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Souhan: What good are sports in times like these? Local owners should be making a statement. Better yet, they should be taking action.

Gift link. This was published online Jan. 25.

wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

Court rulings like the TRO blocking ICE from doing exactly this are still important in terms of what the law is and how it’s being violated. It could be important for future hearings etc.

But ICE was obviously never going to comply with any TROs issued by radical leftist judges in Minnesota.

Democratic Leaders Should Stop Worrying and Embrace Calls to Abolish ICE The party is missing a movement in pursuit of a nonexistent swing voter.

Bouie's been talking about getting people to abolish ice since 2018 at least slate.com/news-and-pol...

Denver’s historic neon signs are in danger. And these are the people trying to save them. “When we hold a neon tube in our hands or see a neon sign we are seeing our cosmic selves illuminated,” Matuszewicz said. “… And that’s why we need to save them.”

Denver’s historic neon signs are in danger. And these are the people trying to save them. trib.al/gPvOT7X

i recorded like 30 minutes of footage for this 15 minute video. youtu.be/j2_o-YK8tJo?...

The Night Before Christmas (1905)

YOUR COMMENTS NEEDED

Weakening the Endangered Species Act!Comments due tomorrow, Dec 22.

Comments needed related to blanket protections for species classified as threatened. Endangered species will still have blanket protections, but threatened will NOT unless there is a species-specific plan.

Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

I want it in the National Archives. I want it in every history book. I want the shame to echo through generations.

Always a special show.

I saw Devotchka play there ages ago!

Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

Ashamed to say I'd never had sweet potato pie before today.

Tried three today: the well-known Patti LaBelle pie from Wal-Mart, a recipe that viewers suggested I make at home, and a slice from Denver's famous Welton Street Cafe.

(You're dismissed now, pumpkin pie. We're done.)

Pledge – WALK – Small Print - The Shop at Matter Imagine when your car mechanic, your bookkeeper, your brewer, your bar, your punk club, and your bookstore tells you and everyone else that racism isn’t tolerated. If you value Black lives then they f...

www.shopatmatter.com/product/walk...

What'd I Miss? Archives

This weekly from the Colorado Sun is fun What'd I Miss? Archives | The Colorado Sun
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Welton Street Cafe A historic, family-owned soul food staple in the Denver community.

I say take yourself and the team out to lunch at Welton Street Cafe. I checked and they have it on their menu. weltonstreetcafe.com/lunch-%26-di...

Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

This Study Confirms Cardi's Claims: 'A Hoe Never Gets Cold' The musician's viral video led six researchers on a mission.

www.papermag.com/cardi-b-cold...

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

There is No Peace in Gaza Since President Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, people I know have continued to be killed. One described torture during a year in Israeli custody.

The day after Donald Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, Israel struck more homes in Gaza City, reportedly killing dozens, including a three-month-old baby. In a new essay, @mosababutoha.bsky.social shares what’s happening to people he knows in Gaza.

And ask all these people/companies why they want to fund it. bsky.app/profile/aozo...

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3

I think the only time I've seen him phased was during his Finding your Roots w Henry Louis Gates Jr.

I was calling potatoes a part of food from Colonial work.

History of the potato - Wikipedia

Potatoes are from South America en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”