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Report from Penny’s mom: one corgi leg of snow, Penny refusing to come indoors. Laying in the snow like she’s on South Beach.

#COwx

Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

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My people, I have returned!

NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein

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war powers resolution vote breakdown. 212 Yeas, 219 nays. 4 Ds voted no and 2 Rs voted yes

The vote to require the Trump Admin to get congressional approval before attacking Iran again failed largely along party lines. CO Reps voted:

Yes - Crow, DeGette, Neguse & Pettersen

No - Boebert, Crank, Evans & Hurd #copolitics

Exclusive: Daines says his stunning exit was designed to avoid ‘a very expensive’ race The Montana Republican sat down with Semafor to talk about the backstory behind his sudden, field-clearing retirement from Congress.

BACKSTORY: in interview Sen. Steve Daines says he closely worked with White House to coalesce behind Kurt Alme, avoid a primary and withdraw from race at last minute to block Democrats Tester, Bullock or Schweitzer from running. Alme didn’t even know White House was vetting him

State lawmakers try again to let governments take up to three weeks to fulfill many CORA requests; no journalist exemption in SB 26-107 - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition State lawmakers are trying for the third straight year to give state and local government entities up to three calendar weeks to fulfill many Colorado Open Records Act requests.

CORA bill defeated! It would have given governments up to three weeks to fulfill records requests. coloradofoic.org/state-lawmak...

Child marriage comes with a price tag: $175 billion A new report highlights the cost of inaction and provides suggestions to end the practice in the United States, where child marriage is still legal in most states.

“We rarely talk about child marriage in economic terms but we should. In addition to lost productivity & higher health expenditures, child marriage forecloses the ingenuity & ideas each girl might have brought to the world- an incalculable squandering” Hillary Clinton & Sheryl Sandberg @19thnews.org

What’s gonna happen to the fancy planes? That’s my question.

Now we gotta see who made that polymarket money dont we?

but the other shoe!!! 🤦‍♀️

Ha ha I misspelled that hashtag and am too lazy to correct.

#copilitics

Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Top Aide’s Role in DHS Contracts Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Noem denied that Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving contracts. But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency staffer...

New:

Kristi Noem claimed to the Senate yesterday that Corey Lewandowski has no role approving contracts at DHS.

But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency officials contradict her testimony:

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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After grueling hand count in 2024, a Texas county tries again When Gillespie County Republicans hand-counted the 2024 primary, it took all night and led to several errors. That didn’t stop them from doing it again in 2026.

I stayed up all night (and I’m still awake) in Gillespie County as workers counted paper ballots by hand in 13 precincts — and county officials worked to turn those tallies into official results. Here’s how it went: www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...

Not a single Democrat in the Colorado legislature says Jared Polis should reduce Tina Peters’ sentence. He appears set to do it anyway. The Colorado Sun asked every Democrat in the legislature Wednesday whether Polis should offer Peters clemency after the governor all but said on social media Tuesday that he plans to do so

No #copolitics surprise here.

Gov Jared Polis (D) describes himself as a libertarian. Here, an actual libertarian (and friend of the Gov) Ross Kaminsky of @koacolorado.bsky.social offers a rebuttal to Polis' latest justification of potential clemency for Tina Peters.

It hasn't snowed in Denver in 38 days.

That's it. That's the post.

#COwx

No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact: in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-m...

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

tbh thinking that cat social media would be more real + entertaining some days?

Today was Denver’s wettest day in six weeks, which is entirely a commentary on how dry the last six weeks have been around here.

Still, we’ll take it.

#COwx

I voted in Dallas County today. The texas.gov site wouldn't tell me where to go, so I went to where I voted in the '24 presidential election. They said I was at the wrong place, and gave me the address I needed to go to. That place then informed me I had to go somewhere else.

Election Day confusion due to rule changes can lead to disenfranchisement — people aren’t able to vote or their vote isn’t counted due to wrong place, wrong time. The disenfranchisement isn’t necessarily intentional, but can impact outcomes. And it often sparks rumors about intent.

‘Zero evidence’ of a balancing test: In records case, judge sides with mother of woman who died in jail - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition The mother of a 23-year-old woman who died in the downtown Denver jail won a ruling last week against a police department records custodian who repeatedly denied her requests for investigative documen...

The mother of a 23-year-old woman who died in the downtown Denver jail won a ruling last week against a police department records custodian who repeatedly denied her requests for investigative documents about the death.

Texas Republicans, 9 for 9 on the Texas Supreme Court, are testing how much they can disrupt elections.

This is only the tip of the iceberg

Supreme Court orders Dallas to "separate" certain votes Dallas and Williamson counties closed centralized voting centers, which had become a common practice, at the request of local Republicans.

This is really frustrating in Texas.

Here's the @texastribune.org story: www.texastribune.org/2026/03/03/j...

Rep. Crockett says "we're not going to have election results tonight in my opinion. Unfortunately, this is what Republicans like to do."

Strongest signal yet from Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) that he'll give clemency to Tina Peters as President Trump has demanded. Polis notes a fmr Dem State Senator recently got probation on charges that drew prison time for Peters, who unrepentantly defied the judge at sentencing