TGIF Blogcast: Starbuck sues Facebook; Year of Quantum; Fluoride in water

In case you missed it

Please read and share my first report with the Common Sense Institute:

The Legislative Assault on TABOR:

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This is a big deal

So now what?

US stepping back from peace talks role to end war between Russia and Ukraine: State Department official

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Just One Thing: This is not just an "Oops, sorry, we'll do better next time"

Robby Starbuck Sues Meta for Defamation Over AI Lies

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Today's Guests

A brief conversation with Jeff Maher from the Elizabeth School District about their job fair tomorrow, in case you might be interested: Human Resources / Employment Opportunities

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Paul Beale is a Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado and the show's most frequent guest. We'll discuss whether the Three Gorges Dam in China is actually changing the speed of the Earth's rotation. And we'll talk about nerdy quantum physics stuff during this, the International Year of Quantum.

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Rich “Raz” Razgaitis is a clean water evangelist and co-founder and CEO of Flowater. We'll talk about the efforts by some -- efforts that seem to be gaining traction -- to remove fluoride from public water supplies.

FloWater CEO Shares Insights on Water Fluoridation and Purification - Dentistry Today

RFK Jr. wants to change fluoride rules, says it makes people stupid

Utah is first state to pass a law banning fluoride in drinking water

Florida is poised to ban fluoride from public water systems - ABC News

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Other Stuff

This is fantastic

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Whaddya think? Colorado Advances Bill to Let Old People Opt Out of Jury Duty | Westword

Speaking of VERY senior citizens: World's Oldest Person Dies Weeks Before 117th Birthday

Ethel Caterham Confirmed As World's Oldest Person - LongeviQuest

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What do you expect from a company with no competition and incentive to spend as much money as possible on new stuff rather than to take care of what they already have? Xcel customers face more outages, longer wait times, reports say

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No, the reason isn't shocking at all: Gen Z is most likely to be hit by a train for this shocking reason

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Not very important, but frustrating: Trump Mistakes Photoshopped Image of Immigrant's Tattoos for Real Thing in ABC Interview

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Kinda crazy how this played out yesterday.  And it’s NOT a promotion. It's a big demotion: far from the president and no influence on policy. They're finding a way to give Dems a scalp while protecting the real problem, Pete Hegseth, and pretending not to throw Waltz under the bus. Mike Waltz out as national security adviser, but Trump says he'll be ambassador to U.N. - CBS News

Behind the Mike Waltz Ouster - WSJ

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Oops: Exclusive | Kohl’s CEO Ashley Buchanan Fired for Funneling Business to Romantic Partner - WSJ

Kohl’s CEO Is Terminated for Cause. It’s the Last Thing the Company Needs. - Barron's

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will touch on this briefly today, but only briefly because I'm going to try to get the new RTD police chief on the show to go over the issues in more detail: Incoming RTD police chief stresses safety after Union Station shooting - Axios Denver

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I don't mind this: Denver jail launches first-of-its-kind visitation clothing program (May require subscription)

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I keep not getting to this...

A modest proposal from this writer. I don’t like any of it but Trump’s idea has proven ineffective in every country where it’s been tried. That said, I must admit that it’s probably a legit national interest to not get into a population doom loop like South Korea or Japan or China or even Russia (esp because of the war) seem to be in.  Trump's $5k bonus won't bring more babies — here's what will

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And this: And you thought the US justice system was slow…Kim Kardashian robbery suspects to appear in Paris court as trial begins | Kim Kardashian | The Guardian

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This is gonna be VERY close, and remember that a tie (4-4, since Justice Barrett has recused herself) means the school loses. Looks like either 4-4 or 5-3 in favor of the school.

Supreme Court divided over approving first religious charter school - SCOTUSblog

Interesting background here: Supreme Court to consider bid for first religious charter school - SCOTUSblog

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Not sure if I'll get to this, and I didn't yesterday:

Time to get rid of expensive and pointless reformulated gasoline: Colorado fight over reformulated gas and ozone gets complex

Diminishing Benefits of Federal Reformulated Gasoline (RFG) Compared to Conventional Gasoline (CG)

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An advertisement masquerading as a poll and news, but I still like the underlying question: Home is where the party is? Staying in may be the new going out

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Today's Videos

This is about right

A flying-squirrel drone

Flying squirrel-inspired drone with foldable wings demonstrates high maneuverability