Despite Portland State faculty & staff securing $311M in higher ed funding, reducing Oregon’s higher ed cuts from 5% to 0%, PSU admin move forward in enacting worst cuts in its history. Why? @psuaaup.bsky.social

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Some not great news out of Portland State University. www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

Eighteen Californians, ages 10 to 19, are asking an appeals court to OK their claims that the EPA discriminates against children by ignoring the long-term health benefits of climate regulations. @blancabegert.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

They want war.

Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more. It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

I had the privilege of leading the research and writing of this new report commissioned by Comite Civico Del Valle and The POWER Coalition that analyzes Imperial County’s Draft Lithium Valley Specific Plan and its environmental health implications. www.ccvhealth.org/reports/powe...

As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.

My kids' school is crumbling and seismically hazardous, hits over 95 degrees inside b/c it doesn't have air conditioning, and it's full of rats. The Moda Center is perfectly fine as-is. Also I suspect the renovations will make high end luxury seats fancier, while regular seats will stay the same.

There are so many worthwhile investments Portland city government should be making with the $1.7B Clean Energy Fund. Renovating the Moda Center is absolutely not one of them. www.opb.org/article/2026...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

I think both cities and rural areas are the "real America", but caring about rural areas means caring about human rights including rights of immigrants, air and water quality, and climate change. And caring about cities means caring about exactly the same things.

“No.” is a sentence.

Live, Laugh, Love building bike lanes.

Delighted to have this nice write-up on my ongoing collab with PSU students and Follow the Water, a local clean water outreach campaign! Portland State students have so much to offer and it's fantastic to be able to pair with a local effort. @portlandstate.bsky.social www.pdx.edu/news/psu-stu...

Listening to the audiobook of Number the Stars with my kid, and wow it really hits hard in this current moment.

Join City Councilors in telling Gov. Kotek a shrinking PSU makes the revitalization of downtown Portland impossible. If this university contracts, it will undermine PSU's access mission and every other investment the state makes in the city's recovery. actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-...

Thank you @councilortkl.bsky.social @councilorgreen.bsky.social @councilorkanal.bsky.social for coming to Portland State University to talk with AAUP faculty and staff about the need for a bright and robust future for higher ed in downtown Portland! @psuaaup.bsky.social #portlandstate

If USAID can be dismantled with this level of awful consequences, surely we can dismantle ICE.

It’s obvious that eating less meat and dairy has multiple benefits for people and the planet, we don’t do it because the power of the ag lobby is extraordinary and deeply intertwined with settler colonial beliefs and power structures (just look at land grant university research!).

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

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. 🧵

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.

Q&A would be lit

PSA: please take a few minutes this weekend to watch the new Muppet Show reboot so that they make more Muppet Show, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Once again: the Trump administration isn't opposed to clean energy. They're opposed to cheap energy. Because it threatens the livelihood of their mediocre friends who can't compete against cheaper sources. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...

How failing negotiations could spiral into a bitter fight over the Colorado River As the deadlock persists, the chances of a court battle are growing. Arizona's negotiator says without a deal, a lawsuit is likely. I spoke with Colorado's governor about the impasse: www.latimes.com/environment/...

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

Buried lede: he realizes that it is absolutely impossible to achieve mass deportation if that process is required, which it constitutionally is.

This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Mayor Wilson has now indicated he will expedite the rule making process for the Detention Facility Impact Fee. I am grateful for that. We also need District Attorney Nathan Vasquez to outline how he plans to hold ICE agents accountable for the unlawful use of tear gas against a group of families.

A spot of good news. This baby should absolutely never have gone through what he did. Prosecute ICE.

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]

Congrats to ICE for dropping a metric ton of tear gas on a bunch of nurses, teamsters and children just now

From Portland Reddit. I don't think the fed goons realize how badly this is going to go for them.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

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

Fuck.

Massive group bike ride in honor of Alex Pretti, to the Labor Against ICE union rally today. I didn't really capture the scale, there were a lot of people, both on bikes and at the rally/march itself. Way to turn out, Portland. #bikesky #ICEout #laboragainstICE

Ok I love that the Portland Mercury's answer to "what should I do this weekend" is: three protests against ICE, eat some hot dogs for Weiner Week, and a good ol communal rage-howl-at-the-moon.

A large protest, dubbed “Labor Against ICE,” is expected to start near the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland on Saturday. At least 30 unions endorsed the protest and planned to attend in some fashion.