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On the right, a photo of Pete Hegseth in a patriotic blue suit with a red check tie and a maniacal grin. On the right, the cast of Hee Haw with three guys in overalls, one of them wearing a blue shirt and a woman with a red check dress, all of them with maniacal grins.

When I see Pete Hegseth, I'm reminded of Hee Haw, a comedy show I was exposed to as a kid at my Memaw's house. I found the show unnerving despite that it was suppose to be comedy variety show.

I liked it. Something about this cover brought up that time in my life more than the original.

But I get it, I listened to that song SO many times in the 90s. Now it's my cats theme song 😸

Turnstile cover The Stone Roses' ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ for Like A Version YouTube video by triple j

Turnstile cover of Stone Roses 'I wanna be adored'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZgZ...

Blah blah blah gender stratification but also if you ever say the words, “make girly jobs more manly” to me, I will laugh in your face. Just a full on guffaw. What is wrong with you?

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Little detail on progress of JBS strike negotiations as workers continue to picket Better pay and more robust safety protocols are at the heart of the deal as the union nears two weeks off the job.

The strike at JBS is the first strike at a meatpacking plant in the U.S. in 40 years.

I’m thrilled the university administration is listening to the many and varied concerns of students, faculty, and staff about the agreement CU signed with Open AI and the roll-out of CU Chat-GPT. The delayed rollout is certainly appreciated helpful in giving us time to make it crystal clear to CU administration the depth and breadth of concerns about corporate AI that many of us, across many different CU campuses, share. However, if this delay in rolling out CU Chat-GPT is intended to give the university more time to establish a clear set of policies around best use practices, then a delay does nothing to assuage our concerns about privacy (for example, supposedly Open AI will protect student privacy by “deidentifying” all data—something which already has been proven to be a fictional concept—before using this data for further training). Neither can any policy document meaningfully address the increasingly dire environmental impact that corporate AI and its data centers are already having. Further, no policy document can reflect the way in which these corporate AI products are participating in dismantling the principles of public education that our universities were built on. A delay suggests that the integration of these AI products particularly into higher education is inevitable and that we must prepare our students for this world; but nothing whatsoever is inevitable. And besides, many of our students are not only themselves opposed to these products but they have come to our university to get an education in critical thinking, learning, reading, and writing and not in becoming adept users of products. Higher education is already being dismantled before our eyes and, in the very specific case of the integration of Chat-GPT throughout CU, this would only further that dismantling even more. If we care about the future of research and of teaching and learning, only cancelling the agreement with Open AI altogether is the appropriate next course of action.

for the record, these are my thoughts on the delayed roll-out of CU Chat-GPT. this is not a moment for compromise or finding a so-called middle ground.

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I've been enjoying rancho Gordo's gay caballero. It says it's very hot, but I don't find that to be true for my pallet.

Workers in Colorado have shut down one of the nation’s biggest meatpacking plants It’s the largest strike in decades. Who wins if meat prices keep rising?

A recent class action lawsuit brought by Haitian workers at the plant claims that they have been segregated onto a night shift and forced to work at “dangerously fast speeds.” Now, they're going on strike.

From our colleagues at @fernnews.org:

Partisanship among Coloradans: Educational divides Partisanship and political outcomes in the U.S. have become increasingly linked to levels of educational attainment. This post unpacks the diploma divide within Colorado using individual-level survey ...

I've got a post up this morning on partisanship by education among Colorado residents

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#copolitics

The FBI is now just a Make-A-Wish Foundation for Kash Patel

All 66 Democrats in Colorado’s legislature sign letter urging Jared Polis not to shorten Tina Peters’ prison sentence The letter warned that clemency would be a gift to conspiracy theorists and risks undermining the safety of future elections

All 66 Democrats in Colorado’s legislature sign letter urging Jared Polis not to shorten Tina Peters’ prison sentence

Golden doodle puppy in a purple harness, looking into the distance. Brown wilderness in the background.

When your dog is 8 months old and doesn't know how to get into a car? Dead giveaway that you're car free. You should have seen this fool attempting to get into a back seat

Timely for caucus, thank you.

EXCLUSIVE: Secret ICE Detention Facilities Exist Around Colorado, Data Shows Just west of downtown Glenwood Springs, perched between Midland Avenue and Interstate 70, a strip mall houses a gym, a chiropractor’s office, a tax accountant, and on the far end...

NEW: At least nine secretive ICE detention facilities are scattered around the state, tucked into strip malls and industrial parks. More than 3,000 people were held in them last year, including a 1-year-old girl.

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The Chicago real estate firm leasing an empty prison to ICE Highlands Real Estate Investment Trust looks to profit from President Trump's anti-immigrant agenda.

new: highlands reit, a small chicago-based real estate firm, is renting an empty prison it owns in colorado to ice and private prison giant geo group.

highlands is part of a network of private contractors hoping to get a cut of the $45 billion allocated to warehouse immigrants through 2029.

Trans New Yorkers Deserve Better Than Mamdani's Inaction On Trans Youth Care Closures The mayor has immediate steps he can take to ensure continuity of care for trans youth.

1. Its been a week since NYU Langone ended its trans youth care program.

Then Sinai followed a few days ago.

There are immediate steps Mamdani can take, and he refuses to do so. When asked about those steps, his office has chosen not to comment repeatedly.

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If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

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Love when movements share their takeaways and I'm frustrated when movements I'm a part of take it as rules.

I prefer when we listen to others and use our collective knowledge about what works for us. I try to remember there is no "right" way to do this.

These clowns at the University of Colorado are going to give minimally $2 million to OpenAI 🫨

www.cu.edu/gen-ai

These Haitian meatpacking workers may be deported. They voted to strike anyway. | Food and Environment Reporting Network This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them.

Courage looks like Haitian meatpacking workers suing JBS for discrimination, despite Trump, Noem, and Big Ag stoking deportation fears and uncertainty. We're proud to represent them.

Now, workers from many backgrounds at the Greeley plant have authorized a strike.

thefern.org/2026/02/thes...

Military grade intelligence:

Documenting the deportation flights that leave Minnesota each day www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

New Mexico Senate approves bill to ban ICE detention centers The New Mexico Legislature approved the Immigration Safety Act. House bill 9 bars the state from allowing ICE detention centers.

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care.

It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back.

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Thank you. Looks like you did it back in December and I completely missed it! Appreciate all your time and expertise on these critical communications.

It would be the same.

@meganpiont.bsky.social Is there a way to request a zine in Spanish or get an editable version we can update? Looking at the Colorado one.

There's one in Boulder, CO leaving at noon from North Boulder Park.

I would love to see a "what's in my bag" series on occupied cities and what's in their go bags. Help the rest of us prepare for when it happens here.