Here's a story I reported in 2023 in Pueblo County, Colorado, which shifted 7 points towards Republicans in 2024 despite being a huge beneficiary of IRA-fueled clean energy investment: coloradonewsline.com/2023/10/12/p...

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

this exists it is called thinking

He's turning into Ursula Le Guin

"[F]ear is a weapon. Fear is a force multiplier. ... [T]he modern dictatorship does not need to rely on bloodcurdling terror of torture and death so much as the fear of nuisance, the fear of trouble, the fear of harassment."

im hearing he was a disturbed person with functionally illegible politics

At LibsofTikTok's direction, Colorado Republicans are organizing to call for the firing of this state employee, who says nothing in this post that could be construed as celebrating Kirk's death or supporting violence. A retaliatory purge for political speech underway.

basically a generational cohort split here where certain younger people intuitively grasp the irony poisoned context, and if you aren't already up to speed, very hard to explain

To be at the end of day two and still just parceling this stuff out and asking for the public's help... does not seem great.

The Post reports social media accounts apparently belonging to the suspect are filled with white supremacist and antisemitic content, and a fascination with Columbine and other mass shootings: www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

an editor only leaves a sentence like this in if they hate the writer

A Denver-based sports media company fired a reporter for social media posts critical of Kirk's long history of hateful rhetoric:

JeffCo sheriff's office in a media briefing just now described the suspect as being "radicalized" by an "extremist network," but said further details would be provided later.

NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

I was sure this couldn't be true, but it is. He said nothing about the Minnesota shooting, either through a spokesperson or on any social platforms. A day later he did post, congratulating himself on the anniversary of DACA.

He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

This guy is from the suburbs of Chicago and was quoted at length in articles about whether he Feels Safe on campus

this is insane, we know it's his signature, we don't need this level of analysis! the people claiming otherwise aren't arguing in good faith!! bsky.app/profile/wash...

Reminder that this would be the single worst piece of news to be reported in all of human history! nickbostrom.com/papers/where...

I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.

Who is Colorado's version of The Woke Oysterman, if you were just making him or her up in your head? I keep coming back to a park ranger type, bonus points if laid off from USFS. Ed Abbey without the racism. A Peter Heller character.

Funniest possible person to say nothing bad happened when he was a kid as a result of everyone having guns

Another 30 x 8 Sundays a year where McMansioneers from Brighton and Castle Rock have to cross into Denver city limits feeling like the Juarez convoy in SICARIO

There's stuff the DSA Golf Course Caucus tends to get wrong about housing policy but "Developers are more interested in reducing their regulatory burden through opportunistic support of YIMBY policies than in meaningfully increasing the supply of housing" is just obviously true

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Can't believe "Donald Trump is a cruel and corrupt threat to democracy with whom we are willing to sit down and legislate common-sense bipartisan solutions to kitchen-table issues" isn't resonating with voters.

What if Democrats had defended immigration over the last few years instead of running from it?

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

We had guys who would’ve nodded along to Hegseth’s bullshit and all they did was get into a series of bloody tactical stalemates only to be bailed out every time by the sheer weight of matériel that could be supplied to them by midwestern women metalworkers via pencil-necked logistics clerks.

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

Many of the people still active on Twitter and bashing Bluesky were declaring "Twitter is not real life" daily in 2019-2020. Text-based social media has always been distinct and in many ways unrepresentative. But the actual frustration they have is with forums that empower progressives/leftists.

pound for pound, owners of fracking companies might be the dumbest people in politics bsky.app/profile/pear...

$250 million is a bargain price for this kind of raw journalistic talent www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/o...

I love googling “how to can peaches” and hoping the technique copied by 1,000 identical SEO slop sites called like Homesteader Volkssturm and The Barefoot Phrenologist won’t result in instant botulism

Hate when 'The Internet' stokes baseless conspiracy theories about a president's health

I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:

One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.

Blueskyism is the tendency — among both the ideological left and normie blue-wave factions on here — to expect more from Democratic elites than to pay me to write a newsletter that tells them they are taking the optimal-minimal course of action at all times.

This guy has really been coasting on the idea that nerds are necessarily smart

“watching the videos of” is such a tell

All the think pieces about “how did we get here” are superfluous when this video exists. A third of the country is this f’in guy. That’s how we got here.

The White House says Trump’s visible bruises are nothing to worry about. Dr. Jonathan Reiner tells me that “is not a plausible explanation.” Why is the press silent on Trump’s obvious health issues? My latest for @status.news www.status.news/p/trump-heal...