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Third Act Oregon @taothirdactoregon.bsky.social · 12h

Next up: mandatory conversion therapy? In the cards. We need to stop them.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to strike down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy by licensed therapists practiced on minors — a ruling that could affect similar laws in nearly half the country and make life more difficult for LGBTQ children at an already perilous time.”

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

www.lawdork.com

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Third Act Oregon @taothirdactoregon.bsky.social · 12h

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h

Something not fully appreciated in the Riyadh comedy festival discourse is that in many ways Saudi Arabia is getting *more* repressive

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Surge in Executions?

Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech.

www.thenation.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Third Act Oregon @taothirdactoregon.bsky.social · 12h

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Third Act Oregon @taothirdactoregon.bsky.social · 12h

... and being monetized, I'm sure.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 13h

The Trump administration’s deadly strikes in the Caribbean bypass Congress and put us on a dangerous pathway to wider abuses. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trumps-strikes-in-the-caribbean-are-a-dangerous-illegal-abuse-of-wartime-power-it-wont-stop-there/

Trump’s Strikes in the Caribbean Are a Dangerous, Illegal Abuse of Wartime Power—It Won’t Stop There

The Trump administration’s deadly strikes in the Caribbean bypass Congress and put us on a dangerous pathway to wider abuses.

www.americanprogress.org

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Sun Day @sundayofaction.bsky.social · 14h

According to @ember-energy.org, in the first half of 2025, coal’s global electricity generation share fell to 33.1%, the lowest on record. 🏭 ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Third Act Oregon @taothirdactoregon.bsky.social · 12h

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 2d

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 1d

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Third Act Oregon @taothirdactoregon.bsky.social · 12h

Sun Day PDX highlights video here. It was fun!

SUN DAY 2025

YouTube video by Third Act Oregon

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is stupid and dangerous right now, *but* we have an opportunity to make a least one thing less stupid and dangerous.

Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.

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Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!

Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

actionnetwork.org

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 2d

In response to an investigation launched by the federal government into the Portland Police Bureau’s policing practices at the local ICE facility, the city attorney shot back, laying out a pattern of excessive force used on protesters, and favoritism toward conservative streamers by federal police.

Portland City Attorney to US DOJ: “Please Do Not Fail America”

Portland’s city attorney says federal police are brutalizing protesters, and the government is weaponizing its longstanding settlement agreement with the city. In response to an investigation launched...

www.portlandmercury.com

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Indivisible- East Portland District 1 Neighbors @eastpdxindivisible.bsky.social · 22h

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South Portland residents are at their wits' end with helicopters circling over the ICE facility

YouTube video by KGW News

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Third Act Oregon @taothirdactoregon.bsky.social · 15h

Down to us, right here in the USA. We were complicit. We were responsible.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

The @guardian publishes the names of Gaza children killed by Israel. 18,457 and growing.

(“Does not include thousands still buried under the rubble”) www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h

Oil companies in Texas requested permission to burn off or release more than 195 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year — enough to power more than 3 million homes and generate millions in tax revenue had the gas been captured.

W/ @insideclimatenews.org & @texastribune.org

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.

www.propublica.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h

1,000+ people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020.

Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases.

With @veritenews.org

An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There.

Five years ago, the Supreme Court decided that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional. But for this Louisiana prisoner — and hundreds of others — “tough on crime” state leaders have ensured t...

www.propublica.org

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 16h

Education Secretary Linda McMahon says she's leading the department's "final mission" to shut down. But @megomatz.bsky.social and I found it's more than that: Political appointees from ultraconservative groups are in power at ED now, and they hope to dismantle public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 13d

Jeff Bezos has been catching heat for his assault on the First Amendment and his craven support of the Trump administration. But here's another reason he should be on the hot seat: powering ICE's immigration disappearance machine.

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Third Act Oregon @taothirdactoregon.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone who still shops Amazon is complicit in this colossal transfer of wealth. There are alternatives. Find them and use them.

Third Act Oregon @taothirdactoregon.bsky.social · 15h

Oregon to lose an additional $400 million in federal climate grants

Oregon and 15 other Democratic states are losing nearly $8 billion toward climate projects, after the Trump administration terminated multiple federal grants.

www.opb.org

Third Act Oregon @taothirdactoregon.bsky.social · 15h

But... it's ok because... sports?

Before Tom Dundon agreed to buy the Portland Trail Blazers, Oregon accused the company he created of predatory lending

In 2020, Oregon sued Tom Dundon’s former company for allegedly preying on Oregonians through high-interest car loans they couldn’t afford in a case involving more than 265,000 borrowers nationwide.

www.opb.org