If you’re going to invest your hard-earned money betting on Donald Trump, you’d be better…
Oregon
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Really, how hard is it to wear a mask? The first civil war in this…
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Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: The fight for fair electoral maps…
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President Joe Biden announced today that every state has removed age eligibility for Covid-19 vaccinations so…
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Neofeudalism redux: more playing into the hands of the Russian support for syncretic RW groups in…
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I’m not sure if this is toxic masculinity so much as toxic schlubbery. How women,…
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Well, actually, he’s a Badger, not a duck. I was born in Wisconsin and currently…
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Some big news today: x 🚨I'm leading Senate Democrats in pressing the Biden administration to…
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The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the…
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Though my spot on the introversion spectrum lies somewhere between Kleenex box-wearing Howard Hughes and urine-collecting…
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U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R. WI) has been making headlines today for saying stupid bull…
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Vaccinations for Covid-19 were reported as 2,172,973 for yesterday by the Center for Disease Control. The…
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden’s (D. OR) re-election campaign: The lies…
While Trumpler festers in Mar-a-Lago having his version of “Mein Kampf”: “The Great Steal: I…
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The January rains struck parts of NW Oregon with near-biblical storms. Bethany Lake flooded to…
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By January Bethany Lake in NW Oregon, just west of Portland, gathers storm waters from…
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From The New York Times: x YouTube Video The first television advertisements of the 2022…
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not a lot of time but plenty of evidence, just like the last impeachment if 45 gets “more unstable”?
Impeachment and insurrection part deux on deck for next week, even as there’s now mixed…
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Name’s Red. Red Woodman, Major Mammal Crimes Detective. This is supposed to be my last…
Oregon will push teachers to the front of the line for the next round of the…
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This continues the diary of two days ago. Nostalgia is a coping mechanism at the…
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Edward Abbey memorialized environmental resistance to mindless development in his tome The Monkey Wrench Gang….
“A 22-year-old self-proclaimed member of the “Boogaloo Bois” movement pleaded guilty on Wednesday to trying…
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The hummingbirds dash around my back yard, as hard to track as a feathered 3-card…
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CBS News reports that technically Trump got fewer electoral college votes (304) in 2016 because…
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But there are 40-odd cinder cones of once-active volcanos clustered near the bucolic town of…
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For starters, this “No Trespassing” sign isn’t on private property. It’s on Tualatin Hills Park and…
After Donald Trump won Wisconsin in 2016, I wondered how I could ever go back…
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Hard rains just swept across NW Oregon and vicinity. The creeks climbed their banks. I…
I live in Oregon. My Thanksgiving is likely to be just my wife and me…
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I toss in my sleep, grabbing for the water bottle. I have to push the…
As I write this, blurry-eyed and still a bit nervous, things are looking much better…
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For six years, tadpoles have morphed into tiny chorus frogs in my backyard ponds. But…
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Stores are already being boarded up in anticipation of election week violence, as cops begin…
GOTV continues because post-Trump, we know “it will get better” even with 'Trump conversion therapy'
Trump and his supporters are such dupes that rather than taking a village, it may…
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For 20 years, I’ve tracked the movements of herons and egrets where I’ve worked and…
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It does seem old-fashioned but the Biden post-debate train tour seems better than Trump’s promises…
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Antifa is a candy and a breath mint. I know because you’re soaking in a…
Yale Environment 360 notes “just as global warming has propelled the Arctic Ocean past a…
Much jackboot-quaking as a much-touted demo in Portland had a weak showing north of the…
Big news today: x I’m proud to endorse these outstanding Democratic candidates who will work…
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GOTV and get a Biden landslide. x The Coming Biden Landslide https://t.co/DB0UYBnxoU pic.twitter.com/ePYMFI9YNi — #TheResistance…
Oregon state senator sabotaged a state climate vote; now, his home was incinerated by climate change
“It will start getting cooler. You just watch”. — Donald Trump Eleven Oregon GOP state…
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In an interview yesterday, Trump went all in on sanctioning extralegal political killing, because death…
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Trump Russia continues, as IMPOTUS* covers for Russia, and DHS & DoJ defections continue in the assessment of 2016…
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Oh, I have your attention now, huh? So I was day-drinking here in the Land…
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Trigger-happy extralegal shooting by federal law enforcement. US Marshals fired many rounds into/at him. But surely…
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I live in Oregon. My state is burning. People are losing their homes and being…
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So the guy who says nearly any kind of malarkey accuses his opposition of “massive…
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An Oregon developer of a proposed gas station next to a creek and wetlands has…
