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I wonder when all the national media is going to start breathlessly reporting every day on how all the rollbacks of equity programs, scholarships, and social justice centers on college campuses at behest of this admin makes black, brown, trans, and queer folks feel unsafe

This chart shows national and regional trends of wastewater viral activity levels of SARS-COV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) over the last 6 months. Recent trends indicate a precipitous rise over the last few weeks, with some regions already in the "High" activity range

According to the CDC, COVID-19 activity is rising across the country just in time for back-to-school

source: www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

Woodburn area farmworkers targeted by ICE, attorney says Immigration agents pulled over a van in Marion County on Thursday morning, busted through the driver’s window and detained four farmworkers on the way to their jobs at a blueberry farm, according to a...

ICE detained four farmworkers on the way to their jobs at a blueberry farm in Marion County yesterday at 6am, one of their attorneys said. Word of their sudden arrest shot across the area's migrant communities, as harvest season in the Willamette Valley is underway.
@troywb.bsky.social for @opb.org:

Usual reminder: "All global modelled pathways that limit warming to 1.5°C (>50%) with no or limited overshoot, and those that limit warming to 2°C (>67%), involve rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade"

www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

Science is telling us that our civilisation - & BILLIONS of people - will not survive a 4C world.

How old will your kids be when we get there?

Lots of powerful people assured Americans that fracking was perfectly safe with no potential for human health impacts or water contamination.

They were wrong. And yet now they are all trying to tell us that LNG from fracked gas is a climate solution.

Don't believe them.

Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly Expert says non-profit partners provide a ‘fairy dust’ of legitimacy to beef industry.

New at DeSmog: @rachelsherrington.bsky.social reveals how the meat industry might have teamed up with prominent environmental groups to convince consumers that beef can be "climate friendly," even as the industry's emissions of planet-heating pollutants increase. #climatechange

text that says, We need you to speak up in support of bicycle infrastructure that makes Portland a great place to ride a bike. PBOT is preparing work orders to spend its limited transportation budget on making our streets less safe. The diverters on NW 20th and Everett, NW 14th and Johnson, and NW 15th and Johnson are slated for removal as soon as this week. These diverters keep cars off of well-used bike routes and were part of the NW in Motion planning process that took several years. Please email the city with this link and ask them to request an immediate pause on the removal of the diverters until PBOT can present their reasoning to the Bicycle Advisory Committee on August 12th and to the public. Slower speeds and fewer vehicles in these areas drastically reduce injury severity in crashes and facilitate quieter, cleaner streets. These diverters are in accordance with multiple city council-approved city plans. This latest removal comes weeks after PBOT removed three street plazas in NW and turned them back into car streets. We have heard a variety of inconsistent reasoning used to justify the removal of these filters Go here for BikePortland's coverage for more information. We understand the need to make adjustments to infrastructure, but disagree with removing modal filters without knowing what the city is going to do to make these streets even safer for people riding bikes. If the city moves forward with this removal, it will set a dangerous precedent for Portland's entire bicycling network. Our lawyer has contacted the city's attorney regarding how this action by the city relates to our Bike Bill lawsuit. How can the city ask for more transportation funding if this is how it spends it? -BikeLoud PDX

Photos of the diverters. And a button that says, "Demand a Pause on diverter removal"

URGENT!
PBOT (Portland Bureau of Transportation) is planning to remove large safety diverters this week!

Send a message today to say STOP 🛑!
SHARE with your people!

Use the easy pre-addressed email at the bottom of this Action Alert 👇
mailchi.mp/bikeloudpdx/...

“For those who thought immigration enforcement had stopped in Southern California, think again,” acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli wrote on X shortly after the raid.

The full story: lataco.com/trojan-horse...

By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

The surprising science of fighting crime with...trees A growing body of research suggests greenery may make cities safer.

Buildings surrounded by lots of foliage saw 56 percent fewer violent crimes.

Hillsboro’s Westside Electric Living Fair sparks ideas for clean energy, home efficiency - Hillsboro News Times Hillsboro’s newest green energy event is charging forward with a day focused on sustainable living and the future of electrification. The Westside Electric Living Fair powers on from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m....

THIS SATURDAY: Take an eBike for a spin, learn about solar power, and why induction cooking is what gourmets use now instead of dirty gas. Get "plugged in" to a clean and climate healthy lifestyle!

Visit this great even in Hillsboro this August 9th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Lawyer claims groundbreaking for I-5 Rose Quarter project would be illegal Can ODOT break ground on an illegal project?

"Lawyer claims groundbreaking for I-5 Rose Quarter project would be illegal"

Thanks to @bikeportland.org for the coverage.

Is ODOT going to break the law starting a gajillion dollar freeway expansion without the money in hand to pay for it? #orleg #orpol

bikeportland.org/2025/08/06/l...

Banner drop, banner says “hands off Jacob Hoopes” with an iron front in the center

Shared with permission from another platform.

Thank you to the community members for this recent banner drop in solidarity with another community member being unjustly charged by the state for standing up to ICE.

Together we are stronger. There are more of us than there are of them.

#abolishice

Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.

- Orwell

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

"Just a cold"
"Just a mild bug"
"Stop living in fear. We all get sick"

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan The US government, enabled by the media, is an active participant in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza

The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great accessible summary of the energy transition that I agree 100% with.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

It's never too late to start masking again if you've stopped, especially in health care settings. Long COVID is now the #1 chronic health condition in kids

⚒️🧪

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Climate-friendly 401(k)s can help protect your future » Yale Climate Connections Many 401(k)s include investments in fossil fuels, but there are alternatives.

Your retirement account might be contributing to climate change, but there are ways to change that.

How Big Agriculture Mislead the Public About the Benefits of Biofuels Something felt off. Tim Searchinger lacked the proper credentials to say exactly what was off that day in the spring of 2003. He was a lawyer, not a scientist or economist. He was reading a complex…

LitHub ran an excerpt from WE ARE EATING THE EARTH, from the scene where my dork-hero first realizes there's something fishy about all the studies that claimed ethanol was greener than gasoline. lithub.com/how-big-agri...

WATCH — @anakasparian.bsky.social unleashes on Shabbos Kestenbaum: “No, I’m gonna let you filibuster, b*tch… I can’t stand it. It’s unbearable.”

This is the political video I've been waiting to see.
I have no party affiliations, but if I were in the Greens, I would vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social

We have been warned about this moment for all our lives. Now it's here. What will you do about it?

"Rising food prices are the second-largest effect of climate change that people see in their day-to-day lives, only exceeded by extreme heat"

Link to study since, you know, WSJ apparently didn't feel the need to include: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...