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Oregon Senate passes anti-book-ban bill over Republican objections
It seems like age-appropriateness might be a legitimate standard.
Portland hate crime assailant who stomped on stranger’s face gets less prison time in deal with DA
The issue isn’t hate crimes.
I Pretended To Be ‘Nonbinary’ To Expose a Medical Scandal at Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser gender specialists were eager to approve hormones and surgeries…
Oregon Health Authority said its cover-up of beer and wine tax study was inadvertent. That’s false.
The single worst department in the State of Oregon.
Effort to boost tribal early learning collapses 3 years after mandate by Oregon Legislature
$2 million down the drain and bigger problems to come
Students nationwide have rebounded after pandemic. But not in Oregon. Consequences could be severe
When you do what you did, you get what you got.
Taxes in America
Rich pay taxes. Lots of taxes. Corporations, not so much.
Dawn Project calls for Tesla boycott in Super Bowl ad campaign over self-driving capabilities
Or maybe the problem is the human.
In the Battle Over Early Algebra, Parents Are Winning
Progressives (rightly) lose again.
Latest data show overdoses continue to skyrocket in Oregon
Measure 110 has been a disaster.
Essays
Stereotypes
Why I can think Americans are idiots but you’re just dandy.
Fourth of July 2020
A call for a return to American values
Bostock v. Clayton County
A Supreme Court decision about the meaning of “sex.” Never a better time to say, IANAL! (I Am Not A Lawyer—what did you think I meant?)
Folding@home
Scientists need your help in fighting the virus. Time to be a hero.
Proteins are long chains of amino acids that perform a vast array of functions within organisms. They differ from one another primarily in the sequence of their amino acids. These sequences typically fold into specific three dimensional structures that determine what the proteins do.
Viruses, including everybody’s new favorite, have proteins that suppress the immune system, help reproduce themselves, and so forth. Determining exactly how these proteins work is important in creating therapeutic treatments.