Ari Armstrong
@ariarmstrong.bsky.social
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Colorado politics, homeschool dad. See AriArmstrong.com.
I tried image generation in ChatGPT. My first attempt failed; GPT froze. But the second time I thought GPT hit it out of the park:
about 12 hours ago
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Make American Debt Great Again.
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I made my wife a spaghetti dinner. To quote the Bible, "This is some serious gourmet shit."
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Ilya Somin
4 days ago
In this post, I condemn Trump's shameful policy of deporting Russian dissenters fleeing Putin's regime. It's unjust, illegal, and damaging to US interests. But consistent in those respects with Trump's other refugee policies:
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
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Trump's Shameful Effort to Deport Russian Dissenters Fleeing Putin
The administration seeks to deport them back to Russia, in spite of overwhelming, moral, legal, and strategic reasons not to do so.
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/04/28/trumps-shameful-effort-to-deport-russian-dissenters-fleeing-putin/
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New band! (For me.)
youtu.be/FeBxmNLwp58
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Cheekface – MFT
YouTube video by Cheekface
https://youtu.be/FeBxmNLwp58
4 days ago
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"The Comey Threat Indictment Is A Grave Embarrassment To The United States Department of Justice And The Rule of Law."
www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-...
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The Comey Threat Indictment Is A Grave Embarrassment To The United States Department of Justice And The Rule of Law
The Department of Justice Is Dead; Long Live The Department of Trump
https://www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-threat-indictment-is-a-grave-embarrassment-to-the-united-states-department-of-justice-and?utm_source=www.popehat.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-comey-threat-indictment-is-a-grave-embarrassment-to-the-united-states-department-of-justice-and-the-rule-of-law
4 days ago
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Make sure you don't watch this Kimmel video, because Melania doesn't like it:
youtu.be/GRjKhsJc95o
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Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Trump & His MAGA Minions at Our Alternative White House Correspondents’ Dinner
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
https://youtu.be/GRjKhsJc95o
5 days ago
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The Sentinel in Aurora
6 days ago
'The awards mark the work we do every day to push past a tsunami of misinformation, disinformation and all flavors of propaganda posing as facts'
sentinelcolorado.com/metro/sentin...
#AuroraCO
#JournalismMatters
#FirstAmendment
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Sentinel journalists win top awards for news, sports and opinion coverage in Aurora - Sentinel Colorado
“The awards mark the work we do every day to push past a tsunami of misinformation, disinformation and all flavors of propaganda posing as facts"
https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/sentinel-journalists-win-top-awards-for-news-sports-and-opinion-coverage-in-aurora/
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Pink Floyd's "Momentary Lapse of Reason" is such a beautiful album.
6 days ago
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Thank you to SPJ for recognizing my work for the Colorado Times Recorder, and congratulations to the many other fine Colorado and regional journalists recognized for their work.
6 days ago
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People on the left need to implement a "zero tolerance" policy for conspiracy mongering. Three things can be true: It was a real assassination attempt, that's horrible, and an effect is to distract attention away from serious problems in the country.
7 days ago
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The United States is operating concentration camps rife with abuse.
reason.com/2026/04/22/r...
Absolutely shameful. Donald Trump will go down as among the worst presidential violators of civil rights in U.S. history since slavery.
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Reports of abuse pour out of federal immigration detention centers
Deaths in ICE detention have hit a two-decade high, and allegations of medical neglect and poor conditions continue to surge.
https://reason.com/2026/04/22/reports-of-abuse-pour-out-of-federal-immigration-detention-centers/
10 days ago
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"How dare Democrats finish the redistricting fight that Republicans started!"
11 days ago
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Someone on FB referred to Trump's "Liquor Cabinet"; I thought that was pretty good.
11 days ago
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"As the Colorado GOP Turns" is more entertaining than any soap on TV. (But, you know, disturbing.)
11 days ago
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I guess you have to be a Satanist in Colorado to take a pee whenever you need to in school?
www.westword.com/news/satanis...
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Satanist Student Wins Religious Accommodation From Colorado School District
"The district is deeply committed to honoring parental rights."
https://www.westword.com/news/satanist-student-religious-accommodation-colorado-school-40873283/
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We're "Making America Great Again" by... harassing and imprisoning the elderly widow of a U.S. veteran.
thehill.com/policy/inter...
Disgusting.
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French widow detained by ICE after GI husband’s death released, returns to France
After being held in a U.S. immigration detention facility for the past 16 days, an elderly French woman returned home to France on Friday. Marie-Thérèse Ross was detained by Immigration and C…
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5836654-immigration-detention-alabama-france/
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My take on the Chiles decision:
coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/04/desp...
(Also the majority decision explicitly recognizes " traditional tort malpractice claims" in this context.)
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Despite SCOTUS Ruling, Colorado Can Still Regulate Dangerous 'Conversion Therapy'
Let's say that a licensed therapist held the sincere religious belief that people can be demonically possessed, and the therapist accepted children, whose parents had convinced them that they are...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/04/despite-scotus-ruling-colorado-can-still-regulate-dangerous-conversion-therapy/78163/
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I think we should ramp up social studies testing, not roll it back. My Colorado column:
completecolorado.com/2026/04/14/t...
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Testing puts Colorado's abysmal social studies education on display - Complete Colorado
It's no wonder some legislators want to sweep evidence of underperforming public schools under the rug.
https://completecolorado.com/2026/04/14/testing-colorado-abysmal-social-studies-education/
18 days ago
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ACLU
18 days ago
NEW: We’re demanding policy changes after Maryland police secretly relied on a faulty facial recognition match and wrongly jailed an Oklahoma mother for 6 months for a crime she didn’t commit in a state she had never been to. This should never happen to anyone else. Ms. Williams deserves justice.
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We're "Making America Great Again" by... imprisoning a dad on his way to deliver milk to his baby in the NICU.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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ICE arrests DACA recipient while delivering milk to his baby in NICU
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/ice-daca-dreamer-deported-nicu-juan-chavez-velasco-b2942119.html
19 days ago
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Joaquin Castro
19 days ago
Just visited Juan Velasco. He’s an honest, hardworking Dreamer who works in healthcare. Today he’s sitting in a prison in Laredo, TX missing his family that includes a two month old baby girl.
youtube.com/shorts/q7pDf...
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Visited Juan Velasco. He’s at an ICE prison in Laredo, Texas. He should be at home with his family.
YouTube video by JoaquinCastroTX
https://youtube.com/shorts/q7pDf9mpj2M?feature=share
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We coulda had Kamala.
20 days ago
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In the past few days, Trump has insulted Islam, mocked the Pope, and cast himself as Jesus. He is also a serial philanderer, compulsive liar, and open bigot. Of course evangelicals love him.
20 days ago
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One down...
20 days ago
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Reuters Legal
22 days ago
A U.S. appeals court on Friday declared unconstitutional a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, calling it an unnecessary and improper means for Congress to exercise its power to tax.
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US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
A U.S. appeals court on Friday declared unconstitutional a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, calling it an unnecessary and improper means for ​Congress to exercise its power to tax.
https://reut.rs/4t5HJ5S
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"Hey Google, tell me how the U.S. government could make Iranians hate the United States more than they hate their own brutal rulers?"
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"I knew Trump was very bad news, but I didn’t realize quite how multidimensionally bad." Noah Smith
www.noahpinion.blog/p/i-told-you...
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I told you this would end badly
In retrospect, there were signs that Trump was not a good leader.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/i-told-you-this-would-end-badly
26 days ago
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You never know whether you're going to see TACO Trump or sociopath Trump.
26 days ago
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Is there even any MAGA asshole willing to defend these sorts of absurd horrors?
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
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ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/ice-detains-military-wife-soldier-deployment.html
26 days ago
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I also have teleported to a Waffle House. (I mean, who hasn't?)
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Ryan (Ry) Warner
about 1 month ago
SCOTUS: “Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy, as applied to Ms. Chiles’s talk therapy, regulates speech based on viewpoint, and the lower courts erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.”
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Larry Ryckman
about 1 month ago
We're now seeing thousands on the streets in Denver and Pueblo, among the largest rallies in the state. There's a festive, joyous mood among the demonstrators. .... Colorado No Kings rallies draw thousands of cheering, flag-waving demonstrators across the state
coloradosun.com/2026/03/28/n...
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Colorado No Kings rallies draw thousands of cheering, flag-waving demonstrators across the state
Some protesters said they were pushed to stand up, some for the first time, by war in Iran, threats to the Constitution, attacks on the marginalized
https://coloradosun.com/2026/03/28/no-kings-colorado-rally-politics/
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Kyle Clark
about 1 month ago
NEW: Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate Joe Oltmann is intensifying his antisemitic attacks on the "Synagogue of Satan Jews" who Oltmann claims control the world and run Colorado
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We're "Making America Great Again" by, uh, locking up seven-year-old autistic girls with their moms.
vancouversun.com/news/ice-gua...
Absolutely shameful.
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ICE guards 'sadistic, inhumane and abusive,' jailed Penticton woman says
Penticton woman, locked up with autistic daughter, said she was taunted for being Canadian
https://vancouversun.com/news/ice-guards-sadistic-inhumane-and-abusive-jailed-penticton-woman-says
about 1 month ago
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Kyle Clark
about 1 month ago
COMMENTARY: A gubernatorial candidate's badly-botched map of Colorado is a silly mistake, not a cause for outrage. It's a reminder to journalists that we don't need to participate in bad faith fake outrage. Even if that means we're accused of bias.
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S. Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them. (Published Nov. 2025)
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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
https://www.propublica.org/article/andrew-tate-investigation-dhs-paul-ingrassia?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1774234805&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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What an absolute piece of shit human being Donald Trump is.
about 1 month ago
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Creationism Attempt at Charter School Illustrates Broader Antagonism Toward Science. My new column:
coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/03/crea...
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Creationism Attempt at Charter School Illustrates Broader Antagonism Toward Science
A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that a lot of the public, and some people within public schools, remain...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/03/creationism-attempt-at-charter-school-illustrates-broader-antagonism-toward-science/77498/
about 1 month ago
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Kyle Clark
about 2 months ago
NEW: President Trump makes four false claims in a 43-word post about Tina Peters. Peters is 70 (not 73), does not have cancer, was sentenced by a judge in Mesa County (not the Governor), and did not expose fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
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about 2 months ago
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Rip Brian Doherty.
reason.com/2026/01/12/t...
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Trump 2.0, year 1: A libertarian nightmare
Trump's specific, documented exertions of state power over the past year should be enough to declare him a dangerous foe of American liberty.
https://reason.com/2026/01/12/trump-2-0-year-1-a-libertarian-nightmare/
about 2 months ago
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Liberalism.org
might look a lot to you like
Libertarianism.org
but this is a great team.
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Liberalism.org: An Online Magazine for Free and Open People
An Online Magazine for Free & Open People
https://Liberalism.org
about 2 months ago
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Hey look they found the voter fraud! "Davis attended the January 6th, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol."
www.denver7.com/news/crime/j...
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Judge gives Castle Rock woman convicted of voter fraud maximum sentence
A Douglas County judge gave a 62-year-old woman convicted of voter fraud the maximum sentence allowed under Colorado law, the 23rd Judicial District announced Monday.
https://www.denver7.com/news/crime/judge-gives-castle-rock-woman-convicted-of-voter-fraud-maximum-sentence
about 2 months ago
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5th Annual Mission to Mars Engineering Design Competition:
education.marssociety.org/competition/
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Mars Engineering Design Competition 2026 | Mars Society Education
Design an 18-month Mars surface mission in the 5th annual competition. Work with NASA scientists and aerospace engineers. Open to students aged 13-19 worldwide. June 8 – July 10, 2026. $99 registratio...
https://education.marssociety.org/competition/
about 2 months ago
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Kyle Clark
about 2 months ago
NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs
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Kyle Clark
about 2 months ago
NEW: Governor Jared Polis (D) tells me Tina Peters would have to show appropriate contrition for her crimes to receive clemency. Polis is clearly leaning strongly toward it. Our conversation tonight on
@nexton9news.bsky.social
at 6pm on 9NEWS/streaming on 9NEWS+.
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Centennial State Prosperity
about 2 months ago
Today, the CSP team was at the state capitol where House Bill 1001 passed out of the Senate Local Government & Housing Committee on a 4-3 vote! Thank you to our amazing Senate sponsors Sen. Tony Exum and
@senadorajulie.bsky.social
. Next steps: Pass the Senate floor vote!
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Kyle Clark
about 2 months ago
NEW: Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubenstein (R) who prosecuted Tina Peters says Gov Jared Polis (D) giving Peters clemency "would be a gross injustice." Rubenstein points out that separate case cited by Polis to justify clemency misses the purpose of sentencing ranges.
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