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Unapologetically pro-Colorado podcast. Hated by losers. Beloved by winners. Recommended by 5280, 9News, City Cast Denver, The Denver Post, and Miriam Webster's Dictionary! https://linktr.ee/getmoresmarter

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · May 21

Bluesky works differently than Twitter in some important ways. One of them is that hashtags are kind of not a thing, but feeds and lists are in! We created this Colorado News & Politics list to help Centennial Staters find each other on Bluesky and keep up with Colorado News!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11h

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

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Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 10h

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Sickening.

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 8h

Mike Johnson insists it's because Rep-elect Grijalva didn't have her whole family in attendance. At least that's the excuse he gave for swearing in two Florida Republicans in pro forma sessions.

Caitlyn Kim @caitlynkim.bsky.social · 10h

House just gaveled in for a pro forma session. Dems again tried to get Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva sworn in. They were ignored by the chair. And House gaveled out. Took about 2 mins.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 12h

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 14h

Colorado had to pass *its own state law* protecting patients in the emergency room because the Trump Administration rescinded EMTALA guidance allowing emergency abortions. www.9news.com/article/news...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 14h

Congressional Democrats should absolutely go OFF about Mike Johnson citing pregnant women in the ER deserving care after the Trump Administration rescinded guidance requiring abortion care to save their life.
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Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions

The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medi...

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 12h

Unfortunately, we can never be sure of that again.

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 15h

Sorry, no, this not a Christian administration. This is inhumane, violent, insane, hell on wheels.

“There’s a baby!” ICE agents stop Alamosa family at gunpoint, smash car window

Immigration arrest last week in southern Colorado follows national trend of escalating force from ICE agents

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 15h

Ooooooof fucking course TrumpRx is another plot to line his own pockets. Of course. Can you imagine if Barack Obama tried to profit off of "Obamacare?" That's what we're talking about here.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 15h

Don Jr. allegedly stands to reap handsome profits from his dad’s radical overhaul of the way consumers purchase pharmaceutical drugs.

Trump’s Drug Overhaul Set to Line Relative’s Pockets

A firm that stands to reap huge profits from the MAGA administration’s prospective overhaul of pharma sales has a top member of the Trump clan on its board.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Colo. AG Phil Weiser (D) isn't optimistic that the Supreme Court will uphold Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors. It would be the third SCOTUS loss for Colo. on free speech/religious liberty grounds. I asked Weiser if Colo. is hostile to conservative Christians. #copolitics

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 15h

We know we're not supposed to have high expectations here but...what the fuck are we doing? kdvr.com/news/politic...

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 17h

Democrats are winning the shutdown
Republicans, meanwhile, are bumbling and stumbling. | PN

www.publicnotice.co/p/democrats-...

Democrats are winning the shutdown

Republicans, meanwhile, are bumbling and stumbling.

www.publicnotice.co

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 17h

O'Neall is the first Democrat elected mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska in over a decade.

Republican ousted by Democrat in shock election defeat

The mayoralty in Fairbanks, Alaska, has been held by a Republican for years.

www.newsweek.com

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 1d

Fucked up thing is the donuts laid out four of em

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Update from the war zone in Portland.

The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 1d

Operation Portillo's is underway

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 1d

We know this makes us shitlibs or whatever but Newsom is cooking

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
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Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 1d

1) immediate removal of all federal troops from all US Cities
2) immediate stop to ICE operations, unmasking agents, mandatory body cams for all, warrants for arrests of known fugitives only
3) release of the full, unredacted Epstein files
4) release of entire Tom Homan bribe file

What else?

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 1d

By every measure Democrats are winning the shutdown and they should move the goalposts into the ocean. This may be the only chance they get when the GOP is so divided. Here's a list of demands they should make, please help us add to it 👇

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 1d

Fucking insane to live through this

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 1d

Damn lmao

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 1d

REPUBLICANS IN RISSARRAY

Trump's off-script comments cause shutdown headaches for GOP

President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats.

www.politico.com

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 1d

And ended in an absolutely predictable 14-point Bennet blowout. Colorado was not in play in 2022. Colorado was not in play in 2024. Colorado is not in play in 2026. Anyone who knows anything should know better by now.

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