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There’s been years of bipartisan work on school attendance. In 2025, key House Republicans in Oregon agreed that the answer was not restarting truancy court. Oregon Journalism Project ignores all that work and runs articles for Republicans to use in political campaigns:

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· 22d

Oregon scandals exposed Aaron Mesh interviews plodding, obsessed journalist Phil Stanford, out with a new book on the murder of Michael Francke and subsequent decades-long cover-up Follows the truly disturbing podcast series Murder in Oregon www.wweek.com/news/courts/...

Screenshot of the publisher’s graphic for the book. Showing a police sketch of a man and the book’s title who killed Michael francke

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· 22d

KGW segment: Parkrose residents push back on ESD plans, at east district councilor Loretta Smith’s “coffee with a cop” www.kgw.com/article/news...

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· 23d

Trump refuses to leave the stage, to place himself in Spain’s celebration photo What an embarrassment and a sick individual

Photo of players celebrating with the trophy and fireworks while a man in a suit, Donald Trump, is standing right next to a player applauding

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· 25d

Serious about fighting local policing power? The absolute unit Stuart Schrader a must read. Blue Power comes a decade after Badges Without Borders, one of the most insane things I’ve ever read 👀

Screenshot of a podcast - Blue Power by Stuart Schrader, on Ordinary Unhappiness pod

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· 25d

Found a cool new website, very socialist-forward!

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· 25d

a Mr. Mechowski tells a journalist about how he, an ICE agent, deals with parents: “it’s very fucking simple, we’re dealing with you” and then rips them from their children USA 2026 like Poland 1939 Politico reports from 🇺🇸ethnic cleansing cruise 🚢 in DC www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Picture of ice agent and some text from politico artjcle

Scott Mechkowski, the former deputy ICE field director in New York, speaks with a reporter aboard the Potomac Spirit in Washington.
The coalition shrugs off those concerns. “Mass deportations — it’s an ugly word. It’s an ugly word, right?” said Mechkowski, the former ICE agent, a towering figure with slicked-back hair and a New York accent. But it’s not as ugly in practice as the media would have you believe, he said. He shared an example of a removal procedure for an undocumented parent with U.S.-born children: “It’s very fucking simple. You have a child. That child is a U.S. citizen, but that doesn’t affect your status in any way, right? So we’re dealing with you,” he explained

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· 25d

Haven’t had much time on my hands but have been sneaking some pages of this book I’ve seen Ed Yong become a science writer phenomenon and have waited a while to try his books. He does a fantastic job, and welcomes me into a novel rapture of brilliance of just encountering how things work around us

Photo of a hardcover book on a table

Title an immense world
Author Ed yomg
Photo shows some kind of primate with eyes looking up as if to see God
Color green

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· 26d

Incredible audio reporting series, nearing its finale Dark and disturbing, incredibly well-edited, and for those who have experienced these kinds of spaces, important to hear

Screenshot of podcast image text EMBEDDED: WE KEEP US SAFE

from NPR, KUOW, and Seattle Times
Image is a photo which is like a collage with some graffiti artistic flourish in yellow. One image shows two protester looking individuals walking on a street in daytime with gloves and one has a big gun. Another photo shows a banner “Capitol Hill chop’

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· 28d

MAGA has radically defunded multiple law enforcement agencies in order to boost ICE arrests and murders of regular people who pose no harm to anyone Despite ICE getting tens of billions, they are still draining the resources of many law enforcement bureaus Source: CATO, 2025

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jul 9

Enthusiasm gap formed in the USA

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jul 9

In Massachusetts the Boston Globe shares a report urging that Mass. needs 60,000 net new immigrants ANNUALLY by 2030 (3.5 yrs) or will risk economic contraction In Oregon we have the Oregonian arguing (condescendingly, as always) that dumb tax cuts are make or break for the state’s economic future

Text:

The rate of new immigrants coming to the state fell by more than half during the first six months of Trump’s second term, according to a new report by MassINC Policy Center and Boston Indicators. The state has the second-highest rate of international in-migration in the country, which has been critical to offsetting the low birth rate.
Massachusetts needs at least 60,000 net new immigrants a year by 2030 to maintain the size of its working-age population, according to the report. But by the end of this year, net international migration to the state could fall to 29,000.
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“Without immigration at something close to this scale,” the report states, “Massachusetts risks economic contraction.”
Hebrew SeniorLife, which provides long-term care and residential services for 4,500 seniors a day in Greater Boston, expects to lose 37 Haitian employees in housekeeping, culinary, and nursing when their TPS is terminated. That’s in addition to nearly 60 of the organization’s employees who have already had to be let go during Trump‘s immigration crackdown.

Screengrab from the article header:

https://archive.ph/csCjj

More than 10,000 Haitian workers in Mass. will lose immigration protections, a move that could ‘decimate’ industries
Out of 10,000 in the state’s workforce, roughly 1,500 are employed in nursing care facilities alone
By Katie Johnston Globe Staff,Updated June 29, 2026, 1:27 p.m.

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jul 8

from Ernst & Young 2024 analysis of Oregon’s taxation Yes, many of the elite’s pet pundits are still freaking out over this

Bar graph showing oregon going from effective 4.2% tax rate to 4.9%, both very close to the US average of 4.7%

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jul 6

ProPublica details detentions of minors and people who came to US as minors “These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.”

Screenshot from article. It’s a graph showing bars going up up up since start of Trump term. headline Since the Start of Trump’s Second Term, Immigration Courts Have Averaged More Than 10,000 Removals of Minors Per Month

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jul 6

Article on Portland-area Haitians, after alarming TPS ruling www.kgw.com/article/news...

Screenshot from KGW article about portland area Haitians

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jul 5

About to dive in to my first book on the Scotch-Irish and the Americas Published 2024 by longtime academic historian Colin Calloway currently at Dartmouth teaching history and Native American studies Am very intrigued at what it will surface including possibly some of my family, cultural history

Photo of the back of a hardcover book, features quotes “advance praise” of the work.

Photo of the front of a book, laying on what seems to be a light wood grain desk
Title: HARD NEIGHBORS, lettering over a painting featuring Indians in the foreground and a horse drawn wagon in the background

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jul 5

Damning report on misogynist, raging, gun-toting, hard-drinking, vengeance-obsessed male Judge in Marion County Calls women colleagues C-words over and over while drinking, shows them his gun, refers to men using the F—— homophobic slur Our psychotic US fascists www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jul 5

Oregonian reports on 27 year, now-retired PPB officer convicted of domestic attack on woman. Will do prison time. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

Screenshot of article available at oregonian website

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jul 5

AP: Mrs. Hale and her grandchildren children enjoy the war planes from a cooling bunker apnews.com/article/amer...

Screenshot from the AP article with grammatical error highlighted “Crowds were building in the area several hours before the evacuation. Tina Hale, 58, of Cohoes, New York, watched three of her grandchildren children dip their hands into a pool of water near a museum. Hale pointed toward the sky and urged them to look up as three military jets roared above the crowd.

“If that doesn’t make you proud to be an American,” she said.

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jul 2

Found in my grandparents’ house this June. An exquisite delight.

Photo of John Steinbeck novel The Wayward Bus, hardcover with crinkly, torn cover featuring painting of a dashboard, steering wheel, and landscape, with a hanging virgin of Guadalupe

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jun 27

Scene from southern hemisphere

Photo outside sky overhead blue with big white cloud appearing above multiple buildings and a couple es, which are different dark shades backlit by the sky

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jun 26

For those in need of more content to “enjoy”, this is good I’m so grateful for Native historians because without you, so much wouldn’t make sense @rebeccanagle.bsky.social @nicke.bsky.social Ned Blackhawk

Screenshot from Apple podcast presentation of “first America” podcast from Rebecca

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jun 18

Don McIntosh reports on a a bill that “would be the most significant reform to U.S. labor law in generations.” 10% of R’s joined all the D’s (all of Ore and Wash D’s voted Y, with Val Hoyle speaking for it) Hawley supports it in the Senate

Screengrab of the article headline and lead photo of Capitol in DC

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jun 18

Mamdani’s fantastic speech as fans and Knicks team gather at end of gigantic Championship Parade 🏆 m.youtube.com/watch?v=sdQX...

Screenshot of YouTube page for Mamdani’s speech

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jun 2

2 great finds on the library shelves on the same day. Maybe my top fiction and nonfiction books? 📚

Picture of two books one by Rabih Alemmadine “the true true story of raja the gullible”. And Molly crabapple’s here where we live is our country history of the Jewish bund

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jun 2

GOP leader touts how cool Portland is. It ain’t 2022 anymore There’s no comments about trans people ruining women’s sports, no bitter whining about your personal white settler stolen land utopia you immigrated to before hating all the immigrants Christine, maybe you ain’t cut out for this

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· Jun 1

Excited to be at this concert tonight from The Promise - symphony, choir, children’s choir, raising money for Black and Beyond the Binary DeReau Ferrar, Artistic Director, in First U Methodist in Goose Hollow Portland 😍

Show program screenshot available here

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/66f9cbdd9e917f20a057434a/t/6a1a2f643ce62272d1ebbdfb/1780101080189/Promise-digital.pdf

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· May 30

“Often the greatest obstacle to change is that people do not conceptualize beyond their understanding of their task. Being brave enough to learn enough to be able to create new paradigms was the first step toward real change in treatment development and availability for people w AIDS Sarah Schulman

Photo of red book w black letters let the record show by Sarah schulman

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· May 30

2007 cum laude graduate of Seton Hall Law school gives up his prestigious role as a MAGA Assistant US Attorney serving the US wait no Trump by doing a hit on a former FBI Director The 40-something year old man was “recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers Magazine in 2014, 2015 and 2016.”

Photo of MAGA’s baby faced assassin, lawyer for hire, Matthew Petracca

Emory Like Memory@emorymemory· May 28

Saw Oregon Symphony’s 45th Parallel chamber orchestra at First United Methodist in Goose Hollow 14 instrumentalists and one soprano performed Mahler’s 4th Symphony as part of “Mahler in May” Some say the music may have put me into a beautiful and healing altered state, bordering on the sublime