Some local stories

coloradosun.com/2025/08/07/den…
Increasing minimum wages in CO & Denver.

coloradosun.com/2025/08/08/zeb…
CO efforts to find the source of Zebra Mussels in the Colorado River.

coloradosun.com/2025/08/08/kid…
A "study" claims over 30% of kids can access a loaded gun.

cbsnews.com/colorado/news/scho…
Local school district ends valedictorians & their speeches.

coloradosun.com/2025/08/08/nor…
Concern about cost & quality of new dams & drinking water distribution system in Northern CO.

MAGA Don speaks

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Statement about another peace agreement negotiated by MAGA Don & his staff. This time between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Plus a recap of seven prior agreements.

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Another summary of MAGA Don's first 200 days of wins.

RTF Lecture invitation: Strategic Thinking for the Arctic in the 21st Century and Beyond (A Lesson in Nation Building with Peter Scholz) matthewehret.substack.com/p/rt…

So I cut a piece of reaper that was small enough to fit on a toothpick. It smelled fruity. First bite was immediately like black pepper and the heat level grew to serrano or arbol levels. Fruity flavor in retrograde olfaction. Heat lasts for a long time, easily 10-15 minutes and saliva feels like a jalapeno in my throat 5 or more minutes after that. HR1 grabbed the cut pepper and didn't understand why I snatched their hand and made them wash thoroughly.
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I didn't sweat and my forehead didn't get warm but the heat had staying power and my nose got runny. Fruity flavor aftertaste is still in my mouth. Reminds me of the jelly run I did last year and a pepper soda whose name I can't remember. From maybe 1/20th of the pepper.

Cartoons for today

creators.com/read/al-goodwyn-c…
Al Goodwyn with Putin using a feather on a string to irritate a "Trump" cat.

rofcbybroc.com/2025/08/07/tech…
Broc Smith with a donkey defacing a Trump picture & saying "Technically it is not Gerrymandering"

creators.com/read/gary-varvel/…
Gary Varvel with a Democrat bus turning left over a cliff; can't turn right.

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Tom Stiglich with a donkey explaining Gerrymandering helps represent constituents when they do it; a power grab if not.

Solana Price Could Be Playing Catch Up To Litecoin and Remittix As We Head Into September - As September sets in, Solana Price, Litecoin, and Remittix tokens are getting investors’ ... - blockonomi.com/solana-price-co… #pr

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the part of the story that’s really interesting is how did they increase the water flow
Caesar Creek Lake
Well wouldn’t you know it turns out Caesar Creek Lake is really a man made lake that has a Dam built in 1970 funny how whenever there’s a flood it’s always near a man made lake that has a Dam so if USACOE can increase the flow seems like they could lower the lake before a flood happens

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_C…

‘NHS cut funding to my 98-year-old grandmother because she didn’t die on time’ share.google/raKrZXZFHI1Zm0obL

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Wonder if ICE will be able to get the job done here. I know Murray wants to enforce federal immigration laws, but our governor doesn’t.

texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/…

Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a major victory against Robert Francis O’Rourke and his radical organization, Powered by People, by stopping continued unlawful fundraising activity, including potentially operating a misleading financial-influence scheme to fund runaway Democrats who fled Texas to break quorum.

A Texas district court has granted a temporary restraining order, halting all unlawful expenditures and fundraising while the litigation continues.

The other day. Ghislaine met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who used to be Trump's private lawyer ...

Here's how it's about to go down:

Ghislaine names a bunch of Democrats, maybe tosses in a few billionaires.

She says Trump did nothing wrong.

MAGA praises her for "taking down the pedophiles.'

Trump pardons her...

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@shipwreckedcrew: "Observation on a 'new' census:

The Constitution reads as follows:

'The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.;

If a Census is taken 'Year 3,' what is 'within every subsequence Term of ten years'? [...]

#Trump47 #Census

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Col. Macgregor: Ukraine Headed for COLLAPSE, U.S. NOT Ready for WAR with Russia odysee.com/ukraine-collapse-ru…
in reply to George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@gme
I happen to believe that the fact that NPR's embedded journalist was scooped by Pro Publica is worth bringing attention to.

I'm not too interested in your contrary opinion on U.S. media, but I am curious what you suggest would have been a better focus of my attention?

in reply to Kevin Leecaster

Seriously?

In 2000, journalists expressed concern that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's officiating at Totenberg's wedding[28] could be seen as a conflict of interest.[29] Totenberg did not consider it a conflict of interest since her friendship with Ginsberg was established before Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court.[29]


Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Tot…

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#headlines #fail #no-kidding #goverment-schools

Bonus: no they get to pay some school board members family to cut the grass at 5 times the average price...

Bonus 2: kids playing on chemically treated grass end up life long members of the medical establishment - no matter how short that life is...

I'd been rolling my own VPNs for a while, since my needs aren't really that demanding, and hadn't really engaged with any commercial providers.

I started messing about with Tailscale at a really rudimentary level recently to just get a bit more familiar with it and I've gotta say they seem to be doing an amazing job of smoothing out a lot of pain points. Can't wait to shoot myself in the foot with it! :awesome:

A two-missile "Israeli" raid targeted a car near Venice University, Abu Al-Aswad Highway, in southern Lebanon. english.alahednews.news/fastne…
in reply to James_inthe_box

this looks like home edition, which only supports vmk sealed by tpm and by recovery key

“why do i need to sign in” - so the recovery key can be escrowed with MS, mainly to (try and) prevent actual data loss if it’s ever needed, but also so law enforcement can easily get to it without needing to use one of the many, many vulns present allowing to dump the vmk when it’s sealed by tpm ;)

Seija Day (8/8)

Ha, you thought a fox would appear for you since it's a Friday? Too bad! It's nothing but the youkai that brings everyone disgust, the one everyone hates.

Seija, the amanojaku who seeks chaos and revolution. She's weak, possibly given certain circumstances weaker than a fairy. So she plays dirty, cheats, flees from battle, her spell cards have no beauty to them. She often speaks the opposite of what she thinks, not because she can't speak the truth, but because she believes the world more fun if everyone hates even her method of conversation.

Thing is, this life Seija has chosen for herself is empty. I think she realizes that just as well as anyone else. It's why, despite all her talk about being despised, she's genuinely stuck with Shinmy. She can't betray the inchling because it'd hurt her to do so. For Seija, having that kind of connection is more painful than anything else. Maybe with more connections like that, Seija can become slightly better. Having someone to care about not just as a friend, but something more, could possibly get her to finally calm down.

youtube.com/watch?v=o9MerJGPBf… I could've gone for a proper Reverse Ideology arrange, but that feels wrong to me. Reverse Ideology is a track born of Seija having the advantage. To post that would be giving her too much credit. Thus lonely rebel. I really like it.

mangadex.org/title/3a5639f6-52… A doujin that asks, who do you trust more to relate a story. The amanojaku who wants to be hated, and will twist anything to achieve that? Or the Inchling who just wants her friend to be safe?

"Dear Friends,

Please pray for Jason McGuire, our executive director. As a result of Letitia James' lawfare, he is heading into his third weekend of incarceration in a Livingston County Jail. The article below is his reflection on his first weekend behind bars."

newyorkfamilies.org/2025/08/me…

At least two people detained in SF by ICE today. How many more?

A 25-year-old Colombian woman and a 41-year-old Salvadoran father among those detained

missionlocal.org/2025/08/ice-i…