A series of job posting for an immigration detention facility in Portland and Newport appear to show the federal government’s latest efforts to expand their operations in Oregon.

On the unmaking of Humanity

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.

Roundup, Bayer, the homogeneity of our food system, and how it all ties into ICE

Where to find trusted health information now?

BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein survivors just released this incredibly touching Public Service Announcement. Make it go viral! Trump is so disgusting for covering us up.

Plus updates on measles, infant botulism, the question grab bag and good news.

A deep dive into the U.S. health care system: rising costs, corporate takeover, and why reform keeps failing.

The U.S. government shutdown has dragged on for weeks because of the refusal by Democrats in the Senate to approve a bill that does not extend ACA tax credits.

on indestructibility

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YouTube video by Genesis

The Brotopia of Enlightenment

YouTube video by Pod Save America

Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor will shutter.

deep time in the understory

YouTube video by Runaway Country with Alex Wagner

Protests in small towns may be more significant than those in big cities, columnist Randy Stapilus writes.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

In 2022, the tech critic and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification to describe what's happened on the Internet to a lot of the most widely used platforms: Google, Amazon, Fac...

Hidden beneath Michigan’s forests, researchers have uncovered vast ancient farmlands built by ancestral Menominee communities, revealing a complex agricultural system. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with...

What holiday we celebrate on the second Monday in October matters because it reflects the beliefs we hold about who we are and where we come from as a country.

Hundreds of cyclists took to the streets Sunday while, naked. They were protesting the Trump’s administration’s plans to deploy the National Guard to Portland, and the presence of the U.S. Immigration...

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Two poems

sculptures of matter and mystery

YouTube video by The Oregonian

YouTube video by Mandy Patinkin

In Mexico, traditionally women did not inherit chinampas, island farms first built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago.

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

I made a little video to help those who think they are in the clear for following orders of how it went for those who committed similar war crimes in WWII