Exposure to wildfire smoke can create lifelong health issues, years after the wildfire has been extinguished. We are on track to lose hundreds of Coloradans each year if we don’t treat long-term wildfire risks and invest in protecting our communities from deadly wildfire smoke.

It really is such an interesting time for racial politics in this country. "For years, the city’s Black electorate has served as a make-or-break base of support for Democratic mayors. But Zohran Mamdani won the June primary" without "many majority Black precincts." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

I wrote for @opinion.bloomberg.com ⁦‬⁩ about House Speaker Johnson’s attempts to delay swearing in Democrats’ newest member: Arizona’s Adelita Grijalva. With her, the GOP’s already thin majority will be thinner. But Republicans can’t avoid the inevitable forever. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"The world’s highest-performing countries not only produce students who outscore the brightest American students at the top. They also manage to lift far more students up to a base level of skill—something some experts believe is only going to become more important." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

I swear, this happens every time there's a big wildfire. Sigh. "Digital warnings had to go through a cumbersome approval process, and failed to get through to many people’s cellphones, possibly impeded by power shut-offs & spotty cellular coverage in mountain areas." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

The consequences of short-cut training in legal procedures, policing responsibility and rules, liability, and the law. [*This only applies if those in charge give a damn about any of the preceding.]

"Fighting doesn’t always result in victory, but surrendering guarantees defeat. The only people who have preserved their dignity or their rights in dealing with Trump are those who have been willing to stand up to him." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

People of color and young people are undecided on Prop 50 — an ominous sign for Democrats, who need to win over those two groups in order to return to relevance.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Translation: The farm groups that supported him in the last election screamed long enough and loud enough about tariffs and immigration raids decimating their businesses that they finally are getting paid to shut up.

Now this should be interesting... "Carson will be the department’s “chief spokesperson” on nutrition, rural healthcare and housing, according to the announcement." www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Best quote of the night. Trump also forced millions of people to pay attention to the lone Democrat on the FCC, who — as I wrote for @opinion.bloomberg.com — has been saying a lot of what Jimmy Kimmel said tonight for months. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Best quote of the night. Trump also forced millions of people to pay attention to the lone Democrat on the FCC, who — as I wrote for @opinion.bloomberg.com — has been saying a lot of what Jimmy Kimmel said tonight for months. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

ABC has posted the first 28 minutes of @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

All this babbling about Tylenol… Does anyone REALLY trust Donald Trump to give them medical advice?

Lotta bleak stuff out there today but not sure anything can top 'you can now shop the war in Gaza on TikTok' www.theverge.com/tech/782540/...

"'We made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,' the company said in a statement." Yeah, well, that had the exact opposite effect. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

California is hilarious. "The moderate coalition, it does not exist,” said Todd David, political director for Abundant SF.... “It will take time for sure, but I do think there will be a realignment of political coalitions. There is urbanist versus suburbanist.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Long before Charlie Kirk was shot, Utah Governor Spencer Cox has been urging more civil political discourse through his “Disagree Better” initiative. But as I write for @opinion.bloomberg.com, now “Disagree Better” has become “Don’t Disagree – Or Else” in the GOP. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is even more ridiculous than I had imagined.

ALSOBROOKS: Did you receive a call from the secretary upon reports an active shooter at CDC HQ had shot at employees? MONAREZ: I did not speak to the secretary on the 8th or any successive day A: So are you telling me the HHS secretary failed to even give you a courtesy call? M: He didnt call me

NEW: "I loved him." Bob Woodward remembers Robert Redford www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/b...

This is such a good idea. "Amid escalating partisan battles over American history, three former presidents" and others "from across the political spectrum" are launching "an online history essay series aimed at exploring the resilience of American democracy." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/a...

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

A federal district court judge in LA issued a sweeping preliminary injunction Wednesday barring DHS officers from “dispersing, threatening, or assaulting” journalists or legal observers, or using crowd control weapons on or shooting projectiles at anyone who doesn’t “pose a threat of imminent harm.”

Trump is removing info about slavery from national parks now. Anything to whitewash history. “This represents an enormous increase in federal power and control over the things we learn. Brought to you by the team that says education should be state and local.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I think it’s totally consistent with an information environment in which attention, not the ballot, gets treated as the purest representation of the public will.

Charlie Kirk was shot during an event at Utah Valley University, according to multiple reports. Videos shared on social media show Kirk talking when he suddenly falls back as the sound of a loud pop is heard. A spokesperson for Kirk told the AP that he was shot. Kirk’s condition is unknown.

AT LAST, she's reached the IDGAF stage. "Careful Harris is present, but so too is another Harris: blunt, knowing, fervent, occasionally profane, slyly funny. As you will see in the following excerpt...she no longer seems particularly interested in holding back. " www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is truly wild. "The Supreme Court ruled Monday for the Trump administration and agreed US immigration agents may stop and detain anyone they suspect is in the US illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin." www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

"The unemployment rate for Black women rose sharply in August to 7.5%, per government data released Friday morning. That's significantly higher than the overall unemployment rate, and is partly a result of President Trump's cuts to the federal workforce."' www.axios.com/2025/09/05/j...

NEW: Massachusetts becomes first state to impose its own vaccine coverage rules

This really does sound like it’s about to be Trump vs Los Angeles, the Midwestern sequel.

"The space race is transforming Southern California's economy — again." Laurence Darmiento with a new narrative about L.A. It's not all doom and gloom as some would have you believe. Exciting things are happening. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

“The most recent labor statistics show that nationwide, Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

This is NOT good… “The selection of Jim O’Neill, currently the deputy secretary of HHS, as interim leader of the CDC, potentially clears a path for Kennedy to continue his efforts to overhaul federal vaccine policy after the agency’s prior leader, Susan Monarez, balked at his requests.”

Expect to hear some version of this on repeat over the next several months. "Colorado Republicans, meanwhile, are accusing Democrats — who hold a trifecta in the state government — of mishandling the state budget and then trying to pass the blame onto Washington." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

The week began with Trump hosting eight world leaders ahead of potential peace talks to end the war in Ukraine It ended with him touring a new White House gift shop, reviewing marble samples for a renovation project at the Kennedy Center and taking credit for Washington’s drop in crime.

Trump is following native Californian Stephen Miller off a cliff. "The California poll — conducted in a state that served as an epicenter of Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda — may help explain why the president has sunk underwater on immigration nationally." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Like, does he want to be mayor or president? "Trump said the administration would improve light fixtures and roads within a three-mile radius of the Capitol and the White House, as he accused D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) of failing to keep the city clean." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump's crackdown appears to have driven 1.5 million immigrants out of the U.S., the first time the immigrant population has fallen in decades. It could slow the economy.

I'd really love to live in Tahoe. But see... "Deputies from the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office who were dispatched to an ice cream shop at Camp Richardson in South Lake Tahoe on Sunday were greeted with a big surprise when they found a bear behind the counter." www.latimes.com/california/s...

Volunteers Discover 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tracks Revealed in the Wake of Devastating Texas Floods

California Democrats and Governor Gavin Newsom are moving ahead with their gerrymandering plan to counter Republicans in Texas. But it's no sure thing. They still need voters to agree. My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com on what happens if their pitch backfires. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This story is troubling on so many levels... “Interspersed with the intense work are long, quieter stretches when crews watch the fire to make sure it doesn’t jump the line — a time when firefighters in other countries often put on masks but Americans do not.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

Talk about proof that cooperating with Trump, as Washington DC’s mayor and police chief have done, gets people about as far as not cooperating with him. “Bondi also declared that Terry Cole, the head of the DEA… was now the ‘emergency police commissioner.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

It didn’t work out so well in Los Angeles, so… 🙄 “Unlike a state’s governor, the District of Columbia does not have control over its National Guard, giving the president broad leeway to deploy those troops.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Wut? “The situation is the result of ‘Old Orchard Beach Police Department’s reckless reliance on E-Verify to justify arming an illegal alien,’ said Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS assistant secretary for public affairs. E-Verify is a longstanding DHS program.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Wut? “The situation is the result of ‘Old Orchard Beach Police Department’s reckless reliance on E-Verify to justify arming an illegal alien,’ said Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS assistant secretary for public affairs. E-Verify is a long-standing DHS program.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...