Jason Bane

BREAKING: A police officer has died after he was shot by a Anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist, who opened fire near the CDC complex and Emory University in Atlanta.

Your stupid conspiracy theories are literally killing people.

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Kennedy's decisio...

Okay, Canada: Please invade us now. We’re too dumb to have our own country. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Kerr County emergency coordinator says he was sick and asleep when floods hit Texas In his first public comments since the devastating Texas floods, William "Dub" Thomas said the situation "evolved faster than anyone could have predicted."

How does this guy still have a job? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

GOP Rep Gabe Evans has used his heritage and his family's immigration story as a shield against criticism of his support for Trump's deportations. @chasewoodruff.bsky.social reports that the story isn't true.

Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' is projected to add $3.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says The law will also "increase by 10 million the number of people without health insurance" over the coming decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated.

The numbers are in. According to experts at the nonpartisan CBO, the Trump tax package will:

❌Kick 10 MILLION Americans off their health insurance
📈Add $3.4 TRILLION to the national debt
💰Hand out massive tax breaks to billionaires

It’s a big, ugly ripoff of working families.

U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans misrepresented family’s immigration history | Colorado Newsline U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans of Colorado has mischaracterized the story of how his Depression-era ancestors immigrated to America.

Colorado local media dug up Rep Gabe Evans' (R-CO) grandfather's INS records from 1929. Turns out that he came to the US illegally, and that he was arrested and convicted of a burglary. Which means that under Trump's birthright citizenship EO, the fire-breathing anti-immigrant Evans isn't a citizen.

Trump calls for old Commanders, Guardians names President Donald Trump wants Washington's football franchise and Cleveland's baseball team to revert to their former names.

Here! Talk about this. Instead of, you, know, that Epstein fellow. #trump www.espn.com/espn/story/_...

Despicable.

“Rather than protecting American businesses, Trump appears to be hurting them.”

Wow.

Trump says that Texas families who are concerned about the lack of warning before the deadly floods are “evil”: “Only a very evil person would ask a question like that.”

(clip: @atrupar.com)

Opinion | The week the costs of Trump’s tariffs became clearer He is imposing rising input costs and uncertainty on the economy. The damage is starting to show.

Going great! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump…wanted to blame the problem on Joe Biden — “That was Biden’s setup,” Trump said — but then caught himself, realizing that he was president before Biden when nothing was improved. mailchi.mp/coloradosun/...

DOJ, FBI review finds no Jeffrey Epstein 'client list,' confirms suicide: Memo Attorney General Pam Bondi had previously promised the public release of scores of records associated with federal probes into Epstein.

The #MAGA movement finally found the “Deep State.” They were hiding in the mirror. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/doj-f...

@pettersen.house.gov's five year old son cheers her on from home as she votes no on the Big Bullshit Bill

If the GOP bill passes, a lot of folks who have grandma in a nursing home will need to take her back home. Do voters across the rural states this will impact the most understand that?

Chris Murphy: "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress."

In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”

🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.

Brilliant timing.

Man found dead and lockdown lifted in Idaho after 2 firefighters killed, 1 wounded in sniper ambush Idaho authorities lift lockdown at scene of sniper attack near Coeur d’Alene after police find man dead on mountain with a firearm nearby.

Yay guns! apnews.com/article/coeu...

That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose. Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This week on @getmoresmarter.com, Congressman @crow.house.gov stops by to talk military parades, the dangers of over-the-top political rhetoric, the GOP budget bill, and conflict with Iran. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/213820...

Jeff Hurd Reaches Astonishing New Level of Jackassery | Colorado Pols Some politicians seem to have an innate gift for making absolute fools of themselves. Congressman Jeff "Bread Sandwich" Hurd (R-Grand Junction) appears to be just that kind of politician. Hurd has som...

Congressman Jeff "Bread Sandwich" Hurd (R-Grand Junction) has signed on to ANOTHER letter pledging to oppose cuts to Medicaid...less than a month after he voted in favor of cuts to Medicaid. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/213830...

Medicaid cuts in Trump tax bill could close 6 rural hospitals in Colorado, report warns The hospitals are spread across the state, including three on the Western Slope, one in the San Luis Valley and two on the Eastern Plains.

Gabe Evans
Jeff Hurd
Lauren Boebert
Jeff Crank

This is on you, hope you're happy with your work.

YouTube video by The Get More Smarter Podcast Get More Smarter EP 239 | Every Day is TACO Tuesday feat. Mike Littwin

The video version of our amazing interview with legendary Colorado columnist @mlittwin.bsky.social is live on YouTube! Go check it out!

Such a touching moment: Rep. Jim Clyburn held Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s baby during a press conference on gun violence prevention.

A memory to cherish, ‘I can’t wait to tell him one day that Rep. Clyburn was holding him.’ 🥹🧿💙🍼🙌🏽

#LeadershipWithHeart #JimClyburn #BrittanyPettersen #EndGunViolence

RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.

"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.'

But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women."

www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection

Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.

The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics The Get More Smarter Podcast is a weekly  overview of Colorado politics. The podcast is hosted by seasoned Colorado politicos Jason Bane of ColoradoPols.com and Ian Silverii, former 9News talking head...

THIS WEEK on our Colorado Politics Podcast:

👎Gabe-ish and Lauren Boebert's presser flops
🍞 Bread sandwich Jeff Hurd surrenders to Trump
✍️Polis keeps the veto pen rolling
📰The legendary @mlittwin.bsky.social joins us to talk Trump, TACOs, Tariffs and the Colorado media landscape

#copolitics

Holy fucking shit. Head of FEMA didn’t know we have a “hurricane season.” #fema #copolitics www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

Takeaways from AP’s report on how federal public health cuts are affecting communities across the US Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. State and local health departments responsible for invisible but critical work including inspecting restaurants,...

Whats the opposite of “MAHA”? apnews.com/article/publ...

and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.