Just got back from Mexico City, with a grandson on spring break. We had a great time, and we were even allowed to return to the US, although our trip inevitably turned into an Ugly American apology tour. We didn’t even have to go to Plan B—applying for asylum in Mexico. My latest column in the Sun:
Is Trump throwing Liddle Marco under the bus? Is anyone surprised? And, on a related topic, when do you think the bus comes for Elon?
More delusional than I thought, too.
When Denver Mayor Mike Johnston went to testify before the House Oversight Committee, several GOP members threatened him with arrest. It was a farce. Of course the committee has no real interest in oversight or it wouldn’t refuse to oversee the unelected plutocrat’s nonstop assault on democracy.
In their tag-team Oval Office ambush of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump and Vance, in their bullying way, tried to humiliate the Ukrainian leader but actually only humiliated themselves. My latest column in the Colorado Sun:
Trump’s extortion of Ukraine for a large share of the staggering nation’s mineral rights as “payback” is a low even for Trump. But it’s not the bottom. There is no bottom. My latest column in the Sun:
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This is still Jared Polis’ unapologetic choice to protect our nation’s health:
The main lesson from failed ICE raids in Colorado is that, no matter how scary they seem, we can’t give into the fear. Because fear is the point — and fear is exactly what they expect from us. My latest column in the Sun:
And so it begins.
Focus, people. Trump is a walking, talking, blithering one-man diversion show. And while Trump is busy talking of turning Gaza into the Riviera, minus Palestinians, Elon Musk is busy destroying our democracy. Focus, please. My latest column in the Sun:
As usual, @mlittwin.bsky.social gets it right. coloradosun.com/2025/01/22/d...
For everyone who has taken an understandable break from the news since Nov. 5th, I have two words for you: Wake up. We can no longer afford the luxury of refusing to pay attention. My latest column in the Sun:
For everyone who has taken an understandable break from the news since Nov. 5th, I have two words for you: Wake up. We can no longer afford the luxury of refusing to pay attention. My latest column in the Sun:
We knew 2025 would be a bad year, but no one could have guessed it would get quite so bad quite so quickly. The surest thing, though, was Trump’s response to the New Orleans attack. My latest column:
It’s time for the annual best books I read in (fill in year), just in time for last minute holiday shopping. Turns out there was a lot of great fiction in 2024 — and not all of it courtesy of a certain wannabe dictator. My latest column in the Sun:
Another school shooting. Sad, right? Tragic, right? What are we going to do about it? Nothing, right? Same as always, right?
You’ve probably heard that RFK Jr’s top aide and fellow anti-vaxxer had recently petitioned the FDA to ban the polio vaccine. I called Jared Polis’ office to see whether the governor was finally reconsidering his support for Kennedy’s craziness. I know you can’t wait to see his non-response:
It is moral and necessary to protest, and to work toward reforming, the corrupt health insurance industry. It is not moral or just to pick one of the industry’s many beneficiaries to kill—or to cheer on the killer. Life is confusing these days, but not that confusing. My latest column in the Sun:
If you’re wondering why no one from what Patel calls the “fake news mafia press corps” is on the list, so was I. It’s been suggested that someone whispered to Patel that all newspeople worth their souls would rejoice in seeing their names on his enemies list, just as reporters did in Nixon days.
This is where we are today in the pre-Trump takeover. Morning Joe felt the need to apologize for a flippant remark that writer David Frum made on the show. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter after insisting for months he would never do so was a coda to the selfish decisions he has made in his last year of office, putting himself and his family over the country he has served for so long. My latest column in the Sun: coloradosun.com/2024/12/04/b...
It’s no secret that people, particularly anti-Trump types, are tuning out the news. I understand. But ignoring the news — and the spread of MAGA misinformation and disinformation — won’t just go away, no matter how depressing it is. coloradosun.com/2024/12/01/n...
In our pod chat, former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is really interesting on the effect of NYT/WaPo ending public editor/ombud roles. This is insulating news orgs from good-faith criticism, which ends up empowering bad faith criticism.
Our exchange:
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I hope Jared Polis and other liberal supporters of Dr. Strangekennedy read this piece by the brilliant Rick Perlstein, who explains how the Kennedy liberal talk is all for cover of the real agenda. prospect.org/politics/202...
Speaker Mike Johnson has an idea. Actually two ideas. It may not surprise you that they are consistently inconsistent. bsky.app/profile/nick...
Looking for a time and place to join the resistance? Denver Mayor Mike Johnston predicts that 50,000 Denverites would rise up in protest if Trump sent in the troops to accelerate mass deportation of migrant. coloradosun.com/2024/11/24/m...
If you’re still wondering how Trump could possibly have been elected again, Bulwark’s Jonathan V. Last offers up three possibilities — paranoia, obliviousness to reality and an extremely unhealthy dose of cognitive bias. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
This is the person Jared Polis wants to be the guardian of our nation’s health: open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...
