“Rescinding the endangerment finding puts every state’s climate plan at risk, Kransky said, and it would undercut over a decade of progress.” www.opb.org/article/2025...

Mark Zuckerberg’s company faces backlash after rowing back promises to create between 300 and 500 new jobs to man its subsidiary’s new data center. www.wired.com/story/louisi...

From @maddyfitz.bsky.social + @amelianews.bsky.social: Under a revised federal broadband program, thousands of households, businesses and community buildings across the country will be disqualified from the government’s push to provide more internet access. stateline.org/2025/09/22/w...

For the second time in two years, a youth-led lawsuit challenging the government’s role in climate change is seeing the inside of a Montana courtroom — this time with more plaintiffs and Democratic political consultant John Podesta as a key witness. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/09/17/r...

If you have experience with what's going on at the VA -- either as a vet or insider -- please get in touch. My contact info is [email protected] and Signal Ericumansky.04. Contact info below for my reporting colleagues @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social.

A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies. By @juliaradio.bsky.social

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

The U.S. Department of Education announced it will withhold $350 million approved by Congress for minority-serving colleges and universities and divert the funds elsewhere, Ariana Figueroa reports.

U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday stopped a Democratic amendment to the annual defense authorization bill that would have compelled the release of the government’s investigative files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The U.S. opened its military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, four months to the day after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Here's what to know about the prisoners, the costs and what goes on at the naval base, 24 years after the attacks.

In D.C., a moped on the ground, an SUV full of US marshals and a mystery regarding masked federal agents seizing people and property that should concern everyone in the United States oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/10/r...

As the state of Washington plans to destroy $1.3 million worth of expiring abortion pills it bought in 2023, Oregon leaders late last year thought ahead and replaced its expiring pills with ones that don’t expire until 2028.

"This administration is trying to do everything in its power – and beyond its power – to punish me and deport me." A powerful and nuanced profile of Mahmoud Khalil from @oliverlaughland.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Aww love my little slice of hell 💕

Breaking Google up was one of the last best hopes for preventing the free press from getting squeezed into oblivion and harvested into AI slop, and for saving the open web. The ruling that effectively lets Google continue operating as a monopoly isn't just disappointing, it's a disaster.

Critics say the 10-year, $4.3 billion transportation tax package is the biggest tax increase in Oregon history. How much would the average Oregonian actually pay? buff.ly/rt2pv1m by @miamaldonado.bsky.social

Despite experts saying that famine has begun in Gaza, Israel is threatening more curbs on aid deliveries. Aid groups say extra restrictions will make the starvation crisis worse.

At a long-delayed hearing, the state said it wants to pause enforcement to add to previous allegations of noncompliance.

NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz. -230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles -30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs -agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m. -new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Good news on this front: Pressured by Sen. Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov (D-Oregon) and Rep. Mike Flood (R-Nebraska), YouTube TV and Hulu have just agreed to carry C-SPAN.

After the chaos at the CDC this past week, Oregon, Washington and California say they are going to form their own "Western Health Alliance," particularly around vaccines.

Let’s gooooooo!!!

“I don’t think 20 months ago, January 2024, we would have imagined that the war would be ongoing," Oregon's U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley said after an 8-day trip to Israel, Gaza's borders, and the West Bank. “There has to be an end to this war." oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/02/o...

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

With no quorum and little communication, a long-anticipated special session to fix a transportation funding shortfall is seemingly no more functional than the six-month span when lawmakers initially planned to fix it, @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social reports. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/29/h...

“In two weeks, 500 people will not have a job. They will not have income. They will not be able to know if they can live in the house that they live in. They don’t have any idea what’s happening,” SEUI 503 Director Melissa Unger said. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/29/h...

The House has been delayed a fourth time because of quorum issues. Lawmakers are now at ease until 3:30 pm. More information: www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/p...

Going forward, what comes out of the CDC “will be a Frankenstein of science and ideology” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Portland and other cities as a way to fight crime. Yet behind the aggressive talk, data actually shows that most U.S. violent crime has been in a steady decline.

At least one of the firefighters detained by immigration officers this week was from Oregon.

Outstanding work from @investigatewest.bsky.social: A wood treatment facility on the South Yamhill river in Oregon has polluted a town’s drinking water source for years with a now-banned chemical. State and federal regulators who knew didn't stop it. www.investigatewest.org/oregon-wood-...

🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.

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When I lived in Qatar in 2014 you could buy birth control pills off the shelf at pharmacies.

The Roadless Rule has protected 30% of Forest Service lands from logging and development for 25 years. It's kept the Tongass National Forest in Alaska among the last places left in the country with climate-change fighting old growth, holding 40% of all carbon stored by national forests in the U.S.

RJK Jr’s repudiation of health science shattering leadership of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health.”

Oregon's chief economist told lawmakers in May 25,000 jobs were created since spring 2024. "Now I have to share the unfortunate news that we’ve lost 25,000 jobs," he said. “The situation is worse for ... categories that you would expect to bear the brunt of an escalating trade tension situation.”

Oregon will see a two-year budget - with a positive $472 million balance - evaporate and turn into a $373 million deficit under the Trump administration’s tax and spending policies, economic forecasters told state lawmakers on Wednesday. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/27/o...

Renewable energy developers and state leaders nationwide are racing to start construction on wind and solar projects before the expiration of federal tax credits to support clean energy. via @stateline.org

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“‘You are going to save the whales,’ Mr. Kennedy, who once sawed the head off a whale and drove it home, said while railing against the dangers of wind farms and wind energy, a long-held peeve of the president’s.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

Exxon held secret talks with Russia’s biggest state energy company this year about the U.S. oil giant returning to do business there: www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Democratic National Committee officials did not advance any resolution on Israel’s war in Gaza at a meeting Tuesday, reflecting the party’s deep divisions over how to confront the U.S. ally over its military campaign that has killed 60,000 Palestinians oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/26/d...

A Democratic National Committee panel did not advance any resolution on Israel’s war in Gaza during its meeting in Minneapolis on Tuesday, reflecting the party’s deep divisions over how forcefully to confront one of the U.S.’s closest allies.

Reminder that this has always been concern trolling in the interest of fossil fuels - if they actually cared about whales, they would focus on vessel strikes (including those from oil tankers) and fishing gear entanglement, not to mention climate change.

Oregon's lone Republican Rep. Cliff Bentz met privately with small groups in the state last week, but has no public events scheduled over Congress' August recess. His Dem. colleagues will have collectively held 80 town halls, roundtables, constituent events oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/26/o...

"Almost all of the history of gerrymandering has been about personal gain and about advancing your friends’ interests — this is a real dramatic turn toward using gerrymandering for national political control" oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/25/r...