Rep. Lauren Boebert Outpaced In Second Quarter Fundraising By A Wide Margin

A three-vote margin flipped a Colorado Springs state House seat from Democrat to Republican, according to a mandatory recount result announced Thursday evening, officially cracking the Democratic supermajority in the chamber. Republican Rebecca Keltie won 20,641 votes to Democratic incumbent Rep. Steph Vigil’s 20,638 in House District 16 — and with it, secured 22 GOP seats in the 65-member chamber.

Aurora’s dilapidated Edge of Lowry apartments, which earned international infamy and the attention of Donald Trump after a video of armed men in its hallways went viral, are set to close in the coming months as part of a deal reached between city officials and the apartments’ owners. The proposed settlement was described in Aurora municipal court Thursday, after an attorney who represents the apartment owner agreed not to contest city officials’ efforts to close the troubled property. Exact details — including when the 60-unit complex will be closed and what happens to the people living in its five buildings — remain unclear.

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Protesters took to the US Capitol bathrooms across from House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office on Thursday to protest the recently enacted policy banning trans people from accessing bathrooms that align with their gender identity. Just a day after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that may upend gender-affirming care for children and adults across the United States, dozens of trans people and their allies raised banners demanding Congress “stop pissing on our rights” and urging supporters to “flush bathroom bigotry.” “It was important to show up in a radically defiant way and let the world know, and let our electeds know, that we are not going to allow this disrespect and this disregard for our lives,” Raquel Willis, co-founder of Gender Liberation Movement and one of the organizers of the demonstration, told Mother Jones.

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