Shannon McNerney

$3.99 here.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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A little No Kings music from Wallowa County, Oregon.

No Kings in Wallowa county, OR. 200 strong from 3 months to 95yrs. Dogs, dinosaurs, musicians, American flags, and love of this country that was palpable— in a red county of 7500.

Aussiedoodle looking lovingly at camera

I hope everyone who sees this has someone in your life that looks at you the way this beastie looks at me.

His sister thinks I’m ok.

I feel seen.

White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government's grantmaking agency.

The nails are slowly being hit into our coffin.

Only his lapdogs remain on the council. Out of 26 council members (not all positions were filled at the time of firing), just four are left —the ones he previously appointed.

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Done.

Can we start with “we need to have honest conversations?” About anything?

I’d be happy to talk to you about running an arts org in a rural Oregon county looks like. Red counties are also home to blue voters who are tired. We could use more support and less blanket judgments.

SHERMAN, WHEELER, GILLIAM, MORROW AND WALLOWA COUNTY TOWN HALLS FRIDAY, JULY 25 SHERMAN 5:30 PM Wasco School Events Center 903 Barnett St., Wasco SATURDAY, JULY 26 WHEELER 10:30 AM Wheeler High School 600 E B St., Fossil GILLIAM 1:00 PM Veterans Memorial Hall 120 Main St., Condon MORROW 4:00 PM SAGE Center 101 Olson Rd NE, Boardman SUNDAY, JULY 27 WALLOWA 1:00 PM Hearts for Health Integrated Care 606 Medical Parkway, Enterprise http://wyden.senate.gov

I’ve got 5 town halls coming up. I hope to see you there.

Trump's vanity birthday parade masquerading as a tribute to the troops is offensive and a wasteful use of taxpayer dollars. We should be using that money to feed hungry kids, pay for new roads and bridges, and provide better health care to our veterans.

No kings protestors sign

#nokings in Enterprise, Oregon today. 250+ in our tiny rural community.

Shutting Down Salman Rushdie Is Not Going to Help Two recent flare-ups over commencement speeches show how difficult—and necessary—truly defending free expression is.

Two recent flare-ups over commencement speeches, one involving Salman Rushdie, show how difficult—and necessary—truly defending free expression is. Gal Beckerman has a refresher on 'free speech':

Emergency Alert: Six action steps if your NEA grant was just canceled • Oregon ArtsWatch Arts organizations can learn how to still appeal the cancellations, including free resources and support on what steps to take.

all right everybody, here we go

links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday

please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources

Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything' — Rolling Stone The all-star academic and Shock Doctrine author breaks down the dark logic of Trump and Musk’s path of destruction — and what the world’s richest people really want

Very much worth the time to read.

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Apparently cat posts are required here. Meet Juniper.

Trump, Fascism, and What Artists Can Do There is tension between wanting art to transcend and wanting it to reflect reality back to us. Plus: Are Dems finally ready to retire the purity tests?

“The best art can do now is to activate in us the emotional and social muscles we’ve let atrophy in our public life: sympathy, humility, earnestness, horror. Guernica and the AIDS Memorial Quilts didn’t change minds but hearts.”

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I spent the first week of my sabbatical visiting old haunts in Portland, then five days at the coast. It’s pretty wonderful to discover that my favorite place in the whole world to relax is my own home in Joseph.

Town Hall Participation Form If you are a constituent of a lawmaker of an upcoming People's Town Hall, submit your information here! If you have questions or difficulties with the form, email info@peoplestownhall.org

For folks asking if I'm going to attend Trump's joint address to Congress next week: no. Instead, I'm choosing to hear directly from Oregonians and will be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live. Oregonians can submit questions in advance here:

Just got my masters at 57.

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

Is art still relevant? Do words still have power to create worlds? Is my life’s work still worth the cost? I’m scared and tired.

Life goals.

Welp, let’s see what happens. First post with some pics from the hood.