What gets me about this choice is that this result of vast community outrage was so predictable. The city had finalized the project, it had 5+ years of planning behind it, and the Anschutzs are notoriously wealthy Republicans, Denver is deep blue. Did they really think people wouldn’t cry foul?

While I welcome any support for education and investing in our kids’ future, I will never support vouchers. That includes any measures that siphon off scarce public K-12 school dollars to benefit private and parochial schools. That’s why I am a no here. coloradosun.com/2025/12/05/c...

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

One thing that’s pretty consistent in American history is elites getting away with it

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Great reporting from @bentebirkeland.bsky.social on Faith Winter’s courage in standing up against sexual harassment at the #copolitics Capitol. RIP 😓

The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison

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Reminder that Sam Altman is being sued by his younger sister for sexual abuse.

Used to work for The Climate Mobilization, my job was to help cities which had declared a climate emergency to create and implement action plans. I really got to see how much of that declaration is lip service when the rubber to road commitment time starts.

It’s an ugly tactic. Note they aren’t trying to support restaurants by say, working out policy to address costs of commercial rent, or consolidation among food suppliers, noooo, it’s those pesky servers making too much money who need to be brought down a peg.

If someone with a name other than Anschutz had shown up to oppose the Alameda changes I think the city would have proceeded. No one in the mayor's office has been able to defend this change because it is actually impossible to do so. denverite.com/2025/11/10/a...

THREAD. Today our lawyers will be in a small courtroom in Colorado fighting for a constitutional right for children to hug their parents. Did you know that millions of children every year are barred from hugging their parents because of new policies? Do you know who benefits?

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

870 out of 1201 (72%) surveyed Americans support ramping down harmful/unnecessary production/consumption, taxing the rich, universal basic services and guaranteed jobs, democratizing business, and ending exploitation of disadvantaged countries. As long as nobody gave a name to those policies!

She's almost 80. She's never running for office again. Her ideological allies in the Party are dead, dying, or on the way out. Nobody has to give a shit what Hillary Clinton thinks about anything, and the sooner we internalize that, the better off we'll all be.

This guy is so stupid it hurts.

Up next in our series on drivers of the affordability crisis: technology. I wrote about AI bots are colluding with one another, anticipating consumer choices, and transferring wealth to the businesses that employ them. "That's why we're building all these data centers." 🧵

Seems like as time goes on more people will adopt this already emerging consensus view of the Biden admin in MENA, but it's one thing to say it and another to hold the architects of this program to account: why does no one ask why CAP hired Blinken, why CNN hired McGurk, Sullivan at Harvard?

It’s still NREL. Fuck off.

There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon

to keep functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all

One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before. It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it. Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.

New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

The thing about immigration is that xenophobia and racism are the elite centrist position. Here's a senior fellow at Brookings, spouse of CRFP head Maya MacGuineas, explaining the mere presence of foreigners in Germany is a "problem" that someone must solve with "speed and determination."

“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”

No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer

Director #BongJoonHo said he hopes the proliferation of AI is "the beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do." But, he added with a laugh: "I’m going to organize a military squad where their mission is to destroy AI all over the world."

I've never encountered more students who say they hate reading. Students who want to be teachers, writers, or both. I wonder if "hate" means "I have trouble reading," but I also talk with so many students who write in a genre but refuse to read in it. They can't see themselves in relation to others.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

BREAKING: The majority of executives and upper management are totally talentless hacks.

The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

The Colorado Supreme Court will decide if corporations can be liable for a “felonious killing” — meaning they committed the equivalent of murder or manslaughter and can be subject to unlimited civil damages for pain and suffering: www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/11/28/c...

Hegseth - and the people carrying out his orders - need to be tried in The Hague for this

the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine

Just pathetic that Mamdani is called a communist for wanting a few faster bus lanes while Paris is building 68 new metro stations and over a hundred miles of new train lines. At some point we will recognize the American political system is fundamentally broken. www.cnn.com/travel/paris...

"The IRA’s survival was premised on the logic that a loose alignment of corporations would support climate policies in exchange for subsidies and convince Republicans to get on their side. That didn’t work." newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Katie Wilson, Seattle’s newly elected mayor, has embraced a city-owned startup designed to emulate Vienna’s social housing model, which involves a public developer building housing designed to be permanently affordable.

Do you ever think about how many hundreds/thousands of miles of tunneled rapid rail infrastructure we could build in America with all of the money that these AI organizations are burning in hopes of being profitable 15 years from now especially if we had like a Danish or Belgian cost paradigm

I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other

Winter also wrote or co-wrote just about every significant transpo bill over the last decade. Funding, speed cameras, etc. She was a giant in that world. What a terrible thing. Rest in peace, Senator.

Faith Winter is why Colorado has a paid family leave program. My enduring memory: breaking the news to her that the AP had called it and the measure had passed, five years ago this month. She was killed in a car crash today. I wish her loved ones solace and comfort. coloradosun.com/2025/11/26/f...

Shocked and saddened to hear. Faith worked hard, and left an important legacy. coloradosun.com/2025/11/26/f...

democrats/liberals/progressives with any common sense need to get ahead of this electricity cost issue - we need restraint and regulation of ai and data centers, which are driving up costs www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...