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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 7h

Federal officials claim Portland's ICE facility closed down due to protests. Even federal judges acknowledged this as true.

So OPB decided to fact check it. Data show bookings at the building never stopped.

Portland’s ICE building closed for 22 days this summer, but immigration arrests and detentions hardly slowed

Justice Department attorneys argue the facility was “inoperable.” Some public functions were halted. Bookings were not.

www.opb.org

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 1d

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 1d

Dumping the entire CDC IRB is making me very worried for the VA's Central IRB.

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 2d

You've definitely got the best goods!
All the kids and teens here are into sour skittles, mentos, starburst and m&ms, and very few actually pick what I think of as candy bars -- things like snickers, milky way, 3 musketeers, etc.

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 2d

Rocky moorland scene, first one

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 2d

One for Bud 👍

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 2d

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 2d

OMG, don't ever start a sentence with 'Tim Curry was' --- my heart just stopped for a moment there.

T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 2d

I wanna see them park in LO and take the Willamette trolley in. I'd love to see that trolley full of furry or inflated protestors.
It is probably closed for fall, so just stuck imagining it...

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 2d

Going out on such a everyone-lives high makes me nervous for what our fearless leader will do to us next week. It's bound to be something like Old Yeller or Henry V, but I'm still there for it. #HATM

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 3d

Bummed I will miss the first hour, but hope to join in later. #HATM

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Helen Jung @helenjung.bsky.social · 3d

The truth of what's happening in Portland doesn't matter to the Trump administration. But it should to all those who recognize the danger of the federal government's willingness to unleash "full force" on cities with different politics. Editorial: www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...

Editorial: Hello, world. An open letter from ‘war-ravaged’ Portland

Despite President Donald Trump's grim characterizations, the protests outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building don't remotely match what's happening, the editorial board writes. While ...

www.oregonlive.com

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 3d

JD #Vance is pretty much exactly what you think.

brandy-schillace.medium.com/that-time-i-...

That Time I Made JD Vance Sad

As we head into the final days for election 2024, I would like to share an embarrassing moment for the ‘creepy’ candidate

brandy-schillace.medium.com

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 3d

my favorite 🧀

Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 4d

Unlikely cheese? Don't mind if we do.

In El Paso, an Unlikely Cheese Reigns Supreme

Originating in medieval Alsace, this semisoft, orange-rind cheese is commonly used in Mexican dishes in the modern border region.

www.texasmonthly.com

T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 3d

as I lower myself into the grave, I will say it's awesome you raised her on a wide ranging diet of music rather than pop-culture sitcoms.

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 4d

Sitting in a lobby, gray and damp afternoon, with a mug of lovely peach tea and you all to cut through the drab

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 6d

Happy 50th to John Day Fossil Beds National Monument!
Definitely in your Red era when I visited last year.

Photo from Painted Hills in Oregon. Yellow grassy slope down in foreground. Bizarrely deep red volcanic hill in middle with a boardwalk to one side, and a light green volcanic hill in background besides a body of water

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 7d

If you count the ICE facility as a 'store' then you do have one (1!) store with plywood over the first-floor windows.

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 7d

"When Pioneers are defined as white men in buckskins, well, that is a problem. So, why define it that way?"
Because it comes directly after the phrase "Lewis and Clark"

There's no way that "Lewis and Clark Pioneers" would be easily understood as pioneers in medicine, technology, music, etc.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 7d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 8d

rats. well, it would be if I were handing them out.

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T Karnos @tkarnos.bsky.social · 8d

Macarthur Fellow!! :-)

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