Colorado Gov. Jared Polis justified his decision to release election denier Tina Peters from prison with a series of false and misleading claims, inaccurately distancing her case from efforts to undermine the 2020 election. | Fact check

But yeah, not being old enough to have actually experienced it, I like to think the comp is UCLA freshman Lee Alcindor. Too tall, too talented, too cerebral and sort of quirkily competitive. And nobody could do anything with him.

what this country needs more of is immigrants*!! _________________ *sga vs. wemby

So does he switch to unaffiliated next? #copolitics

NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

JUST IN: Sen. Bennet vows not to appoint Gov. Polis to the US Senate if Bennet becomes governor:

The crazy thing about Trumps stock trades is that the corrupt gains are still dwarfed by the billions being made in payola to bia sham crypto, AI and media cos. It’s just instinct. Late last year he just decided to “I can do this too. YOLO.”

This, right here: "Despair is a gift to those that want you to believe that what we've got is all we'll get and there's no way to make things better."

Or Cabinet job? With the current admin?

A Denver district judge on Friday denied a request from state Rep. Scott Bottoms (who is running for governor) and former state Rep. Ron Hanks (who is running for Congress) to block unaffiliated voters from participating in Colorado's primaries this year. #copolitics #coleg

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

Also the #copolitics tv ads write themselves. Good of him to help the D with $3 million in the bank

He betrayed all his values as a doctor to appoint RFK Jr. and it still won him nothing with either RFK or Trump. What did it get him besides perhaps realizing that he should have done something.

Members of Congress Defeated For Renomination, 1966-2026 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A little late to this my dude. #copolitics.

I’m sorry but “everyone is going to use AI to code their own apps” sounds like “everyone is going to learn HTML and code their own websites.“ like … have you met people? no they’re not

The bigger picture on the Tina Peters commutation... #copolitics

Seen in Denver, CO

Important note. This year, Polis asked the legislature — which was in the midst of cutting $1.5 billion — for tens of millions to build a new prison. He’s also refused to release 11 inmates who’ve completed their release programs and are only waiting on Polis to free them. bsky.app/profile/burn...

BREAKING: Colorado governor cuts Tina Peters’ prison sentence in half, will release her on parole June 1 coloradosun.com/2026/05/15/t... #copolitics #coleg

In a Private Meeting, Colorado Marijuana Regulators Acknowledge the Extent of Illegal Hemp Sales. Chris Osher of @denvergazette.com got the recording!

CFOIC's session wrap-up: Efforts to weaken the Colorado Open Records Act and give an open meetings law exemption to the state Public Utilities Commission fell short during the 2026 session of the General Assembly, which ended Wednesday.

Super important work here by Stat News on death toll associated with alcohol abuse in the U.S. - causes more deaths in a typical year than every infectious disease combined Shows the important enterprise Stat continues to do under Rick Berke, a former NYT colleague www.statnews.com/alcohol-epid...

New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).

They mistakenly believe there is a vas deferens between what the Constitution doesn’t authorize and what it expressly prohibits.

A guy made an app that analyzes pictures of its users' poop ostensibly for health reasons. He is then turning those photos into a tagged database for AI training that he has been advertising for sale on Reddit: www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...

What do they mean that hacked data has been returned or destroyed ?? Data can be like, duplicated real easy. Certainly hackers keep a copy ?

I present to you our annual list of 101 bills debated in Colorado's legislature this year that you need to know about: coloradosun.com/2026/05/14/t... #copolitics #coleg

Here’s my Q: is every content market saturated? Like if a reporter at a legacy media org wanted to go out and do a newsletter or podcast….aren’t there too many already?

Final thing though: if news orgs keep shrinking where are you getting your news from??? Where will you? This is not a “please donate” rhetorical question; this is a genuine question.

Who says you can't overcome a 3-0 lead?

Go Avs Go!!!

🚨During lunch at his golf course with tobacco executives on May 2, Pres. Trump called Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Oz, furious. He wanted action on flavored vapes. And he soon got it, prompting the FDA commissioner to resign. w/ the amazing @kenvogel.bsky.social --> 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

This is a good thread highlighting a really challenging set of tradeoffs @vicmsong.bsky.social has been reporting on for a while - gift link: www.theverge.com/column/78177...

There are so many Black self-liberation stories like this - just the coolest shit anyone’s done & I truly believe that if America liked stories of revolutionaries or rebels defeating elites as much as we used to act like we do we would have mined these types of stories more for film & television.

NEW: At protests and church services, I’ve noticed something odd amid America’s 250th anniversary: Debate over the political — and religious! — legacy of Thomas Paine, the “Forgotten Founding Father,”championed by progressives and dismissed by Christian nationalists religionnews.com/2026/05/13/m...

excellent job by @michaelkarlik.bsky.social analyzing Chief U.S. Court Judge Daniel D. Domenico's rulings (or lack thereof) in immigration cases. Domenico is now nominated for a federal appeals court job. #copolitics

The E15 bill passed the House, 218-203. Faces headwinds in the Senate. CO Reps voted: Yes - Boebert No- Crank, Crow, DeGette, Evans, Hurd, Neguse, & Pettersen #copolitics

We conflate two things when we talk about the impact of social: 1. How do institutions (news, government, etc.) distribute information? 2. How do friends communicate? These are separate things! Microblogging, short-form video, etc. compress them into the same thing and no one is better for it.

get the concerns behind this bill, but does anyone ever check to see if, say, folks running for office actually live in the district as required by law? all the cases i'm familiar with came from the public checking it out. #copolitics

The small fire which generated a giant plume of smoke that could be seen from miles away

CO Sens Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper voted No on the Warsh confirmation. #copolitics

"The 30% of families that were lifted out of poverty because of Colorado’s most aggressive anti-poverty tax credits are now going to be plunged back into poverty,” bill sponsor Rep. Lorena Garcia said. “I wonder if the governor feels good about that.” Gift link

40 years ago today the Philadelphia PD destroyed 62 homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood by DROPPING A FUCKING BOMB on the HQ of black liberation group MOVE, burning alive 6 adults & 2 kids. Afterwards, a white anthro prof named Janet Monge used the bones of the kids for an instructional video.

After a move by GOP leadership following last week’s special session, Democrats who represent TN’s largest cities will have no voice in the legislative process next year until bills get to a final vote. From @vivianejones.bsky.social: www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

Florida law does not explicitly require prosecutorial agencies to keep a Brady List – as evidenced by the fact that several don’t. Eight of the 20 state attorneys’ offices in the state told The Florida Trib they do not maintain a Brady List. w/ @muckrock.com floridatrib.org/2026/05/12/b...

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

One single guy made $300 million in cuts to the state budget with his veto pen #gapol thecurrentga.org/2026/05/12/g...

CO Sen. John Hickenlooper voted No and Sen. Michael Bennet did not vote. #copolitics