I'm a member of many hemp industry organizations that are all freaking out right now. One, the Midwest Hemp Council, has this helpful answer to the question everyone is asking: Why is the Senate going after hemp now? Basically a bullshit campaign from market competitors and prohibitionists.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here. bsky.app/profile/mand...

Support an Oregon farmer and a good guy.

Hey so if you see your senator in this list, could you please call them tomorrow and tell them that you’re mad because they voted to kill the entire hemp farm industry, including your buddy Derek in Oregon? Thanks, buddy.

Should I ask him for a kayak? 🪶🌿

Jaelan Phillips loves being an Eagle, and we love him already. Welcome to Philly!

“I am deeply concerned by recent reports suggesting that Newport may be under consideration for an ICE detention facility,” Newport Mayor Jan Kaplan said in a statement.

I've been hearing all day about rumors that ICE wants to set up a new outpost on the Oregon coast. Newport officials say their airport is in the agency's sites. #orpol www.opb.org/article/2025...

You get a 3-point fumble. YOU get a 3-point fumble. Everybody gets a field goal saving fumble.

Thanks, NOAA!

Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.

My post of Decision Desk's decision to call the Seattle mayor race for Harrell last week didn't hinge on who would ultimately win: The point was that a "call" isn't a race to get a prediction right. But Wilson now being ahead should at least bring more attention to the importance of not rushing.

There are a few teams in the NFL that I like and generally pull for, when they aren't playing my Eagles. The Packers are one of those teams. That said, tonight they *are* playing my Eagles. May thy knife chip and shatter. Go Birds. #FlyEaglesFly

⚠️An updated forecast for this week's #AtmosphericRiver set to impact the U.S. West Coast. More information: cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-ar-upda...

Hey #PNW, the @sciencewriters.org meeting next NOV is in Corvallis, OR. Hosts include @oregonstate.edu #sciwri26 Travel dream - a "private car" on Amtrak bringing all the #seattle folks south @nswa.bsky.social sciencewriters2025.org/next-year/

I grow garlic. My neighbors grow squash. I'd like to diversify my own harvest, but for now, trade is just as good. Better, because it also comes with the community value of good barter. #gardening #food

Obergefell survives, and Kim Davis loses. In a time of great and constant harm, every harm averted is something. That's enough to get me out of bed and started on an otherwise pretty dismal day. Whatever works, grab on to something. Keep going.

I just heard from two different people at #SciWri25 that next year's meeting is ... here? Corvallis? That is wild. I'm not sure how some details of that will work, but I do look forward to running a makeshift science writer B&B out of my apartment for my out of town friends.

Call your people. To offer, but also to ask. Sometimes the best gift you can give the people who love you is to let them help. (Something I am terrible at, by the way.)

I hate thinking about my own problems when folks are being kidnapped off the street, but ACA subsidy cuts will make my life a lot harder. And that's true for almost every freelancer and creative you follow. None of this is fucking necessary. It's all a choice, and I will never forgive it.

My most basic electoral opinion remains: Primary everyone. The ones you love, like and hate. Every cycle, but this year especially. The will of the people is not being represented. Every incumbent should have to convince us they deserve to win their nomination, never assume it.

Both Oregon's senators are opposed to a deal to end the longest federal government shutdown in history, with Sen. Jeff Merkley calling it "a brutal blow to all those who have stood together to save affordable health care for more than 20 million Americans." buff.ly/MqerHps

Today I got my favorite annual November gift, the first shoots of my garlic popping out of the ground to remind me: No matter how long or deep the winter, things are still growing underground, and spring will come again. #garlic #Oregon #gardening

No, James Watson was not a "complicated" person. He was a bad person, and also a bad scientist. These racist, sexist statements, his sincere beliefs, are both morally indefensible and scientifically absurd. With every year that passes, let his name fade and Rosalind Franklin's shine the brighter.

I've never published anything so close to my heart. Hope ya love it.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Cornell is the latest institution to miss the most obvious lesson of 2025: Capitulation to Trump gains you nothing in the long run, and costs you plenty. Anyone still making a deal like this, despite all evidence against its effectiveness, is either cowardly, inept or a willing collaborator.

So Nature-Springer, which absorbs several billion dollars in research funding each year, provides us with an API that attributes all citations to the first article in the volume. Well done Springer Nature, at least I know where not to submit my next paper.

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

If you're going to make a post praising an incredible news photo, it's a real bad look when you don't include the photographer credit in the post.

What was the charge? Throwing a sandwich? A succulent submarine sandwich?

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen: For 150+ yrs, Native American kids were sent to boarding schools meant to force them to assimilate to white culture. But in this dark history are stories of resistance. We follow one Klamath tribal member as she uncovers her own family’s boarding school experience:

This is what I don't get: Douthat is *boring*. I realize that's not his worst feature, but he is so utterly predictable. There's not even a hint of "Well, I don't agree with his solutions, but he correctly highlights a good question." Just boring.

To all my fellow science writers headed to Chicago for #SciWri25, I wish you uncomplicated flights and fun sessions, but I'll be missing this one. Clap extra hard for @seannealon.bsky.social's award for me.

This is the teacher federal agents grabbed yesterday at Rayito De Sol daycare in front of children. Attorneys for Diana Santillana have filed a petition in federal court to have her freed from ICE custody.

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

A carved rock tied to an Indigenous creation story for Willamette Falls used to sit next to the river in Oregon City, but it’s been missing since the 1950s. Now, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde are trying to find it.

Are you an Alaskan undergrad student who is interested in Arctic research & learning from Indigenous and western knowledge holders? You are invited to apply to the NNA Research Experience for Undergraduate Students! Learn more: nna-co.org/nna-research...

What a fabulous early transition get. Mamdani is great, but his time in office will be defined by the team he picks, and this is a hell of a hopeful start.

“Only in blue cities” Right. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

Enjoy the wins. It is more than okay. It is necessary and important to be happy when we win.

Election nights are the only time I miss working in politics as a profession. By tomorrow, I'll remember how deeply it sucked.

HERE IT IS!!!!!

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If I testified about being assaulted with a sandwich, while in body armor, my friends would rightly never let me forget it. They would dress up as sandwiches and jump out of bushes to scare me. They would ask me if I was triggered every time we passed a Subway. It would be relentless and eternal.

Just getting out of 2.5 hours of dental work, so I would really appreciate if the politics went well tonight thanks.

Ah. Who could have guessed this might become a problem? www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.