Tim Dooley
@tdooley.bsky.social
Now: public safety policy for Oregon Counties
Then: policing manager & data nerd, firefighter / EMT
MPA & MCJ from UCCS
Then: policing manager & data nerd, firefighter / EMT
MPA & MCJ from UCCS
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Tim Dooley
@tdooley.bsky.social
· Jun 12
Federal cuts threaten Oregon’s disaster response ahead of wildfire season
The Trump administration hasn’t renewed a critical grant that helps fund local disaster response, leaving Oregon counties and tribal governments vulnerable ahead of a potentially active wildfire seaso...
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Thanks to @aprilehrlich.bsky.social & @opb.org for covering this story!
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Unacceptable. 1996 was like 10 years ago and 2009 was like 15 minutes ago.
I regret to inform you that “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1996, which is now 30 years ago. Meaning a similar song released in 2026 would be called “2009”
February 3, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Unacceptable. 1996 was like 10 years ago and 2009 was like 15 minutes ago.
A verbatim transcript of conversations with my 5 year old.
Me at 6am: Do you want me to make you a breakfast sandwich?
8-year-old: Can I have it for lunch instead?
Me: Sure. But it'll be cold.
8: That's okay.
Me at 6pm: Why didn't you eat your lunch?
8: It wasn't hot.
Me: I told you it wouldn't be.
8: But you didn't tell me it would taste bad cold.
8-year-old: Can I have it for lunch instead?
Me: Sure. But it'll be cold.
8: That's okay.
Me at 6pm: Why didn't you eat your lunch?
8: It wasn't hot.
Me: I told you it wouldn't be.
8: But you didn't tell me it would taste bad cold.
January 28, 2026 at 2:14 PM
A verbatim transcript of conversations with my 5 year old.
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About 1,500 soldiers w/ 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed on prepare-to-deploy orders with a mission in Minnesota in mind, defense officials tell me tonight. Unclear if some or all of them ultimately will go.
News reported tonight by ABC News, too.
News reported tonight by ABC News, too.
January 18, 2026 at 4:08 AM
About 1,500 soldiers w/ 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed on prepare-to-deploy orders with a mission in Minnesota in mind, defense officials tell me tonight. Unclear if some or all of them ultimately will go.
News reported tonight by ABC News, too.
News reported tonight by ABC News, too.
The entire non-defense discretionary budget is $783 billion. To run the entire rest of the US government outside of Social Security and Medicare.
It is impossible to add $500 billion to the DOD budget. Nor, as a policy matter, should we, especially at a time all social services are breaking.
It is impossible to add $500 billion to the DOD budget. Nor, as a policy matter, should we, especially at a time all social services are breaking.
Trump: "I have determined that, for the Good of our Country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, our Military Budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 Trillion Dollars, but rather $1.5 Trillion. This will allow us to build the 'Dream Military' that we have long been entitled to."
January 7, 2026 at 10:31 PM
The entire non-defense discretionary budget is $783 billion. To run the entire rest of the US government outside of Social Security and Medicare.
It is impossible to add $500 billion to the DOD budget. Nor, as a policy matter, should we, especially at a time all social services are breaking.
It is impossible to add $500 billion to the DOD budget. Nor, as a policy matter, should we, especially at a time all social services are breaking.
“Tell me how this ends” - Gen. Petraeus, 2003
January 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
“Tell me how this ends” - Gen. Petraeus, 2003
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👏 After decades of advocacy from FCNL’s advocacy network and the broader peace movement, the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq has finally been repealed!
Quaker Lobby Celebrates Repeal of Iraq War Authorization | Friends Committee On National Legislation
Washington, D.C. – The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) celebrates today’s repeal of the Iraq War authorization, known as the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force against Iraq ...
www.fcnl.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
👏 After decades of advocacy from FCNL’s advocacy network and the broader peace movement, the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq has finally been repealed!
This story by @mikebaker.bsky.social is a tale as old as time - public funds leached away for worse products by private equity. Doubly infuriating because volunteer FDs are the purest form of service. Neighbors helping neighbors. 1/
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This story by @mikebaker.bsky.social is a tale as old as time - public funds leached away for worse products by private equity. Doubly infuriating because volunteer FDs are the purest form of service. Neighbors helping neighbors. 1/
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
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After letting funding lapse for nearly two years, Congress voted to renew crucial federal funding that rural counties and schools have counted on for a quarter century.
After nearly two-year lapse, Congress renews Secure Rural Schools funding • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The Secure Rural Schools act provides tens of millions each year to schools and communities across the West.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
After letting funding lapse for nearly two years, Congress voted to renew crucial federal funding that rural counties and schools have counted on for a quarter century.
Good piece on Lane County’s use of drug deflection dollars to provide temporary housing for folks awaiting drug treatment.
Helps keep people connected to services and easier for providers who don’t have to track down someone who is homeless & moving around.
www.wweek.com/news/2025/11...
Helps keep people connected to services and easier for providers who don’t have to track down someone who is homeless & moving around.
www.wweek.com/news/2025/11...
In Eugene, Drug-Crime Deflection Comes With a Place to Stay and Get Clean. Not in Portland.
Rent costs Lane County just $577,304 a year, but the rooms do something a $3.2 million deflection center can’t: house people while they wait for drug treatment.
www.wweek.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Good piece on Lane County’s use of drug deflection dollars to provide temporary housing for folks awaiting drug treatment.
Helps keep people connected to services and easier for providers who don’t have to track down someone who is homeless & moving around.
www.wweek.com/news/2025/11...
Helps keep people connected to services and easier for providers who don’t have to track down someone who is homeless & moving around.
www.wweek.com/news/2025/11...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall
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Oregon is suing the Trump administration for allegedly holding back emergency grants promised to the state for emergency management, disaster-relief and homeland security operations. buff.ly/otQvJT3
Oregon sues Trump admin for restricting access to federal emergency grants • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The coalition of states argue the Trump administration's new grant terms pose as obstacles for states to receive funding.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Oregon is suing the Trump administration for allegedly holding back emergency grants promised to the state for emergency management, disaster-relief and homeland security operations. buff.ly/otQvJT3
When I got out of college, I rented a room in my buddy’s double-wide. He was a firefighter. I was a firefighter. I made $26,000 that year and had 0 kids. He had 3 kids, 2 jobs, rented out a room - and still needed food stamps to make ends meet and put good food on the table for the kids.
As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
When I got out of college, I rented a room in my buddy’s double-wide. He was a firefighter. I was a firefighter. I made $26,000 that year and had 0 kids. He had 3 kids, 2 jobs, rented out a room - and still needed food stamps to make ends meet and put good food on the table for the kids.
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I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave
Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office
Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave
Healthcare premiums (and pension costs) are eating local government budgets. At my last city, the full cost of my family plan was like $48k. I paid 5% of that. But between insurance, pension, and other benefits and payroll taxes, my total comp was close to 2x my salary. It’s not sustainable.
1/ Listen: the people who can’t afford ACA hikes or are getting kicked off Medicare are the priority. But…last year my company saw a 17% increase in healthcare costs. This year we are projecting 20%.
Every year for idk a decade has been at least 10%
Every year for idk a decade has been at least 10%
October 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Healthcare premiums (and pension costs) are eating local government budgets. At my last city, the full cost of my family plan was like $48k. I paid 5% of that. But between insurance, pension, and other benefits and payroll taxes, my total comp was close to 2x my salary. It’s not sustainable.
Willamette
Couch Street
Wallowa
Couch Street
Wallowa
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Willamette
Couch Street
Wallowa
Couch Street
Wallowa
Cyberpunk is a warning not an instruction manual, episode 2475
Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.
"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”
"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”
‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Cyberpunk is a warning not an instruction manual, episode 2475
I’m super privileged to send my kid to an amazing school. You know what she did last year for pre-k?
Played in the woods and wetlands. Made a papier-mâché egret that she saw in the wetlands. Learned about playing with friends. Perfected her technique on the swing. None of this nonsense.
Played in the woods and wetlands. Made a papier-mâché egret that she saw in the wetlands. Learned about playing with friends. Perfected her technique on the swing. None of this nonsense.
I pass by this school weekly and every time I feel a rush of despair.
September 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I’m super privileged to send my kid to an amazing school. You know what she did last year for pre-k?
Played in the woods and wetlands. Made a papier-mâché egret that she saw in the wetlands. Learned about playing with friends. Perfected her technique on the swing. None of this nonsense.
Played in the woods and wetlands. Made a papier-mâché egret that she saw in the wetlands. Learned about playing with friends. Perfected her technique on the swing. None of this nonsense.
How your email finds me
September 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
How your email finds me
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I really need to spend less time on my hobby of book buying and start to read some once in a while.
September 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I really need to spend less time on my hobby of book buying and start to read some once in a while.
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Guardsmen on the mall with their M4s this morning.
To my memory this is the first time I’ve seen the guard with long guns. Even during the days after Sept 11 they only carried sidearms.
To my memory this is the first time I’ve seen the guard with long guns. Even during the days after Sept 11 they only carried sidearms.
August 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Guardsmen on the mall with their M4s this morning.
To my memory this is the first time I’ve seen the guard with long guns. Even during the days after Sept 11 they only carried sidearms.
To my memory this is the first time I’ve seen the guard with long guns. Even during the days after Sept 11 they only carried sidearms.