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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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ceej @ceej.online · Mar 26

the most annoying thing about living here is tourists asking to meet She Who Slumbers in the Lake. buddy, we all want to meet her. that’s why we lure the tourists

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 8h

BREAKING via @mattdpearce.com: An overwhelming majority of Los Angeles Times journalists (over 85%) have voted to authorize their union’s leaders to call a strike if such a step is necessary to reach a new contract.

www.mediaguildwest.org/news/la-time...

L.A. Times journalists vote to authorize newsroom’s first open-ended strike — Media Guild of the West

Eighty-five percent of the Los Angeles Times Guild, the union that represents reporters, editors, designers, photographers and other journalists at the West Coast’s largest newspaper, voted this week ...

www.mediaguildwest.org

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 1d

lol, here's some incredible college football content. In the hype video Oregon posted after Penn State, Dan Lanning lectures his team on broken windows theory, but it's pro-breaking windows.

"Each time we get a stop on defense, that's a broken window." www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwSH...

a screencap of Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning standing in front of a projector screen displaying a slideshow. The current slide has a headline "BROKEN WINDOWS THEORY."

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 14h

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

channel-6.ghost.io/its-just-dif...

IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

channel-6.ghost.io

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 12h

sometimes there’s nothing quite as eye-opening as seeing a well regarded journalist’s raw copy

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 12h

a warning for every newsletter writer going solo right now: you can literally win the Nobel Prize for literature and still desperately need an editor

Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 13h

bro i don't need to proofread my tweets you're being ridiculous

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14h

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 2d

Kaleb’s Los Angeles memorial will be held this Thursday afternoon. If you cared about him and would like to send flowers or well wishes, DM me for delivery instructions etc

Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 12d

my husband @kalebhorton.bsky.social hated the phrase “passed away” and had nothing but scorn for softening euphemisms in general. he was a firm believer in the comedy rule of threes, but only if the third thing can hit as a surprise. and he just died

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 2d

one of these journalists is 25 and had worked in public-radio newsrooms in alaska since she was 18. just a really brave thing to do at that point in her career, especially in that media landscape and broader economy

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 2d

This is notable www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 3d

2/ When DHS agents fired on reporters in LA earlier this year, we took them to court –– and the courts sided with a free press.

Across the country, The NewsGuild-CWA will continue to fight for journalists and defend the right to free speech for all Americans.

newsguild.org/victory-dhs-...

VICTORY: DHS Barred from Brutalizing Journalists, Legal Observers and Protesters | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

On Wednesday, a federal court issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from brutalizing journalists and protesters.

newsguild.org

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3d

Bring back inscrutable security posters

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 3d

The most obvious conclusion is that it has now become more than evident that citizens are withdrawing and disengaging from the arena of conventional politics. Even when they vote, and this is less often than before, or in smaller proportions, their preferences emerge closer and closer to the moment of voting itself, and are now less easily guided by cohesive partisan cues. For whatever reason, and there is no shortage of hypotheses offering to explain this change, there are now fewer and fewer standpatters, and hence more and more citizens who, when they think about politics at all, are likely to operate on the basis of short-term considerations and influences.
Electorates in this sense are becoming progressively destructured, affording more scope to the media to play the role of agenda-setter, and requiring a much greater campaign effort from parties and candidates. What we see here, in short, is a form of voting behaviour that is increasingly contingent, and a type of voter whose choices appear increasingly accidental or even random.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 3d

obtained this on a random @sharonk.bsky.social rec and am vibing with it

RULING THE VOID
THE HOLLOWING OF WESTERN
DEMOCRACY
PETER MAIR

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 3d

we’re gonna need a bluer sky

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 3d

well I guess I didn’t need that Paramount+ subscription anymore

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David Sherman @philsandthrills.bsky.social · 4d

gotta teach people to be afraid of jesse plemons

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 4d

I guess this is a good time to say that I finally saw Alex Garland’s “Civil War” (over somebody’s shoulder on the plane) and despite being an arresting film I don’t know what the point of it was. Apart from civil war being bad. Didn’t need photojournalists for that!

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 4d

One of the largest school districts in the nation, which was taken over by the state of Texas, deciding to shut out local media (us at chron.com and the Houston Chronicle included) should be a bigger story imo

Chron.com @chron.com · 4d

Get ready for the news, straight from the source.

HISD plans to shut out outside media, hire its own news crew

Get ready for the news, straight from the source.

bit.ly

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 4d

violent busting into the Capitol building during the key transition of power and then milling around and taking selfies

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 5d

We should do cap and trade for takes on here. I would happily sell off my right to participate in Swift discourse for a few more shots on goal about burrito taxis. Really force people to lock in, clear out the amateurs on any given subject.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 4d

I like this

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