilor.green@portlandoregon.gov
I join my City Councilors in calling for prosecution of ICE for this flagrant violation of city and state law. This is illegal, and if ICE does this to families and children on a sunny peaceful daytime protest, I shudder to think what they do without that kind of daylight and public scrutiny.
A big group stopped outside the ICE facility and federal agents dropped several rounds of chemical ammunitions. The crowd leaving the scene was the most chaotic I’ve ever seen it and the gas was the most intense. I don’t know how/why the gassing started.
“In a really end-of-the-world way, it goes back to Nazi Paris in the 1940s. Having to serve officers? Fuck that.” www.pdxmonthly.com/eat-and-drin...
Portland, please continue to show up. We cannot accept this blatant disregard for life, justice, and order from our federal government.
Show up how only you can. We will share information when we have it.
"... workers at the park suspect that Aramark’s motives behind the new housing policy are a means of making it easier to replace longtime, permanent employees with temporary workers who are paid less and provided with less adequate, more crowded housing arrangements."
It's nice to have an institution like Harvard highlight the need for journalism that sticks to the core ethics and interrogation of power central to the best reporting. Sadly, OPB chose to cancel Hush -- a huge disappointment from an institution I spent more than a decade helping build up.
The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
Richmond, VA widened bus stop spacing to nearly 1300 feet a few years ago as part of a redesign we did. Des Moines and Louisville are doing the same as part of projects of ours rolling out soon.
Bigger cities -- where the benefits of respacing are even greater -- should study these examples.
The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.
The separation is one of dozens happening in Oregon, with ICE detaining both parents or single parents, leaving small children in the care of relatives, family friends, babysitters and in the foster care system.
I think it also reveals a lot about how (typically straight) people (women) view relationships, or male partners in general—as if they’re victims of women who aren’t “girl’s girls,” as opposed to, you know, men making deliberate choices.
