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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 “depopulate rural areas.”

RFK Jr. in January: "If confirmed, I will do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines." Today:

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. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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.

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.”

The Idaho coroners' association president said his focus right now is on “low-hanging fruit” 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. www.propublica.org/article/idah...

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. 🧵

NEW: 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 inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

NEW: Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved. It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge. With @opb.org

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."

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...

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. “This is a very big chicken coming home to roost.” By @robwdavis.bsky.social

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.

Lawmakers wanted to map which properties were most at risk to wildfires. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

ICYMI: How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map, by @robwdavis.bsky.social

In the end, what’s most remarkable about the campaign against Oregon’s wildfire map isn’t that misinformation found an audience. It’s that it worked. @robwdavis.bsky.social

New from me: After Oregon’s 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, Oregon’s hotter, drier climate isn’t the problem; the map is.

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 @nicolefoy.bsky.social & @mckenziefunk.com:

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. tsunami.gov/events/P...

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: tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

This event has generated a tsunami - current size is not yet known. Please pay attention to all information and notices from your local officials. www.tsunami.gov

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.

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.

"He became convinced the peptides weren’t 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 @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social.

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... projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

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.

NEW: When Clayton Strong drove his wife’s body to a hospital in Idaho, the coroner took his word that it was a natural death. Five years later, Strong’s next wife turned up dead too: shot in the chest in Texas. By @audreydutton.bsky.social

1/ There’s a lot of focus today on Nike’s warning that the company expects to take a $1 billion tariff hit, but I want to highlight the people — besides U.S. consumers — who could bear the brunt of Trump’s policy. Thread 🧵

"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." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: Despite a $1.3 billion investment that Portland said would improve the safety of homeless people, deaths in Multnomah County have quadrupled — from 113 in 2019 to more than 450 in 2023. With @streetroots.bsky.social‬

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

In investigating Nike’s 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.

My question was a simple one: Had Nike truly become a beacon of environmental stewardship and fair labor practices, as it claimed? Finding the answer took a 15,000-mile round trip to Cambodia. www.propublica.org/article/nike...

NEW: ProPublica reporter @robwdavis.bsky.social 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 travel across the Pacific Ocean.

Since fall, 2022, I've been trying to figure out why Newtok's relocation is riddled with problems - the same kind this move was supposed to solve. Newtok’s residents are Americans - not a “they,” but an “us,” and that’s why I chased this story for so long. www.propublica.org/article/newt...

Brands like Nike that increase employment in Cambodia while raising concerns about labor rights are sending mixed messages, labor advocates say. “It’s about protecting their market and accessibility and also credibility. That’s all.” By @robwdavis.bsky.social‬

Trump sent 238 Venezuelan immigrants to a El Salvador prison in March. Trump & aides called them “rapists,” “savages,” “monsters” and “the worst of the worst.” The gov't said it used a thorough vetting process. Its own data shows only 32 of the 238 had convictions, most were nonviolent offenses.

Despite repeatedly raising concerns about labor rights, Nike has grown its presence in Cambodia from about 16,000 factory workers in May 2013 to more than 57,000 as of March. Read more: propub.li/4kIhjCC

New from me: Cambodia has descended deeper into authoritarian rule. Journalists jailed; critics killed; media outlets shuttered. The world's biggest athletic apparel co said it was concerned. But its factory employment increased there anyway. Today, it's Nike's third largest source of clothing.

NEW: This tribal lender has boosted the economy of its Alaska town. But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone to outsider Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil. With @adn.com

Three of our colleagues are being placed on PIPs today and @propublica.org management has refused to allow stewards in those meetings. We're not shutting up about this — our colleagues deserve better and we're extremely disappointed in management for denying us this basic union right.

NEW: As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few grasped what was coming. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and @cgaribay.bsky.social

When they set out to make their power supply 100% green, Northwest leaders ignored the fact that the region lacks the wiring to deliver new sources of renewable energy to people’s homes. Little has been done to change that, ProPublica and @opb.org found.

“Senators and representatives like me, we cannot continue to believe our own PR, that we have been successful in promoting a renewable electricity future,” said Ken Helm, a member of the Oregon House Committee on Climate, Energy and Environment. “We are not heading in that direction."

What’s held the Northwest back in adding new sources of renewable energy is a bottleneck Oregon and Washington leaders paid little attention to when they set out to go 100% green, an investigation by @propublica.org ‬⁩ and @opb.org ‬⁩found.

I've reported on the environment for 12 years in Oregon. I can't tell you how many times I've heard Oregon leaders call the state an environmental leader -- on issues where it's actually a laggard. Time and again, the reality under the rhetoric is damning. The latest example:

Instead of moving production back to the U.S., industry watchers expect apparel companies will continue to manufacture products in countries with low wages, but manufacturing will shift to those not subject to tariffs as onerous as those on China. By @matthewkish.bsky.social, w/ @oregonian.com

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