If you’re a Colorado legislator choosing to wine & dine with corporate lobbyists in Vail instead of standing up for working people… You’re part of the problem. The people you are supposed to represent are paying attention. And they’re tired of being sold out. coloradosun.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...

Fuck this guy.

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

And yet Johnston didn’t touch their budget and wants to make it less transparent

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

I'm sure the right's reaction to all of this will be totally chill and not at all extreme.

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

"It is very hard to wall off data collected from lawful government use. The simple truth of digital surveillance is that if you build it, it will be used, and likely used against those with the least amount of political power.”

NEW: Records obtained by 9NEWS show Loveland Police have given the Border Patrol access to a network of license plate reading cameras in Colorado. @spencersoicher.bsky.social reports. #copolitics

COMMENTARY: Hundreds of Denverites may drop off their kids for the first day of school next Monday then lose their jobs hours later. The goal for the Mayor and his administration should be compassion and competence in handling these mass layoffs. #copolitics

A brewery to avoid, Denver metro friends.

Honestly can't think of a more straightforward example of how men profit from the sexual degradation of women

San Francisco has spent the last 3 years undoing any evidence-based drug policy in order to appease a very vocal group of uneducated but rich, fascist, right-wing losers (Sacks, Tan, Tandler, Shellenberger, etc). As everyone with understanding of this topic warned, San Franciscans are dying bc of it

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists. This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

Did I do the best I could with the skills I had? Probably not. Did I do the best that I thought the task required? Meh. It’s just a kitchen.

I don't think we talk enough about how dignity is also a human right. Food, water, shelter, education, health care, representation...all of those are human rights that everyone should receive regardless of who they are. But it's also a right to not have to beg for them.

I’m keeping oil prices down!

We might be at war, but at least highschool trans athletes can't the play sports

Pray for the Democratic comms staffers who have to get on a Google Doc tonight to workshop sentences like “Iran is a country.” and “The resolve of our actions must meet the strength of the moment.”

Once again, for the record, being the parent of a trans child is one of the greatest blessings of my entire life. Get with it or eat a dick.

My most sincere wish for Father’s Day is that we, as a culture, get over our bad daddy issues.

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

Most of us have not been taught that there has been no more violent and dangerous ideology in US history, than white supremacy, in combination with Christian nationalism. There isn’t anything that gets close in death toll. It’s what conservatism is trying to hide in attacking education.

Johnston may have just been speaking hypothetically when he talks about people “damaging someone’s small business,” “light(ing) cars on fire,” and “assaulting an officer” — but if he's worried about TV-based perceptions maybe don't go on TV and mention three things that did not happen last night?

Hundreds gathering at the Colorado Capitol this evening for an emergency “ICE Out” rally in solidarity with protests in L.A.

We all know that fear can make us want to fight, flee, freeze, or fawn. These are natural impulses. Appeasement doesn't work on fascists tho. Never has, never fucking will. It doesn't make them less dangerous, but it can turn you into someone who enables their violence.

Polis has gone out of his way to make clear that he doesn't have a future in office in this state. He's told us who he is eighty times over.

It would be amazing to have leaders who could actually meet the moment.

I really didn’t expect to spend so much of the second part of my life thinking about 20th century Germany.

Tom Hardy has the male version of “baby voice”.

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Just got an invitation to my nephew’s high school graduation but he’s only a little boy? He was just born like a few years ago? Why is time?

Not like there’s any real policy/ideological daylight between Bennet and the 3-5 Colorado Dems who would’ve vied for governor otherwise — but his decision summarily ends a wide-open race that could’ve produced fresh energy and ideas and instead puts the state’s next eight years on autopilot.

Excited for when we collectively discover that children are people.

Just not feeling good about how things are going.

incredibly fascinating to watch all of the left repeatedly ask elected officials to show some kind of backbone and the democratic response after months of falling approval ratings is still just “what if we got even more on the fence”

what replaces due process under fascism is the assurance of protection for favored groups. even though it’s precarious, a lot of people feel just as protected under that framework as they do under one with due process

Coalition building is not the same as pandering to people's worst bigotries in the hopes they'll like you.

Although she applied it to an individual, arguably, Arendt's "banality of evil" applies to the broader experience of living under authoritarianism. Mostly, you're still clocking in, running errands & living ordinary life while the regime targets, terrorizes & takes over.