Third Act Oregon

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

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Guardian points out reporter Estefany Rodriguez “produced reports that were unflattering to ICE” — and she and her husband were in a marked Nashville Noticias vehicle when they grabbed her🤔

She is reportedly being held in Alabama

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Little nurses: what happens when children take care of sick and disabled relatives?

About 5 million US minors tend ill relatives due to gaps in our health infrastructure

Would love to see more of these style signs be used. Fascists hate being laughed at, it’s one of the reasons they often target the arts

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How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability A lawsuit against Meta and Google avoids the issue of liability for content and focuses on allegations that social media platforms themselves are harmful by design.

Meta's researchers flagged concerns about Instagram's effects on adolescent body image. Internal communications compared the platform's operation to pushing drugs and gambling. Now those documents are central to a product liability case that could reshape social media.

Measuring poverty on a spectrum instead of an arbitrary line conveys a more accurate picture of inequality An economist proposes a new method of estimating the scope of poverty in different countries.

A Wall Street investor recently argued the U.S. poverty line should be $140,000 for a family of four, up from $33,000. But an economist says the real problem isn't where we draw the line – it's that we draw lines at all.

Public health needs steady budgets – and federal funding uncertainty causes real harms, even if the money is later restored Public health depends on long-term planning, and when that planning is interrupted, some programs never recover.

Public health depends on long-term planning, and when that planning is interrupted, some programs never recover, according to a scholar who studies how to build infrastructure for preventing human suffering.

165 Massacred Schoolgirls in Iran — and the Silence That Exposes the West’s Moral Selectivity These were not combatants. They were not militants. They were children seated at their desks, pens in their hands, notebooks open before them, studying, whispering to classmates, and imagining futures that stretched decades ahead.

165 Massacred Schoolgirls in Iran — and the Silence That Exposes the West’s Moral Selectivity | When deaths of children generate outrage in one context but indifference in another, the moral language surrounding human rights begins to lose its integrity.

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab. A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...

The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers.

Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.

(Published Dec. 2025 with @highcountrynews.org)

Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Know This Popular Food Increases Colon Cancer Risk A new national poll highlights a surprising gap in public awareness about a major dietary risk factor for colorectal cancer. 

Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Know This Popular Food Increases Colon Cancer Risk A new national poll highlights a surprising gap in public awareness about a major dietary risk factor for colorectal cancer.

It's because of the slop.

When the media covers war, every other topic fades Trump will do anything to distract from the political damage of the Epstein files

Which is mostly what war is for... to lay a fog to hide everything else. It's treated like a sporting event, with destruction as the goal.

Data centers are cut — for now — from a bill expanding Oregon tax breaks The move is a reversal for Gov. Tina Kotek, who said last week she didn’t see a need for the centers to be exempted.

So... Tina Kotek doesn't understand the problem with data centers.

Renewable Energy and National Security The wind and the sun don’t need to transit the Strait of Hormuz

Intelligent analysis from Paul Krugman.

Garbage In, Carnage Out The harrowing lessons of the Pentagon’s recently dissolved partnership with Anthropic.

All the Trump administration’s complaints about “woke AI” aside, the idea that Anthropic is a company run by a bunch of peaceniks that had somehow backed into the role of pulling down massive Pentagon contracts does considerable violence to the reality of the situation.
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We Don’t Need an Autopsy to Tell Us the Democrats Failed on Gaza The DNC is allegedly hiding a report showing that Kamala Harris’s Gaza policy helped cost her the 2024 election. But that report won’t tell us anything we don’t already know.

The DNC is allegedly hiding a report showing that Kamala Harris’s Gaza policy helped cost her the 2024 election. But that report won’t tell us anything we don’t already know about the disastrous choices the party made.
https://bit.ly/4b2u5IM

NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

“It just really got to that point where I was just kind of exhausted by the sales, by the constant trying to explain and remind, like, hey, this is important. Please run this story,” Cain told HEATED. “It just wore on me after a while.”
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The war in Iran shows us another cost of our fossil-fuel economy our reliance on fossil fuels makes us less safe

See also @billmckibben.bsky.social Here Comes the Sun billmckibben.com/books/here-c...