Now, after scandals involving their use of hotel rooms and out-of-state private facilities, state officials have landed on a new — but still trouble-ridden — approach: They are paying a #religiousnonprofit more than 100 times the amount they pay foster care parents to watch children in unregulated short-term rental homes.
Thrilled by this #SaturdaySighting of well over 100 snow geese that just rose out of the marsh where I was walking and then soared about together as though they wanted to get a murmuration going.
A victory for the RCV campaign in November 2024 would be a significant breakthrough for voting justice, as it would liberate voters in Oregon from being required to vote for just one candidate.
I was stunned to see Ponytail Falls when I rounded the corner while hiking this last Saturday. To my knowledge, this is the first time i’d ever seen it. This waterfall is above Horsetail Falls. So cool to be able to walk behind the falls and feel the power of nature.
I've now seen three different articles about this posted to the #Oregon hashtag. None of them mentions the #Paiute people or any #Indigenous people at all. One of them uncritically frames the Bering Strait land bridge theory as fact, and another calls the revelation that people were here earlier than that a "discovery."
Still processing photos, but got some decent shots of my first non-fleeting Bullock’s Orioles! She was particularly keen on getting her portrait taken and sat for quite some time. 🧡🖤
The river moves calmly through its landscape, not in any particular hurry to get where it's going because, even if the pace is leisurely, it will still, eventually, reach its destination. A good thing to remember when we're tempted to rush through our day.
A lot of papers recently talk about incorporating traditional ecological knowledge into the sciences. But too often, it's non-Indigenous people, from non-Indigenous organizations and universities, doing the talking.
Here's a rare thing, a paper about Indigenous knowledge and fish genetics in which not just one, but every author on the paper comes from a tribal organization (CRITFC here in Oregon and Idaho):
Folks on the ground in #Eugene, #Oregon report that police have begun a raid of the property at the center of an ongoing #rentstrike. They are asking supporters in the surrounding community to show solidarity and support. More updates at: https://www.instagram.com/eugenerentstrike/
Hiked and road walked in the Idiot Creek and Game Hog Creek areas of the Tillamook this morning. I’ve explored vast swaths of the forest roads and there can be some beauty between the clear cutting. Idiot Creek apparently was an old logging camp before the highway existed and it was named that because you had to be an idiot to work out there because it was so difficult to travel there.
"What we’re saying is if you have a Oregon driver’s license ID permit driver’s permit, you can assume that that data associated with that credential has been compromised.”
Got hit by a car walking, and the 911 operator told me, "accidents happen" and ended the call. I love fucking Oregon. 911 operators are pig adjacent scum. #Oregon#IFeelLikeIGotHitByACar#OhWaitIDid
I could not be more obsessed with this raven's nest. We counted four chicks today!
They are already so much bigger--their bills look distinctly ravenlike, their eyes open, and their necks strong enough to rise above the edge of the nest so even I (very far below the underpass, which is high enough to admit a train) can really see their faces. It's just glorious to watch and listen to them. What a family.
She runs through her day in the simple joy of being a child -- pretending, playing, imagining -- all the things that children do so well, and should be allowed to do with freedom. Let your inner wild child run free this week and go ahead, think a thought that defies convention!
Oregon voters will soon get to decide whether to adopt ranked choice voting statewide (www.nwprogressive.org)
A victory for the RCV campaign in November 2024 would be a significant breakthrough for voting justice, as it would liberate voters in Oregon from being required to vote for just one candidate.