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Thousands of protesters gathered at the Japanese American Historical Plaza on Portland’s waterfront before they started marching south down Naito Parkway onto the Morrison Bridge. #HandsOff protest live updates: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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The people are here. #PortlandOregon

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By me and @andy-rowell.bsky.social Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and regulatory rollbacks - bad news for the climate crisis, water shortages and consumers centershttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/trump-fossil-fuel-donors-data-centers

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Texas measles outbreak update today, up 14% since Tuesday (actual cases likely 4-5X reported) And further spreading in New Mexico and multiple other states throughout the US.

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A drug smuggler whose prison sentence was commuted by President Trump was arrested Friday and charged with violating the terms of his supervised release after he was accused of a string of crimes that included assaulting a 3-year-old child.

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S&P 500 down 285 points. @cnbc.com ⛳️

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Nintendo is delaying U.S. preorders for its highly anticipated Switch 2 console because of the new tariffs announced by President Donald Trump, the company said.

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DOW drops 2,000 President Trump not scheduled to speak to the nation

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Excellent piece on how state governments can fill the void left by EPA's retreat from its responsibilities to protect our environment (which includes, by the way, our health!): climate-xchange.org/2025/03/how-...

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We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy. Third time’s the charm, I guess.

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S&P 500 suffers greatest loss since the last time Trump was president www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Trump's pick for the No. 2 spot at Interior, Kate MacGregor, has her confirmation hearing this morning. Records from our team reveal she concealed information regarding oil & gas magnate Harold Hamm and other influential fossil fuel execs. fieldnotes.co/reporting/th...

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Said it before, gonna keep saying it: the atmosphere doesn’t give a fuck about politics www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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To put it in real terms: This press conference cost the U.S. stock market somewhere in the realm of $1-2 trillion dollars.

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Climate action will continue in Oregon no matter who’s in charge in D.C. We will continue to develop innovative solutions to confront the climate crisis and build a brighter, more resilient future.

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Get ready for the Trump utility cut offs. They're about to shut off heat, cooling, and light to people across the country. People working to make ends meet have had help from the feds, for decades, to pay their utility bills and make upgrades for energy efficiency to homes through LIHEAP.

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More than 1300 people working towards a healthier world, their jobs and their work terminated. Can we think of a bigger own goal for a country and a society?

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Remember how Steve Jobs used to drive without plates and just routinely pay the fine? Or Jeff Bezos just writes a check regularly for having hedges around his house that far exceed the legal height limit? I think that’s how Musk views electioneering laws.

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This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

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Sweeping tariffs are expected to raise the cost of cars, electronics, metals, lumber, pharmaceuticals and other products from overseas. But President Trump and his advisers are betting that it can sell an inflation-weary public on a provocative idea: Cheap stuff is not the American dream.

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While we all scramble to protect our countries/people/democracies - global emissions, and oil and gas production, continue to rise. This was always the plan.

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Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president. Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from.

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Lee was the first ever Chinese American woman to fly for the United States military. And she was the 38th, and last, WASP to die in service to her country. But when her family picked out a spot for her to be buried, “[The cemetery] said no."

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“Oregon legislators have an opportunity to build on our state's strong climate action record with smart, strategic investments,” writes Verde’s Cheyenne Holliday. #orleg A great summary of the work being done: www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/opin...

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"U.S. consumer confidence fell for the fourth straight month, according to the Conference Board, with the measure of Americans’ short-term expectations for income, business and the job market falling to its lowest levels in 12 years."

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Happy One Month Anniversary to this story.

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I directed the Public Utility Commission to tell me their plan to help keep electric bills reasonable as we continue to do our part to fight climate change.

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It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal honor to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.

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How it started ➡️ how it’s going

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Fascists say what? I guess they're just the order party now since they're at war with the law.

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Drug deaths are declining but the Trump administration's intelligence team has issued a new report describing street fentanyl as a top threat to the U.S.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was created to protect human health and the environment. The actions taken to roll back landmark environmental regulations will do exactly the opposite. My statement from last week:

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Breaking News: The Pentagon is set to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s closely guarded plan for any potential war with China, officials said.

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The Department of Defense deemed a story about baseball hero and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's time in the Army as "DEI" and deleted it.

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"The last few months have been a moral catastrophe. At least there’s no economic upside."

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Interesting move by Schumer to cave and disappoint everyone and then immediately go do an extended NYT interview explaining that actually he is even worse than we thought, let’s see if this pays off for him

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Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.

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The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000+ federal and D.C. workers (i.e. people directly impacted by a government shutdown), is urging senators to vote no on the House GOP's CR. In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill.

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A professor of environmental sciences gives a quick punchy take on the "eye-popping" numbers re. how clean air promotes economic growth. An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs. No pay wall.

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Crashing stock market and approval ratings; Trump tries to turn things around today by announcing checks notes more mercury in the air from coal plants and cars & trucks that burn MORE gas per mile. Yup. That should do the trick.

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Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

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Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes.

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Trump is bulldozing the Education Department, which helps homeless and disabled kids gain access to school, while he does a car commercial at the White House for the richest man in the world. Robber barons are waging class warfare on the rest of us.

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There are two transgender girls in the state of Maine competing in girls’ sports. There are now SIX federal agencies investigating the state. Here is our latest @propublica.org story with @bangordailynews.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/main...

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