Two Denver officers were arresting a driver as a bystander was recording and yelling at them. The cops then arrested him. A federal judge has green-lit a jury trial against the city over whether the officers violated his constitutional rights: www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/10/30/d...

Denver to face trial over arrest of man recording officers, judge says

A jury will decide whether Denver has widespread practices or policies that led officers to unconstitutionally arrest a man for recording and speaking to them, a federal judge ruled last month.

coloradopolitics.com

meet the new boss, same as the old boss

The Colorado Sun ☀️@coloradosun.com · 2w ago

Amendment 87, if passed, would raise taxes on people and businesses making more than about $500,000, while cutting taxes for everyone else, to raise an estimated $2 billion for healthcare, K-12 education and childcare. coloradosun.com/2026/10/30/w...

GEO Group has filed its reply to the 10th Circuit saying the private prison operator and we, the public, both share an interest in preventing its loss of qualified immunity in a forced-labor lawsuit it has tried to keep from a jury for 12 years.

Michael Karlik@michaelkarlik.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: Private prison operator GEO Group is running to the 10th Circuit, for the fourth time in 12 years, to stave off a forced-labor jury trial scheduled to begin on Monday. After 12 years of not raising qualified immunity, the company did so this year...1/x www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/10/27/g...

this is bad policy. we should be publicly streaming these proceedings, not shrouding them in more secrecy.

Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition@coloradofoic.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Colorado’s federal trial court is seeking public comment on a proposed program that would require certain visitors to lock up their cell phones inside its courthouses."

jena griswold is a huckster who is only running for ag to climb the political ladder but we can't put this guy into office. he'll clearly abandon all of the good things weiser has done and will be even worse than weiser when it comes to civil rights cases.

The Denver Post@denverpost.com · 4w ago

Michael Allen -- a Republican running against Jena Griswold -- is a moderate Republican who has proven twice that he can stand up to the more extreme members of his political party, The Denver Post Editorial Board writes in its endorsement.

“You know we have cameras in that town, and you can’t get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing, correct?"

Denver woman sues Flock, police after being accused of a crime she didn’t commit

denverpost.com

You know what? Good. We have spent years making the state killing of people both seemingly antiseptic and invisible. This makes the brutality of the state killing in our name naked and undeniable. They think they are being macho edgelords. I think it will horrify more than anything.

Pentagon says it will livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter

The execution would be the U.S. military’s first execution by firing squad since World War II.

ms.now

Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his Gillette Stadium show in Massachusetts.

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

i challenge mayor johnston to stop talking about football for 10 seconds and focus on actually governing the city he is mayor of.

The Denver Post@denverpost.com · last mo.

Mayor Mike Johnston says Denver wants Super Bowl bid as early as 2033

Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing

It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?

How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.

slate.com

As is the case in virtually every actual housing "abundance" policy fight that has ever occurred in a U.S. city not named SF or LA, it's conservatives and centrists standing in the way of upzoning/density and progressives and "the groups" organizing in support of it.

After proposing a citywide upzoning, Denver scales back ‘Unlocking Housing Choices’

Council members said their neighborhoods weren’t ready for density, while housing advocates decried the change.

denverite.com

imagine the fawning praise that the i70 project would have gotten.

Chase Woodruff@chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Remarkable that "Colfax BRT is a year ahead of schedule" has been a total non-story after two years of relentlessly negative local media coverage of car-centric business owner complaints

Remarkable that "Colfax BRT is a year ahead of schedule" has been a total non-story after two years of relentlessly negative local media coverage of car-centric business owner complaints

mayor johnston is pro-flock and pro-data center. that, alone, should get him voted out in april.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: Denver is once again considering a mass surveillance system contract just under the amount that would trigger City Council review. @spencersoicher.bsky.social reports:

NEW: Charges filed against four protesters arrested during a July protest outside an ICE field office in Arapahoe County will be dismissed Friday, the 18th Judicial District said.

Charges to be dropped against 4 arrested during ICE protest in Arapahoe County

denverpost.com

"The energy consumed would equal about 11 times the power used by Denver International Airport" ELEVEN DIAs That airport DWARFS all of Denver. ONE datacenter

Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · 2mo ago

A vacant lot in Aurora is slated to become the largest data center in Colorado. At full buildout, the energy consumed would equal about 11 times the power used by Denver International Airport. From @capitalandmain.bsky.social

spending thousands of dollars ripping out bike lanes definitely makes transit more affordable, right? right?

Deep Singh Badhesha@deepnotshallow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is in NYC for a conference and posts a pic with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, saying they're discussing "making housing, childcare, and transit more affordable." Mike's making his pivot left. Does it save him in April? Time will tell, but it just might.

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

404media.co

Community rallies around 4 charged in Arapahoe County protests against ICE

Community rallies around 4 charged in Arapahoe County protests against ICE

denverpost.com

breaking: littleton republican has dumb opinions about city he does not live in. more at 10.

Ryan (Ry) Warner@ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The head of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce doesn’t much like one-party rule, Democratic Socialism, or removing parking downtown to make way for bike lanes. J.J. Ament sees only limited opportunity for residential conversions of office buildings. Demolitions coming, he believes. Read/listen:

this, but for a bike lane.

The Denver Post@denverpost.com · 2mo ago

CDOT gets green light for $800 million I-270 reconstruction in north metro Denver

why have a bunch of dense housing near mass transit when you can have a glaring example of the climate apocalypse that failing to build dense housing near transit has wrought?

Chase Woodruff@chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Impossible to come up with a more mean-spirited parody of Homeowner Mindset than "demanding the city irrigate 150 acres of Kentucky bluegrass in a historic drought because the blighted money pit we expressly voted to keep that way to shore up our property values has become a fire hazard"

it would be nice to have a pro-transit mayor for once.

Deep Singh Badhesha@deepnotshallow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Who's Shontel? Born and raised in Five Points. DPS grad + CU Denver. Former RTD board director. Now District 8 councilwoman, and one of the first openly Black LGBTQ+ members of the council.

friendly psa: if you submit an obviously ai-generated intake into my law firm the odds of me taking your case drop significantly.

This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE

these "changes" are bullshit marketing and we should not trust a single thing said by them (and any other company pushing alprs).

The Denver Post@denverpost.com · 3mo ago

Flock Safety, the surveillance tech company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers of both parties, civil liberties advocates and citizens across the U.S., announced it's making changes intended to quell privacy concerns and address abuses of its system by members of law enforcement.

ICYMI: Should you be able to obtain Flock camera records about your own vehicle in Colorado? A class-action lawsuit in Boulder District Court focuses in part on that question.

Are Flock camera images of your own vehicle available under Colorado public records laws? - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition

Should you be able to obtain Flock camera records about your own vehicle in Colorado? A class-action lawsuit in Boulder District Court focuses in part on that question.

coloradofoic.org

is this motherfucker really doing a politics PSA centered around the legal test for employees vs independent contractors lmfaoooo

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3mo ago

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.