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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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Toronto Film Critics Association Faces Collapse After Allegedly Censoring Indigenous Filmmaker’s Pro-Palestine Speech Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her trophy, the president resigned and 16 members have quit — with more considering their position: "This Is Killing the TFCA."

Starting the ceremony with a land acknowledgement and then censoring an indigenous woman when she brings up Palestine is *chef's kiss* western liberalism

06.03.2026 19:07 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

If only there were some way to modify a computer program so that it worked differently

06.03.2026 16:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“They hate us for our freedom”

06.03.2026 05:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So shiny!

05.03.2026 18:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump’s right. The lunatics did attack first.

03.03.2026 17:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let’s face it. This could be any cabinet department at this point.

03.03.2026 01:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

r/childfree comes to bluesky

02.03.2026 19:34 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m shocked, shocked to discover that gambling is taking place in this Nazi website

02.03.2026 16:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That isn’t even a joke.

Also, “thinketh”?

02.03.2026 15:45 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump should’ve hired more neocons. Those guys knew how to sell a war.

02.03.2026 02:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can’t help but wonder if she would do this if she really believed there was a hell

01.03.2026 17:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You forgot to mention that this war is unconscionable.

28.02.2026 18:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Another argument for not making DA an elected job

28.02.2026 02:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rather than fire the ICE agents, we should put them in the prisons that were created for their victims

27.02.2026 02:45 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

It’s letter spacing not kerning

26.02.2026 21:19 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Kash Patel Faces Backlash After Partying With Nancy Guthrie’s Captors

Kash Patel Faces Backlash After Partying With Nancy Guthrie’s Captors

Kash Patel Faces Backlash After Partying With Nancy Guthrie’s Captors https://theonion.com/kash-patel-faces-backlash-after-partying-with-nancy-guthries-captors/

26.02.2026 21:00 👍 5010 🔁 776 💬 83 📌 25

This time, the vampires win.

26.02.2026 21:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why not limit company charges to a flat fee?

26.02.2026 20:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mayor's Roundtable Aims to Reinvigorate Central City, With or Without Key Stakeholders A close look at the group’s membership shows who gets to decide the future of downtown.

Mayor Keith Wilson announced a new group will meet to discuss revitalizing the central city, including downtown and the east side from OMSI to Lloyd Center and Albina District. Critics say the group favors wealthy interests, excluding smaller orgs focused on homelessness & affordable communities.

26.02.2026 19:46 👍 38 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Bare trees in the fog.  Color photo, shades of gray.

Bare trees in the fog. Color photo, shades of gray.

Irving Park this morning.

26.02.2026 02:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also we never did a good job of covering Santa Clara County outside of San Jose.

All that said, San Jose was a better place for having a strong daily newspaper.

25.02.2026 07:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can think of two major scandals when I worked there in the 90s.

One was the dark alliance scandal, which you can read about on Wikipedia. If you’re not familiar with that, you should be

The other was knuckling under to a boycott by car dealers over a stupid article on how to buy a car.

25.02.2026 07:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I left the mercury news in 1996.

The newsroom is much smaller now and controlled by an entirely different corporation these days.

The journalists I worked with were dedicated to getting the facts right and telling the truth.

Having said that, the bosses didn’t always get it right.

25.02.2026 07:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I never understood why people who whine loudly about liberty choose to live in HOAs.

25.02.2026 07:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I could never understand why the Spooky Girlfriend let the Handsome Stranger into the Evil Mastermind's Secret Chamber. It made the whole thing hard to swallow.

24.02.2026 20:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not a crime

24.02.2026 20:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They’re more interested in seeing their perceived enemies suffer than anything else.

24.02.2026 18:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We’re about a week away from bots making hundreds of phone calls to legislators if it hasn’t happened already.

24.02.2026 18:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

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