ethanmye-rs.bsky.social
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This kind of hyper-personalized donation begging AB tests well, but I think it has a fairly corrosive effect overall and uniquely targets the mentally infirm.
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IMO, the pardon power as outlined in the constitution is in need of serious reform. Biden’s use of the power to pardon (preemptively!) his son was corrupt, Trump’s use of the power to pardon friends and monied acquaintances is corrupt. Future use, with no guard rails, is also likely to be corrupt.
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A good summary of the multiple interrelated issues that have plagued the P320:
youtu.be/3iWVs2uD1XY?...
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IMO, as someone who has a swamp cooler and is moving to a mini split — swamp coolers don’t have a place in residential homes today. The electricity usage of a mini split can be offset with solar. the quality of air, lack of maintenance, and ease of use is worth switching. More insulation too!
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I don’t think that people who aren’t part of a union should have to pay a mandatory union due.
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Hogg’s obstinate focus on gun control is a mistake and will haunt him later, see Beto O’Rourke’s failures at the national and state level for the best contemporary example of this.
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This is great. Hopefully someone will come up with a drop-in EV kit — that would be awesome!
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Nuance is hard. Instead of having your own ideas, beliefs and thoughts, people will line up behind a team (blue or red) and cheer/jeer everybody else.
Your matching programs are a great, block/mute the losers.
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Meh, if you want to talk about actual issues, leaded fuel is STILL used at regional airports and absolutely accumulates in the blood of those under common flight paths:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
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Imposing a 1% fee on homeowners across Colorado disproportionately benefits people who choose to live in places at risk for wildfire, even more so than insurance currently subsidizes them.
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Good. We should be making it easier and cheaper for everyone to make public records requests AND for the state to process them, not putting up arbitrary roadblocks.
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This is disingenuous on multiple levels. In the framing, the obvious implication from MDA is that mass shootings are are a leading cause of death for college students, which is why they use the term “Gun Violence”. The reality is most people who die from gun violence are committing suicide.
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Are the magic words in the legislature this year “enforce existing laws”? SB25-003 used the exact same shtick to pass a FOID act, at least one other bill used the exact same framing.
Enforcing existing laws is literally not the legislature’s job.
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This law started as a way to enforce a magazine ban, morphed into a semiautomatic ban, and finally turned into a FOID law. The primary sponsors were intentionally misleading about the law and what it does.
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How disappointing. Not only does the bill do nothing to make Coloradoans safer, it infringes on their rights while doing so.
It’s also a political mistake. Gun control is not a great issue for Democrats, and signing this bill will result in Democrat loosing seats in 2026.
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How disappointing. Not only does the bill do nothing to make Coloradoans safer, it infringes on their rights while doing so.
I look forward to the bill being challenged in court.
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Asking millions of Coloradans who don’t live in wildfire zones to subsidize those who do wasn’t the right move.
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What a shame. Police telling you who they are, why you were pulled over, and what happens next would be a boon for trust in the police.
Discretionary law enforcement is a bad thing. Apply the law equally to everyone and leave discretion to the judiciary.
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Good, this seems like a significant improvement over the current process. I do wish the entire electorate was included, but another good reason to be unaffiliated.
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Another bill that the legislature cannot realistically enforce and is likely unconstitutional, although will see how the Texas case plays out.
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I think allowing this bill to go into effect, or signing it explicitly, will seriously hurt his national ambitions. Gun control at this level is divide among democrats, let alone independents and republicans.
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Interview here: youtu.be/RkSnq_hJnjI?...
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Healthcare inflation has outpaced regular inflation measures (CPI-U) many years. Every discussion is framed around between spending more or cutting services, but there is plenty of waste to trim from the system.
www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/how-do...
coloradosun.com/2025/02/20/m...
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Regardless of what you think about the bill, we’re now in a position where you have to pay an undetermined amount of cash to the police so they can opaquely decide whether you can exercise a constitionally protected right.
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Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional and way more people should be up in arms about it. Hopefully we will continue to see more rulings like United States v. Hasbajrami. Designating people as terrorists is an abuse of power and a way to get around their civil rights
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So roughly 30 wolves did 350k in damage to livestock. At this rate, we could probably go to king soopers and feed them USDA choice for less.
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How do you get more moderates to participate in politics? It seems like there are very, very few people willing to work across party lines, and those who do are often negatively rewarded.
I think this polarization push is corrosive, but I would like to hear your thoughts.
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I watched both interviews, least unhinged Boebert interview I’ve ever seen.
However, I would appreciate a fact check — are City of Denver employees really fired if they cooperate with ICE?
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We know where there is actual waste, fraud and abuse:
PPP Loans and Medicare advantage billing, to the tune of hundreds of billions.
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The US Public Health Service has set 0.7mg/L of fluoride as a target for drinking water. 1.5mg/L is associated with lower IQ scores in children and the WHO limit.
We put fluoride in the water before fluorinated toothpaste existed, so we still need it?
ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/....