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Barry Parr
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Co-creator of SJ Mercury News and CNET News.com websites. Creator of Coastsider and Mediasavvy. Ex-Dow Jones, Forrester Research.
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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.

please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I was there!
48 years ago today

The Sex Pistols - Liar - 1/14/1978 - Winterland (Official)

#punk #punks #punkrock #punklegends #oldschoolpunk #sexpistols #history #punkrockhistory #otd
January 14, 2026 at 5:06 PM
You can take the boy out of South Africa…
People actually debated if Elon Musk was doing a nazi salute when he's now openly trying to instigate a global race war
January 12, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Starmerism with American characteristics
My second biggest fear is that Democrats take back power and believe they can ignore these problems into normalcy
I mean, to be fair, the sort of subnormal droogs who infest ICE now do very much experience a woman laughing at them as being like murder, and murder triggers a right to self defense.

It was probably going to be either Renee Good or some girl at a bar with these thug scum.
January 11, 2026 at 6:27 PM
My admiration for observers who maintain their cool in these situations is bottomless
"Did you not learn from what just happened?".
Minneapolis
January 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
JD is right.

The War Powers Act undercuts Congress’s exclusive power to declare war.
JD Vance: "The War Powers Act is fundamentally a fake and unconstitutional law"
January 9, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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January 9, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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They don't smile. They only smirk
January 8, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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NEW: Bellingcat has identified the US munition that struck a residence in Catia La Mar on January 3, killing a 79-year-old woman named Rosa Gonzalez.

It was an AGM-88 series missile, which is used to strike radar-emitting targets like air defense systems.

www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
Inside the Strike: The US Munition That Hit a Residential Building in Venezuela - bellingcat
A Bellingcat investigation has identified remnants of an AGM-88 series missile inside a three-storey apartment complex that was hit in Catia La Mar during the US military raid on Venezuela on Jan. 3, ...
www.bellingcat.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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Minnesota should move to arrest the ICE officers or CBP agents involved and prosecute, just as Idaho prosecuted the FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge.
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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You can draw a draw a straight line from a right wing YouTuber's unverified viral video about Somali American daycares to ICE showing up in Minneapolis to this killing.

This feels like a galvanizing moment for the city in the same way George Floyd's death was five years ago.
January 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Hilton Corporate to give Minneapolis shooter double rewards and extra pancakes on next visit.
Hilton said it is breaking from a franchise that was accused of canceling ICE agents' reservations at its Minneapolis-area location
Hilton To Break From Franchise Hotel Accused Of Canceling ICE Agents' Bookings
www.huffpost.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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NEW: We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...
BlackNest: Inside Canary Mission’s Secret Web of Unlisted Sites
One Canary Mission-affiliated website, BlackNest, reveals the group's internal operations, plans to expand, and how they celebrate deportations and firings
www.dropsitenews.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Is this Texas USA Today affiliate publishing web articles clearly written just for SEO in print?

First time looking at a physical USA Today in years so maybe this is normal… but why else would you write in this question/answer format if not for SEO
January 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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The paper that buried the leak about the Venezuela mission vs the publication that didn’t.
January 5, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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This observation deserves to be re-upped for a new year.
Planners should have to design cities from behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance. That is to say: the planner will have to live in the city they design, but they don't know *where* in the city.
January 3, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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If I Had A Rocket Launcher
YouTube video by Bruce Cockburn - Topic
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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out of my depth on any foreign policy thing but seems clear that at least some real part of this is fueled out of, if not a kind of boredom, a very real desire to entertain themselves because they are absolutely not interested in governing beyond shows of force they can post about online
January 3, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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i swear, i could go to every democrat's feed and ask the same question. they are all saying what he did was illegal but they are all demanding a briefing instead of impeachment.
January 3, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Tech Billionaires Threaten To Flee California Over Proposed Vest Tax
Tech Billionaires Threaten To Flee California Over Proposed Vest Tax
SAN FRANCISCO—Citing a right to keep their torsos sheathed in windproof synthetic fabrics, tech billionaires were reportedly threatening to flee California on Monday over a proposed statewide vest tax...
theonion.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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/2 You can measure the spine of a Democrat by whether the ritual denunciation of Maduro comes in the first paragraph or the second or third.
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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The Mayor of New York City @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has released a statement:
January 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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One reason Trump is acting with such impunity is because the opposition in Congress are guys like Chuck Schumer who will only act as a narrator and not as an opposing force
My full statement on the Trump Administration’s military actions in Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Did you focus-group this post, Sam?
We can all agree that dictator Nicolas Maduro deserves no sympathy, but recasting petro-motivated military aggression as a battle against narco-terrorism isn’t law enforcement, it’s subverting the law—namely, Article I of our Constitution. [1/2]
January 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM