Sunrise reveals a Pacific Northwest overwhelmed with wildfire smoke. Combined with rising temperatures in the region, any outdoor activities should be limited as much as possible. weather.gov
Juan C Chavez
@inafutureage.bsky.social
Prison & police accountability lawyer at OJRC. Dream baby dream. He/Him.
El-Sayed on Islamophobia: "That's the only play they got. They're gonna point at me, they're gonna point at my name, like, 'Wow, he's different.' That's the best you got? You can't actually talk about what you want to do? My name is not raising your gas prices. My name is now taking us to war."
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
oregonlive.com
"zohran needs to learn to massage the feelings of the famously humble & open to suggestion rich ruling class of new york if he truly wishes to call himself the people's mayor and a representative ot all constituents" is the kind of pulsating giant brain take you can only get on bluesky dot com
This is kindergarten logic. “We like it when it our athletes take a stand for a good cause, yet we don’t like it when they’re bigots or crackpots?” Uh, yes?
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 6h agoAaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D
ultimately so funny that rip city mgmt’s approach in these emails was “we would rather die than create a written public record of anything we say or do” and then their lawyer just forwarded the whole thing to the City
@wrightkatu.bsky.social · 17h agoNEW: Internal emails obtained by KATU show Portland Trail Blazers leaders debated whether to respond to the City of Portland's questions on key pieces of a proposed Moda Center deal, with one executive saying the city's requests felt like "a trap”. katu.com/news/investi...
I ....... don't really know how to feel about this. Why are they making this so hard? I really want to save the Blazers 🥺 but it feels like they simply do not care.
@wrightkatu.bsky.social · 17h agoNEW: Internal emails obtained by KATU show Portland Trail Blazers leaders debated whether to respond to the City of Portland's questions on key pieces of a proposed Moda Center deal, with one executive saying the city's requests felt like "a trap”. katu.com/news/investi...
"Rena" sent this from Moses Lake WA where she is weeding carrots for a non-union company. She shared: The air is bad. See my cell phone. The AQI is 166, which is unhealthy. We start at 4am. We'll work 7-8 hrs & earn minimum wage. #WeFeedYou
I've landed on beating the government in court isn't enough. I need to scream in their faces how little I think of them for propping up the regime.
The AP hasn't called either contest yet, but Missouri's Amendment 4 is losing 82-18 statewide and failing in every county with 10% of votes reporting so far. Kansas' Amendment 1 is losing 71-29 and getting crushed in numerous Trump counties with 26% of votes in. These look over
Aaaaaaaand AP just called the Kansas U.S. Senate Democratic primary for Rev. Adam Hamilton, so now there is, indeed, six. Not surprising (he was breaking fundraising records), but notable all the same. (And possibly one more pastor nominee by night’s end — we’ll see.)
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 21h ago"Pastors in Name Only" "Wicked Witch of Woke" “I've never seen anyone commit so much blasphemy against the word of God." As pastors become Democratic nominees — at least 5 so far, and likely one more tonight — their Republican opponents are attacking their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
At what point will the media start asking Schumer if he’s out of touch with the party and should step down as Leader
Man, it passes right by me It's behind me, now its gone youtu.be/zC-DK9J9qU8?...
Animal Collective - Lablakely Dress/Fireworks/Essplode medley (Live at Pitchfork Music Festival '08)
YouTube video by MrZombicidalManiac
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Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
bloomberg.com
There is another way to live that is not at war with the planet. 😷
JUST IN: US Atty's office in Seattle, whose judge-appointed head Trump fired last month, benchslapped for asking for 2-week extension at 4:14 PM on day PI opposition due in case of Army Corps union Trump is stripping of recognition. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
What is wild about the revisionism is the centrist types seem to only remember how much lockdown sucked. But even if you were vaccinated, that first bout of Covid was a nightmare for most of us. How do people forget that? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/the-...
The great Covid bait and switch - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I find it fascinating how the entire Covid epidemic has undergone some sort of almost Orwellian historical revisionism, and not merely among the right wing, although they are of course by far the wors...
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
People who don't live in Portland are very eager to hire other people who don't live in Portland to do violence to people who do live in Portland.
Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · 20h agoA ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
Nothing says “public safety” like trying to siphon away clean energy money while I’ve been nursing a raging headache for two days from wildfire smoke.
Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · 20h agoA ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
theguardian.com
“'The primary reason the petition failed to qualify was the low number of signatures from registered Portland voters,' an announcement from the Auditor’s Office states." Not beating the Clark County Constituency charges, PPA.
Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · 20h agoA ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
State officials received 97(!!) complaints from voters who felt lied to or deceived by the signature gathering effort. Officials say that’s the most complaints they’ve seen on a single petition since adopting a record-keeping system 7 years ago. And PPA still failed to gather enough signatures.
Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · 20h agoA ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
A lot of people are going to try and insist in about six hours that being outspent by tens of millions of dollars and winning by five to possibly fifteen points is actually not that big of a deal
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
The 37-person town of Antelope, Oregon has a rich, strange history. I wrote this essay for Portland Monthly about being drawn to its darkness: www.pdxmonthly.com/travel-and-o...
A Dark Sky Escape in Antelope, Oregon
Decades after a cult takeover, the tiny town looks to the stars.
pdxmonthly.com
Lots of movement with the Grasshopper Fire overnight. There are now level 1 evacuation notices for the Mount Hood Corridor from Rhododendron east to Government Camp app.watchduty.org/i/110721
the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"