Meghan Humphreys

How the world now sees America: Display at Trinity College Dublin of words discouraged by US federal agencies in 2025.

How RFK Jr. Mastered Fake Science—and Screwed Us in the Process He’s Making America Great Again—for lethal pathogens.

Last week RFK Jr. pulled research funding for mRNA vaccines

He said “we reviewed the science” and “listened to the experts”

Wondering what science, and which experts? I was… (1/x) www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-ken...

Portland 96° Blue Springs 78° Flood Watch Santa Fe 80°

Really sad I’m not going to Santa Fe until Wednesday:

So ridiculous. (And so familiar)

The “it’s never over” Jeff Buckley movie poster

Preparing myself to cry in Cinema 21:

Aaaaaaaaaaauuugghhghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Just get the vaccine, people. Why are we like this?

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is harsh. Climate change is making it even harsher. » Yale Climate Connections Hundreds of people face intense heat and relentless mosquitoes at the Florida Everglades facility.

A judge has paused construction on 'Alligator Alcatraz.' Our own @yessfun.com reported on the dangers of the facility to people and the environment: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/alli...

Oregon, this is very bad. We need transportation safety more than a couple expanded megafreeways.

The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it And they don't want you to notice.

Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down.

That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.

New executive order puts all grants under political control All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

New ArsTechnica story about the new steaming pile of Executive Order...

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Full on authoritarianism on every front in Texas:

-Stealing five seats to help Trump rig midterms

-Threatening to arrest/expel democratically elected reps opposing election rigging

-Weaponizing federal law enforcement to illegally target elected reps

-SCOTUS preparing to kill Voting Rights Act

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

Can’t wait to die young of either a preventable disease (or probably a bad driver enabled by bad road design, who am I kidding). Both things could be reduced in likelihood if we had a functioning government.

E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy

Scoop: EPA is preparing to cancel $7 billion in grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/c...

this "article" is deeply unserious. I am not an Austin booster, but it's using Joe Rogan and three of his buddies as the arbiters of all decisionmaking? It's weird.

New Hegseth Leak Reveals Secret Plan for Years of Troops on U.S. Streets Phil Hegseth wrote the document laying out how the Pentagon and DHS could help Donald Trump’s immigration plans “for years.”

Plans drawn up for the military occupation of the United States brought to you by the Hegseth brothers. Heavy media attention around the world, ignored by major US media. www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-memo-...

I had a crying jag of several minutes in the lobby of The Egyptian Theatre in Seattle after the end credits of “El Norte”. It was absolutely gutting. m.imdb.com/title/tt0085...

Homemade Life board game with homemade playing cards

My 8-year-old made their own version of the game Life, and it's way more accurate than the original. The path is convoluted. The rules change on a whim (but always in favor of the game's creator). The real estate is outlandishly expensive. The jobs pay either $9K or $999,999K. The goal is unclear.

I don’t want more women to suffer or die — that’s why I have volunteered and donated to places that help people escape abusive partners, like Bradley Angle in Portland and Rose Brooks Center in Kansas City. Support one in your city? www.bradleyangle.org/support-us

This sort of intimidation is vile.

Hope nobody needs to afford, uh, things or stuff for the next three years.

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

Please, folks, ride the bus or Max. If you don’t normally, plan a couple trips on transit this summer. Especially good for downtown or inner eastside events to save yourself the parking hassles by taking TriMet!

Kent's association with violent right wing groups in the Portland OR including the Proud Boys would for a normal person in a normal time be an issue just getting a security clearance.

Instead, he'll be in a position to designate liberal protestors as terrorists and protect the Proud Boys

126°. 122°. 121°.

And Trump’s EPA is trying to gut one of the most important climate protections we have.

6:05p UPDATE:

If tsunami waves reached Oregon, the first waves would arrive around 11:40 p.m. The National Weather Service cautioned that waves could be dangerous for many hours, and the first tsunami wave or surge might not be the highest.

Oregon coast under tsunami watch after powerful Russia earthquake A powerful, magnitude 8.0 earthquake hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

The National Tsunami Warning Center, based in Alaska, issued a tsunami warning for parts of the Alaska Aleutian Islands, and a watch for portions of the West Coast, including California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii.

Haaaaaaa