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Infinitus Ministries - Micro-Worship (OEx) Offbeat Expedition is a "choose-your-adventure" worship and spiritual enrichment experience for anyone, anywhere, and anytime!

ICYMI: Here at Infinitus Ministries, we've been offering the "Offbeat Expedition," DIY "micro-worship" experiences for those in the neurodivergent community.

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The guide for Nov. 9: secure.internxt.com/sh/file/GqS_...

Time for some perjury and contempt charges

Inside Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: ‘Small acts have huge consequences’ In Chicago, the resistance to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission has taken many forms. A movement has grown through acts large and small.

Small acts have huge consequences.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

Oregon’s fledgling olive industry celebrates ‘Olio Nuovo Festival’ throughout November Oregon is on the northern edge of where olives can grow. But the state's olive oil sector is beginning to establish itself, and Willamette Valley farmers are celebrating this year’s first olive oil pressings.

Back in the 1960s, it was widely accepted that Oregon was too cold and wet for wine. Since then, the state has built a reputation internationally as a wine destination.

Frankly Travel Portland needs to stop promoting tourism to the U.S. in which tourists could end up in concentration camps. Since Travel Portland receives public funds this might violate the Oregon Sanctuary Promise Act.

Food pantry ride today, Sat Nov 8!

The need will be on-going. If you are able, regularly help to restock your local food pantry and help to alleviate hunger in your neighborhood.

Map of local PDX food pantries here: bsky.app/profile/laur...

Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do

President Trump threatens a military attack on Nigeria because of jihadi attacks on Christians — which are indeed a real problem. But Trump’s aid cuts are killing far, far more Nigerian Christians than jihadis are. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

190. SNAP WTF? - by Steve Vladeck - One First A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

Here's a great explanation re: #snap

stevevladeck.substack.com/pub/p/190-sn...

Multnomah Co. animal shelter over capacity, urgently pleads for dog adoptions Multnomah County Animal Services is asking for people’s help as its Troutdale shelter faces an overcrowding crisis.

Multnomah Co. animal shelter over capacity, urgently pleads for dog adoptions

YouTube video by Transportation Research & Education Center at PSU PSU Transportation Seminar: Building Oregon's Statewide Multimodal Transportation Inventory

How do you build a dataset that works for 48+ local agencies?

Today, Ben Stabler and Theresa Conley shared some key lessons from an ambitious statewide multimodal data effort. Miss it? The recording's available now: youtu.be/fD0nghrJARk

I caught up with Attorney General Dan Rayfield in DC after his team argued against Trump’s illegal tariffs at the Supreme Court. He breaks down what’s at stake in the case and where we go from here.

🙄

Reno Nevada put their surface running rail line into a trench for $282 million.

For the cost of like 1/8th of a mile of I5 widening we could grade separate the line.

THINGS YOU CAN STILL DO TO HELP Please visit our website or your local food pantry to learn how you can donate or volunteer. multco.us/food

💓 Food orgs need to replenish their supply after our community endured a full week without benefits – they catered to unprecedented need and need our help to get back to get prepped.

💬 Visit multco.us/food, your local food organization or another trusted org to donate the appropriate resources.

***IMMEDIATE ACTION***DEMOCRATS HAVE THE MOMENTUM; THEY CAN’T CAVE NOW [11-06-25] — Indivisible Oregon On Tuesday, Americans came out in force in blue and red states to repudiate Trump’s cruel, degrading, and unpopular agenda. Nevertheless, Senate leaders will try for the 14th time on Friday to fo...

CALL: Dems have momentum—don’t cave.
Extend ACA tax credits,
restore SNAP,
add guardrails to stop Trump rescissions.
Tell Senate/House: vote NO on sham CR
demand real relief now.
Call your reps today.
Stay strong, keep fighting.
www.indivisibleor.org/take-action/...

surveillance is not safety, example ten trillion billion million zillion

Turn fall yard debris into compost for a healthier garden Composting is a low-cost, high-reward way to turn garden waste into a valuable resource.

extension.oregonstate.edu/news/turn-fa...

It’s a helluva “flex” to lie about Thanksgiving dinner being cheaper when you’re literally letting 42 million people starve.

ICE agents detain teacher at Chicago daycare Rayito del Sol in North Center ICE agents detaining a female teacher inside a North Center daycare Wednesday morning, in front of children.

Not very long ago, the GOP argued that "biological males" have inherent physical advantages over women and girls, thus letting them compete with female athletes poses a danger.

Yet, they are perfectly fine with men with combat training go out and arrest women. 🙄

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

read this!

a companion: @librarypunk.bsky.social (Justin’s quoted in this article)’s recent episode on AI refusal with yours truly 😎 www.librarypunk.gay/e/155-ai-ref...

PacifiCorp Warns of Bankruptcy Risk — Oregon Journalism Project

www.oregonjournalismproject.org/pacificorp-w...

The Decline of Deviance Where has all the weirdness gone?

This is interesting. People are getting less weird, but also less creative?

www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...

This is madness. And it's a lot cheaper to build a conventional overhead transmission line.

www.columbiariverkeeper.org/2025/no-unde...

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Today in the Supreme Court, the government’s own attorney admitted that the American people will pay 30-80% of Trump’s tariffs.

These tariffs are an unlawful tax on working families.

The Supreme Court needs to make sure no one is above the law — not even the president.

The Election Calendar Is Cheating Idaho and Montana Voters | Sightline Institute But neighboring Wyoming offers a solution.

On last night's initial count, only 28.8% of #Idaho ballots were returned.

That’s because this year's local elections were off-cycle, rather than when voters pay the most attention and turn out in higher numbers in even-numbered “on” years aligned with higher-profile national races.

where is the atmospheric river

On tariffs, the Supreme Court's GOP justices appear ready to save Trump from himself The administration's economic recklessness threatens Republicans' grip on power.

The upshot is that the business-owning billionaire class loathes taxes of any kind, and the business/ancap wing of the GOP has not gone away.

Opposition to free trade blocs and support for protectionism used to be progressive talking points, even 15 years ago.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani’s Rise: Gen Z Loneliness

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

this is rich coming from the same government that incessantly complains about how non-citizens are "freeloading" off american taxpayers