Reposted by Chase WoodruffDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 5hI also think about Elon saying Biden's DOJ wouldn't prosecute Sam Bankman-Fried because he was a Dem donor... followed by Biden's DOJ nailing SBF, who now posts about how awesome Trump is so he can get a pardon. 9752122
Reposted by Chase Woodruffmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20hits worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see 262283326
Reposted by Chase WoodruffJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doingslate.comIt Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage. 141003251
Reposted by Chase WoodruffMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s indeed possible to write a headline that says “Trump lies again.” It doesn’t violate any rule of journalism or shatter the laws of nature. it just tells the truth. 15484133
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As is the case in virtually every actual housing "abundance" policy fight that has ever occurred in a U.S. city not named SF or LA, it's conservatives and centrists standing in the way of upzoning/density and progressives and "the groups" organizing in support of it.denverite.comAfter proposing a citywide upzoning, Denver scales back ‘Unlocking Housing Choices’Council members said their neighborhoods weren’t ready for density, while housing advocates decried the change. 1187
Reposted by Chase WoodruffHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...hamiltonnolan.comThe Free and Unfree PressJournalism, and its adversaries. 432085
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Look I'm glad people are starting to go one step beyond "golf courses and swimming pools in Las Vegas hellooo???" and learn the basic facts of ag water use, but I am begging you to try to learn one or maybe even two more things about how water is managed in the West before saying stuff like this 490
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The water thing seems mostly overblown/solvable outside the West, but it's ridiculous to say that municipal utilities don't need to sweat decisions at a scale like this because an extremely diffuse constellation of other water managers are making decisions at a much larger aggregate scale. 131
Reposted by Chase WoodruffNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I am skeptical of the most florid claims being made about AI's destructive potential, but I do think we need to heavily regulate AI for the sole reason that I would like to hear less about all of these people. 226732
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Remarkable that "Colfax BRT is a year ahead of schedule" has been a total non-story after two years of relentlessly negative local media coverage of car-centric business owner complaints 45513
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Well this is very weird: Phil Anschutz's Gazette appears to have published a pro-Amendment 87 piece by sponsor Chris Kennedy earlier today, but the link now 404s and there's no trace of it on either the Denver or Colorado Springs Gazette websites. 12213
Reposted by Chase WoodruffColorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 17/09/2026As the clock winds down on a historically dry year in the Colorado River Basin, Colorado water officials said they’re willing to launch a new state-run conservation program — but not without more certainty about how the program would work. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.socialcoloradonewsline.comColorado has a new, voluntary program to conserve Colorado River water. Farmers are wary. | Colorado NewslineMembers of the Colorado Water Conservation Board approved a program to fulfill voluntary conservation efforts requested by federal officials. 081
Reposted by Chase WoodruffDavid Nir @davidnir.com · 16/09/2026Everything's falling into place 1303473651
Reposted by Chase WoodruffDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Anthropic & OpenAI have different economic imperatives from Wall Street. The AI developers need to slow down to limit their burn rate & improve their balance sheets. Wall Street needs capex high because there's nothing else moving in the economy. That tension is lowkey driving the debate.prospect.orgWill an AI Slowdown Tank the Economy? - The American ProspectAnthropic and OpenAI want to hit the brakes on AI investment—the only thing propping up the broader economy. 13721
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The social and intraprofessional consequences of saying this in the year 2026 — in Colorado of all places — should be akin to claiming you've met Satan or have visited the Hollow Earth. But no one has a more secure assigned seat in the discourse than the conservative Trump critic. 1122
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The future of news consumption is getting spoonfed "scoops" from influencer slop accounts who can't be bothered to tell you where and when something happened or understand why that might matter 0120
Reposted by Chase WoodruffSubscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Pareene called it www.jezebel.com/charlottesvi...jezebel.comCharlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican PartySince 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 8324104
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Pretty funny to miss "salt" as the ingredient that actually fits this metaphor and instead land on the one that good cooks famously recommend doubling or tripling from the published recipe 191
Reposted by Chase WoodruffColorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 11/09/2026Timeline 1876: With Republicans in control in Denver and southern Colorado considered solidly Democratic, the swing counties in the Centennial State's inaugural election lay in its mountain mining districts.coloradonewsline.comAs Election Day 1876 neared, politicians hit the stump in Colorado's mining boomtowns | Colorado NewslineVoters in Colorado's mining boomtowns had been an important constituency since its early days as a territory. 065
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026[bravely posting this on the website for 38-year-olds] the only people capable of being truly Normal About 9/11 are people who were in their broadly-defined adolescence when it happened 2101
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Two posts earlier in this thread, Slotkin includes a to-be-sure acknowledgment that "Muslims and immigrants were targeted." So are those groups of people not included in "all Americans," or is the important thing the "feeling" rather than the reality of what happened? 190
Reposted by Chase WoodruffWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage: 1082734834
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The most generous possible way to interpret Hickenlooper agreeing to this is as an expression of his belief that his own party’s primary voters don’t matter. The uncharitable read is that it’s more or less a taunt aimed at Julie Gonzales. 1216
Reposted by Chase WoodruffSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Another way to commemorate 9/11 would be to not do any of this 591443234
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026An unusually clear look at the way Colorado's conservative business establishment has redefined progress on housing affordability as an indicator of a competitiveness/overregulation crisis: www.denverpost.com/2026/09/08/d... 252
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Something that could have pretty far-reaching implications for Colorado politics this year is if progressives end up defeating most or all of Advance Colorado's ballot measures specifically by directly defining and tanking the Advance Colorado brand like this. 2197
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026this is my "friend's uncle got so mad he had to go stand in the backyard" moment www.notboring.co/p/everyone-i... 040
Reposted by Chase Woodruffjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth. 8157211153
Reposted by Chase WoodruffEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust: 9445281058
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026An accidentally illuminating exercise here: Ask yourself, before clicking, what one might reasonably and truthfully say this "underscores the administration's willingness to" do, then find out how the world's most influential newspaper chooses to finish the sentence. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u... 295
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026We need some sort of exchange program for people who work in CA politics and don’t get that its highly specific intraleft tensions/pathlogies sound like Making Up A Guy To Get Mad At to basically every other place in the country 240
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Naming "special envoys" to lawbreaking billionaire landowners like they're some kind of breakaway sovereign enclave 👍alamosacitizen.comKen Salazar is named special envoy to Cielo Vista Ranch - Alamosa CitizenKen Salazar was named special envoy to Cielo Vista Ranch on Wednesday, putting him in a role that Gov. Jared Polis believes will facilitate a resolution between William Harrison and the people who hav... 1183
Reposted by Chase WoodruffMike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 05/09/2026not lost on a lot of us that someone got ejected from a game because of a hat that wasn’t violating any MLB rules while multiple Giants earlier this year did violate written MLB rules pertaining to uniforms and were allowed to stay in the game (and received zero discipline from the league later) 11608159
Reposted by Chase WoodruffColorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 04/09/2026Timeline 1876: Corruption scandals, silver coins and grasshoppers were the hot topics in the new state of Colorado’s first-ever election.coloradonewsline.comCorruption scandals, silver coins and grasshoppers were the hot topics in Colorado's 1876 election | Colorado NewslineRepublicans and Democrats were set to contest the state of Colorado’s inaugural elections on the first Tuesday in October. 1106
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Man, this was wild one. I can only imagine some of the vintage fentanyl hysteria we're in for over the next couple of months with Prop 132 on the ballot.coloradonewsline.comNo, DEA didn't seize enough fentanyl in 2023 to kill everyone in Colorado '36 times over' | Colorado NewslineA conservative group’s false claim about the amount of fentanyl seized in Colorado last year is being spread by media and political figures. 3122
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pretty unusual for the incumbent, not the challenger, to be the one trying to wheedle their opponent into more debates. And it's especially glaring for Rutinel to end up looking *more* media-shy than the chronically avoidant Evans. 4414
Reposted by Chase WoodruffColorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 03/09/2026Commentary: What has failed to come through official and media channels on increased bear incidents in Colorado is the obvious, if uncomfortable, fundamental cause of the phenomenon: global warming.coloradonewsline.comBear attacks in Colorado are climate attacks | Colorado NewslineColorado wildlife managers have failed to be forthright in citing a key reason for adverse conditions for bears: global warming. 02110
Reposted by Chase Woodruffryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts 222064555
Reposted by Chase Woodruffmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026just trying to imagine if like, Hasan Piker said this and not a former high level White House Advisor and #1 donor to Republican campaigns in 2024 and 2026 17900145
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It's funny that this piece can't *quite* say the thing that explains the whole phenomenon: These apolitical slop merchants churn out right-wing content because the demand/tolerance of very cheap & low-quality content is much higher among right-wing online audiences. www.semafor.com/article/09/0... 281
Reposted by Chase WoodruffSam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026there was obviously no creative impetus to making a new Harry Potter but the extent to which they are not even trying to make this look different from the movies is kind of astonishingyoutube.comHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Official Teaser Trailer | HBO MaxYouTube video by Harry Potter 1401541104
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Everton's last two de facto owners were "shadowy sanctioned Russian oligarch" and "investment firm implicated in a global wire fraud conspiracy" but the good people of Merseyside simply weren't prepared for "regionally powerful American automotive dealership princeling" 020
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Dan Friedkin you will not see the light of heaven. It has always been my firmly held opinion that the JM Family Enterprises' Southeast Toyota Distributors LLC is in every way the superior of the southern region's two privately-held licensed Toyota wholesalers. 020
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"We oppose tax hikes on high incomes because..." "We shouldn't raise taxes for the top 3%, here's why..." "No, let's not tax the rich, instead let's..." You'll never hear any of this. You'll simply never hear this measure's opponents describe it plainly and honestly. Not once. 0145
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Dan Friedkin the haters may have doubted you but I have always believed that hereditary Gulf Coast car dealership empires produce the truest and bravest of men 010
Reposted by Chase WoodruffYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026finally someone has the courage to say it: scrooge was canceled by woke 1320825
Reposted by Chase WoodruffBill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This sounded especially bizarre to me. So I looked it up. Duffy seems to have confused the EPA ending a credit for “engines that automatically turn off when vehicles come to a complete stop and restart when drivers take their feet off the brake pedal” with the START buttons that are now universal. 132810583
Reposted by Chase WoodruffColorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 31/08/2026ICYMI: Front Range cities will vote on tax measure to fund Colorado Connector rail servicecoloradonewsline.comFront Range cities will vote on tax measure to fund Colorado Connector rail service | Colorado NewslineThe fate of a decades-long effort to restore intercity passenger rail service to the Front Range is now in the hands of Colorado voters. 083
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Yglesias here making the classic SimCity Technocrat error of confusing "simple" with "easy," because inside your head they both mean the same thing. 1102
Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Impossible to come up with a more mean-spirited parody of Homeowner Mindset than "demanding the city irrigate 150 acres of Kentucky bluegrass in a historic drought because the blighted money pit we expressly voted to keep that way to shore up our property values has become a fire hazard"denverite.comDenver to mow Park Hill Park more amid neighbors' fire concernsDenver waters “select trees,” but the old golf course is dry and often overgrown. 2263