Chris B.

That is enough. Why is their bigotry even being allowed?

I realize this is already being covered elsewhere, but this bill, and the House substitute attached to it, is complete and utter bullshit. And as always, it’s mainly Christians behind this. Always Christians and always with the fucking Bible as reason for all they do. By now, they can just leave.

Getting real tired of these constant attacks on working class people. If you’re not going to stick to the damn program and defend them all no matter the cost, don’t run, ever.

Welcome to CWA.

Tonight is a struggle. For much of my life, I have dealt with clinical depression. I was first diagnosed in my teens with it, but have still persisted onward. And now, I’m talking to an old friend with it who won’t get help. At what point do I be honest and say things won’t change until they do?

He is absolutely right. US prisons are just as barbaric. I spent almost 3 years of my life working as a CO within two of them, and walked away traumatized and radicalized by what I saw in them. And that was just a portion of what incarcerated persons deal with in there every single day.

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

I watched this earlier today and it is still horrifying. Why are we tolerating this kind of a scenario at all?

About time. This was retaliation, same as the attempts to deport her are.

Earlier, when explaining why Indigenous Peoples Day matters to someone who said “but what happened is in the past”, I was told “you worry incessantly about that shit”. This shows a complete disregard for the discrimination Indigenous people face, and how it affects us all in some way.

Our first priority bill of the session passed UNANIMOUSLY out of House Judiciary Committee yesterday! Now, the bill is on its way to the House Floor. Onward! 💪🏽

Learn more: coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1015

Colorado Springs might have to vote on recreational weed sales again UPDATE 1/14/2025: Colorado Springs City Council voted to reduce the mandatory distance from a retail dispensary to any school, child care facility, or

Colorado Springs City Council refuses to respect the vote for Prop 300 (which passed with over 130,000 voting yes on recreational marijuana sales in November) and wants a redo in April. At what point will it be hammered home for them to stop blocking it?

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In bad news, Amy Coney Barrett appears to have already decided that the 14th Amendment (birthright citizenship) is “possibly illegitimate” several years ago.

I used this to look up the data on all of the school districts just in my city alone. Segregation in our educational system is very much alive and well here. Why is this even being tolerated by the law?

Up to 5 straight hours with a sub-zero wind chill @DENAirport.

Likely another ~60 hours to go. Wind chills could drop as low as -30° in Denver.

#COwx

What is the point in even trying to engage with my city council when again and again they just ignore those of us with any lived experience or even expertise when passing the things that they do? We desperately need a reset for our local government - not the same as always.

(I try not to thirst-post, but I'm going to do it)

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The main thing preventing me from cutting all ties with Twitter is that I still have a much larger audience over there, and my work focusing on right-wing extremism, Christian nationalism, and...

4 to 7 years just to clarify here.

Because at this point, they’re all just as much a part of the problem as the rich tyrants who hold us all hostage from their hoarding of everything are.

Not one single soul should ever have to set foot even a centimeter into a jail because they couldn’t afford a sandwich, likely their one meal for the day on the streets. Shut down these damn courts, cops, jails and prisons, and put the money into rolling a goddamned army out to help these people.

Let the police go weep to someone else, and let the wealthy mega donors who directly or indirectly enable their existence go cry elsewhere - their very existence, their collective actions are exactly why poverty even exists in the first damn place.

If we wanted to really address any of it, the answers are simple: rip every last penny of funding from anything remotely resembling a cop, starve the jails and prisons of their generous funding and put the proceeds into every program imaginable to get people off the streets for good - zero barriers.

Don’t even come at me with how “easy” it should be for a homeless person to get a job just like that, either - the sheer discrimination that employers show to people they find out are in a shelter is bad enough, and much worse if you’re living on the streets. Ditto for housing, too.

I know from personal experience that if you’re homeless, court is the last thing on your mind. You’re having to focus on how to get your next meal, dodging random homeless sweeps, figuring out where to sleep, where to shower - and all while facing monumental judgment for being there from society.

Even the idea that they were willing to throw someone away into county jail for 47 years because they missed a court date and they were homeless…while the outcome of that still meant most of a year in jail, what the hell do they expect a person on the streets to even do? Magically get it together?

It’s one of 10,000 reasons why I even left the work behind - between the health problems it caused, the mental health issues, the horror from realizing everyone locked up was there in some part because of the very nature of our capitalist system. And yet still…9 months for enough food to last a day?

I know I shouldn’t be shocked by anything at this point, but after what I heard on a Zoom event by @cofreedomfund.bsky.social a short time ago it has to be said: 9 months in a jail for stealing $10 of food? Really?! I know I had seen enough injustice as a CO 5 years ago to drive me to quit but this?

We need municipal court reform now to protect our most vulnerable neighbors.⁠

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If one thing is clear after all of that, we need to do the work ourselves and demonstrate that we can provide what the state refuses to. Nothing will come of it without that, with the second lesson here being that there has to be a reckoning among liberals - their ways do not work. /End

And like always, many of the same kind of people who show up but shirk at the work we tell them is needed to build alternate structures of power that serve human needs first always end up back in that familiar fold, effectively siloed from us and the work needed. /8