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And that's a permanent injunction from U.S. District Court Judge Immergut preventing the National Guard from being deployed in Portland. The judge says the president exceeded his authority. The opinion:
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#146 in State of Oregon v. Trump (D. Or., 3:25-cv-01756) ā CourtListener.com
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW: For the reasons provided, this Court GRANTS declaratory relief and permanent injunctive relief, as stated herein, and in the accompanying Judgment. See attache...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.189270/gov.uscourts.ord.189270.146.0.pdf
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NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.
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What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
In the two months before Trumpās decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-guard-trump
6 days ago
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Annie Waldman
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NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. š§µ/
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nationās seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda
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ProPublica
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š½ļø WATCH: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. Trump justified the deployment of National Guard troops by calling the city "War ravaged," with an ICE office under siege. That's not what we found. š Full story:
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President Trump claimed the National Guard was needed in "war-ravaged" Portland. But a
@propublica.org
review of protests in the months leading up to his claims -- including more than 700 (!!) videos -- show a different reality. via
@robwdavis.bsky.social
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What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
In the two months before Trumpās decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-guard-trump
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NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.
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What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
In the two months before Trumpās decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-guard-trump
6 days ago
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ProPublica
15 days ago
Like ghosts, weāre all about transparency. š» Got a tip for us? Contact our team safely on Signal at 917-512-0201. **We always show our work. Use our stencils to make your own pumpkin:
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isnāt. This is what I found.
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documented citizens being dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot. A must-read.
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. Theyāve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally ā almost certainly incomplete ā includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant. By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
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Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotelās rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
https://www.propublica.org/article/seattle-homeless-shelter-vacancies-civic-hotel?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Alex Zielinski
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Two things felt different to the ppl I spoke with whoād been protesting at the ICE building for months. 1st was the sheer volume of tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bangs used, seemingly unprovoked. 2nd was seeing so many videographers/live-streamers embedded with the feds as they marched out.
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The Oregonian
about 1 month ago
President Trump said conditions continue to deteriorate. Hereās what the newsroom saw.
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24 hours outside Portlandās ICE facility: Is this what ālawless mayhemā looks like?
President Trump said conditions continue to deteriorate. Hereās what the newsroom saw.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10/24-hours-outside-portlands-ice-facility-is-this-what-lawless-mayhem-looks-like.html
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The Oregonian
about 1 month ago
A judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to halt its mobilization of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to protect the ICE building in Portland and its officers amid nightly protests.
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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The Oregonian
about 1 month ago
Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but donāt appear to present clear physical threats.
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The guy buying the Portland Trail Blazers is using a fortune "that was built on predatory lending. ... He made lots of profit ... on the backs of low- and poor-credit individuals.ā And now the team is poised to ask for public money to stay in Portland.
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Portland Trail Blazers Buyer Tom Dundon Built His Fortune on Subprime Loans
In 2020, the state sued Santander Consumer USA for allegedly preying on Oregonians through high-interest car loans they couldnāt afford in a case involving more than 265,000 borrowers nationwide.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-dundon-portland-trail-blazers-subprime-loans
about 1 month ago
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
NEW: Portland Trail Blazers buyer Tom Dundon created a company that Oregon sued in 2020, alleging it issued predatory loans to residents. He went on to invest in another subprime lender thatās come under regulatory scrutiny. With
@opb.org
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Portland Trail Blazers Buyer Tom Dundon Built His Fortune on Subprime Loans
In 2020, the state sued Santander Consumer USA for allegedly preying on Oregonians through high-interest car loans they couldnāt afford in a case involving more than 265,000 borrowers nationwide.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-dundon-portland-trail-blazers-subprime-loans?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1759496441&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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šØšØšØ ProPublica reporting job alert šØšØšØ Where: The Midwest (Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota). What: Accountability reporting! Salary: $90K-$125K
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https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4599079006?gh_src=uzy0n5km6us
about 2 months ago
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ProPublica
2 months ago
When Oregon mapped wildfire risks to properties, some insurance brokers and homeowners blamed the map, without evidence, for policy cancellations and price hikes. Others called it part of a big plan to ādepopulate rural areas.ā
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How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the Stateās Wildfire Risk Map
After Oregonās record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1757685657&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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RFK Jr. in January: "If confirmed, I will do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines." Today:
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C.D.C. Uncertainty Upends Covid Vaccine Access at CVS and Walgreens
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/well/cvs-pharmacy-covid-vaccine-16-states.html
2 months ago
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This Oregon heroin bust was billed as having an "astronomical" amount of liquid heroin, what prosecutors called "enough for 50 million fatal doses." It was mostly water, not even enough for a single fatal dose. Via
@maxbernstein.bsky.social
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The massive drug bust that wasnāt: How 50 million āfatal dosesā turned out to be mostly water
It took a forensic chemist hired by defense lawyers to identify the actual amount of heroin in the seized barrels.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/09/the-massive-drug-bust-that-wasnt-how-50-million-fatal-doses-turned-out-to-be-mostly-water.html
2 months ago
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Robert Faturechi
2 months ago
New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cabinet-mortgage-fraud
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Anchorage Daily News
2 months ago
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
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Alaska vowed to resolve murders of Indigenous people. Now it refuses to provide their names.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2025/08/29/alaska-vowed-to-resolve-murders-of-indigenous-people-now-it-refuses-to-provide-their-names/
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Wow. Oregon repeatedly promised free cleanup to fire survivors who lost their homes this summer. Then yanked it without explanation. The state says: "Our intent was not to lie to people.ā
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āLike a slap in the faceā: Oregon rescinds free cleanup offer for wildfire-ravaged community
State agencies said they never meant to assure residents all cleanup costs would be paid for. Records and audio recordings show they did exactly that.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/08/like-a-slap-in-the-face-oregon-rescinds-free-cleanup-offer-for-wildfire-ravaged-community.html
2 months ago
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Audrey Dutton
3 months ago
The Idaho coroners' association president said his focus right now is on ālow-hanging fruitā rather than major systemic fixes. A few of the coroners his association represents, though, say it's time for an overhaul of Idaho's frontier-era system.
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Idahoās Coroner System Is āBroken and a Joke.ā Here Are 5 Ideas From Coroners on How to Fix It.
Lawmakers have been warned for 70 years that the stateās system of elected coroners is broken, yet major reforms havenāt materialized. An anonymous state survey and interviews by ProPublica reveal wha...
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-coroner-system-solutions
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ProPublica
3 months ago
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. š§µ
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ProPublica
3 months ago
NEW: More than ā20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.
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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
https://projects.propublica.org/federal-health-worker-cuts-rfk-trump-administration/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-20
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ProPublica
3 months ago
NEW: Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved. Itās now being used to stall developments in wind and solar ā with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge. With
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How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon
Irene Gilbert is a 76-year-old retired state employee on a mission, fighting energy projects like large wind farms in Oregonās rural communities. Renewable energy advocates and lawmakers treat activis...
https://www.propublica.org/article/irene-gilbert-oregon-solar-green-energy-policy?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-14
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Aiming to thwart nuclear power development in the 1970s, Oregon created an onerous permitting process for new energy projects. Today, it's being used to stall green power. Meet the woman who's "on a mission to keep turbines and transmission towers from blighting the rural landscape."
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How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon
Irene Gilbert is a 76-year-old retired state employee on a mission, fighting energy projects like large wind farms in Oregonās rural communities. Renewable energy advocates and lawmakers treat activis...
https://www.propublica.org/article/irene-gilbert-oregon-solar-green-energy-policy
3 months ago
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Grateful to
@oregonian.com
for sharing our story about the role misinformation played in killing Oregon's wildfire risk map. (And to
@opb.org
as well.) Thanks, also, to
@klccoregon.bsky.social
for having me on:
www.klcc.org/podcast/oreg...
ICYMI:
www.propublica.org/article/oreg...
3 months ago
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ProPublica
3 months ago
Rural residents were upset when Oregon released a statewide map estimating property risk from wildfires. Until then, the impacts of climate change were abstract to many people, one senator said. āThis is a very big chicken coming home to roost.ā By
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How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the Stateās Wildfire Risk Map
After Oregonās record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-9
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OPB
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In 2021, a year after Oregon endured its most destructive fire season on record, state lawmakers ordered a wildfire risk map for every property in the state. A cloud of misinformation and conspiracy theories swirled on social media. The anger quickly spread.
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How the rapid spread of misinformation pushed Oregon lawmakers to kill the stateās wildfire risk map
After Oregonās record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/08/07/propublica-wildfire-risk-map-labor-day-2020-fires-home-owners/
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The Oregonian
3 months ago
Lawmakers wanted to map which properties were most at risk to wildfires. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.
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How rapid spread of misinformation pushed lawmakers to kill Oregonās wildfire risk map
Lawmakers wanted to map which properties were most at risk to wildfires. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/08/how-rapid-spread-of-misinformation-pushed-lawmakers-to-kill-oregons-wildfire-risk-map.html
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Charles Ornstein
3 months ago
ICYMI: How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the Stateās Wildfire Risk Map, by
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How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the Stateās Wildfire Risk Map
After Oregonās record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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Charles Ornstein
3 months ago
In the end, whatās most remarkable about the campaign against Oregonās wildfire map isnāt that misinformation found an audience. Itās that it worked.
@robwdavis.bsky.social
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How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the Stateās Wildfire Risk Map
After Oregonās record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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New from me: After Oregonās record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly. Misinformation got accepted as fact. In this telling, Oregonās hotter, drier climate isnāt the problem; the map is.
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How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the Stateās Wildfire Risk Map
After Oregonās record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners
3 months ago
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The White House says ICE officers are "heroically getting these violent illegal aliens off of American streets with the utmost professionalism." This is what that professionalism looks like in America today. Via
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āWeāll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Outā
Weāve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests ā a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a āmini...
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/
3 months ago
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Daniel Swain
3 months ago
Further update as of ~9:20pm Pacific Time on 7/29: There has been a *localized* upgrade to Tsunami Warning for segment of NorCal coast due to potential for <6 ft inundation near Crescent City. Rest of U.S./Canada West Coast remain under (lesser) Advisory.
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John Ryan
3 months ago
NWS now says a tsunami has formed and is forecasting tsunami heights for West Coast: most locations ~1ft or less, though Crescent City, CA, could see 5.7ft tsunami wave:
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Dr. Wendy Bohon
3 months ago
This event has generated a tsunami - current size is not yet known. Please pay attention to all information and notices from your local officials.
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Harold Tobin
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This is a VERY large earthquake, possibly/probably among the 10 largest ever recorded. A clear subduction zone megathrust event. And it is another M>8.5 event with a notable foreshock (the recent M7.4 in same location), like Tohoku in 2011.
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The Oregonian
3 months ago
6:05p UPDATE: If tsunami waves reached Oregon, the first waves would arrive around 11:40 p.m. The National Weather Service cautioned that waves could be dangerous for many hours, and the first tsunami wave or surge might not be the highest.
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"He became convinced the peptides werenāt the cause of the severe reactions after plugging everything he knows about the incident into an AI app, which he said gave him a 57-page report that 'basically says that it is impossible it was the peptides.'" By
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A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.
Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-injections-raadfest-rfk-jr
4 months ago
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Eric Umansky
4 months ago
This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon: An event planner A coal miner An Uber driver Tortilla maker Barber DoorDashers Soccer coaches Furniture-maker Car washers Taxi drivers HVAC techs Auto parts worker Tire plant worker and 240 more...
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The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison
On March 15, President Donald Trumpās administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as theyād been t...
https://projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-immigrants-trump-deported-cecot/
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Logan Jaffe
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The immensity of this reporting cannot be overstated.
@propublica.org
made an archive of reported, fact-checked info on each of the individuals sent to prison in El Salvador. Trump admin knew that only *six* had been convicted of violent offenses.
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ProPublica
4 months ago
NEW: When Clayton Strong drove his wifeās body to a hospital in Idaho, the coroner took his word that it was a natural death. Five years later, Strongās next wife turned up dead too: shot in the chest in Texas. By
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Did Idahoās Coroner System Let a Man Get Away with Killing His Wife?
Clayton Strong had a history of domestic unrest in two marriages. The womenās families say a more thorough investigation of Betty Strongās death in Idaho might have saved the life of his next wife,ā¦
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-coroners-clayton-strong-wives-murder?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-16
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1/ Thereās a lot of focus today on Nikeās warning that the company expects to take a $1 billion tariff hit, but I want to highlight the people ā besides U.S. consumers ā who could bear the brunt of Trumpās policy. Thread š§µ
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"Trump signed an executive order in April to 'restore American seafood competitiveness' but in revoking the Columbia River agreement has canceled millions of dollars to support the programs that seed the ocean with fish to catch."
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Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmo...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-salmon-columbia-river-tribes-deal
5 months ago
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ProPublica
5 months ago
NEW: Despite a $1.3 billion investment that Portland said would improve the safety of homeless people, deaths in Multnomah County have quadrupled ā from 113 in 2019 to more than 450 in 2023. With
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Portland Said It Was Investing in Homeless Peopleās Safety. Deaths Have Skyrocketed.
The city responded to an increase in homeless deaths by intensifying encampment sweeps and adding emergency shelter at the expense of permanent housing. Experts say this has perpetuated the problem.
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-homeless-deaths-multnomah-county?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=6-11
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Charles Ornstein
5 months ago
Homeless residents of Multnomah County, Oregon, home to Portland, now die at a higher rate than in any major West Coast county with available homeless mortality data: more than twice the rate of those in Los Angeles County.
@streetroots.bsky.social
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Portland Said It Was Investing in Homeless Peopleās Safety. Deaths Have Skyrocketed.
The city responded to an increase in homeless deaths by intensifying encampment sweeps and adding emergency shelter at the expense of permanent housing. Experts say this has perpetuated the problem.
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-homeless-deaths-multnomah-county?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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ProPublica
5 months ago
In investigating Nikeās claims, reporter
@robwdavis.bsky.social
⬠had a breakthrough when he received payroll information for a Cambodian factory. Quick calculations showed that just 1% of workers made 1.9x the minimum wage, the amount that Nike said was typical.
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In Cambodia, Our Journalists Put Nikeās Claims About Factory Conditions to the Test
ProPublica reporter Rob Davis began with a simple question: Had Nike truly become a beacon of environmental stewardship and fair labor practices, as it claimed? To find the answer, he had to travelā¦
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-labor-practices-cambodia-column?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=6-7
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