Meghan Humphreys
@ormeghan.bsky.social
Days: fundraising to fix the buildings part of climate crisis. Extra time goes to books, bikes, #RCTID, #BAONPDX, #COYS.
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Meghan Humphreys
@ormeghan.bsky.social
· Dec 18
New Buildings Institute - Home
New Buildings Institute (NBI) is a nonprofit organization working to improve the energy performance of commercial buildings.
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This is how a transit death spiral begins. We need a new session to get transit back online.
"""Bus rapid transit""" (service every half hour)
There is no better car advertisement than spending 30 minutes waiting on a bus.
There is no better car advertisement than spending 30 minutes waiting on a bus.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is how a transit death spiral begins. We need a new session to get transit back online.
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hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
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Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Nothing is as charming as Blair Braverman’s sled dog complaining loudly to go out during recording of the “You’re Wrong About” episode about the couple who were lost at sea.
a husky dog is looking out of a window with its mouth open and a chair in the background .
Alt: a husky dog is looking out of a window with its mouth open, being derpy
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Nothing is as charming as Blair Braverman’s sled dog complaining loudly to go out during recording of the “You’re Wrong About” episode about the couple who were lost at sea.
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"I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers"
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
"I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers"
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Jesus, Boomers. You already hold more wealth than any generation and now you want to be tax exempt too? Low income
seniors, yes, sure, I’ll concede that. But if f you have a huge house, cars, IRAs and savings / pension? HARD NO.
A better message would be to stop capping Social Security taxes.
seniors, yes, sure, I’ll concede that. But if f you have a huge house, cars, IRAs and savings / pension? HARD NO.
A better message would be to stop capping Social Security taxes.
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Jesus, Boomers. You already hold more wealth than any generation and now you want to be tax exempt too? Low income
seniors, yes, sure, I’ll concede that. But if f you have a huge house, cars, IRAs and savings / pension? HARD NO.
A better message would be to stop capping Social Security taxes.
seniors, yes, sure, I’ll concede that. But if f you have a huge house, cars, IRAs and savings / pension? HARD NO.
A better message would be to stop capping Social Security taxes.
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From The Washington Post:
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
From The Washington Post:
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
And it was the SEVENTH story, scrolling WAYY down the homepage of The NY Times today.
The president is calling for members of Congress to be executed.
Also known as Thursday.
Also known as Thursday.
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
And it was the SEVENTH story, scrolling WAYY down the homepage of The NY Times today.
Saving this for the next time someone says “run every nonprofit like a business!” Yeah, I’ll take $50 BILLION in VC money. Any day. TYVM.
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Saving this for the next time someone says “run every nonprofit like a business!” Yeah, I’ll take $50 BILLION in VC money. Any day. TYVM.
It’s too bad we don’t care about media monopolies anymore. Maybe we’ll learn a lesson about why it matters, or maybe we’ll all be living under a regime that doesn’t allow us to discuss it. #allhailournewmediaoverlordsiguess
Larry and David Ellison just gobbling up all of US media. First, Paramount/CBS, then TikTok, and now Warner Bros/Discovery.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks
Exclusive: Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros Discovery
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
It’s too bad we don’t care about media monopolies anymore. Maybe we’ll learn a lesson about why it matters, or maybe we’ll all be living under a regime that doesn’t allow us to discuss it. #allhailournewmediaoverlordsiguess
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NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
How do the Blazers have a game on that is just in the first quarter? I will be in bed and semi-conscious before halftime for this.
a basketball player wearing a number 14 jersey is standing in front of a crowd
Alt: Dame Lillard points at his imaginary watch. DAME TIME Y’ALL
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
How do the Blazers have a game on that is just in the first quarter? I will be in bed and semi-conscious before halftime for this.
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Most folks probably recognize that Intuit also donated $1M to Trump's inauguration, which might've had something to do with the administration's recent closure of Direct File, a free tax-filing service created by 18F and USDS — the highly skilled, productive gov't org's eviscerated by DOGE
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Most folks probably recognize that Intuit also donated $1M to Trump's inauguration, which might've had something to do with the administration's recent closure of Direct File, a free tax-filing service created by 18F and USDS — the highly skilled, productive gov't org's eviscerated by DOGE
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🔴 Scolding a U.S. reporter for asking questions about MBS ordering a fellow journalist to be bonesawed to death signals to dictators everywhere that they can murder journalists with impunity.
Read our full statement below:
Read our full statement below:
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
🔴 Scolding a U.S. reporter for asking questions about MBS ordering a fellow journalist to be bonesawed to death signals to dictators everywhere that they can murder journalists with impunity.
Read our full statement below:
Read our full statement below:
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Trump on the brutal murder of a Washington Post journalist: "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen." www.azcentral.com/story/entert... via @goodyk.bsky.social
I've watched Trump for a long time. Nothing shocks. Then he defended a murderer | Opinion
President Donald Trump held an Oval Office meeting with the Saudi prince suspected of having journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed. What he said floored me.
www.azcentral.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Trump on the brutal murder of a Washington Post journalist: "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen." www.azcentral.com/story/entert... via @goodyk.bsky.social
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I have written a lot about the perils of poorly maintained (and leaf-filled) bike lanes. That didn’t stop me from wiping out in one just now, falling on my face and scraping up my knee pretty badly. This is a truly hazardous situation, @pbotinfo.bsky.social. When are you going to do something?
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I have written a lot about the perils of poorly maintained (and leaf-filled) bike lanes. That didn’t stop me from wiping out in one just now, falling on my face and scraping up my knee pretty badly. This is a truly hazardous situation, @pbotinfo.bsky.social. When are you going to do something?
We live in the dumbest possible society, exhibit #504389 (this is a major investment company’s newsletter.)
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We live in the dumbest possible society, exhibit #504389 (this is a major investment company’s newsletter.)
Found the documentary “Los Angeles Plays Itself” on Kanopy — esoteric, film criticism heavy, but worth the almost three hours for the great glimpses into Los Angeles from 1920s to early 2000s.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Found the documentary “Los Angeles Plays Itself” on Kanopy — esoteric, film criticism heavy, but worth the almost three hours for the great glimpses into Los Angeles from 1920s to early 2000s.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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You absolutely do not need to be into metal to appreciate this beautiful, hopeful story from @btoastie.bsky.social.
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
You absolutely do not need to be into metal to appreciate this beautiful, hopeful story from @btoastie.bsky.social.
Love to have my heart broken by 11 am pacific standard time. ☹️🥀 But you had a pretty good season, Thorns.
November 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Love to have my heart broken by 11 am pacific standard time. ☹️🥀 But you had a pretty good season, Thorns.
I met for lunch yesterday with some colleagues, women I’ve worked with for 10+ years, and the overwhelming majority of us characterized the vibes as “everything sucks.” Never has that happened before with this group.
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I met for lunch yesterday with some colleagues, women I’ve worked with for 10+ years, and the overwhelming majority of us characterized the vibes as “everything sucks.” Never has that happened before with this group.
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Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
Every perimenopausal woman scheduling one of these two months out: “YOU THINK THESE THINGS ARE IN ANY WAY PREDICTABLE!?!” *passes out from laughing too hard*
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Every perimenopausal woman scheduling one of these two months out: “YOU THINK THESE THINGS ARE IN ANY WAY PREDICTABLE!?!” *passes out from laughing too hard*
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This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.