Official North Range Concerned Citizens

We are a coalition of Commerce City neighborhoods that firmly believes industrial activity is incompatible with residential areas anywhere. Official Account.

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

Official account, as of 1/19/19. Original account @nrconcerned hacked 12/30/18. Turns out we weren’t paranoid or crazy. All followers, following, tweets and replies disappeared, as did the profile photo. We’re not going anywhere, friends and allies.

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@JasonBassler1 We opted out. Walked a few feet and loaded our belongings on the conveyor belt. Next thing you know, both of us were pulled aside for special search.

We’re 75 years old. Nowhere near as threatening as we apparently became when we opted out.

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@Rossputin @shaundsylva @Costco What? It’s been years for the Exec membership. Nine months? I first had that membership over 20 years ago. $65 vs $130, including 2% cash back, which is great for anyone buying in bulk. Walmart’s new annual fee is $99

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@KyleClark Polis said before the vote that his decision will be “remembered fondly”. We believe it will be, too, but by election deniers who’ll idealize Peters as a victim despite a jury conviction in a highly conservative county. First stop? Fox News or Bill Maher?

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@DeepNotShallow Polis said before the vote that his decision will be “remembered fondly”. We believe it will be, too, but by election deniers who’ll idealize Peters as a victim despite a jury conviction in a highly conservative county. First stop: Fox News.

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@KyleClark Polis will be a recurring guest on Bill Maher. Right up Maher’s alley.

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@Cathy2NotToday More: For the past eight years, writer Robert Downen has had an inside view of Southern Baptist life, leadership, and a community of survivors as they’ve dealt with fallout from the church’s abuse crisis.
Read in Texas Monthly: https://t.co/3fEQXaUOq0

[CathyNotToday2 🌿 @Cathy2NotToday]

Oh my …. I asked one question and just stumbled on this

“Yes, House Speaker Mike Johnson has a direct professional connection to Alan Chambers, the former president of Exodus International, who was just arrested in an undercover child sex sting. [1]
The connection stems from Johnson's extensive past work with Exodus International, which was headquartered in Orlando, Florida. [m

The Recent Florida Arrest
On May 19, 2026, 54-year-old Alan Chambers was arrested in Winter Park, Florida, following a four-month undercover sting operation.

•The Charges: Chambers faces multiple felony charges, including solicitation of a minor via computer, transmission of harmful material to minors, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.

•The Investigation: According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office affidavit, Chambers used a messaging app under an alias to communicate with an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old boy, repeatedly plotting to meet for sexual activity.

🎇🎇Speaker Johnson's Direct Connection
As a senior attorney and spokesperson for the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) during the 2000s, Mike Johnson worked closely with Chambers and Exodus International:

•Legal Advisor to Chambers' Organization: Johnson served as a key legal advisor to Exodus International while Chambers was running the ministry. His role was specifically to provide the organization with legal strategy and reassurance regarding their controversial conversion therapy programs.
•Co-Promoter with Chambers: Johnson and Chambers actively partnered to promote the "Day of Truth" anti-LGBTQ+ student events. Johnson used media appearances and radio tours to boost the exact ministry that Chambers spearheaded.”

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

HANTAVIRUS HAS A MORTALITY RATE OF 40% IT IS NOT EASILY TREATED AT ALL AND CERTAINLY NOT BY WORM PILLS LIKE IVERMECTIN

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@DrJamesEHansen The only people laughing are those who either are too young to remember the past or are fossil fuel fanatics. If only we could go back to the past and correct our mistakes before harm is irreversible.

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@SenFettermanPA The White House proposed ballroom holds 999. The Hilton ballroom holds over 2,000. How many attendees at a WWE match?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Warren Buffett, in his first sit-down since stepping down as Berkshire CEO, gave the cleanest indictment of legalized gambling in a decade. He called it a tax cut for the wealthy. The math proves him exactly right.

Americans wagered $165 billion at legal sportsbooks in 2025. They lost $16 billion of that. FanDuel pulled $6 billion of the losses. DraftKings pulled $5.3 billion. Every state with legal mobile sports betting collected a tax on the bettor side. New York alone took in over $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax revenue.

Layer the lottery on top. State lotteries generate over $90 billion a year. The bottom half of income earners account for roughly 70% of total spend. The average lottery player makes $38,000. A household earning $20,000 spends three times more on tickets than one earning $30,000. The implicit tax rate, meaning whatever the state keeps after prizes, runs 30 to 50% depending on the game. No other revenue source in America has that base and that rate.

The structural design is the engine. A single straight sports bet carries a hold of 4 to 5%. A four-leg parlay carries a hold above 30%. FanDuel and DraftKings spent five years rebuilding their apps to make parlays the default product. FanDuel's blended hold rate hit 11.4% in 2025, up from roughly 7% in 2022. The product got worse for the customer and the customer wagered more anyway.

Now look at the substitution. Nine US states have no state income tax. Seven of those nine run state lotteries. Seven of those nine have legalized sports betting. The states most committed to never taxing wealth are the same states running the largest extraction machines on people who cannot afford to lose. Read it as policy.

Here is what Buffett is actually pointing at. The state needs revenue. It can raise income tax on the top decile, or it can run a lottery plus a sports betting tax. The second option raises the money from the people who can least afford it. The first option becomes politically optional. New York's $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax is $1.2 billion the state did not have to ask of someone earning $5 million.

DraftKings and FanDuel sell a privatized collection mechanism for a regressive tax that the state never has to defend at the ballot box again. Voters approve legalization once. Collection runs forever. The state takes a cut. The wealthy get a quieter top bracket. The bettor's cut shrinks every quarter as the parlay menu gets pushed harder.

The function of a government, Buffett said, is not to play its people for suckers.

Thirty-nine state governments now do.

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@Mind1nspired @gothburz So what’s your evidence that leads you elsewhere?

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@Mind1nspired @gothburz Obviously, you can’t play the game if you don’t have access to the information. That narrows the options down considerably. Call it a process of elimination.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Hey Republicans;
He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals. You said nothing.
He bulldozed the East Wing. You’ve said nothing.

He’s interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You’ve said nothing.
He took over the Kennedy Center, even renaming it after himself. You’ve said nothing.
He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You’ve said nothing.

He’s threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil. You’ve said nothing.
He’s tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You’ve said nothing.
He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 little girls in its first days. You’ve said nothing.
He’s alienated and insulted more countries than I can keep track of. You’ve said nothing.

His ICE Army is terrorizing and murdering U.S. citizens. You've said nothing.
He has committed murder on the high seas. You've said nothing.
He's co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You've said nothing.

You've not only said nothing to all of these egregious acts, and many more, but you have also enabled them.
And it’s only been a year.
Hey, Republican Congressmen, you took an oath, remember?
Not to him. To the Constitution.

It’s time to do your fucking jobs!

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@KyleClark Embarrassing coverage of Commerce City Flock situation. Passage was highly controversial. Public comment and social media would tell an entirely different story if anybody had actually investigated. Your reporter either missed the obvious or got hoodwinked. Either way, Kyle, bad.

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@DanielkmeyerMsn @NickRogersBTL Born in Denver and raised a Democrat. My grandparents were, too. The Dem switch actually happened when Gov. Lamm was elected. I’m in my 70s.

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@jeffhunt Probably people who know that American citizens have been maced, arrested, imprisoned or killed. Sort of most of us who’ve been paying attention to ICE behavior.

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@DefiyantlyFree Way overblown. Churches are nonprofits, too, or NGOs. Of course, the number is high. Foundations, Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, Goodwill — more than 1.5 million nonprofits in the US serving communities …

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@ClimateBen This language is consistently unproductive. What 2.6 degrees? To the average person, that’s 2.6 degrees warmer than today. Doesn’t seem like much to worry about. Why is it something to worry about?

[Official North Range Concerned Citizens @NorthRangeCC]

@bstokley14 Need someone to come to US and ses what’s going on here. It used to be so good but now it’s a mess. I wonder why? These people only want to put certain individuals in jail (and pardon other certain individuals). If you defraud Americans, you’re good. Why has US become like this?