Yoooo this gold medal hockey game rules

BREAKING Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison

Looking forward to the think pieces tomorrow explaining these set elements to people who think Puerto Rico is a foreign country.

Bunroe Doctrine

America is more than just U.S.

About the strike at the Greeley JBS.

I don't think TV pundits have fully grasped how pissed off old white women are right now.

Breaking News: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from halting billions of dollars for a rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

These would be the people who say drag queens reading to children is “sexualizing” them.

My latest @npr.org story: The Trump administration is proposing to include a U.S. citizenship question in this year's field test of the #2030Census in Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C., as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps

A state commission this week named three finalists to replace former ​Colorado Supreme Court Justice Melissa Hart. The finalists are: •Susan Blanco, chief judge, 8th Judicial District •Andrea Wang, deputy Colorado solicitor general •Christopher Zenisek, judge, 1st Judicial District

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

In a letter to a lawyer for 9NEWS and Colorado Public Radio, Weld County defended a sheriff’s office requirement that records request forms be notarized.

Experts say the U.S. needs an additional 2 million to 20 million homes to fix the housing shortfall. The disparate projections reflect the challenge of quantifying the nation’s housing needs.

The family of Pueblo man held by the Taliban for a year is still working for his release www.cpr.org/2026/02/04/d... #copolitics

Vote yes on 1A, Greeley! Tell the city to stop being financially irresponsible!

Watching these Grammys, you have to wonder if perhaps the Silicon Valley bros made a classic VC mistake and went all-in on reactionary politics right before the bottom dropped out.

Ukrainians, enduring a lack of heating and power in their homes, turned a frozen river into a place for car drifting. In Kyiv a day earlier, around three thousand residents gathered on another frozen stretch for an outdoor party, circling a DJ and dancing on the ice.

The team at Bowman Law had a great experience giving back with Wish for Wheels. They built new bikes for 64 kids in our community. Bowman Law has served Colorado personal injury victims since 2011 with offices in Denver, Wheat Ridge & Greeley. #BicycleColoradoBusinessMember

Greeley voters will decide Feb. 24 whether to block a massive $486M West Greeley development that would include an arena, ice rinks, water park, and thousands of new homes. Mail-in ballots start Feb. 3.

Greeley officers will not be charged for shooting man while trying to apprehend him, DA finds trib.al/ljCgpaM

ICE has claimed an authority to kill American citizens without repurcussion.

• Warmed black tea / pumpkin spice mix • Hot-frothed soy milk • 1.5 oz barrel-aged gin I dub thee Trent’s Pumpkin Spiked Latte.

The woman shouting "shame!" was the wife of Renee Nicole Good who had just watched her being murdered by an ICE agent. That reaction was remarkably mild.

JUST IN: A federal judge orders Halligan and the US attorney's office in EDVA to stop referring to her as the US attorney or risk discipline. Judge Novak says DOJ's argument was so vitriolic it was "more appropriate for a cable news talk show" than DOJ. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...

25th Amendment

Handing SSA data to election deniers seems like more than a Hatch Act violation

“Trump has pardoned more people in the last year than Joe Biden did in four years.” Says a lot about both presidents tbh.

Should the Trump administration attempt to change a sovereign European border, America must face the full force of the EU economic “bazooka”, argues a former prime minister of Denmark

Probably the only money Evans has managed to bring back, and even then it’s less than before he was in office. 🤔

In the latest (& last) minibus package, CO lawmakers have over $96 million in earmarks for projects across the state. Once all minibuses are signed, CO will have received more than $184M in earmarks for FY26. (FY25 earmarks were scrapped when Congress passed a CR for the FY.) #copolitics

Lol

Hundreds of thousands of polluted, abandoned industrial sites — #brownfields — dot the U.S. For reporters seeking local environmental stories, these problem spots cry out for coverage: www.sej.org/publications... #SEJournalReportersToolbox bsky.app/profile/sejo... bsky.app/profile/ejto...

invading Switzerland after refusing to believe their claims that they have no power over the award of the Fifa Peace Prize

I recently published a piece to by website about the urban/rural divide in Colorado. www.co-political-landscape.org/urban-rural-... A short thread on measuring the elusive quantity of urbanicity. 1/

Judge Gordon Gallagher told ICE it had to remove a woman's GPS monitor and related conditions. The immigration judge who released her on bond didn't order any of those restrictions, and ICE had no ability to do so itself, Gallagher wrote: www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/01/16/f...

The Colorado Supreme Court discussed whether a tip about classroom marijuana use submitted through the state's confidential school safety program provided the necessary reasonable suspicion to search a student's backpack for drugs: www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/01/16/c...

There may be no more euphoric feeling than when a neighbor shovels the snow off your sidewalk out of simple kindness.

Imagine typing out this sentence and hitting Publish.

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New tariff just dropped. Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June. (Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).

The Donald J. Trump Non-Gendered Bathroom at Constitution Hall

The world of city courts was upended in late December, when the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled that municipalities cannot impose harsher punishments on lawbreakers than state statute would allow for the same offense. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/16/c...

not legal advice but if you're going to hack the Supreme Court e-filing system, maybe don't post about it on an Instagram called @ihackedthegovernment bsky.app/profile/anna...

Goodness I love NPR

Millions of people who bought health plans on the Obamacare marketplaces face soaring 2026 premium payments. Some are considering going without insurance, taking on extra jobs, or even postponing marriage. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Thinking about this again

And loads of us lost our jobs because of it.