Leonard

Leonard

@onebeam.us

No matter where you go, there you are.

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Don't believe lying texts and disingenuous proclamations from moneyed interests. Instead, read an unbiased story: "...experiences from other states with graduated income tax systems show the doomsday departures are overstated...millionaires overwhelmingly stay put." coloradosun.com/2026/10/23/c...

coloradosun.comColorado may increase taxes on the rich. When Massachusetts did, the wealthy overwhelmingly stayed put.Amendment 87 would increase taxes for those earning more to generate an estimated $2 billion in its first year.

Many rules the Democrats need to change. The seniority system, the VP gets automatic nomination for president, filibuster.

Capitalism is not more efficient. It is more profitable. We’ve seen this many times.

The Lever@levernews.com

Your water bill could be 67% higher simply because a corporation owns your water system. A new analysis found households served by for-profit providers paid about $823 a year for drinking water in 2025. Public-system households paid just $494.

Dark Money deviance. The right wing reinforces blue state practice to properly redistrict while red states are unhindered by the rules.

The Colorado Sun ☀️@coloradosun.com

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s PAC pours $250K into Colorado redistricting fight coloradosun.com/2026/09/21/c...

The US has admitted to weapons in space. Treaties be damned. Now this: apnews.com/article/spac... Wake up, people. The Trump admin is making everything a personal war for winner-take-all. Create an enemy and nothing else matters. You get to choose the future. Don’t let it be perpetual war.

apnews.comUS troops must prepare to fight around the moon, Trump's top military adviser saysThe U.S. military is preparing for combat in space, including areas around the moon. This announcement on Wednesday follows the Air Force's recent revelation that it has deployed space control weapons into Earth orbit.

Sometimes you get home from the store to find that some of the fruit you bought is rotten. No wonder they are called groceries.

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🚨NEW from me: Dems overpromising & underdelivering enriched their donors & created backlash conditions for Trump's ascent. A new study offers a big warning: If Corporate Dems remain in control of their party & once again block real change, America will get an even worse Trump.

levernews.comHow Status Quo Democrats Could Create Another TrumpA new study suggests Democrats’ broken promises won’t just cost them elections — they could fuel an even more dangerous MAGA backlash.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Whenever I see an article like this, describing the first states to adopt a progressive law, I wonder, why isn’t Colorado in this list. This isn’t a red/blue State issue. All Coloradans should be opposed to SP. Only Business First leaders could support that.

theguardian.comElectronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warnsAFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts

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NEW HAMPSHIRE VOTES TODAY. John Sununu chaired Boston Scientific’s “Compliance and Quality” committee as women reported devastating injuries from the company’s pelvic mesh — a product the FDA would ultimately order off the market. Now he’s seeking the GOP Senate nomination.

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This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

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Replying to @rutgerbregman.com

10) Hugging Face told the world that AI defenders had stopped an AI attack. But that's not what happened. In fact the attackers seem to have simply dropped dead during the break-in, for unrelated reasons back at OpenAI.

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Quick reminder: All the fancy pundits and politicians on your TV talking only about Hasan Piker and not about the affordability crisis are millionaires who are so rich they don’t have to worry about rent increases, medical bills, electricity prices or the cost of groceries.

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We did it! “The Nerd Reich” is a New York Times Instant Bestseller! My book debuts at #3 on the non-fiction list. Thanks to all who pre-ordered /bought the book—or requested it at the public library or promoted it on social. Without you, I’m just an unemployed guy with a laptop. But with you…

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Trump's pick to lead the FDA, Heidi Overton, says the FDA, CDC, and NIH need to be "reformed" to fund more "conservative-based" research instead of peer-reviewed and evidence-backed medical science. #Trump #Overton #Science #StandUpForScience #FDA

Apple software is getting surprisingly poor in quality. Copy/paste, syncing and more not working well. What happened?

In a @apnews.com article about redistricting in California, three Republican citizens were quoted in seven paragraphs. In an article about redistricting in Tennessee, one Black Democrat citizen was quoted for two paragraphs. Uneven coverage.

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Third Way’s director for “anti-extremism" will conduct opposition research against the Democratic Socialists of America and launch a guerrilla media campaign against their ideas.

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Proponents say local broadcast journalism won’t survive without consolidation and economies of scale to compete with Big Tech. Opponents say consolidation will result in fewer local journalists and corporate-imposed fealty to the Trump administration. www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

nbcnews.comFederal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownershipThe move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.

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The OMB Grant Proposal will put all grant decisions into the hands of the President. It is effectively a trillion dollar slush fund for the President. We are fighting back and need you to join us. Contact your reps and donate to fuel our legal fight against the proposal at the link: zurl.co/ruBsL

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”The Trump administration has exempted more petrochemical facilities across the country from Clean Air Act standards, unlawfully giving more of these chemical plants a free pass to pollute.” Article: zurl.co/zIaVf

zurl.coTrump administration hands out unlawful air pollution exemptions to more petrochemical facilitiesThe Trump administration has exempted more petrochemical facilities across the country from Clean Air Act standards

Here's another story about a Senate Democrat primary race between a progressive and a moderate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... This gets a lot of media attention. Colorado had a similar race, between progressive Julie Gonzales and Fetterman-lite Hickenlooper. No media attention. Julie got 47%

theguardian.comDemocrats look to key Senate race to define party – but ‘fed-up’ Michigan voters just want changeDaily realities of healthcare, prices and Gaza driving wave of anti-establishment sentiment among Democratic voters in closely watched contest

When did humans learn that they do not have to take words literally? When did humans learn to lie. Have humans ever been rational?

Did #Colorado staff a booth at the Great Don State Fair in DC? Anyone have a photo of the booth? #GASFair

Great turnout for @senadorajulie.bsky.social for Colorado. 340,000+ people voted for Julie! The invisible Senator Fetterman-lite Hickenlooper, who said that the Senate isn’t a good fit for him, impassively wins, but it’s clear that a lot of Coloradans see how insignificant he will continue to be.

SCOTUS has opened politics up to even more corrupting money. More than ever Colorado needs to follow the Montana Plan and Hawaii to block Citzens United at the state level. Unfortunately, I think Bennett and Weiser are going to be as bad as Polis in taking progressive action.

Ms. Gonzales is such a great candidate for US Senator to replace Colorado’s Fetterman-lite, Hickenlooper. All the great progressive ideas. Childcare AND eldercare, for example. Vote for Julie Gonzales!

Senadora Julie Gonzales@senadorajulie.bsky.social

Had a great time chatting about the campaign with @davidsirota.com and @levernews.com! We can have nice things if we're willing to fight for them! Check out the full conversation at the link in my bio ❤️✊🏽

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Replying to @davidsirota.com

"Hickenlooper has been the Democratic caucus’ number one outlier, voting with Trump’s agenda almost twice as often as would be expected, based on the state’s electorate."

coloradonewsline.comHickenlooper, Bennet give Colorado the nation’s biggest pro-Trump skew in Senate votes | Colorado NewslineSen. Hickenlooper has been the Democratic caucus’ number one outlier in voting with Trump's agenda almost twice as often as would be expected.

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I don't know of a more clear example of Democratic elites' contempt for Democratic voters than a 74-year-old senator from a very blue state voting more for Trump's agenda than any other Senate Democrat - and then refusing to show up to even one debate with his primary opponent.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Not great analysis, @theguardian.com. You mention Trump and what he says 20 TIMES. That’s not analysis, it’s The Trump News. In the blame section, you don’t analyze the paint/coating and its failure. You say reporters don’t find evidence, suggesting it’s not bad.

theguardian.comTrump claims ‘vandals’ foiled his $14m bid to revamp DC’s reflecting pool. What actually happened?Trump’s pre-Fourth of July renovation project has endured problems with algae, peeling paint and an inflating price tag