This alone is disqualifying. If this schmuck is gonna LEAVE THE CITY if he loses, he doesn't love the city enough to deserve to win.

Another week, another Republican gerrymander rammed through at the expense of minority voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This absolutely unhinged quote from the president of the United States is in the 19th paragraph in this article. Barely remarkable! But also just astonishing.

Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I just found out that the guy I've lived with for 32 years has never seen Big Trouble in Little China. My pillars of heaven are shook.

Senator Merkley on the Senate floor should be getting much more attention. He and other Senators are breaking down all the different fronts of Trump's authoritarianism. Everyone should be watching this. www.youtube.com/live/ymDt1Xe...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Okay, my obscure background as an erstwhile DC land use lawyer is finally relevant. There are several agencies that oversee any projects at the White House, including the Commission of Fine Arts, the Commission for the Preservation of the White House, the National Park Service, and the National 1/

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

The CHAPBOOK COLLECTION is a set of chapbooks featuring my short stories and novellas, all at 99c on Kindle, and is kind of a historical archive of my writing over the past 30+ years. Something here for everybody... www.williammeikle.com/chapbook.html #booksky #kindle #ebooks #writingcommunity

A momunmental achievement and wonderfully presented by the Story Lab. Also gotta note the timing of its release - the same week as Tony Abbott's "history" of Australia book/doco.

The CFPB is one of the most staunch financial watchdogs for the American people. The agency has returned at least $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011. It's no longer protecting consumers now...BECAUSE THIS REGIME DOESN'T WANT IT TO!

The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.

Y'all. Don't be the person who buys, reads, and then returns a book, especially a new release. This hurts the author and their future prospects more than you know. If you really want to read that book for free, have you tried the library?

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

Portland peeps! I'll be at Powell's City of Books tonight with the fabulous @jennykiefer.com to interview her about her new book, CRAFTING FOR SINNERS. Come find out just how dangerous a craft store can be! www.powells.com/events/jenny...

Nothing to see here? Think again! These sphinx moth #caterpillars are two MONTHS late emerging, due to a tardy monsoon. They generally are a food source for migratory birds in EARLY summer. The migrators are gone. What did they eat? Changing weather patterns impact so much.

It's not often we get two #ringtails in frame on a #cameratrap. These lovelies were photographed in the Galiuro Mountains, another fantastic Sky Island of Arizona.

When you mine out there in the mountains, you imperil the southwest's last free-flowing river down here. First you steal from the San Pedro's tributary, #CopperCreek. Then you'll steal subsurface H20 from the river. And you, foreign #mining company, get our precious H20 for free.

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

Adapting Ned Blackhawk's National Book Award winner for young readers has been both an honor and a pleasure. I learned a lot while writing the adaptation, and I am looking forward to sharing this book with the world in Fall 2026.

Happy book birthday to me! "Poison Pen" (Haunted Coast 5) brings a celebrated author to the Oregon coastal hamlet of Grady — along with fireworks, surfers, special election shenanigans, a Tom Wolfe wannabe, and of course murder. Also, there are recipes in the back! books2read.com/u/3JBkNQ

If you love a supernatural mystery, don't sleep on this series!

“The global economy is a depressing conveyor belt of self-destruction: resources go in, nothing comes out. Everything disappears forever into a black hole of extinction” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

Had a great brainstorm with @rstefoff.bsky.social and @wnwagner.bsky.social. Now I'm extra excited to start first-drafting Haunted Coast book 8 next month! . . . Book 5, Poison Pen, just released today, in case you like murder, mystery, and cranky ghosts at the coast! :) books2read.com/u/3JBkNQ

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

My latest column for @skyandtelescope.bsky.social, about a recent trip to a dark-sky site. It was stellar. 🌟 skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-bl...

We all need some conservation success stories.

All of this could be over if we got past our own shit, joined together, and presented a brave collective front. We could have a new day. We could have a better world. It's that simple.

A bunch of four-star generals and admirals being lectured on the "warrior ethos" by a decrepit old draft dodger and a smarmball who somehow made it to major in the National Guard.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

I mean, if medbeds were real, he'd be continent and have his own hair, right?

Courtesy of the Library of Congress -- a copy of the first edition of The Wizard of Oz. The illustrations are awesome. you can go through page by page, and there are illustrations on almost every page. read.gov/books/pagetu....

I cant believe this hero is willing to walk around Portland without the necessary safety measures of a curled mustache and a trilby! 💪😂👍

Returned two days ago from a great road trip to northeastern Oregon and the Wallowa Mountains. A couple of photos and short paragraphs are up on my blog: stefoff.com?p=3187

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

I know several skilled and experienced software engineers/programmers/QA/admins who are out of work. Their "crime"? Being middle-aged, apparently. If you have/know of an opportunity, please let me know, and I'll pass along. Please RT. Thanks!

Logging to ‘Save’ Northern Spotted Owls From Wildfires Will Not End Well -- our latest expert commentary offers critical insight. Read more: https://therevelator.org/logging-northern-spotted-owls/

"If you were offered the chance to become a vampire — painlessly and without inflicting pain on others, gaining incredible superpowers in exchange for relinquishing your human existence, with all your friends having made the leap and loving it — would you do it?" Do you even have to ask?

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Good news break!

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social Please ask Brendan Carr what happened to this guy 👇

Fascism attacks all things at once. Institutions, the law, rights, protections, the past, present, future, and reality itself. Right now we are seeing people try and tackle each thing individually, which creates a giant, disorienting, activating mess, which is what fascists want.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

TIL, thanks to Colin Dickey's Glacial Errata, that there is a conspiracy theory about the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit? This issue also tipped me off to Philip Steadman's online Cabinet of Curiosities, a collection of architectural oddities.

Good Point! Let’s do it. 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾

Oh, really, Mitch? Thanks for this mess. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...