Ari Armstrong
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Colorado politics, homeschool dad. See AriArmstrong.com.
Google's genius AI just helpfully suggested to me that one way to share contact info is "verbally sharing your details." Wow, thanks, Google; what would I do without you?
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See "Life of Chuck." Just amazing. Extraordinary.
2 days ago
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Hey look! We found the people persecuting Christians!
www.facebook.com/matthew.mika...
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Matt Mikalatos
I keep looking at this picture of Michael Woolf, a minister in Illinois who was arrested today for exercising his freedom of speech outside of the Broadview ICE facility... the same facility that has....
https://www.facebook.com/matthew.mikalatos/posts/pfbid02UQtbzmQVJdD77JpLoBnkvLBA4zjbzk9HVhVVfUYrBMsaLNXwK3kMuKT2oykJP4J3l
2 days ago
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New band name up for grabs: "Blowing Bubba."
3 days ago
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Housing is too expensive because local NIMBY politicians clamp down on the production and use of housing. Blaming immigrants for the problem is a cowardly bigoted lie.
3 days ago
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Rebrand: White Heritage Foundation.
3 days ago
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I've had a hell of a time getting a new pair of glasses that works for me. But I have to say Zenni online has pretty good glasses and is pretty easy to work with, and very economical. (I have no financial interest here.)
5 days ago
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Langford's Lede: "A NYC man featured in an upcoming Netflix series will spend five years in a Colorado prison for stabbing the boyfriend of a āBachelor in Paradiseā star in a bar fight that started when the New York manās girlfriend licked the reality starās face."
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/12/b...
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āBizarreā face-licking, stabbing incident involving āBachelorā contestant lands Netflix reality star in Colorado prison
A NYC man featured in a new Netflix series will spend five years in a Colorado prison for stabbing the boyfriend of a āBachelorā star in a bar fight.
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/11/12/bachelor-colorado-stabbing-carlos-vega/
5 days ago
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Important story from Chalkbeat: "Christian law firmās search for test case led to religious public school in Colorado, emails suggest":
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
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Christian law firm sought Colorado test case for religious public schools, emails suggest
Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2025/11/12/alliance-defending-freedom-sought-religious-public-school-emails-suggest/
5 days ago
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"Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct":
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-emails.html
5 days ago
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
6 days ago
It was always a lie that the focus would be deporting the worst of the worst. To get Dreamer/DACA status basically meant you were a Girl Scout or Boy Scout. And it's silly because many of these people got educated here since 2012 and now we're losing that talent and skill. š¤·š¾āāļø
add a skeleton here at some point
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Some CO news: George Sparks is retiring from the role of CEO and President of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (via museum email). "I know the time is right to pass theĀ torch.... TheĀ BoardĀ of Trustees will conduct a national searchĀ early next year."
6 days ago
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Did History Colorado censor an artist by rejecting a submission that substantially varied from the original proposal? Here I argue that it did not:
completecolorado.com/2025/11/11/c...
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Censorship claim against History Colorado fails smell test - Complete Colorado
History Colorado has a pervasive leftist bias that frequently shows up in most of its exhibits.
https://completecolorado.com/2025/11/11/censorship-claim-history-colorado/
6 days ago
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It's astonishing to think that Nixon, as bad as he was, was not nearly as bad as Trump.
7 days ago
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Look, I was as critical of Obamacare as anyone. But the solution is NOT to just blow up the current system, but to create better alternatives and build in transition plans.
7 days ago
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The "affordability" trap:
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
"It is a new form of economic populism."
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I worry about "affordability politics" - Marginal REVOLUTION
It focuses the listenerās attention on price rather than quantity.Ā To many people it sounds better than āeconomic growth,ā though often for the wrong reasons.Ā I cover related points in my latest Fre...
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/11/i-worry-about-affordability-politics.html
11 days ago
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Carl Quintanilla
12 days ago
This really hasnāt gotten enough attention this week.
@wired.com
#ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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ICE is "Making America Great Again" by . . . tear-gassing two-year olds:
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Chicago residents say kids tear-gassed due to nearby immigration enforcement
A Chicago mother tells NBC News she and her 2-year-old were hit with a chemical agent. Many residents say the city wasnāt a āwar zoneāā until immigration agents swept through.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chicago-immigration-enforcement-children-tear-gas-border-patrol-rcna241629?fbclid=IwY2xjawN5rQ5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFiQ2xaQ2NBSklRMXNUZWpNc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHrdMwz3It49ZocSHNA0n3bR-AasuTE7Nm0ccFwxXNGDyzgvJ-5zfJp4fcwnZ_aem__566IsWndL_sSTbi8Jy85A&brid=ORZN3KuDIlgJDNHlzTrfLw
11 days ago
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"Utter wipeout" for Colorado Republicans.
rosskaminsky.substack.com/p/wipeout
Here's an idea: Maybe Republicans could stop trying to be the craziest people in the room and focus on competent governance.
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Wipeout
It's hard to imagine how Republicans could have had a worse night
https://rosskaminsky.substack.com/p/wipeout
12 days ago
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I take the message from voters NOT as "we want hard-left government" but "we want no bullshit from government."
12 days ago
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Ari Armstrong
Kyle Clark
12 days ago
MIDNIGHT UPDATE: Moderate/Dem-backed candidates are currently sweeping every school board race in conservative Douglas County, Colorado (home to a famous school voucher experiment). Would give moderates total 7-0 control of the school board.
#copolitics
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"Tell me again for how many minutes you can suck Trump's dick?"
14 days ago
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Ari Armstrong
Kyle Clark
14 days ago
Food lines were 2X normal this morning at the Weld Food Bank, which told me 2/3rds of their visitors said they were impacted by the SNAP food benefit freeze. Our microgiving campaign has raised $50,000 for Weld Food Bank so far. Even $5 helps:
weldfoodbank.org/wordofthanks/
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Trump's authoritarianism, immigration cruelty, Gaza, trade wars, antifa, Mounk and Rufo, literacy, crime, Vance sees demons, and more. My new Roundup:
ariarmstrong.com/roundup-65.h...
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Self in Society Roundup 65
Trump's authoritarianism, immigration cruelty, Gaza, trade wars, antifa, Mounk and Rufo, literacy, crime, Vance sees demons, and more.
https://ariarmstrong.com/roundup-65.html
14 days ago
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Dinosaur Ridge destruction, conversion therapy, a Boulder racist, Colorado crime, and more. My new Colorado News Miner:
ariarmstrong.com/miner-138.html
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Colorado News Miner 138
Dinosaur Ridge destruction, conversion therapy, a Boulder racist, Colorado crime, and more.
https://ariarmstrong.com/miner-138.html
14 days ago
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This birder doc is amazing:
youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo
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LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
YouTube video by owen reiser
https://youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo
14 days ago
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There's something called the "Denver Horror Collective."
denverhorror.com/terror-at-52...
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TERROR AT 5280ā² Anthology
A neighborhood wonāt let its residents forget the past. One taste draws two lovers into a nightmarish addiction. A harsh winter forces strange creatures down from the mountains. At sea level, whereā¦
https://denverhorror.com/terror-at-5280/
15 days ago
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Warning: I "upgraded" a Mac from Sequoia to Tahoe and that broke the DVD drive. (It played but poorly.) I had to reinstall Sequoia to fix the problem. Who knows what other problems there are with the "new and improved" OS.
16 days ago
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When Harry Houdini exposed Denverās spirit photographers: My Halloween column:
completecolorado.com/2025/10/31/h...
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When Harry Houdini exposed Denver's spirit photographers - Complete Colorado
Houdini wrote about his Denver trip in his 1924 book, "A Magician Among the Spirits."
https://completecolorado.com/2025/10/31/houdini-exposed-denvers-spirit-photographers/
17 days ago
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"When bad people do bad things, I expect it. When good people do nothing, I just want to fucking punch them in the face." (a line from Penguin Lessons) (But don't really punch people in the face.)
18 days ago
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Ari Armstrong
Kyle Clark
20 days ago
Protesters swarmed an ICE facility in Durango, CO demanding two children detained with their father be released to their mother. Durango Police say they also offered to help reunite the kids with their mother. They were unsuccessful.
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We're "Making America Great Again" by (checks notes...) locking teachers in cages.
www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
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Fifth grade teacher in Colorado detained by ICE along with family, says school
The teacher was authorized to work in the U.S., according to school officials, but ICE said she was in the country illegally. The educator and her family, including minor children, are being held at a...
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/fifth-grade-teacher-family-douglas-county-colorado-detained-ice/
20 days ago
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Radley Balko
20 days ago
This administration has now carried out more than 50 extrajudicial executions
abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-...
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14 dead in more strikes against alleged drug boats, Hegseth says
The defense secretary said three strikes targeted four alleged drug boats.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-strikes-alleged-drug-vessels-killing-14-people/story?id=126935020
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Debunking a seance scam: Coloradoās original ghost busters. My new column:
completecolorado.com/2025/10/28/d...
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Debunking a seance scam: Colorado's original ghost busters - Complete Colorado
Within a few decades, seances went from having the support of public officials to becoming subject to criminal inquiry.
https://completecolorado.com/2025/10/28/debunking-a-seance-scam-colorados-original-ghost-busters/
20 days ago
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Some skepticism about the FL school phone bans increasing test scores:
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Suno v5 is doing well. 2. A nuclear fission regulatory blank slate? 3. Chris Ferguson on the latest cellphone ban study: āNo, the effect size is near zero. Unpublished study, not peer reviewed. And...
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/monday-assorted-links-532.html
21 days ago
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Dinosaur Ridge is in a profound state of disrepair, with main tracks literally eroding away on an annual basis. The trackway needs a roofed structure with good exterior drainage. But the reno. project has been mired in bureaucracy. Please contact your CO and Jeffco officials. My recent photos:
23 days ago
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I'm inclined to agree...
23 days ago
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Denver used to have a Black baseball team called the White Elephants. (From DMNS.)
23 days ago
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Really fun little brewery in Five Points (Denver).
23 days ago
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In a novel you couldn't get away with naming a founder of AI alt-man.
25 days ago
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My wife and I are talking about pinching pennies to help fund Food Bank of the Rockies; meanwhile, we're also helping pay for the completely unnecessary $300M renovation of the East Wing. (P.S. The U.S. also is in debt $38 trillion.)
25 days ago
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"Creative destruction" is not remotely the same as "destruction for destruction's sake."
25 days ago
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I confess the new Predator film looks fun.
26 days ago
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Why I Endorse Phil Weiser in the Democratic Primary (Colorado governor race):
ariarmstrong.com/25-weiser.html
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Why I Endorse Phil Weiser in the Democratic Primary
Weiser is best positioned to take on Trump.
https://ariarmstrong.com/25-weiser.html
27 days ago
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Reject land-use socialism in Littleton: My new column:
completecolorado.com/2025/10/21/l...
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'Land-use socialism' on the local ballot in Littleton - Complete Colorado
There is no "right" of some homeowners to forcibly restrict how their neighbors use their property.
https://completecolorado.com/2025/10/21/land-use-socialism-on-the-local-ballot-in-littleton/
27 days ago
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Rush just added a bunch more shows.
www.rush.com/tour/fifty-s...
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Fifty Something ā Rush.com
Official News and Information about the Legendary Rock Band Rush
https://www.rush.com/tour/fifty-something/
28 days ago
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Had dinner plans so I shut off the Broncos game at about the 7 minute mark convinced the Broncos had almost no chance. That was an exciting half-period of football for which I watched highlights.
29 days ago
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Another great photo of the "No Kings" protest at the Denver capitol.
coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/18/t...
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Tens of thousands of Coloradans rally and march against Trump at No Kings protests | Colorado Newsline
Thousands of people gathered in opposition to President Donald Trump's administration at a rally and march in Denver on Saturday.
https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/18/tens-of-thousands-of-coloradans-rally-and-march-against-trump-at-no-kings-protests/
30 days ago
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Kyle Clark
30 days ago
No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times.
#copolitics
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