On a late January morning, temperatures in western Oregon had finally warmed enough for the sap in the maple trees to start running.
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2026/03/maple-syrup-from-the-pacific-northwest-bigleaf-maple-syrup-industry-is-on-the-rise.html
It does hurt. I am surprised he isn't covering it with a bandage.
Not true in my experience. I did my treatment for precancerous lesions in patches about that size (chest, forehead, forearms) and they looked the same. Takes weeks to resolve, but flouracil was very effective. I recognized his oozing wound immediately.
Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.
You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
This is the PACIFIC Ocean, off Anacapa Island in the Santa Barbara Channel.
"The inspector general’s office is investigating a formal complaint that Ms. Chavez-DeRemer was having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a subordinate — a member of her security detail — and abusing her office by taking staff to strip clubs, drinking alcohol on the job and taking personal trips at taxpayer expense. Her lawyer has denied the allegations."
Oregon's not sending it's best to D.C. Shameful behavior on both their parts. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...
Screenshot of web listing: "Pepperdine is a Christian university committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and Christian values, where students are strengthened for lives of purpose, service, and leadership."
Pepperdine, lol.
The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri.
Oregon should do this, too.
This is interesting: New Mexico seems likely to pass a bill banning private ICE concentration camps in the state, despite some loss of jobs
They believe they are exceptional and so think they will be the exception.
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
I just got off the phone with Elizabeth's dad...she and her mom were freed tonight! Updated story: sahanjournal.com/education/co...
Yes, I need that story, too!
Your letter is beautiful and true. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
He's ill!
I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
Not Iran.
Not Nazi Germany.
The United States of America.
ICE was counting his bullet wounds. Makes me sick.
Candle on a post outside under fir trees.
Eugene, Ore.
