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Jason Van Tatenhove
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Author, journalist, columnist. Exploring extremism, tech, and resilience. Writing from the mountains of Colorado. https://www.coloradoswitchblade.com Author of The Perils of Extremism and AI Ink. - Writing…Publishing and Misinformation at the Dawn of AI
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · 24d
New Halloween story on The Colorado Switchblade: “This Is Estes!”
A D&D night at The Wheel turns into a small-town horror show.
Vampires aren’t real — but power still sucks the life out of a place.
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Paperback + eBook coming soon to support a friend’s recovery fund.
This Is Estes!
Vampires aren’t real — But sometimes the way power drains the lifeblood out of a mountain community sure makes you wonder...
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Sep 5
Just approved the final dust cover jacket design for my new book coming out in a few months! I think it looks great!
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jul 11
They Knew - Chapter 13
🚨 New chapter of They Knew is live.
A baby ripped from a mother’s arms. A riot sparked by glitter and grief.
Phoebee’s network is waking up—and so is the resistance.
Read it now! #TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
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They Knew - Chapter 13
The Shape of What’s Coming…
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jul 2
We are now literally living through EVERYTHING Star Trek warned us about! /sigh
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jun 26
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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · Jun 23
Nights of BLUE SKIES
(sound up, please listen)

DAY 22 JUNE 2025

THESE TUMULTUOUS TIMES

More than one war happening now

Please listen to the whole clip

ICE GESTAPO WAR on
Decent Hardworking People

Meet the "Neighborhood Kids Music"

Listen to Their TRUTH
Walk in Their Shoes
Powerful
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · Jun 22
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jun 20
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jun 20
🚨 New Chapter Alert 🚨
They Knew – Chapter 12: “She Needs Hands”
Phoebee demands to build. Ægis is waking up wrong. And in a heat-choked trailer, a teenager hears a voice that might just change everything.
Read it now:
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#TheyKnew #CliFi #Dystopia
They Knew - Chapter 12
She Needs Hands...
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jun 20
Something doesn’t feel right here…are those deck shoes? Not very tactical…
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jun 19
Very old school!
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · Jun 19
This is the way.
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Jun 18
“All of the bullshit and the lies that are being told — who else is going to tell the truth, besides the artists!?”

Full 🎥 www.instagram.com/reel/DLBzoYq...
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Kyle Freeman For Senate @kyleforsc.bsky.social · Jun 19
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jun 17
One more…
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jun 17
She’s going to be one hell of a photojournalist someday.
Already is, really—her photos have landed in Newsweek and other outlets, just from being by my side and seeing the world with that sharp, intuitive eye.
Proud dad moment.
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jun 17
Took my 16-year-old daughter to the No Kings Day protest at CSU/FoCo. She’s been documenting social movements with me since the Floyd rallies in Estes—
and damn if she isn’t already outshooting half the legacy outlets when it comes to capturing raw emotion.
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jun 12
🚨 NEW CHAPTER 🚨
This week in They Knew, drone swarms shadow ICE agents as Denver erupts. Fiction meets reality in this cyberpunk resistance story.
📍 Capitol Hill.
🛰️ AI. Protest. Defiance.

Read it now → www.coloradoswitchblade.com
#TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · Jun 5
A new documentary film just hit that I’m featured in. The Guardian even mentioned my spot. available on most streaming services

As of today it was the 6th most watched documentary on Apple and had an amazing 93% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!

I’m featured in the last 15 minutes of the film.
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · May 29
Just got a mention in The Guardian for the doc I was featured in—White With Fear is getting rave reviews and stirring up real conversations. Cool to be part of something this timely.

🎥 Read the review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
‘A cynical ploy to hold power’: how the US right has exploited racial division
In the documentary White with Fear, an insidious long-running campaign to villainize people of color in the US is laid bare
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · May 20
At least we still
Have music at red rocks! 🤘
#writerslife #coloradolove
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · May 17
🚨 They Knew Ch. 9 is live.
Spray paint. Drone cover. A mother with a baby.
ICE on the street. A crowd that finally says no.
This is where fiction starts fighting back.
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#TheyKnew #FictionAsProtest
They Knew - Chapter 9
The New Hill
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · May 13
I can’t live anywhere else but the mountains. They are my main source of zen.
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · May 13
Thanks, one sees scenes like that so often living in the mountains where i do, one almost takes it for granted…almost
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Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social · May 13
A glimpse from my midafternoon after writing exercise break…
#writerslife #coloradolove #kayak