A consortium of university human rights clinics finds that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza -- both the requisite level of killing and imposed harm and the intent to eradicate at least in part the civilian population. humanrightsnetwork.org/genocide-in-ga…

Yesterday I watched a video of an American nurse volunteering in Gaza with an IV drip in her own arm because the besieged hospital she's working in is rationing water and the staff are succumbing to dehydration

Some of the least serious and least credible people in Colorado politics right now are business groups who supported Gallagher repeal but now want the legislature to make it 1997 again by science or magic. denverpost.com/2024/05/14/pro…

8 months of Washington asking “what’s the plan?” has served to obscure the fact that “the plan” is exactly what we see: death, displacement, starvation, revenge. And then more of that. Our foreign policy priesthood is incapable of acknowledging this.

This post is false. The UN reported that the number specifically identified so far is less than the entire number reported, which makes sense. In a just world, this deliberate spreading of misinformation at such a critical moment would be career ending.

In 2002 Applebaum explicitly argued in favor of killing Palestinian journalists for the crime of making Israel look bad. If she’s going to opine on media and authoritarianism, can any of these high status media commentators ask her if she still believes this? I’d be good to know!

Shocked to learn that the 'pro-science' PAC that intervened at a pivotal moment for U.S. climate policy to ensure that John Hickenlooper was elected to the Senate from a D+10 state may not be entirely above board. denverpost.com/2019/08/13/joh…

Amputated limbs due to over-cuffing. Stripped detainees in diapers fed thru straws. Revenge beatings. CNN reports on Israeli detention based on accounts by whistleblowers & released Palestinians. What we know about Gaza is only tip of atrocity iceberg. edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/mid…

Great timing for Colorado Democrats to have reportedly made a secretive and ill-defined commitment not to pursue any state-level regulations on several of these same companies for the next ?? years. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

A sloppy falsehood from the EVP of the dark-money group pushing aggressive property tax cuts on the 2024 ballot. She appears to be referring to assessment rates, which are, uh, not the same thing as effective tax rates. CO's effective property tax rates are 10x lower at 0.5–0.6%.

sounds like a great system. No further questions

There has been a striking chorus of critics taking issue with the survey of IPCC scientists Damian Carrington conducted for the Guardian, which showed the majority expected warming of 2.5C to 3C. Critics called this doomerism. Glen Peters shows it is simply the state of the science.

What's a crisis in the cost of housing demanding sweeping corrective action by Colorado lawmakers, and what's simply the free market at work? The last two years at the Capitol have given us a pretty clear answer. coloradonewsline.com/2024/05/08/bip…

Amazing how much Colorado conservatives (with plenty of help from Dems) have succeeded in defining the terms of this debate, to the point where the widely-applied standard is whether property taxes are being increased *at all*.

Visualizing the last 10 years of monthly housing payments for this median homeowner (with and without the 2023-24 relief measures) vs. the last 10 years of housing payments for the median Denver metro area renter.

Depending on the year, Colorado's new oil and gas fees could as much as double the production revenue that the state collects directly from the industry — but even then, it will lag far behind its peers in the budgetary benefits it derives from extraction. coloradonewsline.com/2024/05/08/how…