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John Grant with Sinead O'Connor "So Jesus hasn't come in here to pick you up You'll still be sitting right here ten years from now You're just a sucker, but we'll see who gets the last laugh Who knows? Maybe you'll get to be the next queen of Denmark" youtube.com/watch?v=e0bv...

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Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

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Take a photo at 5:03 it’s apparently also a holiday coming up #portland #pdx #503

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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if other people worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

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Professor of International Politics at the University of Birmingham @scottlucas.bsky.social evaluation of Trump on Tariffs: ". . . an economic moron." - Via Times Radio

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Having met her here in Oregon back in the ol' local chamber of commerce days, I don't regard her as a serious person. I doubt these numbers are true. She mostly spent her time at the table looking at her phone, like an adolescent.

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This chart was made in America by skilled artisans. It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.

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Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

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Leader of the pro bono practice at Paul, Weiss is resigning from the law firm, within weeks of the firm striking a deal with President Trump to lift an executive order that had threatened its ability to represent clients with business before the federal government. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...

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RIP Dave Allen, bassists of the Gang of Four. I had no idea he lived here in Portland. Sadly, he was inflicted with early onset dementia and passed at the top young age of 69. Enjoy this bass line. youtube.com/watch?v=fRjs...

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So the felon crashes the market and people sell their stocks right before. And then if they bought a bunch of stock even an hour ago as the felon flip flops again, they just made a really good profit. It’s almost as if this is a money making scheme that screws over Americans 🤔

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Musk’s offer of free Starlink for the White House puzzled some former officials. But it immediately struck ProPublica reporters as the potential Trump-era iteration of a tried-and-true business maneuver they’d spent months reporting on last year. By @reneedudley.bsky.social

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A Primer on Trade Wars - @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy on Substack open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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#TheAmericanNjghtmare Chapter 1 Thousands of working people in New York City now live in shelters, unable to afford apartments despite holding down jobs that pay them $50,000 or more. They Work All Day and Go Home to Shelters www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/n...

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A man abused as a child at a Missouri Christian camp agreed to remain silent, and took his own life. His sister and other victims’ relatives are pushing several states to ban such nondisclosure agreements in cases of childhood sexual assault.

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STEPHANOPOULOS: The president retweeted a post that said the market drop was part of a deliberate strategy. Is that the president's strategy? HASSETT: Heh ha. The bottom line is the president has been talking about tariffs for 40 years. He's allowed to have an opinion. S: So that is his strategy.

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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

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"Other firms chose to cave to Mr. Trump’s demands before being hit with an executive order. Over the last week, Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Milbank both cut deals promising to dedicate $100 million of pro bono work to causes that Mr. Trump supports." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/b...

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The Trump Vance Musk regime is immoral.

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Live Updates: Stocks in Asia and Europe Plunge as Trump Says Tariffs Will Stay www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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Bill Ackman freaking out about tariffs and saying "this isn't what we voted for" is as clear a crystallization of conservative self-delusion as you could ever ask for. Yes it is you idiot, you voted specifically for this! He talked about this NON STOP

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men will literally crash the global economy before going to therapy

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Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.

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Let’s walk through how to recognize a seizure in a bystander or loved one, and what to do in those crucial moments after a seizure begins, with guidance from a neurologist:

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A Simple Technique to Help You Fall Asleep www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

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More than 500 law firms on Friday threw their support behind some of their embattled peers, declaring that President Trump’s recent crackdown on the law firm industry poses “a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to the rule of law itself.”

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23andMe is bankrupt, and a judge has ruled it can sell its consumer data, which includes information about health, habits and personal traits. A lawyer and bioethicist explains the concerns and why they’re deleting their own 23andMe data buff.ly/vuyHRAR

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A visit to the beach with Esther Pumpkin last week, just north of Cannon, Beach Oregon. #Oregon #SkyDogs Music Credit: Cannon Beach, David Kushner

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This needs to be great. Please be great. youtube.com/watch?v=_8-N...

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California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

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Finland ‘ahead of schedule’ on coal phase out as Helsinki’s Salmisaari plant closes. The closure brings the country to the brink of a full coal phase-out - four years ahead of schedule. uk.news.yahoo.com/finland-ahea...

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Finland's last coal-fired power and heat plant in active production will shut down permanently on Tuesday, enabling Helsinki energy group Helen to cut its emissions and put an end to rising energy costs for its customers, its chief executive said reut.rs/4iSVZd3

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What does Palantir do? Learn in an hilarious way. youtube.com/watch?v=KipD...

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March 30, 2025 Rainy day drive to a Loyly sauna. music credit: Johnny Hammond, Big Sur Suite via KMHD Portland, Oregon

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