Journalist covering environment and education @oregoncapitalchronicle.com, part of @statesnewsroom.com
Alex Baumhardt
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"the bill would reduce monthly fruit and vegetable benefits from $52 to $13 for breastfeeding mothers and from $26 to $10 for young children."
“They have the guns and the money,” he said of the government. “I got the truth and the moms.” Absolutely wild reporting from @anniewaldman.bsky.social.
www.propublica.org/article/mark...
Last week Paramount execs blamed the massive opposition to their shitty merger on "antisemitism." This week they're blaming Netflix. You can smell the desperation as public opposition mounts and a collaborative state antitrust lawsuit looms
Could this be the year a Democrat wins the Central Kentucky’s congressional seat? kentuckylantern.com/2026/06/09/c...
A major criminal justice reform group says Oregon is ‘mistaken’ in allowing some federal law enforcement agents to have the undercover plates, but Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek argues they have legitimate public safety needs.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/06/09/u...
NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it.
www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Anthropoic founder: “How will we ensure the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this.”
@bcmerchant.bsky.social: “They're called taxes. And just because AI companies don't really like that idea, they don't like the concept of being taxed, doesn't mean they don't exist.”
In a letter obtained by POLITICO, Paramount Skydance accused Netflix of trying to “poison” its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
World Cup hasn't kicked off yet, but so far...
1. Somali referee denied entry to US at Miami airport (ESPN story below)
2. Iraqi team photographer denied entry to US at Chicago airport
3. Iraqi player questioned almost 7 hours at Chicago airport
More on Iraqis: abc7chicago.com/post/photogr...
Alex Baumhardt
public health guy
Karl Bode
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
Absolutely insane story from @suryamattu.com.
Bloomberg found a little-known tax loophole exploited by the rich is costing the Treasury $48 billion a year…roughly enough to fund NASA twice over.
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
www.wired.com
McKenna Horsley
Oh man, even more World Cup team travel headaches...
4. "more than a dozen" Iran team staff denied visas
5. Swiss player denied boarding flight in Zurich, still working it out
6. South Africa delayed travel over staff visas, but later took blame
Begs question: How much of this is "normal"?
Shaanth Nanguneri
House Republicans joined by 4 Democrats vote to literally take food away from pregnant women and children
Somali referee Omar Artan has been denied entry into the United States after getting selected to officiate in the World Cup.
Millions of WIC recipients would have less money for fruits and vegetables under the legislation, which funds the Agriculture Department and other agencies.
Anthropic visited the Vatican and gave a speech as the Pope presented his encyclical on AI. The next week, Anthropic filed for what is likely to be the largest IPO in history. @bcmerchant.bsky.social explains how these events are related: on-the-media.visitlink.me/-Rowuq
Adam Rose
dell cameron
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
