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DOGE has terminated all four of the NEH grants for the American Musicological Society. Our executive director writes: “As the chief operating officer for the American Musicological Society, a 91-year-old knowledge society committed to the study of music, history, and culture, I am resolved.” 1/2

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At least one detainee who had been held at ICE's privately run immigration facility in Aurora has been sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador, a Colorado immigrant assistance group says // Story by @meganululani.bsky.social

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An update: newsprint, along with other USMCA-compliant goods, was exempt from Trump's sweeping tariffs yesterday. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/03/b...

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Breaking News: The Trump administration threatened to withhold funding from public schools unless DEI programs it deemed unlawful were eliminated.

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This is the admin's goal: Taking "gender identity" out of government language, so that the private sector feels pressure to take it out, too, and a future court will rule that actually it's not protected. www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

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Colorado plans to seek a “severe non-attainment” designation from the EPA for failing to meet 2015 ozone pollution standards. The EPA already declared metro Denver and the northern Front Range to be in severe violation of less-stringent 2008 standards // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social

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Adamo Homes has been sued nearly 40 times since last year, racking up allegations of theft and fraud from jilted banks, contractors and property owners. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the owner is the subject of a criminal investigation www.denverpost.com/2025/04/03/a...

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"They are the American people's records, and there should be adequate FOIA staff to make sure that record requests are answered promptly," he says. "Firing your staff is antithetical to openness and transparency." Public records offices gutted in HHS layoffs www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Colorado school district ordered to put banned books back on library shelves hasn't done so as it appeals judge's ruling — even though plaintiffs' law firm donated copies of all 19 “to help facilitate the school district’s compliance with the federal court order” // by @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social

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Leaders of the #Boulder County NAACP said the branch is dissolving, but state and national NAACP officials said they don't have the authority to do that. Brooke Stephenson and I looked into the situation for @boulderrl.bsky.social: boulderreportinglab.org/2025/04/01/b...

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Tracked down the Denver Posts review of 1988 Colorado Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet, starring Val Kilmer as the Danish prince: www.angelfire.com/ca3/kilmersa... Long long time ago but I remember being in the audience. Also, hats off to forgotten Angelfire pages.

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Under the Kelly Loving Act, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act — which includes gender identity as a protected class — would add intentionally misgendering transgender people or deadnaming them to the discriminatory acts covered by the law in public accommodations // by @sethklamann.bsky.social

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Neither the University of Colorado nor Colorado State has identified the international students who lost their visas, said what countries they are from, or revealed whether federal officials provided any explanation // Story by @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social

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“I’m a physician, I work in the business and I couldn’t figure out what happened or how to resolve it,” she said of her initial $3,600 bill for an echocardiogram — which was ultimately cut in half after she complained the hospital didn't follow Colorado's price transparency law

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CO school district rejects donation of “banned” books to be returned to library shelves -- except for 1. The district determined "#Pride: Championing LGBTQ Rights" was inappropriate for school libraries but would be kept by the superintendent www.denverpost.com/2025/04/02/e... via @denverpost.com

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Wild story: the acting Social Security chief was warned that terminating data collection contracts with Maine would increase fraud. But he responded that it didn't matter because it was more important to punish Maine's governor for disagreeing with Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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So many great performances but Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang will always be the all-timer for me.

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woah, gold mine

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This month I learned the artist behind #TheBeatles' 1967 classic "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" also created a massive new triptych mural in the #DenverTheatreDistrict. So of course I had to find out more. For @denverpost.com

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Big news in Colorado craft beer: Great Divide Brewing Co. has changed hands for the first time in its 31-year history. The founder says it's a good thing for both the beer and drinkers. www.denverpost.com/2025/04/01/g...

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NEW: The entire CDC #FOIA office — nearly two dozen people — received RIF notices. FOIA personnel at FDA and NIH were also dismissed. The CDC has seen a massive uptick in FOIA requests this year. It’s the second busiest year since Covid. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Later today, Denver City Council will decide whether to approve a $15 million study on widening Peña Boulevard. Council has been split between supporting more lanes or trying to get more people to use transit instead. My latest: www.denverpost.com/2025/04/01/d... #copolitics @denverpost.com

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"The next two weeks will determine whether a single measles case in Colorado fizzles out or starts an outbreak."

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From y’day: Three of state Rep. Regina English’s legislative aides have accused her of retaliation and mistreatment, according to interviews & records we obtained. One aide’s allegations that English ignored harassment claims sparked a legislative investigation: www.denverpost.com/2025/03/31/r...

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An unvaccinated person from Pueblo who recently traveled to part of Mexico with an ongoing outbreak now has Colorado's first confirmed case of measles in 2 years // Story by @katielang.bsky.social

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Colorado’s law that made possession of small amounts of fentanyl a felony had almost no effect on overdose deaths, but may have discouraged people from sticking with treatment for opioid addiction, an initial study of the legislation’s impact found

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A bill that extends CORA response times for public and commercial requesters is headed to Gov. Polis. CFOIC argued against that provision because research-and-retrieval fees already are a significant barrier to obtaining public records in Colorado.

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Measles

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The Boulderado's name will be preserved, along with its signature architectural elements, according to AJ Capital Partners, which bought the 116-year-old hotel from longtime owners Frank and Gina Day for an undisclosed sum // Story by @jessalvg.bsky.social

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Grest essay on the record collecting and musical Influence of Robert Quine cc @lloydcole.bsky.social ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/the-l...

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“Over 15,000 Coloradans died due to COVID,” Gov. Jared Polis tells @jessicaseaman.bsky.social, noting he lost two friends to the virus. “Some would have perhaps passed away by now anyway. Others would be perfectly healthy other than that COVID felled them. There’s no getting those people back.”

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#bestofdenver winner 🎵 Congratulations to Twist & Shout Records on being named Best Record Store in Best of Denver 2025. The store is a monument to popular culture, offering vinyl, CDs, DVDs, books, clothing and assorted odds and ends whose sole goal is to produce joy.

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Look, if you're going to bend the knee ... just bend the knee. Don't say you're tying your shoe.

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Colorado Democrats, hoping to enshrine federal voter protections in state law, are pursuing a bill that would bar voter discrimination based on race, sexual orientation and gender identity in state law // Story by @coltrain.bsky.social

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Keefe's monologue last week is an all-timer for words

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“For classroom discussion, the bill will set rules around topics involving ‘controversial beliefs’ such as climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, diversity and inclusion programs, immigration policy, marriage, or abortion.”

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Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

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For Jeff Runnings on this #CDfriday

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Inspired by the social justice movement in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Salt Lake City’s Fleet Block building contained over 20 murals, and became a rallying spot for grieving families and demonstrations. It was torn down earlier this month. The city said the murals could not be preserved.

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Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

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“The more public business is discussed on apps where messages can be deleted within hours or days, the harder it is to get an understanding of how government does its business,” said Jeff Roberts, director of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition // Story by @elliottwenzler.bsky.social

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ICE violated Jeanette Vizguerra’s First Amendment rights by detaining — and planning to deport — the Colorado immigration advocate, her attorneys argued in federal court in Denver on Friday. For @denverpost.com.

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Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

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Proposal calls for an enclosed entryway at East High where visitors — and possibly students flagged as safety risks — could be screened // story via @chalkbeat.org

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In honor of the Rockies’ opening day, shoutout to that time their (now former) minor league affiliate in Grand Junction starting freaking out and blocking everyone on Twitter in 2019 because everyone was calling them the Chubs. An all-time Streisand Effect moment in sports.

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The Social Security Administration snatched Alex Vukovich’s January payment right out of his bank account and hasn’t made February or March payments — because the government insists he's dead. (He's not)

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As a Columbine survivor, it’s the lmao that really does it for me.

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"Unmarked and unidentified law enforcement abducting a lawful migrant, seemingly in retaliation for First Amendment-protected speech, is the sort of attack on civil liberties that we would not hesitate to label as authoritarian in another country." www.vox.com/politics/406...

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Bob Fuchigami, a survivor of Colorado’s Amache internment camp who spent his life working to make sure its injustices were never forgotten or repeated, has died // by @katielang.bsky.social

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Kudos to the student journalists at The Tufts Daily, who crashed a last-minute issue of the paper to cover the outrageous arrest and detention of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk: issuu.com/tuftsdaily/d...

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