Over two years after the Jan. 6, insurrection, former Trump lawyer John Eastman — who’s facing disbarment in California — defended the mob, telling a right-wing podcaster in Colorado that some Jan. 6 insurrectionists were “people paid by news organizations to get video of violence so that that could build a false narrative” and that anti-Trump operatives manipulated the protesters by hiding barricades at the U.S. Capitol. Both claims are baseless. Here is the Colorado Times Recorder’s story published in 2022.
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Slimy, Scaly, or Obscene: It’s Time to Love (and Maybe Eat) the Mushrooms in Your Yard
If you’ve got something long and stinky growing in your yard, don’t be scared. It’s probably a mushroom, and you may be able to eat it. And with all the rain in Colorado lately, all kinds of fungus are waiting for you on grass, mulch, and stumps.
The Only Journalist Featured at Conservative Conference Is an Editor at a Newspaper Owned by GOP Donor Phil Anschutz
Why is Colorado Politics Editor Luige del Puerto the only journalist featured at a giant gathering of conservatives in Denver?
Citing Video Showing Boebert Running To Vote on Debt Bill, Activists Call On Her To Apologize for Claiming Absence Was a ‘No Show Protest’
Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s desperate race up the U.S. Capitol steps to try to cast her vote on the debt bill, caught in a CNN video over the weekend, has prompted an activist group to call on her to apologize for “failing to do her job by missing the vote on the debt ceiling bill and then lying about her reason for missing the vote.”
CO Republican Party ‘Couldn’t Be More Proud’ of Boebert & Buck for Opposing Debt Compromise; Calls on Lamborn to Join Them
In a fundraising email this morning, the leader of Colorado’s Republican Party urged potential donors to “please give a thank you to both Congressman Ken Buck and Congresswoman Lauren Boebert for opposing this debt-ceiling compromise” and called on Colorado’s remaining Republican representative, Doug Lamborn, to join them.
Magic Mushrooms Help You Accept Death But Not the Brutality of Aging
My dad liked to say he wanted to take magic mushrooms on his deathbed.
LeBron James Once Used Our Video of a Colorado Protest To Take a Shot at Media Coverage of Black Lives Matter
Editor’s note: With LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in town to battle the Denver Nuggets in the NBA playoffs, we’re looking back at a moment from three years ago when the basketball legend took note of Colorado. Below is an article, reposted from 2020, about LeBron James’ criticism of the news media’s coverage of Black Lives Matter protests.
Boebert Promotes Seth Rich Conspiracy Via News Site Owned By Alex Jones, Who Claimed Sandy Hook Massacre Never Happened
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) continued her pattern of retweeting discredited news outlets, retweeting a link this morning from National File, a site founded by Alex Jones to circumvent Facebook’s 2019 ban of Infowars, which is Jones’ better-known propaganda site.
Democrats Capitalize on Election Win With New Laws on Guns, Abortion, and Climate
Colorado Democrats are distributing a list of new laws as proof that their big majorities at the Capitol paid legislative dividends this year.
Proud Boys’ Ties to Colorado: Boebert, Other Republicans, a Trump Rally in CO Springs, and More
In Colorado, the Proud Boys, a white nationalist group, have been visible and active since Trump ran for president. Four national leaders of the Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy yesterday, but a former Colorado Proud Boy calls the verdict “political theater.”