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Aidy Bryant says Portland-filmed ‘Shrill’ brings her character’s journey to a ‘beautiful end’
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
Aidy Bryant stars in the upcoming third and final season of Shrill, the Portland-filmed Hulu series. (Photo by: Allyson Riggs/Hulu) HULU
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Aidy Bryant says the fact that “Shrill,” the Portland-filmed series starring the “Saturday Night Live” veteran, will end with its upcoming third season is “very bittersweet.” During a discussion of “Shrill” Thursday, that was part of the virtual Television Critics Association 2021 winter press tour, Bryant said she loved working with executive producer and showrunner Ali Rushfield, executive producer and author Lindy West, and the Portland cast and crew.
Environmental groups sue to overturn last-minute granting of grazing permit to Hammond Ranches
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
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Four environmental advocacy groups on Thursday sued the U.S. Interior secretary and federal Bureau of Land Management seeking to overturn the Jan. 19 decision to grant a 10-year grazing permit Hammond Ranches Inc. on the final day of former President Donald Trump’s administration.
The suit alleges the decision was “tainted by political influence” and that a “rushed and truncated public process” cut out opportunities for public participation required by law. It further accuses the federal government of granting the permit to the Hammonds over other applicants who were qualified and bypassing an administrative appeal process.
(RNS) The political violence in Washington and around the United States that culminated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol a month ago showed the depths of the division in our society. Skirmishes between the election and inauguration also showed that a significant segment of extremists in our society is ready to use violence to achieve political ends.
This should shock nobody. Threats and actual violence from right-wing extremists have been rising over the past decade. Their recent, raucous demonstrations at statehouses were their final implicit threat; on Jan. 6 they made it explicit. To protect democracy, we must take action to take their guns away.
Most people visit Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in the spring. That’s when birds, migrating north along the Pacific Flyway, turn up by the thousands at the famous eastern Oregon refuge, which encompasses high desert marshland in remote Harney County 30 miles south of Burns. In May the weather is generally close to comfortable, so long as you don’t mind hordes of mosquitoes, and on Memorial Day weekend hundreds of birders traditionally pack the refuge and nearby motels and campgrounds to sort through the migrating flocks for rarities.
For the past two decades, though, my son and I have also taken up visiting Malheur in the depths of winter. It’s a time of splendid quiet, spectacular isolation and, at times, bitter cold.