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'If you can keep it.' A new series about unprecedented politics and policy | Colorado Public Radio Benjamin Franklin said, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” He was asked – after the constitutional convention – if we were to become a republic or a monarchy? We borrowed from Franklin to name a new se...

"If You Can Keep It" is a new series from Colorado Matters that scrutinizes and contextualizes today's extraordinary politics & policy. Already we're learning extraordinary events have precursors. DU's Seth Masket is our guide. The title references Benjamin Franklin's words.

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The White House East Wing didn’t fall—it got vibed out of existence. Trump’s building a ballroom fit for his ego, bulldozing history for a disco ball. In this week’s Elephant in the Room, Rick drags the Trump ballroom demolition 2025 mess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ODH8844qfc

Absolutely outrageous!! 🤬

Trump has shredded the Constitution. He's taken an axe to checks and balances. Now he's literally wrecking the White House to build a ballroom for his billionaire allies. It's the perfect symbol for his presidency.

It always seems to come back to Russia, doesn't it? Every time it leans away slightly, Putin reaches out and says something. And - like the short ride in The Beast, Trump flips and Putin's talking points become his.

Whatever Putin has on Trump, it's a lot. It's like the original sin.

Trump's FTC just deleted articles by former Chair Lina Khan about the dangers of AI.

Meanwhile, Trump is fast-tracking data center permits after Big Tech gave huge donations to his inauguration.

AI is making the richest Americans even richer while everyone else pays the price.

At-15s are weapons of war! It’s long past time for Congress to #BanAssaultWeapons.

BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland, ruling he overstepped his authority and violated state sovereignty. The court said Trump’s move lacked any “colorable basis” and was not justified by conditions on the ground.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Thanks to Trump's funding cuts, PBS will lay off 15% of its staff.

Trump wants to exert control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all.

It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.

Unemployment rate is rising... I wonder why.

America’s Largest Landlord Makes Deal With DOJ to Settle Price-Fixing Claims in RealPage Case Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...

Greystar was using rent-setting algorithms from software company RealPage, the subject of a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed the firm was helping landlords decide prices in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.

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Office of the Attarney General Washington, A. 0. 20530 ORDER NO. 6370-2025 RESTORING SAFETY AND SECURITY TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Residents of the District of Columbia, the thousands of Americans who commute into the District for work every day, and the millions of tourists from all over the world who visit our Nation's capital have a right to feel safe and to be free from the scourge of violent crime. Notwithstanding false media narratives and apparent efforts by some District employees to manipulate crime statistics, the danger posed by violent crime in the District is plain for all to see. As Executive Order 14333 of August 11, 2025 (Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia), makes clear, the "rising violence in the capital now urgently endangers public servants, citizens, and tourists" and is impeding the proper functioning of the Federal Government. These dangers are multiplied by the District's sanctuary city policies, which actively shield criminal aliens from the consequences required by federal law. The proliferation of illegal aliens into our country during the prior Administration, including into our Nation's capital, presents extreme public safety and national security risks to our country. Pursuant to section 3 of Executive Order 14333 and section 740(a) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, I hereby order the Mayor of the District of Columbia and the Metropolitan Police Department ("MPD") to immediately implement the following directives: (1) Effective immediately, Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terrence C. Cole shall serve as MPD's Emergency Police Commissioner for the duration of

the emergency declared by the President. Commissioner Cole shall assume all of the powers and duties vested in the District of Columbia Chief of Police. Commissioner Cole shall have the authority to issue any general orders, executive orders, or other written directives that apply to Members of the MPD. Existing MPD leadership, including the current Chief of Police, members of the Executive Office of the Chief of Police, Bureau Heads/Executive Staff, and Commanders must receive approval from Commissioner Cole before issuing any further directives to the MPD. (2) Executive Order EO-25-005, issued on August 14, 2025, by the Chief of Police, is hereby rescinded. (3) Section IV, paragraph 22 of General Order GO-PER-201.26 is hereby suspended until further notice. (4) Section II, paragraphs A.2 and F of General Order GO-PCA-702.01 are hereby suspended until further notice. (5) The MPD is directed to enforce, to the maximum extent permissible by law, section 22-1307, District of Columbia Code, and all District of Columbia municipal regulations pertaining to the unlawful occupancy of public spaces. To the extent that provisions in this Order conflict with any existing MPD directives, those directives are hereby rescinded. 8/14/25 Date Dan Badi Pamela Bondi Attorney General

Bondi purports to appoint an “emergency police commissioner” and orders specific DC policy on sanctuary laws to be deleted from police guidance.

I’m no expert, but this seems illegal under the Home Rule Act, which says only that the President may direct DC police to “provide services.”

Russia Experts Worry Onetime KGB Agent, Now Murderous Dictator Putin Will Play Trump Trump promised during his campaign that he would end Russia’s war on Ukraine on his first day back in office, which is now 207 days ago.

NEW — At this Alaska summit, the Russians have a trained KGB intelligence officer and ruthless war criminal.

We have a guy who bankrupted casinos and thinks rain falling in Canada somehow flows to California.

What could go wrong?

www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

This week on The Breakdown: The Epstein Files aren't going away, but Trump is eager to distract you with his fascist takeover of the nation's capital. We break down what's really behind the move, how rising inflation is tied to Trump's tariffs, Gavin Ne... Trump's DC Takeover Is Straight Out Of The Authoritarian Playbook

ICYMI: The Epstein Files aren't going away, but Trump is eager to shift the focus by terrorizing DC, destroying the economy, and bending the knee for Putin. Watch The Breakdown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9AgsLWkEU

Undaunted Fighter for Workers Sherrod Brown could deliver for Democrats

Each week, The Contrarian selects an undaunted individual working to defend democracy

This week's spotlight: Former Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown

With his comeback bid now official, we celebrate Brown as an undaunted, unafraid, and unapologetic champion for working people.

By 2029 the GOP may have entrenched their coup by "legal" methods

Gerrymandering-permitted by MAGA judges

Changes in citizenship laws and deportations

Quashing dissent by jailing protesters

And radical "interpretation" of the Constitution

We still don't fully comprehend the danger America faces

I think what he meant to say was please stop talking about EPSTEIN. Which means everyone should stay focused on EPSTEIN!!!

EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

Mark Cuban on Donald Trump: “I've known him for 25 years. He is the most unethical, lacks character, dishonest person l've ever done business with"

The party of limited government.

👀Multiple video training session on what to mark for redaction, what not to mark, and how to record things that needed to be flagged.

Video exists of trainers explaining the process of flagging instances of Trump appearing in the files.

Toward the end the trainers were from the DOJ, not the FBI.

ICE just prevented me from entering an immigration detention facility in my district—a clear violation of federal law.

Members of Congress have the right to immediately access these facilities. Listen here 👇

“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream In her new book, ‘Bad Company,’ journalist Megan Greenwell shows how the secretive industry has insinuated itself into average Americans’ lives.

American needs to wake up, the billionaire class is hollowing our America from the inside out. Private equity is the harvesting of the carcasses.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

this woman single-handedly has more courage than the entirety of the gop