sandra fish

now more than ever.

Social scientists have lent our names to calls for electoral system change and rule of law, because of the findings of our disciplines. We should do the same for anti-trans ads, which have dubious benefit and demonstrable harm. My latest at GP/BP goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/social-sci...

"When we seem like we're scared to have a few dozen international observers watch the practice of our democracy, it looks like an act of weakness." Longtime Colorado politico and diplomat Dan Baer joins us Wednesday as the US rebuffs European election observers for the first time in two decades.

NEW: House Majority PAC, which previously cut about $30K in TV ad reservations in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, told me it's tapping into the roughly $1M in reservations it has left and is going up with ads tomorrow. #copolitics

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

Love this from @andrewvandam.bsky.social

Members of the Colorado Supreme Court appeared skeptical that an insurance policy guarding against “direct physical loss” or “damage to property” covered a senior living provider’s inability to use certain spaces during the early COVID-19 pandemic....1/x www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/10/23/c...

It was disappointing that @60minutes.bsky.social, with all its resources and expertise, broke zero new ground on the Tina Peters story. The report was just a repetition of what local journalists reported long ago.

The #CO05 major party candidates Republican Jeff Crank & Democrat Jessica Killin spoke w/ Dan Boyce abt why voters should chose them. Check out the interviews on @cprnews.bsky.social or read them here. Crank: www.cpr.org/2026/10/26/r... Killin: www.cpr.org/2026/10/26/d... #copolitics

The Open Courts Act of 2026 would modernize PACER and tear down the paywall between the public and court records. And we need it now more than ever: PACER is set to increase per-page fees by 20%. free.law/2026/10/21/p...

Big news: The 19th is hiring a sports reporter. Read more about the vision here:

A Chicago police officer who pushed a woman who had called 911 for help after her boyfriend beat and suffocated her more than six years ago will not be fired by city officials, according to records.

Much like mass shootings, rape becomes a subject of intense focus when an especially horrific case happens e.g. Cornell 7. Men rape women every day. But it’s like background noise. The background noise of patriarchy.

NEW: In a newly drawn congressional district including Memphis, Black voters may get a representative who spent years stripping away local control. by @wendicthomas.bsky.social @mlk50.com

great look at the #copolitic parole conditions (like, none?) that allow Tina Peters to travel around, appear on 60 Minutes and continue to spread her disproven election conspiracies from @cprnews.bsky.social

“Americans deserve a Congress that works for them, not for special interests or personal portfolios,” the Florida Republican said in 2025. Then the federal contracts started rolling in.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Our research team is doing real-time coverage of emerging news and rumors related to election integrity. We put out several outputs this week. Several of the rumors we covered are still percolating. Some of the stories may become seeds for conspiracy theories later in the cycle. Some highlights...

Obama and El-Sayed should walk into a Waukesha Cheesecake Factory, while wearing tan suits*, then demand Dijon mustard on their sandwiches*, all while berating a plumber named Joe* for not giving enough credit to government infrastructure* for his success. (* These were all Obama-era scandals)

An excellent thread on all Trump’s chatter about hot male Senate candidates…

A trust owned by Texas AG Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, invested in a company led by a convicted fraudster. The firm and its affiliates later sent the trust 15 payments totaling $83K before and during the AG’s impeachment trial. w/ @texastribune.org

I'm not a Christian, and haven't been one for a long time, but i've always found these words and what they're supposed to mean to be the fundamental core of Christianity, even over and above the Sermon on the Mount, and I truly don't understand people who miss this.

Everyone wants to talk about the 20-something with a poorly-defined political identity, but I want to talk about the Amusing Ourselves To Death of American civic discourse.

NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com

In case you watch Tina Peters and Polis on 60 Minutes tonight

Read @washingtonsun.com interviews with candidates who lost their primaries and what they learned, including @senadorajulie.bsky.social #copolitics

I have a friend who is a social worker doing the same work as this social worker. She has also told me stories of women like Amy Acton's mother.

Well, hello there, stranger. An NMSU researcher captured photographic evidence of a Canada lynx in Carson National Forest — a species last documented in New Mexico about 25 years ago.

What a headline. Also, just incredible staff work here. Did Eric Schmitt's staff cast this ad?

Congress needs to enact laws prohibiting this from ever happening (again).

California and Washington asked the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in May to validate a new way to test for measles – but after waiting two months, the CDC denied the request www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

My latest @npr.org story: If you have to use the U.S. Postal Service to return a mail-in ballot, USPS recommends mailing it at least a week before your state's deadline. And if you're mailing close to Election Day, stop by a post office to ask for a postmark to make sure it gets one on the same day

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

'Autumn light' by contemporary US painter Erin Hanson #Womensart

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Our research team did a deep dive this week on the Wedgewood "fake polls" confession and the different rumors and strategic narratives that have taken shape around it. We expect this story and the rumors around it to continue spreading into and beyond the midterms. uwcip.substack.com/p/from-confe...

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

I wrote about all the bullshit the Trump admin is doing to Ilhan Omar--and how Ilhan Omar is far from the only person to whom the admin is doing this bullshit ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Tech industry enshittifying fortune cookies now

the trump administration just fired someone but this time it is… no it is another woman they fired

Tell us you never learned how to ride a bike without telling us you never learned how to ride a bike... #raygun

Say stupid shit, get a t-shirt in response.

Centimillionaire Gov. Jared Polis won’t say how much more money he’d have to pay under the graduated income tax proposal he’s been publicly opposing: www.denverpost.com/2026/10/23/j...