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The Rundown
+ Today’s Weather: It’s going to be a fun 48 hours, folks. Today’s high? 79 degrees. Tomorrow’s high? . That’s a 40-degree drop for those keeping score at home.
+ Today’s Editorial: “”
One of Colorado’s presidential electors is
“This is not about Hillary. This is about trying to stop Donald Trump.”
Micheal Baca, Colorado presidential elector
Micheal Baca wants to convince 37 Republican electors (you know, the people who comprise the Electoral College) to not vote for Donald Trump . “Yes. Itap possible,” said Kyle Saunders, a political science professor at Colorado State University. “Is it likely? No.”
Sexual assault victim sheds anonymity to help other victims
Kendra Heuer was sexually assaulted by fellow CU Boulder student Austin Wilkerson in a case that . After two years of anonymity in the case, Heuer decided to go public with her identity to shed her shame and take back control of her life. .
By The Numbers
109,000
That’s the 16 percent of Denver’s population who were born outside of the United States. While it’s not known how many of that number are here illegally, it’s a big enough number that , no matter what changes come down from president-elect Donald Trump. The issue isn’t one of politics, , but of public safety: Everyone, including people in the country illegally, need to feel safe reporting emergencies without fear of being deported.
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Quick Hits
+ , with one ESPN analyst calling Mike MacIntyre the “national coach of the year.”
+ Denver began downtown.
+ . If you’re trying to figure out what that actually means, The Cannabist .
+ Wow: .
+ , 9 days later than usual, in advance of the coming snowstorm.
+ Amendment T, the confusingly written amendment to remove a reference to slavery in the state constitution, .
+ Surprising no one, .
+ according to Gary Kubiak. Meanwhile, .
+ .
+ A man with a prosthetic leg .
+ There were.
+ , even as .
Trump Watch
+ One of the quickly established myths of this election simply isn’t true: “.”
+ “” is a really good insight into one of the less-talked-about motivations for supporting Donald Trump.
+ A very nice piece from High Country News about .
+ Similarly, The Washington Post so if you really wanted to, you could go try to make some non-like-minded friends.
+ , which is likely higher than most people in my industry (part of what this story calls “a new upper class” that has nothing to do with income) based on the fact that I’ve had blue-collar jobs and grew up in a very small town. If you take the quiz, tell me what your score was, because I’m curious to see how this system ranks everyone.
+ The New York Times had , including foreign governments having to get in touch with the president-elect by calling the main number at Trump Tower. That and make a series of incorrect jabs at the Times.
+ This is going to be an important theme of this presidency, FYI. Donald Trump really has a distaste for critical media and retaliates by pulling press credentials and refusing to answer questions from reporters. So when those reporters go to other sources, he gets angry and lashes out at the media for mischaracterizing him. This is going to get interesting, especially when Trump allies such as Sean Hannity are .
+ Toss all of that into the mix with the , and other purposeful efforts to confuse the truth and we’re in for a long four years. Consumers of news will have to exercise more critical thinking than ever.
+ Now, there are a lot of pretty out-there takes happening across the internet in the wake of this election, but this might be the 🔥🔥🔥hottest take of them all🔥🔥🔥: “.”
What We’re Reading
+ Remember the Denver Zephyrs/Bears? (). The franchise that defined Colorado baseball before the Rockies came to town (and are still the proud owners of the record for the ) has been around for more than 100 years, operated in three cities and had affiliations with 14 Major League teams. Since 1985, they’ve been the Zephyrs, named after the famous passenger train and kept the name even after they moved to New Orleans. But that all changed yesterday, when the franchise announced , .
+ Modern Farmer: ?
+ A dense fog descended on London in 1952, reeking of rotten eggs and eventually sending 150,000 people to the hospital and killing 12,000. And now, and, unfortunately, found that the ingredients for the disaster exist all over the world.
+ . Worth your 50 seconds.
+ This is one of those All-Time Greatest Fear stories: ““
+ There’s a kind of Cheez-It in which the crackers are shaped like Scrabble pieces. Some guy decided to see exactly how the letters were distributed and .
Song of the Day
Song: “”
Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sounds like: 13 years later, still one of the most heartbreaking love songs of the century.
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