sandra fish
@fishnette.bsky.social
independent data journo, kinda retired; past prez
@womenjournos; fishnette@mastodon.online; RTs = Hey, look over there! she/her
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sandra fish
@fishnette.bsky.social
· Jan 14
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now more than ever.
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New: The family of Don Huffines, a former Republican Texas senator who is now campaigning to become the state’s comptroller, bought the disgraced Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico after the child sex trafficker and molester died.
Don Huffines’ family bought Epstein's ranch after his death
Huffines' campaign said the candidate’s family bought the ranch at a public auction four years after Jeffrey Epstein died.
www.texastribune.org
February 13, 2026 at 10:06 PM
New: The family of Don Huffines, a former Republican Texas senator who is now campaigning to become the state’s comptroller, bought the disgraced Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico after the child sex trafficker and molester died.
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An initiative for the fall ballot filed Friday by the leaders of the Independence Institute and the League of Women Voters of Colorado would enshrine in the Colorado Constitution “a fundamental right to know the affairs of all levels of state and local government.”
Proposed ballot initiative would add ‘a fundamental right to know’ to Colorado’s constitutional bill of rights - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition
An initiative for the fall ballot filed Friday by the leaders of the Independence Institute and the League of Women Voters of Colorado would enshrine in the Colorado Constitution “a fundamental right ...
coloradofoic.org
February 13, 2026 at 7:53 PM
An initiative for the fall ballot filed Friday by the leaders of the Independence Institute and the League of Women Voters of Colorado would enshrine in the Colorado Constitution “a fundamental right to know the affairs of all levels of state and local government.”
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NCAR supercomputer center set to get cut = another example of something that'll make your weather forecasts - and yes, your weather apps - tangibly worse with less data.
Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather research center | CNN
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:08 PM
NCAR supercomputer center set to get cut = another example of something that'll make your weather forecasts - and yes, your weather apps - tangibly worse with less data.
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Ranking Member Angie Craig says the bill "fails to meet the moment facing farmers and working people" and contains "poison pills that complicates if not derails chances of getting anything done."
The bill passed out of cmte last Congress, but did not get put on House floor.
The bill passed out of cmte last Congress, but did not get put on House floor.
February 13, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Ranking Member Angie Craig says the bill "fails to meet the moment facing farmers and working people" and contains "poison pills that complicates if not derails chances of getting anything done."
The bill passed out of cmte last Congress, but did not get put on House floor.
The bill passed out of cmte last Congress, but did not get put on House floor.
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GOP led House Ag committee has released Farm Bill text. (The bill is 3 years overdue & has been extended via with some updates from '18). It's similar to text released in the 118th that did not advance. Markup on 2/23. Here's section by section summary: house.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?...
house.us1.list-manage.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:40 PM
GOP led House Ag committee has released Farm Bill text. (The bill is 3 years overdue & has been extended via with some updates from '18). It's similar to text released in the 118th that did not advance. Markup on 2/23. Here's section by section summary: house.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?...
i just want to see a video complition of cross-country skiers collapsing on the ground after the finish.
February 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
i just want to see a video complition of cross-country skiers collapsing on the ground after the finish.
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NEW: State Rep Scott Bottoms (R) claims, without offering evidence, that there are pedophile rings involving elected officials at Colorado's Capitol.
When the GOP candidate for Governor wouldn't agree to a scheduled interview, we met him for an unscheduled interview.
When the GOP candidate for Governor wouldn't agree to a scheduled interview, we met him for an unscheduled interview.
February 13, 2026 at 2:30 AM
NEW: State Rep Scott Bottoms (R) claims, without offering evidence, that there are pedophile rings involving elected officials at Colorado's Capitol.
When the GOP candidate for Governor wouldn't agree to a scheduled interview, we met him for an unscheduled interview.
When the GOP candidate for Governor wouldn't agree to a scheduled interview, we met him for an unscheduled interview.
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"Hopefully the Trump administration will continue or accelerate its program of civil rights abuses to ease our product launches!" -- many product marketing teams.
We plan to launch the Torment Nexus feature during a volatile period of exceptionally high social torment [see internal Torment Index prediction market]. During limited testing, we expect to discover whether we will require support from Feeds and Algorithms to increase background torment for launch.
February 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
"Hopefully the Trump administration will continue or accelerate its program of civil rights abuses to ease our product launches!" -- many product marketing teams.
Maybe it was just Joe Oltmann on Facebook?
NEW: Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Congress today that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked word of a raid, allowing gang members to clear out of apartments.
Those apartments were being cleared out weeks earlier.
Tonight, ICE deleted social media posts with the claim.
Those apartments were being cleared out weeks earlier.
Tonight, ICE deleted social media posts with the claim.
February 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Maybe it was just Joe Oltmann on Facebook?
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NEW: Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Congress today that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked word of a raid, allowing gang members to clear out of apartments.
Those apartments were being cleared out weeks earlier.
Tonight, ICE deleted social media posts with the claim.
Those apartments were being cleared out weeks earlier.
Tonight, ICE deleted social media posts with the claim.
February 13, 2026 at 5:56 AM
NEW: Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Congress today that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked word of a raid, allowing gang members to clear out of apartments.
Those apartments were being cleared out weeks earlier.
Tonight, ICE deleted social media posts with the claim.
Those apartments were being cleared out weeks earlier.
Tonight, ICE deleted social media posts with the claim.
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NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...
“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.
The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:21 PM
NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...
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Looks like NCAR has lost its weather supercomputing center. This is really, really, really bad. The RAF (Research Aviation Facility) which has most of NCAR’s atmospheric chemistry research is likely next.
https://www.nsf.gov/news/transitioning-ncar-wyoming-supercomputing-center-operations
https://www.nsf.gov/news/transitioning-ncar-wyoming-supercomputing-center-operations
February 12, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Looks like NCAR has lost its weather supercomputing center. This is really, really, really bad. The RAF (Research Aviation Facility) which has most of NCAR’s atmospheric chemistry research is likely next.
https://www.nsf.gov/news/transitioning-ncar-wyoming-supercomputing-center-operations
https://www.nsf.gov/news/transitioning-ncar-wyoming-supercomputing-center-operations
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NEW: We’re publishing a full list of the 373 federal judges who have ruled against ICE’s mass detention policy and the 28 who have endorsed it — as well as links to key rulings by each.
Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
NEW: We’re publishing a full list of the 373 federal judges who have ruled against ICE’s mass detention policy and the 28 who have endorsed it — as well as links to key rulings by each.
Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Colorado joins multi-state lawsuit suing Trump administration for cutting $600M in public health funding www.cpr.org/2026/02/12/c... via @codaleynews.bsky.social #copolitics
Colorado joins multi-state lawsuit suing Trump administration for cutting $600M in public health funding
The move could jeopardize hundreds of jobs for health professionals in those states.
www.cpr.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Colorado joins multi-state lawsuit suing Trump administration for cutting $600M in public health funding www.cpr.org/2026/02/12/c... via @codaleynews.bsky.social #copolitics
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Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
February 12, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
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U.S. House votes to end Trump's tariff on Canada with help of Hurd and five other Republicans www.cpr.org/2026/02/11/u... #copolitics
U.S. House votes against Trump's tariff on Canada with help of Hurd and five other Republicans
The U.S. House delivered a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada on Wednesday evening. The chamber passed a resolution disapproving of the
www.cpr.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:46 AM
U.S. House votes to end Trump's tariff on Canada with help of Hurd and five other Republicans www.cpr.org/2026/02/11/u... #copolitics
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NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 AM
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Jordan Stolz is so Midwestern and i'm totally here for it!
February 12, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Jordan Stolz is so Midwestern and i'm totally here for it!
People in Florida don’t even have basements!!!
Oh for fuck sake. How is anyone still falling for this bullshit? You can’t just dig tunnels in Florida. Our unofficial state fish is the sink hole. Anyway. RIP Harry Potter land, swallowed by Elon Musk’s giant unfinished hole in the ground probably.
Elon Musk’s tunneling company tapped to link Universal parks
The company is best known for creating the underground Las Vegas Loop. But little is known about how The Boring Company intends to proceed in Central Florida, including how it might approach constr…
www.orlandosentinel.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:26 AM
People in Florida don’t even have basements!!!
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HOW DOES THIS GRIFT KEEP WORKING
Oh for fuck sake. How is anyone still falling for this bullshit? You can’t just dig tunnels in Florida. Our unofficial state fish is the sink hole. Anyway. RIP Harry Potter land, swallowed by Elon Musk’s giant unfinished hole in the ground probably.
Elon Musk’s tunneling company tapped to link Universal parks
The company is best known for creating the underground Las Vegas Loop. But little is known about how The Boring Company intends to proceed in Central Florida, including how it might approach constr…
www.orlandosentinel.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:40 AM
HOW DOES THIS GRIFT KEEP WORKING
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Wild.
The only Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New Mexico failed to get enough signatures. Which likely means Ben Ray Luján gets a free ride to a second term in the Senate.
The same Senate seat Republican Pete Domenici held from 1973-2009. #nmpol
The only Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New Mexico failed to get enough signatures. Which likely means Ben Ray Luján gets a free ride to a second term in the Senate.
The same Senate seat Republican Pete Domenici held from 1973-2009. #nmpol
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Wild.
The only Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New Mexico failed to get enough signatures. Which likely means Ben Ray Luján gets a free ride to a second term in the Senate.
The same Senate seat Republican Pete Domenici held from 1973-2009. #nmpol
The only Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New Mexico failed to get enough signatures. Which likely means Ben Ray Luján gets a free ride to a second term in the Senate.
The same Senate seat Republican Pete Domenici held from 1973-2009. #nmpol
a #coleg #copolitics transparency issue here... last year's bill was vetoed...
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.
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.
coloradofoic.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:21 AM
a #coleg #copolitics transparency issue here... last year's bill was vetoed...
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Pres Trump says he did not invite CO Gov Polis to NGA dinner and working meeting at WH over Tina Peter.
Polis was the Chair of the NGA 2024-2025. #copolitics
Polis was the Chair of the NGA 2024-2025. #copolitics
February 11, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Pres Trump says he did not invite CO Gov Polis to NGA dinner and working meeting at WH over Tina Peter.
Polis was the Chair of the NGA 2024-2025. #copolitics
Polis was the Chair of the NGA 2024-2025. #copolitics
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House rebukes Trump’s Canada tariffs, 219-211. 6 Rs voted with Ds.
CO delegation voted:
Yes - Crow, DeGette, Hurd, Neguse & Pettersen
No - Boebert, Crank & Evans
#copolitics
CO delegation voted:
Yes - Crow, DeGette, Hurd, Neguse & Pettersen
No - Boebert, Crank & Evans
#copolitics
February 11, 2026 at 11:24 PM
House rebukes Trump’s Canada tariffs, 219-211. 6 Rs voted with Ds.
CO delegation voted:
Yes - Crow, DeGette, Hurd, Neguse & Pettersen
No - Boebert, Crank & Evans
#copolitics
CO delegation voted:
Yes - Crow, DeGette, Hurd, Neguse & Pettersen
No - Boebert, Crank & Evans
#copolitics