Matt Sebastian
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Managing Editor, @denverpost.com. "There's a bit of magic in everything, and then some loss to even things out" — Lou Reed
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From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
...and yet one of my neighbors still had their sprinklers running pre-dawn on this 19-degree morning, leaving glazed sidewalks for us dog-walkers to slip-n-slide across
Denver dropped to its coldest temperatures in more than eight months on Tuesday night, sustaining the hopes of winter-loving Coloradans for a snowy Thanksgiving weekend.
Denver drops to coldest temps in 265 days, snowy Thanksgiving weekend likely
Denver dropped to its coldest temperatures in more than eight months on Tuesday night, sustaining the hopes of winter-loving Coloradans for a snowy Thanksgiving weekend.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
...and yet one of my neighbors still had their sprinklers running pre-dawn on this 19-degree morning, leaving glazed sidewalks for us dog-walkers to slip-n-slide across
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From endless delays in response time to ridiculously overbroad ██████ redactions, FOIA is plagued with problems.
Urge Congress to reform the law using our easy action center tool:
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November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
From endless delays in response time to ridiculously overbroad ██████ redactions, FOIA is plagued with problems.
Urge Congress to reform the law using our easy action center tool:
Urge Congress to reform the law using our easy action center tool:
It shouldn't be so hard to get the state government to provide basic information in plain English.... but it so often is
Poking my head up from a drive across Kansas (go Chiefs): DoC confirms that its odd statement from last evening means the state has rejected the Trump admin’s request to transfer Tina Peters. Confirmation backs up @kylec.bsky.social’s reading of the statement from last night.
Colorado officials reject Tina Peters prison transfer request by Trump administration trib.al/LJRWyu9
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It shouldn't be so hard to get the state government to provide basic information in plain English.... but it so often is
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[email protected] Denver/Boulder office 🤝 Coloradans impatiently awaiting the first snow of the season #cowx
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
[email protected] Denver/Boulder office 🤝 Coloradans impatiently awaiting the first snow of the season #cowx
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Must read, especially for journalists: A recent federal court opinion about how DHS is "simply not credible". Extended excerpts here:
presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
DHS's pack of liars | Press Watch
Journalists should not believe anything the Department of Homeland Security says
presswatchers.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Must read, especially for journalists: A recent federal court opinion about how DHS is "simply not credible". Extended excerpts here:
presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
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Soon after being booted from a Sly & the Family Stone tour (for upstaging the headliners), the Wailers recorded this heater for KSAN. An early document of the band's Americanization by Chris Blackwell (what Linton Kwezi Johnson called "international reggae"). Locked IN archive.org/details/BobM...
Bob Marley & Wailers Record Plant KSAN 1973 : KSAN : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
FM broadcast of Bob Marley & The Wailers from the Record Plant in Sausalito on 10/31/73. Broadcast on KSAN-FM San Francisco CA, introduction by Tom Donahue.
archive.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Soon after being booted from a Sly & the Family Stone tour (for upstaging the headliners), the Wailers recorded this heater for KSAN. An early document of the band's Americanization by Chris Blackwell (what Linton Kwezi Johnson called "international reggae"). Locked IN archive.org/details/BobM...
Starting Jan. 1, foreign tourists will have to pay a $100 surcharge to visit the country’s most popular national parks — including Rocky Mountain National Park — under a new plan by the Trump administration. That’s 3 to 5 times the typical entry fee for U.S. residents.
Trump Administration Will Raise Prices for Foreign Visitors at National Parks
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Starting Jan. 1, foreign tourists will have to pay a $100 surcharge to visit the country’s most popular national parks — including Rocky Mountain National Park — under a new plan by the Trump administration. That’s 3 to 5 times the typical entry fee for U.S. residents.
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Buckaroo Banzai Vs. The World Crime League
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Buckaroo Banzai Vs. The World Crime League
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Pueblo County officials have ordered officials at Riverstone Academy to make several fixes and ensure that someone patrols the building every 30 minutes to watch for fire.
Colorado’s ‘first public Christian school’ facing health, safety violations, records show
Pueblo County officials have ordered officials at Riverstone Academy to make several fixes and ensure that someone patrols the building every 30 minutes to watch for fire.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Pueblo County officials have ordered officials at Riverstone Academy to make several fixes and ensure that someone patrols the building every 30 minutes to watch for fire.
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Pressure mounts on Gov. Polis as a group of county clerks say his “silence” on feds’ request to transfer Tina Peters is “deafening” and “offensive.” www.denverpost.com/2025/11/25/c...
Pressure mounts on Gov. Jared Polis to deny Tina Peters prison transfer request: ‘The silence is deafening.’
“There was a lot of pressure coming from the (Trump) administration and from the right, and the governor was being silent on it,” the clerks association director said. “And the si…
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pressure mounts on Gov. Polis as a group of county clerks say his “silence” on feds’ request to transfer Tina Peters is “deafening” and “offensive.” www.denverpost.com/2025/11/25/c...
A federal judge in Denver today ruled that ICE agents have routinely carried out illegal arrests in Colorado, and ordered the agency to better document detentions so their legality could be monitored // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social
Federal judge orders ICE agents in Colorado to follow law, stop ‘pattern’ of illegal arrests
The 66-page decision came three weeks after four immigrants testified that ICE agents had arrested them without warrants and without first checking to see whether they were likely to flee.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A federal judge in Denver today ruled that ICE agents have routinely carried out illegal arrests in Colorado, and ordered the agency to better document detentions so their legality could be monitored // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social
Robert Dear, who confessed to killing 3 people and wounding 9 others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs a decade ago, died in custody Saturday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons tells @denverpost.com
Robert Dear, shooter in Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood attack, dies in federal custody
Robert Dear, 67, has been in state or federal custody since the 2015 mass shooting.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Robert Dear, who confessed to killing 3 people and wounding 9 others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs a decade ago, died in custody Saturday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons tells @denverpost.com
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Alex Hunter, who died Friday, was elected 7 times as Boulder County DA, serving nearly 30 years. He's most widely known as lead prosecutor during the JonBenét Ramsey case, refusing to sign secret grand-jury indictments of the 6-year-old's parents because he felt he couldn't prove the case
Alex Hunter, Boulder’s longest-serving DA and key figure in JonBenét Ramsey case, dies at 89
Alex Hunter spent 28 years as Boulder County’s elected district attorney, serving seven consecutive terms between 1973 and 2001.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Alex Hunter, who died Friday, was elected 7 times as Boulder County DA, serving nearly 30 years. He's most widely known as lead prosecutor during the JonBenét Ramsey case, refusing to sign secret grand-jury indictments of the 6-year-old's parents because he felt he couldn't prove the case
A community group said it was disappointed that Denver's elected school board "opted to conduct its first order of business with its new board members in a largely non-public way” // Story by @jessicaseaman.bsky.social
Denver school board’s weekend swearing-in ceremony draws scrutiny
The Denver Public Schools Board of Education swore in four newly-elected members on Saturday, a move that drew criticism for its timing.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A community group said it was disappointed that Denver's elected school board "opted to conduct its first order of business with its new board members in a largely non-public way” // Story by @jessicaseaman.bsky.social
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The last of reggae's founding fathers. Rest in Power, Jimmy Cliff. youtu.be/ck1ZiRXmRN4?...
Jimmy Cliff - Guns of Brixton
YouTube video by ReggaeNeration
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November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The last of reggae's founding fathers. Rest in Power, Jimmy Cliff. youtu.be/ck1ZiRXmRN4?...
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The National Labor Relations Board has found Starbucks illegally fired workers in response to organizing, closed stores because of union votes and engaged in widespread unfair labor practices designed to quash workers’ efforts.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/s...
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/s...
How Starbucks tried to quash union activity in Colorado
The coffee giant shuttered a store in Colorado Springs in 2022 shortly after its workers voted to unionize. A federal agency later ordered Starbucks to reopen that store, along with 22 others.
www.denverpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The National Labor Relations Board has found Starbucks illegally fired workers in response to organizing, closed stores because of union votes and engaged in widespread unfair labor practices designed to quash workers’ efforts.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/s...
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/s...
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The Associated Press is back in a courtroom Monday defending itself and our principles against the White House, continuing to fight for the right of the press and public to speak freely without being targeted by the government apnews.com/article/asso...
OpEd: Executive Editor Julie Pace on why AP is standing for your right to speak freely
The executive editor of The Associated Press says the news organization is fighting for the right of the press and public to speak freely without being targeted by the government.
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Associated Press is back in a courtroom Monday defending itself and our principles against the White House, continuing to fight for the right of the press and public to speak freely without being targeted by the government apnews.com/article/asso...
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Farewell to the great Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer who played a pivotal part in introducing reggae to the rest of the world. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Farewell to the great Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer who played a pivotal part in introducing reggae to the rest of the world. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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New: Meet the volunteers “bearing witness” at Denver immigration court.
These are the court watchers. They keep eyes open for ICE. They pass out resources to immigrants.
“It’s the best I’ve felt about being white in my entire life.”
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/v... via @denverpost.com
These are the court watchers. They keep eyes open for ICE. They pass out resources to immigrants.
“It’s the best I’ve felt about being white in my entire life.”
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/v... via @denverpost.com
‘Grassroots’ movement of local residents keeps a watchful eye at Denver immigration court
Denver-area residents provide support and information to families at federal building.
www.denverpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
New: Meet the volunteers “bearing witness” at Denver immigration court.
These are the court watchers. They keep eyes open for ICE. They pass out resources to immigrants.
“It’s the best I’ve felt about being white in my entire life.”
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/v... via @denverpost.com
These are the court watchers. They keep eyes open for ICE. They pass out resources to immigrants.
“It’s the best I’ve felt about being white in my entire life.”
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/v... via @denverpost.com
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CORRECTION: A *third* potato has been named after Prince.
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
CORRECTION: A *third* potato has been named after Prince.
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Colorado voters hold a dim view of national politics, with nearly 3 in 4 characterizing the political situation as “in crisis,” and nearly 2/3rds of respondents to a new poll fear political violence will worsen over the next few years, per @coltrain.bsky.social: www.denverpost.com/2025/11/21/c...
Coloradans have gloomy outlook on economy, elected leaders — and fear rise in political violence, poll finds
Nearly 3 in 4 Colorado voters characterized the political situation as “in crisis” in a new poll, while nearly two-third feared political violence would worsen over the next few years.
www.denverpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Colorado voters hold a dim view of national politics, with nearly 3 in 4 characterizing the political situation as “in crisis,” and nearly 2/3rds of respondents to a new poll fear political violence will worsen over the next few years, per @coltrain.bsky.social: www.denverpost.com/2025/11/21/c...
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NEW: White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats. Work began on secret CIA finding early in the administration, prompting pushback re use of lethal force. Officials persisted in seeking, military and covert options.
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White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
NEW: White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats. Work began on secret CIA finding early in the administration, prompting pushback re use of lethal force. Officials persisted in seeking, military and covert options.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
"The Roses were built on Mani’s tiptoe-light touch — something delicate but propulsive, an anti-rock energy that had heart, and was dreaming of something, borne of an internal rhythm and beauty that burnt a trail from itself outwards."
Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes | The Quietus
There’s a real nostalgic binary when it comes to the present-day view of Mancunian music from the 80s and 90s: it’s easy to see it as an amorphous blob of naive youth culture, macho posturing, retrogr...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"The Roses were built on Mani’s tiptoe-light touch — something delicate but propulsive, an anti-rock energy that had heart, and was dreaming of something, borne of an internal rhythm and beauty that burnt a trail from itself outwards."