Unzoomed #647 5/6 🔴🔴🔴🔴🟢⚪️ unzoomed.com

This has been a lazy week for me... All of a sudden, it's rainy, dreary, and dark outside. It's hard to adjust.

What happens when the most successful politician of the last decade is cruel, immoral, and corrupt? It creates a push-pull dynamic that pushes good people out of the party and pulls in new people who share the leader’s ethos. Decency becomes rarer, and decent people feel more isolated.

The new right groans under the weight of its nostalgia for a nation that did not exist. And in writing about a false enemy that destroyed a fake past, Andrews and the many other architects of the right-wing gender wars are committing the very sins they attribute to the enemies they detest.

Oregon’s rapid shift toward city living has still among the fastest in the nation.

A "theocratic libertarianism" sounds like a mental gymnastic of an Olympic quality. Maybe Doug (like many Republicans) confuses a small-government nightwatchman state with libertarianism, but this is still a contradiction in logic. juicyecumenism.com/2025/10/22/h...

It's Sunday, and that means it's another Offbeat Expedition! OEx is a DIY "micro-worship" experience for everyone, but especially those who find it too overwhelming to attend a conventional church. An web forum is available for connection and support. www.infinitusministries.net/offbeat-expe...

😂😂😂😂😂 www.inspiremore.com/dog-bath-hab...

Federal workers miss 1st full paychecks as shutdown drags on

the dumbing down of a generation (and intellectual laziness) www.instagram.com/p/DPacdv4iLa2/

The Trump administration is billing unaccompanied immigrant children as young as 14 a $5,000 fine for crossing the border. The kids are in federal custody with no way to work or pay. Payment is "due now" with threats of litigation and harm to their cases.

community responds www.kptv.com/2025/10/25/a...

Update: The pause followed Oregon evidence DOJ inflated FPS numbers—never more than 31 on site—used to justify Guard help. Earlier, Judge Immergut (a Trump appointee) issued TROs blocking Oregon and out-of-state troops. The district trial begins Wednesday. bsky.app/profile/port...

An appeals court’s ruling that Oregon National Guard troops can be sent into Portland is now on hold.

1) I met with Doug White, Executive Director of the Hollywood Theater, about his plans to move Movie Madness to NE Sandy, and to create a Hollywood Film District. I LOVE the vision, and I'm excited for anything that will fill the vacant storefronts along that stretch of Sandy. This is a HUGE win.

Go woke go broke? 😂 www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

the federal government is the largest employer of rural Americans www.oregonjournalismproject.org/government-s...

Some great actionable information here organizingmythoughts.org/mapping-comm...

The Lloyd Center’s owners have long-term plans to demolish and redevelop the 65-year-old mall.

Useful advice that we hate to have pass along.

“Rayfield submitted a brief with the 9th Circuit Court that showed DOJ attorneys had submitted false information to the courts that inflated the strain on the federal government’s law enforcement resources caused by having to staff the Portland protests”

Los eventos se llevarán a cabo desde finales del mes de octubre hasta mediados de noviembre y tendrán música, instalaciones de arte, comida tradicional y altares comunitarios en toda la zona metropolitana.

Afraid you may have been exposed to measles? Washington’s Department of Health is launching an online tracker showing locations where people with the disease visited.

"Let's play to win, rather than playing not to lose" The youngest member of the TriMet Board of Directors, 30-year old JT Flowers, just might be the best hope for transit advocacy we've ever had in one of those positions. youtu.be/mMYbkfcJpCs

Learn about Portland's own Futel! tbot.substack.com/p/tbot-10-me...

When idiot Ron Schneider was born in 1963, the infant mortality rate was 29/1,000. It is now close to 5/1,000. So, no, children were NOT healthier when he was a kid. And he was, clearly, dropped on his head.

Well worth a read for anyone who loves Portland, warts and all. Here's a gift link - happy Friday! via @jrlsilverman.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Neutrogena makeup remover wipes recalled after testing positive for serious bacteria, FDA says

The decision to send one state’s National Guard troops into a different state without the receiving governor’s consent is both extraordinary and unprecedented, experts on national security law told Stateline.

As the federal government #shutdown drags on, millions of Americans risk losing access to essential nutrition programs. Watch @lelaineb.bsky.social of @georgetownpoverty.bsky.social discuss how the shutdown and the Republican budget bill threaten to deepen hunger and poverty in our nation

Apropos of something, perhaps a good time to revisit @opb.org's 2021 investigation by Conrad Wilson & Tony Schick: www.opb.org/article/2021...

Legal observers say troops could arrive soon, depending on decisions made by a district judge and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

"[Martin Luther King, Jr.] remind us that legality and morality are not always the same — and that a nation that abandons moral law will soon find itself without any law at all. A government that chains pregnant women, assaults journalists, and detains citizens without cause has lost its moral […]

Wake up, brain! 😲 It's time for another super fun POP QUIZ PDX. In this week's trivia challenge: a honkin' HUGE No Kings march, paddling around in moist pumpkins, and look who's throwing a party in ICE town! (See how well YOU score!) 🤓

It appears that there is a large-scale migra raid in progress or about to occur in Rockwood (Gresham). Several reports of soldiers, a helicopter, etc. in the last 45 minutes.

Send a message in the Spotify community & on your social media: say why you cancelled & call on others to so. Sample: Spotify supporting ICE & recruiting for them is unconscionable. I cancelled my subscription & I've asked my community to do the same. community.spotify.com/t5/Social-Ra...

Why did he back off so easily this time around? 🧐 srnnews.com/trump-backs-...

Hundreds of Thousands of Oregonians to Lose SNAP Benefits, Merkley Holds the Senate Floor, and Next Adventure's Next Adventure. It's GOOD MORNING, NEWS.⁠ www.portlandmercury.com/good-morning...

Jeff Merkley is still on the Senate floor, standing up to say clearly: the authoritarian crisis isn’t coming, it’s here. In this clip, Merkley breaks down Trump’s ploy to send troops to Portland to provoke violence and chaos while he consolidates more power. Portland isn’t taking the bait.

Legality and morality are not always the same — and that a nation that abandons moral law will soon find itself without any law at all. www.rutherford.org/publications...

Disgusting

Next Adventure, the iconic Oregon outdoor store, is about to begin, well, a new adventure. With the help of investors, the business will stay open with a new ownership model allowing employees and the public to participate.

At several locations across the city where bike bus routes cross busy intersections, the Portland Bureau of Transportation has programmed traffic signals with a custom, bike bus-friendly timing plan that is activated by a longer push of the beg button. (!!!) bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...

wtf?

Targeting nonprofits and charities based on their beliefs is a gross violation of First Amendment rights. That's why we've condemned President Trump's attacks on nonprofits' freedom of speech. Read more about what happened and why it matters in Oregon.

So it is possible for the NYT to write a decent article about Portland.

🍿Now let's see if she will last longer than Liz Truss. 🥬 verity.news/story/2025/t...