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A Florida bill would create a "counterterrorism unit" to “detect and neutralize” people, groups, businesses, and others whose "actions, views or opinions are a threat or are inimical to the interests of this state and the United States of America.”

Already passed a State senate committee 7-1.

Photographer and deadbeat

Former San Diego sheriff’s deputy convicted of civil rights violation in fatal 2020 shooting Aaron Russell was convicted in the shooting death of Nicholas Bils, after a previous jury had deadlocked in the case.

Federal jury convicts deputy in shooting death of unarmed man. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/03/f...

If you care about democracy, follow this guy.

It’s not her job to school him. Her job is to ask questions and press him on inadequate answers — which she did in this case. He provided an absurd answer that’s now part of the record.

Meet the Press - March 1, 2026 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Richard Engel, Stephen Hayes, Jeh Johnson, Carol Lee and Jonathan Martin

Not a fair assessment without reading or watching the whole interview. www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Financing dies in darkness? The impact of newspaper closures on public finance We examine how local newspaper closures affect public finance outcomes for local governments. Following a newspaper closure, municipal borrowing costs…

Studies show that when local news outlets stop scrutinizing government, efficiency drops. Public payrolls bloat. Waste increases.

The cost gets passed to you—roughly $85 in added taxes per person after a county loses one of its last few papers.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Will gladly take a blizzard over 90 degrees in February.

It’s called Grandiose Narcissism. Powerful, yet I don’t recommend it.

I’m surprised they didn’t offer a reduced price when you started the cancellation process.

Gotta pay the staff.

Reporter here. Most local / regional papers charge an initial 99 cents for a digital subscription. Try it for a year. Aim to be an engaged and informed member of the public. Democracy is counting on you.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

AOC’s Munich Stumble Is a Warning to the Left It’s time for progressives to get more sophisticated about national security and foreign policy.

This is an example of how not to do journalism. Picking out a tiny moment in a congressperson's spoken life vs. the extreme statements from the right-wing, including from our actual president, is the kind of both-sides-ism that is killing our media, and our democracy. nymag.com/intelligence...

And you have to sign your name, attesting that you are who you say you are. I wish a reporter would force the GOP to explain how someone might carry out large-scale fraud under the current voting system.

How could Bari Weiss think Bari Weiss was appropriate for this lecture?

“By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week.”

Yikes.

‘Supposed to be a safe place’: Parents, state leaders weigh in as home visits from activists rattle child-care providers State officials have publicized guidance for child care providers on how to respond to and report unwanted visits.

“Multiple San Diego County child care providers say that strangers have visited their home-based businesses and recorded them without their consent, while demanding to see children in their care.” www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/13/s...

"Deux morts, des milliers de personnes arrêtées, deux villes ébranlées et Donald Trump défait. Ainsi s’achève l’opération anti-immigration « Metro surge », conduite par l’Etat fédéral dans les « twin cities », les villes jumelles de Minneapolis et Saint Paul, depuis début décembre. Tom Homan, le « tsar des frontières » de la Maison Blanche, a annoncé jeudi 12 février le retrait prochain des troupes de l’ICE (Immigration and customs enforcement, la police de l’immigration) et de la CBP (Customs and border protection, l’équivalent des douanes)."

How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad.

In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:

"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Yes, let’s return to the days when recess was cancelled because of smog alerts.

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"the data tells us what is valuable and where to focus" is killing half of the journalism industry

Nick Shirley’s in San Diego, harassing Somali-run daycares. Statement from state Asm. Chris Ward:

Learn where to go for credible sources of information (and how to determine what’s credible).

San Diego judge orders 3 deported families returned, finds ICE used ‘lies, deception, coercion’ The families were legally paroled into U.S. and protected by a settlement agreement in the family separate case.

San Diego judge orders 3 deported families returned, finds ICE used ‘lies, deception, coercion’

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/06/s...

This video is giving me life rn.

Let’s get Maria back her cat.

Are you in touch with the Vargas family? What can we do to reunite Maria and Milo?

As someone who spent a year working as press secretary for a member of Congress, I can unequivocally say that all of them are briefed on everything the president says or does. To claim otherwise is a lie.