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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 12/01/2026

If they’re conducting a law-enforcement operation, they can go on regardless. So the only time we’d be charging them a fare is if they were just riding to get somewhere and I can’t imagine that happens very often.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 01/12/2025

Because solutions would commit him to actual housing policy that might make people unhappy with him

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Ramiro Cibrian (Open for work) @wisak.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Was a pretty quiet birthday. My partner made an incredible apple pie for me and we played the first 6 episodes of Dispatch. Not bad. 🍽️

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

If your religion says you can’t do something then don’t do it. Don’t get the law to force other people to conform to your religion. Muslims can’t drink alcohol but I’ve never heard of a Muslim going to the Supreme Court to get neighborhood bars shut down.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Was Faith a 12-year-old?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“everglades concentration camp” is right there, and more descriptive

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The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 01/07/2025

It's a feature, not a bug

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025

another thing that is quire evident is the aesthetic distaste for rowdy and strident protest and rhetoric that you see among some elite opinion-makers.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 03/04/2025

it will not be the same on the RTD board without you

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 29/03/2025

I know we’re doing some significant updates this year. With the rollout of tap to pay this fall, it also won’t be a problem for most people unless they have an Eco pass.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 01/03/2025

He’s a zoomer, he posts all his content on TikTok, I assume

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 01/03/2025

Yeah, there’s some equipment issues, the contractor who is managing those lines is working on fixing it

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 27/02/2025

To be clear, we didn’t wave anything through last night. We approved a solicitation for a contract. In fact, thanks to director Paglieri, we expressly removed the automatic approval that was in the original agenda item.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
• The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
• The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
• Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
• Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
• Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
• Notable targeted agencies include:
• HHS (Health & Human Services)
• EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
• NIH (National Institutes of Health)
• CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
• Dept. of Education
• USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
• A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/01/2025

There's an egg shortage in the bay area due to bird flu issues, and we've tried a few times to buy eggs in the last few weeks with no luck. I went to Costco this morning right as it opened and was able to buy some. But the woman in front of me loaded her cart with *53 cases* with 2 dozen eggs each.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 21/01/2025

The RTD Board has a performance committee meeting today at 8:30 AM where we will be discussing this year‘s goals and if you would like to weigh in, I highly encourage you to attend! www.reddit.com/r/Denver/s/v...

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From the Denver community on Reddit: Critical opportunity Tuesday to tell the RTD Board what you think of new GM/CEO goals (on Zoom)

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 21/01/2025

Communication is not a first world problem. At a minimum we should be able to tell people what they’re gonna experience so that they can make the choices they want to make, even if that’s just letting people know how long it’s actually gonna take so they can call a loved one.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 21/01/2025

Also, we have a performance committee meeting tomorrow at 8:30 AM where we will be discussing this year‘s goals and if you would like to weigh in, I highly encourage you to attend! www.reddit.com/r/Denver/s/v...

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From the Denver community on Reddit: Critical opportunity Tuesday to tell the RTD Board what you think of new GM/CEO goals (on Zoom)

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 21/01/2025

Just sent leadership an email. Will follow up when I hear something.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 21/01/2025

That’s helpful to know, I’ll send an email now to forward it up the chain to ask why there wasn’t any signage to let people know There was a disruption before they got on the train.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 20/01/2025

Very excited to have joined @getmoresmarter.com to talk RTD and the politics of public transit. Look for the episode this coming week!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Make Article I great again

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One of the very cool things about this case is that the court called one of the original framers of the MT state constitution to help interpret it because our constitution is only 50 years old and Mae Nan Robinson Ellingson was 24 years old when she helped write it.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Buy the ticket, take the ride...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Whoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 12/12/2024

And journalism that takes a critical eye toward the quality of our leadership is good. And your initial tweet felt like it was a backhanded attack on him for writing that piece.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 12/12/2024

Our society absolutely needs to do a better job recruiting women and people of color when things are going well. But our expectations shouldn’t change depending on who is in leadership. It’s completely fair to benchmark our success against our peer agencies.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 11/12/2024

Whatever. I do appreciate you standing up for the quality of RTD‘s work under GM/CEO Johnson. Too many people in the legislature take cheap shots at transit and it’s nice having someone publicly supporting the agency.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 11/12/2024

And respectfully, Senadora, that’s a category error. The point of the article was to report a story, it wasn’t to hold the GM/CEO to a particular standard. That’s the job of the board. And riders need RTD to deliver great service. When it lets them down, they don’t care why.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 11/12/2024

Nate is a talented professional and Denver is lucky to have a reporter who spends as much time as he does covering RTD.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I've never met Dilan, but I signed this letter because I believe in student journalism, The Stanford Daily and a University's responsibility to its students. There is no reason Stanford should push for the prosecution of a student journalist who was just doing his job. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 10/12/2024

Yea it’s a great point. We need more investment to reach frequency capacity, which is hard when ridership is low. We need to focus on one line at a time. Speed is really tough to fix (physical and regulatory limitations). But we can be good enough for a lot of people.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 10/12/2024

Yea that’s not remotely okay. If someone pays the fare (or has a pass) they get to ride as long as they respect other passengers. RTD is not a homeless shelter but every unhoused rider should be made to feel welcome on transit.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 10/12/2024

If I have anything to say about it, that will not be the case here. My model for this is Apple Security at one of their stores. They are friendly, wearing a polo shirt, and it’s very obvious you don’t want to mess with them.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 09/12/2024

Yup! They’re all on the same system.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 09/12/2024

That’s why we have the normal myride tap cards that are free.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 09/12/2024

Exactly right. And considering the cost of even the discount transit pass adds up to over $300 per year, that’s a pretty good reason

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 09/12/2024

We wouldn’t even have to have people use the app, your credit card will work just as well as a token so people would never even need to fill anything out for us to track their usage.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 09/12/2024

Right now we give out books of paper passes at the shelters, which is a really dumb way of ensuring that people experiencing homelessness can use the system. We should give out year long Eco passes to people who can’t even afford the discount pass, and require them to follow the code of conduct.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 09/12/2024

We also shouldn’t treat people like potential criminals. A lot of that is just how you train staff to treat customers. We could also do things like give out lollipops or Starbucks gift cards or something when people hit a certain number of fare checks.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 09/12/2024

Good point. I’m not sure if there’s an easy answer there but we should try to find one. An obvious one would be installing validators at every seat that you can tap when you sit down to turn on a light that says that you paid. But that’s $$$.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 09/12/2024

In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to spend the money to do that and everything would be super awesome, but we don’t have that luxury. And to get significantly more transit funding, average voters first need to like RTD.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 09/12/2024

So the solution is a massive non-police presence that can help people use the system, make them feel safe, collect fares, and enforce the code of conduct, with backup from police when necessary.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 09/12/2024

Dealing with the perception issue is frustrating but perception is reality at the end of the day. People are gonna choose RTD based on the perception they have of it.

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