BREAKING: Judge bars feds from using tear gas that could seep into nearby Gray’s Landing apartments in Portland unless there’s an imminent threat to life
@oregonian.com
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
I've been waiting for this take... the US auto industry is once again a wobbly domino, just waiting for the emerging energy shock to send it into yet another terminal tailspin
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
BREAKING:
The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.
They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.
DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
The California Heat Pump Partnership launched Wall Whisperer, a groundbreaking, statewide marketing campaign designed to rapidly accelerate heat pump adoption across California and help advance the goal of 6 million installations by 2030. bit.ly/4blAmAC
#EnergySky #WallWhispererCA #HeatPumpHype
The senior clerics responsible for selecting Iran’s next supreme leader met on Tuesday to deliberate, and the son of the slain former leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emerged as the clear front-runner, according to Iranian officials familiar with the deliberations.
President Trump’s whipsawing trade policy last year destabilized many American businesses. His new push to replace the system with a different batch of duties has bewildered companies all over again.
Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to.
Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.
Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone
Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.
It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.
Let's take stock of where we are.
"EV batteries are holding up phenomenally well."
The haters lose another false talking point. And don't forget: no transmission service, no oil changes, no timing belt, no fuel pump ... and no spike in fuel prices when tiny presidents decide to bomb oil rich nations.
The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:
Remember that Donald Trump, Jr. is involved with both Polymarket & Kalshi — and the Trumps’ social media company is launching its own prediction market.
Meanwhile, Trump’s regulators have announced they will fight any state that attempts to regulate prediction markets.
Always follow the money.
NEWS: I secured $3,000,000 in federal funding for Cherriots to make public transportation in #Salem even more safe, accessible, and dependable.
Group of eight smiling, talented campaign leaders embracing and wearing "Make Polluters Pay" t-shirts.
OREGON LAWMAKERS NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU: Write to your lawmakers today and urge them to pass the Climate Resilience Superfund (SB 1541) and make polluters pay for the harm they cause to our communities.
Find and contact your state lawmakers: bit.ly/mpp-email
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies
Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
In addition to driving up everyone's electricity bills, big tech companies - in their rush to build air-conditioned warehouses full of computers running stochastic gradient descent - are buying up land that could otherwise be used to build housing.
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
The UAE secretly paid Trump $187 million. Money in his pocket personally. And then Trump overrode decades of national security objections to selling Nvidia chips to UAE because we feared UAE would send the chips to China.
Corruption has consequences.
Recent news coverage doesn't tell the full story about the #OregonEconomy. So to set the record straight: Oregon’s economy has grown faster than that of most states on a per capita (per person) basis over the past two-plus decades #orpol #orleg
Layer on top of that insurance markets on the verge of collapse, with bills doubling and tripling where insurance is available at all, and it becomes clear that the climate crisis and the affordability crisis are one and the same.
The federal EPA wants to force Americans to give as much money as possible to oil companies.
State and local leaders have a duty to their constituents to fight back.
Here are 16 ways to cut pollution – by making HOUSING more available and affordable. via @climatecabineteducation.org
A California agency received 20k AI-generated comments opposing heat pump rules. Staff called a sample to verify—several said they never sent comments. Raises serious questions about the opposition campaign that helped kill the clean air standards, that would've prevented 1000s of premature deaths.
There are hundreds of Oregonians pushing hard to Make Polluters Pay. Contact your state reps and tell them to stop stalling, and pass the Climate Resilience Superfund bill, which could raise 5 billion for the state's climate resiliency costs. Otherwise, you and I will be paying for it all.
In practice, that means lower energy bills, better comfort and health, and more resilience for new houses. And a key provision is that any home builder installing cooling (and most do) must install a heat pump instead of traditional central A/C. Most new homes will have a heat pump!
Oregon took a major step toward a healthier, more affordable, resilient and clean future for housing this week. It's been a long time in the making! Any new house built in Oregon starting October this year will be 27% more energy efficient than the last building code!
No one could have predicted that the health care for minors and sports stuff was the tip of the spear … except for all the people screaming their heads off that this was exactly what was going to happen.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...
New critical reporting from the Texas Tribune.
Last year was the deadliest year in ICE detention in two decades. Nearly a quarter of those deaths occurred in Texas.
In just six weeks between December and January, six people died while detained by ICE in Texas. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/i...
A crowd of people around tables, many holding yellow folders, paying rapt attention to their talented trainer who is standing at the front of the wood-paneled room.
A day featuring 100s of Oregonians telling stories of what climate harms cost them to their elected officials begins with training the group leaders who will guide them. Action shot from Make Polluters Pay group leader training!
@oeconline.org @rogueclimate.org @orsierraclub.bsky.social @ojta.org
Ongoing legal fights over President Donald Trump’s attempt to send hundreds of Oregon, California and Texas National Guard troops to Portland last fall over the objections of residents and state and local leaders will come to an end: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/briefs/legal...
