Chase Woodruff
@chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Reporter, @coloradonewsline.com
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insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man
February 11, 2026 at 10:59 PM
insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man
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Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is that in the height of the Panic of 1893, 1/4 of the rail in the US was run by trustees in bankruptcy.
Something can be overhyped, have way too much capital invested, and also be an enormously impactful change at the societal level.
Something can be overhyped, have way too much capital invested, and also be an enormously impactful change at the societal level.
![From the Wikipedia article on the Panic of 1893:
"In 1893, the total railroad mileage in the U.S. was 176,803.6 miles. In 1894 and 1895, railroads only expanded 4,196.4 miles, although 100,000 miles of rail was added from 1878 to 1896.[17] In 1893, the year following the panic, one fourth of all rail mileage went into receivership.[18] The U.S. Census placed this value at close to $1.8 billion (not adjusted for inflation), the largest amount recorded between 1876 and 1910. This was over $1 billion (also not adjusted for inflation) more than the next largest amount, in 1884."
The phrase "...one fourth of all rail mileage went into receivership" is highlighted for emphasis.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p7wjyn5bebiuc7ws4ujhilxy/bafkreieeyjgfecjtpegr56fkgvnhg5ap7atadeskudhqchwnx3j6eidr3y@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is that in the height of the Panic of 1893, 1/4 of the rail in the US was run by trustees in bankruptcy.
Something can be overhyped, have way too much capital invested, and also be an enormously impactful change at the societal level.
Something can be overhyped, have way too much capital invested, and also be an enormously impactful change at the societal level.
I know we're all prediction-market-brained now, but does the possibility that the online left is overindexed on "this is fake, changes will be minimal" really have that much to do with the moral and intellectual equipment the left would bring to any maximal-change scenario?
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I know we're all prediction-market-brained now, but does the possibility that the online left is overindexed on "this is fake, changes will be minimal" really have that much to do with the moral and intellectual equipment the left would bring to any maximal-change scenario?
Very shrewd of housing-abundance proponents to align with the left-progressive ideological cohort that straightforwardly shares their density and supply goals, instead of bank-shotting them through a bewildering centrist NGO industrial complex that only seems to care about LNG export terminals
February 11, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Very shrewd of housing-abundance proponents to align with the left-progressive ideological cohort that straightforwardly shares their density and supply goals, instead of bank-shotting them through a bewildering centrist NGO industrial complex that only seems to care about LNG export terminals
Mr. Bill DeWitt please PLEASE I need you. I'm begging you Mr. DeWitt make everything boring and miserable for years Mr. DeWitt we need you to MAXIMIZE YOUR RETURNS we want to make 2.5 NLDS appearances between 2031 and 2035 with teams of interchangeable Arb-1 automatons PLEASE DEWITT PLEASE
February 10, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Mr. Bill DeWitt please PLEASE I need you. I'm begging you Mr. DeWitt make everything boring and miserable for years Mr. DeWitt we need you to MAXIMIZE YOUR RETURNS we want to make 2.5 NLDS appearances between 2031 and 2035 with teams of interchangeable Arb-1 automatons PLEASE DEWITT PLEASE
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Moderate Democratic state lawmakers joined Republicans Monday night to defeat a bill that would have strengthened local Colorado governments’ authority to tax vacant residential properties.
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By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Colorado lawmakers reject bill to allow resort towns to tax vacant homes | Colorado Newsline
Supporters of the measure said vacancy taxes can disincentivize empty homes while helping to fund local affordability programs.
coloradonewsline.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Moderate Democratic state lawmakers joined Republicans Monday night to defeat a bill that would have strengthened local Colorado governments’ authority to tax vacant residential properties.
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Nobody does it like sports columnists, man. Clauses that are almost sentences, impressions that are almost thoughts, vibe-coded word clouds that very nearly express a viewpoint or belief, or perhaps several at the same time.
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Nobody does it like sports columnists, man. Clauses that are almost sentences, impressions that are almost thoughts, vibe-coded word clouds that very nearly express a viewpoint or belief, or perhaps several at the same time.
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
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world's least normal man can't just eat chicken wings at a super bowl party while on an all meat diet
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
February 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
world's least normal man can't just eat chicken wings at a super bowl party while on an all meat diet
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
It's far from the most objectionable thing she's ever done journalistically but this remains such a perfect window into her whole deal, right down to failing to realize what an obvious "I just frantically googled this" tell the Heavy dot com link is.
February 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
It's far from the most objectionable thing she's ever done journalistically but this remains such a perfect window into her whole deal, right down to failing to realize what an obvious "I just frantically googled this" tell the Heavy dot com link is.
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Colorado at 150: In 1876, in Colorado’s final territorial Legislature, propsed language that would protect racial equality in CU admissions drew opposition. Equality prevailed, but CU is not believed to have admitted a Black student until 20 years later.
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A debate over Black civil rights in Colorado's final territorial Legislature | Colorado Newsline
The Rocky Mountain News decried Democrats' “highty-tighty attempt ... towards the exclusion of (Black) pupils from the Boulder university.”
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February 6, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Colorado at 150: In 1876, in Colorado’s final territorial Legislature, propsed language that would protect racial equality in CU admissions drew opposition. Equality prevailed, but CU is not believed to have admitted a Black student until 20 years later.
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They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:51 AM
They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
The reconstitution of the news media as we once knew it is inescapably a political project, not a philanthropic or a technological one, and things are only going in one direction until a critical mass of decision-makers accepts that.
February 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
The reconstitution of the news media as we once knew it is inescapably a political project, not a philanthropic or a technological one, and things are only going in one direction until a critical mass of decision-makers accepts that.
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Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.
The Washington Post is a manifestation of Jeff Bezos' imagination — it was, is and will be only ever the exact size and shape he wants it to be — and any treatment of its "financial stability" as a serious concern only serves to mislead people about what's happening here.
Any time there's even the slightest discussion of the Washington Post as a business entity it's a reminder of how much people struggle to conceive of the scale of Jeff Bezos' wealth. None of this is real. It's rearranging pebbles on the top of a mountain.
February 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM
The Washington Post is a manifestation of Jeff Bezos' imagination — it was, is and will be only ever the exact size and shape he wants it to be — and any treatment of its "financial stability" as a serious concern only serves to mislead people about what's happening here.
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The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
February 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
A while ago I was imagining what a regionally-specific outsider Platner type would look like in CO; if that person exists he/she probably lives in CD3. Seems like a major talent pipeline problem for Ds if they can't recruit a bio more compelling than "Adam Frisch again but he raises $65K/quarter."
Anybody in Colorado Dem politics want to take a stab at explaining why — in the huge, diverse, R+5 CD3, as Trump continues to take a hammer to the ag industry and rural health care — the best and only candidate the party has come up with is an Aspen private equity guy who can't raise money?
February 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
A while ago I was imagining what a regionally-specific outsider Platner type would look like in CO; if that person exists he/she probably lives in CD3. Seems like a major talent pipeline problem for Ds if they can't recruit a bio more compelling than "Adam Frisch again but he raises $65K/quarter."
Anybody in Colorado Dem politics want to take a stab at explaining why — in the huge, diverse, R+5 CD3, as Trump continues to take a hammer to the ag industry and rural health care — the best and only candidate the party has come up with is an Aspen private equity guy who can't raise money?
February 2, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Anybody in Colorado Dem politics want to take a stab at explaining why — in the huge, diverse, R+5 CD3, as Trump continues to take a hammer to the ag industry and rural health care — the best and only candidate the party has come up with is an Aspen private equity guy who can't raise money?
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The thing that bothers me the most about the election doomering is that people are really overindexed on the the heavy boot stuff like “troops at polling places” that I’m not sure would actually suppress turnout and underindexed on the GOP just refusing to seat everyone.
i think if you post like this without offering concrete steps people can take to prepare for and respond to interference or without any acknowledgement of the success (or lack thereof) of this strategy then you are basically engaged in voter suppression.
February 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM
The thing that bothers me the most about the election doomering is that people are really overindexed on the the heavy boot stuff like “troops at polling places” that I’m not sure would actually suppress turnout and underindexed on the GOP just refusing to seat everyone.
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Okay it will be pretty funny if Colorado voters pass an emergency redistricting measure this year while Democrats sweep all 8 congressional seats anyway.
In an upset that rattled Republicans, a Democrat in Texas decisively won a state legislative special election on Saturday in a district that President Trump carried by more than 17 percentage points just over a year ago.
Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans
A Democrat won a state legislative special election in a district that President Trump carried by 17 percentage points, unnerving Republicans in Texas and beyond.
nyti.ms
February 1, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Okay it will be pretty funny if Colorado voters pass an emergency redistricting measure this year while Democrats sweep all 8 congressional seats anyway.
There's a lot that's annoying about this place but I'd say "not full of marks who fall for immediately debunked viral AI hoaxes/B2B marketing spam" is one of its better attributes
February 1, 2026 at 12:42 AM
There's a lot that's annoying about this place but I'd say "not full of marks who fall for immediately debunked viral AI hoaxes/B2B marketing spam" is one of its better attributes
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we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds