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DENVER’S FUCKING WEATHER @denversweather.bsky.social · 7h
I'VE SAID IT BEFORE, I'LL SAY IT AGAIN [PUTS ON SHADES, HOISTS ROCKET LAUNCHER, AIMS FOR THE SKY]: I'M GOING TO KILL THE SUN.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 8h
A while ago I got pushback from some other urbanists on here for arguing that the Manhattan Institute’s main function is to mainstream racism. But the idea that their work on fairly technical urban policy matters is as politically significant as what Rufo is doing just doesn’t pass the smell test.
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Seth Klamann @sethklamann.bsky.social · 5h
We spoke with a man who was beaten while he experienced a panic attack, with a gay detainee who was threatened regularly, with a father who struggles to talk to his family because of the pain their distance causes him, with a man who watched fellow detainees be beaten for refusing to eat.
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Seth Klamann @sethklamann.bsky.social · 5h
ICYMI: More than 12,000 immigrants have come through Colorado’s only detention center since January ‘25. Several of them described hopelessness, fights, racial and homophobic abuse, inedible food and delayed medical care. From @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social and me: www.denverpost.com/2026/09/27/c...
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Pepper spray, health crises and rotten food: Inside Colorado’s only immigrant detention center
In interviews with The Denver Post, current and former detainees described frequent fights and feelings of hopelessness. They say they’re often served inedible or rotten food that frequently gives the...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7h
The richest 0.1% of Americans have more than doubled their immense wealth since 2019 — per WSJ.
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MTH @megt.bsky.social · 7h
Drought and heat affect herds that don't migrate off the winter grounds. 🌎 wyofile.com/malnutrition...
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Malnutrition killed Wyoming pronghorn in peak summer as vegetation withered during record heat, severe drought - WyoFile
Stunted lowland vegetation in the Green River Basin doesn’t bode well for one of the state’s premier herd's survival the coming winter.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7h
Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights.
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Talking to a man who was on one of the deportation to a third country flights - as usual super strong asylum claim - and he describes watching ICE officers beat men who tried to protest being forced on a flight to place they'd never even heard before. Everything about this is so fucked.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the thing about stuff like this is that five biggest changes in american politics have all been partisan projects The Constitution, the Jacksonian Revolution, Reconstruction, the New Deal, and Civil Rights were all explicitly partisan projects.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 30/09/2026
Particularly cute is the requirement to use AI tools "in the assessment of areas of poor performance among... each key permitting agency for the purpose of providing additional support and oversight." AI surveilance of agency staffers.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 30/09/2026
Not a lawyer, but "SEC. 209. ENEPA TECHNOLOGIES" (pages 74-94) appears to require creation of AI tools for a) company use to generate environmental docs and b) agency use to review environmental docs. AI-generated forms reviewed by AI tools in understaffed/underfunded agencies! What could go wrong.
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A New Reconstruction @burleyzack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GOP is the party for sociopathy, not only do we need to bring back shame but also knocking guys who feel comfortable saying/doing this shit
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 30/09/2026
There are 14 initiatives on the statewide ballot -- and almost all of them deserve a no vote, Logan says.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the thing about AI that I love so much. Think of all the morons you know (many on this site!) using and swearing by this tech that can change the output depending on who is controlling the AI. And those dumbasses still believe it should be used for anything regarding data!
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wouldn’t stop suing until my name was on every building the school has and every trustee had to write me a personal check.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
TBH I disagree, I think Biden was singularly unable to take any meaningful action because he's an aging racist who had a tight-knit personal circle full of rabid Zionist ideologues and a view of the policy issue etched into stone in 1974.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
jfc this is the AUSA for the central district of california mocking the idea of compliance with state law.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, @katharinapistor.bsky.social argues that any program of transformative change must reckon with the fact that capitalists have largely succeeded in de-legitimizing existing institutions, including the state itself.
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The New Institutional Political Economy of Capitalism
In recent decades, capitalists have largely succeeded in undermining the state's capacity to act, leaving it too weak to carry out social democratic reforms even with a favorable government in place.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And shame on everyone, including Bernie Sanders specifically, who talks about the importance of “securing the border” without acknowledging that it means precisely this.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/09/2026
what keeps me up at night is these guys have basically never received real pushback and they still lost their minds and shredded the federal government's regulatory capacity when employees started griping too much in the company slack. What if you actually arrested one of them for their crimes
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/09/2026
In Denmark, 96% of private individual vehicle sales are electric these days. 86% of total (fleets are slightly slower).
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
It's just Republicans fucking clean energy over & over again while people in the industry keep insisting "actually Republicans really like us!" It's such beta behavior it makes *me* want to bully them, and I'm on their side!
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Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As is the case in virtually every actual housing "abundance" policy fight that has ever occurred in a U.S. city not named SF or LA, it's conservatives and centrists standing in the way of upzoning/density and progressives and "the groups" organizing in support of it.
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After proposing a citywide upzoning, Denver scales back ‘Unlocking Housing Choices’
Council members said their neighborhoods weren’t ready for density, while housing advocates decried the change.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special.
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A New Reconstruction @burleyzack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can’t straight up blame Weiser for the settlement in a 12 state coalition where CA was the lead, but the settlement leads to a terrible outcome and no govt party looks good from this capitulation.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interesting to think about the cases where most people agree that price regulation is fine. If this is appropriate now, why not at other times? gothamist.com/news/nyc-bra...
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A New Reconstruction @burleyzack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
40m people rely on the Colorado River, which year after year shows less water in it. Denver Water has declared drought conditions and restricts residential use. You’re saying we shouldn’t care about the new water use equal to 16000 people? www.governing.com/finance/denv...
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Denver’s New Data Center to Use as Much Water as 16,000 People
As city leaders try to reduce carbon emissions and conserve water amid a 20-year drought, a proposed tax break for a new, water-intensive data center is drawing scrutiny.
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Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Remarkable that "Colfax BRT is a year ahead of schedule" has been a total non-story after two years of relentlessly negative local media coverage of car-centric business owner complaints
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds
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World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds
Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)
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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026
Microsoft's data center subcontractor in New Jersey illegally runs a bunch of gas "backup" generators on site, figuring they won't get caught or will just eat the wrist-slap fines if they do. Regulatory enforcement is so bad that a third party had to take drone images to get the state to act.
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New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators
State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NEW: Denver is once again considering a mass surveillance system contract just under the amount that would trigger City Council review. @spencersoicher.bsky.social reports:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i dislike this state of affairs
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 25/09/2026
"after donating $201 million to re-elect Trump and his allies, oil and gas companies will now collect an estimated $190 billion in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade"
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A New Reconstruction @burleyzack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Imagine, if you will, a Mayor who uses their rich connections to help fund the core city functions instead of a party convention. Pure fiction, I know, but imagine it for a moment. denverite.com/2026/09/23/d...
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Anybody got $75M? Denver mayor’s office searches for DNC money
Mayor Mike Johnston will have to convince business leaders to get on board, even if they don’t love Democrats right now.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When fascists win, centrists get to feel good about themselves because they are kinder and more tolerant than those people. When progressives win, centrists find themselves cruel and narrow minded by comparison, and can't bear that feeling.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally, segregationists have achieved their dream of capturing the Civil Rights Division and turning it to their own ends
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is absolutely insane, what tf are we even doing here
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