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Oregon Randy
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Part time Cryptid, Photographer of night skies, Landscapes, and deliciously living. 🤘🏳️‍🌈
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January 28, 2026 at 4:49 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
I saw some rocks people were posting.
Oh yeah! It's #RockinTuesday!
Here a small #limestone monolith I visited.
It is part of a 50 mile running exposure of an ancient coral reef when this part of #Oregon was a shallow sea! During the time of the dinosaurs!
#📷 #EastCoastKin #Geology
A photo of a peculiar looking upright stone that has a rough surface that is a very light tan, with lots of weathering and some pockmarks. One indent looks as though someone punched it, but it is a natural feature. The vantage point for this photo is below the standing stone. The light is a little ambient as the sky is overcast with fairly even cloud cover. The sky with the clouds frames the stone for about 3/4 of the top of the image. Near the base of the stone is a large fissure that runs down it's base to the ground at the right of it's base. The fissure gives it a look as if it is a pedestal. The rock is a bit pointy at it's top, and has a small shrub growing off the left side. More of the same kind of exposure can be seen in the lower right corner. The rest of the ground around the base of the stone is covered by greenery with varieties of short wild desert bunch grasses and small short shrubs.
January 28, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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laikenjordahl.bsky.social
A new leak reveals just how far Trump is going to decimate the National Park Service.

The playbook goes like this: crush morale, force rangers to quit, hollow out the agency and let parks fall into disrepair. Then they'll call parks “mismanaged” and invite private interests in to pillage them.
January 22, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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portlandmercury.com
The full Wiener Week guide >> everout.com/portland/eve...
The Portland Mercury's Wiener Week 2026 - Every day, through February 1 - EverOut Portland
The Portland Mercury proudly presents its newest, most mouthwatering member of the Food Week Family: Wiener Week! From January 26 to February 1, the city’s boldest chefs will craft their most creative...
everout.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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glennjosey.com
Shindig. Boston, Georgia.
#ruraldecay #ruralstilllife #abandoned
January 26, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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prognews.bsky.social
FBI agent resigns after Good civil rights investigation shut down. "She was then ordered to reclassify it as an investigation into an assault on the officer.... [the DoJ's] Todd Blanche [told] Fox News Sunday... the shooting did not warrant a federal investigation." www.kare11.com/article/news...
FBI agent who investigated Renee Good's death resigns, sources say
Sources for CNN say the FBI briefly opened a civil rights investigation into Jonathan Ross, the officer who shot and killed Renee Good earlier this month.
www.kare11.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:41 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
If you see this post, post or quote repost... The sun bursting, sparkling, or just doing something... through trees.
🌞🌲

#trees #nature #photography #📷 #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Redwoods #NCali #StateParks #JedediahSmith
A photo of a forest scene with dense tree growth, streams and rays of sunlight beaming in from the upper right. The light illuminates the right sides of the trees, the green foliage, and backlights the evergreen foliage also. The first growth is so dense that the background is nothing but shade and sunlit trees muted by mist. A tree just left of center captures the attention with it's sunlit trunk rising through the photo from a patch of sunlight on a trail below it. Small foreground trees are dark silhouettes framing the image on the left and right.
January 25, 2026 at 9:16 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
A little celestial #Stunday featuring #Jupiter and 3 of it's large moons!
I worked at acquiring this image Friday night as the temperatures dropped below freezing. I think I'm good for doing astro work in freezing weather this year! 🥶
#📷 #🔭 🧪 #EastCoastKin #Astrophotography #Europa #Io #Ganymede
A photo of the gas giant planet Jupiter, with it's horizontal dark cloud bands just above and below it's equator, and some other very subtle shading above and below those bands toward each pole. The Great Red Spot is not turned toward us in this image. But there are three of Jupiter's large moons in this image. Next to Jupiter and on it's left is the moon Europa. Then just to the right of center is it's moon Io. And further to the right side in the center right is it's huge moon Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system. The moon Callisto is out of frame far too the left. The rest of the background of black due to contrast.
January 25, 2026 at 7:28 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
'We will stop harassing and killing the people in your state, IF you turn over everones voting info.'

So extortion based on violence to tip the next critical elections.
cool cool...
But yeah, this has no effect on people who don't vote at all. Yeah...
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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grainfall.bsky.social
Helluva sunset today
Helluva sunset cell phone photo of a beach scene with stacks, and rocks, framed by tree branches
January 25, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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grainfall.bsky.social
Heceta Lighthouse on this incredibly stunning day. Just a cell phone shot for now but best believe I brought gear with me.
Lighthouse on the Oregon Coast with a line of incoming waves
January 24, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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brettezeleliquide.bsky.social
quand l’immeuble bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle sur l’esprit gémissant de l’éléphant en proie aux longs ennuis

Charles Baudelaire, Spleen, 1861 / The Elephant Gate (Elefantporten), Copenhagen, built in 1901 by architect Vilhelm Dahlerup
#animals #poetry #architecture #Danemark #photography
La porte des éléphants (Elefantporten), district de Carlsberg, Copenhague, Danemark, construite en 1901 par l’architecte Vilhelm Dahlerup, avec quatre éléphants de granit portant la tour au-dessus
January 24, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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pierpaolo.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 6:39 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
Comet Malmesbury doesn't have the same ring to it... 🤔 ☄️ 🧪 🔭
Halley's Comet wrongly named: 11th-century English monk predates British astronomer
The British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was not, after all, the first to understand the cycle of the comet that now bears his name. This is shown by research conducted by, among others,...
phys.org
January 23, 2026 at 11:25 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
How badly do you want change?

Read the OPs article in the posts comments too!
maxnesterak.bsky.social max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 4d
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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marceliusb.bsky.social
“This is not who we are.”❌

“I’m going to speak up and take action to make sure this is not who/what we continue to be.”✅

“We’re acting like [insert region/country/oppressive group outside the U.S.]”❌

“The U.S. has a long history of oppression, discrimination, and harm that informs the present.”✅
January 22, 2026 at 11:55 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
A take of two forests.
#ForedtFriday
Hiking around Mt Thielsen in #SouthernOregon was a world of contrasts. Healthy alpine environment vs recent intense forest fire. The burnt trees were glossy black!
#📷 #EastCoastKin #Hiking #Nature #Forest #Oregon
A photo of a small close group of healthy green alpine conifer trees, in front of stands of other background conifers, with blue sky and a couple scattered clouds above. Below the subject trees, the foreground appears light reddish brown and barren of plants, not unusual for volcanic terrain in alpine areas. There is a shadow across the foreground of another tree off frame at right. The sun illuminates from off frame to the right as well. A photo of standing burnt black trees that were once a healthy forest. The trees are glossy black and show cracked surfaces. The ground below the trees is barren and grey except for a few trufts of grass and some red foliage in a few clumps. Some of the nearby trees display bulbous growths they had while alive called 'burls'. The burnt standing forest is visible as far as can be seen in the background, looking through the foreground trees. The lighting is even and indirect on this photo because the sun has not risen just yet. The sky visible through the tree tops is a pale blue.
January 23, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns
sheajordansmith.bsky.social Shea Jordan Smith @sheajordansmith.bsky.social · 7d
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
January 23, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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inquirer.com
President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.
The slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been removed following Trump administration push
www.inquirer.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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atrupar.com
Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6
January 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
I was futzing around outside after sundown, quickly trying to get something done before it got colder. Then I noticed some light through the trees, and it was the crescent Moon!
I caught my breath, it nearly always makes me do that when I haven't seen it in a stretch.
#Moon #CrescentMoon #📷 #🌒 #PDX
A photo of the crescent moon with it's sunlit side overexposed to show the other side lit by "Earthshine" reflected off the Earth and dimly lighting this part of the moon. The lit face of the moon is facing the lower right. A small star is just to the right of the over exposed portion of the Moon. The sun lit face of the crescent Moon, facing the lower right corner. Crater, large and small can be seen on the thin face of the moon. The rest of the photo is black. A photo taken after sundown, with the crescent Moon hanging prominently at top center of the image. It's sun lit side is overexposed to show the "Earthshine" lighting up it's face still not lit by the Sun. Earthshine is light reflected off The Earth onto the Moon. It can be seen faintly with the eye, but more so with long exposure with a camera. The silhouettes of conifer trees can be seen framing the image on the right and left. The sky is not quite completely dark. The side of the Moon with the Earthshine shows darker features known as "Mare" or 'seas' which are darker terrain made of huge exposures of ancient lava filling huge ancient craters on the Moons surface.
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
If you haven't seen that this is going on, you must have your head in the sand.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 22, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM