Thank you, @merkley.senate.gov

The Guardian: A federal judge in Portland, Oregon issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday that bars federal officers from shooting or firing tear gas at nonviolent protesters and journalists outside an ICE facility in the city’s residential South Waterfront neighborhood.

@wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

@nytimes.com "Tame"? Doesn't that adopt the administration's claim that higher ed *was* out of control? What other verbs could have been used? Control? Damage?

My data is safe. Thanks @marcelias.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the 2025 Literary Awards Program with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social. We are thrilled to announce our Winners' Circle: Congratulations to our our grand prize winner, @sudhab.bsky.social, and our runners-up Cara Lynn Albert and Terese Svoboda, and ! buff.ly/92ASZax

From the Portland Japanese Garden: "In light of the recent events unfolding in our city and to help bring calm and compassion to our community, Portland Japanese Garden will open for free from 1:30 to 3:30pm on Friday, January 9 and Saturday, January 10 until we reach capacity."

The annual Medicare wellness exam is not healthcare

President Trump said Wednesday that he would abandon for now his efforts to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles.

President Trump overstepped his authority when he sought to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, to protect the ICE office there, a federal judge ruled, issuing a permanent block on troop deployments to the city.

BREAKING: Federal Judge Immergut in Portland rules Trump admin CANNOT deploy National Guard to Oregon. Grants state & city a PERMANENT injunction, barring troops indefinitely.

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge rules Trump’s Portland military takeover unconstitutional. Judge Immergut permanently blocked Trump’s order to federalize Oregon’s National Guard — calling it a violation of the Tenth Amendment and a power grab beyond lawful authority.

This deserves a fully developed Sunday NYTimes news feature, with a daily front-page follow up including updates on the status of the 12 criteria, consistent with coverage of major world crises. #nokings #nytimes #democracy Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1... #nokingspdx #portland #nokings

Federal officers “gassed” Portland police officers and fired pepper balls at one local officer outside the U.S. Immigration and Enforcement building in the city in the past month. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Art: it's good for you! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

LEGO: "Retired Product"

So much truth requires a lot of words over a lot of hours. 👏👏👏

“If you refuse to let my people go, I will send a plague of frogs across your entire land. . . They will come up out of the river. . . .They will enter the houses of your officials. . . Frogs will jump on you, your people, and all your officials.” Exodus 8:2-4 #nokingspdx #nokings #portland

Where there's no smoke, there's no fire. No #Portland burning. The beauty of peaceful protest is that performing a counter-narrative is much more effective than arguing against one. #nokingspdx @wyden.senate.gov

@portlandpolice.bsky.social striking the right tone at #nokingspdx #nokings #portland

@wyden.senate.gov #nokingspdx #portland #nokings

I had made myself a note (so many notes!) to circle back around to the wonderful @bethcastrodale.bsky.social in November to see if she'd had time to read my debut novel Sunshine Girl. She beat me to the punch with this amazing review! Thank you, thank you, Beth. smallpresspicks.com/sunshine-girl/

‘Photos don’t go bigger than mine’: the epic, impossible images of the great Andreas Gursky

Portland wasn't burning down in 2020, either. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

After identifying the Portland city councilors as Democratic socialists at the start of this article, @kellen.bsky.social (or the @nytimes.com editor) refers to them consistently as simply "socialists". There is a difference. The terms are not interchangeable. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

@lidiamiles.bsky.social You made The Guardian (see photo of Powell's) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In 1993 Sharon Kaplan Roszia & I published "The Open Adoption Experience" (HarperCollins) to help families and professionals know what to expect and how to work through difficulties. We said, "Open adoption is more of a relationship than an institution or process."

'Kavanaugh claims that it is just “common sense” to stop Latinos who look like they might be engaged in low-wage jobs and question their immigration status.' What else is just "common sense"? Paying men more for comparable work? Saying marriage can only be between a man and a woman?

"Lifts restrictions" doesn't quite say "okayed racial profiling"

m.youtube.com/watch?v=3E5j... Texas legislators explaining that the Parable of the Good Samaritan is specifically about helping those who aren't like you.

For the second time in a row, both teams in the women's Euros final will coached by women #Euros2025

I’m adopted. So I wrote about how an attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship could affect adoptees. It’s also about family, community, and what it means to belong. Read it at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/adoption-bel...

My first concert. RIP Brian Wilson

Dismissed FAA staffer Ronicsa Chambers said her team members — five Black women and one white man with a disability — were told they would be reassigned but remain without work. “As far as we know, we’re the only ones still on administrative leave.” New, @davidmcswane.bsky.social @propublica.org

@lidiamiles.bsky.social So pleased that Chronology of Water (the movie) is getting great reviews! Looking forward to the Portland premiere! www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

What's next after the April 5 #HandsOff demonstrations? loismelina.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/1...

"Someone needs to walk into the Oval Office and say, "Mr. President, we just fired the person who may have saved your life." Dr. David Kessler on whether Donald Trump understands what his indiscriminate cuts at HHS are doing.

Everyone who has been treated for cancer (and many other diseases) benefited from clinical trials. We will see no effective, reliable new treatments without this kind of research.

Congratulations to these writers. I'm especially pleased for Anatoly Molotov, whose memoir is particularly relevant now.

Someone just wished me a "decent holiday" and I may just adopt that

@harpercollins.bsky.social Any agents or HarperCollins authors who have read the terms of the AI agreement see this deal as worth pursuing? Any attempts to negotiate for better terms?