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Maps, data, journalism @oregonian | @mujschool grad | MS Cartography/GIS Dev @uwmadisongeog | Your creature comforts aren’t the only things worth fighting for.

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24 hours outside Portland’s ICE facility: Is this what ‘lawless mayhem’ looks like? President Trump said conditions continue to deteriorate. Here’s what the newsroom saw.

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

05.10.2025 04:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Fine @robwdavis.bsky.social piece @propublica.org on how anger, conspiracy theories and poor state messaging doomed Oregon's wildfire risk map. www.propublica.org/article/oreg...

08.08.2025 19:31 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The administration wouldn't clarify what's different about this list. oregonlive.com/politics/202...

07.08.2025 19:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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NEW 🗺️: DOJ releases a new list of "sanctuary jurisdictions" with 12 states, 18 cities and 4 counties. A previous list had 14 states, 200 cities and nearly 400 counties. Portland and Oregon remain on the list.

07.08.2025 19:07 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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1968 Porsche 912 Coupe 5-Speed Bid for the chance to own a 1968 Porsche 912 Coupe 5-Speed at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #187,965.

My friend Dave has restored a sweet '68 912 coupe in Irish green, so if you're a car nerd with some American green to throw, check it! And don't miss the video in the BaT listing bringatrailer.com/listing/1968...

10.04.2025 21:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vive la France!

26.02.2025 01:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tom Homan asks “where is that line,” as if it is mysterious or unknowable. It’s not. Tom’s saying it that way because he’s too much of a coward just to say “she should be arrested for telling people their rights.” Also, to be fair, he may be too dim to understand the line.

17.02.2025 17:40 👍 9282 🔁 1596 💬 514 📌 86
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This feels like a subplot in a '90s mob movie. "You work for US now, mayor."

11.02.2025 20:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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To not understand (as VP!) that normies (even those that voted for you) will quickly tire of and begin to resent the onslaught of chaos requires a level of terminal Online Brain that is quite remarkable.

06.02.2025 00:31 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah potential big revenue stream for him there

03.02.2025 22:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

omg that would be amazing

03.02.2025 22:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Glad to see @wsj.com readers exercising a bit of self-care in their media consumption

03.02.2025 20:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I can’t tell you how much I’d rather spend the next four years listening to British podcaster dudes talk about the effects of lorry logistics and railroad gauges on the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941

29.01.2025 02:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Aw, Steve's the best!

08.01.2025 01:35 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Dog owner’s cardinal rule of finding unexpected dog vomit: Always look for the Second Location.

20.12.2024 03:19 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nice Things Hayes Carll · You Get It All · Song · 2021

Also:
“This is why y'all are all strung out to Christmas

“This is why I left you all them seeds”

open.spotify.com/track/5ijg5j...

19.12.2024 21:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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How every Oregon precinct voted in the 2024 presidential race and how they shifted from 2020. #orpol #dataviz www.oregonlive.com/data/2024/12...

17.12.2024 00:07 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Also, “That’d change if she ever found out about you and I” is not proper Canadian English Bryan Adams!

16.12.2024 03:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You: Distressed your favorite childhood show is 25 years old.

Me: Still sometimes inadvertently thinking of “Infidels” as “new” Bob Dylan.

16.12.2024 03:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Ranked-choice voting survived in Alaska — barely. It prevailed by a mere 664 votes, and would have been repealed were it not for areas with large populations of Alaska Natives provided the winning margin against Measure 2.
boltsmag.org/alaska-...

23.11.2024 16:00 👍 188 🔁 43 💬 5 📌 7

Deputy to Secretary of Unpleasant Dopplegangers Naomi Klein

22.11.2024 00:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love to be added! Thanks!

18.11.2024 23:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bluesky really nailing the reaction gif thing. Comedy gold!

16.11.2024 05:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Democrats have the majority for less than two more months. I'll be using every second to push for passage of my PRESS Act to protect journalists from government spying and surveillance.

14.11.2024 19:02 👍 4926 🔁 1156 💬 162 📌 51

I mean you clearly have no clue how newspaper press runs work, but they don’t print the whole Sunday paper at once. Different sections require different press configurations for color/ad placement. So advance Sunday sections are run earlier in the week when the press isn’t busy doing the daily run

15.07.2024 05:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You think there were more CD stores in 2001 than there are places to buy the Sunday NYT? You heard of Starbucks and 7-11s and the whole rest of the country where today’s National Edition was on various presses before the shooting even happened?

15.07.2024 05:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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He might be our greatest poster

15.07.2024 03:07 👍 3237 🔁 442 💬 34 📌 17

As Steve Earle famously said: “Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.”

11.12.2023 00:48 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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They’re huge in Europe

07.12.2023 07:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0