The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 1hThank you for walking us all the way to the end of the path! 000
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Phil Weiser @philweiser.bsky.social · 10hTo those who say ‘I'm just not that into politics,’ my message is 'you may not be into politics, but politics is into you.' We have important challenges in Colorado that require real leadership; help me take them on by joining us at philforcolorado.com. www.cpr.org/2026/09/30/w...cpr.orgWeiser seeks to motivate Democratic volunteers in Mesa County as canvassing beginsPhil Weiser, a democrat, is campaigning in a reliably Republican part of Colorado. 24912
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Operative_X @operativexray.bsky.social · 5h136 is yet another prop on this year's abnormally long CO ballot written by rightwing lobbyists to be purposely confusing. They can't get their idiot GOP lapdogs elected, so they just keep tossing their shit directly on our ballots instead. 092
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Sam @sodazen.cryptoanarchy.network · 7hColorado folks 👇🏻 042
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Deanna Something @deannatheanalyst.bsky.social · 7hWhen I was reading up on this, the thing that really stuck out was that this measure would cap the *corporate* tax rate, which people won't like, so they're also capping the income tax rate to get people to go for it. Slimy bastards. 053
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 8hVote no on this misleading bullshit put on the ballot by right-wing dark money losers Advance Colorado, and vote yes on Amendment 87 instead to jack up taxes on their main funder to pay for public schools, healthcare and child care.coloradosun.bluelena.ioProposition 136: Colorado income tax limit would hinder attempts to increase taxes on the richProposition 136 wouldn’t change current tax rates, but it could undermine a separate proposal to raise taxes on higher earners 0249
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Phil Weiser @philweiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026October is #DomesticViolenceAwarenessMonth. A core message to survivors is domestic violence is not your fault. As Governor, I will always support survivors and take DV seriously. My opponent's views are different. 👇 14518
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 01/10/2026They're auditioning for dear leader. "Schmitt called jack smith a dirtbag for you, sir" is all it was about. 010
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 01/10/2026Average cost for full day childcare in Colorado is about $2,000/month. More expensive in the denver metro area. That's $24k/year. Median household income here is $95,470/year. Just having a baby costs you over 1/3 of your take home pay. This is why we need Amendment 87. 2123
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next. 571569259
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Jessica Killin @killinforco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I will always put El Paso County and our country over party, because that’s what the job of a representative is. I’ll stand up to Trump and any party leader to lower costs and deliver real and meaningful results for our community. 1176
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 01/10/2026Hilarious. One term Gabe Evans was counting on bragging about this for his failing campaign. Now he has to use fake weasel words like "fought for" instead of "passed into law" when discussing his fake AI data center bill. 330
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026no no no you're supposed to say 'zionist', didn't you even *read* the instructions 935523
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 01/10/2026🦊AND we've got a GREAT interview with Sal Pace, General Manager of the Front Range Passenger Rail District who is bringing the Colorado Connector to the Front Range! CHOO CHOO!!! 🚂 110
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 01/10/2026THIS WEEK on our Colorado Politics Podcast: 📬 BALLOTS ARE GETTING IN THE MAIL 🦢 The GOP's polls are in a swan dive 🔢 Dark money is spending in ALL 4 GOP districts 🏡 Jeff Crank is a douchebag who doxes his opponent 💩 Michael Allen is full of shit 🕳️ Victor Marx forgets the rule of holes 🎧LISTEN UP🎧buzzsprout.comThe Ballots are Coming, But Not by Train (feat. Sal Pace) - The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsThis week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, by the time you listen to this show you may have the longest ballot in Colorado history in your mailbox or sitting on your table, because IT’S VOTING TIME Y’... 161
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 30/09/2026It is notable that every Democrat who endorsed Michael Bennet in the primary is bending over backwards to campaign alongside Phil Weiser in the general election, and Phil is graciously welcoming everyone back into the fold. This is a decidedly Colorado Democratic Party vibe and we love it. 0102
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 30/09/2026www.mediaite.com/politics/res...mediaite.comResurfaced Audio Catches Republican Candidate Calling Himself ‘Brown on the Inside, White on the Outside’Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx described himself as “brown on the inside, white on the outside” in resurfaced audio published Monday by MeidasTouch. 010
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 30/09/2026This is just barely scratching the surface of the weird, violent, horrible shit this dude has done, who is the official nominee for Governor of Colorado from the Colorado Republican Party. It's no wonder they have won exactly one governor's race in the state in the past 50 years. 000
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 30/09/2026Went to see Hot Water Music and The Menzingers live last night. Can confirm guitars still fucking rock. 010
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oh its really over 48611
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 30/09/2026It is impossible to overstate how truly pro-death and pro-disease the "pro-life" party is, as long as you're not white.denverpost.comThousands of legal immigrants in Colorado to lose Medicaid coverage this weekThe Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing initially estimated about 5,000 people across the state would lose coverage this week. 296
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 30/09/2026He's only doing this because He gets to put his signature on them and is betting Americans are dumb enough to think $500 covers all the additional costs his shitty policies have piled on them. He's...at least mostly wrong. 240
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 30/09/2026Vote no on everything except Amendment 87 (cuts taxes for 97% of taxpayers, hikes them for the top 3%) and Proposition NN (lifts a lot of the worst parts of TABOR off the state's back and guarantees more funding for public schools). Easy ballot! 153
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 30/09/2026Colorado Republicans want to pass Proposition 134 because they want to let pedophiles inspect the genitals of school athletes. That's it. It has nothing to do with sports. It's all about giving underage genital inspection passes to pedophiles like Donald Trump.coloradotimesrecorder.comCheek Swabs? Genital Checks? Anti-Trans Sports Ban Proponents Don't Know How It Would Be EnforcedA ballot measure which purports to simply ban trans athletes from participating in sports could have further-reaching consequences for students regardless of gender, but you wouldn’t hear that from th... 0103
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Republican attack ad: "This Democrat loves transgender surgeries for minors" Democratic attack ad: "This worthless sack of shit let a pedophile walk free and called you a stupid asshole" 2937132
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The author of this ill-timed, two-graph beat-sweetener is none other than Axios's co-founder, Jim VandeHei 91999160
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 30/09/2026You must not be watching the pretty lame case being prosecuted against Gabe Evans in Colorado's 8th, a completely winnable race with a good D candidate and a below-replacement Trump handmaiden GOP incumbent, the ads are a lot of "DC consultant thinks Colorado stereotypes apply to CD8" 010
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 30/09/2026About to have the 3 year anniversary of a lot of antisemites telling on themselves and it brings us no joy to report it's only gotten worse. We appreciate what Mayor Mamdani has done to support Jews and Palestinians alike in NYC and across the world, especially since he doesn't get enough credit. 0111
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 30/09/2026Found him, still have no idea who this is! 210
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 29/09/2026....Cole first name or last name? 100
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 29/09/2026Waves are still possible in American politics, and Fox News and the administration may lie every second of every day, but gas price signs and grocery store receipts do not. 000
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 29/09/2026Is there a similar election cycle in memory like this for either party? 250
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 29/09/2026“Overwhelmingly, millionaires stay,” Mr. Young said. “They pay the new tax rate. They figure out ways around it. More likely there will be some people who were thinking of moving to Washington who change their minds, but it all amounts to migration at the margins.”nytimes.comWashington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes. 073
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 29/09/2026One of the slimiest, most dishonest ads that has ever run in Colorado. Billionaires don't want to pay more taxes so they're flooding the airwaves with lies, unfortunately, provided by our own Democratic Governor, Jared Polis.youtube.comVote NO on Amendment 87 - A Devastating Tax Hike for ColoradoYouTube video by Don't Price Us Out 053
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Genuinely the worst campaign message I’ve ever seen 1081863362
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/09/2026they’re really gonna try to run the “Dems are for they/them” playbook after doubling the price of gasoline. 152
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hard to imagine what that would be like 23875171267
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 29/09/2026They buzzed us on the way to Mile High from larkspur last weekend. Almost removed the flag from a hole on the golf course! 120
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 29/09/2026This is the same bullshit they said about free school meals: Means test it! You don't want rich kids getting free lunch do you? Lots of parents really value feeding their kids homemade lunches! Great! They still can, this just makes sure the other kids aren't hungry and your kid gets lunch too! 162
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 28/09/2026Maybe he should have shown up to work once ever during the least productive congress in history if he wanted to keep his job so bad. 0103
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026this is legitimately very funny 83125031893
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 28/09/2026Man, shut the fuck up.theatlantic.comThe Problem With Democrats’ Favorite Policy ProposalUniversal child care appeals to the party’s cosmopolitan base—but not to most of the country. 361
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 28/09/2026Nobody, and we mean absolutely nobody fucking believes this. 0154
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 28/09/2026Jeff Crank brought Dr. Oz to try to resuscitate his failing campaign in Colorado Springs but now he has screwworm, measles and extremely low T.crank.house.govRep. Crank and Administrator Dr. Oz Host Roundtable on Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Within Healthcare Programs in ColoradoCOLORADO SPRINGS, C.O. -- Today, Representative Jeff Crank (CO-05) and Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz held a roundtable with local leaders focused on comb... 030
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen @pettersen.house.gov · 28/09/2026Every student in Colorado & across the country deserves to feel safe, supported & protected at school, no matter what. The Dept of Eds decision to roll back Title IX protections for LGBTQ students is a devastating step backward. I'll keep fighting to ensure EVERY student is protected under the law.washingtonpost.comEducation Department officially scraps Biden-era Title IX rulesThe new regulations mark a return to rules from the first Trump administration. 1928870
Reposted by The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 28/09/2026Last July, Gabe Evans voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which delivered one of the biggest tax cuts for the top 1% of earners in U.S. history, while making the biggest Medicaid cut in the program’s history. And yet, Evans says he hasn’t voted to cut Medicaid. That’s false. He did.coloradotimesrecorder.comNutter: Evans Says He Didn't Vote To Cut Medicaid. That's False. He Did.Last July, Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which delivered one of the biggest tax cuts for the top 1% of earners in... 2238
The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 28/09/2026Kristi Burton Brown, handmaiden for Colorado's richest billionaire, doesn't like Amendment 87, which would raise taxes on her paymaster to bring in an additional $2 billion for schools, healthcare, and childcare. Color us shocked.tsscolorado.comThe income-tax debate that will shape the future of Colorado | The Sum and SubstanceAmendment 87 seeks to establish a graduated income-tax-rate system. Proposition 136 seeks to hold Colorado's universal 4.4% income-tax rate. 066