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Editor, Ashland.news, Ashland, Oregon.

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a fives out mystery

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07.03.2026 08:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

cat scratch fiver

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cat scratch fiver

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06.03.2026 08:24 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | Politicians Are Trying to Control the News

"A society without a free press is one in which the government is likely to do a poorer job of providing its citizens with decent lives and instead to become a corrupt self-enrichment machine for elites."

#journalism
gift article from The New York Times

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...

05.03.2026 23:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fourtunate Son

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05.03.2026 15:00 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Republican petitioners sue Oregon over law rescheduling gas tax referendum - Ashland News - Community-Supported, NonProfit News Leaders of a petition to pause transportation fee hikes until a citizen vote are suing the state over a law rescheduling that vote. Gov. Kotek signed SB 1599 into law after it passed the House on Mond...

Leaders of a petition to pause transportation fee hikes until a citizen vote are suing the state over a law rescheduling that vote to May from November. ashland.news/republican-p...

05.03.2026 03:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

piano fourte

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04.03.2026 09:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What, when and where would like a word

#journalism

03.03.2026 22:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Intestinal fourtitude

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03.03.2026 09:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

confours d'elegance

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02.03.2026 09:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Year of the Five Horse

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01.03.2026 09:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

you give me threeson to live

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28.02.2026 08:15 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Imagine if all that firepower was used to help Ukraine repel the russian invaders instead.

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Threes for our time

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27.02.2026 08:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man playing a guitar on stage with the words " while my guitar gently weeps " below him ALT: a man playing a guitar on stage with the words " while my guitar gently weeps " below him
27.02.2026 03:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Out of my comfourt zone

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27.02.2026 02:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

sally fourth

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25.02.2026 16:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

solitary confivement

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24.02.2026 09:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

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threedbare

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23.02.2026 18:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fourtress of Solitude

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22.02.2026 08:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

H.M.S. Pinafour

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21.02.2026 08:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

odds in my fiver

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20.02.2026 08:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fourm over function

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19.02.2026 08:35 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

You Kant be serious

Determinism? Just call me Bill - short for Billiard Ball, ricocheting my way across the pool table of life
Free will? Just call me Will - short for Will to Power, making a wake across the current of eternal recurrence

#philosophy #dogadvice #oldcedartree
@toddavies.bsky.social

19.02.2026 04:02 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

How threet it is

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18.02.2026 10:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bouncy tune, give it a listen

18.02.2026 07:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New research on #FOI and journalism from the Transparency Alliance, an initiative led by @muckrock.com in partnership with @rcfp.org and other collaborators ⤵️

17.02.2026 17:24 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Today is going to be my threeceful day

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17.02.2026 08:44 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers?

‪Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers?

@betteridgeslaw.bsky.social

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17.02.2026 01:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0