Denver, CO
Trump Border Czar: I’ll Throw Denver Resistance Mayor in Jail
President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar” claimed Monday that he will throw the mayor of Denver, Colorado in prison if his city resists Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants from the United States.
“Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing: he’s willing to go to jail, I’m willing to put him in jail,” Tom Homan said in an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity.
Homan was responding to an interview last week in which Mayor Mike Johnston told Denverite he would summon local police to block federal forces mobilized by Trump to round up immigrants.
He also suggested the community would rise up against them.
“More than us having [the Denver Police Department] stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston said.
“It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right? You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.”
Johnston added that he would explore the creation of city work authorizations if Trump follows through on a pledge to block immigrants from working.
His remarks immediately became fodder for conservative cable news and MAGA sycophants like Elon Musk, who tweeted, “The mayor of Denver hates his constituents.”
During an appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) accused the mayor of advocating for a “form of insurrection.”
Johnston later softened his stance on city police blocking federal agents, but reiterated his support for mass protests against any deportation efforts.
Homan, meanwhile, pledged to have federal officers carry out deportations, no matter what Johnston thinks.
“I don’t know what the hell’s going on in Denver, but we are going to go fix it,“ he said. ”If he don’t want to fix it, if he don’t want to protect his communities, President Trump and ICE will.”
Homan is a rough and tumble former Border Patrol agent who led the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on an acting basis under Trump from January 2017 to June 2018.
He was not confirmed by the United States Senate, while his new role doesn’t require confirmation.
During Trump’s second term in office, he will be in charge of the U.S. land and sea borders, including the enforcement of the President-elect’s pledge to mass deport millions of people with the use of federal or even military personnel.
Denver, CO
Flights Into Denver Accidentally Made It Snow
Congratulations, passengers aboard United Flight 5528 into Denver on Saturday night, you made it snow. More precisely, your airplane did, as did other aircraft landing at Denver International Airport that evening, but the United jet fared particularly well as a weather-maker, reports the Washington Post. In the story, meteorologist Matthew Cappucci explains that planes arriving between around 6pm and 7pm inadvertently flew through “a cloud of supercooled water droplets” and triggered a light snowfall. It was modest enough that nothing accumulated on the ground.
The phenomenon has been documented before, but it’s relatively rare and requires just the right combination of below-freezing temperatures and high relative humidity, explains a post at ViewFromtheWing. The “supercooled water droplets” mentioned above remain liquid under such conditions because they have “nothing to freeze onto to become snowflakes,” writes Cappucci. The jets give them that something—tiny particulates in the exhaust. The same general principle of “artificial ice nuclei” applies to the practice of cloud seeding, which CNN previously explained here. (More strange stuff stories.)
Denver, CO
Denver mayor pushes back against Congressional Republicans’ request to testify
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Denver Health unveils naloxone vending machine that offers live-saving drug free of charge
Denver Health unveiled a no-cost naloxone vending machine on its hospital campus on Monday. The vending machine distributes the life-saving drug naloxone, otherwise known as Narcan, free of charge.
It’s available to the community through the National Institute of Drug Abuse’s VEnding machine Naloxone Distribution in Your community, or VENDY, program.
“We really engaged our community members with substance use experience to help us build this program. They told us how this could work to build the program,” said Nicole Wagner, PhD, Assistant Professor, CU School of Medicine.
“This machine is simple and elegant and so is the message: your life matters regardless of your disease,” said Sarah Christensen, MD, Medical Director of Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment, at Denver Health.
Those who want access to naloxone can visit the vending machine at the Denver Health Hospital Campus, outside Pavilion K, located at 667 Bannock St. There are also medication and hygiene kits available for free 24 hours a day.
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