Far from replacing historians, AI is degrading our archives of the internet age on a scale and at a rate that is unprecedented, in a way that represents a catastrophic threat to the production of history of the recent past.

i wonder if the press will reflect on how they have spent the last 3 weeks being led around by the nose, breathlessly reporting a worthless MOU as an inevitable end to all hostilities

One tool I’ll bring with me to Congress for that fight is "Social Bonds for Social Housing," an innovative solution we pioneered in the Comptroller’s office, that could generate hundreds of billions of dollars for truly affordable homes, so every family could have one.

It’ll be really funny if Denver DSA goes from political pariah after everything that happened in 2023 over Israel and losing multiple electeds in the hubbub, to unseating a 30+ year incumbent pillar of the political establishment in 2026.

It’s strange seeing people look back on Obama as a symbol of hope in 2026. Yeah, Trump as foil makes him shine. But did we forget how we got here? Feels like we forgot how we got here.

a “memorandum of understanding” is real estate developer bull shit, not worth the paper its printed on. lebanon still being bombed, the strait still closed why did we start calling this a “deal”?

NEW: Super PACs drop $1.3M in last-minute spree to protect Diana DeGette in Denver’s congressional district coloradosun.com/2026/06/19/d... #copolitics

If an undergraduate at Columbia said something like this the NYPD would immediately napalm the campus

The 20-point plan for Gaza is bad because it's at face value something you'd see out of the League of Nations era colonial offices of the UK and France, does not actually enshrine Palestinian self-determination as a defined end goal, and gives Israel effective veto power over any progress.

CO-1 primary challenger Melat Kiros raised more from individuals ($270,613) in the latest FEC reporting period than incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette ($234,137). But DeGette collected another $211,000 from various PACs.

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win dailystruggle.org/uaw-divests-...

Commentary: The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights is an irrational, far-right, arguably unconstitutional handicap on Colorado’s ability to thrive and self-govern. With its flaws becoming harder to ignore, efforts to skirt or reform it are building.

Ignoring the fact this is not how the money works re: Iran, Democrats love to post "with all the wasted money we could do all of these things that we also do not support."

One thing I wish I’d learned earlier was the value and practices of endurance in political work, especially as a lefty. There is a palpable churn, a built-in burnout to struggling against the status quo. Inertia requires sustained exertion to overcome, and will is a fickle resource.

look upon my works ye might and despair, for I have constructed a thinking machine using naught but goats and grass from Age of Empires II

You are far more likely to be killed by a car than a gun in America but find me a gov’t entity at the federal, state, or local levels which invests as much into mode shift or traffic safety as they do policing.

"It looks like D.C. will get its first democratic socialist mayor." @samdelgado.bsky.social and @curiouskurz.bsky.social for @51st.news 51st.news/janeese-lewi...

We're all focusing on the statewide and congressional primaries in Colorado this year, but there is A LOT happening — and a lot of money being spent — on the statehouse front: coloradosun.com/2026/06/18/d... #copolitics #coleg

The deal between the United States & Iran underscores what we already knew: The Iran war was a huge blunder from the start & we are worse off as a result. But one thing worse than this deal is not ending this stupid war.

Colorado lawmakers made moves this year that could allow the state to ignore local minimum wage laws in some situations.

On a related note, the EU, along with Switzerland, held a press conference today at Bonn climate talks to defend 1.5°C. Lots of countries are not on track to meet either their own commitments (NDCs) or what is necessary for even targets like 2°C. But only some boldly proclaim alignment with science

I know we’ve grown used to this garbage, but this is just an astounding thing for a U.S. president to say at a summit with the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries.

Coloradans are set to vote in a head-to-head Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in less than two weeks without ever having had the chance to hear John Hickenlooper and Julie Gonzales have a face-to-face discussion about their many differences on policy and style.

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"Like a cat leaving a dead bird at your doorstep, Anthropic catalogs the grim future that its products might produce, shrugs its shoulders and then returns to its furious efforts to make these warnings a reality." 😂 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...

gotta start making t-shirts with qrcodes that open up good ol early 2000s shock jpgs

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/4veRIqA

I also think both Mamdani and Janeese’s victories illustrate how trashing big-city “transplants” is an electoral dead end. In both DC and NYC, newer arrivals and longtime residents were on the same page. It was the wealthier white people who tried to divide this coalition that proved out of touch.

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

The City of Minneapolis released an updated impact assessment documenting nearly $700 million in estimated costs and increased needs caused by occupation of Minneapolis by the federal government. 1/

There's something so quaint about how he's able to say stuff like this, which is more critical (on its face) than anything Biden would say publicly and then in the same breath claim he is the reaosn al-Shaara overthrew Assad and that also Al-Sharaa will invade Lebanon for Israel.

I think it should be a bigger deal than the US took 400 casualties, including 13 deaths, just to be summarily defeated in less than six months. This is our Falkland Islands War, except we're the Argentines.

"Absence: From May 18, 2026 to June 11, 2026 Bennet missed 44 of 47 roll call votes (94%). He last voted on May 20, 2026." www.govtrack.us/congress/mem...

Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?

when you've been relying on the social contract to keep you safe from society as you gleefully violate the social contract to attack society but then suddenly society informs you that you're somehow in breach of contract

not Ezra Klein joining Peter Thiel's secret society lmao

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.

The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"

”Shifting out of gas cars by opting into public or active transit dramatically reduces emissions. Our research shows that living car-free is 78 times more impactful than composting.” Active mobility is better for your health compared to driving. #Sufficiency www.wri.org/insights/cli...

Venues with ties to Republican mega-donor Phil Anschutz appeared intent on blocking a progressive political rally in Denver this weekend. They did not succeed. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/06/davi...

A key point is that the threat is not to profitability as such. Decarbonization can be as profitable as the alternative. The threat is that collective decisions about decarbonization reduce private control over production. (I think this is felt more acutely by the tech owning class than by finance.)

There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18

“Supporting Israel shouldn’t be a litmus test for local races!” Buddy after three years of genocide, supporting Israel is a litmus test for whether you are ensouled or not.

Seriously, though, you don’t HAVE to finance Mark Zuckerberg’s embrace of fascism by scrolling Reels all day. Same with your X account. Just delete it. Life was good beforehand and it will be good after. It’s okay. Just delete your fascism financing account. You’ll feel better.

If Constitutional rights are something that a despot can "weigh suspending" for his convenience, then there is no Constitution and we should draft a new and better one as soon as we excise the despot and his party from every level of government. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

Two years ago when Expense Account Steakhouse Guy Troy Guard publicly quit Denver for Houston it was a major story in local media and helped fuel a big pressure campaign to rip up state and local minimum-wage laws. That pressure was mostly resisted after labor pushed back. And now, lo and behold:

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New Yorkers maniacally climbing greased poles like salmon violently swimming upstream to spawn

Victor Wembanyama at the postgame press conference (dejected): This one's on me. I gotta get taller

San Antonio should try electing a socialist mayor and see if that helps