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OK, we're going on a thread.
Remember when Executive Director Ford claimed she didn't know about the involvement of a lobbyist in the Alameda Road Repurposing and that was nonsense?
bsky.app/profile/nosq...
Remember when Executive Director Ford claimed she didn't know about the involvement of a lobbyist in the Alameda Road Repurposing and that was nonsense?
bsky.app/profile/nosq...
The video is from the November Denver DOTI Advisory Board meeting. In the email screenshot in the following post Amy Ford is made well aware of MG Public Affairs involvement in JULY
December 9, 2025 at 6:03 AM
OK, we're going on a thread.
Remember when Executive Director Ford claimed she didn't know about the involvement of a lobbyist in the Alameda Road Repurposing and that was nonsense?
bsky.app/profile/nosq...
Remember when Executive Director Ford claimed she didn't know about the involvement of a lobbyist in the Alameda Road Repurposing and that was nonsense?
bsky.app/profile/nosq...
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The authoritarian takover of the state bureaucracy might not *sound* like a big deal. But SCOTUS giving Trump the ability to fire the federal government is a God-King power, and represents a failure of the American Revolution.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Supreme Court Is About to Give Trump His Crony State
During oral arguments, the conservative justices made clear that they intend to allow Trump to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter—and reorder the separation of powers.
www.thenation.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The authoritarian takover of the state bureaucracy might not *sound* like a big deal. But SCOTUS giving Trump the ability to fire the federal government is a God-King power, and represents a failure of the American Revolution.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Cracking Denver into 5 seats & making 8 blue seats would lead to the most insane Democractic Primary season of my life.
I can't mentally wrap my head around what 2028 would be like if this happens
But we should definitely gerrymander as a response to Texas and Indiana regardless.
#copolitics
I can't mentally wrap my head around what 2028 would be like if this happens
But we should definitely gerrymander as a response to Texas and Indiana regardless.
#copolitics
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Cracking Denver into 5 seats & making 8 blue seats would lead to the most insane Democractic Primary season of my life.
I can't mentally wrap my head around what 2028 would be like if this happens
But we should definitely gerrymander as a response to Texas and Indiana regardless.
#copolitics
I can't mentally wrap my head around what 2028 would be like if this happens
But we should definitely gerrymander as a response to Texas and Indiana regardless.
#copolitics
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Today's the day to support people-first streets! Visit our #ColoradoGivesDay page to read more about our wins from 2025, and make a contribution to support our work in 2026 aimed at making Denver a city where everyone can move freely, safely, and with dignity. www.coloradogives.org/story/dsp2025
Support Denver Streets Partnership on ColoradoGives.org
Advocating for people friendly streets in Denver
www.coloradogives.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Today's the day to support people-first streets! Visit our #ColoradoGivesDay page to read more about our wins from 2025, and make a contribution to support our work in 2026 aimed at making Denver a city where everyone can move freely, safely, and with dignity. www.coloradogives.org/story/dsp2025
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Hickenlooper is the poster child for everything that's wrong with the Democratic Party: too old, too cautious, too corporate, too timid, too conciliatory, too willing to compromise with actual literal fascists.
#copolitics
#copolitics
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hickenlooper is the poster child for everything that's wrong with the Democratic Party: too old, too cautious, too corporate, too timid, too conciliatory, too willing to compromise with actual literal fascists.
#copolitics
#copolitics
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A $30 donation pays for a ride to the airport. $130 covers a 2-day car rental. $380 funds a one-way plane ticket. We need just $1,533 more for 2026. 👉 Please mail a check to Save Standard Time, PO Box 18170, Fountain Hills AZ 85269—or click our webpage linked below, thanks! 👇
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A $30 donation pays for a ride to the airport. $130 covers a 2-day car rental. $380 funds a one-way plane ticket. We need just $1,533 more for 2026. 👉 Please mail a check to Save Standard Time, PO Box 18170, Fountain Hills AZ 85269—or click our webpage linked below, thanks! 👇
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"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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If you can, please consider donating to their GoFundMe. The money is going to union members this holiday so they can buy groceries and pay rent while they fight for a fair contract.
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
Donate to Support Individualized Shirt Workers United, organized by Gabor Ptacek
Since this summer, worker leaders at Individualized Shirts have been organizi… Gabor Ptacek needs your support for Support Individualized Shirt Workers United
www.gofundme.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you can, please consider donating to their GoFundMe. The money is going to union members this holiday so they can buy groceries and pay rent while they fight for a fair contract.
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
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The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
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This piece is as good as people say it is. A fierce critique of zoning, by the former executive director of the zoning office in Baltimore.
"Why I lost faith in zoning." tinyurl.com/5n8sh428 Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports @mayorbmscott.bsky.social bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]
Baltimore’s former zoning board director explains why she lost faith in zoning | Baltimore Brew
The mayor’s “Housing Options and Opportunity” legislation – including Bill 25-0066 – will go a long way toward fixing an unfair system. [OP-ED]
tinyurl.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This piece is as good as people say it is. A fierce critique of zoning, by the former executive director of the zoning office in Baltimore.
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... fully corseted and free-born Englishman, culturally to be accorded either the informal courtesy and respect of civil social intercourse or the rights of entitlement and citizenship. [...] The capacity to live with difference is, in my view, the coming question of the twenty-first century."
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
... fully corseted and free-born Englishman, culturally to be accorded either the informal courtesy and respect of civil social intercourse or the rights of entitlement and citizenship. [...] The capacity to live with difference is, in my view, the coming question of the twenty-first century."
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Hey this is Denver DOTI director Amy Ford's and the Mayor's strategy too!
Very weird for our little blue city to be using Duffy's MAGA playbook for transportation as well.
Very weird for our little blue city to be using Duffy's MAGA playbook for transportation as well.
"Safety" means one of 3 things in most of transportation policy:
1. Ignorance: Reducing congestion and thinking it makes streets safer
2. Cover story: Doing something unpopular but calling it safety so ppl can't oppose it
3. Gaslighting: Refusing to take responsibility for making things unsafe
1. Ignorance: Reducing congestion and thinking it makes streets safer
2. Cover story: Doing something unpopular but calling it safety so ppl can't oppose it
3. Gaslighting: Refusing to take responsibility for making things unsafe
NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Hey this is Denver DOTI director Amy Ford's and the Mayor's strategy too!
Very weird for our little blue city to be using Duffy's MAGA playbook for transportation as well.
Very weird for our little blue city to be using Duffy's MAGA playbook for transportation as well.
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Want to spend less time driving your kids around and more time relaxing? Consider donating to the Denver Streets Partnership for #ColoradoGivesDay! Donate at www.coloradogives.org/story/gtnd5f
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Want to spend less time driving your kids around and more time relaxing? Consider donating to the Denver Streets Partnership for #ColoradoGivesDay! Donate at www.coloradogives.org/story/gtnd5f
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This is the the thread you had no idea you needed tonight but YOU ABSOLUTELY DO
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This is the the thread you had no idea you needed tonight but YOU ABSOLUTELY DO
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"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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Much like senior apartments, teacher housing, and service worker housing, artist housing is an example of "we will tolerate new housing in our community but only if it is reserved for People Who Really Deserve It."
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Much like senior apartments, teacher housing, and service worker housing, artist housing is an example of "we will tolerate new housing in our community but only if it is reserved for People Who Really Deserve It."
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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This is so much better than the broken massing.
yeah Canno Design cracked the brick code here and now they sail through design review
www.cannodesign.com
www.cannodesign.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This is so much better than the broken massing.
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“Throughout DST, the average person gets less sleep and experiences a chronic circadian misalignment compared to Standard Time. Over months, this can feel akin to living in the wrong time zone.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Throughout DST, the average person gets less sleep and experiences a chronic circadian misalignment compared to Standard Time. Over months, this can feel akin to living in the wrong time zone.”
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
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Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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“Permanent Standard Time (not springing ahead in March) could prevent 300,000 cases of stroke per year and lower nationwide prevalence of obesity by 2.6 million.” #DitchDST
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“Permanent Standard Time (not springing ahead in March) could prevent 300,000 cases of stroke per year and lower nationwide prevalence of obesity by 2.6 million.” #DitchDST