Here's a thread about this piece of shit lump of journalism www.denvergazette.com/2025/10/18/a...

in some ways, the greatest challenge for Democratic base voters is to get their elected officials more afraid of their base than of the Beltway culture

Israel still fires on Lebanon almost a year after a ceasefire. Some predict the same for Gaza My look at the Lebanon "lessfire" model, with interactive map courtesy of the @apnews.com graphics team apnews.com/article/leba...

I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.

"Khan’s staff had written that the agency was 'increasingly taking note of AI’s potential for real-world instances of harm—from incentivizing commercial surveillance to enabling fraud and impersonation to perpetuating illegal discrimination.'” www.wired.com/story/ftc-re...

Denver Police are out here brutalizing protestors. The Mayor walks in the first part then sends his fascist brute force out after. www.reddit.com/r/DenverProt...

This is the thing I have the hardest time convincing people of even though the polls vindicate it: Mamdani's ability to distinguish himself from the rest of the pack early on with his position on Palestine necessarily entails a Democratic primary electorate receptive to his position in the 1st place

Weiser appears to be the only prominent Colorado Democrat who has used any medium to encourage people to attend today's massive anti-Trump rallies. I can't find any communication from any of the state's six congressional Dems to the same effect.

“They literally ushered us into the street to protest and immediately after started beating the shit out of us.” This is 100% an accurate description of how this started. Broadview PD mishandled the situation from the start, then unleashed ISP to beat the protesters they’d led into the street.

Got a text asking me to donate money to @hickenlooper.bsky.social. LOL NO. We need new leadership in Colorado, not Hick and Polis and @bennet.senate.gov swapping jobs every few years. So instead I just donated to @daveyseligman.bsky.social for AG, check him out:

Tell Mayor Johnston that Denver’s budget should put safety first & use this form to urge the Mayor to restore funding for these critical programs in his final budget proposal. secure.everyaction.com/7GXkwDLXD0-C... #VisionZero #MobilityForALL #SafeRoutesToSchool

I keep seeing comments from people surprised that police are the ones escalating the situation and I need you to know that police will always escalate the situation.

What’s frustrating is, none of these companies have viable pathways to profitability so they’re giving this crap away for free to get lock-in so we’ll accept massive price hikes later. It’s drug dealer logic, but the “innovation” is too much to resist for a lot of leaders and they force it on us.

look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot. The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Maybe you shouldn’t have voted to approve him you absolute dunce

Chuck Schumer praising Trump for the ceasefire deal which has already been breached, this man is such a hapless sop, a sniveling weasel. An inanimate block of wood would be a better leader

CS gas ("teargas") is toxic and can kill. I had the unfortunate luck to directly witness a heavy application of CS asphyxiate a small baby in Colorado Springs in 2003. The baby survived, but suffered permanent brain damage. The million dollar settlement didn't fix the damage.

I cannot believe people were losing their jobs for being mildly critical of Charlie Kirk and the president of the united states just went on tv and said "skill issue loser, RIP but I'm different"

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Is there an explanation for why Palestinians are "prisoners" and Israelis are "hostages"? Is the implication meant to be that the Palestinians were 'criminals' being punished through imprisonment?

Given what has happened in Lebanon I think it's abundantly clear that the US vision of a ceasefire is that the Arabs cease and Israel continues to fire.

this is, flatly and subjectively, intolerable to anyone who fancies themselves free people. simply intolerable

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

“My concern is that due to the feeling that we can’t understand AI, we are undemocratically giving the technologists an immense power to shape our society.” https://macleans.ca/technology-3/railway-tycoons-shaped-canada-dont-let-ai-barons-do-the-same/

In Denver (and most places that have moved on from Columbus Day) it’s Indigenous Peoples Day, But in Colorado it’s Mother Cabrini Day bc the state legislature couldn’t pass IP Day over the objections of angry Italians so they compromised by making a holiday for an Italian-Colorado Saint.

Political corruption is so transparent these days. Oh you just took a lavish trip to a mountain resort with the lobbyists for big business? Im sure it was an innocent “opportunity” to learn about what bills your constituents (patrons) want you to pass. coloradosun.com/2025/10/13/c...

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

We continue to be hostages to the most illiterate men on the planet

If this nightmare ends, the new era must be a new Reconstruction of American Democracy. What do you think such an era needs? I think a constitutional reconvention makes sense, but I do get the sense reforms have to be deeper than just governance, the information ecosystem is so rotted.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Everyday now there is new information detailing just how economically unviable AI is. Data centers will be the new abandoned Walmarts, but on an even larger scale. futurism.com/future-socie...

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

Bennet and Hick give no fuck about trans rights.

JVP and IfNotNow, two Jewish groups principally committed to nonviolence, are both on the government’s list of left-wing violent extremist groups

israel has been holding over 1,700 people hostage the whole time it has been demanding the release of its hostages

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed www.404media.co/apple-banned...

The Mayor says everyone has to do their part w/r/t cuts when justifying the cuts to the Clerk, but his own budget excludes the police department from cuts. To this Mayor, police are essential to society but democratic participation is not. denverite.com/2025/10/07/d...

Turns out that whole slavery thing, not a settled issue coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/07/c...

Living in this country is cool because every day I read another story where my reaction is, I do not think God will forgive the people responsible for this

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Monstrous. "federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Really brave of a city employee to talk to press with criticism of the Mayor. Grateful to their courage, knowing that this Mayor already has pending legal claims against him from laid off employees alleging retaliation.

Interesting piece to write as the president sends troops to occupy major blue cities