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@alansalazarco.bsky.social
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Many years in Colorado politics (federal, state & local - Here for healthy exchanges about history, politics, art & public policy — making the most of on-line communications & blocking the toxic.

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alansalazarco.bsky.social @alansalazarco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My favorite little doctor was lucky to be born at #DenverHealth - so it's a blessing to support the Promenade event at the Botanic Gardens. 💜💜
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
On this date in 1936, the Summer Olympics opened in Berlin, and the efforts by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan race” were undermined by the success of African American athletes, notably Jesse Owens.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Got the chance to see these talented players in action today! It was great having the @wnba.com at Home Court at the Obama Presidential Center for All-Star Weekend. 🏀
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I've lived in Beijing, and the thing is - they don't have elections.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"That Monday afternoon was supposed to be her day with Papa, but he never came home. And now, my daughter asks for papa and I don't have the strength to tell her [he] isn't coming." www.newscentermaine.com/video/news/l...
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alansalazarco.bsky.social @alansalazarco.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Instead of fireworks, on this unusual 250th Birthday of America, a July 4th pilgrimage to the Mother Cabrini Shrine in CO. The patron saint of immigrants. Seems fitting to pray here for the country I love, the USA.
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco in 1873 to parents who were Chinese citizens and lawful residents in the U.S. n 1895, after a trip to China, he attempted to re-enter the U.S. but was denied entry by immigration officials.
A photo of Wong Kim Ark
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alansalazarco.bsky.social @alansalazarco.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It's an excellent book - one of the best and most enjoyable (though sobering) reads on the 1930s I have come across.
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alansalazarco.bsky.social @alansalazarco.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
What an outstanding season finale for the @coloradosymphony.bsky.social last night. We're so lucky to have world class artists in Denver. & Mahler's resurrection theme suits our time. Bravo!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/05/2026
News Analysis: Pope Leo has a message for Silicon Valley as it races to build God-like A.I. tools: Elevate the human. Machines are not gods.
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As A.I. Fever Rises in Silicon Valley, Pope Leo Has a Few Words
The American pope wants to take artificial intelligence down a notch. Is he challenging the tech companies, or will tech take over the papacy?
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
on this day in 1935 Jesse Owens accomplishes historic feat by breaking three world records and tieing a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan. wow!
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
If the 2nd greatest English-language filmmaker of all time can cast a black woman as Helen of Troy, then surely Christopher Nolan can, as well.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
25 May 1937 | A French Jewish boy, Roger Fajlewicz, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 6 February 1944 in a transport of 1,214 Jews deported from Drancy. He was amon 999 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
Vintage monochrome photograph of a baby boy reclining on a cushion, looking directly at the camera.
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Mike Luckovich
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/05/2026
"If you resurrected Ulysses S. Grant...and told him, 'hey, the Supreme Court is nullifying the 15th Amendment again'...he would be like, 'yeah, that sounds right.' He'd probably be surprised it was Republicans, but that's about it." Adam Serwer on Tennessee's redistricting grab.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Your regular reminder that when David Duke ran for statewide office in the early 1990s, the MAJORITY of white Louisiana voters pulled the lever for him. This was AFTER they’d seen the pictures of Duke in a Klan outfit and a Nazi uniform.
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Egon Schiele Port of Trieste (1907)
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It's hard to retain employees at a workplace that expects to get dismantled. Scientists are already leaving NCAR, the federal weather lab in Boulder. @spencersoicher.bsky.social reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social:
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Forbes @forbes.com · 03/05/2026
More than 40 global media outlets are coming together as the One Free Press Coalition to bring attention to fellow journalists who are being threatened for seeking to tell the truth. #OneFreePress
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Global ‘10 Most Urgent’ List For 2026 Focuses On ‘Anti-State’ Charges Against Journalists
The list from the One Free Press Coalition illuminates governments’ efforts at criminalizing journalism, silencing the media, and withholding information from the public.
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Creight Photo 🌱☮️ @afewfromtheforest.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
#SundaySilence
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
what kinds of “restaurants” have been asking Todd Blanche for ID
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alansalazarco.bsky.social @alansalazarco.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Just finished this excellent book with warnings about how fragile democracy & the rule of law can be, particularly in times of economic stress & political dysfunction.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Page One. @wsj.com
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Jeff Harris @nemalki.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Here's Mr. Van Dyke rereading that speech penned by Rod Serling on racial unity that he recited on May 31, 1964, in Los Angelese. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExDi... And here's a little insight about that day and event right here: www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
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Dick Van Dyke reads “A Most Non-Political Speech” by Rod Serling | Mr.Vandy
YouTube video by Dick Van Dyke
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
And the Sky Touched Down (2011) by Canadian artist Mark Grantham (born in 1966) Acrylic on canvas 91 x 61 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.
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“I Cannot Be in Favor of War” — Pope Leo XIV's Wide-Ranging In-Flight Press Conference From Africa
On the flight back from Africa, Leo addressed Iran, migration, the death penalty, and LBGTQ issues. He said he carries a photo with him of a Lebanese boy who was killed in the conflict.
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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 24/04/2026
The fact that John Waters is, at 80, still vital and funny and just as forward-thinking as ever and no one will give him money to make a movie is proof this world is broken.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The young people in our @obamafoundation.bsky.social Leaders program give me hope. One of those leaders, Luisa Neubauer, is working to fight climate change and recently traveled to Antarctica. This Earth Day, I hope you'll check out her incredible story.
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Ken Salazar @kensalazar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I’m honored to celebrate the history of the Zapata Ranch this evening with The Nature Conservancy, a leader in preserving and protecting lands across our nation, and helped lead the creation of the Great Sand Dunes National Park in the place where my heart lives, the San Luis Valley. @nature.org
The Summit in the Sand meeting at Great Sand Dunes National Park in 1999, when I was Colorado Attorney General.
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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"Rainy Road" - my oil painting
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███ACTED @vicjager.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
New Hungarian PM brutally confronts a news channel that banned him for years.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
At 250 feet tall, Trump's arch would be the biggest such structure in the world. Asked last fall what this modern-day arch was meant to commemorate, Trump pointed to himself and replied, “Me.” @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Trump Thinks He’s Become Orange Jesus
In Trump 1.0, people mocked the President by calling him Orange Jesus. In Trump 2.0, he actually thinks he’s become Jesus, Susan B. Glasser writes.
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Citizen Jane @rivergoat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Eff F47 and JD #SlavaUkraine
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Forbes @forbes.com · 13/04/2026
Peter Magyar’s Tisza, which scored a landslide win over Viktor Orban's Fidesz, shot to prominence following a controversial presidential pardon in a child sex abuse case.
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How Hungary’s Child Sex Abuse Scandal Contributed To Orban’s Downfall
Peter Magyar’s Tisza, which scored a landslide win over Viktor Orban's Fidesz, shot to prominence following a controversial presidential pardon in a child sex abuse case.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This is a huge deal. robertreich.substack.com/p/goodbye-…
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Goodbye, Viktor.
Your loss is Hungary's (and democracy's) win
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Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Military officials are planning for two potential high-risk ground assaults in Iran Assets are in place for a raid on Kharg Island and an operation to retrieve Iran’s uranium All they need now is President Trump’s go-ahead - if it comes www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Trump’s Fateful Choice
The military is waiting for the president’s go-ahead for high-risk ground operations in Iran.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/04/2026
"Orban's willingness to betray Ukraine for the sake of personal gain revolts many Hungarians. Orbán’s alliance with Russia, which all Hungarians can see, evokes visceral disgust."
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MAGA International Goes Down in Flames
And so do the U.S.–Iran peace talks.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/04/2026
Finally, Hungary we will be sovereign, not a vassal of Russia
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
“I'm an American, and most of the time proud of it. Even when I am displeased with what my country is doing, I am still an American who is displeased. And fortunately, being an American, I don't have to whimper, I don't have to whine, I have the right to protest...” - Maya Angelou #RFA
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It’s official cherry blossom season in Japan. Here’s my painting of the cherry blossom in Shinjuku Gyoen, Tokyo from 10 years ago. Still available as a print here - jonathanestore.bigcartel.com
A watercolour painting of cherry blossom in Shinjuku Gyoen, Tokyo
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 23/03/2026
Marine Le Pen's ultra-right wing National Rally Party got roflstomped in Today's elections in France. Despite strong first round appearances the left got it's shit together and quit splitting votes for the second round ending any hopes of a bigoted right wing French government.
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Interesting MTG Art (scary version 💀) @interestingmtg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I decided to rewatch Children of Men for the first time in at least a decade. Unsurprisingly, this movie hits very, very different in 2026.
The key cover art for the movie Children of Men, starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, and Michael Caine. (Notably uncredited here is Clare-Hope Ashitey, who plays Kee, one of the film's central characters) Clive Owen looks past a stone wall. The following text is displayed:

The Year 2077:
The last days of the human race.
No chd has been born for 18 years.
He must protect our only hope.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/03/2026
Snowpack, a crucial water source for the West, was already scarce after a mild winter. Now, intense heat could make matters worse.
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Record Heat Meets a Major Snow Drought Across the West
Snowpack, a crucial water source for the region, was already scarce after a mild winter. Now, intense heat could make matters worse.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Just watched this amazing doc. A must-see for any political junkie, and inspiring to boot. pbs.org/show/bella/
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alansalazarco.bsky.social @alansalazarco.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Who knew Harry Truman had such elegant penmanship?
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Very glad so many people liked the Mary Beard episode of the David Frum Show. Tonight we drop audio -and tomorrow video - of a dialogue with @jonrauch.bsky.social on the connection between true knowledge and political freedom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFF...
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Mary Beard and Why America Isn’t Rome (And Why That Matters) | The David Frum Show
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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