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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Meta built products that were designed to keep kids scrolling and they knew the toll it was taking on our children. But our kids are not a business model. Read more about our recent settlement to protect kids: ow.ly/kHxJ50ZGITr
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Oregon will net $125M from Meta settlement over social-media addiction, AG says
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield heralded the settlement, saying “our children are not a business model.”
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Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yep! And fyi it’s the Alameda Elementary School bike bus in September 2022. Here’s the story bikeportland.org/2022/09/21/t...
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The Alameda bike bus has more than doubled in size in just four months
Sam Balto, a PE teacher at Alameda Elementary School, captains this morning's bike bus down NE Klickitat Street. (Photos: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland - Full Gallery Below) "Every school should have ...
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Learn more about this settlement, what it includes, and why it matters: m.youtube.com/live/FtIzOCJ...
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AG Rayfield discusses Meta settlement and new lawsuit to protect Oregon elections
YouTube video by Attorney General Dan Rayfield
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Two big announcements today to keep communities safe: we announced a $17.1 billion settlement with Meta to protect kids, and a new action to prevent Trump from meddling in our elections. #orpol
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Happy 110th birthday to the National Park Service! And thank you to everyone who has taken action this week to support and defend our parks.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
nytimes.com
Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/08/2026
"Iran can get much of what it needs from China. So do you really believe that a weakened U.S. can coerce China into helping it defeat Iran? And against China’s own strategic interests? If you believe that I have a few 30-year bonds to sell you." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/losing-the...
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Losing the Iran War: The Economic Front
The D in Bessent’s “D-Day” stands for Dud
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 25/08/2026
I’m Joe Neguse — a millennial, son of immigrants, and Colorado’s first Black Congressman. And I’m proud to be the lead author on legislation to overturn Citizens United & ban Members of Congress from trading stocks. If you support our efforts, follow our account & help us get to 30K followers!
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Inside the fight to clean up Washington
Michael Jones, COURIER's congressional correspondent, breaks down how some House Dems are trying to clean up Capitol Hill.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 25/08/2026
‘Any attempt to aggressively expand a secondary sanctions regime to Chinese companies would risk retaliation from Beijing which last year showed that it could bring US manuf. to a standstill through its control of critical minerals essential to high-tech production.’ www.ft.com/content/aa7b...
ft.com
China warns US it could retaliate over Iran sanctions
Beijing says it will take ‘all necessary measures’ if Washington expands crackdown on business with Tehran
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Instead of spending money on the tech that steals our work, makes our students dumber and serves no purpose at all, they could instead use it to hire more actual instructors.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 24/08/2026
Today marks Independence Day of Ukraine. Illinois remains inspired by Ukraine’s resilient fight for freedom — today and everyday. Slava Ukraini!
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ranking members @robertgarcia.house.gov and @wyden.senate.gov launch inquiry into shady, inexperienced groups awarded nearly $400 million in no-bid contracts by the Trump regime to purportedly represent immigrant kids in court: oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-r...
oversightdemocrats.house.gov
Ranking Members Robert Garcia and Ron Wyden Launch Inquiry into Shady Groups Awarded $394 Million in Contracts by Trump Administration to Represent Unaccompanied Children | The U.S. House Committee on...
The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Democrat Oversight Committee
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thank you for everything. 💚💚💚 Tomorrow, there will be more of us.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/08/2026
There is basically no distinction left between the oil companies & the administration. The casual corruption here is just breathtaking.
eenews.net
A White House official helped an oil company advance its projects. Now she’ll lead its DC office.
Brittany Kelm’s departure from the White House to lead the Washington office of a Houston oil company has raised questions about the close proximity between
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You gotta appreciate @ag.state.mn.us and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty for being the only state-level lawyers to criminally prosecute federal immigration agents who are terrorizing our streets
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Seattle Streets Alliance @streetsalliance.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Today is a big day for Vision Zero in Seattle. 🚸 Mayor Katie Wilson signed an Executive Order to accelerate safety improvements on our most dangerous streets. Seattle Streets Alliance has pushed for this urgency for years. The goal: everyone gets home safely. A meaningful step forward.
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Ghoul Fleshman @glennf.com · 22/08/2026
I propose an extension of the term *enshittification*, coined by @doctorow.pluralistic.net, to cover features added to products we don’t want: *crapabilities*.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Defending the Bonds
I am reporting for duty
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Most speed cameras ticket at 11 mph over the limit. So I'm issuing my regular reminder that when it comes to a car hitting a pedestrian, each 10 mph increase in speed significantly raises the victim's risk of death. Chart source: walksf.org/our-work/cam...
A graph showing the various risk of death for a pedestrian hit by a car.

At 20 mph the risk is 10%, at 30 mph, it's 40%, and at 40 mph, it's 80%
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Then its subsidiary, GEO Reentry Services, donated $1 m to MAGA Inc., Trump’s allied super PAC, followed by another $413,000 later that month. The timing is hard to ignore. One contract was announced, then came the $1 million donation. A second contract was announced, then came another $413,000.
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A win for privacy: We just blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to get its hands on personal information – like Social Security numbers – from Oregonians with commercial driver’s licenses.
AG Rayfield blocks Trump administration from Oregonians’ personal data 
What happened: The Trump administration demanded access to a database containing the personal information of 17 million commercial drivers and threated to cut off more than $10 million in funding if they didn’t get it. Last week, we fought back in court — and we just won a temporary restraining order blocking this action and protecting Oregonians’ personal data.
“When the federal administration tries to hold federal funding hostage for its own partisan goals, we fight back. This is another win for Oregonians and their private information.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
2/ A big problem the US currently has is that maga has cowed a lot of US press and national stakeholders into not discussing this obvious fact. But outside the US and among bond traders they don’t have to pretend the emperor is wearing clothes.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The very definition of Mystery Meat bsky.app/profile/ronf...
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/08/2026
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said last month that the platform would start removing harassing content. So why are there so many videos of men using Meta's "pervert glasses" to covertly film and shame women? @samleecole.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/meta-ray-ban...
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New from me: The Trump Regime keeps coming for SPLC. Their latest indictment is chock-full of salacious details designed to isolate Heidi Beirich from Civil Society. But since they couldn't even get her job title correct, I don't buy it. www.altrightdelete.news/p/revenge-of...
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Revenge of the White Supremacists
In solidarity with Heidi Beirich
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 21/08/2026
Trump, his family, and his billionaire cronies are all getting richer, directly profiting from the higher costs your family is fronting every day. In case you had any doubt, Trump is the most corrupt president this country’s ever known.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This article is from last year but still resonates. Dr. Frances Kelsey, then FDA's new medical officer in 1962, refused to approve Thalidomide, that was linked to birth defects. She was called stubborn. In 2026, we have an unqualified loyalist as our next FDA head. 🧪 19thnews.org/2025/10/fran...
19thnews.org
Her refusal to approve a dangerous drug changed medical history
As federal workers face mass layoffs and a government shutdown, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey's story is a reminder of what public servants can do when they stand their ground.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Same with Carville: 34 years later his opinions are still treated as worthy of attention because he happened to spend a year working for the most gifted politician of the Baby Boom generation
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
$META
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/08/2026
Renewable energy build-out is racing out ahead of grid capacity in many major countries. Need more transmission and batteries, batteries and transmission.
reuters.com
China leads wave of clean power wastage as grids globally hit limits
China turned away enough clean energy to power Mexico ​for a year in the six months through June as its grids hit their limits, while networks in many other nations ‌such as Australia and Japan also f...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026
one part “my green room friends thought it was mean,” one part debilitating fear of backlash. inability to see that ossof successfully goaded the white house into *being reactive* and thus revealing that there is a story here
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A federal judge has ordered the unsealing of grand jury materials that led to Jeffrey Epstein being indicted & another federal judge has denied the FBI’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Epstein victims who allege FBI failed to investigate Epstein and his co-conspirators: youtu.be/bEyyMA0ImJY
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Judge ORDERS EPSTEIN Grand Jury Docs UNSEALED Despite MAXWELL'S PROTESTS!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Forest Service proposal repeals the 2001 Roadless Rule, which was enacted during the Clinton administration to protect some of the country’s wildest national forest lands from road building and development.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🔥Exclusive: Top Senate Dem Responds to Christian Faith Group’s Plea for Oversight of New ICE Facility for Kids. Sen. Ron Wyden responds to letter signed by 20,000 members of Faithful America, promises he will 'watchdog' the facility www.thequeenzone.com/exclusive-to... via @thequeenzone.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Top Senate Dem Responds to Christian Faith Group's Plea for Oversight of New ICE Facility for Kids
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, has responded to a Christian faith group that...
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
GOOD NEWS! The @uoregon.bsky.social's Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health received $125M to expand its mental health programs nationwide and train more professionals to support our kids. I championed this work in the state House, and I'll continue supporting it in Congress.
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Physician-Lawmaker Maxine Dexter Celebrates $125 Million Investment in University of Oregon to Expand Children’s Mental Health Workforce
PORTLAND, OR. – Today, U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03), celebrated a $125 million private investment to expand the University of Oregon’s Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health, the ...
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
On Saturday, I conducted oversight at the Northwest Detention Facility with Rep. Randall, leaving with more questions than answers. As a member of Congress, I will continue to demand accountability and transparency.   Oregonians deserve answers.   Abolish ICE.
oregonlive.com
Oregon politician makes unannounced visit to ICE detention center in Tacoma. Here’s what she learned
Up to 140 people may be taking part in a hunger strike at the regional immigration center in Washington state.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Good point from @brianbeutler.bsky.social here: Dems should act right now to "normalize" the idea that a Dem House and/or Senate is prepared to exercise extremely aggressive oversight against Trump: www.offmessage.net/p/reclaiming...
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Reclaiming "Normalization"
It’s way past time we start normalizing the kinds of things that will be necessary for American renewal in the post-Trump era.
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The Wall Street Bull @thewallstbull.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Want to increase voter confidence? Conscript every citizen to have to work an election in their state. Make it like jury duty, except with fewer loopholes. Each person has to take a turn. People screaming voter fraud have no freaking idea of the actual nuts and bolts of how an election is run.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Good news. E. Jean Carroll spent a decade in court fighting one of the most powerful men in the world. She fought with tenacity and grace — and she won. She is one of my personal heroes. We owe her a debt of gratitude. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/trump-supre…
cnbc.com
Supreme Court again rejects Trump bid to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict
President Trump was held civilly liable in the case by a New York federal jury for defaming and sexually abusing the wri
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Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Our country is in desperate need of more nurses. I’m leading the Nurse Faculty Shortage Reduction Act to close the pay gap for Nurse Educators.
oregonlive.com
Oregon nurses are paid well. Their instructors are not. Here’s why that’s a problem
Oregon's nurses are among the nation's highest paid, but experts say low salaries for educators are limiting how many future nurses they can train.
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Public transport infrastructure really should be the cathedrals of our time.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
YETI says the company itself is not involved, but for a brand built around the outdoors and conservation, this connection is hard to ignore.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Six current and former Forest Service officials said the response was greater than what is typical for a fire of that scale that did not pose a significant threat to life or property.”
In total, about nine aircraft, including helicopters, air tankers and tactical planes, responded to the blaze on July 12, according to a Post analysis of flight paths, part of an effort that lasted a few hours and cost nearly $115,000 in federal money. The Post analysis found these assets traveled from across the West to Idaho's Alturas Lake, pear where the Cabin Creek Fire was burning.
At least some
of the aircraft were diverted from efforts to contain fires elsewhere in the state, according to two agency officials and the Post analysis of the flight paths.
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We’re grateful to work alongside Congresswoman Bonamici and local leaders in support of this important project, which is a critical part of making coastal communities safer.
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