Usurping Democracy

Donald Trump's ex-attorney and fixer Michael Cohen continues to testify Tuesday in the former president's criminal hush money trial in New York. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.

A Brighton vegetable farm’s fight against a metro district’s eminent domain action to provide storm drainage for new housing drew hundreds of people to an Adams County courthouse Monday in support of the nearly century-old operation. Palizzi Farm, nestled between a grocery store, a strip mall and residential neighborhoods, is seen here at its location on East Bromley Lane in an image from September, 2023, in Brighton.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed two marquee land-use reform bills into law Monday, clearing the way for the building of more accessory-dwelling units and denser development in cities and suburbs across the Front Range. “The success of this bill will be measured in years,” Rep. Steven Woodrow, a Denver Democrat who sponsored the density measure, said at the signing ceremony outside a light rail station in Denver.

If you don't love Jasmine Crockett, well, I just don't know about you. She is a happy warrior, slicing & dicing Republicans--particularly those right in front of her like sad-sack-propagandist, Jim Jordan. In fact, she calls Jim Jordan a Russian propagandist in this video, RIGHT TO HIS FACE. She impugns the integrity and patriotism of Jim's GOP colleagues too--God, has this group of MAGA creeps earned it--and even calls Donald Trump the "C" word!! Yep, Jasmine, like Eric Swalwell, Stacey Plaskett, Gretchen Whitmer, Jamie Raskin, Ted Lieu, AOC, Gavin Newsom, Hakeem Jeffries, Adam Schiffand I could go on, are our future.

On this date in 1942 Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" premiered. Today it is being narrated by James Earl Jones, with Gerard Schwarz conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Infidel753, has a mighty link round-up for you. Mad Kane’s Political Madness: The Trials Of Trump (3-Verse Limerick.) The Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ calls on FBI to release timeline for conclusion of Shireen Abu Akleh investigation. Attention space nerds!

During breaks with Donald Trump's criminal trial, the former President typically meets reporters off to the side to whine about how cold it is in the courtroom; then he reads snips of articles by people in his toxic right-wing media bubble. Monday was not a good day for Lumpy, so he read Fox News columns aloud as proof that he was innocent.