Happy Local News Day! I feel so grateful that I have the chance to report on and for my community in Colorado - as well as support local journalists in the state through my work at @theconversation.com. Local news is crucial to building the connective fibers of society.

BREAKING: Colorado Court of Appeals rules that Tina Peters must be resentenced. Panel of judges also upholds her convictions (despite Trump’s attempted pardon). www.denverpost.com/2026/04/02/t...

We are proud to have fought this five-year court battle for you, our readers, and all Coloradans who deserve access to their public records. ... Officials should turn over child abuse hotline records requested by Colorado Sun, 9News in 2021, state’s highest court says coloradosun.com/2026/03/30/c...

The 13th Amendment banned slavery, but it included a carveout sanctioning it as a punishment for people convicted of crimes. Many state constitutions include the same loophole; seven states don’t pay anything for most prison jobs.

AMAZING NEWS: The Colorado Supreme Court ordered the the Colorado Department of Human Services to release the number of child abuse/neglect calls at state-run residential facilities 5 years after we sued the state to get them. This is a huge records win. coloradofoic.org/five-years-a...

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

NEW/DEEP DIVE by @davidvoreacos.bsky.social Prosecutor Pushed Her Bosses for Epstein’s Arrest Multiple Times Marie Villafana was ready to charge Jeffrey Epstein with 60 counts of sex trafficking and other crimes in 2007. Her bosses’ reaction: What’s the rush? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Humming along to this banger as I go through my CORA request responses. Happy #SunshineWeek to all that celebrate!

This is so dumb. I interned with CBS News Radio and learned so much from the talented and hard-working people that worked there.

Nashville reporter Estefany Rodríguez is free

Will be really interesting to see if this lawsuit will change anything www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

In 2023, I found found at least 727 instances where the CDOC wrote up inmates for failing to report to work or to do the assigned work. I'm not sure how many of them were punished with solitary confinement for it. www.9news.com/article/news...

I like how this happens less than a week after the eyebrowless Ellison nepobaby promised everybody at CNN that editorial independence would be maintained

Google Gemini just made up a scholar that doesn't exist When I tried to verify & followed up, it admitted that it hallucinated. That "was a hallucination, and I appreciate you catching that. After double-checking, there is no prominent political scientist by that specific name at CU Boulder."

I just got the largest records estimate of my career - $219k 😱🫠 I thought it would be pretty standard to ask for a way to view state inspection reports for licensed child care centers in CO. I was wrong. Fortunately - they had a Plan B for a narrower estimate: $41.37 @coloradofoic.bsky.social

BREAKING NYT: An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

My analysis found there are 10 Colorado counties in the state without ANY licensed infant day care spots - and a chasm between the number of kids and the number of available spots. @coloradosun.com public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Find the bighorn sheep 👀

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Hundreds came to meeting w/ Denver city council members, city & state staff tonight in Elyria-Swansea about the CoreSite data center here. More than a moratorium, they want the center dismantled and a city-wide ban. The company didn’t show.

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

The Colorado Music Association invited Bret Dallas, the Lakewood musician who recovered a bunch of his gear with the help of the Internet, to speak at their meeting tonight. I featured his story for @coloradosun.com last year: coloradosun.com/2025/12/03/c...

I remember frantically calling daycares around Denver after our son was born and asking “Wait. Did you say 8-month or 18-month waitlist?” Sure, we could’ve researched more, but that was quite the shock. We ended up having to enroll in an au pair program for almost two years.

There are waaayyy more kids than child care spots in Colorado. My analysis for @coloradosun.com found there are nearly 150,000 more infants and toddlers than their are licensed child care slots in the state. In a handful of counties, there are NO SPOTS for just infants and toddlers.

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

his name is Nazgul and he lives at a nearby bed and breakfast 😂 www.npr.org/2026/02/18/n...

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

Coloradans are losing funds. I don't know the full extent of it, but it includes a $371,000 in cuts to program from the Colorado Health Network Inc. that focuses on “engaging Latino and African American” men who have sex with men.

Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

This story gave me hope. I love seeing more spaces created for men to talk about their feelings in a supportive way www.cpr.org/2026/02/05/c...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

I missed this earlier, but ICE agents in Minnesota detained the owner and employee of a Mexican restaurant after having lunch there www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

It looks like organizer cancelled it for safety concerns and a bunch of other logistics www.reddit.com/r/Denver/com...

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

If you see federal agents pulling into your driveway, reporters, power down your electronic devices ASAP. That's the advice from @runasand.bsky.social, via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/news/hannah-...

I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

"Intelligence taskings, law-enforcement bulletins, and drug-task-force assessments show that agencies spent much of 2025 struggling to determine whether TdA even functioned as an organized entity in the US at all — let alone as a coordinated national security threat."

Today marks a milestone! I went on @coloradopublic.bsky.social to talk about my burglary piece for @coloradosun.com. I followed one Lakewood musician who went above and beyond to recover his stolen guitars and bikes. Listen at around 11 min into the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Xcel outage site showing 83,646 customers without power in Colorado, about 6,700 in #Boulder County #cowx

#copolitics as suspected...

@samanthamichaels.bsky.social spent a night huddled in the dark with an undocumented family hiding from ICE www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This makes me so happy - I didn't realize that the Jewish tradition of Chinese food and a movie goes back to at least 1935. And it started in part because of Chinese cuisine's penchant for being kosher. theconversation.com/merry-jewish...

Lit the first Hannukah candle with a broken heart tonight as I’m thinking of the #Bondi shooting victims. They were there to celebrate the holiday when they were senselessly killed. Nothing makes me want to double down in my Jewish celebrations more than this hatred. www.bbc.com/news/live/ck...

As I say here, this is not about saving the planet. The planet will be orbiting the sun long after we’re gone. The question is, will there be a healthy, thriving human society on that planet? The answer to that question is very much up for grabs at this point.

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