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Disastrous flooding along the San Juan River in the Four Corners region. Here’s some of what I saw today in Shiprock, on the Navajo Nation in northwest New Mexico.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Reports coming in that, in the city of Salvador, a far-right politician - the actual mayor - has reduced the fleets of available buses so that Lula voters can't get to the polling stations.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

A bit of a turning point. Creators of all types of media are no longer allowed to criticize America's wealthiest people.

This seems like a big deal

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

Unprecedented amounts of moisture for late October over the Four Corners today, compliments of the strongest October El Niño on record #COWX #Colorado

The state's flood threat bulletin highlights a 'high impact threat' in La Plata and Archuleta Counties with continued rain today and tonight. Several flash flood warnings are already in effect in western Colorado. www.coloradofloodthreat.com/flood_threat...

Airbnb went from a cheap way to crash in a spare bedroom or rent a vacation house for a weekend and turned into "what if hotels openly hated you and acted like they were doing you a favor by letting you give them hundreds of dollars to stay there, and also it's more expensive"

Interested in seeing how elections work in Mesa County? Sign up for an election tour, on either October 26 or October 27 from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm for a behind-the-scenes look. You can sign up on our website at vote.mesacounty.us or via this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Invasion, mass murder, rape, kidnapping of children - all fine

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

“American roads are becoming deadlier for walkers. Between 2009 and 2024, pedestrian deaths increased 72% across the U.S., federal data show. Over the same period, such deaths declined in most other developed nations, according to United Nations data. In road safety, the U.S. is an outlier.” 🎁

Christiane Amanpour’s note announcing her coming departure from CNN contains her trademark admonition to journalists: Remember: always be truthful, not neutral. www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/m...

CNN legend Christiane Amanpour, the network’s chief international anchor, said that she will sign off from CNN next June

There are currently three vacancies on the Mesa County (Colorado) Library Board of Trustees. Please pass this along to others, as it is critical that community members who value intellectual freedom, diversity of thought, and equal access to information step up and apply.

Nope. Abortion rights are in danger because we don't have many leaders willing to stand up and say it's a social good. Instead they talk about "women's repro healthcare." Abortion is so popular that Colorado's repro health amendment with no fetal viability ban passed in Lauren Boebert's district.

I study historical textiles. I’ve touched 300-year old linen that made me emotional with how fine it was, that we literally cannot make anymore. One thing this article doesn’t mention is the impact of climate change on commercial textile production — fabric itself is worse now! 🧵

Katie Zacharia was practicing law the right way. by Ezra Klein

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

REVEALED: The Trump administration gave almost $13 million in family planning grants to anti-abortion physicians. More than $8 million went to projects led by a Pennsylvania doctor who recently said girls should think about future pregnancies as young as 8 years old. scoop by @garnethenderson.com

WSJ: 'The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe'

In addition to the broader literacy crisis, we're also in a power literacy crisis. Many folks deeply misunderstand how political power works, who has it, and how to build it. And all of that is happening while more folks are using the language of organizing without grasping its most basic tenets.

Let me rewrite that headline for you: “Cornell president who ignored gang-rape report denies responsibility, won’t apologize or resign; Says he’s “sorry” it happened” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/n...

I left Twitter because I was permanently banned for writing about fascism. . . . . .Because Twitter is now a fascist platform controlled by the richest fascist in the world. Some of us aren’t allowed there. So, the pro-X discourse seems like desperate (fascist) propaganda.

Colorado & Michigan have become the latest blue states to end Medicaid coverage for trans youth. Solidly blue Colorado will also be IMMEDIATELY shutting off care for all trans kids receiving puberty blockers—despite Trump's rule allowing a 6 month ‘tapering’ period. This is a complete betrayal.

David Ellison hired lobbyists and political operatives to help him kill the challenge against his Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. And it worked. Following a massive behind the scenes campaign, Newsom sided with Ellison over working Californians and pressured Bonta to drop it.

Our generic prescription drug look up app, Rx Inspector, and our FDA reporting was featured on John Oliver 🤩 so psyched www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM1E...

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

One of reasons finance bros like Bessent hate Warren is misogyny of course but Also the fact that she knows their language and how the sausage is made in the financial world and routinely humiliates them publicly

this isn't who we used to pretend to be

elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

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And still y'all won't put any respect on our names. And it's not just conservatives. So many of you treat us like we're stupid. I routinely get treated like I don't know what I'm talking about—whether about the law or my own life experience—by white men who aren't smart enough to even talk to me.

If you're in Colorado and need help...

US imposes sanctions on the international criminal court (ICC), hours after former judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize - live

You can still read it (for now) on archive.org: h/t @doctecazoid.bsky.social Let's Streisand Effect this! bsky.app/profile/doct...

September was extremely warm in Colorado, just shy of the monthly record. Sept also turned rainy in southern CO—record wet in spots! Link to our Sept summary below, and stay tuned for a full Water Year 2026 summary next week. [Spoiler: it was the warmest water year on record for Colorado—by a lot.]

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

The profound sadness I felt as a small child reading Changes for Felicity, realizing that life as a woman was a sentence to birth and raise kids, is something money can’t fix.