While Americans are told to tighten their belts, DHS is asking taxpayers to bankroll a flying penthouse. Photos from NBC News.

National parks remove reservation systems despite crowds Visitors no longer need reservations for Yosemite, Arches or Glacier national parks.

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Colgate Powerhouse penstock failure The Colgate Powerhouse, operated by Yuba Water Agency, has experienced a failure of the penstock pipe carrying water from Bullards Bar Reservoir to the main stem of the Yuba River. This is a developin...

Thanks to @yubariverpeople.bsky.social for the drone footage of the Yuba River below Colgate Powerhouse and to Yuba Water Agency for the video footage of the area. Please, stay away from the incident site and out of the Yuba between Colgate Powerhouse and Englebright. yubanet.com/regional/col...

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Iconic is right. So sad this market is closing.

YouTube video by Logoispermatikoi Sonny Rollins-Paul's Pal.

Sometimes when I'm having a sad day I remember that Sonny Rollins is still alive and I feel better.

Paul's Pal - Sonny Rollins

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Yes!!!!

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

“We have a nice little database.”

Two weeks ago I wrote about the risk of Trump using his NSPM-7 memo to treat citizens exercising their rights like terrorists. Now it’s a reality. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

Look at what @wadnr.bsky.social has done to the legacy forests of Hood Canal in just the last 20 years. In 2005, these #PublicLands were a largely cohesive wild rainforest, but now most has been wrecked by rampant clearcutting.

@daveupthegrovecpl.bsky.social plans to cut down what's left.

In Davos, the world is watching an American president’s mind dissolve in real time.

So let me get this straight. The man who tore down the East Wing of the White House in order to build an oversized ballroom that no one asked for has launched an investigation into Jerome Powell over renovations to the Federal Reserve headquarters.

Did I get that right?

This is beyond disgusting

USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.

Relevant to anyone who sends time-sensitive payments, taxes, legal documents, or ballots through the U.S. Postal Service: the USPS has changed its rules for postmarking mail; postmark date might be days later than actual date of mailing, unless customers take specific steps: nstp.org/article/usps...

Winter solstice

Rain storm photos. A poor drowned mouse? or lost meal?

I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.

Right now, Oregonians should listen very hard to @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social union. The voices you hear on the radio at OPB are generally poorly-compensated, some working two jobs, and the wage gap between the CEO and the actual journalists is a gap of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In burned forests, the West’s snowpack is melting earlier As blazes expand to higher elevations, the impacts cascade downstream.

"A new study has found that in the immediate aftermath of fires across the West, the snowpack disappears earlier in burned areas. And fire is burning higher and higher in elevation, which increases overlap between where burned forests are and where it snows.” 🌎 www.kunc.org/news/2025-11...

Oregon hike with raven

The Trump administration announced new efforts today to roll back key parts of the Endangered Species Act, aiming to reinstate changes from his first term that were previously halted by a federal court.

We knew that type NP stream protections were necessarily decades ago, but the process of implementing those protections was drawn out for a quarter century.

This same sort of foot-dragging is responsible for delaying all sorts of necessary environmental protections.

Because OF COURSE

Do you have raccoons in your area? I discovered a similar pile of yuck like this, in various stages, under a tree in my yard. I finally figured out it was a raccoon that decided to use the tree well as its latrine. Near plum and nut trees.

This whips. Good for these kids, man.

Farewell to an Oregon Legend: Chuck Kesey of Nancy’s Yogurt Has Passed Away at 87 A visionary long before “organic” and “probiotic” were household words, Kesey helped launch the natural foods movement over sixty years ago. Guided by curiosity, compassion, and an open mind, he and

Good writeup here.

Portland Southeast trail

A tweet from Morgan J. Freeman states: “FACT: Venezuela is NOT a major producer of cocaine. They do not have large cocaine factories. They do not produce fentanyl either. What Venezuela does have is the world’s largest oil reserves.”

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

64. The Absurdity There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one.

There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one. open.substack.com/pub/leahsott...

Sailing Goat, Richmond CA