@robwdavis.bsky.social
Northwest reporter, ProPublica.
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White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
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 isn’t.
This is what I found.
The Trump administration isn't tracking how many American citizens have been detained by immigration agents.
So ProPublica did. @nicolefoy.bsky.social documented citizens being dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot.
A must-read.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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.
Two things felt different to the ppl I spoke with who’d 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.
President Trump said conditions continue to deteriorate. Here’s what the newsroom saw.
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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...
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 don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
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.”
And now the team is poised to ask for public money to stay in Portland.
www.propublica.org/article/tom-...
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 that’s come under regulatory scrutiny.
With @opb.org
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Where: The Midwest (Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota).
What: Accountability reporting!
Salary: $90K-$125K
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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.
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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.”
29.08.2025 16:49 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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...
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Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.
Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.
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."
The front page of the Wednesday, August 13, 2025 Oregonian newspaper.
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.
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Lawmakers wanted to map which properties were most at risk to wildfires. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.
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ICYMI: How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map, by @robwdavis.bsky.social
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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.
