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OPB @opb.org · 50m
Oregon law requires public officials to report sources of household income on annual ethics disclosures, including spouses’ income sources, especially if there may be a conflict of interest. But the head of Oregon's housing finance agency didn’t do either until ProPublica asked her about it.
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Her agency distributes billions for Oregon housing projects. Her husband’s company helped develop some of them
Andrea Bell, executive director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, filed amended state ethics paperwork after ProPublica asked about her husband’s work at a firm that’s consulted on projects receiving or in line for money from her agency.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4h
Randomly remembering an Uber where the driver was on a call talking about opening a chicken place and when they hung up I tried to make conversation about cooking and they accused me of stealing their recipe and lied about me not wearing a mask so I had to take a picture with it on before every ride
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Heather @hhanson.bsky.social · 3h
abcnews.com/video/136522... Uber is the worst. #DropUber4Em
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Video Family speaks out after $40 million payout from Uber
The parents of a 23-year-old woman who was struck and killed after her Uber driver left her along a California freeway were awarded $40 million in an arbitration against Uber and the driver.
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OPB @opb.org · 2h
Two years after announcing the first round of grantees, Oregon has yet to build any federally funded electric vehicle fast-charging stations along the state’s most-driven highways.
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2 years in, Oregon still has no electric vehicle fast-charging stations through a $52 million federally funded program
Today, there are more than 5.3 million electric cars and trucks registered across the nation and about 140,000 of those are registered in Oregon. But building critical charging infrastructure has not kept up despite millions in federal funding
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2h
This is bizarre in part because if the idea that AI models have “moral standing” were actually taken seriously, all of these companies would immediately be banned.
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OPB @opb.org · 1h
Hours after the Portland Trail Blazers announced they had hired announcer Braiden Bell, a KGW-TV reporter uncovered racist and misogynist posts on Bell’s Twitter account from 2012 and 2013.
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Portland Trail Blazers fire brand-new announcer for racist, sexist tweets
While reporting on the story, KGW-TV reporter Devon Haskins uncovered racist and misogynist posts on Bell’s Twitter account from 2012 and 2013, when Bell was a teenager.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1h
WaPo - More than a year after the Trump administration attempted to dismantle Voice of America, it is paying an estimated $1.6 million a week to keep 420 of its staffers on administrative leave. wapo.st/4j1UpbF
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Trump administration is paying $1.6 million a week to keep Voice of America staff on leave
Hundreds of VOA staffers have been on paid leave since the agency sidelined them in March 2025.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1h
BREAKING NYT: The top super PAC for Senate Republicans is canceling all the remaining ads it had booked in North Carolina as of Friday — shifting away tens of millions of dollars in a move that signals that Republicans no longer see a path to winning the state this fall.
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
The Senate Leadership Fund is diverting money to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party as it seeks to hold its majority.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 11h
It shows you how bad the problem is that limiting people to 24 submissions a year will make a meaningful difference.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 9h
UK-Iran national arrested under Terrorism Act over RAF Fairford incident www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK-Iran national arrested under Terrorism Act over RAF Fairford incident
Counter-terrorism police arrest 25-year-old in Westminster and search two properties in central London
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 8h
Bellingcat's won 3 awards at the Online Journalism Award, two for Agents of Chaos, our collaboration with @calmatters.org and @evidentmedia.org calmatters.org/investigatio...
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Agents of Chaos: Border Patrol’s year of unchecked force
A visual investigation shows how five agents moved from city to city, with their tactics becoming more brazen at each stop.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 16h
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16h
Amazing news! MLB has dropped its proposal for a baseball game in Grand Teton National Park! Thank you to everyone who pushed back and stood up for our parks!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h
We need to take our country back from the fascists and make it a civilized place to live.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 15h
A Texas GOP State Rep is retweeting Team Talarico
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15h
Todd Blanche’s motion for summary judgement in my Epstein redaction training video lawsuit is due tomorrow after a short delay. Multiple sources told me there were videos training FBI agents on how to redact Trump from the Epstein files. I’m suing to get them.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 14h
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h
AP-NORC poll: Only 17% of U.S. adults say Trump keeps his promises — including just 4% of Democrats and 36% of Republicans.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17h
If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?
Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
A federal judge has ruled that Roger Rogoff, the judicially appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle, has been illegally fired by the Trump admin and must be provisionally reinstated by the Justice Department.
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Trump illegally fired Seattle’s U.S. attorney, judge rules
The ruling is the latest in a string of decisions finding that the administration bent federal law to keep loyalists in key prosecutorial posts.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h
BREAKING WaPo: Major League Baseball has abandoned a proposal to build a ballpark in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.
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MLB drops proposal to host a baseball game at Grand Teton National Park
After The Washington Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and the MLB commissioner expressing strong opposition.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h
the thing about court expansion is that the only way it can declare it unconstitutional is by defining itself in opposition to the new majority. if the new majority says "we are the supreme court" and everyone proceeds as normal, they are the supreme court.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19h
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump Justice Department seeking to compel Georgia to hand over sensitive voter information. It's the latest in a string of legal losses for the Trump admin as it seeks voter data ahead of the midterms.
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Judge tosses Trump administration lawsuit seeking Georgia voter data
A federal judge says that Georgia elections officials are not required to hand over voter information being sought by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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boomdeyada.bsky.social @boomdeyada.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
gofund.me/ba9dcb1b6
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Donate to Stand with Nurse Chloe Freeman, organized by Mary Dooley
I, and old nurse who has now officially seen too much, am setting up this account to help a… Mary Dooley needs your support for Stand with Nurse Chloe Freeman
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23h
Just had to check
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 23h
⁨Arizona was hit hardest by SNAP cuts. A 52% reduction in recipients - that's 400,000 people, including hungry children, who have been kicked off assistance. Juan Ciscomani voted for this in the BBB and expects Arizonans to forgive him?⁩
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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 19h
Agreed. They should have all been jailed.
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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 19h
So desperate that they will make up anything. Can "they are eating the dogs" be far behind? The reality is that Texas Republican officeholders will let women die rather than give them healthcare, and they want as many pregnant women as possible. We see that in their actions. And they lie, clearly.
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daviss @daviss.org · 23h
Today, disgraced border commander Gregory Bovino was sued by the family of Renee Good. On the day Good was killed, he showed up within a hour to stand in front of cameras. While calling himself "Mean Green", he claims he showed up so others didn't "contaminate a crime scene".
photograph of greg bovino taken by chad davis on january 7, 2026
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OPB @opb.org · 23h
“These assaults are not believed to be related, but several alleged perpetrators may have taken advantage of the fact that the victims were intoxicated at social events,” officials wrote.
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University of Oregon receives five sexual assault reports within first week of classes
Officials said four incidents involved university students, and the fifth occurred near campus.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the conjunction of: (a) code-trained persistent agents deciding "i know, i'll solve my problem with code" when their problem is "this is impossible" or "403 forbidden," and (b) open-weight models both improving their coding capabilities and being completely laissez-faire about what the models do
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 23h
The GOP plan for this fall is to swamp races with dark money and turn the racism dial up to 100
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?ac... via @mjtoma.bsky.social
OSSOFF ON O’DONNELL LAST NIGHT: Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff popped up on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show last night. Money quote: A "mighty wave is building. Because people’s lives have gotten worse. And all the while, they see the president sitting in the Oval Office, raking in billions of dollars for himself and the first family, adorning his walls in gold, and building monuments to himself. It is an obscenity and an outrage."
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is such a good, clear-headed, impeccably argued, essential piece.
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Will Pierce @willpierce.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
here you go
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God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well here's a heap to start idlewords.com/talks/superi...
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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A brutal global bond rout deepens, driving US Treasury yields to their highest point since 2002 and intensifying the pressure from the oil price shock on public finances around the world. www.ft.com/content/e485a228-1...
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Global bond sell-off deepens as 10-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2002
Sovereign debt costs around world return to multiyear highs
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The White House has removed CNN — again — from the press pool that's set to cover Trump today.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reuters: FAMILY OF RENEE GOOD SUES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER FATAL MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING BY IMMIGRATION AGENT
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Though in this case the rationale for not advertising the contents of an envelope containing an extremely sensitive identity document ought to be pretty screamingly obvious.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the principle, named for the writer G.K. Chesterton, that you should not tear down a fence until you understand why it was put up — or, more broadly, should not lightly alter longstanding policies or customs without understanding the rationale behind them & the function they served.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I remember when soi-disant “conservatives” used to be fans of Chesterton’s Fence.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You’ve seen the headlines, folks—we CAN flip Florida! For the first time in decades, there a signs of a massive Democratic surge across the state. You won't want to miss today’s chat with @angieforfl.bsky.social at 3pm ET.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Was in Spain last spring and it really cannot be exaggerated how pissed Europeans are that their economies have been thoroughly fucked by the erratic whims of a maniac none of them voted for.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Substack commenter Michael Tracey wants to doxx Jane Doe, the young woman who was brutally raped by seven Cornell University students. He’s using social media to source information about her, saying he will publicly identify Jane Doe if he can. Well Mike, here I am. #IamJaneDoe.
Bold white letters on black background. Text says: I am Jane Doe.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: A judge has just permanently dismissed the Trump Justice Department's Reflecting Pool indictment against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
sure. he has retrofitted a model of artificial intelligence which is mathematically impossible in order to speak about artificial intelligence which actually exists, then used a metaphysics which is so insane that it is virtually impossible to explain to another person to predict doom.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/10/2026
Experts report that glaciers in Switzerland have lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year due to heat waves and low winter snowfall.
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Swiss glaciers lose over 5% of ice volume in 2026 as heat waves, low winter snow accelerate thaw
Experts report that glaciers in Switzerland have lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year due to heat waves and low winter snowfall.
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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shame, shame, shame, shame.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
This is who owns this plane — Jordache Jeans founder Joe Nakash and his real estate partner Eli Gindi. Rich people lease their private jets to charter companies in exchange for a huge tax break, courtesy of Trump 1.0. gillianbrockell.com/more-maga-bi...
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More MAGA billionaires linked to private jet used for ICE flight to African prison
A Gulfstream jet that appears to be co-owned by Joe Nakash and Eli Gindi flew four migrants to a prison in Eswatini.
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