The Local Crank
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Cranky GenXer who hates this timeline. Former syndicated political columnist. Coloradoan
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A Reading List to explain how we got into this mess Dreamland by Sam Quinones The Most Dangerous Branch by David A. Kaplan The Death of Expertise
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Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge
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Rise of the Warrior Cop
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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These are all good points except impeachment, since Trump was never going to be convicted by the senate
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Iran will also gain sovereignty over 3 US states to be named later
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Mehdi Hasan
about 14 hours ago
How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.
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“Trump keeps kicking us in the balls but I can’t vote for the Democrat Party”
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about 13 hours ago
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Jared Polis is the leading edge of a wave of assholes who will magically appear after Trump has been run out of town on a rail telling us we need "reconciliation" and to "move on as a country"
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Republicans hate disabled people
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about 20 hours ago
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Drunken asshole rants in public
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Thor Benson
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You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending
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Folks, it's really REALLY hard for prosecutors to have a case dismissed for vindictive prosecution. Only the best people work for Trump...
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Keir Starmer is adopting the Democratic Consultant Class policy of throwing trans kids into the volcano in the hopes that bigots will like him
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Aaron Rupar
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bank robber seeks praise for leaving a couple gold bars behind
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Only the crappiest most incompetent lawyers will work for Trump
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2 days ago
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Man, that Polis sure has a wacky sense of humor as he shows sheer unvarnished contempt for the state that elected him
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"If we just let Republicans throw more trans kids into the volcano people will love us"
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Friendly reminder that absolutely everything that's wrong with America occurs because the majority of eligible voters are willing to tolerate it
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Aaron Rupar
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"The ICE agent's version of events would not have come under such scrutiny had the federal government not gotten greedy and charged Aljorna and Sosa-Celis with assaulting a federal officer who was performing their official duties. And that’s where things started to fall apart." —
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How Hennepin County unwound an ICE agent's web of lies
Christian Castro is now the subject of a nationwide arrest warrant.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/christian-castro-ice-shooting-north-minneapolis
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The long term solution to
@colorado.gov
is a constitutional amendment to strip pardon power from the governor & put it with a nonpartisan board. At the very least no commutations or pardons until or unless someone has been finally convicted (all appeals exhausted)
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Yes because Schumer & Jeffries are the primary obstacle to impeachment...
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Political Nation
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FACTS are their Worst Enemy.
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"Because I'm not going to pay it anyway"
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Why does this guy keep voting for ludicrously unqualified judicial nominees?
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NY Times Pitchbot
4 days ago
When Twitter was heavily used by liberals, it was a bubble. Now that it’s mostly right-wing bots directed by a ketamine-addicted neo-Nazi billion, it’s more like real life.
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Polis is one of those establishment Democrats who thinks “bravery” means “going against what most of the party believes”
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Stan Oklobdzija
5 days ago
If you're a Democrat and you confirm someone who refuses to unequivocally say "Joe Biden won the 2020 election," you should lose your job.
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Andy Craig
5 days ago
It should be said loud and clear that this isn’t just illegal in all the usual ways. It is “illegal and void” by Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. We’re going to take the money back. And any financial institution that touches it should be on notice that will be treated as conscious money laundering.
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But of course there is no "settlement" and we know there's not because that's what the presiding judge ruled when she closed the case at Trump's request.
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Great job
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I would love to see Talarico win but Texas is the Zeno's Arrow of politics, perpetually one election away from flipping.
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These people have the exact same moral blame for Trump as the 77 million idiots who actually voted for him
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The lazy corporate media loves Trump
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Trump will be on the last plane out of the capitol filled to the brim with loot
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This is just the start of the looting. Before he leaves office, Fuckface von Clownstick will haul off everything that isn’t nailed down. If we let him.
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Adam Serwer
6 days ago
So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count
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Listening to
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interview Ryan Holiday doesn’t necessarily make me like Newsom any more but it is refreshing to hear a politician w/some sense of introspection & some awareness of philosophy
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Good Lord, Polis actually believes he’s a damned hero for commuting Peters’ sentence!
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Don’t blame me; I voted for Cary Kennedy
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Welcome to the United States of Anomie
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Susan McPherson
8 days ago
“This is a war grave with the same legal status as Arlington National Cemetery,” Mr. McBride said in an interview. “Snorkeling around Arizona is as disrespectful as playing kickball on top of the graves at Arlington.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...
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Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/patel-fbi-travel-snorkeling-pearl-harbor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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We need to amend the CO constitution to create a board of pardons & paroles to severely limit the governor’s powers. For one thing, pardons should be limited until AFTER final conviction
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What the fuck is wrong with these people?
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“We are grateful for Dear Leader’s bold Christian America First strategy of repeatedly kicking us in the balls”
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Hard to imagine a Governor showing less respect for the judicial system & the rule of law on behalf of someone who deserved it even less
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Just when you think Polis has hit rock bottom he finds a way to keep digging
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MAYBE we shouldn't let a handful of billionaire weirdos run the entire damn economy. And government.
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Lumbering moron Incidentally, President Xi is 5'11"
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Bill
10 days ago
I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing
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We’ll be lucky if the bloated syphilitic old fraud doesn’t end up trading 2-3 states to China for some magic beans
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JFC
thehill.com/homenews/587...
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CDC not requiring hantavirus cruise passengers to isolate at home
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday that the hantavirus remains a low public health risk and while the agency is “encouraging” American passengers of …
https://thehill.com/homenews/5876929-hantavirus-cdc-public-health/
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