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Meghan

@ormeghan.bsky.social
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Days: fundraising to fix the buildings part of climate crisis. Extra time goes to books, bikes, #RCTID, #BAONPDX, #COYS.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Conservative legal groups are weaponizing public records laws to harass and silence university scientists whose research might be used to target fossil fuel companies in court: www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 7h
One more way they break the law — subverting spending approved by Congress: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Wants to Get His Hands on the Power of the Purse (Gift Article)
The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The head of a major African nation sustainability program was denied a visa to enter the US for a Climate Week speaking engagement but THAT guy is moderating a panel for the US Government?!? Cool cool cool sure
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last chance to snap up one of the few remaining spots at next week's GTZ Forum in NYC, friends in green building policy and practice! gettingtozeroforum.org Oct. 1st is the last day to register:
gettingtozeroforum.org
GTZ Homepage - Getting to Zero Forum
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It was super fun! Bonus points for @trimet.org to the show (our first time in the newly-rerouted #4.) Taking the bus home at 11:30 pm, though? Nope. That’s where it breaks down, late at night when the bus might come in 30 minutes or not at all.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HALF of all US men 18-49 have these accounts?!? When men complain in 30 years that they’re broke and can’t retire, let’s all collectively remember to ask them how much they lost to Draft Kings. Also, delete your accounts now to save your future selves.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.
cbsnews.com
Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ah, sure, the usual Friday night illegal budget acts news dump:
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Same here. Just finished, and I really enjoyed it. My only regret is I had it from the library which put a time crunch on me, and the book is a tapestry of characters, timelines, and places I should probably read again.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/09/2026
Since Trump took office, the richest 0.1% of Americans have gained more than 8,000 TIMES as much wealth as the bottom 50% of households.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I just got shots for shingles, covid, and flu in one arm today. I will be well-nigh bulletproof in approximately seven to ten business days.
static.klipy.com
Leslie Knope: Do It. Fierce. Power.
ALT: Leslie Knope: Do It. Fierce. Power.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've been saying it for months: soon, every GOP candidate will say with a straight face "I never supported him." If honesty meant anything with this party, accountability would be real.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My NBI co-workers have created something a LOT of communities need: a framework for reviewing and making good decisions around data centers. Come hear more on our webinar at noon Pacific today, download the report, and share it with someone in your community: newbuildings.org/news/nbi-lau...
newbuildings.org
NBI Launches First-of-its-Kind Data Center Governance Framework - New Buildings Institute
New Buildings Institute (NBI) is launching a first-of-its-kind Data Center Energy Performance Evaluation Framework (DC-EPEF), a guide that gives governments and communities a framework for review and ...
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hope nobody needed to either land at or leave an airport on the East Coast today because...yikes, FAA.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The driver’s behavior before and after the crash is sociopathic. But also, no car operated on public roads should be able to go 100 mph, much less 142 mph.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026
ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”
propublica.org
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The children love the Timbers. #rctid
Five or six little dudes crowded around the tv at CORE Food Carts in SE Portland
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Quite a 🧵. Make damn sure you’re registered to vote to end this parade if nonsense.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still the funniest thing I’ve seen in a pub window:
“DO NOT
SERVE THIS MAN
a chilidog
Thank you,
Tastee Freeze Mgmt.”
With a photo of an 80s John Cougar Mellencamp
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love a Secret Pizza Society, that lets me order off the kid menu! #tinypizza
A fun art filled restaurant with a deli case and colored lighting
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey White House Correspondents' Association -- is *this enough?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
reason.com
Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
America’s worst export: our selfish, dangerous car culture.
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*chokes on own saliva 😂 Ah yes, in a country that designed by force, car dependency into its entire built landscape, making car ownership and driving the first basic requirement to participate in society.
businessinsider.com
The trick to lowering gas prices is driving less, US energy secretary says
AAA said Labor Day travelers can expect the highest gas prices ever for this time of year. The national average for regular gas was $4.14 on Sunday.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Meanwhile, us Thorns fans while inside Providence Park, not being quiet:
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Going forward, the US National Science Foundation research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and Earth sciences is $110 million per year. Trump's illegal war with Iran cost the Department of Defense (i.e., the American taxpayers) $38 billion in the first 5 months, or $220 million per day.
cbo.gov
Estimating the Cost of Combat Operations Against Iran
CBO assesses the Department of Defense's costs for the current armed conflict against Iran, as well as the conflict's economic and budgetary effects.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Learn Wednesday night what is planned for our busiest bus line in Oregon: www.portland.gov/transportati...
portland.gov
82nd Transit Project Open House
Join PBOT's Building a Better 82nd Avenue team and TriMet as we explore transit changes on 82nd Avenue.
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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026
A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is the most asinine thing…
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just finished the “Somebody, Somewhere”final season and it has truly made me feel things. Everyone deserves to be seen, respected, and loved. That’s what I’m taking from it. Watch it all, I implore you.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To watch one Oregon game you had to have three different ESPN channels today, and we only had two of them. #welp
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
nbcnews.com
Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The people driving this nonsense are the same ones who believe in homeopathic “meds”. It’s junk science designed to generate a very scary outcome for women’s health.
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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: Watching the game used to be simple: turn on your TV and watch your team. Now fans are paying more for less while juggling a maze of streaming subscriptions. Want access to all 4 major sports? That will run you more than $2,600 a year.
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Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Now, in the middle of a child care crisis, the Trump administration wants to use that funding to pay mothers (and only married mothers) to stay home.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reminder that we can do a lot more with a cargo bike than anyone imagined. This is me, hauling about 80 labs of stuff to get ready for a work conference:
A blue Tern HSD ebike loaded down with a lot of stuff in the panniers
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This bogus harassment campaign needs to end. I support @oregonwild.bsky.social and they should never be targeted this way.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
*Plugs in e-cargo bike 🔋
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You love to see a library buy more copies, eh @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social?
My library app letting me know that my place in line for Tom Cox’s “Everything will swallow you” moved up because they acquired another e-copy
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
In internal meetings, top USPS officials expressed concerns about new mail voting rules. One repeated concern regarded how to avoid invalidating an entire batch of ballots if one voter among thousands couldn’t be confirmed as eligible.
propublica.org
New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I HAPPEN to be in New York on Oct 6th for the NBI conference. It ends just in time for me to go to this, so I just bought a ticket! mcnallyjackson.com/event/2026-1...
mcnallyjackson.com
David Byrne on 'Sleeping Beauties'
McNally Jackson is an independent bookstore with five New York locations.
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Meghan @ormeghan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You shouldn’t have to live in another state to keep your fallopian tubes and not, uh, die from a treatable condition: reproductiverights.org/news/denied-...
reproductiverights.org
Denied Care: Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz's Fight for Emergency Abortion Access in Texas - Center for Reproductive Rights
Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz (Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas) was denied emergency treatment for an ectopic pregnancy at a Texas hospital, despite doctors acknowledging her fallopian tube could rupture. The Cen...
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