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Caroline Ledbetter

@carolineledbetter.bsky.social
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Data person. Other stuff.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 16h
Kieran Healy, on that tourism graph. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
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Trump Tourism Effects
In the past day or two on social media I kept seeing this graph from a Semafor story on the declining volume of international visitors to the United States. Semafor Graph. It seems to show, and was be...
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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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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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Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest: www.cpr.org/2026/09/24/j...
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Judge orders Colorado man from Honduras who was deported to Africa back to the state
Immigrant had been in United States for about 10 years and had been granted protection under "Convention Against Torture."
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/09/2026
It was me. Gift link: wapo.st/4hDCZRs I think about this a lot.
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Opinion | Parents invest so much in youth sports. Then came Trump.
The emotional and financial investment parents make in young athletes is strong wedge-issue fodder.
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Caroline Ledbetter @carolineledbetter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Fighting FOR people never helped a fascist ever in history. The road to fascism is paved almost exclusively with moral concessions.
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Bullshit.
Dems fighting for trans people got trump elected.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A great philosopher once said: “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for Robert Kraft to support your cause.”
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Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and the ‘Apolitical’ White Ally
The Macklemore-Sheeran controversy exposes the cowardice of people who uphold the status quo by pretending to be neutral.
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Caroline Ledbetter @carolineledbetter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the content I'm here for!
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Caroline Ledbetter @carolineledbetter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't know what it says about me but there's so much I love about this story
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The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 15/09/2026
ATTENTION COLORADO VOTERS: YOU HAVE AN OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG STATEWIDE BALLOT THIS NOVEMBER BECAUSE A RIGHT WING DARK MONEY GROUP PAID MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO PUT 6 BULLSHIT MEASURES ON THE BALLOT. Thanks to @indivisible-co.bsky.social for this helpful guide!
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chriscesq @chriscesq.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On all Colorado referenda and propositions, your default setting should be NO unless someone clearly explains otherwise. Even palpable-sounding ones are often Trojan horses for terrible policy. That said vote YES on graduated tax brackets, and vote no extra hard on 134 and 135.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Inject this righteous anger into my veins
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Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‘Have I Got News For You’ is back!! CNN Tonight 9p/e. Tomorrow on CNN App & HBO Max
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 10/09/2026
No one gets thrown off the raft to feed to the fascists. Especially not children. If you try to throw anyone off, I pick you up and throw you off.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 05/09/2026
There's a difference between "tough on crime🤡" democrats and good politicians. And no, not all Progressive Dems are good. If Bernie had been mayor of NYC, crime would have gone *up*. 🤷🏿‍♂️ The specific policies that reduce violent crime have been well understood for decades. This isn't complicated.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/09/2026
No, influencers are not all sharing $20K to say nice things about a mayor that does his job. BFFR. $20K doesn't buy you a lot of paid promo. His real secret: Do mayoral stuff that 80% of people like anyway. Film it. Put vertical video of it on social media. People will share it.
Meme: Wait, y'all are getting paid?
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 02/09/2026
Apple and Google aren’t really your problem here. Neither are the civil servants at the USGS who maintain the GNIS. Use Mapquest if it makes you feel better, I guess. The problem is the country reelected this vicious, spiteful, corrupt old fool.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So many of the supposed divides in the Democratic caucus simply boil down to "this one will fight for all of us, this one will not" and for the past two years Team Fight is sweeping the board.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Jesus Christ, this. Platner was given the benefit of the doubt despite having a fucking Totenkopf tattoo on his own skin, while many of the same people are demanding El-Sayed answer for any random comment from anyone who supports him.
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Caroline Ledbetter @carolineledbetter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Well worth the read from @clauswilke.com open.substack.com/pub/clauswil...
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I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus
God save us from economists who think they can competently talk about biology
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
The is white privilege in action. There are brown and Black people who are sitting in detention for months, AFTER they already gave up on their valid claims to be here and agreed to be deported. Then they’re deported shackled on an ICE flight while this guy, who had no valid claim, goes commercial.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 30/08/2026
None of these posts are "This is the outgroup that we hate! Get them!"🤡 His posts are all, "Hey everyone! This is a frustration that you wish your local city government could just fix! Well good news! We've fixed it! Use it!" ♥️ And he always makes sure to humanize the New Yorkers doing the fixing!
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 25/08/2026
I don't need to use my right to be trans in public. Because I am not trans.🤷🏿‍♂️ But I do need to make sure that the government can't take the right to be trans in public away from someone that is trans. This isn't complicated.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Caroline Ledbetter @carolineledbetter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I wish there was away to block screenshots from X. Like I get why some people care what’s being posted there but like I never need that in my timeline.
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Caroline Ledbetter @carolineledbetter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...
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A Driver’s Fatal Spiral After a Police Officer’s Typo (Gift Article)
Police thought they had caught a car thief in San Francisco. Instead, they had mistyped his license plate number, a watchdog agency said, then arrested him with excessive force.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16/08/2026
Mosquito water is not even the worst water you can be forced to drink in CA prisons, jails, and detention centers. Some water is "toxic chemicals in the water made his kidneys give up and shut down" bad. No one deserves to be tested this way, not even guilty people. But these people are not guilty.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/08/2026
"Ultimately, the gadflies don’t seem to actually understand how being a transgender athlete works. The idea that cisgender men like Enes and Royce would voluntarily undergo chemical castration to try to join the WNBA and make a minuscule rookie salary is farcical on its face."
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Transgender athletes are a red herring
It's a non-problem meant to exclude people from public life.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
Can’t count how many times the dystopian stuff that make people want to abolish ICE is also something that’s already being used by police or subjected upon people in the criminal legal system.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Rep Gabe Evans (R-CO) avoids in-person town halls and media outlets where he'll face direct questions. Our @marshallglasses.bsky.social caught up with Evans to ask how many Coloradans will soon lose SNAP food benefits. Evans repeatedly dodged the question.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 10/08/2026
We told you this would happen. ♥️🕊️👍🏿
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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 06/08/2026
The title is a little pointed, but I am very serious here. Academics, medical researchers, and other organisations should not collect data on birth sex. It is rarely relevant, and it almost always leads to privacy violations for transgender people. Please share. I would like people to read this one.
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Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch
Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
COMMENTARY: Our nightly news program, Next, turns 10 years old today. Here's why I'm not wishing for ten more years.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/08/2026
Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first. Before Adelanto was "Adelanto ICE detention facility," it was Adelanto Community Correctional Facility." Only 5% of California is Black, but 27% of the state prison population is Black. Yes waterborne illness in some facilities has killed people.
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chriscesq @chriscesq.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
what the actual fuck, just ban guns
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
They fundamentally misunderstand why Zohran is popular. People don’t like him just because he’s on TikTok. They like him because he’s a good communicator and he’s actually working to actually try to improve people’s lives.
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James Hammett 🌪️ @jameshammett.com · 24/07/2026
We love our LG induction range! Way too many people still believe gas ranges are superior for cooking though because they see them in commercial kitchens (which are very different)
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hogandda.bsky.social @hogandda.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Induction is great for seniors. Much safer than gas or electric. Let’s me cook again without the fear of accidentally turning on the burners and causing havoc.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Lorenzo. abolition is the centrist position.
photograph of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo standing in his home, smiling, in front of a cake with candles on it that show it is his 52nd birthday.headline: federal immigration agent fatally shoots man in Houston during an enforcement operation
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/07/2026
Someone dies in ICE detention every 6 days! That is horrific! Double that number, and that's someone dying every 3 days. Double it again. One human life every 1.5 days. Double it again. One life every 18 hours. Double it again. More than 2 lives a day. Now it matches pretrial detention deaths.
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Trump Administration is Buying Warehouses to Turn into ICE Detention Centers
Despite a record number of deaths in ICE detention, Trump is doubling down on his mass detention and deportation campaign by buying warehouses to hold 96,000 detained people.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
they are not afraid of him being a bad mayor, they are afraid of him being a good mayor
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
the same fear mongers are trying to dissuade californians from voting for a wealth tax by claiming all the businesses will leave. it’s bullshit. there’s a reason they like CA and NYC, and having to pay a little extra that basically amounts to a rounding error on their taxes won’t drive them out.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/07/2026
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 USA! USA! Why don't Black people in the US call 911, part 9 million. You never know when one of these officers is going to show up, to make something out of nothing. Creating a dangerous situation for no reason. 1 in every ~200 of these unnecessary confrontations, US cops kill someone.🤷🏿‍♂️
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Sen. Michael Bennet is all of us who have ever been stuck in a job we hate, applied for another job, and didn't get it. Bennet is going back to work in Washington.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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Colorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Election Denier
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/07/2026
Changes to federal student loans that are expected to affect millions of student loan borrowers are taking effect as of July 1. Along with the end of the Biden-era SAVE plan, the changes are expected to raise the cost of payments for millions of borrowers.
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Changes to student loans are taking effect July 1. Here's what to know
Changes to federal student loans that are expected to affect millions of student loan borrowers are taking effect as of July 1.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/07/2026
this AM the last Prairieland 9 defendant Ines Soto was sentenced to 50 years — so he and his partner, Liz Soto, got effectively life sentences. they have 3 kids. those who took non-cooperating plea deals, Rowan Gibson and Rebecca Morgan, got 15 each. total time sentenced in this case: 530 years
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