sandra fish

Fifteen Years

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

I would wear those socks! Unlike many of mine tho they don’t appear to have cuss words on them.

But nice socks?!?

NEW: As President Trump increases pressure on Colorado Governor Polis to free Tina Peters, a close ally of Peters is calling for Gov Polis and Attorney General Weiser to be executed.

MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann called for the execution of several Colorado Democrats by name.

I praise you for this!

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene retirement launches speculation about congressional pensions WASHINGTON — Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s upcoming resignation from Congress set off a series of questions and misinformation about what health care and pension benefits lawma...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene retirement launches speculation about congressional pensions. Here are the facts:

story by @jennifershutt.bsky.social

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rep-...

Reminded today by @imaniperry.bsky.social of the Ida B. Wells quote “The people must know before they can act…”; the second half of which is “…and there is no educator to compare with the press.”

Reflecting on the gap between knowing and doing, and the enormous variability of the press.

Due process and equal protection claims in every immigration court proceeding going forward

How Conservative Judges Turned a Throwaway Line Into a Free Pass For ICE Violence For these judges, the White House not getting its way is a legal crisis that requires immediate intervention.

A federal judge in Chicago issued a massive opinion on *Thursday that required the Trump admin to stop brutalizing people at the Broadview ICE facility

Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Andor is great! Ha ha old enough to have gone to a midnight showing of the original movie when it first came out.

This just makes me want to wear slippers and pajamas but I’m not going to the airport.

Mayoral control is dead. Long live mayoral control? Teachers unions and left-wing coalitions have long resisted mayoral control of urban school districts. But Chicago and Boston are testing that position, as cities like New York and Indianapolis also e...

I tried to make some sense out of the swings and retrenchments we're seeing in who gets to run large urban school districts — mayors or elected school boards.

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/23/p...

From Jenna Ellis to John Eastman to Lindsey Halligan, Colorado’s conservative legal luminaries have had some rough sledding.

this is a super confusing #copolitics thing going on where they're closing the Denver regional office but also seeking a place for a new regional office. note that virtually no taxpayer $$ goes to this either.

Freshmen Rep. Jeff Hurd steps into a high-wire policy push with bill to extend ACA tax credit The Western Slope freshman is part of a bipartisan push to keep enhanced tax credits from expiring, something many Republicans oppose.

Freshmen Rep. Jeff Hurd steps into a high-wire policy push with bill to extend ACA tax credit www.cpr.org/2025/11/24/h... #copolitics

What is wrong with people?!

No shit. This is ridiculous.

Also hot spiced cider.

The only job Democratic elected officials need to be doing right now is obstructing and not being to the right of The Bulwark.

They are failing at both.

Realized today the Kia Soul hit 600 hours of driving since mid-July 2022. Nearly 19K miles at 34.5 mpg.

Babies who drank ByHeart formula got sick months before botulism outbreak, parents say At least five families say their babies were treated for infant botulism after consuming ByHeart formula months before a current outbreak was detected.

Six babies in California who consumed ByHeart formula were treated for botulism between November 2024 and June 2025, up to nine months before the outbreak that has sickened at least 31 babies in 15 states. apnews.com/article/byhe...

The Bucs are playing like the B was changed to an F

Eagles sports radio is gonna make the red wedding look like a romantic comedy

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Chart showing change in the use of online platforms. Over the past few years, four of them have grown in overall use among U.S. adults – TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp and Reddit. TikTok: 37% of U.S. adults report using the platform, which is slightly up from last year and up from 21% in 2021. Instagram: Half of U.S. adults now report using it, which is on par with last year but up from 40% in 2021. WhatsApp and Reddit: About a third say they use WhatsApp, up from 23% in 2021. And 26% today report using Reddit, compared with 18% four years ago. While YouTube and Facebook continue to sit at the top, the shares of Americans who report using them have remained relatively stable in recent years.

UPDATE: Americans who use
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 25%
X (Twitter) 21%
Threads 8%
Bluesky 4%
Truth Social 3%

Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/

textbook tackle by the Folsom Field security guard last night

i’ve watched 8 raiders punts today because too many adults have a parasocial relationship with the backup quarterback for the cleveland browns

We've enrolled more than 700 participants (of 1,000 planned) in 3 weeks to a randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid

Will Colorado join the redistricting war? | Colorado Public Radio Other blue states want Colorado to join the fray, but redrawing lines early is easier said than done.

In the latest Purplish episode @bentebirkeland.bsky.social & I revisit redistricting (w/ special guest @npr.org’s Larry Kaplow). Other blue states want Colorado to join the fray, but redrawing lines mid-cycle is easier said than done. www.cpr.org/podcast-epis... #copolitics

Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.