Casey Kulla
@caseykulla.bsky.social
Left-handed. On a river island in the Willamette.
Riding bikes with kids.
First year student at Willamette University School of Law
Riding bikes with kids.
First year student at Willamette University School of Law
Only a few hours left, but today is still Fred Korematsu Day.
Just like Minoru Yasui* (Oregon's hero), it is important to remember Korematsu.
*Minoru Yasui Day in Oregon is March 28th.
Just like Minoru Yasui* (Oregon's hero), it is important to remember Korematsu.
*Minoru Yasui Day in Oregon is March 28th.
January 31, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Only a few hours left, but today is still Fred Korematsu Day.
Just like Minoru Yasui* (Oregon's hero), it is important to remember Korematsu.
*Minoru Yasui Day in Oregon is March 28th.
Just like Minoru Yasui* (Oregon's hero), it is important to remember Korematsu.
*Minoru Yasui Day in Oregon is March 28th.
We can have MORE TRAINS in the Pacific Northwest if the Oregon legislature listens to the LOUD CALLS for MORE TRAINS.
For those asking about the new trains: nearly all the trains are still being built. They have to go through rigorous testing in multiple locations. The first trainsets will begin testing here in this spring. All the new trainsets are scheduled to be in service by the end of this year. 💚🤎🤍
January 14, 2026 at 3:32 PM
We can have MORE TRAINS in the Pacific Northwest if the Oregon legislature listens to the LOUD CALLS for MORE TRAINS.
Welcome to Winter Solstice on the island.
The only sounds are water birds calling and the bubbling of air out of the soil as the floodwaters rise.
The only sounds are water birds calling and the bubbling of air out of the soil as the floodwaters rise.
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Welcome to Winter Solstice on the island.
The only sounds are water birds calling and the bubbling of air out of the soil as the floodwaters rise.
The only sounds are water birds calling and the bubbling of air out of the soil as the floodwaters rise.
NCAR* is essential. This audience demonstrates why.
* = National Center for Atmospheric Research
* = National Center for Atmospheric Research
At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled.
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.
Read more here:
eos.org/research-and...
December 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
NCAR* is essential. This audience demonstrates why.
* = National Center for Atmospheric Research
* = National Center for Atmospheric Research
Sending love to all our friends (and you!) in Western Washington.
Heed those warning signs. I'll never forget the terror of driving farm to market road from US 20 to Bow and seeing my headlights disappear as I hit the flooded section. (Headlights stop lighting the road when they shine onto water.)
Heed those warning signs. I'll never forget the terror of driving farm to market road from US 20 to Bow and seeing my headlights disappear as I hit the flooded section. (Headlights stop lighting the road when they shine onto water.)
December 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Sending love to all our friends (and you!) in Western Washington.
Heed those warning signs. I'll never forget the terror of driving farm to market road from US 20 to Bow and seeing my headlights disappear as I hit the flooded section. (Headlights stop lighting the road when they shine onto water.)
Heed those warning signs. I'll never forget the terror of driving farm to market road from US 20 to Bow and seeing my headlights disappear as I hit the flooded section. (Headlights stop lighting the road when they shine onto water.)
Reading Dillon v. Legg, I'm struck by the truth in the last line:
“To deny recovery would be to chain this state to an outmoded rule of the 19th century which can claim no current credence.
No good reason compels our captivity to an indefensible orthodoxy.”
“To deny recovery would be to chain this state to an outmoded rule of the 19th century which can claim no current credence.
No good reason compels our captivity to an indefensible orthodoxy.”
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Reading Dillon v. Legg, I'm struck by the truth in the last line:
“To deny recovery would be to chain this state to an outmoded rule of the 19th century which can claim no current credence.
No good reason compels our captivity to an indefensible orthodoxy.”
“To deny recovery would be to chain this state to an outmoded rule of the 19th century which can claim no current credence.
No good reason compels our captivity to an indefensible orthodoxy.”
For law school, I'm reading Fred Korematsu's 1942-44 legal challenge to the incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent.
The 1944 Supreme Court dissent opinions echo today; in part, they warned that...
declaring an emergency does not authorize wholesale attacks on our civil rights, nor on us.
The 1944 Supreme Court dissent opinions echo today; in part, they warned that...
declaring an emergency does not authorize wholesale attacks on our civil rights, nor on us.
November 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
For law school, I'm reading Fred Korematsu's 1942-44 legal challenge to the incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent.
The 1944 Supreme Court dissent opinions echo today; in part, they warned that...
declaring an emergency does not authorize wholesale attacks on our civil rights, nor on us.
The 1944 Supreme Court dissent opinions echo today; in part, they warned that...
declaring an emergency does not authorize wholesale attacks on our civil rights, nor on us.
We've reached the "I can leave salad greens on the porch" season!
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
We've reached the "I can leave salad greens on the porch" season!
Decisions, decisions....
Listen to the Supreme Court's IEEPA tariff oral argument
*OR*
My law school homework?
Listen to the Supreme Court's IEEPA tariff oral argument
*OR*
My law school homework?
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Decisions, decisions....
Listen to the Supreme Court's IEEPA tariff oral argument
*OR*
My law school homework?
Listen to the Supreme Court's IEEPA tariff oral argument
*OR*
My law school homework?
Good News Update: www.opb.org/article/2025...
November 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Good News Update: www.opb.org/article/2025...
My hot take: I think the state of Oregon should backfill the SNAP fund, even though it is the responsibility of the federal government. People need to eat. And Oregon has the money.
October 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
My hot take: I think the state of Oregon should backfill the SNAP fund, even though it is the responsibility of the federal government. People need to eat. And Oregon has the money.
First frost on the Island!
October 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
First frost on the Island!
Yesterday was a dirty day in the Coast Range.
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Yesterday was a dirty day in the Coast Range.
It's that* time of year!
* Bear's Head, hericium mushroom time
* Bear's Head, hericium mushroom time
October 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It's that* time of year!
* Bear's Head, hericium mushroom time
* Bear's Head, hericium mushroom time
Reposted by Casey Kulla
TLDR: Judge Immergut GRANTS a 2nd TRO blocking the Trump admin from sending ANY federalized troops from ANY state into Oregon/Portland. (Full hearing thread below)
Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.
October 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
TLDR: Judge Immergut GRANTS a 2nd TRO blocking the Trump admin from sending ANY federalized troops from ANY state into Oregon/Portland. (Full hearing thread below)
I just got to share with the 15yo Jimi Hendrix's performance of the national anthem at Woodstock (because their cello piece sounds just like Hendrix's performance).
So good. Both of them.
So good. Both of them.
September 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I just got to share with the 15yo Jimi Hendrix's performance of the national anthem at Woodstock (because their cello piece sounds just like Hendrix's performance).
So good. Both of them.
So good. Both of them.
I think I just learned part of this in Civil Procedure...
Article III, § I says you cannot cut the compensation for sitting federal Judges and Justices. There might be more detail in case law about funding the court operations, but that's all I see in § I.
Article III, § I says you cannot cut the compensation for sitting federal Judges and Justices. There might be more detail in case law about funding the court operations, but that's all I see in § I.
If Democrats control Congress in 2027, they should defund the Supreme Court. Pay them their salaries and zero out the rest.
September 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I think I just learned part of this in Civil Procedure...
Article III, § I says you cannot cut the compensation for sitting federal Judges and Justices. There might be more detail in case law about funding the court operations, but that's all I see in § I.
Article III, § I says you cannot cut the compensation for sitting federal Judges and Justices. There might be more detail in case law about funding the court operations, but that's all I see in § I.
So much lightning So early this morning
September 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
So much lightning So early this morning
A moment of fun!
(The climbing trail at Big Creek in Newport, Oregon.)
(The climbing trail at Big Creek in Newport, Oregon.)
September 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
A moment of fun!
(The climbing trail at Big Creek in Newport, Oregon.)
(The climbing trail at Big Creek in Newport, Oregon.)
"Immigrants deserve to be treated with dignity. Communities deserve safety from wildfires, and first responders deserve protections from federal immigration officials while they are putting their lives on the line to protect our Pacific Northwest communities." - Congresswoman Andrea Salinas
On Wednesday, U.S. Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were working to combat the ongoing blaze in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. At least one of those firefighters is a constituent from Keizer, OR.
August 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Immigrants deserve to be treated with dignity. Communities deserve safety from wildfires, and first responders deserve protections from federal immigration officials while they are putting their lives on the line to protect our Pacific Northwest communities." - Congresswoman Andrea Salinas
Firewood for the next *two* years is split and curing. Walnut from limbs trimmed by the county road crew and cherry thinned from our little firewood patch behind the shed.
August 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Firewood for the next *two* years is split and curing. Walnut from limbs trimmed by the county road crew and cherry thinned from our little firewood patch behind the shed.
There are few things as sweet as the first steady west wind that breaks the heat during summer in Oregon.
(with thanks to the ocean for that one.)
(with thanks to the ocean for that one.)
August 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
There are few things as sweet as the first steady west wind that breaks the heat during summer in Oregon.
(with thanks to the ocean for that one.)
(with thanks to the ocean for that one.)
Diversity of food on the farm these days: late-planted watermelon plants with baby fruit; dry beans just starting to dry down. And carrots for the winter!
August 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Diversity of food on the farm these days: late-planted watermelon plants with baby fruit; dry beans just starting to dry down. And carrots for the winter!
This is awful. And it will continue to be awful.
Snatching people on their way to work? Awful.
Not letting them contact lawyers? Awful.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Snatching people on their way to work? Awful.
Not letting them contact lawyers? Awful.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Woodburn area farmworkers targeted by ICE, advocates say
Immigration agents pulled over a van in Marion County on Thursday morning, busted through the driver’s window and detained four farmworkers on the way to their jobs at a blueberry farm, according to a...
www.opb.org
August 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is awful. And it will continue to be awful.
Snatching people on their way to work? Awful.
Not letting them contact lawyers? Awful.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Snatching people on their way to work? Awful.
Not letting them contact lawyers? Awful.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
It is amazing how much respite you can get from one day of slightly rainy weather in the middle of a dusty, diesel-y, hot, dry summer
August 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It is amazing how much respite you can get from one day of slightly rainy weather in the middle of a dusty, diesel-y, hot, dry summer