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Journalism instructor, editor, mom, wife, Oregonian, defender of #democracy and a #freepress

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I heard he TACO’d out at the ATM machine. Maybe he couldn’t remember his PIN number.

12.03.2026 13:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess I don’t understand your “why now?” comment.

12.03.2026 13:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Blooskee?

12.03.2026 06:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To disenfranchise Democrats in future elections. “Counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day doesn’t just dilute the valid ballots—it specifically and disproportionately harms Republican candidates and voters.”

12.03.2026 06:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That’s a Mike Johnson response. “I don’t want to answer, so I’ll tell you I don’t know what we all know.”

10.03.2026 00:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They *were* terrible people. They just weren’t as evil as these people.

05.03.2026 03:43 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Home Alone 2. The original was untainted.

05.03.2026 03:39 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I guess only *real* Christians defend the Holocaust. And only *real* Christians ridicule people for being offended by the suggestion that murdering millions of innocent people was God’s plan.

05.03.2026 03:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hear, hear!

But you’re SO delicious, cheese. I wish I knew how to quit you!

05.03.2026 03:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He borrowed from George W. Bush’s WMDs Bullshit Handbook, so now he thinks he has to talk like him. This is Trump trying to be “presidential.”

02.03.2026 19:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you stand for nothing, Burr, what will you fall for?

02.03.2026 01:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
How the Union Pulled Off a Presidential Election During the Civil War | HISTORY Fearing Abraham Lincoln would lose reelection, some wondered if the country should delay the election.

www.history.com/articles/civ...

01.03.2026 18:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Her position? Ask Putin.

01.03.2026 00:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is she now saying she supports war with Iran?

01.03.2026 00:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Has she changed her rhetoric? Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t think Putin allowed her to go off script.

28.02.2026 23:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When you’re caught between Putin the Rock and Trump the Hard Place.

28.02.2026 23:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, but no president since FDR has seemed concerned about that technicality. Congress hasn’t declared war since 1942, but we’ve still gone to “war” plenty of times.

28.02.2026 23:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unlike Ukraine, we would likely not be experiencing combat on our soil that would make holding elections unsafe and would force citizens to flee the country en masse.

28.02.2026 23:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lincoln didn’t. The states did.

28.02.2026 23:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Congress has abdicated its power.

28.02.2026 23:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m sure Ukraine would hold elections during a war if it were safe to do so and if their enemy hadn’t forced so many citizens out of the country.

28.02.2026 23:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A lot of local news outlets do (or at least did) journalism that gets picked up by national outlets. We can’t have a conversation about journalism’s demise without acknowledging the consequences of gutting local newsrooms.

27.02.2026 19:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Most news organizations don’t have high-profile political and opinion desks though. But pretty much all of them have experienced financial constraints that have harmed their ability to do high-quality journalism.

27.02.2026 18:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Right. Anyone who thinks *this* is what kills investigative journalism has not been paying attention for the past 18 years. Newsrooms have been shrinking and/or shuttering since the Great Recession.

Granted, issues tied to ownership are the No. 1 reason for this.

27.02.2026 18:26 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

To be clear, I wasn’t suggesting she was to blame. Just saying there’s not much for the news to report when the allegations are withdrawn. You’re right; Trump & Co. is ultimately responsible for that.

27.02.2026 17:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She dropped the suits because she was threatened.

27.02.2026 01:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Because she dropped the lawsuits, unfortunately.

27.02.2026 01:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ooh, I've been craving some roadkill BBQ.

27.02.2026 01:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And "good business" often meant doing what they thought was necessary to stave off government interference.

27.02.2026 01:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Absolutely. Good point. I brought up j-school because one of my key takeaways from my education was the importance of journalism as a pillar of democracy. So it's hard for me to make sense of a newsroom culture that prioritizes, as you aptly put it, performative objectivity over democratic norms.

26.02.2026 17:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0