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Kathy Parks
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Retired IBM SW Product Mgr. Angel investor in women-led tech startups.
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Hollllly moly, when it turns the corner. That is a lot of people.
Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
January 23, 2026 at 11:19 PM
2026 Book2: In a dystopian near-future California, a young woman develops a religion called Earthseed. Her home and family are destroyed by gangs. She escapes and gathers other survivors to build a new community.
January 12, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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From license-plate readers to drones and cell-site simulators, ICE relies on a growing web of surveillance.

Here’s how hackers are shining a light on it—and why that matters. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.
www.eff.org
January 11, 2026 at 8:58 PM
First book of 2026. How we transitioned from antiquity to the renaissance to the modern age. Fascinating!
January 7, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Finished watching season 1 of appletv Pluribus. Not sure I'll come back to it for season 2.
December 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Book 34. A writer steals a story plot from a student, who dies mysteriously. Years later, an anonymous stalker threatens to reveal the theft. Suspenseful.
December 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
How much snow will we get this year? Thinking back to Boston's "snowmageddon" winter 10 years ago

www.wbur.org/news/2025/01...
The wildest stats and numbers from Boston's 'Snowmageddon' winter of 2015
Boston got over 110 inches of snow during the historic 2015 winter — and that wasn't the only wild number. Here’s a look back at some of the most remarkable "Snowmaggedon" statistics.
www.wbur.org
December 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Reviewing goals for 2025, one was to read physical books. I read 33 (so far) this year, up from single digit quantity last year. I'm calling that goal "accomplished"
December 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Book 33. The author has done many interviews on these topics, so I ended up skimming much of this. Good compilation of weird beliefs of today's tech billionaires
December 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
www.mos.org/events/caree.... Such a great idea, partnering betw local companies and museums to hold a job fair.
Careers of Tomorrow 2025
Join us at the Museum’s Careers of Tomorrow, where we will focus on supporting equitable workforce development in STEM careers. The showcase includes a job fair, mentorship opportunities, panels, talk...
www.mos.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Book 32. A much more detailed scenario of events than House of Dynamite. Chilling!
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Grocery store is already packed at 7am Monday before Thanksgiving! =:o
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It's that time of year again!
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Gotta agree. I was on my phone, halfway thru this movie; flat & disappointing.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
A House of Dynamite is both political fantasy and major disappointment
Kathryn Bigelow’s Netflix ‘what if?’ drama is the director’s most frustratingly assembled and visually flat film to date
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
US Constitution Article 1 Section 5: "...Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting."
so how can the House be adjourned for more than 3 days?
October 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Book 31, to close out Banned Books Week. #FreedomtoRead
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Book #30. Presents Jefferson as a political figure that “shaped America” rather than a full biography. The author was more in love with his own phraseology than details around his subject. This was quite different from the Jon Meacham biography.
October 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Book 29. A man in blitz-era London stumbles across a spy ring and doesn't know who to trust. He survives a bomb blast but loses his memory as the spies trap him.
October 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Banned Books Week starts tomorrow. Resources and more information at bannedbooksweek.org

#Censorshipisso1984 #BannedBooksWeek
Banned Books Week | October 5-11, 2025
bannedbooksweek.org
October 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Book 28: An idealistic black teen is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He ends up in reform school where he is brutalized but never loses his idealism.
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Book 27: "back to school" with Civics.   Selected essays in The Federalist, along with podcast "Civics in a Year" from Arizona State University civics.asu.edu/America250.
September 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Book 26: This book critiques how history is taught and gives examples of persons and events where the actual circumstances are obscured, and "heroes" are not so perfect.  When historical events are distilled down to Disneyfied summaries, we cannot learn from our shared story.
August 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Book 25. A satire about an author of avant-garde fiction whose writing is not best-selling.  Novels of “the Black experience” are selling, so he writes a novel to parody these novels.  Instead of being seen as satire, this novel receives accolades and recognition.  Highly recommend!
August 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM