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. 🧵
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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.
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...
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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
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 Oregon’s rural communities. Renewable energy advocates and lawmakers treat activis...
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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."
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 Oregon’s rural communities. Renewable energy advocates and lawmakers treat activis...
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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...
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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.”
How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map
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.
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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.
How the rapid spread of misinformation pushed Oregon lawmakers to kill the state’s wildfire risk map
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.
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Lawmakers wanted to map which properties were most at risk to wildfires. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.
How rapid spread of misinformation pushed lawmakers to kill Oregon’s wildfire risk map
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
How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map
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.
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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
How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map
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.
