Gregor Macdonald
@gregor.us
Journalist covering cities, climate, and energy.
Proprietor of Cold Eye Earth (formerly The Gregor Letter)
https://www.coldeye.earth | @coldeye.earth
Proprietor of Cold Eye Earth (formerly The Gregor Letter)
https://www.coldeye.earth | @coldeye.earth
"I'd like to congratulate the people of Great Britain for putting a stop to DeepMind's AlphaFold project. Humans shouldn't be messing around with the interworkings of biology, and especially when money is involved. Besides, who needs protein folding anyway?" --Your ally in progress, Bernie.
December 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"I'd like to congratulate the people of Great Britain for putting a stop to DeepMind's AlphaFold project. Humans shouldn't be messing around with the interworkings of biology, and especially when money is involved. Besides, who needs protein folding anyway?" --Your ally in progress, Bernie.
NEW: Judge Immergut could quickly halt Trump's deployment of CA guard troops to Portland, a workaround that tested her warning that Trump's initial callup was illegal and based on false claims about the unrest facing ICE.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social + Blake Jones
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w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social + Blake Jones
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October 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Judge Karin Immergut has scheduled a hearing tonight on the new temporary restraining order request that includes CA troops. More tk
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California joins Oregon lawsuit blocking deployment of Guard troops from both states to Portland • Oregon Capital Chronicle
California on Sunday joined Oregon and the city of Portland in suing over the Trump administration’s order to deploy National Guard troops to the city, the latest attempt to deploy federal troops to a...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Quite an active courtroom evening shaping up here in Portland.
October 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Quite an active courtroom evening shaping up here in Portland.
Why is messaging far more critical for Dems than GOP? Partly because GOP messaging and positions stir the archaic intuitions of voters, while Dem positions are the product of thoughtful solutions to complicated systems. Any bully can deliver the GOP message. Dems need oratorical artistry.
September 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Why is messaging far more critical for Dems than GOP? Partly because GOP messaging and positions stir the archaic intuitions of voters, while Dem positions are the product of thoughtful solutions to complicated systems. Any bully can deliver the GOP message. Dems need oratorical artistry.
To put this in more concrete terms: moderation will help Dems if your messenger is Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. Without a messenger, voters will regard any Dem moderation is ephemeral, the moderation will be portrayed as such by the GOP, and Dems will wind up shedding support from progressives.
September 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
To put this in more concrete terms: moderation will help Dems if your messenger is Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. Without a messenger, voters will regard any Dem moderation is ephemeral, the moderation will be portrayed as such by the GOP, and Dems will wind up shedding support from progressives.
The tricky thing about the quote Attiah deployed is that it's 1. accurate in its meaning, but 2. only the 2nd sentence is a direct quote. You describe it as a "direct, verified quote" but it isn't. Now, critics of Attiah are quite wrong when they imply she missed the meaning. She did not. Thoughts?
September 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The tricky thing about the quote Attiah deployed is that it's 1. accurate in its meaning, but 2. only the 2nd sentence is a direct quote. You describe it as a "direct, verified quote" but it isn't. Now, critics of Attiah are quite wrong when they imply she missed the meaning. She did not. Thoughts?