Judge De Alba told fed lawyers she found videos from the Portland ICE facility “quite disturbing,” as well as testimony describing officers shooting a protester in the eye with a non-lethal round. “I just don’t know how we’re justifying this,” she said: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/07/a...
This panel of 3 judges - 2 of whom are Trump appointees - could go either way. The majority already temp. blocked lower court orders stopping fed agents from excessive force, chemical use outside the Portland facility. All 3 today indicated they saw videos that show fed agents acted inappropriately.
The AI reporting writing body cameras I wrote about recently are just the tip of where this stuff is going, and I suspect very few lawmakers are paying attention to this right now.
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The leaked phone call revealed that Hungary's far-right leader told Putin that he was prepared to help Moscow “in any way" to win the war in Ukraine.
www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vances-trip-to-donald...
Back-to-back hearings today in 9th Circuit appeals court over excessive force, chemical use on protestors outside Portland ICE building. Judge Ana De Alba challenged fed lawyers to respond to claims that agents' chemical use was at times for social media videos, propaganda. Fed lawyers would not.
Oregon has for most of the last decade seen significantly more new businesses register in the state than exit. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/07/m...
REALLY @nytimes.com? TRY: "In Face of Trump's Threat To Kill 'A Whole Civilization' By Night." The framing around Trump's rhetoric in Times' headlines as of late has me totally confounded. Who is behind the keyboard on these?
Andrea Pedro-Francisco was detained in Burnsville, Minn. without a warrant on her way to work cleaning houses on Feb. 5 — a week before she was scheduled for surgery to remove the cyst, which if left untreated could result in the loss of her ovary.
minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/07/t...
Commentary: We cannot ignore the toxic cycle we are trapped in.
Chemical lobbyists are pushing to weaken Amara’s Law so they can continue selling products that contaminate our water and poison our bodies. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/07/p...
New Hampshire Republicans just passed a law banning the use of student IDs for meeting the state’s strict voter ID requirement.
NH has the most college students per capita of any state, and Republicans have passed several laws to suppress their votes and make voter ID more restrictive since 2017
ICE has detained over 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to recently released numbers analyzed by the Marshall Project.
Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.
“Because it was so warm, our snowpack just really failed to build. Snowpack functionally acts as a reservoir for water. Basically, our largest reservoir of water is nearly empty at this point in time,” said Larry O’Neill, Oregon’s state climatologist: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/06/f...
Google’s Oregon data centers drank a lot more water in The Dalles last year – they now use 40% of all the city’s water, and climbing.
City leaders and conservationists disagree about the implications of Google’s enormous thirst.
But they agree the company’s secrecy continues sowing distrust.
This image, which claims to show one of the airmen rescued by US special forces from Iran, has racked up millions of views after being shared by some major influencers, and even by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
The image is AI-generated and features multiple errors.
The con is now obvious: “this technology is too dangerous in the wrong hands, so you better give us $152 billion because only we know how to save the world with it!” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
Three Minnesota families whose homes were forcibly entered by immigration agents are suing the federal government, arguing the agents violated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
President Donald Trump’s administration listed fewer vulnerable species for protection than any other presidential administration since Congress passed the Endangered Species Act.
"Oregonians have one more month to weigh in on the future of floating offshore wind energy in the state, including a path forward that would abandon the effort for now," reports @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/02/p... 🔌💡
More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump admin shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data.
That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.
A high-ranking U.S. Department of Health and Human Services official issued a subtle warning last year when he challenged a longstanding Oregon policy mandating foster and adoptive parents affirm a child’s potential LGBTQ+ identity. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/02/t...
The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz
Great interview with Portland City Councilor Steve Novick, who vows not to raid Portland’s climate fund “to subsidize some billionaires.” He calls out Oregon Legislature for being “cowed and scared” by NBA, lobbyists, consultants into putting taxpayers on the hook for Moda Center renovations.
NEW ON THAT ELECTION ORDER BY TRUMP: Democrats, voting groups prep lawsuits against Trump’s ‘unconstitutional’ mail ballot order -- @jonshorman.bsky.social for @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/demo...
An actual full time labor reporter job in the wild-- this is a great job if you're in the Northwest, very legit publication.
nwlaborpress.org/now-hiring/
The U.S. Forest Service plans to close a century-old Portland-based forest research station and a regional U.S. Forest Service headquarters but open a new federal office in Oregon's capital with a director who will be “determined in the coming months.”
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/01/u...
"Transgender activist Samantha Boucher tried her best to get arrested Tuesday for using the second floor women’s bathroom in the Kansas Statehouse in defiance of a new state law that criminalizes bathroom use based on gender assigned at birth.
"Capitol Police declined."
Trump calls environmentalists “terrorists.” Yet he’s responsible for destroying more oil & gas infrastructure, and more fossil-fuel demand, than the most optimistic ecoterrorist could in their wildest dreams. He’s helping the transition he abhors
Gift link:
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The latest monthly fire season outlook is up, and it's a doozy. Forecasts look similar a year ago, and the season ended up being below average in terms of acreage, so that's worth bearing in mind. But with the historic snow drought, this could be a big one.
www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/p...
FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT LOS ANGELES PRESS CLUB; NEWSGUILD - COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA; SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL; RYANNE MENA; LEXIS-OLIVIER RAY; CHARLES XU; BENJAMIN ADAM CLIMER; ABIGAIL OLMEDA, Plaintiffs - Appellees, v. KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, Defendants - Appellants. No. 25-5975 D.C. No. 2:25-cv-05563- HDV-E OPINION
SUMMARY* First Amendment The panel affirmed the district court’s issuance of a preliminary injunction in an action brought by individual journalists, legal observers, protesters, and two press organizations (Los Angeles Press Club and NewsGuild- Communications Workers of America (“Organizational Plaintiffs”)) against the Department of Homeland Security and its Secretary, but held that the preliminary injunction is overbroad, and vacated and remanded to the district court to fashion a narrower injunction.
Our Nation’s founding ideals are rooted in protests and free speech. These enduring ideals continue to shape and sustain our country to this day. Over the past 250 years, Americans have used their free speech rights to advance a wide range of causes, including suffrage, labor rights, the Civil Rights Movement, opposition to the Vietnam War, disability rights, the right to life and abortion rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and racial justice. One of the latest causes in this American tradition is opposition to the tactics and practices attributed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) agents when conducting immigration raids.
The district court made well- supported factual findings that Defendants targeted protesters, journalists, and legal observers with indiscriminate force. The presence of some violent actors did not give Defendants carte blanche to fire crowd control weapons indiscriminately into crowds of peaceful protesters, legal observers, and members of the press. And Defendants cannot avoid potential liability by pointing to DHS policies that correctly set out the bounds for the use of less lethal munitions, when their actions were inconsistent with those policies.
BREAKING: Ninth Circuit affirms issuance of preliminary injunction in Los Angeles Press Club v. Noem.
They temporarily vacated and ordered district court to narrow. When dust settles, journalists, legal observers and protesters should still win protections against DHS (ICE/Border Patrol/etc.).
