LJ Breedlove

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

feels like a good day to mention that your library might give you access to Kanopy, a streaming service that is, as far as I know, not evil

Does it…illuminate the thinking and background of a major mayoral candidate? Does it actually do that?

Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships

I grew up this way. We were poor.
Mom and I put in a two-acre vegetable garden every year —canning, freezing.... I raised 100 baby chicks which we butchered in the fall. We had pigs, a milk cow.
It took 5-8 acres. We still bought salt, sugar, flour....
It was damned hard work.
This is a joke.

Metaphor alert.

Count me in, then.

Everyone needs to start reporting ICE agents are Iranian sleeper cells.

Chocolate? Because I'll chip in — it's been one of those days for some reason.

Question:
Dropping a bomb on a nuclear facility seems particularly foolhardy. I know Iran is saying that they've moved things to a secure location, but....
It feels like Trump didn't just start WWIII, he risked starting a nuclear chain reaction. True?

Question:
Dropping a bomb on a nuclear facility seems particularly foolhardy. I know Iran is saying that they've moved things to a secure location, but....
It feels like Trump didn't just start WWIII, he risked starting a nuclear chain reaction. True?

Are you ‘jonesing to fire less lethal rounds’ and ‘launch gas canisters’? Oregon State Police SWAT email misses mark Oregon State Police tried to conceal this controversial SWAT recruitment email when The Oregonian/OregonLive requested it. Now state police are distancing themselves from it.

“An Oregon State Police recruitment email for the SWAT unit trumpeted fatal shootings by its members and the elite unit’s use of an arsenal of weapons.”

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

Hey, MSM: Teen Vogue is carrying the water for all y'all

www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...

via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok

I probably should have phrased it 'in spite of what we taught.'
I see hope in the rise of independent journalists, but I read a lot. Too many don't, and we are not seeing a commitment to civic journalism on the national media, neither print or broadcast.
Instead we're seeing a dystopian movie.

I used your book — and Postman's — in my advanced mass media and society class.
I'm not sure if we were over-optimistic or naive, but they've managed to make a dystopian movie out of what we taught.

Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”.

This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.

"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California

A photo of a UFW march where workers are holding up signs saying "With these hands we feed you" and red UFW shirts and flags and with a text overlay saying: UFW statement on increased Federal activity

Border patrol truck coming into Oxnard fields where farm workers are laboring

We are aware of multiple federal operations impacting farm workers across California today. To all working people in California, remember: we are in this together.

Our statement: ufw.org/ufw-statemen...

#WeFeedYou

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Perfect

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Coast counts as border....

And not just platforming neo-Nazis, but ones ignorant of history. Every history department I've known have had some pretty right-wing (white, male, ofc) professors already.
But Holocaust deniers? No, ignorant isn't a diversity of viewpoints.

The author of the report posted his original charts in the comments (poster taking things out of context). And guess what, at every education level, men still make more money than women, by approximately the same margin they have for over a decade.
So why do men still make more than women?

How is the FT headline true—your whole point—when men are still making more money at apparently the same margin they have been for more than a decade?
Shouldn't that gap be the focus? Why do men w/same education make more? We still haven't fixed that?
Maybe this song isn't about you men.

Letter from the Editor: Five years ago, unprecedented protests tested our newsroom Footage of vandals smashing windows at Pioneer Place and the nearby Apple Store played for weeks on some national channels, and some viewers took that to be pervasive throughout Portland.

www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...

I wrote a suspense series of a college newsroom — an eclectic newsroom based on the students I've known over the years facing the biggest challenges of our time. You can find those books wherever you buy your ebooks. First is free.
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@theoregonian
has a letter from the editor this morning about covering the George Floyd protests. It's... interesting.
I was nodding along, until the editor gets to what the newspaper should have done differently. Judge for yourself. (Link in comments.)
I have a different take....
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