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Native Oregonian, registered Democrat, retired special education teacher, proud union member, die-hard Mariners fan

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Wise words.
Thank you.

12.03.2026 03:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Federal government selects controversial company to run Surprise ICE facility Homeland Security just selected GardaWorld to renovate and run a new ICE detention facility.

Imagine if $383 million was spent on places to live for those in Arizona who need it instead of for buying and renovating a warehouse for an ICE detention center.

This is an obscenity. We have to flip Congress.

12.03.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 476 πŸ” 173 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 4

This is a meme I made from a photograph in Salem, OR

Your thoughts are my thoughts, exactly, Dr. Jacobs.

I can identify buildings that are empty, because the occupants have gone out of business (a KMart & a Penneys & a Rite Aid in my town).
People are homeless. We need government to intervene.

12.03.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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No kidding.

12.03.2026 00:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Whew.
He is one of my heroes.

11.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The 1973 Arab Oil Embargo: The Old Rules No Longer Apply The embargo led to long gas lines and shaped U.S. foreign policy to this day. However, the world energy market has changed dramatically over the past four decades, and the U.S. now gets less than 10 p...

I remember the 1973 Arab oil embargo, and I wonder if we won’t look back on these gas prices today with fondness in a month, because, at least there was gas available, and you didn’t have to spend hours in line to get it.

www.wunc.org/2013-10-16/t...

10.03.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
From 2023: Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenges Teamsters president to fight during hearing
From 2023: Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenges Teamsters president to fight during hearing YouTube video by CBS News

Yep:

06.03.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
From 2023: Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenges Teamsters president to fight during hearing
From 2023: Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenges Teamsters president to fight during hearing YouTube video by CBS News

Markwayne Mullin:

06.03.2026 06:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Our wars with Afghanistan and Iraq got support, but they were disasters in the long term.

Have we learned nothing?

Or is this lack of support here a sign that we have?

06.03.2026 03:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Tom,

Thank you so much for appearing on β€œThe Last Word” this evening and pointing out that Trump has not received a β€œbump” for going to war with Iran.

Has there ever been a president in the same situation?

1/2

06.03.2026 03:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

@repauchincloss.bsky.social
Thank you for appearing on Jen’s program this evening.

I agree. Robert Kennedy Jr. should not be the HHS Director.

His beliefs about vaccines are killing children.

06.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
From 2023: Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenges Teamsters president to fight during hearing
From 2023: Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenges Teamsters president to fight during hearing YouTube video by CBS News

@pkryan.bsky.social
Thank you so much for appearing on Jen’s program this evening.

I appreciate your concerns regarding nominee Sen. Mullin.

06.03.2026 02:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You did it again!
Thank you for using the word β€œblankey!”

06.03.2026 02:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
From 2023: Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenges Teamsters president to fight during hearing
From 2023: Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenges Teamsters president to fight during hearing YouTube video by CBS News

@allinwithchris.bsky.social
Chris,
This is Trump’s nominee to replace Kristi Noem:

06.03.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My dad was a house painter, so I appreciate your use of the word β€œspackle.”

04.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@allinwithchris.bsky.social
Thank you so much for your program this evening.
Seeing you on a Monday is an unexpected gift.
More, please.

03.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, I’m not sure your first sentence is completely correct.

I think he’s interested in oil.

Maybe they are the same thing 🀷🏻

01.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Beautiful photos.

I’m guessing that every one of those students knows a classmate or a classmate’s relative who has been detained, deported, or questioned.

I thank them for their courage and advocacy. We cannot sanction living in a police state.

28.02.2026 06:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Nearly 2,000 students from Salem Keizer School District walked out of school today & gathered at the capitol to use their voices to protest the injustice of ICE and the Trump administration's immigration policy.

Nearly 2,000 students from Salem Keizer School District walked out of school today & gathered at the capitol to use their voices to protest the injustice of ICE and the Trump administration's immigration policy.

Nearly 2,000 students from Salem Keizer School District walked out of school today & gathered at the capitol to use their voices to protest the injustice of ICE and the Trump administration's immigration policy.

Nearly 2,000 students from Salem Keizer School District walked out of school today & gathered at the capitol to use their voices to protest the injustice of ICE and the Trump administration's immigration policy.

Nearly 2,000 students from Salem Keizer School District walked out of school today & gathered at the capitol to use their voices to protest the injustice of ICE and the Trump administration's immigration policy.

Nearly 2,000 students from Salem Keizer School District walked out of school today & gathered at the capitol to use their voices to protest the injustice of ICE and the Trump administration's immigration policy.

Nearly 2,000 students from Salem Keizer School District walked out of school today & gathered at the capitol to use their voices to protest the injustice of ICE and the Trump administration's immigration policy.

Nearly 2,000 students from Salem Keizer School District walked out of school today & gathered at the capitol to use their voices to protest the injustice of ICE and the Trump administration's immigration policy.

Nearly 2,000 students from Salem Keizer School District walked out of school today & gathered at the capitol to use their voices to protest the injustice of ICE and the Trump administration's immigration policy.

We are proud of these young people!

#ICEOut #StudentWalkOut #SupportImmigrantFamilies

28.02.2026 06:03 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

@lawofruby.bsky.social
Lisa, you are absolutely fabulous.
Thank you so much for appearing on Chris’ show this evening.
I appreciate your expertise and passion.
Tim in Oregon

28.02.2026 01:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Alternative plan:
Young folks, visit your grandparents more often. They have great DVDs of classic movies and TV shows and the players on which you can see them ❀️

They also make popcorn the old-fashioned way and can tell you stories about your parents.

27.02.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 133 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

@carolleonnig.bsky.social
I’m glad you got into a studio for The Weeknight this evening. I have issues to what computer cameras do to people. In the past, yours did not do you justice.

You are absolutely stunning.

Keep up with the great work reporting. I always learn from you.

Tim in Oregon

26.02.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@ailsachang.bsky.social
Nice work on the interview with Gavin Newsom! I was impressed with how you pressed him for answers to your questions and did not let up!

24.02.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He will attack the Supreme Court Justices who followed the Constitution regarding tariffs.

23.02.2026 08:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Floor plan for an ICE concentration camp.

(Gift link for the @willbunch.bsky.social piece is in the thread.)

22.02.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 345 πŸ” 211 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 18
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Farmers are worried after Trump released billions of gallons of water in California Last week, the Trump administration released significant amounts of water from two dams in California's Central Valley, with Trump claiming the action would have prevented the Los Angeles fires. Water...

I’d forgotten about that. Thanks!

22.02.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Quotas are never good for free people.

Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago
Vol. I, Part I, pg. 71:

22.02.2026 04:04 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, β€˜If it can happen to me, i...

Yeah, no kidding.
Today, I’ve been struggling with articles posted in The Guardian.
As bad as it appears to be to us, it’s worse:

22.02.2026 03:16 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just guessing that Jeff Bezos says it’s not worth it.

22.02.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

After his diatribe yesterday, criticizing the Supreme Court for upholding the Constitution, Trump took questions from the press, except from one correspondent.

When Kaitlin Collins tried to ask a question, Trump said, β€œI don’t take questions from CNN.”

I recommend watching the whole 45 minutes.

22.02.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0