Doug McVay

This morning, as EMS was trying to reach victims of a mass shooting in downtown Austin, a Waymo was blocking a point of access until a police officer was able to take manual control and move it.

There’s no room for @waymo.bsky.social on our streets as long as they’re a safety hazard.

At least 153 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is "not aware" of operations in the area.

"The six-day working week in Iran runs from Saturday to Thursday, with Friday being the only official day of rest, meaning the school was likely occupied when it was hit."
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A recycling company improperly dumped 17 tons of plastic in a landfill. It has millions of dollars in government contracts
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Portland shelters continue to have a racism problem - Street Roots City and county shelters underserve homeless Portlanders of color, a report shows. The report reflects Portland shelters' continued racism problem.

Portland shelters continue to have a racism problem
A county report shows local shelters — particularly city shelters — underserve Portlanders of color
www.streetroots.org/arts-and-ent...

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. "There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

3 US troops killed, 5 seriously wounded in actions against Iran U.S. Central Command officials announced Sunday that three U.S. service members were killed in action during combat operations.

3 US troops killed, 5 seriously wounded in actions against Iran www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

THE BLACK BYLINE: Portland Police Union Insults Our Intelligence An attempt by Portland Police to recolor the thin blue line to green was gently swatted down this week by a Multnomah County judge. The Coalition of Communities of Color mounted a legal challenge agai...

"While there is surely crime in the city, few are as brutal as this obvious insult to our collective intelligence—one that’s a bald-faced attempt to pickpocket PCEF in order to plant more money trees for the Police Bureau."
www.portlandmercury.com/opinion/2026...

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health...

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm."
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Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

The details in this story are shocking, and I hope people will spend some time with it, despite the *gestures* EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING. Some of these details have been previously reported. Other big ones have not.

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"About 2,000 students from the Salem-Keizer School District protested federal immigration-enforcement actions by marching through Salem Friday afternoon, ultimately gathering at the Oregon Capitol."
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Why in the world is Melania Trump leading a UN security council meeting? | Arwa Mahdawi The first lady is a Trump and therefore automatically qualified to do anything her heart desires

"But while DEI may be dead, WTF hiring is very much alive. Being Wealthy, Trumpy, and/or Fox News-famous seem to be the only qualifications you need for success in Trump’s USA."
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Study Warns of Large Increase in New HIV Cases in U.S. if Ryan White Program Ends Colorado and several Southern and Midwest states would see the biggest increases in incidence

"Using aggregated data from 30 states, the model projected 30,863 to 213,440 additional infections over 5 years if the program ended, a 19% to 132% increase over incidence if the program continued."
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Neil Sedaka, Singing Craftsman of Memorable Pop Songs, Dies at 86 He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.

Neil Sedaka, the pop music fixture whose celebrated career spanned seven decades, died on Friday at 86. He co-wrote and sang some of the definitive teenage anthems of the late 1950s and early ’60s, including “Calendar Girl,” “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen” and “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.”

Lawmakers press PeaceHealth, ApolloMD for business details of ER switch Oregon lawmakers want more information from PeaceHealth as the organization shifts to a different emergency medical care provider.

"The letter, released Wednesday, does not accuse PeaceHealth or ApolloMD of wrongdoing. But the lawmakers did request that both organizations provide more information to ensure that they are complying with Oregon law."
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'No confidence in leadership': PeaceHealth Medical Staff vote is official In an unprecedented move, the Medical Staff of PeaceHealth Oregon have officially voted no confidence in their hospital leadership.

"Staff also overwhelmingly supported reversing the decision to appoint out-of-state, ApolloMD, as the emergency medicine provider at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend and to restore Eugene Emergency Physicians as the provider group."
www.klcc.org/health-medic...

I've been live-skeeting the inaugural Oregon Data Center Advisory Committee meeting today 🧵 for those of us with more sense and are out enjoying the beautiful weather

The kids are alright: Student organizer of anti-ICE walkout says detention was worth it 'They wanted their voices to be heard'

The kids are alright: Student organizer of anti-ICE walkout says detention was worth it
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The Japanese snowball fight game vying to be an Olympic sport The game's federation emphasizes the 'mental challenge,' as players on both teams pelt their opponents while taking cover behind shelters.

Sign me up!!
"The goal is to hit all seven players on the opposing team using perfectly spherical snowballs made with a special machine, or capture their flag."
www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/...

Multicounty Outbreak of Salmonella Agbeni ... This report describes a 2024 Salmonella outbreak linked to ice in a cooler at a county fair in Illinois.

"Drinking beer from the fair’s beer tent was the only common exposure reported among all persons who became ill."
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Ten Black Heroes Behind Cannabis Legalization | High Times These Black leaders helped change cannabis law through advocacy, research, and public leadership across decades of reform.

Writing this Ten Black Heroes list for High Times felt like a love letter to the movement, just the way I want to remember it. Thank you to everyone on it. hightimes.com/activism/ten...

The screenshot of the release notes reads: A new version of TeX Live Utility is available! TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now? Release Notes: Changes Since 1.54 • Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book. • First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software. • Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date. • Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date. • Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database. Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144. • Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models. • Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

Washington state House majority leader apologizes for drinking on the job Washington state House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon is apologizing for consuming alcohol prior to completing his committee work in the legislature on Wednesday.

Washington state House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon is apologizing for consuming alcohol prior to completing his committee work in the legislature on Wednesday.

Melania Trump to lead UN security council session, White House says First lady to preside over meeting on ‘children, technology and education in conflict’ in New York next month

"The session, titled Children, Technology, and Education in Conflict, will mark the first time the first lady to a sitting US president has presided over the 15-member council, and kicks off the first session to mark the United States’ latest stint presiding."
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New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000

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"The Trump administration’s proposed new rules for Obamacare plans next year would shift more health care costs to Americans, with much higher deductibles that could lead to larger medical bills."
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Gardaí to be drug tested and have bank accounts checked as part of in-career vetting Convictions of gardaí and checks of social media accounts owned by Garda members have resulted in ‘concern’, says commissioner

Gardaí to be drug tested and have bank accounts checked as part of in-career vetting

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

"Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies."
www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

What do U.S. adults think about the legal use of #psychedelics & other drugs?

% supporting legal use:

#Cannabis-65%
#Psilocybin-23%
#LSD-10%
#MDMA-9%
#Cocaine-8%

New @rand.org report does a deep dive, going beyond this simple yes/no/don't know question ⬇️

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"Gov. Tina Kotek said Tuesday that data centers’ impact on Oregon is 'not sustainable' at the current growth rate, citing the industry’s consumption of water, energy and community resources."
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