Supporters of a ballot measure to put a graduated income-tax system in the Colorado constitution rallied canvassers in Denver for a final sprint of signature-gathering. The measure would raise taxes for the top 3% of earners and slightly cut them for everyone else. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

youtu.be/FJrRx6rwQtI?... @acluofcolorado.bsky.social Graveyard For Living People A new report by the @aclu.org and @humanrightswatch.bsky.social alleges rampant abuse inside Camp East Montana, including brutal physical attacks by the guards and people being denied necessary medical care.

This, along with the the report on ICE Air present a damning picture racially motivated cruelty to those most unable to resist.

This is the blueprint for ICE to deny the right to counsel, and the taxpayers foot the bill. Excellent report and worth watching.

We demand a transparent investigation involving state and local officials, as ICE and its private contractors have shown themselves to be dangerous, destructive, and outside the law. They must be stopped.

#copolitics #copol @neguse.house.gov @bennet.senate.gov @hickenlooper.senate.gov @cohousedem.bsky.social

The real problem is not the average MAGA voter. The real problem is the people who lie to them and suppress the truth. The average voter will not or cannot find the truth.

Misinformer John Solomon, Who Reportedly Pushed for Trump’s Prime-time Speech, Has Spent Months Claiming China Interfered in the 2020 Election to Help Joe Biden

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In a contrast with his concerns about foreign interference in elections, Trump in his new budget proposes a $707 million cut in the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, the group charged with protecting American election systems from overseas cyberattacks.

Conservative commentator John Solomon, who joined the White House staff last month and was seated in the East Room for Trump’s speech, later told MS NOW that “the intelligence community has zero evidence that someone has flipped – that a foreign power flipped — a vote in 2020, ’22 or ’24.”

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If a pro sports team threatens to leave a city unless that city spends hundreds of $$ millions on a stadium/arena, or the team will move, isn't that blackmail/extortion? Adam Silver (NBA commissioner) & Tom Dundon (owner) are putting the muscle on Portland. $600 million. No private money.

An egregious scheme to profit off the presidency and enrich Wall Street while doing nothing to help Americans.

I could swear I've heard this once or twice (or 500 times) before. 🤔

A Kentucky company that sells “ghost guns” just got hit with a record-shattering bill. A jury ordered Husky Armory and parent company Up North Media to pay $104 million after 18-year-old Henry Willis bought one and, during a mental health crisis, took his own life. www.nbcdfw.com/news/nationa...

Heatwaves. Wildfire smoke. A parasite outbreak. It's moments like these where we need competent and thoughtful leadership to protect people. Yet at the federal level we have a regime run by a man obsessed with lining his own pockets and spewing lies about an election that happened 6 years ago.

If not obeying law enforcement was the standard for use of deadly force, everyone who stormed the Capitol on January 6th would be laying in a mass grave.

The ICE loser who murdered 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero this week has been outed as David Brouillette. May this bearded potato spend the rest of his dumb days looking over his shoulder. 🤬

To: PedoPrez You have destroyed everything you've ever touched and then walked away unscathed by the fallout. Let us be clear, if you think you are walking away clean after destroying America, think again. Thank you for your attention to this matter. We The People of the United States

Yup … technology is not all it’s cracked up to be … #cdnpoli

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

Let’s do it. Fuck ‘em. - We can build a wall. - Remove all military bases. - Sever all rail, road and air traffic. - Forbid them from using the dollar. - No FEMA, Social Security or Welfare money. - Cancel all passport held by Texans. - Withdraw U.S. citizenship from all Texan insurrectionists .

Under no circumstances should the Senate confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general. Here's why... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/you-wanna-know-why-todd-blanche-should

Buttigieg: We gotta get out there and build that new governing vision, not by preaching to the choir, not by only talking to everyone who already agrees with us, but by finding the people who haven’t always voted our way and changing how they see us by showing that we see them.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social turned decades of studying democracy into a nightly act of devotion, writing alone past midnight, no sponsors, no noise, just truth and care. She’s given millions a place to breathe, to understand, to feel less alone. Grateful for her light in the dark. TYSM HCR! #Pinks

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

116 days folks til Elections! VOTE DEM! Spread the word by mouth, mail, signs, billboards, email, texts The vote must be so strong it stops the cheat! All of us must VOTE! IMPEACH & REMOVE DJT

This smacks as a bit of a whitewash of data center impacts, not only to the neighborhood, but to all of Aurora. I think a few more Qs and As re needed. #ColoradoNewsandPolitics Aurora considers targeted regulations for new data centers amidst growing concerns sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aurora...

Trump wants a civil war!

This came out in 1992. Since then, $1M has become $2.5M. So, I ask you, what would you do if you had 2.5 million dollars? youtu.be/aynCgnbbgbM?...

"Make America Healthy Again." @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

I think it's another "trump effect" crime.

NEW EPISODE: The Supreme Court's term just ended, but there's no time to sit with these rulings. With 196 voting cases pending nationwide and the midterms just four months away, I explain why the pro-democracy movement needs to stay ready. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-f...

Elbit Systems of America supplies products and technology to DHS,which is the parent agency for both ICE and CBP. ESA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of an Israeli defense tech company controlled by the Federmann family of Tel Aviv. Now you know.

As I do on every appropriate occasion, I put up my American flag this morning. I am both proud of the history of our nation and sad for state it is in currently. I live in hope of better times to come and fear that they won't. When I take the flag down tonight, I will feel about the same.

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62 years ago today, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law because people refused to back down. That same energy is needed now. As voting rights are under attack, we cannot afford to be complacent. We must keep fighting until every voice is heard and every vote counts. We are not letting up.

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

"What he's saying is that the public doesn't have the right to know that his own advisory board told him no, twice, unanimously, before he made the decision to pardon Tina Peters. And that's not protecting a process, that's protecting himself from scrutiny."

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Trump claims he's profiting so much because "the stock market’s going up" and "everybody's profiting." That is BS. Trump made $2.2 BILLION last year making shady stock trades and corrupt crypto deals—while workers struggled to afford basic needs. When will enough be enough?

“I think we are seeing a hunger that is not just felt by New Yorkers, but frankly by Americans from coast to coast, for a new kind of politics, one that puts working people at the heart of it.” —Mayor Zohran Mamdani

She's The Hero Who Would Not Be Intimidated By Chump's ICESTAPO.

Our independent federal regulatory agencies were created to protect the public from corporate harms. The only reason to end these protections is to give corporate America even higher profits by shifting the risks of harms to individual people. The shame of the John Roberts court.