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@alansalazarco

Many years in Colorado politics (federal, state & local - Here for healthy exchanges about history, politics, art & public policy — making the most of on-line communications & blocking the toxic.

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Don’t judge me. It’s been a long weekend.

01.03.2026 23:14 👍 1258 🔁 16 💬 149 📌 4
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Thanks Marcie! 💙 Let's stand with the children.

24.02.2026 02:48 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Africa's nature-based solutions to tackle climate change Across sub-Saharan Africa, cities are embracing nature-based solutions to climate change. A World Bank report reveals the keys to their success On the night of 14 March, 2019, Cyclone Idai made landfall in Beira, the capital of Mozambique. Winds of up ...

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Africa's nature-based solutions to tackle climate change - Geographical Magazine

Find out more: geographical.co.uk/news/afr...

#ClimateAction

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24.02.2026 02:00 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family.

What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

20.02.2026 13:02 👍 8860 🔁 4106 💬 451 📌 323
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Trump: "I am allowed to cut off any and all trade…I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country, I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo…I can do anything I want to do to them…I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge a little fee."

20.02.2026 19:25 👍 1352 🔁 543 💬 324 📌 309
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More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

19.02.2026 17:00 👍 17765 🔁 6752 💬 514 📌 530
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

17.02.2026 19:31 👍 12166 🔁 7001 💬 325 📌 832
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@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social on who is in these immigration processing facilities: “It's not these criminals, these violent, hardened criminals that we were promised. It is children, families, and parents being taken from communities.”

16.02.2026 16:45 👍 197 🔁 54 💬 6 📌 0
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On Presidents' Day:

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

-- Abraham Lincoln

16.02.2026 19:55 👍 30 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0
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A silicone Valley Antichrist Ah yes, Peter Thiel.

open.substack.com/pub/michaelj...

15.02.2026 04:23 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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The El Paso Balloon Incident Could Have Been a Disaster Shooting experimental lasers next to a major airport without telling anyone—what could go wrong?

The fact that the rules of air defense "had to be relearned over a major American city next to a large international airport should concern anyone who understands how quickly accidents become tragedies."

14.02.2026 03:30 👍 450 🔁 126 💬 12 📌 7
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a button that says go seahawks with a seahawks logo ALT: a button that says go seahawks with a seahawks logo

#SuperBowl

09.02.2026 03:00 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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My almost 105 year old abuelita-in-law is VERY excited for Bad Bunny. She came from the island, and for her entire life, she’s been an American citizen! Voted for FDR! 🇵🇷🇺🇸

08.02.2026 19:11 👍 8632 🔁 1116 💬 175 📌 77
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#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

09.02.2026 01:58 👍 17967 🔁 3584 💬 151 📌 300

Can't wait to hear how this is deeply un-American

09.02.2026 01:37 👍 5202 🔁 546 💬 71 📌 10
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The Washington Post Dies in Daylight Civic vandalism and the mutilation of a great paper.

"As sad as it is to admit, the Washington Post is beyond help. The only thing left to us to is build new institutions to take its place. That’s what we’re doing here."

08.02.2026 13:01 👍 1260 🔁 260 💬 53 📌 17

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

07.02.2026 22:25 👍 39684 🔁 7196 💬 305 📌 145
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Young girls "were viewed as disposable people." Epstein files reveal not just crimes, but how elite society actually works The women "were viewed as disposable people." The files reveal not just crimes, but how elite society actually works.

The CHILDREN?

"There was very much a class aspect to this.

A lot of the YOUNG GIRLS came from broken homes and poor backgrounds.

Some of them had been abused in their own families.

CHILDREN WERE VIEWED, BASICALLY, AS OBJECTS … THEY WERE VIEWED AS DISPOSABLE CHILDREN."

AUCTIONABLE CHILDREN!!

06.02.2026 17:43 👍 4808 🔁 2374 💬 309 📌 133
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Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

07.02.2026 20:10 👍 6544 🔁 2988 💬 180 📌 166
A vintage close-up photo of a young boy, looking down with a slight smile.

A vintage close-up photo of a young boy, looking down with a slight smile.

7 February 1932 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Salomon Niekerk, was born in Rijswijk.

On 20 January 1944 he was deported from Westerbork to the Theresienstadt ghetto and on 16 May 1944 sent in a transport to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

07.02.2026 21:00 👍 491 🔁 136 💬 18 📌 3
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Obituary information for Betty Jane Thornberry View Betty Jane Thornberry's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

www.collinsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/B...

03.02.2026 01:08 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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“Are we more like intelligent machines or conscious, feeling animals?” With the rise of A.I., Michael Pollan thinks we’re approaching a “Copernican moment of redefinition” of how we think about what makes us human. Read, watch or listen to “The Interview.” trib.al/N76vo6S

07.02.2026 19:01 👍 247 🔁 67 💬 87 📌 22
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Jeff Bezos Must Sell the Washington Post Mass layoffs undermine his promises to protect a great American institution.

"To put it in terms Bezos would use, he is no longer a swashbuckling badass. He should sell the Post to someone who is." ICYMI Cameron Barr, former senior managing editor of the Washington Post:

07.02.2026 19:00 👍 258 🔁 51 💬 19 📌 5
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The Fall of the House of Assad A detached ruler, obsessed with sex and video games, refused every lifeline he was offered.

Fascinating account of Assad’s last day in Syria. Suggests he was ultimately a victim of his own over-confidence and self-delusion. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

07.02.2026 19:21 👍 44 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 2
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The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass. As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

07.02.2026 16:47 👍 7348 🔁 3144 💬 505 📌 222
smiling, good looking couple seated on a porch (soft focus garden behind them) elegantly dressed, the lady in a sleeveless dress, patterned top, banded at the waist with a softly pleated long white skirt, the man wearing a light colored suit with white shirt and striped tie - body language relaxed and intimate

smiling, good looking couple seated on a porch (soft focus garden behind them) elegantly dressed, the lady in a sleeveless dress, patterned top, banded at the waist with a softly pleated long white skirt, the man wearing a light colored suit with white shirt and striped tie - body language relaxed and intimate

Portrait of Michelle
and Barack Obama

former First Lady and
President of the US

📷 Pete Souza

06.02.2026 21:03 👍 12421 🔁 1981 💬 5 📌 0
"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW
"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

At about 22m in, Ian McKellan brings the Colbert studio to a total, rapt standstill with this speech, written by Shakespeare 400 years ago, of Thomas More to Londoners rioting over recent immigrants to remember themselves and welcome others. youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

05.02.2026 08:16 👍 93 🔁 38 💬 3 📌 18
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Obituary information for Betty Jane Thornberry View Betty Jane Thornberry's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

www.collinsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/B...

03.02.2026 01:08 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Remembering a great & good lady, B.J. Thornberry. She was a force for change in politics & helped shape Colorado during the Romer Administration. She had an outsized influence on my career and I am so grateful for her mentorship.

02.02.2026 23:13 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.

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