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Victor Marx brought his dog to the debate

Dispatch from tonight’s surreal GOP gubernatorial debate: www.denverpost.com/2026/06/02/c...

Scott Pelley has been fired by new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton.

The Minnesota Star Tribune will cut its workforce by 15% through buyouts and layoffs, executives said Tuesday evening, just a month after the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Annunciation school and church shooting.

AI companies' "brazen theft of intellectual property...has occurred at an unprecedented scale. Tech giants strip-mine news websites without permission or compensation. They repackage these stolen goods as their own, siphoning off the audiences and revenue," NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger writes

New music from @kristinhersh.bsky.social !!

The U.S. Justice Department's agreement with President Donald Trump to bar future audits into his or his family's past tax records will remain in place even as his weaponization fund has been put on hold, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

New: Gov. Polis is vetoing a bill to ban price surveillance in Colorado, per the bill’s sponsor. The measure would’ve stopped companies from using data collected on individual consumers to set individualized prices & wages. The bill would’ve been the strongest regulation of its kind in the U.S.

Starting in November, Colorado voters will get an extra week to receive and return their mail-in ballots under new legislation signed by Gov. Jared Polis that also takes steps to insulate the state from federal interference // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

Colorado has spent more than $215,000 defending Gov. Jared Polis as he fights to comply with ICE subpoenas, according to figures obtained in response to a public records request // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

The commission overseeing Colorado’s Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel has launched an investigation into the agency’s new leader amid mounting complaints from attorneys and staff about her leadership

For those with institutional access, my Public Collectors publication series Hardcore Architecture has been fully scanned for the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines. They did a fantastic job! rapmm.rilm.org/en/pages/col... See also: Hardcorearchitecture.blog

Denver City Councilwoman Sarah Parady announced this afternoon that she will resign in August due to a chronic health issue that’s “medically not well understood.” // Story by @elliottwenzler.bsky.social

Gov. Jared Polis today signed a bill allowing Coloradans to sue for damages from the widely discredited practice of “conversion therapy” and issued an order seeking to ensure the state doesn’t fund efforts to change people’s sexual orientation or gender identity // by @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social

Federal law requires people be given the chance to appeal when states try to claw back unemployment overpayments. Emails reviewed by @samtabachnik.bsky.social show Colorado leaders have known for years they’re supposed to, but still don't. Division head dismisses appeal process as "a kangaroo court"

In an interview with Steve Bannon this morning, Peters continued her baseless election conspiracism, suggesting that the New York mayoral election and the Virginia gubernatorial election were suspect and that the “Democrats will cheat.” She said she had been imprisoned for exposing election rigging.

18 years ago, Coloradans started having fewer babies. Now it’s a higher education problem. The demographic enrollment cliff is here. The number of high school graduates in CO is expected to drop 12% between 2023 and 2041. Here's how colleges are preparing: www.denverpost.com/2026/05/31/c...

Tina Peters was released from a Pueblo prison this morning after a commutation from Gov. Jared Polis ended both her 20-month incarceration and a months-long pressure campaign by President Donald Trump // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

This is a delight. An hour-plus with Smigel, Downey and Letterman.

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Jesus And Mary Chain - 1985-01-30 Liverpool https://archive.org/details/jesus-and-mary-chain-1985-01-30-liverpool

The college enrollment cliff is here, and @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social talked to Colorado higher ed leaders about how they're preparing for a smaller traditional applicant pool. The state is expected to see a 12% decline in high school graduates between 2023 and 2041.

Federal law requires people be given the chance to appeal when states try to claw back unemployment overpayments. Emails reviewed by @samtabachnik.bsky.social show Colorado leaders have known for years they’re supposed to, but still don't. Division head dismisses appeal process as "a kangaroo court"

really glad they made a S2 of this very weird L.A. noir show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJMbHy…

‘city of dreams’ by talking heads appreciation post

As #Boulder races to prepare for Sundance, Chautauqua’s massive effort to winterize its 127-year-old auditorium hit a setback this spring after construction exceeded the scope of an existing permit, triggering a stop-work order, fines and weeks of delays. boulderreportinglab.org/2026/05/28/b...

My house is overflowing with print media precisely because the internet does not support permanence. Capitalism is not made for anything other than stoking extractive impulse decision-making. Reading (and re-reading) is the opposite of that. RIP Maggot Brain; you were a signal flare of brilliance.

Oscar winner and San Francisco resident Marcia Lucas — the former wife of George Lucas who edited the original “Star Wars,” “American Graffiti” and “Taxi Driver” —  has died.

NEW: Gov. Jared Polis, for the second year in a row, has vetoed a pro-union bill aimed at making it easier for organized Colorado workers to negotiate with their employers // Story by @katielang.bsky.social

"We are closer to chaos in our system than we have ever been before," a federal judge in Colorado said today as he warned the Trump administration not to deport the Boulder firebomber's family. The executive branch, he said, "has no right to interfere with the judicial functions of the court"

Will listen to any and all live versions of "Cortez The Killer" that Neil Young chooses to share with the world music.apple.com/us/album/cor...

Denver Sheriff Elias Diggins says he wants to "unburden" staff from onerous and "unnecessary" internal affairs probes that have created "an eggshell culture." The unilateral shift raised alarm among the city’s police oversight groups.

CareerWise, Colorado's premier apprenticeship program, once aspired to serve 20,000 young people in its first decade. @byjasongonzales.bsky.social examines why it fell far, far short of that. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...

This was a great show. They played most of — and mostly — A Thousand Leaves.

“No court has found probable cause to believe that criminal activity is afoot on Boulder’s public roads 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” the lawsuit states. The police's "deployment of the Flock technology constitutes a dragnet search of the movements of every person who drives in Boulder.”

The @denverpost.com business team would like to hear your perspective on how AI is impacting the workforce in Colorado. If you’re interested in sharing your experience for an article, click here: www.denverpost.com/2026/05/28/a...

The independent monitor overseeing court-ordered reforms to the Aurora Police Department on Wednesday called for the city to conduct a broad review of three recent police shootings in which officers killed people who were in the midst of mental health crises

Sebadoh’s Eric Gaffney has colon cancer and needs our help gofund.me/9bab203d1

i wrote about all the president’s men for @brightwalldarkroom.com — i get into how the film’s texture and tactility gives literal weight to the reporting onscreen, and lament the loss of physical news mediums as a sensory connection to the reality of politics and power.

The gun, a former Colorado town council member's lawyer says, fired by itself, shooting a teen in the face // Story by @laurenpenington.bsky.social

Your Colorado spelling bee correspondent here to report this breaking news: We've got one CO kid left in the @scrippsbee.bsky.social, and he's headed to the semifinals tonight! Let's go, Nikhil! www.denverpost.com/2026/05/27/s... via @denverpost.com

never change, Boulder

Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins are helping to release a shelved 1977 Cramps album produced by Alex Chilton

Oh darn.

"This would substantially weaken the watchdog function of the public and the press and would create perverse incentives to hide government misdeeds or controversial actions behind a single personal phone number or line of attorney advice."

scoop from Michael Grynbaum: Sharyn Alfonsi, who has lost her deal with CBS News, says that "the wall has come down" at "60 Minutes" between "editorial independence and corporate interests." Full interview here: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...

Criminal defense attorneys are decrying the new leader of Colorado's Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel and criticizing a culture shift within the agency that they believe could undermine defendants’ constitutional rights. "This is a disaster," one lawyer says. "Disaster.”

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