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Most people are familiar with the green, spicy paste served next to sushi or sashimi, but the vast majority of folks in the U.S. have been eating dyed-green horseradish.

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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has signed into law a bill that provides unemployment benefits to striking workers. The measure makes Oregon the first state to provide such pay for picketing public employees, who aren't allowed to strike in most states.

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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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Oregon State University and the University of Oregon this week joined 22 higher education institutions seeking to support Harvard University in its lawsuit against the Trump administration over funding cuts and freezes.

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Performers who do stunt and voice work for video games went on strike in July after reaching a stalemate in negotiations over how companies can use A.I. in game development.

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2-Year-Old Unaware He’s Basis For 6 Couples’ Decisions Not To Have Kids theonion.com/2-year-...

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As it's come up a couple of times recently: The concept of "Trump's Razor" ("With Donald Trump, the correct answer for why he's done something is usually the stupidest") was proposed years ago by @joshtpm.bsky.social, and I was the one to give it a title. Josh was the inventor, I was the marketing.

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The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.

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Le Guin was 100% right when she called Harry Potter "ethically mean spirited". People focus on her critique of the prose of the book, or the style, or the fact it's bland. But, I think, Le Guin saw Rowling for who she really was, and wouldn't be surprised at the terf Rowling is now

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I've seen some people saying how "AI"-generated text is now as good as certain published authors, and honestly I think it's really brave for these folks to admit in public how poor their reading comprehension has to be

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Last week’s ouster of the Waldport mayor split the 2,200-resident town, as many of the most vocal residents side with her.

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Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...

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I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

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Israel says it ended the two-month ceasefire when it launched Tuesday's airstrikes in Gaza which killed more than 400 people and injured hundreds more.

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Democrats Vow Not To Give Up Hopelessness

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Collaborators with the fascists.

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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

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What a different world we could have.

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cool how the best the "opposition party" can think to do is hold up little signs saying "liar." Great job guys. You're definitely gonna win this one

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Florida Opens Criminal Investigation Into Andrew Tate and His Brother https://gizmodo.com/florida-opens-criminal-investigation-into-andrew-tate-and-his-brother-2000572004

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The Texas Democrat stood, shouting, as the president addressed a joint session of Congress. After refusing to retake his seat, Speaker Mike Johnson ordered Rep. Green removed from the chamber.

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Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

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Living through corrupt kakistocracy

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The strategist James Carville recently suggested that Democrats “roll over and play dead.” His “call for ‘strategic political retreat’ sure seems like something a lot closer to unilateral disarmament,” @sbg1.bsky.social writes. nyer.cm/kkejiXY

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I think a lot of us are secret kids.

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Cutting Medicare and Medicaid is wildly unpopular. That's why they're trying to jam these draconian cuts through right out of the starting blocks, before the American people tune into what's happening. We need to buy time.

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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

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This hits hard.

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Workers who maintained trails, removed combustible debris from forests, supported firefighters and secured money for wildfire mitigation say staffing cuts threaten public safety, especially in the West.

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On Japanese Internment Remembrance Day, we remember Oregon’s own Minoru Yasui. Yasui was a Japanese American that fought back against racist laws that targeted Japanese Americans. His legacy is a reminder that civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws is a form of love for your country.

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Union Square rally.

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