"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Trump's shutdown firings hollow out special education office www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Interested in how libraries can support #transdisciplinarity e.g. through the production of a library guide with introductory materials on transdisciplinary problem solving? Check out this week’s very useful i2Insights contribution by Gabriele Bammer et al. at i2insights.org/2025/10/14/l...

Hidden Truths That Make Leading Feel Like Flow www.govloop.com/community/bl... via Govloop

New in PN: Republicans are totally full of it on healthcare. It becomes more obvious every time they talk about it. And it's a big reason the shutdown is turning out to be such a disaster for them.

Find your local No Kings event here: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=h...

Judges keep ruling that Trump cannot deploy the National Guard in Illinois. New @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Documentary argues George Orwell's greatest fears are materializing www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Shadow Mountain Lake: A pristine Colorado mountain pool or a science experiment for fish? coloradosun.com/2025/10/12/s... On unintended consequences via @coloradosun

As AJ Bauer accurately points out in that OPB piece, none of the "journalists" being amplified by the White House and Twitter follow the usual norms of professional journalism. They are creating hype content for ICE and the Trump Administration, but framing themselves as "truth telling outsiders."

Because I live in Oregon & write/research about the history of the far right in the state, I happen to be familiar with the back catalogue of most of these folks and, while they have a 1st Amendment right to say what they want, their track record of accuracy is questionable. bsky.app/profile/seth...

There's one huge difference between the 2025 Portland protests & the ones in 2020. Today, the ~100 anti-fascist protesters at the ICE facility are sandwiched between the feds who have MAGA-friendly media embedded w/ them, and ~15 MAGA-friendly content creators/counter-protesters out in the crowd.

This man revealed his true colors when he said he wanted to cause pain to federal employees.

Trump is in power. Somehow, the wackos aren’t satisfied. wapo.st/470kSPc “People convinced that an amorphous they controls events are unlikely to take political responsibility for the shape of our common life — and far more likely to fall in thrall to demagogues and dictators.”

Want hope? Watch John Yang’s interview with Mitch Albom www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

The Elders congratulate María Corina Machado for winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Penguin Books: These four books have faced bans. Here's why you should read them. links.penguin.co.uk/s/vb/WELoATx...

Breathe, bird, repeat. www.allaboutbirds.org/news/best-bi...

New in PN: The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland "Trump’s confusion isn’t just darkly comical (and a troubling reminder of the president’s growing senility) — it’s a stark illustration of the whiplash-inducing disconnect between his rhetoric and the reality on the ground."

How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u... via @NYTimes “A White House spokesman, Kush Desai, rejected criticism that Mr. Trump was undermining Black Americans. But he did not address the lack of diversity in appointments.”

Conservationists are harnessing millennia-old relationships between plants and fungi to restore forests, reduce fertilizer use and combat climate change. reasonstobecheerful.world/environmenta...

Livestock guardian dogs bred in Colorado could be the nonlethal deterrent the USDA has been looking for coloradosun.com/2025/10/08/l... via @coloradosun.com

Although I didn’t have occasion to use Metro this trip, I used it every weekday for 17 years and recommend it highly for getting around in the City. Kudos to Metro staff for doing the hard work over years - well deserved.

The President’s actions have encouraged this kind of violence. It is utterly ludicrous that he thinks he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - for anything.

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day wapo.st/4obueib

Interested in #interdisciplinary integration? Check out a handy typology and the stages of a research process where it can be implemented in this week’s i2Insights contribution by Benjamin Hofmann and Milena Wiget at i2insights.org/2025/10/07/t...

This Rolling Stone article is worth the time it takes to read. It’s sick that a President’s administration is focused on making some Americans suffer.

In the next issue of Rolling Stone magazine, @swin24.bsky.social and I go deep on Trump’s war on speech, the left, and any and all dissent. Read it here and come follow our work at @zeteo.com, where we work now! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Trump administration’s deployment of ICE and others in the mass deportation effort has led to more violence and turmoil, and less safety and security for all, including US citizens. But that’s a feature not a bug. The chaos justifies further authoritarian crackdowns. The chaos is the point.

That "officer" should be fired and charged with assault. In any decent country, that would be a given.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

What Women Heard in Hegseth’s Remarks About Physical Standards www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u... via @nytimes.com

Education Dept. staff surprised to find email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru... via @nbcnews #HatchActViolation

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens. They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

Appearance trumps performance at Pentagon wapo.st/3WkCnVq

Republicans are happy to collect taxes from blue states, then Budget Dictator Russ Vought cuts off their funding approved by Congress. No cuts yet from the Dictator to red states. Vote out Susan Collins since she is powerless as Appropriations Chair & every R in blue states.

🍊💩keeps pretending he has nothing to do with Project 2025, but truth keeps catching up to him.He’s been surrounded by its authors,repeating its talking points, & openly praising the same goals it lays out.Every denial is just another lie because when 🍊💩 speaks,reality always tells a different story.