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11·4 days ago
Probably Lye Crystals?
OSHA was hit by DOGE I thought.
Not to mention the weird thing where it’s not a government agency? I never fully understood that.
https://www.nelp.org/defending-worker-safety-responding-to-osha-and-mshas-dangerous-rollbacks/
2·4 days agoI think, there’s some soft censorship too.
Either it’s the mods downvoting posts early or it’s the level of users they have cultivated.
I feel like many IRL communities have been hijacked in some way. Like the Denver and Colorado subreddits.
I can’t find anyone who hasn’t been mass downvoted and it doesn’t seem to align with the upvotes. It doesn’t seem like certain topics are off limits it seems much more like the entire idea of community organizing is off limits.
That might sound like a strange theory until you see how much the Governor is worth.
Not to mention smaller elections have brought that level of social media manipulation. This town had a mayor who won by like 8 votes and felt it was worth it to flood social media with posts about “how great the water is”.
Now look at an Englewood, CO subreddit post about the water. There’s very little arguing, but a ton of downvotes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/englewoodco/comments/1u19v64/is_the_water_just_a_lil_gross_or_actually/
Meanwhile…
https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/oy4vsz/psa_e_coli_in_englewood_tap_water_how_fun/
It’s not exactly the best water. It has had issues, but you get people jumping in to say it “meets EPA standards”. You see the same lines getting thrown out like someone has been leading what they should say. If you were to point out that EPA Standards is ambiguous and that many EPA standards have been lowered and with less enforcement, it’s like no one could even hear you.
The good news is, many people simply leave those subreddits or don’t participate. The bad news is, how powerful an effect on perceived consensus it can be to come into those threads without knowing the baseline.
Has no one done an analysis on subreddit votes?
I have been researching what would be needed to show correlation between the topics and the votes. Because you can still pull the rss of new comments and posts.
2·6 days agohttps://coloradosun.com/2026/06/03/jared-polis-vetoes-swipe-fees-firefighter-bills/
He vetoed the cancer benefits bill for firefighters.
He said it was the Cities asking for it, but much more likely it was the Cities’ representative. CIRSA.
You can see they lobbied against it. Successfully.
They also fought a firefighter over his cancer benefits.
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/co-supreme-court/1733666.html
I think many people believe Democrats vs Republicans is the fight for our Country, but I think if we don’t secure Citizen rights and we keep relying on voted officials to fix urgent issues we’re going to have the same problem come up again and again.
Transparency laws are important. There’s a reason they keep raising the hourly rates, while records staff don’t seem to get paid from those extra fees.
These insurance pools pay into a national pool, so I doubt it’s limited to Colorado.
Look at the CIRSA lobbying.
They lobbied against the No Kings Bill.
So while students in Englewood staged a walkout against ICE with police escort, the insurance pool for EPD was lobbying against the bill. Successfully.
Voting is one part.
Supporting our transparency laws and getting right-to-know into the Colorado Constitution is another large part.
CIRSA is exempt (according to them) from CORA requests.
All the while they use NDAs and settlements to suppress and erase civil rights violations across the entire State. 298 members. Roughly 244 are Cities.
I can’t think of a better system lever than empowering Colorado citizens.
It’s partly because of the City insurance pool. CIRSA.
A large part.
They supress and settle cases; then erase them via NDA’s. Often retroactively removing them from social media for winning cases. That has a powerful effect on public consensus around policing issues.
If you’ve seen Alabama Solution they kinda hint that the settlements are disconnected from the C.Os. I suspect that’s the issue with Policing in Colorado and it appears to be in all States.
When they make mistakes there is no feedback loop for correction.
In District 18, they won’t even accept a complaint about officers or the Police Department. The AG’s office does, but they won’t release any complaints (Police or otherwise). Since they won’t release complaints there’s nothing to suggest they are using them as a feedback loop of any kind.
There are definitely bad cops.
I think we have a growing issue that Denver Metro police departments can’t attract and retain enough good police.
Yea I think the upper courts have been dismantling a lot of protections. What I saw was they sent it to the State Courts which aren’t as prepared to handle these cases and it takes much longer to get anywhere. For the cases that should already be illegal and ruled on this is kinda disheartening.
At the same time, I realized it’s a great opportunity to strengthen the States. If SCOTUS is refusing to set guidelines then community organized efforts across States have much more power to do so. There is always the ability to change public consensus on these issues. I think in the past it was manipulated to give a false consensus.
They also abused global tech laws under the threat of tarifs and that that has lost a good deal of potency as well.
As far as the 3 years and everything with the State and Banks, I’ve checked into this somewhat and there are ultimately no protections and limited enforcement in these jurisdictions. The DA’s often won’t even file complaints they receive let alone investigate. Our State AG plays by a similar handbook and receives complaints and never releases them. No investigations they weren’t already planning to do.
We have some bad corruption because the AG takes taxpayer dollars to fund lawsuits against the president’s administration. It’s sounds good because he is taking on important issues, but ultimately there’s zero transparency into how he is doing that.
Generally what happens is the orgs solving an issue never solve it enough to lower our “need” for them.
I wish I could say that I don’t think the prior, current and next AG are using this playbook.
If they wanted to help us they would need to bring transparency to the City insurance pool and consider defunding. At least that’s how I’d start.
I’m sure if more people understood these insurance pools there would be better solutions.
Gotcha.
I think, there are major differences between States.
Have you ever read Thinking in Systems?
The issue I’ve been seeing is the protections that bring together State legislature on important legal issues have largely been dismantled.
It used to be the Circuit Courts and even the supreme Court worked to set clearer guidelines on recurring important issues. Now it seems there are many times less Supreme Court cases and the Circuit Courts wait for two Circuit courts to disagree before they bump it to the supreme Court.
I don’t know everything, but that seems to be what’s happened.
The feedback loops are all broken.
Civil immunity was invented by judges. It was never law. We use ‘clearly established’ cases to counter that, but many of those a recursive and the entire system is broken.
For a case to be clearly established there must be another clearly established case to point to. So it was never meant to work from my understanding.
So Colorado is easily able to do as many Fourth Amendment seizures violations as they like. Until someone gets crypto “Clearly Established” we could be stuck with this.
It would be interesting to see the situation in your State. Not that I wanna pry. Because Utah for instance is very similar, but a Utah flavor of these issues. Same Circuit Court.
Does all this sound crazy?
If that sounds crazy read Backroom Deals in our Backyards.
Libby might have the audiobook depending on which library you use.
Transparency laws and things like CORA requests are a crucial part of maintaining the good qualities of each State.
It sounds similar to the automotive auction process then?
Foreclosures.
I did some deep dives into those since 2017, but banking and anything else I am just beginning to make CORA requests on.
What do you think happens after?
Do you think it’s saved in a crypto wallet?
Like Colorado has a PePe wallet with financial statements. 😅
I think they brought in crypto, but without the protections other assets have. It took a long time to protect the dollar. Let alone the banks and that’s debatable if they ever did.
Are you familiar with cash flow and accounting?
That’s what I was thinking until I looked into it.
It’s unclear who handles it.
If it’s the Treasury or Department of Revenue. Or both.
For all Coinbase accounts they only list a single account based on Sacramento. So I’m not sure how my account got linked to Colorado and yet unclaimed. Or how they claimed a Sacramento account in Colorado.
They do this for BlockFi too. I figure if I can’t get them to find my Coinbase I can at least do the process there.
They returned like $1 billion in unclaimed property, but I suspect they retain a lot more in the process.
It seems like you’re upset.
What are you doing on this post?
Right. There are many kinds of unclaimed property.
How do you think they organize something that’s considered unclaimed?
What do they do to return it and what happens if no one claims it?
Maybe you think I’m not familiar with Colorado’s government and made a post to fix a personal issue with Coinbase.
Yea I checked that portal.
There’s exactly one account listed for Coinbase.
What do you think happens to the “unclaimed” accounts?
Those aren’t listed.
I think, you don’t consider this stealing or a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
The backstory is I was trying to get 9 cents to cover stories being erased in Colorado, Denver Metro and rural Colorado.
I have a nice flowchart to show the issue, but ultimately rDenver, rColorado and even rEnglewoodCO are doing a lot of soft censorship. This coupled with retroactive NDA’s is making a lot of potential “Clearly Established” cases disappear.
The root cause appears to be the City Insurance Pools. CIRSA for Colorado.
They are outside of our transparency laws.
They take every Civil Rights violation by their 298 members and make it attorney client privilege.
We only have a two year window (kinda) for 1983 U.S.C cases so by charging high fees in the Cities, ignoring half of CORA requests and setting 2 year or less retention policies: they can erase the discovery that fixes long term problems and make people believe these problems don’t even exist.
I tracked it from the vehicle registration and driver’s license tickets they kept giving out even when the offices were appointment only and they knew they weren’t meeting everyone. My car was towed for a vehicle registration I couldn’t get.
I even tried to register a new vehicle and they threw the title at in at the Arapahoe DMV. Both cars they refused to register and I have the letters. That didn’t stop the tickets or impoundment.
Now the sad thing is this is caused largely by CiRSA and it’s not just tows it’s everything. They also don’t won’t to pay firefighters their cancer benefits.
So when Polis vetoed the benefits bill for firefighters and said the Cities didn’t want it, it was likely the Cities’ representatives which is CIRSA. CIRSA who fought in 2013 to deny cancer benefits to firefighter if something else may have caused cancer.
CIRSA who takes public funds and lobbies Cities’ in Colorado. Who lobbied against the cancer benefits bill for the firefighters.
Doesn’t Cherry Hills still have it?
I got followed from Cherry Hills into Englewood and pulled over. It was strange because they sat in front of me at a light after Englewood had been at my apartment the same night asking me for my unit number. So the Cherry Hills officer would not move to trigger the light. It took at least 15 minutes for another car to show up, so I could go through. He accused me of not passing him. I got ticketed for expired DL and pulled over for expired tags. They weren’t letting people in the Driver’s License office to renew. Same issue for vehicle registration. I even applied late and got my new DL online and because of that ticket my license ended up getting suspended. The case was dismissed in Arapahoe County Court.
I think, they are also pivoting to Axon license plate readers in a lot of Denver Metro. Which seems like a backdoor to the same issue.
I guess it relates to unlabeled containers.
Which might explain some of the news stories related to hazardous chemicals getting into food.
https://www.muckrock.com/agency/united-states-of-america-10/occupational-safety-health-administration-2396/
I’m not very familiar with FOIA requests sent to OSHA.
I was just going to make a list of companies I’ve worked at and see their OSHA violations. Snowball research from there. I’m learning R with a YouTube course and Introduction to Statistical Learning with R. If you know a lot about R and have time for a coffee chat I’d love to hear from you. My State does not have many data analysts as public records clerks and I’ve been trying to ETL data before it’s erased.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6FsZxVq54ERrlMRNE5aq2qUFH042fbuM
https://www.statlearning.com/
Has anyone noticed changes in their job’s OSHA training since DOGE targeted them?