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Top NHL Draft prospect Gavin McKenna charged with felony aggravated assault McKenna, who turned 18 on Dec. 20, is also facing a misdemeanor assault charge and summary charges of harassment and disorderly conduct.

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Lucky escape!

I thought of that too

My daughter used a lot of Blippi when her older kid was very young, and I knew I hated it; it's really good to have words and some explanation for why I hated it so much.

We can have government of, by and for the people, with leaders who respect and protect us.

A crossed out reddit post that says ICE spotted ICE in black jeep suvs in downtown Leominster MA be aware

PSA: Don't do this

These kinds of posts simply spread panic and are not actionable.

Please remember S.A.L.U.T.E (Size, Activity, Location, Unit (or Uniform), Time, and Equipment) and call your local ICE watch hotline if have one. In Massachusetts, it's 617-370-5023 for LUCE.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

ORB is cool you should read and support them. They also were kind of enough to deal with my bullshit. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-have-the-...

Something about sin beginning with treating people as things, wasn't it?

The Washington Post Lays Off A Third Of Its Workforce, Is Dead | Defector The Washington Post is being gutted. Jeff Bezos, one of the handful of wealthiest people on the planet, is through pretending to be a conscientious steward of the 150-year-old newspaper, and is now ra...

No sports, no books, barely metro coverage. The paper is dead.

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They can frame it in pseudo-intellectual nonsense about the birth rate or civilization, but women know exactly what this is

I mean, working a year earlier would add about 2.5% to the labour pool, which would add about 1.7% to GDP, or about $0.5 trillion to the US economy.

US debt is about $38.5 trillion. That's gonna take a lot of years to draw down.

Loud and clear!

Bills Cracking Down on Abortion Pills Advance in States That Already Ban Most Abortions State lawmakers in Indiana, South Carolina, Florida, and Wisconsin have introduced bills that would restrict abortion pill access.

State lawmakers in Indiana, South Carolina, Florida, and Wisconsin have introduced bills that would restrict abortion pill access. This story was republished from News From the States, part of @statesnewsroom.com.

Farm workers in solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org baristas. #DeleteTheApp

If you are an #author, #journalist, #editor, #reviewer or an #agent, then you know publishing is all sorts of on fire right now. I am fomenting a plan; a support network of a sort, a means of connecting that doesn't require us to fire off in 100 directions. Stay tuned. But DM if you have like ideas.

This Democratic voter wants ICE abolished. Actually, I want the whole DHS abolished, and then I want every ICE agent currently on payroll investigated and charged.

I remember when the DHS was formed. It was an embarrassment then and it’s only gotten worse. End it.

Woof! (positive)

went to type "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" and my phone autocorrected it to "Islamabad Kingdom Brunel", and anyway who would like to book my new, incredibly niche and very culturally insensitive drag act

That pause comes at a time when resistance to ICE is building nationwide, including in Springfield, a place without much of a progressive infrastructure. Here, that resistance isn’t organized by neighborhood, as in Minneapolis, but through a network of Black, white and Hispanic churches. They call themselves the G92 Coalition, after the ancient Hebrew word “ger,” for stranger or foreigner, that appears 92 times in the Hebrew Bible. One of the founders is Carl Ruby, pastor of the nondenominational Central Christian Church. He’s a former Republican — he remains a fan of Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine — who describes himself as theologically conservative but social-justice oriented.

Starting to think @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social might be right www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

The Phoenix (newspaper) - Wikipedia

Followed by its reincarnation The Real Paper en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rea...
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IT'S LITERALLY THE NAME

Unfortunately Evergreen.

This part, so much. I love all the independent journalists I follow, but I may not be able to continue paying all of you going forward. We need more journalist-owned and run collectives like @defector.com and @theflytrapmedia.com.

Another Child From Liam Ramos’ School District Released From ICE Detention

Some good news: A little girl from the same Minneapolis-area school district as Liam Conejo Ramos was released from a Texas ICE detention facility late Tuesday.

Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, a 4th grader, had been locked up there with her mom since Jan. 6. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

point, indeed

And by drawdown, we need them to not be employed, rather than simply sent to levy war on another state, which is what the latest announcement promises.

Every time there is a mass layoff I hope people remember that newsletters cannot save us. The Free Press started as a newsletter but came to influence as something more like a newspaper (without the journalism).

We need to somehow invest in media infrastructure, not a thousand little ladders.

Marked and unmarked nouns. I think the only animals whose 'unmarked' form is specifically female are ducks, cows, and kangaroos. (Although 'mammal' might work.)

It doesn't seem like a particularly inflammatory post.