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Washington state couple seeks licensing help in Spanish. They get a recorded message in accented English instead Maya Edwards, who resides in Kitsap County, posted a video on TikTok last week that has since received more than 1.8 million views and 284,000 likes. The video shows the couple calling the department’...

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 advances antidiscrimination protections for polyamorous families Portland is poised to be the largest U.S. city to allow polyamorous families to sue over discrimination.

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.”

‘The Evergreen’: Northwest communities are living under a government crackdown on immigrants A defining feature of the second Trump administration has been its treatment of immigrants, and the effects of the government’s mass deportation campaign are being deeply felt in the Northwest. In a c...

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:

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

¿Qué harías si tu despensa fuera gratis? En este mercado de Cornelius es posible. Trabajadores del banco de comida El Centro Mercado ayudan a alimentar a familias de una comunidad predominantemente latina.

Buena noticia - nuestro artículo sobre El Centro Mercado en Cornelius ya está disponible en español:

‘The Evergreen’: Northwest communities are living under a government crackdown on immigrants A defining feature of the second Trump administration has been its treatment of immigrants, and the effects of the government’s mass deportation campaign are being deeply felt in the Northwest. In a c...

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.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

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.
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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.

DW from Arthur is very tired

Another day, another Adobe Premiere editing skill autodidactically learned from A Guy On YouTube 👩‍🎓

And if you want to learn more, I also very highly recommend checking out the It Did Happen Here podcast (and book!) - it's excellent: www.itdidhappenherepodcast.com

Highly recommend the “It Did Happen Here” podcast and book to learn abt Portland’s recent white supremacist past, how it led to Seraw’s murder, and how local activists organized and fought back.

Every Oregonian should know this story. If it's new to you, I highly recommend you make time for this documentary:

Just here to HYPE EVERYONE UP real quick we are TRIUMPHING over ADVERSITY including both TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS this week KEEP AT IT folks and also don't forget to DRINK SOME WATER 🤝

Frederick Wiseman, who captured the weirdness and wonder of everyday life, dies at 96 The prolific, pioneering filmmaker made dozens of documentaries and chronicled the inner workings of institutions. His 1967 film, Titicut Follies, revealed appalling conditions at a prison facility.

The prolific, pioneering filmmaker made dozens of documentaries and chronicled the inner workings of institutions. His 1967 film, Titicut Follies, revealed appalling conditions at a prison facility. n.pr/4rYs8nG

‘The Evergreen’: What we learned from Oregon’s most recent moment in the national spotlight National news was focused on Oregon in 2025 as President Donald Trump tried to send National Guard troops to Portland to quell protests at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on the city’...

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen:
Last fall, President Trump said he’d deploy the National Guard to Portland to support ICE. He falsely claimed the city was “war ravaged" & "on fire." It kicked off a complex legal battle that led to deployment being blocked. We discuss with three OPB journalists:

A handbook called If the Media Calls: A Guide for Crime Victims and Survivors

I think it’s very useful for members of the media to see ourselves through the lens of the people impacted by the terrible things they live though

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I've tried to get this point across myself. Here, @brianbeutler.bsky.social does a great job of it. Liberal bias is a political tool — not a critique of performance — and it will assert itself regardless of how well the newsroom does on truthtelling and fairness. www.offmessage.net/p/a-requiem-...

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.

"The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

W h a t a w e e k. My brain is a bundle of tangled busted up wires weakly sparking & glitching out & making David Lynch electricity sounds you know what I mean? But I made it this far & so did you. Wishing you a weekend of rest & snacks. (Drink some water!)

Neighbors of Portland ICE facility to go before federal judge over chronic tear gas A lawsuit over chemical munitions seeping into residences at a low-income apartment complex across from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland is set for a hearing Friday.

People living across the street from Portland's ICE facility are seeking relief. Not only are chemicals used by federal agents infiltrating their homes, they're wreaking havoc on their bodies and lives. In court filings, they describe sleeping with gas masks.

Am I right?

Dave Miller shares his story for our “what our audience doesn’t know” series.

"We want all of the content creators of OPB to be compensated with livable wages and treated with respect. If this is what you want too, please make your voices heard."

-Dave Miller OPB host of Think Out Loud