Ryan Olson
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QuesoGuapo is: Easy, cheesy, not at all sleazy. Ryan is: lead designer for the Standard-Examiner. http://quesoguapo.com
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Anthony Nel, of Texas, became a U.S. citizen as a teen. But a flaw in a Trump administration citizenship tool flagged him as a potential noncitizen, which led to his voter registration being canceled.
Trump's SAVE tool is looking for noncitizen voters. But it's flagging U.S. citizens too
Anthony Nel, of Texas, became a U.S. citizen as a teen. But a flaw in a Trump administration citizenship tool flagged him as a potential noncitizen, which led to his voter registration being canceled.
n.pr
January 1, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Anthony Nel, of Texas, became a U.S. citizen as a teen. But a flaw in a Trump administration citizenship tool flagged him as a potential noncitizen, which led to his voter registration being canceled.
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Like Billy Mack chasing an Xmas #1 in LOVE ACTUALLY, I’m trying to rack up another 98 followers to break the 10K mark by midnight and ring in the New Year as a 5-digit Bluesky account! Help an aging tie-in writer achieve a meaningless arbitrary goal! FOLLOW ME NOW!
PS There’s nothing in it for you.
PS There’s nothing in it for you.
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ALT: a close up of a man 's face with snow falling from his hair
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Like Billy Mack chasing an Xmas #1 in LOVE ACTUALLY, I’m trying to rack up another 98 followers to break the 10K mark by midnight and ring in the New Year as a 5-digit Bluesky account! Help an aging tie-in writer achieve a meaningless arbitrary goal! FOLLOW ME NOW!
PS There’s nothing in it for you.
PS There’s nothing in it for you.
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I did this on the other app every year, so doing it over here:
Get an Uber tonight if you’re drinking
I’ll Venmo someone $50 to do so, drawn randomly from those who repost
No, I can’t police how you spend it; don’t care
Repost this for visibility and to be entered. I’ll pick by midnight EST
Get an Uber tonight if you’re drinking
I’ll Venmo someone $50 to do so, drawn randomly from those who repost
No, I can’t police how you spend it; don’t care
Repost this for visibility and to be entered. I’ll pick by midnight EST
January 1, 2026 at 12:23 AM
I did this on the other app every year, so doing it over here:
Get an Uber tonight if you’re drinking
I’ll Venmo someone $50 to do so, drawn randomly from those who repost
No, I can’t police how you spend it; don’t care
Repost this for visibility and to be entered. I’ll pick by midnight EST
Get an Uber tonight if you’re drinking
I’ll Venmo someone $50 to do so, drawn randomly from those who repost
No, I can’t police how you spend it; don’t care
Repost this for visibility and to be entered. I’ll pick by midnight EST
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"What I think is lacking is, was there even an attempt made to try to verify the accuracy of what he was saying, or did they simply take him at his word?" says University of Minnesota media law professor Jane Kirtley about a recent video made accusing Somali-owned day care centers of fraud.
Here’s what to know about a viral YouTube video about fraud in Minnesota
University of Minnesota media law professor Jane Kirtley says the new viral video is flashy, but absent of facts to back up its claims — and its lack of transparency could be considered deceptive.
www.mprnews.org
December 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"What I think is lacking is, was there even an attempt made to try to verify the accuracy of what he was saying, or did they simply take him at his word?" says University of Minnesota media law professor Jane Kirtley about a recent video made accusing Somali-owned day care centers of fraud.
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To pay off stadium bonds, Chiefs-related new spending would need to be $2.7B a year — for a team whose total revenue is less than a quarter of that. Each and every Chiefs fan would need to spend an extra $4,000 per game for Kansas to break even.
How Kansas governor claims $4B Chiefs stadium subsidy will cost “no new taxes,” and whether this makes any damn sense
Judging from my email, the proposed Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal with the state of Kansas has set off a wave of cognitive dissonance among sports fans and taxpayers: Gov. Laura Kelly says that the ...
www.fieldofschemes.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
To pay off stadium bonds, Chiefs-related new spending would need to be $2.7B a year — for a team whose total revenue is less than a quarter of that. Each and every Chiefs fan would need to spend an extra $4,000 per game for Kansas to break even.
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NFL Films made this for all of us.
A Carol of the DOINKS.
A Carol of the DOINKS.
December 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
NFL Films made this for all of us.
A Carol of the DOINKS.
A Carol of the DOINKS.
Celebrating the holidays with an ‘Evening Jazz’ Christmas playlist from 2013
Season's greetings to one and all! In all the years that I spun jazz and blues tunes as a volunteer DJ for Northstate Public Radio, I always enjoyed including holiday songs in my December playlists. I didn't want to…
Season's greetings to one and all! In all the years that I spun jazz and blues tunes as a volunteer DJ for Northstate Public Radio, I always enjoyed including holiday songs in my December playlists. I didn't want to…
Celebrating the holidays with an ‘Evening Jazz’ Christmas playlist from 2013
Season's greetings to one and all! In all the years that I spun jazz and blues tunes as a volunteer DJ for Northstate Public Radio, I always enjoyed including holiday songs in my December playlists. I didn't want to overdo the festive tuneage all month long, so I would start gradually after Thanksgiving with a song or two per episode and then gradually ramp up to a nearly all holiday song playlist in my last program before Christmas.
quesoguapo.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Celebrating the holidays with an ‘Evening Jazz’ Christmas playlist from 2013
Season's greetings to one and all! In all the years that I spun jazz and blues tunes as a volunteer DJ for Northstate Public Radio, I always enjoyed including holiday songs in my December playlists. I didn't want to…
Season's greetings to one and all! In all the years that I spun jazz and blues tunes as a volunteer DJ for Northstate Public Radio, I always enjoyed including holiday songs in my December playlists. I didn't want to…
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NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
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This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
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Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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FanDuel Sports Network could shut down if Main Street Sports Group is unable to sell itself to DAZN, per Tom Friend of Sports Business Journal.
NBA most affected; shut down could give ESPN streaming rights to nearly half of MLB's U.S. based teams: www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/12/fand...
NBA most affected; shut down could give ESPN streaming rights to nearly half of MLB's U.S. based teams: www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/12/fand...
FanDuel Sports Network RSNs could shut down without DAZN deal
After seemingly landing on stable -- if not solid -- ground, the FanDuel Sports Network RSNs are again on the brink of shutting down.
www.sportsmediawatch.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
FanDuel Sports Network could shut down if Main Street Sports Group is unable to sell itself to DAZN, per Tom Friend of Sports Business Journal.
NBA most affected; shut down could give ESPN streaming rights to nearly half of MLB's U.S. based teams: www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/12/fand...
NBA most affected; shut down could give ESPN streaming rights to nearly half of MLB's U.S. based teams: www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/12/fand...
This restaurant's holiday music playlist is a bit odd. It went from Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" to the shouty Tom Hanks song from "The Polar Express."
December 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This restaurant's holiday music playlist is a bit odd. It went from Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" to the shouty Tom Hanks song from "The Polar Express."
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At least 20 people who have received clemency from President Trump so far this year were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions of dollars.
Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud.
Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud.
Trump’s pardons wipe out payments to defrauded victims
In addition to clearing prison sentences, the president’s clemency actions have erased millions in restitution payments.
wapo.st
December 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
At least 20 people who have received clemency from President Trump so far this year were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions of dollars.
Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud.
Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud.
My only comment is that this would be a great parting gift for the Trump Gift Shop/Presidential Library.
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame. The plaques include bombastic language, from “Sleepy Joe” Biden references to painting Republican icon Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump.
Trump writes partisan plaques for predecessors in his newly installed Presidential Walk of Fame
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame.
bit.ly
December 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My only comment is that this would be a great parting gift for the Trump Gift Shop/Presidential Library.
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Pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley announced this morning that he's parting ways with WWE over the organization's "close relationship with Donald Trump," saying the president's "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me."
December 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley announced this morning that he's parting ways with WWE over the organization's "close relationship with Donald Trump," saying the president's "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me."
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Hey look, State Farm Arena sits vacant 230 days a year. 41 Hawks games + 94 ticketed events = 135. It's no wonder sports venues aren't development catalysts, when even the busiest ones are empty 2/3 of the year.
Where State Farm Arena ranks for attendance. Hint, it’s near the top.
There weren’t many evenings when the lights were dim at Atlanta's State Farm Arena during the past year.
buff.ly
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hey look, State Farm Arena sits vacant 230 days a year. 41 Hawks games + 94 ticketed events = 135. It's no wonder sports venues aren't development catalysts, when even the busiest ones are empty 2/3 of the year.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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Today in The December Comfort Watches: This is Spinal Tap. Because it's one of the funniest movies of all time, and I think Rob Reiner would want us to remember to feel joy, even, and especially, when surrounded by sadness.
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Fifteen: This is Spinal Tap
For more than two weeks, I had it on my schedule to write about This is Spinal Tap today, December 15, 2025. The day before this, director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer were (allegedly) m…
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December 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Today in The December Comfort Watches: This is Spinal Tap. Because it's one of the funniest movies of all time, and I think Rob Reiner would want us to remember to feel joy, even, and especially, when surrounded by sadness.
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I was so excited about a teammate making an in-off double takeout during a curling game that I shouted "Bingo bango bongo!" It was probably not my greatest moment.
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I was so excited about a teammate making an in-off double takeout during a curling game that I shouted "Bingo bango bongo!" It was probably not my greatest moment.
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Rob Reiner, who directed such beloved Hollywood classics as 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Stand by Me' and 'When Harry Met Sally' after starring in the trailblazing sitcom 'All in the Family,' died Sunday along with his wife, Michele, in their Brentwood home. bit.ly/48UWXSi
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Rob Reiner, who directed such beloved Hollywood classics as 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Stand by Me' and 'When Harry Met Sally' after starring in the trailblazing sitcom 'All in the Family,' died Sunday along with his wife, Michele, in their Brentwood home. bit.ly/48UWXSi
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Not trying to call out Tony & Devin here, but they are (somewhat confidently) reinforcing a very common, but exactly wrong myth about Section 230 and being a "publisher." Let's use this as an opportunity to do some educating around Section 230 and the idea of being "a publisher."
December 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Not trying to call out Tony & Devin here, but they are (somewhat confidently) reinforcing a very common, but exactly wrong myth about Section 230 and being a "publisher." Let's use this as an opportunity to do some educating around Section 230 and the idea of being "a publisher."