
Mark Friesen
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Mark Friesen
@mfriesen
Maps, data, journalism @Oregonian | @mujschool grad | MS Cartography/GIS Dev @uwmadisongeog | Your creature comforts aren’t the only things worth fighting for.



🚨 President Donald J. Trump makes a statement on Iran:



Look at this video of NYC in 1975, see how peaceful it was? Look at how everybody seems to be enjoying their lives, and not contrast it to today. Our country has been ruined.

Here is the Christian argument for supporting him: Kamala Harris—who is so committed to the murder of babies that she promised she would allow no religious exemptions to employer provided abortions—was the alternative.

“Illegals commit less crime than native Americans” Always a lie



There are tired copy editors who work really really hard and make one innocent and mortifying mistake that becomes grist for the social media gumball machine



The compassion of this woman is well suited for the vocation of motherhood. But this is not who you want determining whether birthright citizenship should be legal. A woman as a mother is a precious gift, but a woman as a civil magistrate is the death of the nation.







The New York Times takes an architectural look at the coming White House ballroom and finds there is a lot of ornamental stairs to no where and faux windows with bathroom stalls behind them

Why is there a Somali Chamber of Commerce housed in the United States of America?


👀Overheard in our newsroom just now: I'm so over formers continuing to write our "obituary" (air quote) when I can turn on TV, check any news channel and see us and our reporting. Case in point. (points to nearby TV with MS NOW showing last night's drone scoop)




NEW: White House outraged over new CBS News hire w/@sarafischer axios.com/2026/03/12/cbs…



Exclusive: The Defense Department has barred photojournalists from briefings on the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed “unflattering,” according to two people familiar. wapo.st/4bBjNkd


