Evan Frasz

if we elect a muslim socialist as mayor of new york city on the same day dick cheney died i’ll never take another note from a development exec telling me a plot point was “too on the nose”

GOP makes outlandish mischaracterizations of Dem position (immigration, abortion, trans issues) Dems clarify their position – media gleefully amplifies back & forth- low info voters thinks that’s all the Dems care about because that’s all the reporting – rinse repeat

if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public

RTD bans ads covering windows of metro Denver buses and trains The prohibition means losing revenue at a time when agency officials are grappling with financial constraints.

RTD bans ads covering windows of metro Denver buses and trains trib.al/0hBXXvH

The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 10/21/2025 · 1h 4m

It's astonishing -- almost every single sentence uttered by Mettler in this pod made me want to scream. This is every bit of reheated reactionary-centrist conventional wisdom, distilled to its essence, delivered under the guise of "political science." So utterly, disastrously wrong, all of it.

I am deeply, deeply disappointed in our senator from Colorado.

when all is said and done it looks reasonably likely that bin laden will have taken down not just the us but the entire west

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober)
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay

Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

On Thursday?

4 and 6 storey single-stair co-ops mixed among single fam houses, in a neighbourhood with 50' lots.

The only buildings over 3 stories allowed in 90% of America.

-Corporate chain hotel
-Suburban office tower
-Self storage
-Parking garage

Did you know that the Founders were so vehemently against having a standing army that might do what Comer is calling for that they explicitly wrote into the Constitution that Congress has to reauthorize the existence of the Army every two years or the entire thing has to disband?

PROPOSAL:
Instead of spending $30M on a pedestrian bridge at the Capitol, what if Colorado funded GIANT BLUE ANIMALS across the state?

HEAR ME OUT:
Divide the $$ to ~12 cities to each build a sculpture.

BAM, new statewide scavenger hunt. A tourism magnet.
#copolitics

FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns.
He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

Benghazi!!! really accomplished a lot more than it should have because the GOP never shut up about it for 4 years and I think this is a great opportunity to beg the "Epstein Files" question every day until all of these people are out of power

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

If “current policy” becomes the norm in reconciliation, one (very) hypothetical example of how Democrats could wield it: Pass a $10 trillion Medicare For All bill for 1 yr at a $1T sticker price & extend it permanently the next year at a $0 cost. All without nuking the filibuster.

The path for Democrats is very clear: have good ideas, believe in them, state them clearly, stick to them, act decisively in support of these ideas, speak to the young half of the electorate, support other democrats who do these things. Follow Mamdani and Lander's example or fade into nothingness.

Provisions Continue to Violate the Byrd Rule in the Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

The fifth set of Byrd droppings is out

Dems win on the sale of public lands: Rs may not sell of our public lands!

Other huge victories in this area around making oil and gas leasing, mining, pay-to-play for oil and gas exports, and NEPA compliance

ENR and Senate Budget Dem staff crushed it

Do people realize how much the embrace of a man who just four years ago everyone agreed had to step down is radicalizing longtime deeply loyal Dems against the party?

RCV is the reason why the Lander and Mamdani fan bases aren't at each others' throats, Bernie vs Warren 2020 style

#Denver “’City Planning and Development staff spend 650 hours every year administering this bizarre, tangled spaghetti bowl of parking numbers,’ Councilmember Sarah Parady said.”

Great survey to fill out with a lot of cool ideas for how to improve all of our downtown Denver neighborhoods. If we get even a 1/4 of these ideas implemented, it would transform the city. sasakistrategies.typeform.com/to/Vlq6TEcb

The median age of all homebuyers in America today is 56, up from 31 in 1981 and 40 in 2010.

don’t let the Cavs or Celtics collapses this year distract you from the fact the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in 2016 NBA Finals.

what if there were laws, but for

-- the president
-- ICE
-- rich people

wouldn't that be fuckin wild

Restoring the Forest City 1200+ new trees in 2024 Mayor Bibb!

Trees beautify our communities, clean our air, & provide shade from the summer sun. This Arbor Day, I want to recognize the Cleveland Tree Coalition, which we revived because when trees thrive, so do people. Read more about its accomplishments here. ➡️bit.ly/4k9ACVd

New York State's Adirondack train deserves an upgrade #amtrak #trains #montreal #adirondack highspeedfail.blogspot.com/2025/04/adir...