The militia group holed up in an Oregon nature preserve can't seem to catch a break, can they? One of the militiamen, heartbroken, has announced that one of his buddies had bailed from the preserve...
One of the most prominent members of the so-called Oregon militia headed by Ammon Bundy is mighty pissed off because he's lost his sole source of income while he's off pretending to be some kind...
Chris Mintz who? Several days ago, Mintz, 30, was a relatively unknown student at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. Now he is a national hero due to his efforts during the mass shooting for knowingly stepping...
A jointly authored article from The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review noted last year:
“Judging by the climate coverage to date, most of the US news media still don’t get grasp the seriousness of this issue. This journalistic failure has given...
We all must register to vote in our states. It can be a hassle and can even keep voters from exercising their constitutional rights if they get caught up in some red tape.
Oregon Governor Kate...
John Parker is a military veteran and student at Umpqua Community College (UCC). He was on the campus Thursday when Christopher Harper Mercer began his murderous rampage that left ten dead and injured seven more. Parker...
It takes a special kind of stupid to do what the Oregon militia did to the Malheur National Wildlife refuge. It takes an insidious and ignorant form of self-satisfied privilege to expect that, not only...
In some good news, a push for less discrimination and equality for the LGBTQ has had a win in Oregon. The Governor Kate Brown of Oregon signed a Transgender equality bill and has said the government has...
So, once again, here we are. Following yet another mass shooting, this time at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., we're having our all too frequent "conversation" about gun violence, gun rights, and all things...
Yesterday, we told you that a number of Republican state legislators in the Pacific Northwest may have been complicit in the Bundy brothers' plot to take over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Specifically, they were...
A group of anti-government protesters, led by brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy have been acquitted of federal conspiracy and weapons charges. This comes after almost a year since the group staged an armed takeover of a federal...
The House is set to vote on the Obamacare replacement bill later today. But a series of sobering independent studies from think tanks across the country should give our Representatives pause before they cast their votes to make...
When the #Infantada occupying Malheur Wilderness Reserve in Oregon sent out messages pleading for their supporters to send them snacks (via the Federal government's own United States Post Office, seeing as no privately-owned companies deliver...
Change may be slow at times, but nothing can stop it.
Every year is historic in its own way, but 2020 stands out as one of the most turbulent and interesting in recent times.
One of the...
Ammon Bundy, the self-appointed leader of the militiamen who have taken control of the Malheur National Wildlife Preserve, might want to start saving his loose change, because an Oregon judge has one whopper of a bill...
When the #Infantada occupying Malheur Wilderness Reserve in Oregon sent out messages pleading for their supporters to send them snacks (via the Federal government's own United States Post Office, seeing as no privately-owned companies deliver...
A 31-year-old man in Portland, Oregon is the first person to be convicted and sentenced under Oregon's new revenge porn law. Benjamin Barber will serve six months in jail after being charged with five counts...
Imagine, if you can, being incarcerated for 900 days, languishing in limbo, not allowed to leave prison even though you haven't been charged with a crime. Sounds like something out of a Kafka novel, or...
The month-long standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge may be over. The Bundy brothers, the ringleaders of the thugs occupying the refuge were arrested after a standoff on Tuesday afternoon, and are now in custody.
Late Tuesday afternoon one...
When anyone calls out the armed men who took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as the thugs that they were, their supporters are likely to say they weren't thugs at all. No, no--they were...
