🚨 Ani DiFranco informs Portland crowd that in her mid-50’s she now believes in #Magic 🧚 including Love at First Sight
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“Oregon importers paid $2.89 billion in tariffs between March and December 2025, according to the report.” That will teach the bastards in those other countries #MAGA_Cult_Logic www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
Oregon paid nearly $3 billion in tariffs, hit harder than other states, according to new report
The report coincided with the state filing a third lawsuit against President Donald Trump over import taxes.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5qR.... Ani diFranco’s brilliant cover of Woody Guthrie’s song 👏👏👏
Ani DiFranco - All You Fascists Bound to Lose (Earth Day Session)
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Horrible to hear this news. I interviewed Johanna about her wonderful history of the Young Lords in 2020. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/youn...
Young Lords with Johanna Fernández
This is an incredible moment to learn about the Young Lords from historian Johanna Fernández, the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History.
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Bobby Rivera@bobbyrivera21.bsky.social · 5d agoJohanna Fernandez, RIP! 😭💔
With great sadness we report that @baruch.cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @historygc.bsky.social Prof. Johanna Fernández passed away on July 30, 2026. We mourn her loss and celebrate her achievements and legacy: blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=447
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Mayor Michelle Wu has joined more than 100 mayors and local government leaders nationwide in signing a letter calling for Congress to extend protected status for Haitians until early 2029 after the Trump administration terminated it.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, more than 100 city leaders urge Congress to extend TPS for Haitians - The Boston Globe
Massachusetts had the third-highest population of Haitian nationals of any state in 2024.
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In one Congressional primary in Michigan, both Democratic candidates are Native & Potawatomi! Michigan’s Congressional District 4 is home to 45,000 Indigenous people. Whoever wins will face off with the Republican incumbent in November. ictnews.org/politics/ele...
Two Potawatomi candidates facing off in Michigan primary - ICT
Citizens of different – but related – tribes seek Democratic nod in Michigan's 4th Congressional District
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Oregon On The Record talked with Alex Baumhardt of the Oregon Capitol Chronicle about her story on how Oregon's largest companies don't offer health insurance to workers even though they rake in huge profits. www.klcc.org/podcast/oreg...
Some of Oregon's richest company's force workers onto Medicaid
On this edition, we talk with Alex Baumhardt of the Oregon Capitol Chronicle about her story on how Oregon's largest companies don't offer health insurance to workers even though they rake in huge pro...
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The situation offers insight into how one of Oregon’s most successful recent statewide Republican politicians handled her finances in the run-up to a campaign. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/08/04/h...
How Drazan’s consulting firm pocketed nearly $100k from her nonprofit with little oversight • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The situation offers insight into how one of Oregon’s most successful recent Republican politicians handled her finances ahead of a campaign.
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Banger report from @shaanthx.bsky.social on self-dealing from Oregon's Republican gov. hopeful. Sen. Christine Drazan registered a new consulting business in 2023, then a new nonprofit 3 weeks later, then paid her consulting biz $100k from the nonprofit. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/08/04/h...
How Drazan’s consulting firm pocketed nearly $100k from her nonprofit with little oversight • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The situation offers insight into how one of Oregon’s most successful recent Republican politicians handled her finances ahead of a campaign.
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Lighter skin color of course, but Trump reminds me here of Idi Amin. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "There's a tape that's out there that I posted on Truth where you have people leaning over the side. The weakest part 'cause of the flexibility. You know it moves. It's very complicated. It moves. And the softest part has to be flexible. And that's the stuff you can cut."
Sub-surface Pacific temperatures are now warmer than ever recorded having exceeded 1997's peak by 0.36°C. Further warming is still likely before they peak, little doubt now that this will be the strongest El Nino event in recorded history.
If you are an expert on air quality and have 10-15 minutes to talk to me today or tomorrow about important things journalists should know while reporting on wildfires and smoke, my DMs are open, or you can email me at karen at OpenNews dot org.
Case in point. This morning ICE posted a sole-source justification handing CSI Aviation up to $305.7 million, with no competition, for ICE Air removal-flight logistics (linked). CSI is the company Salus names in this piece as a beneficiary of exactly these noncompetitive vehicles.
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Nick Schwellenbach@schwellenbach.bsky.social · 2d agoThere's a nasty fight between DHS contractors battling each other over deportation dollars and accusing each other of benefitting from a rigged system. Caught in the middle are immigrants, as @dfriedman.bsky.social, Will Sytsma, and I detail www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This will be cited to justify the usual claims about how journalism is elitist and out of touch. But as Ryan's follow-up shows, it's actually because the NYT and WSJ are surviving while newspapers everywhere else are folding.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2d agomore than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
It's a perfect week to persuade Portland City Councilors to take action on climate and protect us from dangerous fuel corporations like Zenith Energy and I Squared Capital.
At 2:30 pm Bakersfield CA temps had reached 101°F. That didn't stop the farm workers who are hard at work harvesting table grapes. This demanding work requires constant bending, lifting the full boxes and carefully harvesting the fruit. #WeFeedYou
Was in active fire territory earlier. One of the three fires in Spokane County is burning nearly 4k acres and swept through trails in Riverside State Park.
NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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War kills. War makes life unaffordable for the many. But war is great for profits. “Profits accounted for 13.9% of US economic output in the first quarter, the highest share recorded.” JPMorgan CEO Dimon said the environment was “getting close to as good as it gets”.
Guardian exclusive documents DHS-ICE quietly using torture method to break hunger strike This detention network needs to be shut down Detainees have not even committed a crime, have no legal recourse, and are being held as part of an ethnic cleansing coercion strategy
"Everyone in the chain of command who authorized this should be charged with murder."
Outrage Over Apparent US Use of 2,000-Pound Bomb on Iranian Family Home Builds
"Everyone in the chain of command who authorized this should be charged with murder."
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Officials report 640 structures destroyed in Spokane
Prof. Harley Earthling Quinn@profharleyquinn.bsky.social · 3d agoSpokane / Washington 💔😖
Not sure which hurts worse this morning: the fact that 600+ families just lost their home, or the knowledge that this will only keep happening in a warming world.
Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 3d agoThe front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.
Concise summary of research on strengths and weaknesses of participatory budgeting and participatory democracy practices Peru has nationwide local participatory budgeting and one of the least stable governing democracies in the western hemisphere jacobin.com/2026/07/peru...
Mamdani-Style Mayors Should Study Peru’s Democracy Experiment
Peru has been home to the world’s most ambitious experiments in participatory democracy. American progressive and democratic socialist mayors should look to them for both inspiration and warning.
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