NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.
But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
Oregon state lawmakers packed a lot into the 2026 short session before it adjourned last week. It’s also been years since lawmakers, lobbyists, the public and the press have worked together in the State Capitol building.
Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen:
OR lawmakers packed a lot into the short session that adjourned last week. It was also the 1st time that lawmakers, lobbyists, the public & the press have worked together in the building in years. We tagged along w @laurenmdake.bsky.social to hear what it was like:
10/10 take. no notes
“When it comes to kids specifically, people don’t think they have the capacity to both self-advocate or know what’s right for them ... I am a political science major. I do want to go more into rights for people, specifically with the youth. I want to be that person that I needed when I was younger.”
DHS says Medina entered the U.S. illegally but her attorney & family say otherwise. Her family and lawyer also point to the 20 years she’s lived in the U.S. w/ no criminal history & the positive contributions she & her family have made to the community.
Great reporting by OPB's @hbarth.bsky.social
Her detention has devastated her family: She’s been the primary caretaker of her husband, who suffered a stroke in December & recently had heart surgery. And she’s the mom of two teens, who are now trying simultaneously to care for their father, go to school & deal with their mom’s immigration case.
Oregon state Democratic lawmakers approved a measure on Thursday that would prevent federal immigration officers from wearing masks. The measure is a response to the Trump administration’s nationwide deportation efforts.
passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
“Reporting and writing are two different skill sets and rare — RARE — is the occasion when it’s wrapped into one person”
Bold choice to insult a bunch of reporters by insinuating they’re bad writers on the company Slack but okay!
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Maxville was once one of the largest towns in Wallowa County. It was created in the 1920s by a lumber company to house loggers, including Black loggers from Southern states — like Gwen Trice’s father. We explore her family roots & Maxville's multiracial history:
criterion channel rn has a collection called YEARNING and a collection called STUNTS! and between them exits the entire spectrum of human art and emotion
You know what you could do today instead of doomscrolling all day is go pick up a copy of Persepolis. It is stunningly good.
Located at the cemetery’s southwest corner at Southeast Morrison Street and 20th Avenue, Block 14 was the burial ground for most of the more than 3,000 people of Chinese ancestry buried at Lone Fir Cemetery between the 1860s and the 1920s.
An automated self-service option on a state hotline gave callers not a voice speaking Spanish, as selected, but an English voice with a Hispanic accent. (Except for numbers, e.g. "the last cuatro digits of your social security number")
From Monica Carrillo-Casas of Spokane Public Radio:
Huge crowd here at the Capitol of Salem-Keizer school students who walked out today to protest ICE and support the Immigration Justice Package under consideration in the Oregon Legislature
Live coverage at statesmanjournal.com
THIS SUCKS, this sucks!!!! This all sucks. A multipurpose 2026 scream into the void about how this sucks. Ahhhhhhhhhh
Portland is poised to be the largest U.S. city to allow polyamorous families to sue over discrimination.
“He acknowledged to the dispatcher that he was planning to get out of his vehicle. The dispatcher interjected.
‘Why? You can drive away. We have officers en route to you,’ the dispatcher said. ‘I don’t want you guys getting into any more of a dispute.’”
Businesses are reporting up to 60% sales losses compared to the previous year, according to the Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber, as customers stay at home in fear of immigration agents.
“The family is inside in the house. My business is very, very slow.”
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A defining feature of the 2nd Trump admin has been its treatment of immigrants, & the effects of its mass deportation campaign are being deeply felt in the NW. We talk with three NW News Network journalists who cover immigration in OR & WA about their reporting:
Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth
Buena noticia - nuestro artículo sobre El Centro Mercado en Cornelius ya está disponible en español:
Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen:
A defining feature of the 2nd Trump admin has been its treatment of immigrants, & the effects of its mass deportation campaign are being deeply felt in the NW. We talk with three NW News Network journalists who cover immigration in OR & WA about their reporting:
(……one of the more useful things journalists do, I think, is help people understand who to be mad at, and why)
You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.
53 year old father of three who’d lived in the US for 30 years dies of pneumonia in Mexico shortly after he was apprehended and deported by ICE.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
When I say that @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I like to deep dive with our reporting, what I mean is that we go to the absolute bottom and find insane shit like this.
After a busy week I finally got the time to read this today from @ryanjhaas.bsky.social & @leahsottile.bsky.social. Notable details: a councilor‘s response to a threatening email, an AI slop video from a local news outlet.
