“When it comes to kids specifically, people don’t think they have the capacity to both self-advocate or know what’s right for them ... I am a political science major. I do want to go more into rights for people, specifically with the youth. I want to be that person that I needed when I was younger.”

Her detention has devastated her family: She’s been the primary caretaker of her husband, who suffered a stroke in December & recently had heart surgery. And she’s the mom of two teens, who are now trying simultaneously to care for their father, go to school & deal with their mom’s immigration case.

Oregon state Democratic lawmakers approved a measure on Thursday that would prevent federal immigration officers from wearing masks. The measure is a response to the Trump administration’s nationwide deportation efforts.

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

“Reporting and writing are two different skill sets and rare — RARE — is the occasion when it’s wrapped into one person” Bold choice to insult a bunch of reporters by insinuating they’re bad writers on the company Slack but okay!

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen: Maxville was once one of the largest towns in Wallowa County. It was created in the 1920s by a lumber company to house loggers, including Black loggers from Southern states — like Gwen Trice’s father. We explore her family roots & Maxville's multiracial history:

criterion channel rn has a collection called YEARNING and a collection called STUNTS! and between them exits the entire spectrum of human art and emotion

You know what you could do today instead of doomscrolling all day is go pick up a copy of Persepolis. It is stunningly good.

Located at the cemetery’s southwest corner at Southeast Morrison Street and 20th Avenue, Block 14 was the burial ground for most of the more than 3,000 people of Chinese ancestry buried at Lone Fir Cemetery between the 1860s and the 1920s.

An automated self-service option on a state hotline gave callers not a voice speaking Spanish, as selected, but an English voice with a Hispanic accent. (Except for numbers, e.g. "the last cuatro digits of your social security number") From Monica Carrillo-Casas of Spokane Public Radio:

Huge crowd here at the Capitol of Salem-Keizer school students who walked out today to protest ICE and support the Immigration Justice Package under consideration in the Oregon Legislature Live coverage at statesmanjournal.com

THIS SUCKS, this sucks!!!! This all sucks. A multipurpose 2026 scream into the void about how this sucks. Ahhhhhhhhhh

Portland is poised to be the largest U.S. city to allow polyamorous families to sue over discrimination.

“He acknowledged to the dispatcher that he was planning to get out of his vehicle. The dispatcher interjected. ‘Why? You can drive away. We have officers en route to you,’ the dispatcher said. ‘I don’t want you guys getting into any more of a dispute.’”

Businesses are reporting up to 60% sales losses compared to the previous year, according to the Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber, as customers stay at home in fear of immigration agents. “The family is inside in the house. My business is very, very slow.”

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen: A defining feature of the 2nd Trump admin has been its treatment of immigrants, & the effects of its mass deportation campaign are being deeply felt in the NW. We talk with three NW News Network journalists who cover immigration in OR & WA about their reporting:

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

Buena noticia - nuestro artículo sobre El Centro Mercado en Cornelius ya está disponible en español:

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen: A defining feature of the 2nd Trump admin has been its treatment of immigrants, & the effects of its mass deportation campaign are being deeply felt in the NW. We talk with three NW News Network journalists who cover immigration in OR & WA about their reporting:

(……one of the more useful things journalists do, I think, is help people understand who to be mad at, and why)

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

53 year old father of three who’d lived in the US for 30 years dies of pneumonia in Mexico shortly after he was apprehended and deported by ICE. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

When I say that @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I like to deep dive with our reporting, what I mean is that we go to the absolute bottom and find insane shit like this.

After a busy week I finally got the time to read this today from @ryanjhaas.bsky.social & @leahsottile.bsky.social. Notable details: a councilor‘s response to a threatening email, an AI slop video from a local news outlet.

Another day, another Adobe Premiere editing skill autodidactically learned from A Guy On YouTube 👩‍🎓

Highly recommend the “It Did Happen Here” podcast and book to learn abt Portland’s recent white supremacist past, how it led to Seraw’s murder, and how local activists organized and fought back.

Every Oregonian should know this story. If it's new to you, I highly recommend you make time for this documentary:

Just here to HYPE EVERYONE UP real quick we are TRIUMPHING over ADVERSITY including both TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS this week KEEP AT IT folks and also don't forget to DRINK SOME WATER 🤝

The prolific, pioneering filmmaker made dozens of documentaries and chronicled the inner workings of institutions. His 1967 film, Titicut Follies, revealed appalling conditions at a prison facility. n.pr/4rYs8nG

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen: Last fall, President Trump said he’d deploy the National Guard to Portland to support ICE. He falsely claimed the city was “war ravaged" & "on fire." It kicked off a complex legal battle that led to deployment being blocked. We discuss with three OPB journalists:

I think it’s very useful for members of the media to see ourselves through the lens of the people impacted by the terrible things they live though crcvc.ca/wp-content/u...

I've tried to get this point across myself. Here, @brianbeutler.bsky.social does a great job of it. Liberal bias is a political tool — not a critique of performance — and it will assert itself regardless of how well the newsroom does on truthtelling and fairness. www.offmessage.net/p/a-requiem-...

"The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

W h a t a w e e k. My brain is a bundle of tangled busted up wires weakly sparking & glitching out & making David Lynch electricity sounds you know what I mean? But I made it this far & so did you. Wishing you a weekend of rest & snacks. (Drink some water!)

People living across the street from Portland's ICE facility are seeking relief. Not only are chemicals used by federal agents infiltrating their homes, they're wreaking havoc on their bodies and lives. In court filings, they describe sleeping with gas masks.

Am I right?

Dave Miller shares his story for our “what our audience doesn’t know” series. "We want all of the content creators of OPB to be compensated with livable wages and treated with respect. If this is what you want too, please make your voices heard." -Dave Miller OPB host of Think Out Loud

If you plan to contribute during OPB’s membership drive, we appreciate your support (it helps keep our reporting free & accessible for all) & would love for you to let OPB know that as a member you support livable wages & a fair contract for the people who make OPB & KMHD possible

Big news re: the Oregon National Primate Research Center

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

There's been Olympic levels of missing the damn point today.

so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

ProPublica spoke with a dozen kids detained in Dilley Texas, including 7-year-old Diana Crespo who was released from the facility on Friday. Great reporting by @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen: We love a Mexican history in Oregon episode! Did you know César Chávez was the namesake of a groundbreaking college founded in OR in the '70s? We learn from Alicia Avila about Colegio César Chávez, the first independent, accredited Chicano university in US history:

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

Yesterday the Washington Post rid itself of Publisher and Chief Executive Will Lewis. If you're interested in those events and their tumultuous background, I would recommend this detailed account from NPR's @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social No paywall. www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

"The news throughout the early weeks of 2026 reminded us that the concept of “both sides” in journalism is a deeply flawed, and even dangerous, way to think about reporting a story — especially when one side is actively trafficking in disinformation." niemanstoryboard.org/2026/02/06/i...