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really just want to be in a forest with my dog. CO (ex-VA, DC, GA, NJ, etc). pivoting from webdev/digital to geospatial. fka @ClinicEscort. bodily autonomy is still a human right. I liked your post but I'll never Like your post
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might put "basic bitch for charismatic megafauna" in my bio and see what happens
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This is happening all over the country (is anyone covering it in your state?) but here I've focused on the implications for three cities in Colorado.

coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-t...
Colorado TV news in the crosshairs of conservative Sinclair broadcast giant
The news behind the news in Colorado
coloradomedia.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Baby boy born to brain-dead Georgia mother remains hospitalized nearly 6 months later, family says
Adriana Smith's pregnancy made national headlines when she was declared brain dead but placed on life support to let her fetus grow. Now her family is sharing an update on the condition of her infant ...
www.cbsnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Wow the Supreme Court intervened to help Republican electoral prospects? That’s crazy. I bet it’s never happened before.
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the constitution is actually just one big paper bag test
The Supreme Court just handed Texas Republicans at least 2 more House seats & possibly up to 5 despite the state GOP explicitly justifying their remap based on an unconstitutional use of race in redistricting.

Unsurprising from this court, and it's a bad sign for the upcoming Voting Rights Act case
BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with Texas Republicans in fight over congressional map. The new gerrymandered map will be used in the 2026 midterms. The vote is 6–3, with the Republican appointees siding with Texas.
December 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work

www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Good morning but only to all the snow gremlins
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
might put "basic bitch for charismatic megafauna" in my bio and see what happens
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 AM
get in loser we're flipping the eastern plains
For reference, the Trump's 2024 margin in Colorado's four GOP-held seats:

CO3 (Hurd) +9.7
CO4 (Boebert) +18.3
CO5 (Crank) +9.1
CO8 (Evans) +1.8
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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I Think Her Party Should Be Making Statements In Her Defense And The Greater Somali Community
December 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Don't blame the turner diaries troglodytes literally dismantling the Department of Education, blame the 11 year old with ADHD who needs an extra 30 minutes for the test.
So they're just transparently starting the drumbeat against a new vilified group just like they did with trans athletes, racial minority students, MeToo/BLM/anti-genocide activists, etc. right?

There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.

Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Job Description: Copilot AI Prompter

Job Duties: type "it's still not working" over and over until you retire or, more likely all things considered, die of old age
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Westword with the news you can use:
How to Avoid the Trump-Branded 2026 National Parks Pass
"This is a man who is leading an administration taking a hacksaw to the National Park Service and our public lands."
www.westword.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Just so tired of his face, of all their faces. I do take special umbrage with his sleazy mug on the America the Beautiful Pass. objectively not even as toxic as the new """America-first pricing""" at the parks, but I really must get to Estes next month & snap up the 2025 card with Florida Bird on it
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Just to be clear: armed government agents are allowed to wear masks, balaclavas, and glasses that completely hide their identities as they disappear people off streets and out of public places, but students can't wear masks while protesting even in approved "time, manner, and place".
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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ICE detained a Kurdish asylum seeker the day before his wife became a U.S. citizen: “We were following every letter of the law." blockclubchi.co/49MjNxC
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This would be an unambiguous war crime even in a proper war against a real enemy’s navy.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Stephen Miller is not compatible with western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
when someone deep-fried the turkey
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I am pieless, due to a planning failure. Very full, but pieless, and bereft. #woe
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I don’t think our collective brains are prepared to handle three years of the new discourse insisting that Biden saying “we beat Medicare” in a nationally televised debate is now Olivia Nuzzi’s fault
Look I don't want to say you're a rube if you fell for the "Biden's incompetent" trope but it was clearly a con coming almost exclusively from bad faith actors and had almost zero solid evidentiary basis.
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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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