This episode *is* a week late, but it's one of our more informative ones. We never claimed to be punctual.

Since this was originally recorded two Sundays ago, the weekly lookback stuff is out of date, but there were three (3!) Palantir protests.

We also discuss the proposed Denver 9 and Fox 31 merger and offer Kyle Clark a job, the re-emergence of Tina Peters on the President's Truth Social feed, and the legislature's special session. Ryan Armagost, your political career is dead, bye byeeee bitch.

Our main story is an eat-your-vegetables type parsing of one of the West's most important social movements: The Chicano Movement. It's a large and important topic which we hope to cover in more depth in later episodes, but who can tell what the morning brings.

Happy Labor Day, ya'll.

https://www.historycolorado.org/press-release/2015/03/25/latino-students-denvers-west-high-walked-out-week-1969-protest

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/08/21/colorado-house-ryan-armagost-censure/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/24/palantir-artificial-intelligence-civil-rights

https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/22/colorado-democrats-condemn-nexstar-tegna-merger/

The dog days are here, folks, and we’ve all spent too much time in the sun. We ask where the piss and vinegar from the beginning of the summer went and do our contractually-mandated bitching about our shitty rich Governor who we all hate (4:20). How good is Florence and the Machine, tho?

The woke liberal media is lying to us: the Cheesecake Factory is nothing more than an elevated Applebee’s.

Speaking of the woke liberal media, we discuss the pros and cons of Capital J Journalism (36:54), try to unpack the truth behind the “Rage Against the Regime” protest scuffle, and offer our apologies to Westword’s Bennito Kelty. This is, after all, a truth-seeking/comedy true crime podcast for entertainment purposes only, which means you can’t sue us. Also, we are broke.

Weekly lookahead at 1:14:18. Leave a comment if this episode made you mad, sad, happy, or horny.

AJ is out for the week (definitely not at the Texas School Book Depository) Constant Gardener weighs the pros and cons of Jan. 6-ing the Denver DSA. (7:30) Bug has a bone to pick with Bennito Kelty’s coverage of the happenings at the Rage Against the Regime protest. (10:34) We discuss the finer points of ACAB, complete with some statistics on police killings in Colorado that may surprise you (derogatory.) (19:35) We review a few standout cases of murder by cop in the Denver area. Request for mutual aid: Anndrec Lewis’ husband Kilyn Lewis was shot and killed by Aurora Police in May 2024. She is currently facing financial hardship and needs our help. Please consider sending some money to her Cashapp $DrecyLewis.

Anyone hear from Paul Ryan lately? We talk about the Rage Against the Regime demonstration and the week that was (5:09) before tackling the narc-ass, snitch-ass, nimby-ass Do Better Denver instagram psychos (29:23) and broach The Arizona Question. We wrap up with a look at some exciting non-protest events coming up this week (59:04)

We return from our all-too-short summer break. We open with our standard recap protest recaps (1:00), talk about the No Concentration Camps in Colorado Campaign (20:50) with a brief interstitial on Jared Polis's failed Bridge to Nowhere (30:00-35:11) and close with a look at the week ahead. Keep these facilities out, ya'll.

No Concentration Camps in CO Discord Link: https://discord.gg/ZJhtsjybnA

One of the most evil companies going is nestled right here in our backyard! We talk about the previous week's demonstrations (1:00) before tackling Palantir (16:50) and take a look at what is shaping up to be a busier week in the scene (44:55). If you work at Palantir, quit.

Let's get Wrecked. Like that picture of Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining, 4th of July Weekend had weird vibes. We talk about the protests and demonstrations of the previous week (1:04) before cribbing from the CIA Sabotage Field Manual for a fun talk about wreckers and their dirty tricks (18:53). We close with a discussion of the week's upcoming protests (54:41). Much love and congratulations to SEIU and Safeway workers on the concessions won in their strike.

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

We talk about the vigils in support of Jeanette Vizguerra in anticipation of next week's Unified Vigil. We do a brief recap of Ms. Vizguerra's story (4:30), what these vigils have been like for the past 16 weeks (9:39), and talk about the upcoming Vigil (24:30) this Monday, July 7 from 3-8. Hope to see everyone out there this Monday.

https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/aurora-contract-detention-facility

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/28/jeanette_vizguerra

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/jeanette-vizguerra-immigrant-rights-activist-fighting-deportation-denver/

Also I know the Time Magazine thing was 2017 not 2007.

Another June, another Pride Month in the books. We discuss last week's demonstrations, bitch about a certain beverage company using the pride parade to hawk their shitty hard seltzer, and talk about some actually cool and good people taking over the main stage at Civic Center (1:10). Then we talk about the Safeway (and possibly King Soopers) strikes, how you can support striking workers, and ask the question: General Strike, is it good? (26:40). We wrap with a look at upcoming protests and get hungry for The People's Hotdogs (40:24)

https://www.seiu105.org

https://aflcio.org

https://uaw.org

https://teamster.org

https://www.iww.org

https://www.denver7.com/money/consumer/union-representing-safeway-workers-headed-back-to-the-bargaining-table-friday-ufcw-local-7-president-says

https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/protesters-interrupt-denver-pridefest-to-express-solidarity-with-palestine-highlight-stonewall-anniversary

https://www.cpr.org/2025/06/27/denver-pride-2025/

In case you didn't notice, it's pride month! We're here for the launch of the Denver Protest Podcast, a brief synopsis of the history of Pride, how cool Stonewall really was, and we talk shit about Coors.