Quentin Young

When survival’s at stake, there’s no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to immigrate • Nevada Current For years, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans has told the story about how his grandfather immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico “the right way … the legal way.” But public documents show Evans’ grandfather entered th...

"Sometimes the choice is not between right and wrong but between wrong and death, which is hardly a choice."
Commentary, via @coloradonewsline.com:

This BS list was written by AI.

When survival’s at stake, there’s no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to immigrate | Alabama Reflector Even immigrants who follow strictly legal paths to U.S. residency face a monster bureaucracy of restrictions and complexity

Commentary by @quentinyoung.bsky.social and @coloradonewsline.com: A myth often repeated in the debate around immigration suggests there is a “right” way to come to America and a “wrong” way. This framework does not reflect reality.

​With shared core values but disagreement on particulars, cooperation is strength.
With agreement on particulars but no shared core values, cooperation is weakness. Leaders like Polis fundamentally misjudge the moment and make us weak before an adversary.

After MAGA it will be, in the best case, a generation before we can trust any information about any topic published by the federal government.

How a terrorism exhibit in Colorado distorts the story of Jan. 6 | Colorado Newsline A terrorism exhibit at the CELL in Denver, in its dishonest treatment of Jan. 6, reflects how Trump has deranged an entire society.

In light of the Smithsonian becoming a propaganda arm of the fascist regime, remember that right in Denver there's a bizarre state-promoted exhibit called The CELL about violent extremism that completely obscures Trump's role in leading a violent attempted coup. I wrote about it in September.

Maybe we retire terms like "the United States" and "America," since by long practice they connote a nation of laws, a people with shared values, conditions that no longer exist but which we're subconsciously encouraged to think do by use of names historically associated with them.

Americans are faced with a stark question. A fascist regime disappears people to human-cage facilities from which they're sometimes sent to foreign torture prisons and which illegally bar oversight even from high elected representatives. The question: What will Americans do about that?

The ICE detention center in Aurora is the Bastille of Colorado
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A century later, Rep. Gabe Evans echoes anti-immigrant attitudes his grandfather’s family overcame | Colorado Newsline Many of Rep. Gabe Evans’ statements in support of Trump's immigration policies distinctly echo the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the 1930s.

U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans' ancestors "belonged to a generation of immigrants who faced obstacles and prejudices closely resembling the ones faced by immigrants today."

from @chasewoodruff.bsky.social / @coloradonewsline.com

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Colorado officials have turned over records to ICE four times this year — including once by mistake “We are implementing procedures to ensure that erroneous sharing does not happen in the future,” a spokeswoman for Gov. Jared Polis wrote to The Denver Post.

This got lost in the bridge madness last week, but ICMYI: Gov. Polis’ office acknowledged that state labor officials had mistakenly provided data to ICE earlier this year - in a potential violation of state law: www.denverpost.com/2025/07/22/c...

One of the most exasperating qualities of this time is otherwise smart people without the courage or imagination to just say what's really happening, like the republic is dead, or democracy is over. But Mystal always come through. 👇

Here is the original report on Evans' family's immigration history, published last week: coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/22/u...

A century later, Rep. Gabe Evans echoes anti-immigrant attitudes his grandfather’s family overcame | Colorado Newsline Many of Rep. Gabe Evans’ statements in support of Trump's immigration policies distinctly echo the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the 1930s.

U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans insists past generations of immigrants, including his grandfather's family, did it "the right way," while millions of immigrants in the U.S. without legal status today did it "the wrong way."

History offers little support for any such distinctions.

If you read our investigation into how Rep. Gabe Evans misrepresented his family's immigration history, this follow-up piece will add illuminating context. The reporting shows how anti-immigrant rhetoric today echoes similar rhetoric at the time Evans' family arrived in the U.S. from Mexico.

Re-upping from May 👇

Inspect the ICE detention facility in Aurora. Repeat.
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Colbert isn’t the news! It’s a comedy show. It’s not in the news division.

Even if Dems can win back "power" in future elections, there will be no federal agency or institution left with its reputation and purpose intact, and most will have been put to such thorough misuse as to warrant nothing but universal distrust.

The line on the left is not between progressives and moderates but between fighers and folders, to paraphrase Brad Lander. With that in mind, think about Gov. Polis this weekend joining on stage top members of Trump's fascist regime.

Chairman Carr issued the following statement after the FCC rubber stamps the CBS/Skydance merger: “Americans no longer trust the legacy national news media to report fully, accurately, and fairly. It is time for a change. That is why I welcome Skydance’s commitment to make significant changes at the once storied CBS broadcast network. In particular, Skydance has made written commitments to ensure that the new company’s programming embodies a diversity of viewpoints from across the political and ideological spectrum. Skydance will also adopt measures that can root out the bias that has undermined trust in the national news media. These commitments, if implemented, would enable CBS to operate in the public interest and focus on fair, unbiased, and fact-based coverage. Doing so would begin the process of earning back Americans’ trust. Today’s decision also marks another step forward in the FCC’s efforts to eliminate invidious forms of DEI discrimination. And Skydance’s commitment to enhancing local news and reporting—coverage valued by the public—will also inure to the benefit of the American people.”

oligarchs are destroying what's left of U.S. journalism, replacing it with corporate-friendly infotainment and right wing propaganda, and blowing smoke up your ass about how they're restoring trust in journalism and protecting "diversity of viewpoints from across the ideological spectrum."

This comes under the NGA leadership of Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat who too often lets his inner MAGA show. This weekend he plans to oversee an NGA meeting that includes appearances by two cabinet members from Trump's fascist administration.

From @theatlantic.com

McCartney's legacy will always be about his role in getting Colorado known as The Hate State. But it's worth noting that the organization he founded, the Promise Keepers, in the age of Trumpism is squarely aligned with MAGA. Its mission is to “make dads great again.”

GOP Rep Gabe Evans has used his heritage and his family's immigration story as a shield against criticism of his support for Trump's deportations. @chasewoodruff.bsky.social reports that the story isn't true.

Some commenters have questioned why this story doesn't say Evans "lied" about his grandfather, as if its use of such verbs as "misrepresent" obscures the truth. But we don't know if Evans knew the facts about his grandfather's immigration history, only that he described it inaccurately.

Rep. Gabe Evans often discusses his grandfather’s path to citizenship. Documents show he left out some details Evans has repeatedly talked about his grandfather earning citizenship through military service, but records obtained by Colorado Newsline show his path to citizenship was more complicated.

Rep. Gabe Evans often discusses his grandfather’s path to citizenship. Documents show he left out some details www.cpr.org/2025/07/22/g... #copolitics

The deepest anger should be reserved not for the tyrant but for the tyrant's enablers. Roberts. Johnson. Bezos. Big Law capitulators. Corporate cowards. Ambassador Pressman has seen up close where their treachery leads.
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In a way it's better to have the dictatorish stuff just be right out in the open.

Really something to listen to the deputy talk up Goncalves with friendly banter knowing now that the whole time he was angling to get her nabbed by ICE.
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Excellent work here from @chasewoodruff.bsky.social @coloradonewsline.com From the story: ... records show that the Chavez family, and a young Cuauhtemoc in particular, were squarely on the wrong side of the “strong immigration policies” his grandson now invokes his name to champion.

Good reporting here. Evans’ grandfather had the exact type of criminal record that Evans now says should prompt immediate deportation for immigrants here now.