I've buddies (from Colorado) who have talked up that Colorado is a liberal hellscape (they are proud trump supporters), and it's destroying the labor of others. since these guys are prime examples of far-right crazies, I doubt their opinions are right, but other right-wing crazies and the conservative media tend to agree with their views. I thought I'd come to Reddit to ask if Colorado is as liberal as some people make it out to be.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/01/31/colorado-turf-bill-residential/

For those who haven't seen it, the media has addressed the rumors of ICE meeting with Mind Springs to re-purpose a facility as a detainment center:

https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/ western_colorado/interim-ceo-mind-springs-ice-rumors-largely-untrue/article_7a587fdc-ddb1-11ef-ad62-db743cd29049.amp.html

What was confirmed is that ICE indeed visited the Mind Springs facility with the intention to utilize it, but according to the CEO of Larkin, it will not be a detainment center - but rather a facility for detainees to receive mental healthcare.

Obviously, my last post was extremely polarizing. My intention was not to stir people up, I believe Mesa Co. citizens have a right to know these things - regardless of political leanings.

To the reporters and interested parties who reached out to me, thank you for doing good work.

To the people who became angry at the initial post, I hope you're having a better day today.

To anyone who is upset that my initial post wasn't entirely accurate, understand that I'm not a reporter. I made it very clear that this was word-of-mouth from multiple sources, which did indeed have a hint of truth to it. I didn't make the post for any journalistic, political, or troll purposes. I did it because I believe that citizens of this town have a right to know what is happening with the resources we have been provided.

In my opinion, Mind Springs has always been a neglectful, apathetic, and corruptive force around here. For them to offer up services to the federal government after years of rejecting services to the citizens of this town is despicable.

And on top of that, I find the presence of ICE and the idea of a detainment facility on our town to also be despicable.

Whether you're right or left, consider what will truly help this community - and who is truly trying to help you. l've tried to think through every angle, but at the end of the day, nothing good will come from this. Less people will get mental healthcare, less people will be in our workforce, and less people are going to feel safe in this town.

Nobody wins.

My first interview of an elected in 15 years. I interviewed Senator Liston on nuclear energy.

Forewarning to those who could effected in Mesa County, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is intending to set up a detention facility in Grand Junction. The word on the street is that they are making a deal with Mind Springs/West Springs to repurpose one of their unused facilities on S Commercial Dr. and fashion it into a detention facility - specifically to separate families and house the children of immigrants.

There is currently a chance for Gov. Polis to block the deal, but nothing is yet set it stone. If they cannot set up a facility in Mesa County, their next target is Eagle County.

Before any conversation regarding this devolves into tedious political discourse, let’s just think about our community right now. These are friends, neighbors, co-workers, laborers, volunteers, and professionals. These are kind and caring people. If you refuse to see that, your heart is broken.

Deuteronomy 10:18: He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.

Let’s take care of each other.

EDIT: Correction - 569 S Commercial Dr. is the current field office for ICE. That is public info. ICE allegedly intends to utilize the overflow building at the main Mind Springs location. Apparently they want it operating by March. I have no idea how this deal is being made, but considering Mind Springs’ very public financial troubles, it wouldn’t surprise me if all it took was a huge payout.

For anyone further interested, Mind Springs is now under management by an out of state organization called Larkin (from Florida). Apparently, Larkin has provided ICE with mental healthcare for decades. Do with that what you will.

Do most people realize bird flu is happening, and that eggs prices are high because of shortages, and not because of “the Dems”? I keep hearing people blame Polis for egg prices, despite this being a national issue.

Check out pictures of what caged/cage free/pasture raised conditions look like.

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/business/egg-shortage-prices.html

I live in Longmont near Union Reservoir and entered my zip code in house.gov to identify my representatives. I was informed that Joe Neguse and Gabe Evans were my representatives which makes sense as I am in District 2. However, when I entered my address on their contact forms, I'm told that I am outside of their district.

Does anyone know another way to find their email addresses? I Can't find anything online and the forms keep turning me away.

Thank you for your time.

I sincerely apologize if I missed anything in the rules, I’m new to this sub.

I contacted all the legislators for my district this morning.

I have some pointed feedback for Boebert, but I’m not in her district, so I can’t message her through official channels.

If anyone is in her district and is open to collaborating on a message, I’d like to share my disapproval of her actions, such as being the first legislator to invite pardoned attackers to tour our Capitol.

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1040

Now that the new Legislative session has opened, our annual "nuclear as clean energy" bill is here. This time there are a lot more sponsors than the past two years, including major bipartisan support in both houses.

• Alex Valdez (D) Chair of the House Energy Committee
• Ty Winter (R) Assistant House Minority Leader
• Dylan Roberts (D) Senate Majority Caucus Leader
• Larry Liston (R) Sponsor of previous bills

The main points of the bill are adding nuclear energy to two statutory definitions.

• The statutory definition of "clean energy" determines which energy projects are eligible for clean energy project financing at the county and city level.
• The statutory definition of "clean energy resource" determines which energy resources may be used by a qualifying retail utility to meet the 2050 clean energy target.

This bill won't be heard until after Jan 30th. Now is a good time to contact your Representative and Senator to tell them your view. This is doubly true if your Representative serves on the House Energy and Environment Committee (https://leg.colorado.gov/committees/energy-environment/2025-regular-session) or on the Senate Transportation and Energy Committee (https://leg.colorado.gov/committees/transportation-energy/2025-regular-session)

GENERAL PROTEST***

**UPDATE If you're like me and want to meet other people who feel the same, I joined a few of these events.

https://map.peoplesmarch.com/local

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to ask this subreddit if anyone has any planned protests on January 20th?

At this point it feels like our voices of the working class are being ignored and social media is being used to make us fight amongst each other.

• The rhetoric Trump has spread to acquire Canada, Mexico, or Greenland and turn our allies towards Iran and China is incomprehensible no matter what our political beliefs are.
• The fact our working class individuals with criminal history always have this history stuck on their background checks and cannot get jobs while Trump gets convicted and no prison sentence is a spit in the face of all of us. Not just liberals, all of us.
• The fact that we've been convinced that minimum wage employees aren't deserving of being able to afford to live is a con of "unskilled labor" since Reagan's presidency. Before in our heyday, Americans didn't have to be Engineers to afford to put food on the table.
• The fact that our home insurance companies are pulling out or dropping people as customers as our own state faces wind damage or weather events is shameful and downright corrupt. You get punished for using them and there is no politician talking about this pain.
• The fact that our elderly in Pueblo and across the states get neglected in lower-income nursing homes screaming for help in understaffed health sectors is atrocious. So many elderly people end up having sh*t burnt into their bottoms while they lay in their own waste.
• The fact that Colorado Springs voted twice for legalized weed and our mayor is sitting on his hands to implement it with stipulations is about the dumbest pearl-clutching moments while Alcohol is available readily in about every block.
• The fact that cost of living has gotten so ridiculous and our only grocery options are Safeway or King Soopers, while you cannot find an Aldi's, a Pete's Market, a Publix is designed on purpose. They don't really want to compete. They all want to artificially keep prices up.
• The fact that rent is only rising while wages are not matching and our politicians play ignorant when they can push for non-for-profit housing is shameful.
• The fact that Citizens united shifted the power from the people to corporate unchecked capitalist winners cannot be ignored.
• The fact that our state is 1 of 6 that tax Social Security benefits is atrocious. How dare they, this is what people rely on when they are the most vulnerable in society.
• The fact that hard working Federal employees were told "Sorry you're not getting paid for Christmas Eve or Day of mourning" and soldier's benefits are being stripped is a slap in the face of people's hard work.
• The fact that home builders in this state were able to build homes out of line with code or with known faults and the cost of fixing these faults fell on victimized homeowners is despicable.
• The fact that Tiny homes cannot be placed in communities to help the poor is nothing but selfishness and greed.

Now more than ever we need to unite. It's not Democrats vs. Conservatives. It's not Liberals vs. Conservatives.

This is OUR COUNTRY.

We must unite and fight together and stop taking in their poisonous status quo.

We must unite and fight for even our ancestors didn't stand for taxation without true representation. They don't care about us.

Please if anyone can hear me, tell me if you would like to join me and protest. Just a few of you, are you out there Colorado?