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.

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Mark Friesen@mfriesen·
@howertonjosh @megbasham If you haven't figured out that using maximalist apocalyptic language in a negotiation paints you into a corner that will only crater your credibility, then I understand why you bought that property in the first place.
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Josh Howerton@howertonjosh·
@megbasham I often do not love the language used, but at this point if you haven't figured out he's going to use aggressively hyperbolic language (and is not actually threatening to genocide 80M people) in a state of negotiation, I have a oceanfront property in Dallas I'd like to sell you.
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Mark Friesen@mfriesen·
@steubens7 Not pictured: People shot while sitting in parked cars in Queens.
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@mfriesen all i see is enjoyment in the brisk movement of people i know nothing about, and their efficient movement. it's so peaceful
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Mark Friesen@mfriesen·
Again, this is why Trump's hard-core evangelical numbers don't move. When you've decided the opposition are not fellow citizens who differ on a complex moral issue like abortion but are a cabal literally committed to a policy of child sacrifice, you can justify almost anything.
Megan Basham@megbasham

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.

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S C Foley@SeanCFoley12·
@asymmetricinfo No journalist should ever make that mistake. No journalist writing about a topic should be so daft about the topic.
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Mark Friesen
Mark Friesen@mfriesen·
Remember the aughts joke that posited you could successfully replace the caption to any New Yorker cartoon with "Christ, what an asshole?" Turns out it also works for this maroon's tweets
Joel Webbon@JoelWebbon

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.

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Megan Basham
Megan Basham@megbasham·
right now, there are 1.5 million Chinese, who will come of age in the next decade who will be eligible to vote in US elections because they were born on US soil, many as part of birth tourism. In the meantime, more than 100,000 non-citizens have been registered to vote in a single US swing state. Pennsylvania. So yes, it’s a bit of a problem. delawarevalleyjournal.com/public-interes…
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Megan Basham@megbasham·
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will decide on the question of birthright citizenship. But I know this, if the courts continue to enforce practices that increase chaos, destruction, and division within the United States, like allowing 1.5 million Chinese nationals to vote because they happened to be born in an American hospital, people will very soon stop respecting the courts. And then things will really get dangerous.
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Mark Friesen@mfriesen·
@StickelTedward @KFILE The Times has had literal architecture critics for more than a half-century. Pls Google Ada Louise Huxtable and Paul Goldberger
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Tedward Stickel@StickelTedward·
@KFILE Is the NY Times in the habit of critiquing other government buildings? Nope.
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Mark Friesen
Mark Friesen@mfriesen·
@megbasham @MongoSlade64 Are you arguing that Christianity was not, for hundreds of years, imposed on minorities by European political entities that were supported by, if not complete creatures of, the Church?
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Megan Basham@megbasham·
Yes, and the father‘s approach to life was repudiated. Expressly. I’m totally fine with movies about Jim Crow. I am not OK with movies that suggest that Christianity is a European religion imposed on minorities and that their real strength comes from the pagan beliefs of their homeland.
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Megan Basham@megbasham·
So I finally watched Sinners. How come I never heard that it’s just a big old pile of anti-white, anti-Christian trash??
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Mark Friesen@mfriesen·
Yes, ex-colleagues slagging the paper after they leave annoys me no end. Especially when the remaining (and smaller) staff is busting its ass and the whiners took the cushy 2010s buyouts. But snark about "formers" in the wake of a layoff bloodbath? 😬 But hey I'm no comms pro
Olivia Petersen@LivPetersen

👀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)

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Mark Friesen@mfriesen·
@megbasham @DamonLinker @MochaLite Gross. Do you have any evidence or are you just smearing real journalists because you’ve soaked in culture war bile for so long you can’t acknowledge the Times actually did the hard work?
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Megan Basham
Megan Basham@megbasham·
@DamonLinker @MochaLite That’s a really long time to work on corroborating the very limited evidence here. So the work of a few months took five years? And that’s another five years after the allegations went public.
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Megan Basham@megbasham·
I have no problem believing that Cesar Chavez was a sexual abuser. I have a very hard time believing that the legacy media just discovered this.
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KLee@LeeKurtiss·
@odnyc_ @daveweigel @svdate Yes it originates from war where bombs dissolve into little pieces. Then the meaning changed to bits of annoying conversation similar to pieces of bombs. At no time does it refer to a person.
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Olivier Knox
Olivier Knox@OKnox·
A+ work from the New York Times layout team
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Mark Friesen@mfriesen·
Why is everyone suddenly doing old-style retweets that cut off the quoted tweet? Is Elmo fucking with something?
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