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Amendment 87 would tax Coloradans making $500k+ a year. Opponents including Gov Jared Polis (D) are misleadingly claiming it will raise taxes on low-income seniors and vets.

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Indivisible Colorado @indivisible-co.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

youtube.com/shorts/C3vKA... The majority of taxpayers in Colorado would pay less in income tax. The tax rate now is 4.4%. Amendment 87 lower tax rates: The tax rate for first $25,000 is 3.7%. The tax rate for the next $75,000 is 4.2%. The tax rate for the next $400,000 is 4.4%. #YesOn87 #NoOn136

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2 Colorado ballot issues would conflict if they both pass

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Joshua Mantell @jmantell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The majority of taxpayers in Colorado would pay less in income tax.” www.9news.com/article/news... #copolitics #YesOn87 #NoOn136

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The Vote Yes on Amendment 87 Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 24/09/2026

Amendment 87 would cut taxes for 97% of Coloradans and raise them on the wealthiest 3%, netting over $2 billion for schools, healthcare, and childcare Prop 136 would freeze the current tax rate at 4.4% for everyone, including the wealthiest Coloradans Thanks to @kylec.bsky.social for the explainer

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

you've gotta have real bottom-tier vibes to say "hey i'm a person under the age of 65 and i'd like to get more involved in activities at your synagogue" and have them be like "hmmm... i gotta check on that"

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Trump started a pointless and illegal war with Iran, he lost it almost immediately, he crushed America's economy and America's partners while making Iran and our rivals much stronger. He did it for no reason he can articulate. In any decent nation, he'd be forced to resign immediately.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

There’s been a silent majority of American Jews who, while not anti-Zionist, are extremely skeptical, if not hostile, to the actions of the Netanyahu regime over the last three years. This silent majority has essentially no vocal representation in Jewish American communal leadership

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Whitney Jemison @whitneyjemison.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Leading researcher Cristobal Young studied “millionaire tax flight” rigorously for more than a decade and found that millionaires are actually the LEAST mobile segment of the population. Their businesses, networks, and assets are deeply rooted. They don't just up and leave.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2025

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.

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David Seligman for Colorado Attorney General @seligmanforag.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Billionaires and special interests don’t get to keep Colorado’s rivers for themselves.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

They sent JD Vance to Indiana and they were like never do that to us again

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 11/12/2025

The war in the GOP is between those who can do math and those who keep bragging about how many dementia tests they've passed.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

He shouldn’t just be pushed out as the House Democrats’ leader; he needs to be primaried out of his seat entirely. Just a complete waste of a deep blue seat.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

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Libby Chamberlin @libbychamberlin.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The only thing you need to know about Colorado’s $1b budget hole is that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill gave the top 1% of Coloradans a collective $2.26b tax cut. Recapture that $, fix the budget hole. Math, as they say, is real.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

hassett wrote "Dow 36,000" 25 years ago, probably the most insane investment advice ever published. he went on to be a top economic adviser to bush, mccain, romney, and now trump. good example of how conservatives were hardly any less nuts pre-trump.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/08/2025

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

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Bell Policy Center @bellpolicy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The Bell's @jmantell.bsky.social was among those who spoke to the pain Coloradans will suffer as a result of the federal bill that cut services in order to give a tax break to the wealthy. #coleg #copolicy

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 09/06/2025

This put-upon small business owner just wants to ogle female athletes, shill crypto, and do some slurs on Fox News. What can Democrats do to win his vote?

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Bell Policy Center @bellpolicy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The @bellpolicy.bsky.social's @jmantell.bsky.social (second from right) testifies Monday, urging #coleg to challenge the constitutionality of TABOR and its arbitrary spending formula. TABOR prevents lawmakers from adequately funding healthcare, childcare, education and much more. #coleg #copolitics

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

There are no words that adequately describe the disgrace of this man that American voters chose to lead this country. And it is no accident that Trump’s prime directive is always first to project the mediocrity, incompetence, cowardice & immorality of he & his cohorts onto Black & Latino ppl.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

"Trump appointed a road rules cast member to be in charge of airline safety and this is the result" that's all true and a one-sentence narrative that is completely damning to the ears of someone who isn't paying much attention to politics. Take the layup.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025

these people are segregationists and their position is that no one who isn’t a white man is qualified to do skilled work of any kind

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

man if you're not doing anything with your job let a human use it

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/01/2025

A billionaire “prefer[red] to tithe than pay than pay marginally higher corporate or personal income taxes.” That, reader, is an argument for enacting a wealth tax high enough to keep billionaires from facing that dilemma ever again.

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Bell Policy Center @bellpolicy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

If it looks like a payday loan and acts like a payday loan, we should regulate them like payday loans. HB25-1020, which goes to committee tomorrow, should be amended to protect consumers against high fees and APRs. Read our latest In The Know on earned wage access loans. #coleg bit.ly/42AJuNQ

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In The Know: Earned Wage Access Loans Are a New Twist on an Old Idea

Colorado’s financial progress is being jeopardized by new, unregulated high-cost loans, where individuals get short-term, small-dollar advances, borrowing against their future paycheck and leading to ...

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

You know, I’ve seen Democrats flail before, but I genuinely can’t recall the last time the leadership and many of their senior membership was this completely rudderless

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Bell Policy Center @bellpolicy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The Bell Policy Center is 25 years old this year and we're celebrating all year as we share 25 facts about the Bell! For our first fact, we're shining a light of appreciation on Linda Shoemaker, one of the Bell's three founding mothers. She was our first chairperson, serving from 2000-2005.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Given that Braxton Bragg was an incompetent racist traitor who was utterly despised by his officers and soldiers, it makes sense that a bottom-scraper like Hegseth would adore him.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

You want a prognosis for why liberal institutions are no longer dominant? Because too many occupants of those institutions found it easier to join anti-liberal voices attacking the institutions whose decline they now ponder.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/01/2025

This right here really captures the unique flavor of our moment: the total triumph of huge losers.

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Bell Policy Center @bellpolicy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

We should be talking about making wealthy Coloradans pay their fair share, not about which children or families we should kick to the curb in pursuit of "belt-tightening." Read more in @chris-dg-kennedy.bsky.social's op-ed in @denverpost.com. bit.ly/4g4E7tr #copolitics #coleg

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Op-Ed: Tightening the budget will have real-life dire consequences for Coloradans

Part of our work here at the Bell includes pushing back on narratives that are misleading or inaccurate. That's exactly what we did when we penned this op-ed taking The Denver Post to task for saying ...

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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Founded in Colorado, CSI is expanding- now in AZ, IA & OR. CSI calls itself a "non-partisan research organization focused on the facts," but it **outsourced research to CO's largest GOP consulting firm**. It had to disclose this to the IRS because its president is the wife of firm owner Josh Penry.

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