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Boulder tenants get uppity, part 2

by Mark Fearer

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he Unrepentant Tenant last outlined tenant activism in Boulder through the 1970s, with the Boulder County Tenant’s Organization (BCTO) based on the CU campus and getting county funding and office space and support from the CU student government. Sadly, strings attached from those funding sources dampened BCTO’s activism, and by the end of the 1970s, BCTO was mostly restricted to counseling tenants and landlords for problems like eviction, lack of repairs and losing their deposits. While that was helpful, it wasn’t enough.

In 1980, Kathy Partridge, Jay Jurie and Chris Goodwin started the Renters Rights Project (RRP) because of the lack of protections for the half of Boulder’s population who rented. I joined shortly after, and since there hadn’t been any tenant activism in years, RRP started making demands of the Boulder City Council—and headlines.

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A NEW, IMPROVED LEASE A long-standing issue for tenants were (and still is) leases—which are legal contracts—that favored landlords and often contained unenforceable clauses, written in legalese. Although contracts are supposed to be negotiated, given the inherently unequal power between tenants and landlords, that is rarely the case. When was the last time you even tried to negotiate terms in your lease, let alone get agreement from the landlord?

So, one of RRP’s first issues was to advocate for a fair standardized lease that would spell out rights and responsibilities of both parties in plain English that all landlords would have to use.

Knowing City Council would not likely pass such an ordinance, RRP started a legal petition to put the issue on the ballot—a tool that would be used several times in the future, with mixed success.

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Predictably, Council recoiled at the notion of a mandatory fair lease, and the compromise was to form a committee of landlords, tenants and impartial parties to draft a model lease that would be voluntary. The committee met for almost two years (Chris Goodwin and I were on it) and finally created The Boulder Model Lease (bouldercolorado.gov/ media/735/download?inline) in 1982.

Although landlords helped negotiate the Boulder Model Lease, none used its original form, and it’s likely that few landlords use it now. If you are a tenant, you should be asking your landlord to use it, and if they don’t, ask why not.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE RENTED ROOM Several months after advocating for better leases, RRP broached The Big Issue: rent control. I summarized that history in my first column (The Unrepentant Tenant, “Boiling Frogs,” March 10, 2022). Outcome: Although quite popular (then and now), rent control was banned throughout Colorado since 1981.

Despite the state legislature squashing local efforts to deal with the rental crisis, RRP remained undaunted and went back to work on other issues.

BANNING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN A number of landlords were refusing to rent to families with children, and in 1980, the city’s Human Relations Commission (HRC)—with the urging of the RRP and other groups—recommended that City Council ban that form of discrimination. Naturally, landlords pushed back, and Council didn’t want to deal with it, so it punted the issue back to the HRC, and then back to City Council, throughout 1981.

RRP/BTU would continue to work with the HRC for the next few years in promoting better tenant protections. The HRC saw landlordtenant issues as human rights issues, and were generally receptive to such protections—although the majority of City Council was not.

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members were not allowed to give legal advice. The Renters Rights Project worked with BCTO, and proposed merging the two groups, combining counseling with advocacy.

Both groups agreed, and the new unified group resurrected the name Boulder Tenants Union, harkening back to the activism of the early 1970s. Landlords were less than happy with the name and direction of the new group, and formed their own group to counter BTU’s drive for better protection. Later, BTU moved off campus but continued its counseling and advocacy roles.

NEW ERA OF ADVOCACY The renewed BTU proposed a variety of tenant protections, while still counseling tenants and landlords. Although they had shelved the proposal from the previous year after lobbying from landlords, City Council finally passed a ban on adult-only housing in 1982, with some exemptions (i.e., senior housing, owner-occupied). It was BTU’s first legislative victory.

That same year, the Boulder Model Lease was approved by City Council, although only for voluntary use.

Over the next two years, BTU proposed a series of other protections, including a warranty of habitability, a just-cause eviction protection, creation of a housing commission, interest on deposits, and privacy protection. At the time, none of those protections existed and only a few exist now. In my next column, I’ll go into more detail on those proposals.

In 1983, BTU was successful in getting City Council to pass an ordinance requiring leases to be in writing (if over 30 days), and tenants to get a copy of the lease.

At every turn, landlords fought the simplest of proposals, invariably claiming the smallest change (i.e., requiring a written copy of the lease, or interest on deposits) would cause large costs, and administrative burdens, resulting in increased rents. They failed to mention that rents steadily rose well above inflation in the absence of any of the proposed regulations.

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End the fighting now!

by Ron Forthofer

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ar is hell. It doesn’t matter where the fighting is—Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Ethiopia, Libya, Ukraine or elsewhere—suffering, death and destruction are sure to follow. These are key reasons that every reasonable effort should be made to avoid wars.

Despite knowing this, appallingly, sometimes leaders of a nation will intentionally try to provoke another nation into a conflict.

The current war receiving the greatest attention is the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, also sometimes viewed as a struggle between the U.S.-led NATO and Russia over Ukraine. Regardless, on Feb. 24, Russia invaded Ukraine, and the invasion represented a huge escalation of the fighting going on in eastern Ukraine since 2014. This Russian invasion was clearly a violation of international law. However, as shown below and contrary to many false claims, the Russian attack wasn’t unprovoked or unpredicted.

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promise was crucial to the Soviets as Russia and/or the Soviet Union had been invaded several times by Western nations, including the Nazi invasion of World War II. Over 26 million people in the Soviet Union were killed during WWII. WARNINGS FROM U.S. EXPERTS In the 1990s, Boris Yeltsin, then the Russian president, protested strongly against this expansion.

When Vladimir Putin became president, he also vehemently protested the expansion, drawing a red line in both 2007 and 2008 about NATO’s possible inclusion of Ukraine and Georgia.

Despite these strong protests, the subsequent Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump administrations all violated this promise and expanded NATO eastward toward Russia’s borders. Note that it wasn’t just Russians who were concerned by the broken pledge. For example, George Kennan, architect of the U.S. containment policy toward the Soviet Union, was interviewed by Thomas Friedman in 1998 about NATO’s eastward expansion. Kennan said: ‘’I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else.”

William Burns, the current CIA Director, has been long involved in U.S. relations with Russia. According to an

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excellent article by Peter Beinart, Burns quotes a memo he wrote while serving as counselor for political affairs at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1995.

“Hostility to early NATO expansion,” it declares, “is almost universally felt across the domestic political spectrum here.”

Burns calls the Clinton administration’s decision to expand NATO to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic “premature at best, and needlessly provocative at worst.”

Beinart continued: On the question of extending NATO membership to Ukraine, Burns’ warnings about the breadth of Russian opposition are even more emphatic.

“Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin),” he wrote in a 2008 memo to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He told Rice it was “hard to overstate the strategic consequences” of offering NATO membership to Ukraine and predicted that “it will create fertile soil for Russian meddling in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.” Promise Ukraine membership in NATO, he wrote, and “There could be no doubt that Putin would fight back hard.” Beinart’s article includes quotes from several other U.S. officials raising similar points.

ADDITIONAL PROVOCATIONS Despite all these warnings, instead of trying to prevent this crisis with Russia from escalating, the U.S. acted irresponsibly, and its actions played a crucial role in bringing about this predicted crisis.

For example, in 2014 the US supported the coup against the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The U.S. was also very influential in the selection of the new Ukrainian leaders. Most Ukrainians in western Ukraine were pleased whereas many Ukrainians in the Donbas area viewed the coup government as being: 1) illegitimate, and 2) influenced by Ukrainian Nazis. In response to actions by the coup government, many people in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts chose to separate from Ukraine. The predicted civil war then fully erupted and Russia intervened to support the Russian-speaking separatists. The separatists asked to join Russia, but Putin rejected their request.

THE MINSK NEGOTIATIONS In 2014/15, there were negotiations over the Donbas area. In February 2015, Germany and France brokered the Minsk II agreement that was signed by Germany, Ukraine, Russia and Ukrainian separatists, and supported unanimously by the UN Security Council. The agreement called for a ceasefire and stated that the separatist areas would remain a part of Ukraine with a high degree of autonomy. Instead of encouraging implementation of the agreement, the U.S. continued to push the idea of NATO membership for Ukraine while also training and arming Ukrainian forces. As a result, fighting has continued for eight years in the Donbas area with more than 14,000 killed, the majority of those being separatists. One week before the Russian invasion, Ukraine forces dramatically increased the shelling of the separatist areas, further heightening tensions with Russia.

DISMISSING RUSSIA’S LEGITIMATE SECURITY CONCERNS In December 2021, Putin demanded security guarantees that, among other things, meant Ukraine would not enter NATO. To make his point about having NATO forces on Russia’s border, Putin also asked how the U.S. would react if Russia had its missiles in Canada or Mexico on the U.S. borders. We have an inkling based on the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when the U.S. was willing to risk a nuclear war over Soviet missiles.

Unfortunately, the U.S. was dismissive about Russian security concerns.

END THE FIGHTING It is certainly possible that this war could have been prevented. The hope now is that Ukraine and Russia both realize that they have lost the war. Continuing the fighting simply increases losses. Therefore, they cannot allow the U.S. goal of weakening Russia to prevent them from reaching an immediate diplomatic solution to end the devastation.

Ron Forthofer is a member of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center and a retired professor of biostatistics.

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The technology pipeline CU Boulder study could help manage increasing atmospheric CO2 levels

by Will Matsuka

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ana Luca is a self-identified “mad scientist.”

“I keep a notebook with ideas next to my bed,” Luca, an assistant professor of chemistry at CU Boulder, says.

A little over a year ago, when Luca was teaching organic chemistry to undergraduates, she was thinking a lot about molecules that bind with carbon dioxide (CO2).

“I woke up one night and I had this idea,” she says, to electrochemically generate a molecular material that could bind with CO2 and then quantify how well those materials were binding.

After a year of experiments and computations, Luca’s idea became a study that was published in the scientific journal Science in March 2022.

A binder is a molecule that attaches to another, in this case CO2. In this study, Luca and a group of student researchers used imidazolium-based carbenes (a specific molecule) to bind with and trap CO2 using electricity.

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“What we found is that we can diagnose the strength of a binder by using simple electrochemical experiments,” Luca says.

Finding the right balance of CO2 binding strength can be a challenge—but it’s important for fine tuning a binder for specific CO2 capture conditions. Most CO2 capture technology uses strong binders to capture as much CO2 as possible, usually at point sources from industrial facilities like coal, natural gas or ethanol plants. These binders also take a high amount of energy to detach from the CO2 after capture. Weak binders make it easier to desorb after capture, but may bind with CO2 molecules less efficiently.

This study was a proof of concept that the binding strength of any electrochemically-generated CO2 binder can be quantified. It’s the first step toward improving carbon capture technologies that could help manage CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

“So, it’s the first break, I guess,’’ Aziz Alherz, a chemical engineering graduate student and co-author of the study, says. “So many more carbon capture projects to come.”

Luca is interested in studying the potential of weaker binders for direct air capture.

“Trying to understand how to do it from air that’s not been concentrated or processed in any way with pretty good yields and minimal energy consumption, that’s kind of the ultimate goal,” she says.

Josh Schaidle has worked at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) for 10 years and leads its carbon management program. He talks about how critical it is that we move quickly to develop carbon management technologies and go carbon negative.

“Carbon management is a huge global issue. And it’s also something that we have to move very quickly on,” he says.

CO2 levels in the atmosphere are hovering around 420 parts per million (ppm) globally, the highest on record. Scientists predict that the U.S. could have to remove two gigatons of CO2 per year by 2050 to reach netzero carbon emissions. As of November 2021, 19 direct air capture plants were capturing 0.01 million tons of CO2 per year globally.

Clearly, there is a lot of work that needs to be done in this space.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, there are 27 reporting power plants and 37 reporting petroleum and natural gas systems that make up 85% of the CO2 emissions from large facilities in Colorado. In total, these 64 plants emit 34.1 million metric tons of CO2 per year.

Some of these plants could be suitable for future carbon capture projects. A few in Colorado are already exploring CO2 capture technology today: the Coyote Clean Power Plant, the Lafarge-Holcim Cement Plant, Sterling Ethanol and Yuma Ethanol.

While promising, these projects are still under development. There are no direct air capture plants as of yet.

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that’s not been concentrated or processed in any way with pretty good yields and minimal energy consumption, that’s kind of the ultimate goal,” —Oana Luca, assistant professor of chemistry at CU Boulder

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The State of Colorado Carbon Capture Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) Task Force was organized to better understand opportunities and challenges for carbon management technologies that could help the state reach its greenhouse gas reduction goals. The group released a set of recommendations moving forward in February 2022 and acknowledged the infancy of direct air capture technology.

Michael Turner works for the Colorado Energy Office and led the CCUS Task Force. Despite admitting that there is a lot of work to do to support developing future projects and research, Turner said that carbon capture could still help the state reach its goals.

“I’m optimistic that it could play an important role. And I think we’re at a time now where we are going to want every tool at our disposal,” Turner says.

Even with the best technology, some sectors will be difficult to decarbonize. In those areas, carbon capture could provide a solution.

Schaidle says one thing he finds interesting about Luca’s study is its potential to utilize renewable energy sources through electrochemistry to activate and regenerate a binder. This would let the process operate independent of fossil fuels and make the process more sustainable overall.

While the big picture helps provide context for Luca’s work, she is focused on developing the tools that could help someone like Schaidle take their findings to the next stage.

“We are basic scientists. We don’t make devices. We don’t really fully save the world. But I think just doing your part [is important] in this kind of global context of everything going on in the world,“ Luca says.

Science moves forward in very small increments. It is all about pushing boundaries little by little until one day you reach a breakthrough. Schaidle says that there needs to be a simultaneous effort to continue an “innovation pipeline” and deploy existing technologies.

“We need as many ideas funneling into this pipeline of concepts and technologies,” Schaidle says. “Some of them will trickle up and get opportunities to scale up and integrate. Others will just be fundamental science. But this [study] is an example of an early-stage part of this technology pipeline.”

Luca and Alherz have already submitted a follow-up study for publication.

“It’s hard to not get excited and it’s hard to kind of remove yourself from it,” Luca says, “because it’s our life. It’s what we do.”

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Can ‘Woman of Light’ rewrite the Western mythology

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Kali Fajardo-Anstine introduces readers to a Denver they’ve never before seen.

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uz Lopez gazes into the tea cup, studying the leaves and “their soaking shapes.” The Platte River rushes at her back and all around, Denver’s chile harvest pulses, crowds moving through “the city’s liquid center illuminated in green and blue lights.” It’s 1933 and the 17-year-old sees three foreshadowing images inside the cup: a clam, an owl, a brick.

She glances up at her client, a white woman tightly bundled, then peers back down to witness “something strange, off-putting, the tea leaves seeming to drift like a blizzard over golden plains until Luz saw a place she hadn’t before,” and her vision snaps to something so startling she suddenly lies, gives her client vague answers about what she sees, what it means.

Luz, protagonist of Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut novel, dips in and out of that which lies beyond the edges, sees scenes as they might have or could have happened at various points within the arc of five generations in Colorado—not unlike like the author herself oscillates through time in the storytelling of Luz becoming a woman, losing her brother and navigating 1930s Denver as a laundress-turned-law-office-secretary with her complex family histories in tow.

The story’s root curls around the last generation before contact is made with Anglo peoples in southwest Colorado. The vines of the family’s DNA then reach toward Denver, slowly unfurling one generation at a time like flowers toward the sun. Luz arrives in the Mile High City at age 11 from Huerfano, the town where her mother landed after leaving the Lost Territory, the region where their indigenous ancestors tried mixing with Anglos but were cheated and brutalized. (“Again and again her husband explained … no human being can possess land. Again and again Simodecea watched as new tents went up throughout the property, the canvas shacks fluttering her eyesight like the blurred edges of reality just before a person faints.”)

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Mexican sharpshooter Simodecea, Luz’s grandmother, is another strong female character (classic Fajardo-Anstine, readers of the writer’s short-story collection Sabrina and Corina will note) who is often thrust into protection mode, forced to rely upon her instincts and deep inner wisdom—part of the “real intelligence” the girlfriend of Luz’s aunt once describes, “that comes from our grit, our ability to read the world around us.”

It took nearly 15 years for Fajardo-Anstine to publish Woman of Light, hotly anticipated after Sabrina and Corina won a 2020 American Book Award (among other accolades) and garnered glowing reviews from the powerhouse pens of Julia Alvarez and Sandra Cisneros, whom Fajardo-Anstine thanks in her acknowledgements for Woman of Light. The 35-year-old author grew up in Denver, dropped out of high school, got a GED, then dropped out of her first master’s program and received an MFA from the University of Wyoming. “[Writing] this book taught me to look at our city and our space in a generational way—in a way that’s textured and deals with history over a long period of time,” Fajardo-Anstine says. “I didn’t just move to Denver and decide that I wanted to set stories here, I’m a person who has Indigenous ancestry. My family has been here since time immemorial in some ways, and they’ve been in Denver proper since the 1930s—it’s the backbone to my understanding of the entire world.”

As such, the novel’s spine is “a multicultural, foundational Denver—a Denver that speaks many languages, a Denver that’s many classes—a look at the city that I don’t think many readers have ever seen before,” she explains.

“It’s important to think about readers across the world experiencing Colorado from the perspective of a mixed-race Chicana of Indigenous ancestry.”

In Luz’s world, violence is around every corner, and it’s the type of violence that sets Fajardo-Anstine apart from what’s largely dominated the concept of “Western literature:” tales told about Anglos and Indians in and around the Rocky Mountains mixing men with booze and rugged landscapes with horses.

“So much of our identity as a Western space has been defined by the cowboy narrative, the myth of the stoic outlawed cowboy figure,” Fajardo-Anstine says. “This is going to be the first time somebody is coming to the American West in a way that is not the stereotype mythology.”

Instead of the sensationalized Bonnie-and-Clyde violence that Fajardo-Anstine ironically inserts as a simmering backdrop to the novel, Luz’s brother receives a “beating that sounded like bones garbled in a sack” for speaking Spanish at school; a young woman fears “the things I will be forced to do in order to feed myself and Mama” after her brother is murdered by police officers; Simodecea feels “her husband’s swampy shallows on her fingertips” as he dies in her arms after a suited man arrives and “gun blasts sprayed bullets across the land.”

“Better get used to it,” another of Luz’s aunties advises, stitching the face of her brother after a white mob used bricks to bash his skull during a party in town. “I won’t make you fix him this time but it’ll serve you to learn.”

In effect, Fajardo-Anstine portrays the rippling, compounding effects of Anglo settlers on so-called Colorado; between scenes bubbling with new love and hope for better futures, she forces the reader’s gaze to hold on the worst of it. Luz and her steadfast aunt Maria Josie learn, in most cases, it’s best to bury the past, stomp good and hard on it, then use the solid ground for a big step forward.

For Fajardo-Anstine, the past is more elastic. The time period that frames Woman of Light—1860s to 1930s—is “a mirror for today,” she says. Maria Josie indeed comes home often with hands nicked and scratched after long hours laboring at the nearby mirror factory. As Fajardo-Anstine loops between decades, she doubles back to fill in plot texture, then glances forward, tantalizing what’s to come—it’s like the mirror’s been dropped, a kaleidoscope spread of stories arranged together, aesthetic and dynamic enough to conjure a quote from Joseph Conrad, which Latin American literary giant Mario Vargas Llosa once used to describe the work of Gabriel García Márquez: “Circles,

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circles; innumerable circles, concentric, eccentric; a coruscating whirl of circles.”

Thanks to her parents, Fajardo-Anstine says her childhood was “steeped in books.”

Her mother is a writer, her father an avid reader. “When I would get depressed, my dad would actually leave books outside of my door, as sort of like a treat,” she says, and as one of seven children, “reading was something I could do alone.” Besides Garcia Marquez, she grew to love authors like Sylvia Plath, Khalil Gibran and Elizabeth Bishop.

Since elementary school she’s been writing stories, and when she turned 16, she started working at West Side Books in North Denver, where she’d continue working off-and-on until age 30. Enmeshed in words, Fajardo-Anstine absorbed everything she could, feeling authors like Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, Katherine Anne Porter and Alice Munro weave themselves into her “craft DNA,” describing the women as her literary ancestors: “Writers whose style and prose have made an imprint on me.”

Like Munro relies on Ontario as a vivid backdrop for her fiction and Morrison uses configurations of space and community to impress alienation or belonging, Fajardo-Anstine digs into Denver through the senses—insects chirping, factories whizzing, people gossiping, building upon the scene-setting strength she exhibits throughout Sabrina and Corina. Some chapters in Woman of Light—like “Women Without Men” and “La Llorona”—could stand alone as satisfying short stories, but larger themes clearly bind the chapters. The inverted evolutionary trajectories of voice and sight throughout the female lineage, for example: While their ability to see into the edges of life strengthens over time, as the women grow farther from their pre-Anglo matriarch, the Sleepy Prophet of the Lost Territory, their voices weaken. Once a “musical sound in their throats,” life in a small shared apartment in Denver leads “a growl ... trapped inside [Luz’s] bedroom, inside her throat.” There are times when “she’d open her mouth to speak but could only picture white moths fluttering from her lips.”

ON THE BILL: Kali Fajardo-Anstine— Early in the novel, the protagonist Woman of Light Book Launch. contemplates “the rich, the doctors and 7 p.m. June 7 and 8 (in conversation lawyers, businessmen and silver-tywith CPR’s Ryan Warner on June 7, and coons” and realizes she “often felt she author Steven Dunn on June 8), Tattered and her people were only choking on Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. their leftover air.” Fajardo-Anstine, by Tickets: Free, tatteredcover.com contrast, is taking a big gulp and shouting herself far and wide with Woman of Light, an energy she infuses in a pivotal scene shortly after Luz and her brother leave their mother at the Huerfano mining camp and arrive in Denver to live with their aunt Maria Josie.

The young siblings are crossing blocks, writing a map of the city into their minds when they run into one of the neighborhood’s most complex characters, who points to the mountains and tells them that way will always be west before pointing to the plains, which always run east. Then he gets them to shout in unison, “THIS IS MY CITY!” timidly at first, with the young girl soon amassing courage: “They yelled together until their voices boomed, high and arching, rattling streetcar cables and smoggy windows, soaring between stone tenements and factory tufts. This, she repeated, is ours.”

So, too, Fajardo-Anstine claims her voice and her words, printed on pages and now translated into languages around the world—for language matters; it crafts history.

If lived experiences accumulate like silt on river banks, the so-formed clay is shaped by language and hardened by time; history is constructed by human hands. It matters which palms, eyes and spirits do the sculpting.

One western Colorado town, for example, currently has a brochure on its website, attached to the “Historical Information” section, which reads: “With the departure of the Ute Indians, a resilient bunch of settlers and entrepreneurs took up residency in the new town.” Words can wield violence, too, and Fajardo-Anstine has no patience for euphemisms.

When Pidre (the Sleepy Prophet’s grandson, Simodecea’s husband) is walking through a bustling fairground for the first time in his life (soon after Anglos have expanded across their valley), the suffocating knot that Fajardo-Anstine has been trying to unravel is pulled taught: “It was in that moment that Pidre realized he had entered the strange world of Anglo myth,” she writes. “Pidre came from storytelling people, but as he passed a big top devoted to the reenactment of Custer’s Last Stand, he couldn’t help but think that Anglos were perhaps the most dangerous storytellers of all—for they believed only their own words, and they allowed their stories to trample the truths of nearly every other man on Earth.”

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‘Slay the Runway’ offers Boulder County teens an opportunity to design clothing and explore self-expression

by Matt Maenpaa

DETAILS, DETAILS: Slay the Runway— Creating Safe Spaces for LGBTQ+ Youth Expression June 28-July 8, multiple locations. Email

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Danse Etoile Ballet: ‘In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse’s Gardens’

EVENTS

June 3-4, Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $20-$30, thedairy.org Danse Etoile Ballet premiers two contemporary ballets at the Dairy Arts Center June 3-4. Inspired by the relationships architects and dancers share with gravity, In a Dialogue with Gravity and its people. In the second act, “Matisse’s Gardens,” the forms, colors and space of Matisse’s famed cutouts forms the foundation for this contemporary ballet.

If your organization is planning an event, please email the editor at crockett@boulderweekly.com

Peace Through Music

6 p.m. Friday, June 3, Unity Columbine Spiritual Center, 8900 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Tickets: $10-$30 Unity Columbine Spiritual Center presents a Stevie Sister Carmen and Musical Ambassadors of Peace. This year’s event, held on the Foss Hall patio and Columbine

Boulder County Plein Air Festival

June 3-June 11, Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Schedule at openstudios.org/boulder-plein-air-fest This year’s event is open to any artist from Colorado, age 15 and older, and to alumni of Open Studios’ past Boulder Plein Air Festivals. Registration is required to submit art for the event’s awards competition and sale on June 11.

Capture any Boulder County scene by making art en plein in the medium of your choice between June 3 and 11, then

sets, starring Spirit Voices, Columbine Choir, VOCE, the PTM Mass Choir and Unity’s “Band of Wonder” (Janis Kelly, Makaysha Rain, Marcy Baruch, Chris Carvalho, Craig Schwartz, Dan Steelman, Larry Thompson and Zane Cupec), plus a third dance set by the M.A.P. All-Stars and Into The Mystic. All this plus food, drink and arts/crafts/merchandise booths, a family art project, kid’s activities and more.

level are invited to participate.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival

June 3-5, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. All event single tickets are $14, all access pass $50 The Buddhist Arts and Film Festival is a three-day, Buddhist-inspired event showing nine inspiring, beautiful Tsetan. Films include Looking for a Lady With Fangs and a Moustache, Precious Guru, Becoming Nobody, Beyond Two Worlds, Dharma Rebel and Carving the Divine.

Taste of Louisville

9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 4, Historic Downtown Louisville This is an opportunity to taste the “quality of life” in Louisville. served by your favorite local breweries, arts and craft booths, kid’s entertainment, and informational booths from local merchants.

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The Stories Behind All Those ‘Cute’ Wildflowers!

10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 4, Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder

Cultural Day at The Museum of Boulder with The Latino Chamber of Commerce

Noon-5 p.m., Saturday, June 4, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder

‘Tales from theTipping Point’ by Betsy Tobin

8 p.m. Saturday, June 4, BookCliff Vineyard Wine & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, No. 17, Boulder. Price: $35—ticket price includes a glass of wine.

Allen Ricca— ‘Catching Hell’

KGNU Annual Plant Sale

9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, June 5, KGNU Radio, 4700 Walnut St., Boulder. Free

6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 9, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Tickets: $5, boulderbookstore In Catching Hell

Colorado Shakespeare Festival: ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’

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t didn’t take long for Judy Garland to get started. Born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, on June 10, 1922, Garland strode onto the vaudeville stage with her sisters in 1924, solidifying her future as an entertainer. In ’34, the trio adopted the stage name “The Garland Sisters,” and in ’37, young Judy sang a song to a portrait of Clark Gable in MGM’s Broadway Melody of 1938 and became an overnight success. The Tiffany studio had signed Garland to a contract only two years prior—her screen debut was Pigskin Parade—and two years after Broadway Melody, Garland would step into those iconic ruby slippers for a movie with no equal: The Wizard of Oz. Oz, playing Dorothy Gale as a young girl caught between childlike innocence and adolescent yearning. Just listen to her contralto voice quiver as she delivers “Over the Rainbow.” Hardly anyone watching Oz in ’39 knew the life Garland was leading—and would continue to lead— backstage, but they could feel it. When Garland sings, you feel everything.

But as legendary as the backstage tales and gossip are, what continues to entrance audiences is the magic Garland captured on screen, which is why both TCM and The Criterion Channel are celebrating Garland’s centenary all June long.

For those with TCM in their cable package, Garland is June’s “Star of the Month,” Oz is on the schedule (June 10), as is Pigskin Parade and Broadway Melody of 1938, both June 3—the same night you can catch Garland’s successful series of girl-next-door pictures co-starring Mickey Rooney.

For you streamers out there, The Criterion Channel’s Garland celebration features 13 of her signature performances, including a personal favorite: 1948’s The Pirate, starring Garland alongside Gene Kelly—the second of their three pairings. The whole picture is a hoot, but the scene where Garland’s Manuela learns that Kelly’s Macoco is celluloid this side of Citizen Kane.

She could sing, she could act, she could dance and she could scat. She could break your heart with a chord and lift your soul with a smile. Some stars fade, but Garland’s never will.

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nd while you’re on The Criterion Channel, why not give something completely different a try? Shot in stark black and white like a moving Weegee photograph, Lionel Rogosin’s On the Bowery dropkicking American movie making out of the studios and onto the streets. The story here is of an alcoholic (Ray Salyer) down on New York’s skid row. It’s partly scripted but totally authentic—the bridge between documentary and neorealism. And it’s terrifying in its frankness. How Rogosin got the camera into these areas is a stroke of genius. How he depicts these derelicts is a stroke of grace. It’s not a movie that gets enough praise. But thanks to a restoration in 2006

by L’Immagine Ritrovata and a subsequent home video release by Milestone Films, On the Bowery continues to reach new audiences.

And the timing couldn’t be better for more to discover it on The Criterion Channel as a new generation of Americans grapples with another homelessness crisis brought on by substance abuse.

For more movie reviews, tune into After Image, Fridays at 3 p.m., on KGNU: 88.5 FM and online at kgnu.org.

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Meat the future Cultured, fermented and 3D printed foods are almost on the table, but will dinner still taste good?

by John Lehndorff

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s the brilliant comedian and social commentator George Carlin once wisely said: “The future will soon be a thing of the past.”

In the world of food, dining, farming and grocery shopping, the future isn’t waiting its turn.

Companies are fabricating entrees that are cell-cultured or fermented, 3D printed and constructed from pea protein, banana peels or seaweed. Facial recognition software is invading the supermarket aisles. Electric chopsticks promise to make food delivered by drones taste better.

Here is a glimpse into the futuristic meals and technology that will change how we cook, dine, eat and shop in the next decade.

Israeli company Future Meat plans on having its cellcultured meat on U.S. shelves this year. … Juice chain Pressed is offering animal-free egg white protein made by EVERY Company using fermentation to replicate animal protein. …

Colorado-based Meati Foods is introducing an alternative steak product made almost entirely of mycelium, or mushroom “roots” … London’s Symplicity Foods is turning mushrooms and miso into plant-based meats using a fermentation process. … Austria’s Arkeon Biotechnologies is using fermentation to transform captured carbon dioxide into proteins. … Umaro Foods is making plant-based bacon from seaweed. … Israeli startup Plantish is using 3D printing technology to create plant-

Residents of Canberra, Australia, can order more than 250 of Coles supermarket’s most popular grocery items by on-demand drone delivery service. The drone hovers and lowers the package to the ground. … DroneUp is providing drone delivery from 34 Walmart locations in six states including Arizona. The top-selling drone-delivered item at one of these stores is Hamburger Helper. Seriously.

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First law of robotics: make coffee

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A recent survey from Piplsay shows 69% of customers believe grocers should inform shoppers when facial recognition is in use. … Philadelphia cream cheese installed a device to diffuse the smell of freshly baked cheesecake into the dairy aisle. …

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A different sort of relaxation Soak in a mash bill while you sip it at The Beer Spa

by Matt Maenpaa

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or once I went to Denver and came home smelling like a brewery on purpose. That sentence sprang fully-formed in my mind when I got an email inviting me to check out The Beer Spa in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood. A spa soak in a tub full of beer was all I could imagine.

Like many seasoned drinkers, I’ve had my fair share of spills in crowded bars. As a bartender, I’ve had tap lines spray me and kegs foam over. One fateful mash day at the distillery, I was coated in an oatmeal-like rye mash so sticky I had to get in the shower with my clothes on to avoid accidentally waxing my entire body. Though I look back at these memories with a sort of wry amusement, I never thought about voluntarily soaking myself in the stuff that beer is made from.

I love a nice hot soak, or a hot tub with some cocktails or a few beers (editor’s note: mind your alcohol consumption in hot tubs, folks). While I was admittedly skeptical about soaking in beer, it was too interesting and different to pass over. I thought I knew what to expect walking through the doors that day, but I walked back out genuinely impressed.

Let’s take a step back to look at how a beer-focused day spa landed in Five Points.

Founded by entrepreneurial couple Jessica French and Damien Zouaoui, The Beer Spa is a culmination of more than a year of global travel as the married couple explored Europe and Asia. The goal, French says, was to look at unique business concepts that hadn’t made their way to the U.S. yet.

“We’re both very entrepreneurial, so we had this drive to work for ourselves,” French says. “It became pretty apparent (to us) that we wanted to do something different, not just open a restaurant or coffee shop.”

While traveling, it also became apparent that they were still very interested in businesses involving hospitality and wellness, Zouaoui says. The true moment of inspiration came from a rainy afternoon in a Polish mountain town, where a beer spa offered shelter from precipitous weather. Sipping pints while soaking in a warm tub, the smell of beer all around them, led the pair to a conversation about bathing traditions and bringing

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them back to the U.S. Zouaoui and French found a renewed focus for their travels—studying spa, wellness concepts and bathing culture to bring the best ideas back home with them.

They wanted to combine the joy they found in the Polish beer spa with wellness practices found in other cultures, like saunas and Japanese onsen.

“The wellness industry in the U.S. is very different than in other countries,” Zouaoui says. “I think with the pandemic, people realized that need for balance between work and life, and how important it is to take care of yourself.”

essentially a giant tea bag added to the soaking tub, making it more like wort—the pre-fermentation proto-beer.

On the day, I brought one of my good friends with me for company and the two of us enthusiastically committed to our beer-centered wellness routine. The staff were

a new Colorado brewery each month, featuring their beers in the tasting room and utilizing their varieties of hops and barley in the spa itself.

Beers in hand (in insulated tumblers to prevent broken glass in the tub), we were shown to our soaking room and given a brief tutorial. Each room has a sliding door for privacy and guests can enjoy the relaxation either naked or in a bathing suit at their own comfort level. As close as we are, my buddy and I opted for swim trunks.

Each room has a two-person infrared sauna—all the heat with none of the steam—and a rain shower to sweat out any toxins before getting in your beer soak.

The soaking tub holds two, but it is certainly an intimate experience. Neither my friend or I are particularly small humans but were both plenty comfortable for the hour we were there.

It was a genuinely lovely experience, dear readers.

The temperature in the tub was just warmer than the human body, so it lacked the sensation of being slowly cooked alive that I associate with hot tubs and hot springs. I confess I didn’t actually smell like wort, but the aroma was very pleasant. The featured brewery was Cerveceria Colorado, so I enjoyed a pint of their Mexican lager while I relaxed.

More than just for visitors or special occasions, I can see myself heading back to The Beer Spa. The tension drained from me and my muscles felt eased, at least until I had to get back on I-25 North.

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rom the beginning, Fresh Thymes Eatery was designed to feed everyone, no matter their dietary persuasion—carnivore, vegan, vegetarian, paleo or keto—a gluten-free, sustainably sourced meal. However, that has never meant boring fare at the Boulder restaurant. Take Fresh Thymes’ memorable

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The regular menu includes chicken, steak, ancho chile pork, veggie entrees, coconut caramel and toasted coconut.

Next door to the eatery, Fresh Thymes Bodega recently opened offering coffee drinks and takeout-prepared foods including a readyto-eat burrito dished with a kimchi-like housefermented salsa verde. The star of the gluten-free

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Pearl’s Rattlesnake Chili 1 large yellow onion, peeled and chopped 3 large cloves garlic, peeled, minced 4 tablespoons olive oil 1 pound boneless rattlesnake meat (or pork loin) 20 ounces stewed tomatoes 1 green bell pepper, seeded, chopped 1 pound antelope sausage (or other game sausage) 1/2 teaspoon celery salt 1/2 teaspoon cayenne 1 tablespoon ground cumin 1 bay leaf 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 6 cups water 2 cups cooked pinto beans

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Smelly business

Cannabis grow ops might stink like pollution, but state research suggests we’re just smelling things

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f you’re in the vicinity of a commercial cannabis grow you’ll smell it long before you see it. From a car, from the street, even from blocks away, the dank

unmistakable and unignorable—especially when it’s being grown at a near-industrial scale.

What your nose is picking up are called terpenes.

These chemical compounds are naturally occurring in Limonene is found in lemons, pinene is found in pine trees and caryophyllene is in rosemary, cloves and hops. Cannabis has 400 known terpenes, and throughout nature scientists have discovered more than 20,000 of them.

But terpenes aren’t just fragrant organic compounds, they’re also volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Meaning they react with nitrogen oxide in the air to create ozone—a greenhouse gas that absorbs both ultraviolet and infrared VOCs like isoprene (another terpene) creatae more ozone than others and could be detrimental to our atmosphere if generated on a large enough scale.

Leaving many to wonder: How much VOC pollution does Colorado’s commercial cannabis industry generate?

And is that contributing to ozone production in our atmosphere?

Kaitlin Urso, the small business consultant for the Colorado Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE), says the CDPHE gets odor complaints about cultivation facilities all the time. And if the pungency of Colorado’s grow ops is any indicator of their ozone contributions, the state could be dealing with a serious pollution problem—one that Urso points out wouldn’t be subject to the same air-quality permitting requirements as other businesses.

“They’re agriculturally exempt,” Urso says, meaning that, like farmers and ranchers, cannabis cultivators don’t

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question: What is the impact that cannabis cultivation facilities have on air quality?”

So Urso, alongside a team of researchers from the CDPHE and the Colorado Air Quality Control Division (AQCD), set out to answer that question. They designed a study, sampling VOC exhaust from three medium- and large-scale cannabis cultivation facilities in Denver—two producing less than 100,000 harvested plants per year, and one producing less than 20,000. Using a technique called “photochemical air quality monitoring,” the researchers assessed how impactful pot’s VOCs are on ozone production in this state.

And the conclusions they came to were totally unexpected, according to Urso.

They found that, despite the dank odor that hangs heavy on the air surrounding these facilities, and despite the massive terpene content of their crops, the VOC emissions rate for the sampled cultivation facilities was extremely low. The dominant terpenes they detected were caryophyllene, limonene, terpinolene, pinene, and myrcene, “respectively, by concentration,” the study notes. The emissions exhaust also appeared to lack isoprene, a very reactive terpene VOC emitted from many other plants, that has a particular knack for generating ozone at high rates.

In total, the cultivation of 2,000 pounds of cannabis only resulted in 11 pounds of VOCs emitted from the sample. To put that into perspective, within the Denver metro area, the threshold past which a business needs an air quality permit is 2,000 pounds of VOC emissions annually. That would require a cultivator to produce 726,000 pounds of cannabis in a single year—over a third of Colorado’s entire state cannabis crop yield for 2021.

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The three facilities’ VOC emissions sampled in this study by CDPHE were so low that the resulting increase in ozone was just .005-.009%.

“I didn’t expect the sky to be falling emissions-wise, but I just didn’t expect them to be so low,” Urso says.

She expected a full percentage point of change in ozone, at least. “The fact that there’s only 11 pounds of VOCs associated with that much cannabis is shocking.”

Small businesses like auto body paint shops and dry cleaners often exceed that 2,000 pound threshold for VOC emissions, Urso points out. It’s almost unheard of for production facilities of this size to emit such small quantities of VOCs across almost any industry.

“So we know that [cannabis cultivation facilities] are very odorous, but are they actually emitting pollutants?”

Urso asks. “The answer that we found is essentially no. I mean, it’s a very, very low VOC What that tells us, she says, is that our noses are because homosapiens have evolved across eons to detect the dankest dank from blocks away. Or, perhaps more likely, it’s because terpenes are often associated with food and our ancestors were hungry to survive.

Either way, the odor that surrounds cultivation facilities isn’t pollution. It’s just your brain telling you there’s something good growing over there.

“What we found is that [the odor] is a nuisance for some people. It’s not a threat to public health or the environment,” Urso says. “It was great news. I mean, I couldn’t ask for a better surprise.”

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: I’m a 31-year-old queer person living in Europe. I recently met a 46-year-old man.

We were visiting the same city for work and met on an app and went on a series of amazing dates. We have a lot of similar interests and work in parallel It’s partly a work trip for him, but we will take a vacation together after the work part of the trip for him is over. To get to the point… he makes a lot more money than I do. He has offered to cover as much of the costs as he needs to. I feel like I’m out of my league here! I really like him and he seems to this is a “Daddy and His Boy” situation. Do I need to said he wants. I don’t mind if we agree that’s what we are doing. But I don’t want to fall into a Daddy/ Boy dynamic accidentally because of money and “status.” How do I date him like I would someone —Knowing Economic Position Tenuous Dear KEPT: If the Daddy/boy dynamic isn’t something you want (if it doesn’t turn you on and/ or you worry it’ll make things weird), and it isn’t something he wants (assuming he didn’t just say that because he thought it was what you wanted it.” Instead, you should handle the expense of this trip the same way committed couples with large income disparities split the rent. If you were making 50K a year and he was making 150K a year and you wanted to move in together but weren’t ready

should pay a quarter of the rent and he would pay three quarters of the rent. Same should go for utilities, food, and other

of the expenses, he wouldn’t have offered to do that.

He could’ve spent his vacation time in the city where you live instead. Of course, there’s a chance it was a trick offer—he offered to cover the expense of the trip expecting you would turn it down—and he’s

expenses.

But you’re not moving in together, KEPT, you’re just going on a vacation, so things can be a little

way for taking him up on it. If that happens, well, you can go back to dating boys closer to your age and play games.

to cover the hotel (a major expense), you should cover meals—maybe not all of them, particularly if he wants to eat in fancy places, but enough of them that it will be clear to you, to him, to your waiter, and to the angels and saints watching from heaven that you aren’t a kept boy. (Nothing will make you feel

he would presumably be going with or without you, KEPT, you shouldn’t feel guilty about not paying for meals or the hotel on that leg—a hotel room he would be staying in with or without you, meals he would be putting on his expense account with or without you—but maybe treat him to a surprise excursion on that leg of the trip that you can afford.

(Assuming either of you wants to leave your hotel room at this stage of your relationship.)

The kind of disparities you describe — in ages, incomes, and the stages of your respective careers—are something almost all couples have faced—or in the case of income and career advancement, something most couples eventually face. But don’t spend too much time thinking about term; you just met, you really liked each other, and you’re both willing to travel long distances to keep seeing each other. That should be your focus right now, KEPT. If he wasn’t comfortable covering most

Dear Dan: I’m a single and kinky gay man, doing mainly vanilla dating at the moment. Recently, I got dumped by a guy because I fessed up to being kinky. I also told him I believe in God. I realize that might appear contradictory, but I don’t see why both can’t coexist. He told me he can’t date anyone who’s sexually deviant who also believes in “fairies at the bottom of the garden.” Both were equally problematic for him: my belief in God and my kinks.

I wasn’t expecting to be both kink-shamed and Godshamed in the same breath. Are there such things —Frustrated About Insultingly Terminating Hookup Dear FAITH: One of the kinkiest guys I ever

priest. So yeah, FAITH, there are kinky Christians out there. But instead of sitting at home alone your tribe. Get on kinky dating apps, go to leather/

tribe and it turns out you’re the only believer, so long as no one judges or shames you, FAITH, join that tribe. If you meet guys who have a problem with your faith, they don’t get to be a part of your tribe.

As for the guy who called you a sexual deviant… what the hell does he think he is? Without gay guys for that asshole to date at all. Some of us may deviate more than others, FAITH, but that’s as true for gay people as it is for straight people.

Hey, Everybody: The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest protestant denomination in the United States, has always been terrible. It was founded in 1845 by supporters of slavery and the organization is racist to its core still. Leaders, churches, and preachers in the Southern Baptist Convention have also been the loudest anti-gay voices in the country for decades, and lately they’ve been loudly promoting the lie that gay and trans people—by simply existing—are somehow grooming children. Well, it turns out the groomers were in the building all along. In their buildings, in their megachurches, in their leadership—and they weren’t Two Mommies.” They were waving Confederate report released last week documents decades of sexual abuse committed by pastors and leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention. The same preachers who were accusing gays and lesbians of ‘coming for your kids’ were the ones coming for your kids. And in them. As with all power-obsessed social conservatives, as with all Trumpers (and the Southern Baptist Convention is now a Trump property), every accusation—of corruption, of rigged elections, of sexual abuse—is an admission of guilt.

Email questions@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage. Find columns, podcasts, books, merch and more at savage.love.

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