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I wrote this in April. Now it will be put to the test.
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Gov. Polis tweets favorably about a writer (Hanania) who spent the earlier part of the century writing for white supremacist websites and more recently contributed to Project 2025 and, separately, called for “more policing, incarceration, and surveillance of black people.”

Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans

@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One of the anti-vaccine presenters before the CDC committee that took this vote, which experts say ignored science, was Cynthia Nevison, a scientist at CU Boulder.

The redistricting debate in Colorado has shifted | Colorado Newsline Colorado faces increasing pressure to redraw its congressional districts as other states undertake their own mid-cycle redistricting efforts.

In light of SCOTUS handing Trump a redistricting win in Texas today, here's my take from a couple weeks ago that tries to show how pre-'26 redistricting in Colorado is potentially possible in principle, though probably not in practice.

Tina Peters' lawyer Peter Ticktin knows a pardon is a long shot. But there are some signs his application to the Trump administration is not totally implausible. Ed Martin, the U.S. pardon attorney, has expressed sympathy with Peters. And Trump has repeatedly demanded that Colorado set Peters free.

From the story: "(Thune) agreed that Democrats could bring up a health care bill of their choosing in exchange for voting to end the government shutdown."

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Changes made at the federal level are likely to have big impacts on the way Coloradans buy health insurance and access care in 2026, and Colorado Newsline wants to hear from you about how you’ve been affected.

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This story describes cold-blooded murder, no gray area here. “Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this," Rep. Seth Moulton said.

Not that I've seen.

Here is the resolution, whose authors are preoccupied with communism rather than socialism and don't seem to grasp the difference. www.congress.gov/119/bills/hc...

Here is how members of the Colorado delegation to the U.S. House voted last week on the GOP resolution to denounce socialism:

Lauren Boebert (R): Yes
Jeff Crank (R): Yes
Jason Crow (D): Yes
Diana DeGette (D): No
Gave Evans (R): Yes
Jeff Hurd (R): Yes
Joe Neguse (D): No
Brittany Pettersen (D): Yes

MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul. At least three local photojournalists were injured by less-lethal munitions deployed by St. Paul police officers while covering the story. One was transported to the hospital in an ambulance. All three journalists were clearly identified as press with badges and/or vests, in addition to having cameras in hand, clearly at work. All three photojournalists and multiple other local journalists on scene were also injured by chemical irritants. Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance. He has since been released and is recovering. Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist with Reuters, was struck in the stomach with a pepper ball round. Aaron Nesheim, a photojournalist with Sahan Journal, was struck in the head with a pepper ball round. Evans and Nesheim did not require hospitalization. The three journalists hit by munitions shared with MNSPJ that they believe they were targeted by law enforcement for doing their jobs. Photojournalists are on the frontlines of documenting history and it is imperative that they are kept safe and their First Amendment rights are protected. Attacking journalists sends a message to both journalists and everyday citizens that their First Amendment rights will not be respected. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to report on their communities and provide information that communities need — information that, on Tuesday, was not transparently available from any law enforcement agency. We demand answers from St. Paul city leadership about why the city’s police department attacked our colleagues and a commitment to seeing that this will never happen again.

From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.

Even if Polis ultimately decides to deny the Trump admin's Tina Peters request, his long silence in the face of such brazen lawlessness has already done damage. Bipartisan county clerks said Tuesday they have experienced an “immediate uptick in concerns about safety” in relation to the Peters case.

“Members of Congress should never be telling our troops to disobey orders from their commanding officers,” Republican Rep. Jeff Crank of Colorado Springs said. “However, I do not believe that these actions are punishable by death.”

Yaakov Roth is one of the DOJ officials who told a Colorado judge the Trump administration was conducting a "review" of the state's prosecution of Tina Peters, the election-denying former Mesa County clerk who helped breach the security of her own election system.

Colorado nonprofits encrypt messages, lock doors to ward off federal threats. ‘Will they come after you?’ “There’s a lot of fear,” said Cathy Alderman of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. “The chaos they intend to inflict on us, it’s very real.”

Open society and democracy is evaporating, as evidenced in this @sethklamann.bsky.social report about Colorado nonprofits essentially going underground for fear of being attacked by the federal government.

I think, if a university is going to honor people with statues, it should focus on the researchers that make lives better with the knowledge they produce and the educators who inspire their students to go forth and improve lives and the country. But a football coach? Why?

Here is my commentary about the McCartney statue: coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/24/s...

Bill McCartney statue installed at CU Boulder, drawing protests from LGBTQ+ advocates McCartney was both a record-setting coach and an advocate for policy that stripped legal protections for LGBTQ+ people. His statue went up this month.

As I said in July as CU was preparing to put up this statue, "One of the most prominent bigots in recent Colorado history is a man named Bill McCartney." @boulderrl.bsky.social reports that CU this weekend barred the press and erected a statue of McCartney, celebrating a man who hurt many people.

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When Democrats enacted the Equal Pay For Equal Work Act in 2019, opponents argued that new burdens on employers would hurt the workers the law was intended to help. Turns out workers have seen across-the-board wage increases, a new study shows.

@crow.house.gov responding to Trump's threat of "death":

“This moment requires moral clarity. Every American, regardless of your background, should unite and reject his calls for political violence.”

@jenagriswold.bsky.social, the Colorado secretary of state who is running for attorney general, is quoted in this commentary as supporting the idea of a ballot initiative to allow for emergency redistricting.

Is there any way Colorado could redistrict in time for next year’s election? Could the state Legislature try to assert its constitutional power to redistrict on its own?

Yes, potentially, in principle. Probably not in practice.