Weekend Open Thread

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1. First there was talk of Jason Crow running for Governor. on 9 News Next.  Now, Michael Bannet's aides are reporting that he is in the same mix.  It sucks to be in a legislative minority.  I suspect Bennet doesn't see an end in the foreseeable future so he is looking to bail.  It's surprising if they hadn't talked to each other before this.  But, if so, I'm guessing Jason would be happy to run for Bennet's seat and let Bennet be governor.  Anyone want to run for CD6? (Ha!) 

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   1. I know I'm a broken record on this, but I hope Crow wouldn't have to worry about being in a minority long if he stays in the House. In 2018, the last donold midterm, Dems picked up 41 seats in the House. They only need to flip 3 net seats right now. The Senate's definitely a different story, but flipping 4 net seats there would work real good. Of course I'm working under the probably naive assumption that there will still be free and fair elections in 2026.

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   2. Dont encourage BOOBERT   LOL 

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2. Rejoice! Republicans just put bounties on their heads. They are saying they will give Colorado citizens slightly less than we spend in federal taxes back to the state if we release Republican criminals. Start the round up and auction their liberty for huge payoffs. 

   Want fast rail, healthcare, a modernized state? Let's start imprisoning all the Benson Center employees for theft. 

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3. “Five Ways Trump is Sabotaging The United States.” EmptyWheel.

   Yesterday, arguably for (at least) the second time, Trump declared fealty to Vladimir Putin.

   As I contemplated the awful but in no way surprising developments (here’s a good podcast, featuring Marc Polymeropoulos, Doug Lute, and Rosa Brooks), I thought about the various ways Trump is sabotaging the United States, based on apparently different motivations.

   But we only assume those motivations are different because we (or much of the legacy press, anyway) accept the claimed motivation Trump offers. When you look at all of them together, you simply can’t rule out they’re all part of the same effort to capitulate to Putin.

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      The Five Corruptions:

      Project 2025

      There’s a consensus that Trump is following the plan mapped out in Project 2025. This Politico report, from early February, laid out how Executive Orders Trump had signed implemented plans to attack diversity and LGBTQ protections, attack migrants, and protect disinformation. It focuses on fossil fuel plans that have mostly defunded renewable energy without raising fossil fuel exploitation (in part because it was already so high under Biden).

      DOGE infiltration and destruction of US government

      There have been a slew of stories about how DOGE provided cover for Russ Vought and Stephen Miller to implement Project 2025. Wired, for example, described how Stephen and his wife Katie, who is formally on the DOGE team, serve as gatekeepers to Elon and use Elon to carry out their dirty work.

      The installation of useful idiots

      It’s not just Elon who is making a mess. So are the other unqualified useful idiots Trump has installed — people like Pete Hegseth (who has fired three senior women officers after assuring Joni Ernst he wouldn’t target women) and Tulsi Gabbard (who parroted the same Russian propaganda she partly disavowed to get confirmed yesterday) and RFK Jr (who reneged on his promise not to cut off vaccine programs) and Kash Patel (who reneged on his promise to appoint a career FBI Agent as his Deputy).

      The personalization of DOJ

      We expected DOJ to be politicized in a second Trump term. I was even cynical enough to imagine that he would pardon all the January 6ers. The denialism about both Russia and January 6 were baked right into Project 2025.

      • The Federal Bureau of Investigation, knowing that claims of collusion with Russia were false,5 collaborated with Democratic operatives to inject the story into the 2016 election through strategic media leaks, falsified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications, and lied to Congress.6
      • Personnel within the FBI engaged in a campaign to convince social media companies and the media generally that the story about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop was the result of a Russian misinformation campaign—while the FBI had possession of the laptop the entire time and could have clarified the authenticity of the source.

      [snip]

      • The FBI engaged in a domestic influence operation to pressure social media companies to report more “foreign influence” than the FBI was actually seeing and stop the dissemination of and censor true information directly related to the 2020 presidential election.11

      But the personalization of DOJ, along with Pam Bondi’s orders to stop chasing foreign influence operations, does something more.

      It effectively makes foreign bribery — as well as the kind of kickbacks we saw in advance of Trump’s inauguration — legal.

      The capitulation to Russia

      Keep all that in mind as you consider Trump’s abject capitulation yesterday.

      Keep in mind that even before yesterday’s ambush of Zelenskyy, Pete Hegseth ordered Cyber Command to stand down any targeting of Russia.

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4. hmm….maybe we should start punching magas in the face…it seems nothing else works…

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5. Well, Mexico's Carlos Slim just hit Musk with a $7 billion Starlink cancellation. Much bigger economic impact than my decision not to buy anything on Feb. 28 (wasn't going to buy anything anyway)! If Musk loses a few billion here, takes a giant stock value hit there, then pretty soon we're talking real money.

   https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-companies/mexican-billionaire-carlos-slim-cuts-ties-with-elon-musk-s-starlink-costing-musk-7-billion-after-controversial-tweet/ar-AA1zWshm

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