DOGE was not a "cost-cutting measure," the assault on universities was not a "fight against anti-semitism," and the extra-judicial murder spree sure as shit is not an "anti-drug campaign." You do not have to just take their word for everything.

the decision to make these movies turgid auteurist slogs with rigid continuity for 30somethings who reply to "DiscussingFilm" is one of the pre-eminent signs of the decline of the west

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

Members fly and the donors and people close to them fly a LOT. My first thought when I’d heard they were caving

Denver finally going Lambert Mode

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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

the speed at which RFK books it out of there is incredible

NEW: Far-right Colorado podcaster Joe Oltmann is suing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a onetime ally in the national election conspiracy theory movement, alleging Lindell breached the terms of $3 million loan agreement. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

Appears that Colorado's off-year turnout, after a strong start early on, slackened in the runup to Election Day. On pace now for turnout to dip relative to 2023 (though still an increase over 2021).

I don’t think there’s a single fact about the functioning of our political system that is more relevant while being less popularly understood than the fact that the day-to-day job of a congressperson involves spending like 30 hours a week calling rich people to ask for $5,000 checks.

Plenty of vote outstanding, but the most eye-catching early CO election results may be in Aurora, where two D-affiliated candidates lead their R-affiliated opponents, including Danielle "Complete Gang Takeover" Jurinsky.

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

Is it too much to ask for a contemporary dramatization of nuclear apocalypse that neither is anchored by a calamitously bad Idris Elba performance nor rests a somewhat crucial piece of internal plot logic on a citation of a Joe Rogan podcast appearance

I’m coining the phrase “the centrist two-step.” Step 1 is declaring that the left needs to focus on kitchen table issues instead of social issues to win back voters and step 2 is insisting that all left-wing approaches to kitchen table issues are impossible to deliver on.

Bari Weiss gets the Trump endorsement, the logical endpoint of her fearless independent journalism at the Free Press

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Adopting this warmed-over BTI perspective is kind of goofy at any time, but doing it today, in the year of our lord 2025 -- while clean energy represents the *only* way to accelerate economic growth without breaking the bank -- is so sad. Not just hackery but moldy, past-its-expiration-date hackery.

My latest is about the latest revelations on the failed prosecution of Donald Trump, and why you should blame Merrick Garland more than the Supreme Court.

Smith is retiring next year despite being an entire 6-year Senate term younger than John Hickenlooper, who is running for reelection.

Me and a bunch of Niskanen Center guys are going to build a massive NGO advocacy network in the middle of the desert to either immediately realize that upzoning/density/urbanism are left ideas or prove a very important point

Surveillance in action: "You know we have cameras in that jurisdiction and you can’t get a breath of fresh air, in or out of that place, without us knowing, correct?” denverite.com/2025/10/27/b...

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

A real lost opportunity, I truly believe the Sheridanverse With Bari Weiss Characteristics would have produced seasons of television so bad they’d rip open portals into an eldritch horror dimension

I liked a lot about this movie but the big dilemma it ends up focusing on did not seem like a remotely close call to me, and it’s somewhat reassuring that even the pro-proliferation ex-STRATCOM guy agrees

This is really worth listening to in full. Very rude of Paul and Bree to ask straightforward questions about specific and concrete actions Bennet would take as governor.

All policy merits aside, actual on-the-ground YIMBY/abundance stuff is a very strange political theory for How Democrats Win Back the Middle or whatever. Everywhere outside of SF & LA it involves relentlessly antagonizing affluent suburbanites who are like the only voting bloc to shift D since 2016

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis. Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

EXCLUSIVE: Key Lime Air is running flights of detainees for ICE, according to government data, flight tracking and analysis by Newsline. Key Lime is the first known Colorado-based airline to participate in the Trump administration's immigration enforcement flights. By @sarawilson.bsky.social

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.

The NYTimes was not able to rule out the possibility that Donald Trump was actually filmed wearing a crown and flying a jet that doused Americans with diarrhea.

Thousands of people gathered in opposition to Trump policies at a rally and march in Denver on Saturday, the largest of more than 50 No Kings protests held across Colorado amid rising tensions over the country’s direction in his second term. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social and Sharon Sullivan #NoKings

A still-growing crowd of thousands gathered at the Colorado State Capitol for today’s anti-Trump No Kings protest.

Weiser appears to be the only prominent Colorado Democrat who has used any medium to encourage people to attend today's massive anti-Trump rallies. I can't find any communication from any of the state's six congressional Dems to the same effect.

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

ex cathedra statement on the immorality of the chicago cubs baseball organization 🔜

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE 🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

“He believes in science”

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

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