Congrats to Father Gregory Boyle, S.J., M.A. '85, Homeboy Industries founder, LMU honorary degree recipient, and the university’s 2011 #LMUGrad commencement speaker, who today will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor.

Today The White House announced that Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries will receive the Medal of Freedom.

As a journalist surely you understand that you have to build trust with your sources. Why would they trust you? The ways you’ve chosen to frame ongoing developments in your posts and in your on-air commentary have made your biases clear.

Just got home from the hospital. Wasn’t expecting the night to end like this, but please continue following the Daily Bruin’s coverage on the pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA and the violence toward it. Amid the assaults on reporters, student journalism will remain so important.

Can’t help but notice that all of the updates are written using active voice except for the first one, 11 p.m. Who threw the firecrackers?

.Daily Bruin also reports that last night its student reporters were followed, deliberately assaulted, and the assailants filmed the assault: twitter.com/dailybruin/sta…

From the Daily Bruin editorial board:

“The world is watching. As helicopters fly over Royce Hall, we have a question.

Will someone have to die on our campus tonight for you to intervene, Gene Block?”
dailybruin.com/2024/05/01/edi…

Solid reporting on last night’s events at UCLA from student journalists on the ground. Sobering to follow the real-time updates from the Daily Bruin feed.
dailybruin.com/2024/05/01/pro…

L.A. budget hearings start today. This is a people's guide to understanding the proposed budget — so you can follow your taxpayer dollars.

I get into how the budget works, unpacking the documents, and the big Q of how much can change at this stage💸💸
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This year's graduating class also missed out on high school graduation and a traditional freshman year of college due to the pandemic. 😐

One thing about the call for divestment is that it forces us to confront just how naturalized the imperialist position is. It's considered a non-political issue for higher ed institutions to profit from war, genocide, and occupation. What's 'political' is asking them to stop.

FYI USC: California’s Leonard Law extends protections like those provided by the First Amendment to students at private colleges and universities.

Earlier today, students at LMU marched to the president’s office to deliver a list of demands, including that the administration make a clear and decisive call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

Considering the tumult at universities this year, I am so grateful to be where I am. It's not just about having rock stars on campus; John Legend Janelle Monae are also two artists who create work of conscience and consciousness. I have never looked forward to commencement
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spare me your takes on LA.

I’ve seen my city open its heart wide for folks.
I know how hard LA can love.

industry and people are not synonymous.
seek the people, you’ll see.

The Supreme Court is deciding a case with colossal implications for homelessness on the West Coast. We can’t arrest people into housing that doesn’t exist. We need a housing-first approach that helps folks instead of criminalizing them for exercising a biological necessity.

I dream of a world where we don't have to do a Go-Fund-Me for funeral expenses every time a farm worker in Yolo County dies, because they have strong life insurance benefits as part of a UFW contract.

Until then though: gofundme.com/f/funeral-expe…

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It will just be gone.

Support the journalists exposing stories the mainstream press under-reports, spins or ignores.

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Cheryl Grills, Loyola Marymount University prof. and California reparations task force member, outlines the moral issues in righting the wrongs of slavery’s long-term harms for descendants of enslaved people. bit.ly/LMUmReparations
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