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Ari Armstrong

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Colorado politics, homeschool dad. See AriArmstrong.com.

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Progress, Biden, Diamond Age, Boaz, book bans, nuclear threats, the alt-right, AI, Covid deaths, and more. My new Roundup: ariarmstrong.com/roundup-51.h...

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Colorado Constitution bars forced religious funding: My column: pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2024/07/09/a...

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Alan Berg's murder, Colorado's KKK church, theocrats, Libertarians, Democrats and Israel, Threads, legal actions on rents and tickets, stinky factories, and more. My new Colorado News Miner: ariarmstrong.com/miner-117.html

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Alan Berg's murder was covered last year by History Colorado; an important program: youtu.be/XHJPx4DLYI8

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Biden should withdraw from the race because enough voters worry about his cognitive capacity to put his reelection in jeopardy. My take: ariarmstrong.com/why-joe-bide...

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Trump: Morally Unfit: Donald Trump undermines the peaceful transfer of power, demonizes immigrants, praises authoritarians, mistreats women, and lies continuously. He is morally unfit to serve as president. My piece: ariarmstrong.com/trump-morall...

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My take on the SPLC report of "hate and antigovernment" groups in Colorado: "Questions go unanswered in Colorado ‘hate groups’ coverage": pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2024/07/02/a...

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Hate Groups in Colorado: My take on the SPLC report for my state: ariarmstrong.com/colorado-hat... (More coming tomorrow.)

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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

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Anti-LGBTQ GOP, Republican candidates, approval voting and the Boebert race, Colorado fossil update, Alan Berg, Caldara's heart, the Dillon amphitheater, trans cakes, and more. My new Colorado News Miner: ariarmstrong.com/miner-116.html

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"Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period."

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I don’t know why AI needs gigantic amounts of energy to come up with really shitty takes when most of y’all seem to do it just with burritos and tequila

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Republican anti-LGBTQ bigotry, school restrooms, distracted driving, election reform, new gun laws, socialists and guns, faux libertarians, energy bills, and more. My new Colorado News Miner: ariarmstrong.com/miner-115.html

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Airports and lead, legislative updates, Democratic infighting, light-touch density, furries (yes, again), defensive gun uses, and more. My new Colorado News Miner: ariarmstrong.com/miner-114.html

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Maryland's craft brewing industry is in retreat, and a hostile legislative environment in Annapolis -- much of it shaped by the powerful distributors' lobby -- bears much of the blame

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Republicans love to pretend that what they care about is the "free market," but their policies always show otherwise. What they care about is empowering the most currently powerful market actors. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/c...

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My Self in Society Podcast now is available on Spotify. I just moved it off of Substack. So we'll see how this works. I still have a ton of clean-up to do but you can listen to the audio here: open.spotify.com/show/4CLUSCZ...

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My 8-y-o wanted OpenArt dot ai to show a dragon "breathing fire." Hm.

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2) Taxing Tracks, school abuse, GOP meltdown, capitol guns, rental contracts, airport regs, train make-work, charter schools, HOAs, and more. New Colorado News Miner: ariarmstrong.com/miner-112.html

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Super important discussion of insane business property taxes in Colorado. My wife's company's rent DOUBLED due to rising property taxes. Huge problem: youtu.be/40Md9DvseHg?...

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Secular vs. religious homeschooling, legislative updates, crime, TABOR, lunacy, misgendering, abortion, public safety, ski jumps, and more. My new Colorado News Miner: ariarmstrong.com/miner-111.html

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FFS. Joseph McNamara would’ve kicked someone’s ass over this.

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Three of Colorado's leading "democratic socialists" (including a criminal justice "abolitionist") are promoting a bill that ensures cops, members of the military, and other state agents have effective guns that "regular people" cannot legally obtain.

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I would literally vote for one of Kelly's goats, for anything, over any current leader of the Colorado GOP.

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Homeschool and abuse, social media for kids, Russian butchers, Jesus and Buddha, indigenous pseudoscience, immigration, drug policy, Nazis against trans, three bodies, and more. My new Self in Society Roundup: ariarmstrong.com/roundup-50.h...

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GOP boots reporter, eclipse, wind, charter schools, property sales, anti-trans Dems, revolving Klan, 303 case, accountability journalism, and more. My new Colorado News Miner: ariarmstrong.com/miner-110.html

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Tonight I saw a man yelling at a store employee, angrily asking, "Where are you from?" This clearly was racial harassment. I saw a manager coming so I left the scene; in retrospect, I probably should have stood back and taken video. Anyway, upsetting for me and no doubt for the employee.

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"There would be no classroom activities where students could observe Colorado’s partial eclipse outdoors, even while wearing solar glasses, due to safety risks." This CO school district policy is a moral crime against education. www.cpr.org/2024/04/05/2...

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