Alex Baumhardt | @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social

Journalist. Currently covering environment, education @ORCapChronicle @statesnewsroom. Alumna @apmreports @FulbrightSpain. [email protected]

[Indigo Olivier @IndigoOlivier]

if DOGE was actually interested in going after waste, fraud, and abuse, the Pentagon should have been its first stop
https://t.co/h4FYcA14Ac

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

I'm trying to save them.

You can find the deleted docs at https://t.co/8XlteewbRp - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

[Alex Baumhardt | @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social @AlexBaumhardt]

Counties and schools in rural Oregon (and 40 other states) to lose millions in federal money in 2025 after Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives failed to reauthorize a 24-year-old bill that typically pays up to $80 million a year to the state.
https://t.co/cIixZeraFe

[Alex Baumhardt | @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social @AlexBaumhardt]

Great look from @jrlsilverman into one school district employee, and one mother's experience, getting 14-year old to school each day against challenges that include housing, work, financial, health and child care insecurity.
https://t.co/Q0AHrAkajd

[Julia Shumway | jmshumway.bsky.social @JMShumway]

A single father Gov. Tina Kotek met just before Thanksgiving is one of the thousands of Oregonians who found a temporary home in a Project Turnkey shelter as the state struggles to build enough permanent homes.

https://t.co/bX7YDuA3w7

[Alex Baumhardt | @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social @AlexBaumhardt]

This story is WILD: Mysterious takeover of 140-year-old rural Oregon news outlet by AI plagiarists, deployed by unknown source, warns of "online future supercharged by the next unregulated wave of technology from Silicon Valley companies may hold for news consumers."

[Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas]

Last month, I fell down an absolutely bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out who was ripping off articles from Oregon journalists.

What I found was identity theft, plagiarism and an absolutely terrifying future for local journalism led by AI scammers.

https://t.co/gJWcBpo8BW

[Alex Baumhardt | @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social @AlexBaumhardt]

After 5+ years of waiting for some, wildfire survivors across the West will be relieved of paying federal income taxes on recovery settlements and lawyer fees. The Senate passed the Disaster Tax Relief Act Weds. It awaits signature from Pres. Joe Biden
https://t.co/iLho2w0JI4

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

"Deny, deny, deny. That's how you hit your numbers."

Read @propublica's seminal series on how insurance giants like United and Cigna systematically, cruelly—and very, very profitably—deny health coverage every day, at the expense of patients' lives.

https://t.co/mqHzhm995E

[NWS Tsunami Alerts @NWS_NTWC]

The tsunami Warning is canceled for the coastal areas of California and Oregon. No tsunami danger presently exists for this area. This will be the final U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center message for this event. Refer to https://t.co/npoUHxX900 for more information.

[OR Cap Chronicle bsky @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @ORCapChronicle]

Portland General Electric is seeing massive demand from chip manufacturers, data centers since 2020, requiring PGE to buy more, and more expensive, energy, and spend on infrastructure. But those costs are coming down to all customers, CEO letter indicates.
https://t.co/1HR1vMYVku

[NWS Tsunami Alerts @NWS_NTWC]

Tsunami Warning 1 for areas of OR & N. CA: See https://t.co/npoUHxX900 for alert areas. M7.3 045mi SW Eureka, California 1044PST Dec 5

[OR Cap Chronicle bsky @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @ORCapChronicle]

Gov. Tina Kotek just made one last plea to President Joe Biden to protect a stunning stretch of the state known as “Oregon’s Grand Canyon” before he leaves office.
https://t.co/UhqlHh9ix9

[Julia Shumway | jmshumway.bsky.social @JMShumway]

Oregon Democrats appear to have eked out a supermajority in both the state House and Senate, with a narrow win confirmed in a rural Woodburn-based House seat late Tuesday. #orleg #orpol

https://t.co/USDBtkyq99

[OR Cap Chronicle bsky @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @ORCapChronicle]

Oregon's U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden is 'blowing the whistle' on the state's largest electric utility, scrutinizing the role of data centers in massive rate hikes for residential customers - more than 40% - in the last four years.
https://t.co/kc8IugRpLC

[Les Zaitz @LesZaitz]

“The antiquated notion that everything is printed out and placed in some physical ‘master file’ is completely made up in Mr. Zaitz’s head.” - @eoumountaineers attorney. Friday, I got the ordered access to these figments of my imagination. @SPJOregon @RCFP #Localjournalism

[OR Cap Chronicle bsky @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @ORCapChronicle]

The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Oregon Magistrate Judge Mustafa Kasubhai to a lifetime appointment on the U.S. District Court for Oregon on Tuesday.

https://t.co/Ocjvzf8xfh

[OR Cap Chronicle bsky @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @ORCapChronicle]

.@GovTinaKotek vows to "protect Oregon values" as state stockpiles abortion drug

https://t.co/JlpEigigrG #orpol

[OR Cap Chronicle bsky @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @ORCapChronicle]

Democrat @bynum4thewin has now defeated Republican @LChavezDeRemer in electoral matchups three times in the past decade. The AP called #OR05 for Bynum this morning. #orpol

https://t.co/jbLcdlWdq8 by @JMShumway

[Jennifer Shutt @JenniferShutt]

Wildfire survivors appeal to Congress to end federal income tax on settlements, lawyer fees

@AlexBaumhardt @ORCapChronicle

https://t.co/SpV7nAJD66

[Christopher Ingraham🦗 @_cingraham]

APM story from 2018: Pete Hegseth had two separate affairs with co-workers during two marriages, did some nepotism while running a veteran's organization, spent a bunch of campaign funds on Christmas parties for family and friends https://t.co/XRMO9Dl7zQ