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LJ Breedlove

@ljbwrites.bsky.social
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Former journalist, then journalism prof, now fiction writer — political thrillers, mysteries, and werewolves. Do you know how hard it is to write political thrillers right now? www.ljbreedlove.com OG KHive. liberal, PNW.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
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.
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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 18/09/2025
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
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Does it…illuminate the thinking and background of a major mayoral candidate? Does it actually do that?
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
Small selection of black and white photos of the faces of the disappeared of the Pinochet dictatorship, now at its Museum of Memory and Human Rights
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/06/2025
Metaphor alert.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Everyone needs to start reporting ICE agents are Iranian sleeper cells.
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Oregon Justice Resource Center @ojrcenter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“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...
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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.
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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hey, MSM: Teen Vogue is carrying the water for all y'all www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...
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How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 12/06/2025
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.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/06/2025
"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
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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
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 activityBorder patrol truck coming into Oxnard fields where farm workers are laboring
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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. 🧵
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"
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Perfect
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/06/2025
At ProPublica, we believe that a strong democracy requires informed citizens. Our reporting shines a light on the forces that threaten our democratic systems — and it's free and accessible to all. Help us continue this critical work. Donate today: propub.li/3Z4N1Sc
Graphic that reads: The right to know is vital. Help us protect it. Donate by June 13.
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LJ Breedlove @ljbwrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
@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.... /1
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LJ Breedlove @ljbwrites.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
And any future book. I have no desire to ever see or hear words from Jake Tapper again. Not that that's anything new. Tapper was a lightweight wannabe reporter from day one. Why anyone thought he could write a book when he couldn't write his own reportage for broadcast is beyond me. Tank that book.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Exaggeration"? If the Republican bill is passed as-is, then 13.7 million will lose health coverage. That's what CBO said, the result of 7.7m from the GOP bill, 4.2m from tax credits GOP isn't extending, and 1.8m from a Trump marketplace rule GOP isn't rescinding or modifying. 13.7m. It's a fact.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
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When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
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Raven Oak @ravenoak.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It really is this simple. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Father Nathan Monk posted on Facebook a message. This is a screenshot of the message, which says, "You are about to watch the whole world respect a chosen name. It's that easy."
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Kathy W @jabber-wocky.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones (AL) is also scheduled to speak along with former U.S. Rep Beto O’Rourke at the Tide Against Trump rally in Tuscaloosa, AL on May 1, 5:00 pm, Snow Hinton Park. Please attend this rally to show your opposition to the authoritarianism of Regime 2.0!
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
In Trump's first 100 days, he alienated us from our allies, crashed the stock market, decimated U.S. cancer research, expelled American toddlers, lost the Canadian election by proxy, and threatened your Social Security checks. But at least he focused on the important stuff.
A Fox News graphic with the headline "President Trump's accomplishments" and three bullet points: Declassified the JFK Files; ended federal support for paper straws; ended production of the penny
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Rev Barber is the architect of Moral Mondays in North Carolina, which were weekly protests at the Capitol in Raleigh.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 28/04/2025
Can confirm: Just spoke to him, and Barber and two others were, in fact, arrested. Story coming.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/04/2025
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
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Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record
Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 10/04/2025
Republicans just passed a budget that guts Medicaid, SNAP, veterans’ benefits, and free school lunches. They swore they'd fix the economy—but this sure as hell ain’t it.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
#MomSky Millions of women could lose the right to vote HANDS Off our Constitution. HANDS OFF our Democracy. Say NO TO THE SAVE ACT Call Your Senators 202 224-3121 #HandsOffHerVote
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Paul Quelle-horreur 👻🎃👻🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 04/04/2025
Mad respect for these remarkable students. youtu.be/eRqnKIc5pHw?...
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Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
SEIU has launched a $100,000 ad buy to demand the release of Tuft graduate employees & held rallies in 18 cities. In an unprecedented fashion, unions are responding to defend their members. paydayreport.com/seiu-launche...
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SEIU Launches $100,000 Ad Campaign & Holds 18 Rallies to Release Immigrant Activist
This week, SEIU launched a major six-figure ad campaign to demand the release of a Turkish national, Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk, a member of SEIU 509, who had been involved in Pales...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/04/2025
I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too. “Fear has a way of being contagious… courage is also contagious.” — Kamala Harris Man, I miss her.
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...
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Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations
In response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged T...
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Why did the FBI & DHS search former Indiana University CS professor #XiaofengWang 's homes last week? Nobody knows. It's all rumors and speculation. So I filed a motion to unseal the search warrant(s) in Indianapolis federal court. It's case no. 25-mc-22 (S.D. Ind.) www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
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Stanford scholar files motion to unseal warrants used to search homes of Xiaofeng Wang
The scholar cited the First Amendment, arguing the warrants should be released.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The Heritage Foundation created a database of voter fraud convictions, and tried to lie with numbers by not providing any context. Brookings put those numbers in context (hundreds of millions of ballots b/n 1982-2024) and easily showed that fraud was nearly non-existent.
Voter fraud is miniscule in the US, with extremely few cases stretching back to the early 1980s.
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
How much worse can the Signal chat fiasco get? Chat member, Steve Witkoff, was not only in Moscow, he may have been inside the Kremlin meeting with Putin while war plans and fist emojis were flying around on his phone. Nothing to see here… except everything. +… www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...
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As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia
As top Trump cabinet members sent texts in a Signal group chat, CBS News analysis shows one of them, Steve Witkoff, was in Russia.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/03/2025
I'm no lawyer, but it seems like discussing war plans in Signal outside a SCIF is maybe just a little bit worse than using a private server to send emails that weren't even marked as classified. But what do I know.
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hillary clinton is smiling while speaking into a microphone in front of a crowd .
ALT: hillary clinton is smiling while speaking into a microphone in front of a crowd .
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We are being governed by the dumbest, most reckless people Trump could find. Read more here: bit.ly/4hR8zs4 #MoronPresident
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"A government contractor and lobbyist who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration bought Vice President JD Vance’s Virginia home in an above-market deal, a sale his spokesperson says was based on the market." $170,000 ABOVE ASKING PRICE
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Lobbyist And Government Contractor Bought JD Vance’s Home For $170,000 Over Asking Price
The buyer, a Trump appointee during his first term, denies any political motive—calling the $1.9 million deal purely market-driven.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/03/2025
They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.
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Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Our colleagues at the Trans Journalists Association have helpful resources for covering trans issues that you can find here: styleguide.transjournalists.org
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Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide
The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Today, around ten thousand people gathered at Tesla showrooms across 50 states and internationally to protest Elon Musk (DOGE). We encourage everyone to join again next Saturday, March 8th, with more events planned.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Our schools are not your churches. No taxpayer vouchers for private religious schools.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/02/2025
For folks asking if I'm going to attend Trump's joint address to Congress next week: no. Instead, I'm choosing to hear directly from Oregonians and will be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live. Oregonians can submit questions in advance here:
docs.google.com
Town Hall Participation Form
If you are a constituent of a lawmaker of an upcoming People's Town Hall, submit your information here! If you have questions or difficulties with the form, email info@peoplestownhall.org
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Littleevil0ne @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hey! Don't forget *NOT* to use the iOS Patreon app to buy things or subscribe to memberships because the app store now has a 30% fee which either the creator is covering themselves or is increasing the price on whatever you're buying (patreon emailed me today to tell me I could choose which)
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/02/2025
Petulant man-baby said what? Trump was a disgrace today, and he’s trying to rewrite what happened in the Oval Office.
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