Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told a Denver TV station that the prison sentence levied against former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was “harsh” and suggested he was “looking at” revisiting it // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social and @coltrain.bsky.social

Storied newspaper chain McClatchy recently shuttered its Washington bureau and laid off staff. Now its told union leaders it wants to publish AI-generated stories without human review and create AI impersonations of reporters for podcasts. The scoop in @status.news www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-...

After border patrol agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, agents showed up to a high school and released chemical weapons during dismissal, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Their live reporting here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"They carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," a witness says. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."

The woman shot and killed by ICE in Minneapolis today, Renee Nicole Good, was the mother of a 6-year-old boy. His father died in 2023. “There’s nobody else in his life,” his grandfather said. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come and get my grandchild.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Local news is vital in moments like this:

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026. Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.

Colorado is facing a “devastating” freeze in federal child care and social services funding for the state’s poorest families as part of a broader swipe the Trump administration took at five Democratic-led states

"A former TV news reporter recalled before a jury on Tuesday being followed and assaulted by a Colorado man in December 2024, as the stranger demanded proof of his citizenship in the name of 'Trump’s America.'"

The @colorado.edu Independent student newspaper (.org) has an imposter site (.com) posting #AI content. Student reporters have spent their own money, enlisted lawyers and tried to get the #Colorado Bureau of Investigation involved to try to fix the problem. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/05/c...

How the University of Colorado's student news organization — the CU Independent — lost control of its website URL and had it hijacked by a copycat peddling AI slop www.denverpost.com/2026/01/05/c... Story by @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social

A reminder that good things exist www.denverpost.com/2026/01/01/p... via @denverpost.com

Kind of a wild story here. A mystery person took control of CU Boulder's student news outlet & turned it into AI slop. The students made a new website & lawyered up. But, it turns out, AI is a hard beast to fight. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/05/c... via @denverpost.com

A reminder that good things exist www.denverpost.com/2026/01/01/p... via @denverpost.com

"What happened here for more than two months is unlike anything in recent American history: the federal government sending agents dressed for war into neighborhoods of the country’s third-largest city to arrest mostly people who look Latino and to ask questions later."

New: What did Denver read this year? Here are the library's most checked-out books of 2025 www.denverpost.com/2025/12/22/d... via @denverpost.com

"Proceedings were delayed Friday morning after personnel at the detention center, which is privately run by the Geo Group, told reporters and supporters that they couldn’t enter the courtroom." // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

It's been windy. @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social has some numbers.

Massive Layoffs at the Dept of #Education Erode Its #CivilRights Division Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints. www.propublica.org/article/educ...

"When a Denver immigration judge asked a little boy no more than 5 years old if he had an attorney, the boy’s brother, just a couple of years older, stepped forward and held his hand, volunteering for the task." www.denverpost.com/2025/12/15/r... via @denverpost.com

New: Workers at Colorado-based Movement climbing gyms file unfair labor practice charges www.denverpost.com/2025/12/15/m... via @denverpost.com

NEW: President Donald Trump claimed to grant former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters a “full pardon” Thursday night — a power that constitutional law experts say he cannot wield for a person convicted of state-level crimes.

This story shows the lengths to which a private-equity landlord will go to quash its tenants’ union efforts, organizers allege, using aggressive tactics honed by employers in the days before the National Labor Relations Act. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/11/c...

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔

Years-long effort to improve safety on a crash-prone stretch of Alameda Avenue in Denver abruptly scaled back by the city after opposition from the family of Colorado's richest resident, conservative billionaire Phil Anschutz

For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year www.wsj.com/health/for-f...

New: Unpublished work by Andrea Gibson is part of new Colorado anthology supporting poet laureate program www.denverpost.com/2025/12/04/c... via @denverpost.com

Shoutout to @elliottwenzler.bsky.social for getting "raccooncidents" in the @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2025/12/02/d...

New: This mom takes her 9-year-old to college. How MSU Denver supports students who are parents www.denverpost.com/2025/12/02/m... via @denverpost.com #highered

Former Colorado middle school dean fired for opposing ‘racist’ book ban, lawsuit alleges www.denverpost.com/2025/12/01/e... via @denverpost.com

New: Meet the volunteers “bearing witness” at Denver immigration court. These are the court watchers. They keep eyes open for ICE. They pass out resources to immigrants. “It’s the best I’ve felt about being white in my entire life.” www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/v... via @denverpost.com

New: Student journalists say they were banned from CU Boulder campus after covering pro-Palestine protest www.denverpost.com/2025/11/20/c... via @dailycamera.com

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

After the Supreme Court tied on religious charters, Alliance Defending Freedom asked a Colorado school district lawyer to initiate a "parallel case," according to emails obtained by Chalkbeat. A self-described Christian public school opened a few months later. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...

Jesus Christ: "Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Boebert has also been summoned to the situation room in the White House, NYT reports: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

President Trump called Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert about the congresswoman’s support for releasing the Epstein files, per NYT’s Annie Karni:

On a call with reporters just now, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet ducked a question about whether Sen. Schumer should stay on as minority leader: “That’s not where I’m focused today.”

"In journalism, there’s a code: Don’t make yourself the story. But what happens when the story lives inside you? How the pain of others becomes the lens through which you see the world." www.newsweek.com/crime-report...

2/2 Are there any experts out there who can correctly identify the weapons being pointed directly at these two @chicagotribune.com photojournalists? What type of rifle/long gun is this? cc: @briancassella.bsky.social

1/2 Are there any experts out there who can correctly identify the weapons being pointed directly at these two @chicagotribune.com photojournalists? What type of gun is this? cc: @mandophotos.bsky.social

The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Breaking News: The Trump administration was ordered to release billions of dollars in backup funds for SNAP, the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, after the administration said the government shutdown meant it couldn’t tap contingency funds.

ICE agents mistakenly identified a Durango father when they pulled him over this week, a senior enforcement official testified in court today, but still arrested the man and his 2 kids in an incident that quickly sparked protests in the Colorado mountain town // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social