Kate Phyre

State-tribal wildlife area in Oregon stalls after timberland owner withdraws from deal A historic state-tribal collaboration in Oregon has stalled after a charitable foundation pulled out of a potential land deal. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife was preparing to purchase 11,438 acres of private timberland using a federal grant. The area is about 10 miles southwest of La Grande in the Blue Mountains. The agency planned to manage the land alongside the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation — the first such collaboration in Oregon. But the landowner, the Harry A. Merlo Foundation, has withdrawn from the deal “for undisclosed reasons,” according to a press release from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife on Monday. A spokesperson for the foundation declined to comment. The state wildlife department and tribes had secured $22 million in federal funding to acquire and co-manage the land. The area would have been called the Qapqápa (pronounced cop-COP-a) Wildlife Area. “While it is with heartfelt regret that we share this news, we remain committed to pursuing opportunities—here or elsewhere—that benefit wildlife, habitat, and public access,” the state and tribes said in Monday’s press release. The Qapqápa project attempted to open thousands of acres of private timberland to the public. It would have connected existing...

State-tribal wildlife area in Oregon stalls after timberland owner withdraws from deal
->Oregon Public Broadcasting | More on "Oregon tribal wildlife land deal" at BigEarthData.ai | #Wildlife

Once again, a single cartoon tells more truth that the entire US Congress.

Thanks to Rick McKee for making our current situation easy to understand.

From the mouth of their own maga saint…

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

“Law serves tyranny when it favors a minuscule minority of oligarchs. If America is to become a land of the free, it must apply law to its titanic inequalities of wealth and income.”

- Timothy Snyder,
From “On Freedom”

(Read the book!)

This

Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"

#Trump, We all hate you for FREE!!!!

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

#TrumpEpsteinFiles

Damn

Small black cat in a cardboard box

Small black cat peeking from inside a cardboard box

Caturday greetings from Ruby & her box

Sun cat Sunday because Sun lounging is a lifestyle not a hobby 😽
#cats #CatSky

Operation Epstein Fury Iran attacks were nothing but an assassination attempt.

Photo of a black and white and gray cat stretched out on a cloth surface with one leg extended and looking vaguely annoyed.

I regret to inform everyone that I also remembered to do yoga this morning and it made me feel better.

Illuminati list just dropped: Bohemian Grove camp members from 2023 leaked The full 2023 retreat member list was published by an independent journalist. Many, many Bay Area pooh-bahs are on it.

In case you need a distraction, Bohemian Grove’s membership list leaked: sfstandard.com/2026/02/25/n...

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Opinion | There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem

I have an op-ed in the NYT today about the Grok scandal, sharing my research from last year finding that legal risk hinders AI companies from making their models safer against CSAM - an echo of the years where white-hat hackers were chilled from good-faith research. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

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Viola Davis: "There is no soul of a nation without the soul of its people, not just who is represented in the breathing alive people in this room, but by those who are no longer here, we either move forward together or not at all. There is no man behind the curtain who has a control over your life."

GOP - group of pedophiles

#NotADragQueen

The stupid runs deep in maga brain syndrome.

Only small letters for them from now on. 😈

The only fraud Trump cares about is what’s lining his pockets. The rest is propaganda covering his depraved lust for violence.
#DitchTrump

Bobtail tuxedo cat curled up on pillow

“Hampy #whiskerwednesday ebberyone. If u look close u can see mine!”

#plundercats
#hedgewatch

The only fraud Trump & Repugnacans are interested in is the fraud lining their own pockets. Stealing Medicaid from people who need it is disgraceful, unacceptable & impeachable.
#FireGOP

Profit driven private companies don’t have the right priorities to do hard things. All they care about is profit. That is the wrong priority for public contracts.
Space is hard. Exploration can only be achieved with nonprofit goals, sharing discoveries with the world.
Ditch Space X.

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Klobuchar: "One of the things that most struck me about this State of the Union is that he spent only 2.9 minutes talking about affordability out of an hour and 47 minute speech, and 3.9 minutes talking about healthcare. These are the number one issues on the minds of people."

SOE 2026: Extinction Tracker A research published in the journal Global Change Biology said extreme heat due to climate change and land use change threatens to wipe out nearly 8,000 species of vertebrates including amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles. The paper assessed how future extreme heat events under different scenarios of thermal limits can potentially impact almost 30,000 species. Under the worst-case scenario, 8,000 species are estimated to face unsuitable conditions across 52 per cent of their range. CORAL COLLAPSE: A study published in Science found two of Florida’s most important and iconic reef-building coral species had become functionally extinct across Florida’s coral reef, meaning too few of them remain to serve their previous ecological role. ARCTIC SEAL: The updated IUCN Red List shows three Arctic seal species facing heightened threats. The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) has been moved from Vulnerable to Endangered, while the bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) and harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) have been downgraded from Least Concern to Near Threatened. EXTINCT SPECIES: The latest update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List confirms six species have moved into the Extinct category. These include the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura) and the cone snail (Conus lugubris), both lost...

SOE 2026: Extinction Tracker
->Down To Earth | More on "Species extinction from climate change" at BigEarthData.ai | #Extinction

Portland frogs protest Trump’s State of the Union | CNN The Portland Frog Brigade gathered in Washington DC, to protest President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

Keepin it weird, PDX Frog brigade protest Trump lying state of the union speech.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/u...