Jake Thomas

Independent journalist. Way serious. Find me on Blue Sky @voiceofjakethomas.bsky.social

[Jake Thomas @jthomasreports]

Xtwitterx will not let me post any links to the Oregon Legislature's bill information website. And it will probably bury this post. Why am I on here? #orpol

[Ben Botkin @BenBotkin1]

My latest out today: Facing lawmaker scrutiny, Oregon Health Authority boss doesn’t dwell on state hospital’s past failures  https://t.co/WPfWlqYAch
#orleg #orpol #MentalHealthIssues

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Officials say the 'camping ban' is meant to offer resources to homeless Portlanders. None of them are tracking whether it’s working. https://t.co/klGGdIHoFY

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State's Psychiatric Security Review Board stalls patient discharge, critics say https://t.co/kZlujoCOhT

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ICYMI Some patients at Oregon State Hospital stuck there for months https://t.co/rUvm4csay6

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Get on train. Hear music/radio chatter playing behind me. I get up and ask the woman playing it: Do you have headphones? She tells me: No, she's playing the music on her glasses, she can turn it down

Meta glasses can also blast music? We need to join the ICC to prosecute Zuck.

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Some patients at Oregon State Hospital stuck there for months https://t.co/rUvm4csay6

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The newspaper industry

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#Legislators mull methods to reincarcerate people released from #Oregon #prisons in error. #orpol https://t.co/lOc1p4N543

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“The charges have been dismissed. They are living free in the world. They’re working. They’ve got families. The question is, are we going to compensate them for having been in prison when they shouldn’t have been?” #orpol #oregon https://t.co/F3khkQrb6T

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Supreme Court rebuffs Trump's plan to send National Guard to Illinois https://t.co/rqpAP1vAKK via @upi

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It is complete bullshit that I have to rely on a nonprofit to get documents that are already public. But I still gave them money, and you should too. https://t.co/b3if2ipRJA

[Governor Christine Todd Whitman @GovCTW]

This should truly terrify everyone.
https://t.co/FhWHeKoZyz

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

A downstream effect of college being so unaffordable is that private equity has bought up youth sports and turned it into a college scholarship hunger games that is ruining communities and putting parents in debt

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Trump adds five countries to travel ban over screening concerns https://t.co/KPkARYwfAF via @upi

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MIT professor found dead; police open homicide investigation https://t.co/9QmvSsh57n via @upi

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Police release photos of person of interest in Brown University shooting https://t.co/FzYWoL3Gyw via @upi

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Hegseth says he'll recenter military Chaplain Corps on faith https://t.co/5cBMpNVpET via @upi

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My first ever story in the ⁦@guardian⁩ , and it’s about drugs! https://t.co/nLmVI4xE3m