Wow

NEW: The lame duck conservative majority on the DougCo School Board plans to use its last meeting Tuesday to pass a 10-year extension for all charter schools without a review of their performance and finances. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports:

Also you can’t sign petitions for candidates if you belong to their party #copolitics

I'm so psyched about @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy's work on making the open social internet good for real communities by putting in the culture work right from the very beginning. I'm a scavenger and a pragmatist *and also* I think the way we do things matters. www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/

lolwut

@colinbphoto.bsky.social caught federal immigration agents in an apparent photo shoot at the Bean this morning and I guess this happened: While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social

Senate on path to end government shutdown www.cpr.org/2025/11/09/s... #copolitics

Fight don’t fold.

Sens Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper on their No votes to advance the package to reopen the government. But cited what was not included - an extension of the enhanced tax credit. #copolitics

Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them. Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in

CO Sens Michael Bennet & John Hickenlooper are No votes on this deal -- CR to Jan 30, minibus. #copolitics

I’d go for both tbh

seems like the easier solution is to give everyone free healthcare and pay for it by like buying 17 less missiles or taxing 53 dudes 1.8 percent more

Dem leadership and Repubs. Guess who the Dems always are. 🤔

Reuters takes a deep dive into something I’ve been squawking about lately: the disappearing line between official Republican government operations and the right-wing marketplace. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?

Originally a Windsor company #copolitics

Judge Mark Wolf resigns from the District Court of Massachusetts and writes why in a powerful piece in the Atlantic. One thing he doesn’t mention in his list of reasons but I’m sure is a factor: Erez Reuveni was one of his law clerks. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Admin that has ignored court orders demands that states follow its decrees

If you rearrange the letters in Kinnick Stadium, you get: - A Mini Duck Stink - A Units Kick Mind - Tsunami Kick Din - Anti Kick Nudism Gotta be something there.

Both cities and rural areas have been slowly terraformed into playgrounds for the richest among us, not places where people are supposed to exist. A national facing politician telling folks directly "you are supposed to live here comfortably" fucks up their program.

They have to discredit Mamdani early and often because the elites have spent almost a century telling everyone that cities are hellscapes despite being the engines of this country's economics. If he makes things better it flies in the face of all their propaganda.

Imagine showing this picture to elected officials in 1980’s and telling them “no that’s not street gang, thet’s not a rap album cover, that’s federal law enforcement intimidating a random citizen.”

An infant girl in Chicago was tear gassed this morning by the U.S. government. Developing story in Little Village. Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

four family members — two Ducks, two Hawkeyes (ok, one kinda; she's a CU grad) — are at this Oregon-Iowa game and it looks miserable...

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

The story highlights the growing influence of personalities who post on social media and are able to attract large followings and the extent to which their audiences might know how they operate: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/an-influen...

Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all. Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.

Prayers for me but not for thee.

Rick Caruso spent $160 for every vote in LA to lose to Karen Bass. Every billionaire would rather set $100 million on fire before they will cede control of the electorate.

I mean at least Earle-Sears won the white dudes overwhelmingly?!? 🤦🏻‍♀️

in the Virginia governor race exit poll:

It’s shit like this that makes me think the GOP doesn’t care about winning elections and they’re just not planning on having them. Because no one who thinks they have to win elections does this.

1/ The Trump admin has targeted the president's perceived enemies with allegations of mortgage fraud. Letitia James. Adam Schiff. Lisa Cook But recently one Texas Republican tapped the tactic to allege a statewide official here may also be guilty: Ken Paxton. www.kut.org/crime-justic... #txlege

Senate adjourns until Saturday at noon. No votes scheduled.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area. “We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”

Politicians like Cuomo are a relic of the past. (Did I want to title this one “Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out”? Yes, I did.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

Democratic members of CO's congressional delegation are calling on the FAA to approve Denver International Airport's plan to use its funds to pay air traffic controllers. #copolitics

Obviously she won't win, but you can safely predict that Stefanik's antisemitic conspiracy theories about "Soros" and "globalists" and aides/staffers of hers being in the youth GOP "I love Hitler"/"Throw them in the gas chambers" chat will get nowhere near the scrutiny Mamdani did.

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”

#copolitics $3 million irony alert.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny