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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 19m

Maybe you shouldn’t have voted to approve him you absolute dunce

Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 27m

In a brazen political act, Secretary Chris Wright cancelled over $600 million for Colorado energy projects.

I’m demanding answers on the reckless decision because Coloradans shouldn’t be forced to pay the price with higher energy costs and layoffs across our state.

Colorado Democrats press Trump administration on $600M in canceled energy projects

Democratic members of Colorado’s federal delegation in Congress are demanding answers from President Donald Trump’s administration after it canceled over $600 million in energy projects for the state....

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 45m

Chuck Schumer praising Trump for the ceasefire deal which has already been breached, this man is such a hapless sop, a sniveling weasel. An inanimate block of wood would be a better leader

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 12h

CS gas ("teargas") is toxic and can kill. I had the unfortunate luck to directly witness a heavy application of CS asphyxiate a small baby in Colorado Springs in 2003. The baby survived, but suffered permanent brain damage. The million dollar settlement didn't fix the damage.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16h

I cannot believe people were losing their jobs for being mildly critical of Charlie Kirk and the president of the united states just went on tv and said "skill issue loser, RIP but I'm different"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

Is there an explanation for why Palestinians are "prisoners" and Israelis are "hostages"?

Is the implication meant to be that the Palestinians were 'criminals' being punished through imprisonment?

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Palestinian prisoners freed after Israeli hostages released from Gaza

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Given what has happened in Lebanon I think it's abundantly clear that the US vision of a ceasefire is that the Arabs cease and Israel continues to fire.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

this is, flatly and subjectively, intolerable to anyone who fancies themselves free people. simply intolerable

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 1d

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 1d

“My concern is that due to the feeling that we can’t understand AI, we are undemocratically giving the technologists an immense power to shape our society.” https://macleans.ca/technology-3/railway-tycoons-shaped-canada-dont-let-ai-barons-do-the-same/

Railway Tycoons Shaped Canada. Don’t Let AI Barons Do the Same. - Macleans.ca

History shows that when a few people control a transformative technology, they control a nation’s future

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 2d

I’d known the name Mother Cabrini bc it’s the name of the last stop on I70 to pull off before you’re In The Mountains, but yeah we aren’t full of Italian history and you know what, neither was Columbus (Genoan)

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 2d

In Denver (and most places that have moved on from Columbus Day) it’s Indigenous Peoples Day,

But in Colorado it’s Mother Cabrini Day bc the state legislature couldn’t pass IP Day over the objections of angry Italians so they compromised by making a holiday for an Italian-Colorado Saint.

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 2d

As far as I’m concerned, the “Opportunity Caucus” is a marketing tactic to solicit quid pro quo from lobbyists. “We’re happy to sponsor your business legislation, just make me an offer.”

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 2d

Political corruption is so transparent these days. Oh you just took a lavish trip to a mountain resort with the lobbyists for big business? Im sure it was an innocent “opportunity” to learn about what bills your constituents (patrons) want you to pass.

coloradosun.com/2025/10/13/c...

A group of Democratic state lawmakers gathered with lobbyists at a Vail retreat. Who paid the tab?

The Colorado Opportunity Caucus, considered among the more moderate Democrats in the legislature, organized the event. The caucus was formed as a nonprofit that doesn’t disclose its donors.

coloradosun.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah we gotta do some major redistribution, no way around the tectonic political instability that massive inequality creates

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 2d

Politicos have always blurred the lines of truth with rhetoric, but yes, we must find some kind of workable disincentive for the cavalcade of blatant, transparently false lies our political culture produces today.

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 2d

Complete dissolution I don’t think is the only option, but it should be on the table. The conventions of checks and balances this system was designed with are laughable safeguards given the current circumstance. But what replaces it should we go that route?

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 4d

We continue to be hostages to the most illiterate men on the planet

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, I wouldn’t structure a convention to cater to captured institutions we’re trying to break with, there’s real difficulty in setting it up to do that and avoid the billionaire capture of new systems — you’d have to go beyond the Article V structure and reach deeper to find a democratic process

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 2d

In that vein, I’d sharply limit the bounds of prosecutorial immunity. Bring individual consequences for wrongful prosecutions. Right now it’s way too easy for the individual to hide behind the shield of the state to hold them accountable for misdeeds, similar to qualified immunity for policing.

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 3d

Curious how you envision this separation might work? Policing and prosecution are deeply intertwined both mechanically and culturally.

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 3d

Yeee that’s what I’m talking about, partition and realignment might be the way forward since meaningful unity in vision of govt feels impossible right now.

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 3d

One of my reforms is to rebuild backbones of the internet away from advertising. I’ve been reflecting on the devolution of Google Search vs the load-bearing nature of Wikipedia as sources of epistemological truth for a society, and comparing to utilities where market structure undermines function.

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 3d

We may just not do any of these and continue to limp from crisis to crisis instead of charting an affirmative path, we may forgo governance outside of markets and devolve to an even more comprehensive society of billionaire-driven authoritarianism, but indulge the thought of the pendulum toward hope

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