There are many terms to refer to a person’s sex: sex, birth sex, natal sex — and more contentiously, assigned sex at birth and biological sex. Here's our expanded guidance for journalists interested in reporting accurately about trans and intersex people: www.transjournalists.org/why-biologic...

It's funny to me that people think journalists just make things up & publish whatever because my highly anxious cycle of triple checking minor details, spellings, pronunciations etc before a story comes out will legit keep me up at night. I heard it described once as "error terror" & yes... correct

"NPR’s audience remains older and whiter than the country in general," writes @cchavez4.bsky.social. "Unless the network pivots, it will be further out of touch with the public it purports to serve." current.org/2026/01/opin...

Read your comment section, NYT.

“The more they prolong this process, the more money it costs” 🗣️

On Jan. 2, 2016 a dozen armed men took over the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Oregon. Today we bring you an audio documentary OPB reporters made afterward, and reporter Conrad Wilson gives us an update from Harney County 10 years after the occupation.

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen: 10 years ago this month, armed antigovernment militants took over the HQ of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. It was a sign of things to come. We listen back to a documentary OPB made soon after, & hear how Harney County residents are feeling a decade later:

Breaking: A Portland police officer has been reassigned after he was captured on film Friday appearing to agree with the tactics used by federal officers when they fatally shot a Minnesota woman last week.

A Portland police officer has been reassigned after he was captured on film Friday appearing to agree with the tactics used by federal officers when they fatally shot a Minnesota woman last week.

“I think no one should ever live a day without eating something,” staff member Gladis Vasquez told us. Grateful to do an “At Work With” story with Gladis about a place like Centro Mercado that’s providing food access for Latinos & other community members at such a difficult time.

I noticed the New York Times omitted the “fucking bitch” line from their story on yesterday’s video. Normalized misogyny, as @milleridriss.bsky.social argues in her book Man Up, smooths the path toward violence.

Times are tough, with more Oregonians facing hunger, the feds pausing SNAP benefits in the fall & more. Food pantries like Centro Mercado in Cornelius have been lifesaving resources. Set up like a free grocery store, it specializes in cultural foods for Latinos. My latest for @opb.org w Mia Estrada:

@jennchavez.bsky.social shares her story for our “what our audience doesn’t know” series. "By forming a union, we have learned through unprecedented wage transparency that there are unacceptable disparities in pay for the people who bring you the news, storytelling and music" -Jenn Chávez OPB Host

"Poet, I don’t know if your eyes searched the sky for clouds, for blue, for stars, for God, but I know that you were an example of one of God’s best instructions: Love Thy Neighbor. Neighbor, you died a poet’s death, witness and justice your final actions." By Twin Cities poet Danez Smith:

Attorneys representing the man shot by federal officers in Portland Thursday are refuting law enforcement’s narrative.

“The shooting of Mr. Moncada by federal officers and the subsequent accusations leveled against the victim of that shooting follow a well-worn playbook that the government has developed to justify the dangerous and unprofessional conduct of its agents.”

”On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.“

If you’ve been glued to the news for 36 hours straight, it’s ok to take a break and rest up tonight for whatever tomorrow may bring. Take care pals

An Oregon lawmaker is warning of ICE agents posing as utility workers. NW Natural and Portland General Electric have published guidance in several languages on how to tell if a person is actually one of their employees.

This story has been updated throughout the day/eve (and will continue to be!). Follow for updates on the feds' shooting of of two Portlanders this afternoon -- and related protests and lawmakers response.

Federal agents have shot two people in Portland, just a day after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minnesota. Follow @alexzee.bsky.social for updates. www.opb.org/article/2026...

Breaking News Update: Two people were shot Thursday by federal officers operating in East Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The victims were transported to a local hospital. It was not immediately clear their condition, police said in a release.

Everyone is okay at City Hall right now. More will be shared asap.

“We’ve known since Donald Trump was elected that this was going to happen" “I felt like I had to drop everything & come out here to say this can’t go on” “We already knew ... standing up for our neighbors wasn’t a safe thing to do. It was a matter of time before something truly horrible happened”

After border patrol agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, agents showed up to a high school and released chemical weapons during dismissal, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Their live reporting here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

In the fall, a group called Literary Portland for Palestine asked Portland Book Festival to divest from Wells Fargo sponsorship funding. They've since grown into a collective working to raise awareness. And because they're a literary organization, they're doing it with poems.

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

I occasionally get the great honor of interviewing poets for OPB (the part of my job I think my past young self would be most glad to know about my future). My latest such delight was talking to Reginald Dwayne Betts (Doggerel) & Mai Der Vang (Primordial) in November. Now you can listen on @opb.org:

Happy new year! Our "what our audience doesn’t know" series kicks off 2026 with All Things Considered host @geoffnorx.bsky.social. "I'm surrounded by some of the most gifted storytellers in the country, and it's shocking to me how little many of them are paid or valued." -Geoff Norcross, OPB host

[wild eyes, disheveled hair, crazed smile] Heyyy how’s everybody doing??? Everyone have a good day back at work today??? 2026 off to a great start??? Wooooooo [falls asleep]

This is a fun idea! Not surprised to learn that southeast Oregon is exceptionally dark AND exceptionally quiet.

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen: Life these days can get noisy. Even if you get out of the city, natural settings aren’t immune to sounds of people, pets & cars. So where CAN you actually get peace & quiet? That’s what we wanted to know! So we set out to find the quietest place in the whole state.

For the past five years, the library at the state's largest youth correctional facility gathered dust in a closet. Now, there's an effort under way to make the books more accessible to the youth in custody there.

Co-sign

“Should you believe in any cause? Does believing in something mean you’ve lost the ability to do your job? How much life are you willing to give up? How much of life is one’s job? How much of your participation in being a human being will you cede? Where is the line between truth and fact?”

Today on @opb.org’s The Evergreen: the latest from our At Work With series! Thanks to Malya Fass & @anomalily.net, we get to know three Oregonians who keep the roller coasters running, the traffic flowing, and the cattle mooooving.

130 years ago, on the 28th of December 1895, the Lumière brothers gave their first public screening which consisted of ten short films. All were between 38 and 49 seconds long and included subjects such as 'baby's breakfast', 'horse trick riders', 'the sea' and 'the gardener'. #otd #history 🗃️

it does kind of feel like a lot of bluesky users spent four days around their extended family and immediately got on here to be like "the pizza you ate as a child sucks. the twin cities are overrated. what else. pencils should be illegal" you all are disregulated and you need to settle down!!

I saw the Rick Bartow exhibit at PAM! It was cool!!! That is all, have a nice Sunday!

Henry Sakamoto, a prominent leader in Portland’s Japanese American community who helped bring cherry trees to the Tom McCall Waterfront Park downtown, has died at age 98.

Seasonal hot take: maybe Charlie Brown would be less depressed if his friends weren’t such assholes about it! They are not very supportive. Did they consider that maybe *they* are the problem? Anyway though, happy Vince Guaraldi Day to one & all

“This is Hillsboro, Oregon, in the year 2025. For Shirley and Jasmine, and the people they serve, it’s an era of code names, secretive deliveries, encrypted messages, and concerns about government surveillance.” From Alejandro Figueroa & @hbarth.bsky.social:

Cheers to solidarity in 2026 & beyond 🥂

Today on @opb.org’s The Evergreen: Rick Bartow was once a small-town kid from Newport, OR. The Indigenous artist went on to see his work featured in 100+ museums & in a White House garden. His pieces are raw & emotional, beautiful & weird. He said art saved him.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

NEW OCEAN FRIENDS 🦀

Rick Steves is a man of the people!!!!