New Fever Swamp Review! Heidi discusses Colorado Rep. Scott Bottoms’ (R-CO Springs) recent bill to ban the production of insects for human consumption in Colorado. They discuss the conspiracies behind eating bugs, Pat Robertson’s seminal work, “New World Order,” and effective altruism.
I do not envy the mainstream press at this moment. With multiple unthinkable things happening on a weekly basis, the task of triaging and prioritizing stories which could each dominate multiple news cycles in calmer times cannot be easy. Though I don’t envy them, I will criticize them. They play a vital role in society, keeping us apprised of events which could impact our lives – and they are currently missing a big one.
"President Trump has made a fantastic selection of Kathleen Sgamma as the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, as she knows our public lands and their untapped resources as well as anyone,” Boebert wrote in a statement.
Republican presidents as far back as Ronald Reagan have been threatening to shutter the Department of Education (DOE). Lamar Alexander (under former President George W. Bush) took up the chant, as did Betsy DeVos during the first Trump administration and several prominent Colorado Republicans. But in the midst of the current onslaught from Washington, D.C., it looks like it may be more than a threat this time.
A lot has happened in the past seven days. Trump’s promised “Operation Aurora” kicked off in Colorado as ICE and other federal agencies carried out raids at apartment buildings in the Denver Metro area. According to The Colorado Sun’s Jennifer Brown, the agency has yet to reveal how many people were detained and if they had connections to the gang ICE was targeting, but residents and activists described masked agents using smoke grenades and breaking in doors.
Despite winning one of the closest U.S. House races in the country, Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans isn’t leveling even the most gentle criticism at President Donald Trump — or disagreeing with the president at all.
You remember the ads from the 80s, right? “This is your brain [man holds up an egg]. This is ozone [he points to a hot skillet, cracks the egg into it, holds up the sizzling skillet]. This is your brain on ozone. Any questions?”
January has come and gone and we here at the Colorado Times Recorder are restarting our weekly roundup of articles relating to political extremism in Colorado. Since it has been a while since our last rewind, we will be looking back at some published work from earlier in the month. Starting off, we have Heidi Beedle’s coverage of anti-abortion advocates celebrating the Trump presidency and the pardoning of individuals who vandalized and intimidated people at pregnancy resource centers. We also have an article by Washington DC correspondent for CTR Maria Tedesco documenting the Colorado GOP celebration of Trump’s inauguration where a January 6th rioter was lauded, Erik Maulbetsch’s recent article on Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams derailing a recent Republican meeting with another attempted power grab and a column from Logan Davis on how policies from the now-infamous Project 2025 are being put in place at a national scale. Finally, we would like to draw attention to one of the first bills put forth by the Colorado GOP that targets trans people and gender-affirming care, reporting by James O’Rourke.
In 2024, columnist Logan M. Davis took deep dives into two different Christian nationalist organizations. In February, he wrote the first full accounting of the Narrowgate cult, which operated in the 1990s. Later in the year, Logan published an investigative series pulling back the veil of secrecy around a major Colorado-based ministry and revealing allegations of widespread abuse within. In the aftermath of that second investigation, the ministry’s long-time leader, Andrew Wommack, announced that he would be stepping down from his leadership position.
