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Alex Baumhardt

@alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
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Journalist covering environment and education @oregoncapitalchronicle.com, part of @statesnewsroom.com

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Met with 36 journalists in NYC this week to talk about climate change and economic trends and as depressing as that reality is, what takes the cake was learning that McClatchy, right after recent mass layoffs at the Miami Herald, posted positions for influencers at pay exceeding most reporters.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
From Kotek: “Today, I'm taking the next step by directing state agencies to immediately stop work on any state owned land transaction connected to a new data center. Not just here in Salem, but everywhere in Oregon where the state owns the land.”
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek joins a coalition of groups outside the State Capitol asking for a moratorium on data centers right now. Earlier today she announced a pause on data center approvals for state lands and buildings, is expected to announce further step here today. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Yakama Nation lamprey harvest/salvage on Willamette/Wa'lúmt this morning for @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Oregon Republican gubernatorial hopeful and former NBA player Chris Dudley concedes primary race to state Sen. Christine Drazan, a Canby Republican. Said he called Drazan to offer his support and is “still bullish, still positive on our future as a state.” @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Dudley watches results come in showing opponents Drazan and Diehl ahead. “It's 2nd quarter and you're down, so you're not happy about being down. But it’s only the 2nd quarter. So we'll see,” he said. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
No escaping the basketball puns for former NBA player and Oregon Republican gubernatorial hopeful Chris Dudley at his Portland watch party for tonight’s primary. I’ll be here covering for @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Portland Police Bureau have arrived in tactical gear to remove protestors from the front of the ICE building, warning of targeted arrests for attempts to breach the gate. Rare to see local officers get this involved in crowd management at the federal building.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Have not seen level of restraint from DHS officers as I’ve seen at Portland ICE facility so far tonight. Protestors shook open gate (did not cross threshold into building) and about a dozen officers are just standing, holding a line. No flash grenades, no gas, no one on the roof with pellet guns.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Three man band pops up at Portland ICE facility protest, which has grown to a couple hundred @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
About 100 to 150 protestors gathered at Portland ICE facility south of downtown, not affiliated with No Kings March. Among them is Jack Dickinson, “the Portland chicken,” lead plaintiff in a suit against DHS over excessive force against protestors @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Update: Reading estimates of up to 30k protestors at Portland No Kings today. Still shy of the 40k estimated in October. Another protest later this afternoon will end at the Portland ICE facility. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The No Kings march through Portland begins on a new route over the Willamette River. Well over ten thousand here but a smaller crowd than earlier No Kings protests. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
About a dozen out here in Portland frog brigade protesting with “tactical frivolity,” frog Matthew Gottula said: “to puncture the idea that we're a war torn city. We're not. We are a lovely, wonderful people. We care about our neighbors” @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Thousands out in Portland at Willamette Riverfront for no kings march. Many signs and speakers, besides protesting Trump, focus on ire at ICE. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Two offices in Oregon’s Capitol. One for a lobbyists association. One for journalists who make up the Oregon Capitol Press Corps. Guess which has more members? If the obvious answer bothers you, it’s as good a time as any to donate to @oregoncapitalchronicle.com oregoncapitalchronicle.com/donate/
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Well over 1,000 students walked out and Marched at the Oregon state capitol in Salem today too.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This story is so notable for all the Oregon Republicans who dodged simple questions from reporters at the Capitol when they could not simply ignore our emails. Fabulous and illuminating reporting from @shaanthx.bsky.social oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/16/a...
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
About two dozen protestors and a bunch of media outside arraignment for independent journalist Don Lemon and civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong at federal court in St Paul, MN over Jan. protest at Cities Church against Pastor David Eastwood, local ICE field director. @minnesotareformer.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A couple hundred people have returned to the ICE building to protest. More Portland Police officers and firefighters have shown up. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Just arrived to a march against ICE in Portland, OR, blocks from the ICE processing facility that has been the site of ongoing protests. Members of 30 unions organized the march, and there are well over 1,000 people here at Elizabeth Carothers Park @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Retired doctor Jennifer Black with the group Doctors Defending Democracy said members of the group who work for Legacy have shared concerns about ICE officers being allowed access to patients without a lawyer present and violating patient privacy laws.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
100 or so people at a protest starting outside Legacy Emmanuel Hospital on N. Vancouver in northeast Portland. Event organized by PDXCD Portland Contra las Deportaciones to protest the hospital being “the go-to hospital to bring detainees injured during their arrests due to ICE violence.”
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Crowd is also here to protest US military action in Venezuela. Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo speaks to the crowd.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
About 200 people are at the Willamette River waterfront in downtown Portland to protest ICE at an event organized by the group Indivisible. @jmshumway.bsky.social and I will follow events in Portland and in Oregon’s capital Salem today for @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Here’s how we do it (including putting them in a separate section on our homepage labeled “COMMENTARY” so readers never confuse them for reported articles:
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Looks like I’m the first one here at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. District Court House in Portland for day 1 of 3 day trial in State of Oregon et al. v. Trump et al. over Trump’s attempted Guard deployment. (traumatized by being kicked to overflow last time). Follow @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is actually something that Judge Graber, the dissenting judge on the 9th Circuit's Monday decision, brings up as worrying:
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This is the scene at the Portland ICE facility right now where the Trump admin wants to send hundreds of National Guard troops to protect federal workers and property.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Federal officers pepper ball protestors at Portland ICE facility just now.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Dan and Samantha Gray of Estacada, Oregon are first time protestors at the Portland ICE facility. They came, in matching homemade frog hats Samantha crocheted, after going to No Kings marches in Sandy and Estacada. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @statesnewsroom.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
At the ICE facility a few miles south of downtown Portland and No Kings march, roughly 100 people gathered to protest. Portland No Kings organizers were clear they were not involved in any organizing of protests that had or would happen at the ICE @statesnewsroom.com @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Among arguments Portland Police Chief Bob Day has made against Trump’s attempted Guard deployment (and Noem claim that PPB can’t do enough to protect ICE facility) is that PPB has reciprocity agreements with nearby cities.Today, Hillsboro police are helping with crowd control at Portland No Kings.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
@portlandbangers.bsky.social Saucy T. Sausage out at Portland No Kings march
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Rebellion? No Kings protestors peacefully march down 2nd in downtown Portland chanting “hey hey ho ho Donald Trump has got to go.” @statesnewsroom.com @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Crowd swells into the tens of thousands in Portland as the March begins @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @statesnewsroom.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Huge frog turnout in Portland as well, an homage to the inflatable protest frogs that have become mainstays at protests outside the Portland ICE facility. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @statesnewsroom.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Counter protestors square off at No King’s Portland while crowd shouts “don’t take the bait!” @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @statesnewsroom.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Thousands in Portland getting ready to march today @statesnewsroom.com @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
In downtown Portland, Unpresidented Brass Band is out in big numbers in their banana suits. Since their clarinet player was arrested at the ICE facility in Portland Sunday the band is “more resolute, actually, at this point, I think, than we were before,” said founder Miles Thompson.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Hoping Mike Johnson knew these were costumes 🙏
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
There were so many naked bike riders @bikeportland.org reports in the thousands of riders.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
DHS and Fed police getting a lot more bold about pushing crowd. I also noticed for the first time police from the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the mix.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Absolutely pissing rain but the naked bike riders just made it!
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Brass band at a (peaceful) protest of ICE in Portland Sunday afternoon.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Reports are being reported:
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
@cgiardinelli.bsky.social and I tried to see if they’d talk with us as the instagrammers went by in Noem’s convoy as they all left:
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