As Big Tech, Big Finance, and Big Government collude to dig us into the unfathomable hole of artificial intelligence, an old country saying has new relevance: “If you find that you’ve dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing to do is quit digging.”
As more communities wake up to the danger of mass surveillance, the solution isn’t trading one brand of camera for another. It’s regulating the whole industry.
Representative Jennifer Bacon has something many elected officials would benefit from: a developed worldview, a theory of the case that guides her actions in office. It’s a worldview that developed some time between her childhood in south Florida and her arrival to the state House of Representatives in January 2021. Maybe it developed during her time at Tulane, when a Black dean told her that her grandfather didn’t take the train from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago just for her to flunk out of college; or when, years after taking that dean’s words to heart, she was told she should straighten her hair before taking the Virginia bar exam. Maybe the last few pieces of it fell into place when she won a seat on the Denver school board in 2017, and earned a front row seat to what systemic inequality really looks like.
I’m reminding Rep. Crank that the people you represent also hunt, fish, ranch, and run small businesses on this land. Backing the Local Input Act tells them their voice still counts when Washington starts leasing their backyard.
Why did Victor Marx complain about Kyle Clark's reporting, most of which consisted simply of playing clips of Marx talking about demons? The answer seems obvious: Marx wants to deflect attention away from his own past comments about demons.
Colorado’s Gazette newspaper chain, owned by GOP billionaire Phil Anschutz, is botching yet another chance to prove it’s a professional news operation, instead of the Anschutz family’s tool to boost its business interests and favored political causes and candidates.
While most of the political world is laser-focused on November 2026, one Colorado campaign already has its sights set on 2028, when it hopes to usher in a seismic change to the way the state conducts elections. More than two years ahead of the due date, Courageous Colorado’s push for nonpartisan primary elections is conducting listening sessions, working to recruit influencers, and has already aired a television commercial. And though it’s being billed as a way of increasing turnout and decreasing polarization, there’s reason to suspect that Courageous Colorado’s push for nonpartisan primaries is not as altruistic as it seems.
Will the federal government have the guts to do what it takes to protect the American people’s guts?
