Megan

irreverent. she/her | Denver | Molly Brown Ultimate | #coleg | speak the truth though it may be bitter @nutmegnchives.bsky.social

[Megan @nutmegnchives]

At the current pace of decarceration, it will take 72 years to cut the US prison population in half.

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[Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslnational]

(8/8) The Trump administration’s program is nothing short of a declaration of war against the working class. The so-called MAGA movement is part of a larger, global effort by the far-right to use racism and xenophobia to divide the working class.

His focused attacks on immigrant workers are designed to conceal a billionaire’s agenda to wipe out the social and economic reforms that were the result of the struggles of the labor movement, the civil rights movement, women, the LGBTQ community, and the growing movement to protect the environment and save the planet. The unfettered rule of capitalist corporations is the real agenda.

It is urgent that a new mass movement be built in defense of people’s political, economic, and social rights. At the same time, the Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that it is critical to build a mass, nationwide socialist movement to address the real problem, the capitalist system, which is unable to meet the needs of people and is addicted to militarism and war.

[Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslnational]

📰NEW PSL STATEMENT – Trump wins as the Democratic Party moves further to the right

Read ⤵️
https://t.co/Z6QvFYnB3J

[Chase Woodruff @dcwoodruff]

I must have missed the 27 community feedback meetings where my city government decided that Silicon Valley's planet-warming plagiarism machines are the future of local government. But it's not like this is anything major like building 3 new blocks of a protected bike lane.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

I'll never forget when Zionists spent weeks saying Israel would never attack a hospital in Gaza. Since then they have attacked every single hospital in Gaza, and are now doing the same in the West Bank.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The crowd of Democrats cheering a petty, callous, and poorly executed slap down of people simply asking her to stop participating in a genocide is the historical nadir of the “lesser of two evils” discourse so predictably weaponized against people who yearn for a better world.

[Andy McNulty @aj_mcnulty]

you can't reform this.

[The People's Forum @PeoplesForumNYC]

🇻🇪🚨BREAKING! Tonight, the U.S. State Department released a statement announcing—in contradiction to the official Venezuelan election results—the far-right opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, as the winner of the Presidential election. This inappropriate and blatant meddling in the democratic electoral process of Venezuela is part of the U.S. government’s playbook for destabilizing and intervening in other countries for their own interests.

​​We saw a similar plot unfold in 2019 when the U.S. recognized “self-declared” Juan Guaidó as President of Venezuela. The U.S. has no place to determine or “verify” the election results of another country’s sovereign democratic elections.

Especially during the Trump presidency, the U.S. imposed hundreds of economic sanctions and coercive measures on Venezuela that were deliberately designed to create economic suffering, hunger, social instability and emigration. As the economic noose was tightened, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans fled the country in an effort to find relief from this economic reality. Economic sanctions are a diabolical warfare that impose suffering and death on the population as a form of collective punishment by the United States and its principle allies in NATO. This policy has been imposed on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and other countries in the global south that have tried to chart an independent path.

The people of the world won’t stand for U.S. imperialism’s attempts to defy the democratic mandate of the Venezuelan people. Hands Off Venezuela!

#Venezuela #HandsOffVenezuela

[Nathaniel Minor @nbminor]

Minor update to this:

RTD just sent me more of the chief's vehicle records that show dozens more 100mph+ speeding incidents than I reported last week. Up to 109mph.

[Alex Vitale @avitale]

Body cameras expand police surveillance without increasing accountability.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. I didn't fully know what to expect when I started digging into over a decade of records, statements, financial data, and other information about police body cameras. I suspected it to be troubling, but what I found shocked even me.

[Colorado Working Families Party 🐺 @COWorkingFam]

City Councilmembers Sarah Parady, @SerenaForCO, @Shontel4Council, @FlorForDenver, @DenverPerfect10 have joined the rally ahead of tonight’s vote!

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

And when it comes down to it, the "liberal center" would rather risk handing power to fascists than accept even the remotest possibility of socialist reform. They claim to value universal rights and civil liberties, but at base all that matters to them is capital accumulation.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

This week a bribed Supreme Court legalized political bribery, then criminalized homelessness, then took away federal agencies power over their own regulations and handed it to corporations. Illegitimate is too kind a word for that institution. They're an enemy of the people.

[Denver7 News @DenverChannel]

The executive director of the Denver Civil Service Commission, Niecy Murray, is alleging city leadership is putting Mayor Mike Johnston's campaign promises above established procedures. @AllieJennerjahn reports on the details of those accusations.

https://t.co/yBrXjFX02A

[Chase Woodruff @dcwoodruff]

Colorado homeowners, who already make cost-controlled mortgage payments, will now also get cost-controlled property taxes courtesy of state intervention, while the state continues to ban local governments from enacting cost control for renters. https://t.co/HdJDM551gh

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

No wonder they banned TikTok. There’s about 100,000 videos like this going viral on there right now.

https://t.co/fe1Bre5Blf

[z the transgender menace @actup2exist]

I am so proud of our Colorado students resisting genocide in any way that they can. I know encampments are a strategy that works in some places, but not all. I also know the Auraria encampment is so powerful.

Rise. Resist. Genocide must end.

[𝑽𝑰𝑵𝑪𝑬 @VinnieChant]

Arrests have begun at the Auraria Campus where students spent the evening demanding a University divestment from Israel.

[Colorado Palestine Coalition @copalestineco]

Over the past few months our social media accounts have been censored!

We will also now be sharing action updates and announcements on our telegram, which you can join here to stay updated: https://t.co/b6RMJjfDHB

[Students for a Democratic Society - Denver @sds_denver]

Auraria campus students are on the Tivoli Quad right now in a solidarity encampment with the people of Palestine. We are answering the call to establish the Popular University for Gaza.