Ari Armstrong
@ariarmstrong.bsky.social
Colorado politics, homeschool dad. See AriArmstrong.com.
I've had a hell of a time getting a new pair of glasses that works for me. But I have to say Zenni online has pretty good glasses and is pretty easy to work with, and very economical. (I have no financial interest here.)
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I've had a hell of a time getting a new pair of glasses that works for me. But I have to say Zenni online has pretty good glasses and is pretty easy to work with, and very economical. (I have no financial interest here.)
Langford's Lede: "A NYC man featured in an upcoming Netflix series will spend five years in a Colorado prison for stabbing the boyfriend of a “Bachelor in Paradise” star in a bar fight that started when the New York man’s girlfriend licked the reality star’s face." www.denverpost.com/2025/11/12/b...
‘Bizarre’ face-licking, stabbing incident involving ‘Bachelor’ contestant lands Netflix reality star in Colorado prison
A NYC man featured in a new Netflix series will spend five years in a Colorado prison for stabbing the boyfriend of a “Bachelor” star in a bar fight.
www.denverpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Langford's Lede: "A NYC man featured in an upcoming Netflix series will spend five years in a Colorado prison for stabbing the boyfriend of a “Bachelor in Paradise” star in a bar fight that started when the New York man’s girlfriend licked the reality star’s face." www.denverpost.com/2025/11/12/b...
Important story from Chalkbeat: "Christian law firm’s search for test case led to religious public school in Colorado, emails suggest": www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
Christian law firm sought Colorado test case for religious public schools, emails suggest
Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Important story from Chalkbeat: "Christian law firm’s search for test case led to religious public school in Colorado, emails suggest": www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
"Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct": www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct": www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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It was always a lie that the focus would be deporting the worst of the worst. To get Dreamer/DACA status basically meant you were a Girl Scout or Boy Scout. And it's silly because many of these people got educated here since 2012 and now we're losing that talent and skill. 🤷🏾♀️
Dreamers were once obvious candidates for a path to citizenship. Now, they’re getting picked up, detained, and set for potential deportation.
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
It was always a lie that the focus would be deporting the worst of the worst. To get Dreamer/DACA status basically meant you were a Girl Scout or Boy Scout. And it's silly because many of these people got educated here since 2012 and now we're losing that talent and skill. 🤷🏾♀️
Some CO news: George Sparks is retiring from the role of CEO and President of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (via museum email). "I know the time is right to pass the torch.... The Board of Trustees will conduct a national search early next year."
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Some CO news: George Sparks is retiring from the role of CEO and President of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (via museum email). "I know the time is right to pass the torch.... The Board of Trustees will conduct a national search early next year."
Did History Colorado censor an artist by rejecting a submission that substantially varied from the original proposal? Here I argue that it did not: completecolorado.com/2025/11/11/c...
Censorship claim against History Colorado fails smell test - Complete Colorado
History Colorado has a pervasive leftist bias that frequently shows up in most of its exhibits.
completecolorado.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Did History Colorado censor an artist by rejecting a submission that substantially varied from the original proposal? Here I argue that it did not: completecolorado.com/2025/11/11/c...
It's astonishing to think that Nixon, as bad as he was, was not nearly as bad as Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It's astonishing to think that Nixon, as bad as he was, was not nearly as bad as Trump.
Look, I was as critical of Obamacare as anyone. But the solution is NOT to just blow up the current system, but to create better alternatives and build in transition plans.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Look, I was as critical of Obamacare as anyone. But the solution is NOT to just blow up the current system, but to create better alternatives and build in transition plans.
The "affordability" trap: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... "It is a new form of economic populism."
I worry about "affordability politics" - Marginal REVOLUTION
It focuses the listener’s attention on price rather than quantity. To many people it sounds better than “economic growth,” though often for the wrong reasons. I cover related points in my latest Fre...
marginalrevolution.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The "affordability" trap: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... "It is a new form of economic populism."
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
ICE is "Making America Great Again" by . . . tear-gassing two-year olds: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Chicago residents say kids tear-gassed due to nearby immigration enforcement
A Chicago mother tells NBC News she and her 2-year-old were hit with a chemical agent. Many residents say the city wasn’t a “war zone”— until immigration agents swept through.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
ICE is "Making America Great Again" by . . . tear-gassing two-year olds: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"Utter wipeout" for Colorado Republicans. rosskaminsky.substack.com/p/wipeout Here's an idea: Maybe Republicans could stop trying to be the craziest people in the room and focus on competent governance.
Wipeout
It's hard to imagine how Republicans could have had a worse night
rosskaminsky.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"Utter wipeout" for Colorado Republicans. rosskaminsky.substack.com/p/wipeout Here's an idea: Maybe Republicans could stop trying to be the craziest people in the room and focus on competent governance.
I take the message from voters NOT as "we want hard-left government" but "we want no bullshit from government."
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I take the message from voters NOT as "we want hard-left government" but "we want no bullshit from government."
Reposted by Ari Armstrong
MIDNIGHT UPDATE: Moderate/Dem-backed candidates are currently sweeping every school board race in conservative Douglas County, Colorado (home to a famous school voucher experiment). Would give moderates total 7-0 control of the school board. #copolitics
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
MIDNIGHT UPDATE: Moderate/Dem-backed candidates are currently sweeping every school board race in conservative Douglas County, Colorado (home to a famous school voucher experiment). Would give moderates total 7-0 control of the school board. #copolitics
"Tell me again for how many minutes you can suck Trump's dick?"
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Tell me again for how many minutes you can suck Trump's dick?"
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Food lines were 2X normal this morning at the Weld Food Bank, which told me 2/3rds of their visitors said they were impacted by the SNAP food benefit freeze. Our microgiving campaign has raised $50,000 for Weld Food Bank so far. Even $5 helps: weldfoodbank.org/wordofthanks/
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Food lines were 2X normal this morning at the Weld Food Bank, which told me 2/3rds of their visitors said they were impacted by the SNAP food benefit freeze. Our microgiving campaign has raised $50,000 for Weld Food Bank so far. Even $5 helps: weldfoodbank.org/wordofthanks/
Trump's authoritarianism, immigration cruelty, Gaza, trade wars, antifa, Mounk and Rufo, literacy, crime, Vance sees demons, and more. My new Roundup: ariarmstrong.com/roundup-65.h...
Self in Society Roundup 65
Trump's authoritarianism, immigration cruelty, Gaza, trade wars, antifa, Mounk and Rufo, literacy, crime, Vance sees demons, and more.
ariarmstrong.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Trump's authoritarianism, immigration cruelty, Gaza, trade wars, antifa, Mounk and Rufo, literacy, crime, Vance sees demons, and more. My new Roundup: ariarmstrong.com/roundup-65.h...
Dinosaur Ridge destruction, conversion therapy, a Boulder racist, Colorado crime, and more. My new Colorado News Miner: ariarmstrong.com/miner-138.html
Colorado News Miner 138
Dinosaur Ridge destruction, conversion therapy, a Boulder racist, Colorado crime, and more.
ariarmstrong.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Dinosaur Ridge destruction, conversion therapy, a Boulder racist, Colorado crime, and more. My new Colorado News Miner: ariarmstrong.com/miner-138.html
This birder doc is amazing: youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
YouTube video by owen reiser
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November 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This birder doc is amazing: youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo
There's something called the "Denver Horror Collective." denverhorror.com/terror-at-52...
TERROR AT 5280′ Anthology
A neighborhood won’t let its residents forget the past. One taste draws two lovers into a nightmarish addiction. A harsh winter forces strange creatures down from the mountains. At sea level, where…
denverhorror.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
There's something called the "Denver Horror Collective." denverhorror.com/terror-at-52...
Warning: I "upgraded" a Mac from Sequoia to Tahoe and that broke the DVD drive. (It played but poorly.) I had to reinstall Sequoia to fix the problem. Who knows what other problems there are with the "new and improved" OS.
November 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Warning: I "upgraded" a Mac from Sequoia to Tahoe and that broke the DVD drive. (It played but poorly.) I had to reinstall Sequoia to fix the problem. Who knows what other problems there are with the "new and improved" OS.
When Harry Houdini exposed Denver’s spirit photographers: My Halloween column: completecolorado.com/2025/10/31/h...
When Harry Houdini exposed Denver's spirit photographers - Complete Colorado
Houdini wrote about his Denver trip in his 1924 book, "A Magician Among the Spirits."
completecolorado.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
When Harry Houdini exposed Denver’s spirit photographers: My Halloween column: completecolorado.com/2025/10/31/h...
"When bad people do bad things, I expect it. When good people do nothing, I just want to fucking punch them in the face." (a line from Penguin Lessons) (But don't really punch people in the face.)
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
"When bad people do bad things, I expect it. When good people do nothing, I just want to fucking punch them in the face." (a line from Penguin Lessons) (But don't really punch people in the face.)
Reposted by Ari Armstrong
Protesters swarmed an ICE facility in Durango, CO demanding two children detained with their father be released to their mother. Durango Police say they also offered to help reunite the kids with their mother. They were unsuccessful.
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Protesters swarmed an ICE facility in Durango, CO demanding two children detained with their father be released to their mother. Durango Police say they also offered to help reunite the kids with their mother. They were unsuccessful.