Colorado at 150: In 1876 in the soon-to-be-state of Colorado, there was anxiety about the complex relationships between business and political leaders, the railroad companies and the public they were meant to serve. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

All else aside, it’s hard to describe how disingenuous this comparison is. SJL faked letters of support to duck a state legislative ethics probe. Peters participated in a plot to undermine Colorado’s elections and has spent her brief time in prison getting in fights and earning write-ups.

NEW YouGov poll: Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States 50% support 39% oppose Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE Moderates +6 23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE

Genuinely cannot believe this is still the Democratic line four days later. Trump has given interviews to the NYT, WaPo, CNN, Fox News, ABC, NBC, CBS, Axios, Politico, The Atlantic, The Daily Mail and held multiple press availabilities during which he has given many, many "answers" about his "plan"!

people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues

Incredible that Democrats have had three cracks at candidate recruitment in this huge, diverse district and haven't managed to move beyond slight variations on "rich guy from Aspen"

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

One of the two big demands from congressional Democrats over the last two days is for this person to provide them a detailed explanation of his long-term strategic objectives in starting this war.

It appears a hospital in Teheran has now been hit. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

FIFA closing monitoring the situation. The situation: Their peace prize winner just bombed one of the countries he will host at the World Cup this summer

This was how it covered the start of Trump's war with Iran.

Eight months ago, Gabe Evans promised Trump's major escalation in striking Iran's nuclear program would "achieve peace through strength." Now he wholeheartedly endorses a long, uncertain war of regime change.

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

During the U.S.-Israeli attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group. trib.al/y3MsQLC

"I think responses [that ask only for the Administration to 'explain itself'] are pathetic. This isn’t a mystery that needs to be solved. This is not the case of the missing casus belli."

Statements from Colorado's six congressional Democrats today contain a lot of criticism of Trump, a lot of requests for briefings and explanations and authorization votes, and zero statements of straightforward opposition to the U.S. waging war on Iran.

Who should Coloradans elect to the Senate if they oppose war with Iran, not just the lack of a congressional vote to approve war with Iran?

It takes a keen eye and ear for language, but if you study them closely you will notice that "Congress must vote on the war" and "But what is the plan for the war?" are not, in fact, "No war."

I think the truly damning thing about the Dem comms response is that they had months to prepare for today and there's zero coordination, no unified message. Just every D leader responding like they quickly hammered out a statement in a panic at 6 am this morning

Gabe Evans, who won't so much as take tough questions from reporters or face a claque of Indivisible moms at a town hall, says he's ready and willing for servicemembers and civilians across the Middle East to deal with the consequences of the war Trump just started.

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Just a level-setting reminder that "No war" is just about the simplest political message that can possibly be communicated, and every trained political communicator who doesn't get it across to you is making a deliberate choice not to.

Two very different races, but if you'd said a year or two ago that neither of these guys would feel confident they could even get 30% (!) of the vote at the state Dem assembly, you'd have been laughed at by a lot of highly paid people in Colorado politics.

Liver's cheap because there's low demand for it. If everyone started eating it, it would become expensive. And even if everyone loved it, it's only recommended that you eat it once a week, or you risk vitamin A toxicity. Would be nice if the secretary of HEALTH knew that!

It's not the whole story, but a hugely underrated factor in RTD's spiraling governance/public trust issues is Owens and Hickenlooper privatizing half the system into the hands of entities that are completely invisible, and only indirectly and intermittently accountable, to the people they serve.

Colorado at 150: The A.T. & S.F. railway's arrival in 1876 represented salvation for Pueblo. Residents could depart on an eastbound train in the morning and arrive in Kansas City by the following afternoon. Pueblo became an important industrial hub for decades to come. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

The quintuple axel of political comms: Trying to score points over a hypothetical disaster that might have happened, while the *actual* reason relief funds for *actual* disasters are being blocked is Trump's retaliation over Tina Peters coloradonewsline.com/briefs/trump...

matt thinks a jobs program for people released from prison is some kind of newfangled woke non profit thing. the guy simply does not follow policy and isn't interested in doing so.

Ah, “Abundance.”

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

who's ready to get mad online about Gas Leak Red Mars

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser used a governor candidate forum focused on affordable housing Saturday to spar over whose experience and approach would better position them to deliver results as governor. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

Interesting to hear Michael Bennet repeatedly acknowledge something that, while obvious, has often been ignored in the last few years of debates over Colorado housing policy: For a lot of people, the state's housing shortage has been the opposite of a crisis. coloradonewsline.com/2026/02/22/c...

There are a ton of important, short-term, straightforwardly material issues to be debated re: data centers and AI deployment but more and more I’m convinced that they’re all secondary to a first-order disagreement between humanists and whatever this is.

"Why would the president pursue military action against the country without nuclear weapons instead of the one with nuclear weapons" is a question that answers itself when stated plainly, and also explains why any regime wary of foreign intervention would rationally pursue a nuclear arsenal.

Colorado at 150: Colorado’s early decades as a territory and state coincided with the Golden Age of Fraternalism, when millions of American men joined the Freemasons, the Odd Fellows and other groups that offered an early social safety net. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

Totally bizarre that CO-3 appears to be last on the list of R districts that D groups are prioritizing in 2026. It was a five-point R margin of victory two years ago, compared to 12- and 14-point margins in CO-4 and CO-5, respectively.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

⚡️ NEW: "This is Not a Dress Rehearsal": US Engaged in Massive Military Buildup as Threat To Bomb Iran Grows “In case we don’t make a deal, we’ll need it,” Trump has said. Iran remains defiant in the face of... By @jeremyscahill.com & @mazmhussain.bsky.social www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-us-nu...

It's grimly funny that Rian Johnson A) was able to course-correct on the core character/emotional beats and deliver on the Rey/Luke/Kylo stuff, but B) couldn't write his way out of the worldbuilding dead end that Abrams gave him, and then C) Abrams comes back to ruin all the character stuff anyway.

Here's how this would shift things from the current map. Interesting that even here, Dems are prioritizing CD5 over CD3, which would become the closest thing the state has to a battleground district.

The new Dem-backed group in CO proposing a ballot measure to allow mid-decade redistricting has also released a map that voters would get to approve. It creates seven districts won by Harris and just one by Trump (#CO04). DRA: davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...

When historians ask "What was Jared Polis' governorship?"

three answers suggesting you might want to think about the question a little bit and one releasing you from ever thinking about anything again

Coloradans could be asked this November to approve a temporary congressional map giving a big advantage to Democrats, joining other Democratic-led states that have pursued similar efforts in response to GOP redistricting at President Donald Trump’s urging. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

I've consistently maintained that the bar for meaningful participation in foreign policy discourse should be low, but I'd like to set it at least one notch above "critiquing an answer on Taiwan without knowing about 'strategic ambiguity'," a bar Barkan fails to clear nymag.com/intelligence...