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Bex H

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Oregonian. I walk fast. Go Beaves, Go Ducks. Love that kid.

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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cop is subject of community complaints (including for punching a driver in the face during a traffic stop). Local newsroom files a public records request about him. Eugene, Ore says sure thing, that’ll cost $2.5 million and take at least 44,000 hours to complete. My latest for @theintercept.com:
theintercept.com
Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Eugene-based Double Sided Media requested police officer Justin Peckels’s records. The city slapped the publication with an exorbitant fee.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/07/2026
What an incredible World Cup by the DR Congo team, who overcame a devastating Ebola outbreak and war, and brought unity and hope to so many through dark times. Fimbu!
DR Congo player slumps after defeat
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Playing Thunderstruck in a World Cup match where Mexico is leading 2-0 on home soil, every Mexican in a fifty mile radius can deadlift a truck right now
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is bombshell stuff.
Together, alongside the mundane fare of a typical thought leadership conference, the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.

Those executives appear side by side with senior US officials overseeing their industries. Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed in the same society as Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.
wired.com
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/01/2026
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Fun facts The atmospheric River (that big blue path shown in weatherman reports" that runs thru the Pacific Northwest has an origin of passing thru Hawaii first so got the name officially of "Pineapple Express"
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GeekyGirlForever @geekygirlforever.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
And the Hanukah Sharks are finished. Closest I could find to a Hanukah Jeff the Land Shark. #CrossStitch
Cross stitch of two sharks playing dreidel and one shark near a menorah
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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AAUP @aaup.org · 11/12/2025
The AAUP chapter at Oklahoma University released a statement demanding that the President and Board of Regents defend Mel Curth, the instructor put on administrative leave after the viral fallout for failing Samantha Fulnecke’s essay, from death threats and targeted harassment.
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If you have a billion dollars you can do something flat out illegal, against the very ethics of humanity, and absolutely treasonous, and it will be considered "controversial."
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
"I always feel so stupid when I write this, but when I started in financial journalism, I assumed that the point of financial markets was to allocate capital to real-world economic uses, and by now I know that the point of financial markets is to create fun opportunities for gambling."
bloomberg.com
Buy Low, Sell to Yourself
Continuation funds, Amazon drivers, a narrow bank, Trump accounts, crypto gambling and PDT puzzles.
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Alicia Haddick/アリシア @aliciahaddick.com · 06/12/2025
Actually somewhat-massive news, COCONA, one of the members of the all-Japanese based-in-Korea group XG, has come out as non-binary transmasc and having had top surgery Which for an active idol in either country is just unheard of, never mind one at such a big group. They look amazing!
hollywoodreporter.com
XG’s Cocona Comes Out as Transmasculine, Nonbinary
The 20-year-old rapper announced the news in an Instagram post: “I was born and perceived as female, but that label never represented who I truly am. I live in a way that feels more masculine and true...
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The Oregonian Sports @oregoniansports.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Who the Ducks will be hosting appears most likely to be No. 25 James Madison or No. 20 Tulane
oregonlive.com
Oregon in position to host College Football Playoff 1st round game vs. Group of Five champ
Who the Ducks will be hosting appears most likely to be No. 25 James Madison or No. 20 Tulane
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/12/2025
This is New York, friends.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 06/12/2025
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office. More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases. As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.
whitehouse.gov
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Begins Process to Align U.S. Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries
ALIGNING THE CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE WITH INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum to begin the
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities."The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/12/2025
One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before. It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it. Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
There's a lot going on, and immigration law is notoriously labyrinthine. But it's still wild both that (1) the Trump administration is trying to treat millions of non-citizens who have lived here for years/decades as "arriving aliens"; & (2) *hundreds* of courts have (almost unanimously!) said "no":
stevevladeck.com
195. The Immigration Detention Flood
The Trump administration's attempt to quietly—but massively—expand who can be detained pending their removal has been met with overwhelming pushback from a remarkably large number of district courts.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
What if there's more to business success than firing workers? What if these, what's the word, consumers?, play an important role?
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana. Trump deported her there. This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years. All the details below are worse.
nbcnews.com
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 30/11/2025
You don’t want to design a justice system that gets you what you want quickly, you want to design a justice system that prevents bad things from happening to you from positions of power and deal with the consequences.
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
statistically a lot of you won’t know about ocellated turkeys, so, here you go
collage of ocellated turkeys which have blue skin and bright red and yellow dots on their heads and brilliant red rimmed eyes. they have a fit on top of their head and their foliage is an iridescent delight
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/11/2025
On his first official foreign trip, Pope Leo XIV will stop in two Muslim-majority countries — Turkey and Lebanon — where he will confront Israel’s warfare in the Middle East and seek to spread the early themes of his papacy: unity and peace.
washingtonpost.com
Pope Leo’s trip to Middle East will stress, and test, interfaith ties
Rather than his native Chicago or adopted Peru, Pope Leo XIV is making his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon, putting him on tricky terrain shared by Muslims and Jews.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 23/11/2025
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
cnbc.com
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
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Greg @joplinguy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Coast Guard helicopter must remain in Newport, federal judge says in temporary order www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
oregonlive.com
Coast Guard helicopter must remain in Newport, federal judge says in temporary order
"The danger presented by the lack of rescue helicopter coverage justifies” the granting of a temporary order “on an expedited basis,” the judge wrote.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Oregon is suing the Trump administration for relocating, without notice, a Coast Guard rescue helicopter that has saved lives in dangerous waters near Newport. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
www.forbes.com/sites/danale...
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Trump Jumps 118 Spots On The Forbes 400 List Thanks To Presidency
Donald Trump lost money during his first term. Out of office, he found a formula for profiting off politics—now he’s piling up billions.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history? Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 25/11/2025
"Israel and other governments committed ecocide in Gaza." "[A]t least 97% of Gaza's trees, 95% of its shrubland, and 82% of its annual crops have been destroyed." "Ecocide is committed to guarantee the objective of genocide." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Climate #Food #Water #Genocide #Courts
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Prosecutors at International Tribunal on Palestine Accuse Israel of Ecocide
Prosecutors at the International People's Tribunal on Palestine decried Israel's destruction of farms and water sources.
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Rachel Schwartz @raschwartz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
oudaily.com
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/11/2025
About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says. New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%. But Trump has halted those efforts.
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Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads:

Fernando Vazquez doesn't understand why Border Patrol agents took him into custody
Tuesday.

Agents from Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) pinned him to a gate at his Cary worksite, handcuffed him and pulled his wallet out. They saw his N.C. REAL ID. But Vazquez, 18, said they still kept him in handcuffs and ushered him into the back of a gray Chevy Tahoe. He sat next to another worker in his early 20s who was crying.Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads:

'I was in shock'

Vazquez was born in Raleigh and lives in Apex.

His parents are from Mexico, and he works with his dad as a landscaper. He graduated from Vernon Malone College and Career Academy in Raleigh. He was detained close to his former middle school, Reedy Creek.Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads:

Vazquez said he saw eight agents — four from the Tahoe, and four from a Ford Explorer or Chevy Suburban. Agents put him in the back of the Tahoe and drove off.

"I was in shock, basically," Vazquez said.

While in the car, a different Latino agent asked Vazquez where he was from.

"Here," Vazquez told him.

"NO, where were you born?" the agent asked.

Vazquez told him he was born in Raleigh. 

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The agents eventually allowed Vazquez out of their SUV, and he caught a video of them removing his handcuffs and throwing his wallet out of the car, its contents scattering on the ground. The video has over 5 million views on TikTok.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Visiting Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at Lake Forest College. Deadline January 5, 2026. #AcRel www.lakeforest.edu/offices-and-...
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/11/2025
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Sara Benincasa @sarajbenincasa.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
My Hot Popeaganda has joined the punk bar family
Black and white printed picture of young Pope Leo behind a driftwood lamp on a bar with graffiti on the wall
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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.com · 25/11/2025
“The party of Epstein wants child brides and child labor” might work as a follow-up message.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This is a great piece and it's by a journalism school classmate so have to share. missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-w...
missionlocal.org
S.F. has zero electric-wheelchair charging stations. Users are frustrated.
Electric wheelchair users are used to keeping a mental map of where to charge their chairs. The city hasn't done enough to help, they say.
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