Ari Armstrong

The owner of this platform is actively using it to promote liars and racists. I cannot, in good conscience, promote it any longer. I will lurk, but I will not post or retweet again, until and unless this site changes ownership. Please find me on other platforms.

The president of the most powerful conservative legal group in the country says banning birth control is at the top of his wishlist: “We are on a winning trajectory...It may be that the day will come when people say the birth-control pill was a mistake.” newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights is an all too rare portrait of a man who changed the course of American history ... not for the better. Read it, and you’ll never view Franklin D. Roosevelt the same again. Pre-order your copy today >> bit.ly/FDRNewDeal-DB

I just had a very good interaction with @beardedbros customer service, which makes good bars. I appreciate companies going out of their way to do right by their customers. beardedbros.com

@MattLabor @RepEpps @_timhernandez As mentioned, the idea of an elected head Public Defender, with a well-funded office, strikes me as an excellent one. Of course, you might get a "law and order" person running who gave some people anemic defenses, so it's not a panacea. It wouldn't solve other problems.

.@ariarmstrong: Sometimes @RepEpps’s schizophrenic 'abolitionist' position leads her to say some bizarre things #copolitics pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2023/10/03/arm…

Left is the incredible but original tweet from Elon Musk and the right is a response widely shared among Ukrainians (first seen @pravda_eng).

“I wish to tell some of those people who put me down and ridiculed me and whatnot to see that, ‘You see?’” endpts.com/katalin-kariko…

Here's Amazon choking down some crow. From what I can tell from some web searches lots of people were pretty upset about the earlier confusing emails. (I myself wasted a quarter hour or so trying to make sense of them.) Huge PR fail.

Airline protectionism, citizen journalism, AI written books, the identity trap, Orville, For All Mankind, and more. Self in Society Roundup 32: selfinsociety.substack.com/p/self-in-soci…

I am so proud of the team of experts at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton who flew OSIRIS-REx, controlled by the Colorado team since 2016, collected a sample from an asteroid and landed successfully on Sunday. ow.ly/7frs50PQHh2 Photo: @NASA

Just a thought here... maybe we could have approval voting? mediaite.com/politics/exclu…

Sigh... Boebert's "Libertarian" challenger promises to "pivot hard to the right" and be a "hard-right conservative." There's nothing libertarian about today's Libertarian party. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2023/09/boeber… attn. @Mattzwolinski

A new study finds that restrictions on flavored vaping products boost cigarette sales. reason.com/2023/09/29/sal…

@agustinavcid His is the most disgustingly anti-American line I've heard in a long time.

Commentary from Ari Armstrong: "For the first time in my life, I am registered to vote as a Colorado Democrat." coloradotimesrecorder.com/2023/09/why-a-…

Looks like a nasty case of protectionism to me: "Big Airlines Are Pressuring Airports To Kick Out Semi-Private Carrier JSX": viewfromthewing.com/big-airlines-a… via @JonCaldara pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2023/09/28/cal…

Colo. delay for 3 days on all gun sales or loans goes into effect on Oct. 1. Here's why it is unconstitutional, and is based on patently false legislative "findings." davekopel.org/Testimony/HB23…

Jor’Dell Richardson’s classmates, family, and community asked yesterday for accountability from DA John Kelner, who pressed no charges against the offers who murdered Jor’Dell, and for @ArtAcevedo to resign for lying to the family about his death for 9 days. They both said no.

@MattLabor @RepEpps @_timhernandez What do you mean? You want an elected Public Defender with a well-funded office? Offhand sounds like a good idea. But that's not directly relevant to the issue at hand. Anyway Epps and Hernández are welcome to weigh in on that too.