journalist, writer, yapper, hoosier in portland, oregon. weird little gay person who stands with the people, opinions are my own! she/they 🍥
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Also @koin6.bsky.social, it's professional courtesy to acknowledge how you got the records for your story, especially when you're citing a document that mentions OPB's appeal several dozen times. Without the help of OPB attorney Jon Bial, this report would not have been released to the public.
this is so niche i love it
OPB's legal team wins again! After months of opposing the release of a third-party investigation into sexual abuse at St. Helens High School, that report is now public thanks to OPB.
COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“He’s incredibly scared,” said attorney Abby Sullivan Engen said. “He said, ‘My heart hurts.’ ” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
BREAKING: Texas governor signs into law redrawn voting map pushed by Trump that gives GOP five more winnable congressional seats.
I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
i feel like i need to repost this story every single day now, since i am seeing more and more people defend the plagiarism and suicide machine. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws. For adults, some increases in risk. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.
Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.
Updates on the pharmacy vaccine situation today: CVS is now requiring a prescription in 13 states and not offering shots at all in three others; Walgreens appears to be requiring prescriptions in 16 states, but not all the same ones as CVS. The lists of states are in the article. Gift link:
“There’s a lot of brown bodies out there on the fire line.” Many firefighting crews rely heavily on immigrant labor, and they're fearful after this week's ICE raid in the middle of a wildfire. via Alex Brown for @stateline.org stateline.org/2025/08/28/i...
there are few instances where the state of America’s emergency preparedness (of lack there of!) is on as full of display than Katrina.
a person offering teens free advice on how to take their own life: a monster, immediate jail for life at best a person who owns a company that makes money off giving teens advice on how to take their own life: a genius, this will save civilization, we must give you all the money
Chat GPT is an op. Why would you invite an op into your home, into your precious life? Can’t be me.
If you’re a current CDC employee and would like to share information anonymously, please reach out via Signal: @slooterman.18
NEW: The White House appears to have instructed leaders at the GSA to add xAI’s Grok chatbot to a list of approved vendors “ASAP,” according to an email sent by agency leadership earlier this week, which WIRED obtained. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/white-...
Lori Chavez-DeRemer on Portland: "Oregonian, Americans, they want sanctuary states for themselves, and they want to be safe. We are a nation of law and order and I would expect we'll see a crackdown on a lot of other cities that are not following the law."
“Disaster money is just sitting,” one FEMA employee tells WIRED. “Every single day applicants are asking their FEMA contact ‘where’s my money?’ And we are ordered to just say nothing and redirect.” Must-read by @mollytaft.com
"According to several experts on extremism and mass shootings interviewed by USA TODAY, there's no evidence gender identity had any influence on Robin Westman's decision to shoot children at a Catholic school." Great story by @willcarless.bsky.social
(this post is dripping in sarcasm) (do not take it seriously or so help me god)
hey chat quick question is this bad
Award-winning journalist Mario Guevara, who was detained after documenting ICE raids, was arrested at a protest on June 14 in Georgia. Although all criminal charges related to the protest have been dropped, federal prosecutors have fought to keep him locked up in ICE custody.
Jim is the former CEO of Thiel Foundation aka billionaire Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal and Palantir) aka the man who hesitated when asked the question "do you want the human race to endure?" here www.youtube.com/shorts/Xg6de...
Outstanding work from @investigatewest.bsky.social: A wood treatment facility on the South Yamhill river in Oregon has polluted a town’s drinking water source for years with a now-banned chemical. State and federal regulators who knew didn't stop it. www.investigatewest.org/oregon-wood-...
I wonder why so many Americans believe crime is a "major problem" in large cities when crime rates are at or near historic lows [insert hotdog man gif here]
as someone who does against my will: no
Mario Guevara, the Spanish-language journalist detained by ICE since June, is suing top Trump officials for his immediate release from a GA detention center, claiming retaliation for his reporting in the Aug. 20 filing.
Important clarification, multiple CDC sources tell me: Federal employees are not allowed to strike/walk out, so this is *not* a walkout but a "clap out" to show support for departing leadership. Current employees were either given permission to attend by a supervisor or used leave time to attend.
AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
Journalists, it seems to be flying under the radar that Trump wants to limit I (journalist) visas to U.S. to 240 days and 90 days for Chinese journalists. Don’t let it! www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202... And credit to @lavanguardia.com, 1st place I saw report it www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...
just some light casual Thursday reading from @donmoyn.bsky.social 😀😀😀😀 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
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Army parade ‘disappointed’ Trump, so Navy will do one too. The U.S. Navy is reportedly throwing Trump an even bigger military parade this fall, as he wasn’t satisfied by the first one.
gonna just keep reposting this from @ryanbort.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and me www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
if my access to my SSRI is in any way barred y'all gonna have another thing coming let me just tell you right now
more reporters like mel please!
Again: Faith leaders *themselves* have long also criticized "thoughts and prayers" rhetoric — including leader's Leavitt's own Catholic tradition. Here are some examples from the past 24 hours, including a statement from Sisters of Mercy of the Americas (Catholic nuns) on the shooting.
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This week marks 70 years since the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till. I spoke with family and supporters about their efforts to preserve his memory as attempts to whitewash history escalate. capitalbnews.org/emmett-till-...
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
saw 1d with zayn and with 5sos opening. 14 y/o me will never understand how lucky they were
as a WNBA reporter but also a queer woman I see stuff like this and realize I live in an entirely different reality from some mainstream sports folks
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
ICE went to an active wildfire and arrested firefighters putting out a fire
BREAKING: More Nike layoffs are on the way just two years after the footwear giant laid off 700+ at its WHQ in Beaverton. www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...
Board Chair of Ben and Jerry's Anuradha Mittal was arrested yesterday during a protest at California Senator Alex Padilla’s office. At the protest, hundreds of people demanded Padilla and Sen. Adam Schiff stop arming Israel.
The era of print newspapers is coming to an end: Atlanta Journal-Constitution to Quit Print Cold Turkey, via @nytimes.com
i ain't listening to a mf whose batting avg didn't even break .300 his last several years playing
his batting avg literally didn't break .300 for the last seven years of his career but ok tex sure
NEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary futurism.com/openai-scann...
i can't even do my silly little crafts and hobbies that help me ignore the world's problems without running into said world's problems
Update: At least three other high-ranking officials in CDC have also resigned. “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health,” one of the officials said in a note to staff.
i need to see some polar bears vogue
Breaking news: Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the CDC, is being ousted weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple administration officials.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser today praised Trump for flooding the city with federal law enforcement. “We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city." 😐 www.huffpost.com/entry/muriel... via @delaneyrules.bsky.social @phillewis.bsky.social
tired: living in Indiana wired: living literally anywhere else
i love that every national headline that comes out of my home state includes some of the most truly depraved shit imaginable
Microsoft asked police to remove people who improperly entered a building at its headquarters in protest of the Israeli military’s alleged use of the company’s software as part of the invasion of Gaza.
“Recently I was helping a seven-year-old work on her creative writing for school. She had to describe a forest, so I asked her to close her eyes and picture one, and tell me what she could see. Oh, we didn’t need to do that, she told me. We could just ask AI to make one.” 😩
NEW: My latest for ProPublica, in collaboration with the Chronicle of Higher Ed's great @KatherineMangan, profiling Leo Terrell, the improbable head of Trump's "Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism," waging war on America's colleges and universities. www.propublica.org/article/leo-...
NEW: DHS agrees in principle not to remove Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the US while an immigration judge weighs his new asylum claim and Judge Xinis adjudicates his habeas claims, a process that will likely take weeks. Details to be resolved at hearing tomorrow. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
"My friend Victor like saved me though, because he laid on top of me. But he got hit." 10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.
Really important new study on the tax rate of billionaires from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al Upshot: The top 400 ultrabillionaires: 23.8% Avg Americans: 30.2% Yes, the superrich pay far less in taxes than the rest of us. www.nber.org/papers/w34170
The article notes this will impact faith-based nonprofits, but I’m curious if that’ll trigger a legal challenge. Not quite the same thing, but: a Unitarian Universalist group successfully sued Trump in the past, arguing aiding migrants is part of their religion. religionnews.com/2020/10/07/b...
that feeling when you lorem your last ipsum
Must read from @vermontgmg.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Instead of pouring fuel on the grift fire what if we invested in a healthy and independent journalism ecosystem www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
Judge keeps Abrego Garcia in US at least through October hearing www.newsfromthestates.com/article/judg...
Per the CDC, physical inactivity and mental illness puts people at severe risk of Covid complications. These are wide categories (though wish it was just open to everyone in this approval).
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools. www.wired.com/story/purgat...
Oregon will see a two-year budget - with a positive $472 million balance - evaporate and turn into a $373 million deficit under the Trump administration’s tax and spending policies, economic forecasters told state lawmakers on Wednesday. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/27/o...
this is so fucking sad, i hate it
"404 Media previously reported local police perform immigration-related Flock lookups for ICE, and on Monday that Customs and Border Protection had direct access to Flock’s systems." 🚨🚨🚨
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
JUST IN: At least six children are being treated following a Minneapolis school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School.
for the last several weeks a man has been living on the sidewalk across from my transit stop. when i stopped seeing him recently, i didn’t think much of it. now, though, these signs are up at my transit stop and near his former camp. my heart is broken. words fail to express the cruelty.
1. Michigan's AG Dana Nessel has issued a threat to University of Michigan Health's capitulation to Trump after it banned trans care for youth. She calls their decision likely in violation of state nondiscrimination law, considers action against the hosptial. Subscribe to support our journalism.
“As authorities round up their work force, the big players in the world of Silicon Valley-developed delivery apps have largely remained silent. Three of the biggest — Uber, Grubhub, and DoorDash — did not respond to requests for comment.” theintercept.com/2025/08/26/t...
its decided, i’m eating a sandwich today
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Well there you have it: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Hey is it good that FEMA is suspending employees that warned publicly that the agency isn't ready to manage disasters with the peak of hurricane season two weeks away
choosing peace
Former Oregon representative from Portland suburb calls on Trump to crack down on immigration enforcement right in her own backyard. Rep. Janelle Bynum, who was a deciding vote in support of the controversial “immigration crime” bill Laken Riley Act, beat Chavez-DeReamer in 2024, as a Democrat.
*stares in "I was almost forced into conversion therapy as a gay teen"*
Pfizer permanently laid off 100 employees at the former Seagen campus in Bothell on Monday, according to a notice filed with the state’s Employment Security Department. For @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social. www.seattletimes.com/business/pfi...
Never normalize this. My identity isn't a fucking slur you fascists.
Don’t let them tell you he’s joking. He’s putting armed troops in the streets. Not a joke. Not a drill.
Anyway
KEEP AI OUT OF MY FUCKING BOOKS I SWEAR TO GOD THERE IS NO NEED FOR THIS OH MY GODDDDD
One of my biggest issues with ChatGPT and OpenAI is that they insist everybody on god’s green earth should be using their products, including children, even though they know full well their products are dangerous for people with mental health issues and have been encouraging suicide
This is awful
Breaking news: Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook will sue Trump administration after president said he would fire her, her attorney says
Extreme heat will continue in the interior Northwest today and begin waning tomorrow and especially late in the week. Children, the elderly, and those with chronic illness are especially vulnerable to heat exposure. Learn the signs of heat-related illnesses at weather.gov/safety/heat-illness
The horror journalist Mariam Dagga photographed in the last months of her life. The last one is from the hospital where she was killed today. Curated by @apnews.com editors apnews.com/photo-galler...