Brian Eason

Photo of a pan pizza. Text says “Worse than you remember, or your money back.” And the Pizza Hut logo

Incredible ad in my digest email from The Onion

Proposed tax breaks for data centers would increase taxes for poor Coloradans, analysts say Sponsors of industry-backed data center bill say they are amending it in ways that will change the fiscal projections

Amid a state budget crisis, Colorado fiscal analysts say a Democratic plan to offer lucrative tax breaks to tech companies would take $106M away from the state‘s poorest households

coloradosun.com/2026/02/23/p...

growing up in Dallas my dad would always spread butter on tortillas and eat them with a bit of salt, never understood where he got it until now

Breaking News: The Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner. nyti.ms/46kvngJ

Jesse Jackson and the specter of electability The reverend was everything mainstream Democrats hoped for and feared

New at Tusk: Jesse Jackson leaves behind a Democratic Party that once worked to marginalize him and his supporters in the name of electability

New Mexico is making child care free for all working parents. Why isn’t Colorado? Even before the universal policy, New Mexico had much more generous child care assistance than Colorado

New Mexico is making child care free for all working parents. Why isn’t Colorado?

Like. What are we even doing here. The whole reason people still pay for their local paper is because they care about their community and trust local journalism amid *gestures wildly* everything. But sure, just light that trust on fire, why not

support your local AI slop

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say

“They just came over to intimidate me. To say, ‘We know where you live.’”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Matt Stoller with your periodic reminder that maybe tech billionaires never wanted to save journalism in the first place

The Wizards are acquiring a loose facsimile of a former basketball player, whose joints are bound together by twine, gorilla glue and hope

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.

Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

ICE detains 5-year-old Minnesota boy; school leader says agents used him as ‘bait’ The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos as “bait” to try and draw family m...

They detained a five-year-old and used him as "bait" in Minneapolis www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"empower local govts to adopt the affordable housing programs they want" is a non-solution solution.

As ICE targets Twin Cities schools & bus stops, even citizens keep kids home - MinnPost Fear, anger and chaos as classrooms empty out, distance learning fails, student mental health suffers and teachers struggle.

I talked to the principal at my kids' middle school yesterday, and he said about 30% of kids have not been showing up. Hard to fathom the academic and mental health impact this is having on kids, parents and teachers.

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

”hurting society” lol

When a landlord ghosted its Denver tenants, trash and dog poop piled up. Then came the mysterious fees. Colorado lawmakers have steadily expanded protections for tenants in recent years, but many renters still find it hard to reason with out-of-state investment firms.

When the new landlord took over, “amenity rent” charges showed up on one tenant's ledger. $100 for her apartment’s loft; $50 for a mountain view; $25 for vinyl flooring.

“I’m like kind of aghast. Those aren’t amenities. Those are just features of an apartment.”

coloradosun.com/2026/01/12/d...

When a landlord ghosted its Denver tenants, trash and dog poop piled up. Then came the mysterious fees. Colorado lawmakers have steadily expanded protections for tenants in recent years, but many renters still find it hard to reason with out-of-state investment firms.

Colorado lawmakers have steadily expanded protections for renters in recent years. But in practice, many tenants still find it hard to reason with out-of-state investment firms when they need maintenance or face questionable charges on their monthly bill.

coloradosun.com/2026/01/12/d...

“officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders”

The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears

I read this paragraph four times. Not because it's murky, but to let the message sink in. www.cjr.org/tow_center/b...

If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.

After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

fuck outta here

It’s so hard to take this statement seriously when the reporter reacted by going scorched earth and putting their job at risk. You don’t do that if your editor just wants to take another week to make the story better

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.

Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

“Cox Foundation“ *drink*