Seth Klamann

Israeli strikes hit hospital in Tehran, witnesses tell Reuters Israeli strikes hit a hospital in Tehran’s Gandhi Street area, two witnesses told Reuters on Sunday, saying the hospital was badly damaged and patients were being taken out.

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Live: Khamenei's body has been found and he is confirmed dead, Israeli official says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were many signs indicating Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "is no longer", without explicitly confirming his death.

Israel says Khamenei has been killed.
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Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.

Same aggressor, same type of target.

Gov. Jared Polis moves to end his monthslong effort to comply with an ICE subpoena Attorneys representing Gov. Jared Polis informed a Denver judge that the governor wanted a ruling that would indefinitely block him from ordering the release of information — something he&#82…

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has moved to drop his 9-month effort to comply with a federal immigration subpoena, arguing that ICE officials apparently no longer need the employment records the governor had sought to turn over // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

Colorado slashes rape kit testing backlog, but lag time still tops 6 months — 3 times as long as standard The reduced backlog represents a significant improvement from last June’s testing lag of 450 days. Both auditors and CBI officials said the CBI should be able to hit 90 days before the end of…

Colorado forensic officials have slashed the turnaround time for sexual assault kit testing, but it still takes analysts more than six months to process and complete a test, a new state audit found // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

Flawed analysis caused Colorado Medicaid program’s costs to surge and made it ‘attractive’ to fraud “We literally alerted them, and they did nothing until about two years later,” said Kelly Milan, the founder of the Colorado Transportation Alliance, about HCPF’s high rates used …

“The root cause of the fraud was an overly generous rate that was so lucrative that people were willing to commit crimes to get that rate,” a Colorado medical transportation provider tells @sethklamann.bsky.social

Scoop: DNC officials working on secret report found Gaza stance cost Harris votes The DNC's research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided to hide it from the public.

Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned.

HCPF*.

The upshot is that Colorado and the federal government were paying far more than they should’ve been for three years, despite two providers flagging the issue to HCP. In that time, the program was besieged by fraud, and expenses exploded from $70 million, to $212 million, to more than $300 million.

It took 10 days to get something vaguely resembling a straight answer from Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing for this story. And even then, they shifted blame to the providers — even though providers were following the agency’s own, multi-year instructions.

A state Medicaid program’s costs tripled in a year after officials recommended an underlying payment rate get a hefty bump.

But that recommendation was based on a flawed analysis that compared what other states paid for ambulances with what Colorado should pay for Subarus.

Colorado faith communities rally around state’s immigrants in face of ICE deportation push Coloradans of varied faith backgrounds described turning the Biblical command of “love thy neighbor” into action.

Neighbors showing up for each other.

This is how Colorado faith leaders and parishioners are organizing, leading the charge & quietly supporting their immigrant neighbors while loudly protesting ICE

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Owners of blighted Edge of Lowry apartments settle Aurora lawsuit, agree to sell One of the owners of Aurora’s blighted Edge of Lowry apartment complex, where multiple violent criminal incidents connected to Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua catapulted the city into the nati…

The owners of the Edge of Lowry, a troubled apartment complex where gang allegations drew Trump’s attention, have agreed to pay Aurora $300,000 to end a lawsuit the city brought to recoup costs of closing and maintaining the property, per @katielang.bsky.social www.denverpost.com/2026/02/19/e...

Colorado enters redistricting war, with group pitching new map that would give Democrats a 7-1 edge A plan that would give Democratic congressional candidates a strong edge in Colorado — and put a temporary hold on its independent redistricting process — could go to voters in November…

A plan that would give Democratic congressional candidates a strong edge in Colorado — and put a temporary hold on the state's independent redistricting process — could go to voters in November under proposals filed today // Story by @coltrain.bsky.social and @sethklamann.bsky.social

Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

Gov. Jared Polis names Susan Blanco as new Colorado Supreme Court justice The appointment fills an empty spot on the seven-member court left by the departure of Justice Melissa Hart, who retired Jan. 5 after taking a months-long personal leave that began in late October.

New Colorado Supreme Court justice —>

Colorado sex workers have long pushed to decriminalize prostitution. Now lawmakers are proposing it. “Whatever your morals are, I don’t believe the government should be involved in the bedroom of consenting adults,” said Sen. Nick Hinrichsen, a Pueblo Democrat and one of the bill…

After years of advocacy from Colorado sex workers, lawmakers will debate a bill to decriminalize prostitution in the state. The bill faces steep odds, but Gov. Jared Polis has voiced some initial support: www.denverpost.com/2026/02/17/c...

Coerced Colorado prison labor amounts to involuntary servitude, judge rules The state’s prisons unconstitutionally coerced prison labor by levying severe punishments — including solitary confinement — against prisoners who refused to work, Denver District Court Judge Sarah…

Colorado’s prisons unconstitutionally coerced labor by levying severe punishments — including solitary confinement — against prisoners who refused to work, Denver District Court Judge Sarah Wallace ruled

When should Colorado farmworkers be entitled to overtime? Even Democrats don’t agree “Our ag producers are in a tenuous situation,” Amanda Laban, the markets division director for the Colorado Department of Agriculture, told state lawmakers.

ICYMI: For the second straight year, Colorado lawmakers are debating whether to support a struggling industry by examining the wage protections of its workers. Last year it was restaurant servers. This year, it’s farmworkers. From @samtabachnik.bsky.social and me: www.denverpost.com/2026/02/14/c...

Excellent — and sobering — series on the future of skiing in Colorado:

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

"The plan’s $38 billion budget is more than the total annual spending for 22 states."

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NEW: State Rep Scott Bottoms (R) claims, without offering evidence, that there are pedophile rings involving elected officials at Colorado's Capitol.

When the GOP candidate for Governor wouldn't agree to a scheduled interview, we met him for an unscheduled interview.

Sen. Hickenlooper tells NOTUS he wasn’t involved in purchasing the Uber stock and hasn’t been involved in such decisions for more than 20 years. He also says he hasn’t set up a qualified blind trust because he doesn’t really understand what it is.

Colorado Democrats ramp up anti-ICE strategy after raids, killings: ‘The community’s been calling for it’ “The biggest change I’ve seen is they’re actually talking about (immigration), and they’re not scared,” an activist said of federal and state lawmakers. “It&#821…

Last year, a Democratic lawmaker readying a congressional run voted against a bill limiting state cooperation with ICE. This morning, the candidate, Shannon Bird, put out a plan to “hold ICE accountable.” On the shifting dynamics of Democrats’ immigration politics: www.denverpost.com/2026/02/08/c...

Colorado’s family-oriented tax credits gave ‘light and hope’ to one mom — but costs make their future uncertain A study led by researchers at Washington University and Appalachian State University found that the three tax credits helping families lifted more than 52,000 Colorado children out of poverty last …

Colorado’s family-oriented tax credits gave ‘light and hope’ to one mom — but costs make their future uncertain trib.al/GcVA9fM

Alternate universe Count Olaf, respectfully.

The backflip is so disgusting, I’m losing it.

Watching a replay of the American figure skater, Malinin, and Jesus Christ.

Polis has worked to keep a more open-handed approach to Trump — with Tina Peters a notable outlier. But Trump didn’t block invites for far more openly antagonistic governors, like Newsom or Pritzker.