GJPD Sued for Tasing Man Because Wife Wouldn’t Stop Arguing with Police
Grand Junction resident Abraham Ybarra filed a lawsuit against the Grand Junction Police Department for being tased because his wife was arguing with police. During the incident which took place in January of 2023, and was recorded on body cam and ring cam, officer Cody Lopez can be heard telling Ybarra’s wife “He’s gonna get tased again if you don’t stop.” All charges against Ybarra were dropped.
2024: The Coolest Year for the Rest of Your Life
Scientists at both NASA and the World Meteorological Organization confirmed that 2024 was the hottest year on record. Temperatures were 1.55 degrees celsius hotter than pre-industrial temperatures. The rise is significant because international agreements sought to limit temperature rise to less than 1.5 degrees. We’ve seen multiple once-in-a-lifetime disasters in 2024, from hurricane Helene to the fires in Los Angeles: hot, dry and extreme is the new normal.
SCOTUS Rejects Utah’s Quixotic Bid to Take Control of Public Lands
For decades, Utah has tried to get the federal government to turn over federal controlled BLM land to the state of Utah. The court did not explain its reasoning in a short order rejecting the case. Conservationists breathed a sigh of relief, but without a doubt the state of Utah will continue to seek control over Federal Lands within their state, and more importantly, the timber and mineral resources that can be sold to the highest bidder.
Park City Ski Patrollers Win Strike and Large Raise
After a thirteen day strike, patrollers won a $2 an hour raise for new hires and a $4 an hour raise for tenured patrollers. Patrollers won 24 out 27 contested points in the contract. Park City is owned by Vail Resorts. In similar news, Colorado’s own, A-Basin, patrollers also recently voted to unionize, as ski patrollers across the industry unionize for a just wage. Powderhorn has some of the lowest paid patrollers in the nation, and is ripe for unionization efforts.
Florida Man Must Use Imagination
Pornhub, the most-visited pornography website, blocked users from the states of Florida, Tennessee and South Carolina in January. New legislation in Florida that would require third-party age verification puts the publisher and users at too much legal risk. There are now fifteen states where Pornhub is unavailable.
Mesa County DA Fails to Keep Victim Safe
In a case that made national headlines, the DA failed to notify the victim that his assailant had bonded out of jail. Back in December, Patrick Egan allegedly assaulted a local reporter in a biased-motivated attack. The District Attorney’s office has an obligation to inform victims under the Colorado Crime Victims Act, which according to people close to the case, the DA failed to do.
Federal Court Upholds Florida Plan to Detransition Prisoners
In a sign of things to come, a federal court has upheld the Florida Department of Corrections policy that classifies gender dysmorphia as a “short-term delusion,” and severely limits gender-affirming care. Judge Allen Winsor, a Trump appointee with a history of anti-LGBTQ rulings, rejected the arguments made by the Florida ACLU, essentially forcing hundreds of inmates to involuntarily detransition.
HUD Report: Family Homelessness More Than Doubled in Colorado
The report found that nationwide homelessness was up 18%, and that roughly 770,000 people in our country are unhoused. The report found also that family homelessness more than doubled in Colorado from 2023 to 2024.
Ni Hao
The TikTok ban has backfired epically, as millions of Americans flooded onto the Chinese social media app RedNote. Decades of anti-Chinese propaganda has gone up in smoke as Americans wonder why Chinese citizens have better vehicles, phones, supermarkets, and quality of life than we do here in the states.
Montrose Bigots Operate with Impunity
In late December, swastikas and hateful graffiti was just another escalation against a student of color in Olathe. On January 17, a Native American man was accosted and harrassed while riding his bike. Back in August, we reported about the Montrose Pride being attacked during the fourth of July. Local law enforcement does not seem to be interested in enforcing the law and keeping people safe.
Deepseek Pops Tech Bros’ AI Bubble
Chinese startup Deepseek has cost the US AI industry a trillion dollars and made irrelevant billions in R and D. Deepseek is out performing ChatGPT and other mainstays of this much-hyped AI tech boom.
‘Move Fast and Break Things’
The flurry of executive orders, trade war threats, spending freezes, and DOGE takeovers are absolutely designed to spread fear and confusion and shock. In her book, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein examines the neo-liberal method of using disaster capitalism or a shock to enable capitalists and governments to make sweeping unpopular decisions while a populace is confused and disorientated. Don’t become disorientated, don’t get stuck in worry and fear—instead, resist. Trump has bluffed and folded a lot in these first two weeks, and it’s a testament to the resistance that is growing.
Durango Food Not Bombs Assaulted
On January 26, Food Not Bombs! Mutual Aid Distro/People’s Potluck Lunch (MAD PPL) were hosting their weekly meal and mutual aid distro and occasionally protest march, when an unidentified man started chanting “Trump, Trump, Trump.” An organizer then asked the man to leave and got instead a face full of bear-spray. Luckily, Medical Mutual Aid Durango was hosting their weekly free harm reduction distribution and free medical services, and were able to treat the victim.
Ceasefire in Gaza is Holding, Israel Attacks West Bank
As hostages continue to be exchanged, Israel has launched deadly new incursions into the occupied West Bank, with the city of Jenin seeing widespread violence and the destruction of Palestinian homes. Israel is still occupying land in Syria and Lebanon, all while Trump gives Israel the green light to remove all Gazans from the Gaza Strip
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