Danielle Venton
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Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis | Food and Environment Reporting Network
In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the grain depot where he picked up food for…
thefern.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
part of why car insurance has gone up so much!
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
part of why car insurance has gone up so much!
Read the story. It’s not an opinion piece
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Read the story. It’s not an opinion piece
Like, not the focus of this piece. Suggesting you read it. Shows long term violence prevention projects and community involvement paying off
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Like, not the focus of this piece. Suggesting you read it. Shows long term violence prevention projects and community involvement paying off
This is a great piece of journalism. All ya other commenters should REALLY READ THE DAMN ARTICLE before adding your pithy insight.
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is a great piece of journalism. All ya other commenters should REALLY READ THE DAMN ARTICLE before adding your pithy insight.
this feels similar to when people say journalists are the problem. we've got lots of problems and lots of contributors to those problems, and could some scientists or journos be better at some times ... yeah I guess sure but those are like categorically not the feet at which to lay the blame
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
this feels similar to when people say journalists are the problem. we've got lots of problems and lots of contributors to those problems, and could some scientists or journos be better at some times ... yeah I guess sure but those are like categorically not the feet at which to lay the blame
-take up cross stitch
-hike a really long trail
-join club that does something that scares you (this 40yrold has joined a fucking women's choir. I love the other ladies, but am also terrified of singing in public)
-read Middlemarch over a weekend while in a cabin drinking tequila
-rollerskate
-hike a really long trail
-join club that does something that scares you (this 40yrold has joined a fucking women's choir. I love the other ladies, but am also terrified of singing in public)
-read Middlemarch over a weekend while in a cabin drinking tequila
-rollerskate
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
-take up cross stitch
-hike a really long trail
-join club that does something that scares you (this 40yrold has joined a fucking women's choir. I love the other ladies, but am also terrified of singing in public)
-read Middlemarch over a weekend while in a cabin drinking tequila
-rollerskate
-hike a really long trail
-join club that does something that scares you (this 40yrold has joined a fucking women's choir. I love the other ladies, but am also terrified of singing in public)
-read Middlemarch over a weekend while in a cabin drinking tequila
-rollerskate
Starting the meadow after a successful test fire
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Starting the meadow after a successful test fire