DON’T IT MAKE MY RED STATE BLUE: Out of state “dark money” fueled Colorado’s 2018 election; AG Weiser among beneficiaries despite transparency pledge.

The 501(c)(4), spent nearly $11 million on everything from redistricting changes to the state constitution, wage increase propositions, payday loan regulations, conservation issues, opposing Amendment 74 — which would have compensated property owners if government regulations resulted in lowering their property values — and supporting Democrat candidates running for state offices.

Sixteen Thirty Fund spending in Colorado was initially reported by the Colorado Sun, including its connection to Gov. Jared Polis’ race, with more than $900,000 going to Good Jobs Colorado, which supported Polis.

However, Sixteen Thirty Fund’s connection to Weiser, whose campaign benefited from $600,000 in donations to Justice Colorado, as well as many candidates supported by Our Colorado Values, went unnoticed until now.

Our Colorado Values spent $3.3 million statewide supporting myriad candidates including former House District 50 Rep. Rochelle Galindo, who resigned amid sexual assault allegations and is currently awaiting trial for supplying drugs and alcohol to a minor.

Justice Colorado spent $2.347 million entirely on supporting Weiser and opposing his opponent, 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler.

The spending conflicts with one of the main platforms Weiser ran his campaign on —eliminating the ability of nonprofits to donate without disclosing its donors.

That’s different because reasons.

SMART DIPLOMACY: Our Man at NATO: Trump Suddenly Finds Success.

MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: ‘Yang and Gabbard Don’t Represent the Democratic Party’s Minority Base.’

When I joked last week that the Democrats had “reached a point of intersectionality cross-cancelation, from which only a straight white male can emerge,” I was only half-joking.

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Smartphone ‘addiction’: Young people ‘panicky’ when denied mobiles. You could write a book on this stuff. Or even more than one.

99c, ON SALE FOR CYBERWEEK, FROM ZOEY IVERS:   The Barton Street Gym (Doors into the Dimensions Book 1).

In a future where no one needs to sleep, homes are unnecessary. A simple dimensional cubby in a hi-rise gymnasium is all anyone needs.
Perhaps the designers ought to have considered the possibility of unintended effects from thousands of multi-dimensional bubbles in close proximity to each other. But they weren’t physicists . . .

Joe is independent, his divorced father a bit absent minded. Joe and his “bio-model” friend were exploring the pedestrian tunnels under the Barton Street Gym when they found themselves trapping in a strange landscape with a hungry dinosaur.

Alice Brown is used to getting in trouble; her parents are quite strict. But being attacked by a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a strange dimension just a step across a malfunctioning D-door is not her usual sort of trouble.

YEAH, THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  No Surprises There.

ALL OF IT:  Trump, Schiff’s Schpy-gate, and more.

OUT BOTH SIDES OF HIS MOUTH:  Pete Buttigieg, in Spanish, Promises Free Healthcare for Illegal Aliens.

TEACH WOMEN-JUDGES NOT TO ABUSE THEIR POWER:  Sex, campaign donations and armtwisting: An NKY judge faces…

WORSE, HE HAS DANGEROUS LACK OF THINKING:  Michael Bloomberg Has Dangerous Ideas About China.

AS SHE SHOULD:  Melania Trump Blasts Pamela Karlan For Using Barron To Smear Trump.

WELL, OF COURSE IT’S SLANTED:  Bias triggers and the New York Post’s failure to understand satire — a fisk.

EPSTEIN’S LAWYER DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF:  Banker with Ties to Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead from Apparent Suicide.

YOU KNOW, I JUST MIGHT TRY THE Korean Military Bibimbap MREs. I like the fact that some people say it’s “radioactive spicy” and others say it’s “low-medium” spicy.

ME TOO: AWKWARD: Jerry Nadler Dozes Off During Impeachment Hearing.

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RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Millennialism’s Rebels Without a Cause.

Change everything to save the world. Millennialism rests on the assumption that some kind of apocalyptic battle — capitalism vs. communism, jihad vs. infidel, climate warriors vs. deniers. etc. — is at hand. Naturally, a struggle of such importance had to be won by any means necessary. A select vanguard, party, or movement were the people to do the job. Sacrifices would have to be made, collateral damage endured, but no matter; victory would bring a millennial kingdom into being where the masses or even the planet would live happily ever after.

For decades this kind of thinking ruled progressive politics. But the problem was that the vision proved a mirage. Improvement, when it came, was the result of the creativity of millions, not the state planner.

That’s hard to accept, for people whose ambition is to be the state planner.

Plus: “Not just the 2008 economic effects, but the information balance, which affects the relationship between the elites and the government, has changed. One can look at the Democratic primary as the story of a party trying to redefine itself after the disaster of 2016 and deciding not to — a challenge that in its own way mirrors the problem of the Republican Party. Perhaps it is no coincidence that the most interesting candidates in the Democratic Party are the younger ones who feel in their bones that the future is no longer what it used to be. It has eluded the capacity of old-time apparatchiks to conceive and is potentially more dangerous and wonderful than we can imagine.”

THE BULL SEES THE CAPE, NOT THE SWORD: The Senate Confirmed Four Federal Judges While The House Heard Impeachment Testimony.

Related:

UPDATE: From the comments: “It’s always a constitutional crisis when liberals don’t get what they want.” Noticed that, have you?

OPEN THREAD: It’s all yours.

CAUSE AND EFFECT:

Shot: Dallas mayor calls increase in crime ‘patently unacceptable.’

—Dallas-area ABC affiliate WFAA, yesterday.

Chaser: The new Dallas County DA doesn’t seem to like prosecuting people.

—Jazz Shaw, Hot Air, April 16th.

DEVELOPING: Multiple Victims in Shooting at Pearl Harbor; Naval Shipyard on Lockdown.

NEWS OF FRESH DISASTER: The Karlan Catastrophe.

But the Democrats’ worst witness was Stanford professor Pamela Karlan. Karlan reportedly was considered for a Supreme Court appointment by Barack Obama, but rejected as too radical. She also was reported to be on Hillary Clinton’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees. Karlan came across as an obsessive Trump-hater. She testified that on one occasion, she was walking down a sidewalk and came to a Trump hotel. She said that she crossed the street so she wouldn’t have to pass in front of the Trump property. That’s some objective “expert” witness.

But Karlan’s worst moment came when she dragged the Trumps’ 13-year-old son Barron into a prepared joke.

Karlin may not ever make it to the Supremes, but she definitely shot a fine audition tape for MSNBC today.

CHINA’S ONE-CHILD POLICY MEETS PAKISTAN’S HISTORIC CONTEMPT FOR WOMEN: AP Exclusive: 629 Pakistani girls sold as brides to China. I’m sure this is just the tip of the iceberg.

OH: Joe Biden says he will refuse to testify in Senate impeachment trial if called. “Biden did not add whether he would answer to a subpoena if it were issued by Senate lawmakers.”