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...

11/ In response to our earlier questions about wages and how tariffs might impact factory workers, Nike said in statements it is “committed to ethical and responsible manufacturing” and that it expects its suppliers “to continue making progress on fair compensation for a regular work week.”

3/ Just take a look at the stark difference, as shown in our reporting, between Nike’s factory employment at its Chinese suppliers between 2012 and 2025:

Grateful to The @oregonian.com for featuring our reporting on Nike in Cambodia so prominently today.

Story: www.propublica.org/article/nike...

The garment workers said they needed to work overtime to get by. One provided a paystub covering ~ two weeks that shows how hard she had to work.

She was scheduled to work 104 hours in a schedule that runs eight hours a day, Mon-Sat. She added 64 hours of overtime, including 8 hours on Sunday.

When I joined this site, I promised occasional photos of my loyal intern and resident Portuguese water dog, Ozzie.

Today's timeline cleanser is entitled "Can I have some of your pretzel, please?"

When the headline on the destruction of entire swaths of a major city is about scarce resources — in the wealthiest country in the world — it doesn’t bode well.

Thoughtful look at the science around water fluoridation and the politics of it in Oregon, the third-least fluoridated state.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

It’s taken a week on Bluesky to exceed my follower count after 15 years on the former Twitter.

For everyone new around here, I promise links to must-read accountability reporting.

And occasional glimpses of Ozzie.

Almost 4,000 followers in 24 hours. Wow.

That's worth a photo of Ozzie.