Eugene
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Each of Paul's dispatches is a timely reminder that the human story is one of migration, to migrate is a profoundly human act, and the stories of our lives are deeply interconnected with the stories of people dispersed around the globe.
Truly the epic journey of our age.
Truly the epic journey of our age.
"13 yrs ago, I trekked out of Ethiopia to retrace the pathways of our ... Stone Age ancestors.... Now, having reached the last rim of Asia, I’ve run out of solid ground. So I’m hitching a ride to the Americas on the Maersk San Vicente." —Paul Salopek outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/blue-highway
Blue Highway
Across the North Pacific by container ship.
outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Each of Paul's dispatches is a timely reminder that the human story is one of migration, to migrate is a profoundly human act, and the stories of our lives are deeply interconnected with the stories of people dispersed around the globe.
Truly the epic journey of our age.
Truly the epic journey of our age.
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Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1
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Further political context: In the 2019 District Council elections, all 19 of the elected seats of Tai Po District Council were won by "yellow" (i.e., Hong Kong pro-democracy) candidates. The pro-Beijing camp was completely wiped out bar for the two ex officio members of the 21 person strong body.
This 2024 post from the DAB’s Peggy Wong is quickly becoming infamous.
In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.
In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Further political context: In the 2019 District Council elections, all 19 of the elected seats of Tai Po District Council were won by "yellow" (i.e., Hong Kong pro-democracy) candidates. The pro-Beijing camp was completely wiped out bar for the two ex officio members of the 21 person strong body.
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Hongkongers really do community so well.
Hongkongers built their own SOS map as seven towers burned
When a fatal fire tore through seven high-rise towers in Hong Kong's Tai Po district, thousands of families were glued to a single webpage that offered updates far more quickly than official governmen...
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Hongkongers really do community so well.
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"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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Devastating piece on the human toll of Kavanaugh Stops.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Devastating piece on the human toll of Kavanaugh Stops.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
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During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
"detransitioners are often used as political weapons, but by no means does she want to weaponize her own story. What she wants is to showcase how she has loved her body — and herself — at every stage of life, through every step of her journey."
“The hypocrisy just proves to me that no matter what I do, people are going to be transphobic to me. People are going to question my gender. And I just have to do me.”
Her gender transition set her free. So did her detransition.
The joy that Adriana Del Orden feels in her body could have only come through transitioning. She’s tired of being told that she ruined her life.
19thnews.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"detransitioners are often used as political weapons, but by no means does she want to weaponize her own story. What she wants is to showcase how she has loved her body — and herself — at every stage of life, through every step of her journey."
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A lot was made about Decision Desk HQ last night. They've pulled back a call in the Seattle mayoral race. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A lot was made about Decision Desk HQ last night. They've pulled back a call in the Seattle mayoral race. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
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For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights
Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.
www.msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Is it just me or are WA counties unusually slow transmitting their results tonight?
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Is it just me or are WA counties unusually slow transmitting their results tonight?
"We Kavanaughed him asap so we could claim ignorance of the court order." - ICE
Souvannarath is likely a citizen, ICE kidnapped him, he filed habeas, a judge ordered he not be deported, and *the next day* DHS deported him.
DHS told the press they didn't get the order, which is undoubtedly a lie and will be perjury when they say it to the court.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
DHS told the press they didn't get the order, which is undoubtedly a lie and will be perjury when they say it to the court.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
NEW: ACLU of Louisiana asks a federal judge to order the govt to immediately return Chanthila (Shawn) Souvannarath from Laos, to which it deported him over the weekend in violation of the judge's injunction. @acluoflouisiana.bsky.social www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"We Kavanaughed him asap so we could claim ignorance of the court order." - ICE
Voter's views don't exist in a vaccuum. Centrists trying to align a platform with opinions shaped by an elaborate right wing propoganda ecosystem will only succeed in chasing a moving target further to the right.
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Voter's views don't exist in a vaccuum. Centrists trying to align a platform with opinions shaped by an elaborate right wing propoganda ecosystem will only succeed in chasing a moving target further to the right.
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Chicagoans are starting to do exactly this.
October 30, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Chicagoans are starting to do exactly this.
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If you're not already following Katelyn Burns, you should be. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
Fire The Consultants
The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems.
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If you're not already following Katelyn Burns, you should be. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
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Spectacular spooky reading tonight: The Flow Below: Learning to see the hidden springs and streams that shape Portland by Josephine Woolington www.oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine...
The Flow Below
Josephine Woolington writes about learning to see the hidden springs and streams that shape Portland.
www.oregonhumanities.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Spectacular spooky reading tonight: The Flow Below: Learning to see the hidden springs and streams that shape Portland by Josephine Woolington www.oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine...
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From moments of resilience among people with disabilities during a deadly winter storm to a feminist perspective on recovery after a major earthquake, our #NewReads page features a variety of hazard scholarship and stories of survival. Add these books to your shelf today: bit.ly/34XMBl7
October 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
From moments of resilience among people with disabilities during a deadly winter storm to a feminist perspective on recovery after a major earthquake, our #NewReads page features a variety of hazard scholarship and stories of survival. Add these books to your shelf today: bit.ly/34XMBl7
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Trans people are often advocates of radical transit and urbanist policy—Katelyn Burns investigates why.
Why Are So Many Trans People Into Urban Planning?
Trans people are often advocates of radical transit and urbanist policy—Katelyn Burns investigates why.
f.mtr.cool
October 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Trans people are often advocates of radical transit and urbanist policy—Katelyn Burns investigates why.
- Compiled via English- and Spanish social media, lawsuits, court records and local media reports
- Covers beginning of the current Trump administration thru Oct. 5
Arrests in Portland, Oregon, and Chicago particularly limited since the events there are still unfolding
- Covers beginning of the current Trump administration thru Oct. 5
Arrests in Portland, Oregon, and Chicago particularly limited since the events there are still unfolding
NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
- Compiled via English- and Spanish social media, lawsuits, court records and local media reports
- Covers beginning of the current Trump administration thru Oct. 5
Arrests in Portland, Oregon, and Chicago particularly limited since the events there are still unfolding
- Covers beginning of the current Trump administration thru Oct. 5
Arrests in Portland, Oregon, and Chicago particularly limited since the events there are still unfolding
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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
October 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
Waiting for the Supreme Court to cite this in their opinion overturning Obergefell as evidence that there's no discrimination since the gays can just get straight married 🫠
they literally talk about how this is "Lavender Marriage 2.0", like it's a fun hack. It's so clearly a "we're paid well as influencers for this" thing and I fucking hate how its couched in so much bullshit faux-inclusivity-for-conservatives language.
October 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Waiting for the Supreme Court to cite this in their opinion overturning Obergefell as evidence that there's no discrimination since the gays can just get straight married 🫠
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Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles.
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
grist.org/labor/indone...
#Indonesia #Indonesian #EV #China #Chinese #Batteries
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
grist.org/labor/indone...
#Indonesia #Indonesian #EV #China #Chinese #Batteries
Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
grist.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles.
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
grist.org/labor/indone...
#Indonesia #Indonesian #EV #China #Chinese #Batteries
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
grist.org/labor/indone...
#Indonesia #Indonesian #EV #China #Chinese #Batteries