Crossing the Willamette River.

Reflected neon.

Stinking Iris seed pod next to a fence.

AG Blanche says license plate readers don’t affect Americans’ privacy

Americans say AG Blanche is a complete fuckwit.

Trump Taps Stephen Miller to Replace Wiles as Chief of Staff

A giant “fuck you” to the entire country. Miller belongs in prison, doing very hard time with a left-wing cellmate outweighing him by 100 pounds.

After a week or so, I’m finding the AP and Reuters home pages to be, if anything, better than visiting Google News daily - far less likely to serve up AI nonsense or clickbait. So that’s one less Google distraction in my life. (What’s left: some legacy emails that get forwarded elsewhere, and occasional Maps use when I want a street view).

Wish I could find an affordable phone that wasn’t Apple or Google, but that market pretty much doesn’t exist.

A fallen pixie cup with a crowd of onlookers - perhaps a macro crime scene!

Thistle after the seeds are gone.

Listening to Chuck Schumer on the NYT podcast isn’t doing much to enhance my faith in either Schumer or the Times.

Sand Cliff near Washburne State Park. It's annoying that people see this as a graffiti magnet, but none of the carvings last long as storms roll through.