Third Act Oregon

"His mother, who voted for Trump..." You just cannot make this up.

Ruben Ray Martinez was shot and killed by ICE a year ago — video contradicts their account, as it did with Pretti and Good.

His mother, who voted for Trump, says she doesn’t blame Trump, but thinks “something needs to be changed” in ICE.

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Could solar panels help strengthen global food security? - Positive News A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels

Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
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Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAID Public health campaigns had made significant strides toward eradicating diseases like elephantitis and river blindness. But this progress has since unraveled with the second Trump administration.

Billions spent fighting neglected tropical diseases could unravel after the U.S. eliminated the U.S. Agency for International Development, researchers warn.

Programs targeting river blindness and elephantiasis are stalled around the world, risking new infections for millions.

But what exactly does that mean right now: "illegal"?

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

'Your Tax Dollars Being Used to Raise Your Gas Prices': US-Israel Bomb Major Iranian Oil Depots Scenes from Tehran on Saturday were widely described as "apocalyptic" and widely condemned.

'Your Tax Dollars Being Used to Raise Your Gas Prices': US-Israel Bomb Major Iranian Oil Depots | Scenes from Tehran on Saturday were widely described as "apocalyptic" and widely condemned. ​

Republican departures from Congress surge ahead of 2026 elections Republican departures from Congress surge ahead of 2026 elections

Republican departures from Congress surge ahead of 2026 elections

When the Cruelty Is the Point, What Is Left? Radical Empathy ​Radical Empathy must be fierce, stubborn, creative, persistent. We must hold on to each other, build community, be willing to take risks and accept consequences. Seek alternatives.

There is no time to waste, no neutral space "in the middle." Clearly, in our own innocence, we have not taken seriously enough the depraved power of greed and cruelty, nor understood how far evil has reached. They have grabbed it all… almost.

Birds are declining faster and faster in 3 US hotspots, new study finds Researchers have revealed that North American birds are declining at an accelerating rate in three regional hotspots associated with intense agriculture.

Intense, monocropped agriculture is decimating the bird population. Yet one more reason to adopt a different kind of agriculture: local, diverse, resilient.

BREAKING: Judge bars feds from using tear gas that could seep into nearby Gray’s Landing apartments in Portland unless there’s an imminent threat to life

@oregonian.com

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Guardian points out reporter Estefany Rodriguez “produced reports that were unflattering to ICE” — and she and her husband were in a marked Nashville Noticias vehicle when they grabbed her🤔

She is reportedly being held in Alabama

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Little nurses: what happens when children take care of sick and disabled relatives?

About 5 million US minors tend ill relatives due to gaps in our health infrastructure

Would love to see more of these style signs be used. Fascists hate being laughed at, it’s one of the reasons they often target the arts

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How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability A lawsuit against Meta and Google avoids the issue of liability for content and focuses on allegations that social media platforms themselves are harmful by design.

Meta's researchers flagged concerns about Instagram's effects on adolescent body image. Internal communications compared the platform's operation to pushing drugs and gambling. Now those documents are central to a product liability case that could reshape social media.

Measuring poverty on a spectrum instead of an arbitrary line conveys a more accurate picture of inequality An economist proposes a new method of estimating the scope of poverty in different countries.

A Wall Street investor recently argued the U.S. poverty line should be $140,000 for a family of four, up from $33,000. But an economist says the real problem isn't where we draw the line – it's that we draw lines at all.

Public health needs steady budgets – and federal funding uncertainty causes real harms, even if the money is later restored Public health depends on long-term planning, and when that planning is interrupted, some programs never recover.

Public health depends on long-term planning, and when that planning is interrupted, some programs never recover, according to a scholar who studies how to build infrastructure for preventing human suffering.

165 Massacred Schoolgirls in Iran — and the Silence That Exposes the West’s Moral Selectivity These were not combatants. They were not militants. They were children seated at their desks, pens in their hands, notebooks open before them, studying, whispering to classmates, and imagining futures that stretched decades ahead.

165 Massacred Schoolgirls in Iran — and the Silence That Exposes the West’s Moral Selectivity | When deaths of children generate outrage in one context but indifference in another, the moral language surrounding human rights begins to lose its integrity.

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab. A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...

The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers.

Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.

(Published Dec. 2025 with @highcountrynews.org)

Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Know This Popular Food Increases Colon Cancer Risk A new national poll highlights a surprising gap in public awareness about a major dietary risk factor for colorectal cancer. 

Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Know This Popular Food Increases Colon Cancer Risk A new national poll highlights a surprising gap in public awareness about a major dietary risk factor for colorectal cancer.

It's because of the slop.

When the media covers war, every other topic fades Trump will do anything to distract from the political damage of the Epstein files

Which is mostly what war is for... to lay a fog to hide everything else. It's treated like a sporting event, with destruction as the goal.