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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h

Downtown Portland has some new art at 5th and Washington🐸 👀

Click the link to read more about Portland's Protest Frog: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h

Jordy created a website where visitors can contribute $35 to “provide an inflatable costume for a True American.™”

He initially hoped to collect enough to buy a couple dozen suits.

But as he put it -- “This whole thing has blown up a lot.”

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Mark Somers @marksomers.bsky.social · 28m

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Illegal Troops Deployed to Blue States

YouTube video by LegalEagle

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Pedro Lund @itspedrolund.bsky.social · 13m

Pedro Lund @itspedrolund.bsky.social · 6h

Why the AI business may eat itself

The AI business model might destroy itself

YouTube video by Hank Green

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

(Published July)

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

www.propublica.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 12h

New research carried out in Colombia by the University of Cambridge suggests that local surveys assessing the effect of land clearances on biodiversity may be underestimating the impact by as much as 60%.

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study

A survey of Colombian birdlife, which evolved over more than a decade into the world’s largest-ever ornithological study, has found that clearing forests to create new pastures is causing as much as…

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 19h

Data from 2023. The good ‘ol days. 🤦‍♂️
Measles and pertussis are already on the rise.
Sadly we won’t see these numbers ever again, except for maybe SP, unless it escapes some lab freezer or closet (remember that one?).

A bar graph showing the numbers of cases of various diseases in the US in 2023.
Vaccines have decreased cases of Measles, Pertussis, Mumps, Rubella, smallpox, Diptheria, and polio by over 97%.

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Eivind Trædal @eivindtraedal.bsky.social · 19h

Dette har jeg bekymra meg for en stund. Uten noen militære muskler, og i en stadig mer ustabil verden, sitter vi med et ufattelig svært fond. Tangen har blitt en slags økonomisk utenriksminister. Hva skjer når de globale spillereglene rakner, eller endrer seg?
www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/er-olj...

(+) Er oljefondet i ferd med å bli for stort?

Norge har lite nytte av penger økonomien vår ikke kan absorbere. Samtidig er det farlig for et lite og militært ubetydelig land å eie altfor mye av andre lands rikdommer, skriver Kjetil Jakobsen.

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Pedro Lund @itspedrolund.bsky.social · 12h

“Garden getting you down? Tempted to just pave or concrete over the whole thing and put your feet up? There are more enjoyable and eco-friendly alternatives, from miniature meadows to giant borders”

Don’t even think about decking! How to create a nature-friendly low-maintenance garden

Garden getting you down? Tempted to just pave or concrete over the whole thing and put your feet up? There are more enjoyable and eco-friendly alternatives, from miniature meadows to giant borders

www.theguardian.com

Pedro Lund @itspedrolund.bsky.social · 16h

“The sisters of Holy Wisdom Monastery outside Madison, Wisconsin, have worked for decades to restore the land around their monastery to ecological health. They say these actions fulfill their highest calling: to welcome all people and to care for the Earth as a sacred place”

‘They’re Small but They’re Mighty.’ Meet the Wisconsin Sisters Healing the Land.

www.nytimes.com

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 22h

Most of our kids will be migrants.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is for sale.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d

1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.

Quid Pro Presidency

Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits…

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Pedro Lund @itspedrolund.bsky.social · 22h

How do you turn a desert green?

How to Turn a Desert Green

YouTube video by Andrew Millison

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 2d

Me, fall 2024: mushroom hunting + hiking in our beloved Oregon forests, knitting by the fire at night.

Me, fall 2025: buying gas mask filters, "stop the bleed " kits, and a faraday phone bag bc fuck the violent Gestapo ICE fucks in our beloved city.

I can hardly believe how much has changed.

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Pedro Lund @itspedrolund.bsky.social · 1d

Except one crucial thing: this is about finding a tapestry of solutions, not just one, and this is one of the many threads in that tapestry

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

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Pedro Lund @itspedrolund.bsky.social · 1d

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Respect to those who got here first.

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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 2d

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Pedro Lund @itspedrolund.bsky.social · 3d

Why Putin's NATO Nightmare Is Self-Inflicted - Sarah Paine

YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel

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Pedro Lund @itspedrolund.bsky.social · 3d

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Pedro Lund @itspedrolund.bsky.social · 3d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against his political opponents.

Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.

"Drain the swamp."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

The indictment of Letitia James should alarm us all.

It was meant to send a message: If you cross Trump, you could be next.

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