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Marianne Goodland

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Award-winning chief lege reporter ColoradoPolitics.com & gazette.com; dean #coleg press corps; president of the Denver Press Club, an award-winning Celtic harpist & best of all, a cancer survivor!

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I wouldn’t worry about that if I were you. The chances of it making the ballot are probably one in a million (which is what the proponent would have to cough up to get it on the ballot).

10.03.2026 22:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That actually works-to put RM High into first place as the state song.

10.03.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Among the ballot initiatives recently filed in Colorado that caught my attention today: one that would remove the columbine as the Colorado state flower and replace it with the cannabis flower.

10.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm sorry (not sorry) that you're leaving CBS. You have too much integrity to work for Bari Weiss. Good luck and I can't wait to see where you land next.

09.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Occasionally conspiracy theories turn out to be true.

Reminder: Epstein’s former BFF Donald Trump was president when he died in federal custody. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

08.03.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 570 πŸ” 252 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 9

It is true that if your goal is to maximize the number of clicks on a given piece of content, you don't want to produce a 3,000-word piece. But maybe not everyone should be trying to maximize clicks! Maybe it's okay to target a smaller, more devoted audience. Indeed I've bet my entire career on it.

06.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 522 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

I get the same thing. My stories are rarely under 1000 words-I write about public policy.

06.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Free Press Condemns ICE Arrest of Colombian Journalist Seeking Political Asylum The Nashville reporter’s detention by federal immigration officials poses a grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know.

Nashville reporter's detention by federal immigration officials poses grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know. A thread on Estefany Rodriguez: www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...

06.03.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 181 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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ICE detains reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 12422 πŸ” 7482 πŸ’¬ 296 πŸ“Œ 340
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Markwayne Mullin Reportedly Fingered Nostrils of Colleagues and Their Spouses During Visit to Israel A former House Republican claims that in 2015, Markwayne Mullin – then a congressman – took photos of himself putting his finger up the noses of...

www.mediaite.com/politics/mar...

17.11.2023 23:12 πŸ‘ 490 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 81
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Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem His use of the Iran war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.

Still agog at this (beyond my baseline agog) www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

05.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Jaquez Lewis similarly showed little remorse; at her sentencing last week she didn't apologize to the three victims, her constituents, the state Senate or the people of Colorado. This was forging letters in an ethics investigation. Hardly at the same level of what Peters was convicted on.

04.03.2026 04:06 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

LOTR reference! That’s what I’m here for πŸ˜„

03.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 161 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Every day they dismantle more of our guardrails and knock down speed limit signs and cut everyone’s brake lines β€” and eventually there is going to be a massive pileup on this metaphorical highway equivalent to *or worse than* the 2020 pandemic.

03.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 530 πŸ” 115 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

02.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 8069 πŸ” 2220 πŸ’¬ 120 πŸ“Œ 70

According to Nielsen, 'CBS Evening News' just recorded its lowest-rated February of the 21st century, averaging 4.4 million total viewers and 538,000 in the key 25-54 demographic.

27.02.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 3277 πŸ” 646 πŸ’¬ 318 πŸ“Œ 384
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The Taliban are burning musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an assault on all culture The sounds of Afghan history are being erased to prevent music’s β€˜moral corruption’ of the Afghan people. We can help keep Afghanistan’s music alive. Plus, Eliane Radigue’s deep listening, and the brilliance of Sinners’s score

The Taliban are burning musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an assault on all culture

25.02.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 434 πŸ” 205 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 45

This is just pathetic, to be playing like this at the end of February.

25.02.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Keeler: Nuggets legend Doug Moe was face of Denver sports before John Elway, its Joker before Nikola Jokic Doug Moe became the face of Denver sports before John Elway, the Nuggets’ Joker before Nikola Jokic. And the NBA still hasn’t quite caught up with him.

πŸ€ #Nuggets Nation just lost the greatest stiff of all. Doug Moe officially left us for That Big Coffee Shop In The Sky, holding Big Jane in one hand and Saint Peter with the other. A tribute to a Denver lcon, via @nuggetsnews:

www.denverpost.com/2026/02/17/n...

#MileHighBasketball #NBA #sports

18.02.2026 10:35 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

23.02.2026 01:51 πŸ‘ 29441 πŸ” 4984 πŸ’¬ 333 πŸ“Œ 124
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The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

23.02.2026 00:10 πŸ‘ 22909 πŸ” 8815 πŸ’¬ 5576 πŸ“Œ 3312
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Keystone Kash Busted Celebrating in Olympic Locker Room on 'Work Trip' His assistant public affairs director insisted the FBI director was not in Italy for the Winter Olympics.

His assistant public affairs director insisted the FBI director was not in Italy for the Winter Olympics.

22.02.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 2073 πŸ” 697 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 165

US taxpayers probably pay FBI spox Ben Williamson $150,000 to $220,000 a year.

22.02.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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National redistricting fight reaches Colorado with ballot measures targeting GOP-held congressional districts A Democratic-aligned group backed by the House Majority PAC filed four versions of a 2026 ballot measure Tuesday that would temporarily suspend Colorado’s independent congressional redistricting commi...

You missed this one: www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/02/18/n...

20.02.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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18.02.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you have my stapler...

18.02.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Annoying that she got picked to do a lecture named after Daniel Pearl, a real journalist. What was UCLA thinking?

18.02.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rep. Bottoms said he would take questions. He didn't. He also didn't provide any evidence of his pedophilia claims.

18.02.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Turnout for state Rep. Scott Bottoms news conference on his bill to ban gender-affirming surgery for children and his claims (made without evidence) that there are pedophile rings at the Colorado Capitol. Bottoms is running for governor and has declared himself the front runner. #copolitics #coleg

18.02.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 11

Congrats! That’s a monumental success!

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