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Chase Woodruff

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social

Reporter, @coloradonewsline.com

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Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 2h ago

Andy Burnham: inheritor of a once-dominant tradition that has struggled to adapt to a world of unchecked transnational capital flows and despite the promise of new leadership hasn’t addressed its long-term structural vulnerability on the right wing. He’s also the UK’s Labour prime minister!

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h ago

New study finds that the rapid growth of electric vehicles in China has prevented over 300,000 premature deaths. Conversely -- and this is just math -- everything done to prevent the rise of EVs in the US leads to more preventable deaths of Americans. It's not an academic debate.

Reduced urban air pollution and mortality from the transition to new energy vehicles in China - Nature Health

Using satellite data and interpretable machine learning, the widespread adoption of new energy vehicles was shown to reduce particulate matter particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less and carbon mo...

nature.com

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 21h ago

In a 2017 postscript to "Cadillac Desert," Marc Reisner threw out a 35% decline in flows by 2050 as italicized, can-you-imagine worst case scenario for the Colorado River. It looks fairly plausible at this point that the 10-year average could fall 25-30% *by the end of the 2020s.*

Still enforced as the basis for all water deliveries, the 1922 allocations total 16.5 million acre-feet, numbers based on an extremely wet period one hundred years ago. During this latest drought, the river has been flowing at a rate of around 12.4 million acre-feet.
This number is almost certain to decline. No one can be certain how much-5 percent by midcentury, maybe 35 percent?-even the U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation, traditionally bullish about water supplies, has acknowledged that climate change will reduce water flow in the Colorado River.

chart showing downward trend in Colorado River flows since 2000

Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 22h ago

Timeline 1876: When choosing governor candidates during the first-ever state party convention, the choices for Colorado Republicans were two former territorial governors and a former territorial legislator. Two of the candidates eventually joined forces to win. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

In 1876, Colorado's first-ever Republican ticket united 'the old and the new' | Colorado Newsline

Republicans and Democrats were set to contest the state of Colorado’s inaugural elections on the first Tuesday in October.

coloradonewsline.com

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 22h ago

One of the ways CD8 candidates Manny Rutinel and Gabe Evans are uncanny mirror images of each other: Absolutely everything is deeply "personal" to them.

A bunch of Manny Rutinel posts and TV ads where he says "[issue] is personal to me"

A bunch of Gabe Evans posts where he says "[issue] is personal to me"

Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · yesterday

Amid extreme drought, years of negotiations between Colorado and six other Colorado River Basin states have failed to produce a new long-term agreement on water allocations. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

As litigation looms and drought takes its toll, state officials defiant over Colorado River's future | Colorado Newsline

Years of negotiations between Colorado and six other Colorado River Basin states have failed to produce a new agreement on water allocations.

coloradonewsline.com

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 2d ago

lol

chart showing public support for data centers steadily declining since August 2025

Chase Woodruff@chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The industry may not care if they can keep building elsewhere, but I think it's going to seem crazy in retrospect that it turned down Colorado lawmakers' offer to pair tax breaks w/ moderate environmental rules in *May 2026*. Very little chance that offer is on the table again any time soon.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d ago

"there is a simple and straightforward way to start tackling the problem: Get rid of Lake Powell. Drill some holes in the bottom of that thing and drain ’er dry." prospect.org/2026/08/19/d...

Drain Lake Powell - The American Prospect

That would start what is the only sane water policy for the American West.

prospect.org

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 3d ago

God I love this thing so much. Barstool Sports, paragons of the dead-red political center. The Bret Baier program — famously more of a stickler for "fact reporting" than the New Yorker. Jacobin: oh, about as far left as Jen Psaki (the Menshevik right opposition to Wonkette and Taylor Lorenz).

Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social · 3d ago

incredible that they’re still making this thing and that this is what they come up with

Annual Media Bias Chart for 2026. A bell-shaped distribution of dozens of news sites allegedly judged by accuracy and bias.

Ad Fontes Media, Inc. - Methodology and thousands of web, TV/video, and podcast sources at adfontesmedia.com @adfontesmedia

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 3d ago

Colorado's Erratic Bear Behavior Summer really starting to take on the qualities of "leitmotif in affectless Zillennial autofiction debut"

The Denver Post@denverpost.com · 3d ago

A bear entered a home in Mount Crested Butte and unintentionally started a fire, first responders said early Wednesday morning.

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s another bad Colorado fire year, which means Republican climate deniers are again telling people that better “forest management” is the solution to the West’s wildfire crisis. Here’s just scratching the surface of why that's a fantasy: coloradonewsline.com/2026/08/19/w...

That’s due in large part to leading Republicans like President Donald Trump, a denier of human-caused climate change who has repeatedly invoked forest management — “raking and cleaning and doing things,” as he put it while touring the aftermath of California’s deadly Paradise Fire in 2018 — as a catch-all solution to catastrophic fire risk.

“(Electric vehicles) aren’t the answer. Sending your money to D.C. for wind and solar isn’t the answer,” U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert told the Colorado Water Congress on Wednesday. “It’s being good stewards of our land, managing our forests, so we aren’t battling these catastrophic wildfires year after year.”

“Policy, not climate, fueled fires” in the record-breaking 2020 wildfire season, argued one Colorado conservative commentator at the time. “They could just allow logging in the areas and the problem fixes itself,” wrote one social media user impacted by the Aspen Acres Fire last month.

The forestry work above Stillwater Ditch - a heavy lift, involving years of local planning, a state grant and close coordination with the federal government - treated about 300 acres deemed the highest priority within the 33,308-acre Bear River watershed, itself only a small part of an Upper Yampa basin measured in hundreds of square miles.
About 10% of Colorado's roughly 24 million acres of forest "need urgent attention to address forest health, wildfire risk and threats to water supplies," the Colorado State Forest Service wrote in its most recent action plan. The Stillwater Ditch project's hand crews were a relative bargain at $1,700 per acre; depending on factors like equipment and terrain, treatment costs routinely range from $3,000 to $5,000 per acre or more - making even the state's highest-priority to-do list a multibillion-dollar proposition.

But large-scale logging as a forest management tool is a nonstarter in Colorado, which has virtually no timber industry to speak of - a reality that has far less to do with regulatory barriers than with the challenging economics of harvesting relatively low-value wood products from Colorado's rugged alpine terrain.
"What we're talking about is thinning, pile burning, prescribed fire, fuels mitigation - around communities, around reservoirs," Citron said. "It's projects that are identified by HOAs, local governments, fire districts. There has not been a particularly robust timber industry in Colorado for a number of years."
"If this were lodgepole pine, it might be worth a logging operation, because it's a viable timber resource," said Sally Ross of Quandary Consulting, the contractor in charge of the Stillwater Ditch mitigation project. "But nobody's really interested in a bunch of little subalpine fir."

Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 4d ago

No news coverage on MLB.com, naturally. Their Padres beat writer hasn't tweeted about it either.

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 4d ago

ICE detained a Padres minor league coach and is trying to deport him. MLB declined to comment. So, so cowardly. www.nytimes.com/athletic/752...

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4d ago

the paper responsible for reporting on Watergate: actually Haldeman did nothing wrong

Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 4d ago

Personal heuristic: If the lead story on the NY Times website is about the bond market, things are not going well with the economy.

Bond Sell-Off Sends Borrowing Costs to Highest Level Since 2007
Yields on the 30-year U.S. Treasury and government bonds across the world rose to multiyear highs as investors fret about inflation, deficits and A.I. spending.

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 5d ago

Most relatable thing Jared Polis has done in a while: after launching a Substack with a "Why I granted Tina Peters clemency" post, and promising to use this "new space" for further conversation and reflection, he hasn't written another post since

Jared Polis' substack with one post from May

Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 6d ago

uhhhhh

investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.

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a4democracy.substack.com
The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 6d ago

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 6d ago

You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d ago

“.. Per the latest CBS/YouGov poll, a majority of *Republicans* approve of government price controls.” (via Zenith Polls) www.cbsnews.com/news/democra...

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 7d ago

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 7d ago

guy can't even stay on base. send him back down

Codify Baseball@codifybaseball.bsky.social · 7d ago

JOSHUA BÁEZ THREE HOME RUNS IN HIS FIRST THREE BIG LEAGUE AT BATS HOLY CRAP

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · last wk.

Masterstroke by the Chamber to humiliate itself like this for the sake of currying favor with a candidate/party highly likely to suffer a third consecutive 15+ point statewide loss this cycle

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · last wk.

Looks like the leading candidates for Colorado Governor will appear on the same stage after all www.9news.com/article/news...

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · last wk.

Far and away the most striking thing here is the juxtaposition of this limp non-response from the governor's office with the shock expressed by the judge and the attorney general. www.denverpost.com/2026/08/14/c...

Underwood’s email appeared to leave the federal judge overseeing the case aghast. According to the transcript, U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson said the administration’s apparent targeting of Colorado “makes no sense in our democracy,” and he ordered the Executive Office of the President to turn over more documents and records to the state.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve never even imagined something like it,” Jackson said of the email, which he read aloud in court. “The very idea that the president of the United States or the Executive Office of the President would target a state because they don’t feel that the state and its administrators are in line with the current administration’s priorities is phenomenal.”

“That’s not the country I think we live in,” he said later in the hearing.

In a statement Thursday, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser called the email “shocking” and said it proved that “the White House orchestrated an unconstitutional scheme to weaponize the federal government to attack and punish Colorado for its lawful decisions over elections and our criminal justice system.”

Polis spokeswoman Ally Sullivan said in a separate statement that the Trump administration “has taken a number of actions that have negatively impacted Coloradans and our communities. If those decisions were based on political retribution against Colorado, we hope the courts will provide relief to Colorado.”

Sullivan did not respond to specific questions about the timing or substance of Polis’ call with Trump last year.

Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · last wk.

An attorney for Colorado called the email a “smoking gun”: In the days that followed, agencies summoned to the meeting announced adverse actions against the state, canceling hundreds of millions in funding and moving to close Boulder's renowned NCAR lab, @sethklamann.bsky.social reports

‘Smoking gun’ email shows White House summoned agencies to Colorado-focused meeting amid Tina Peters furor

A Trump assistant asked officials from five agencies to join a call “prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado.”

denverpost.com

Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · last wk.

Here's an almost entirely forgotten piece of early Colorado history: Two weeks after statehood, a federal judge was kidnapped off a train near Golden and held overnight to forestall bankruptcy proceedings for a railroad, leading the governor to march on Boulder with 60 militiamen.

An 1876 Colorado 'railroad war' climaxed with the kidnapping of a federal judge | Colorado Newsline

For a brief moment in the history of the newly proclaimed state of Colorado, the West's "railroad wars" carried the threat of real violence.

coloradonewsline.com

billyok @billyok.bsky.social · last wk.

Imagine Shoeless Joe Jackson, disgraced should-be Hall of Famer, walking through the cornfield and seeing this absolute bullshit on the wall.

A fanduel ad on the Field of Dreams wall

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · last wk.

now this is a hell of sentence: "A recommender that’s a mediocre predictor of what you’d love in a rich, diverse world becomes an excellent predictor of what you’ll click in the impoverished one it creates." laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

laurenleek.substack.com

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.

the actual order of events from 2020-2024 gets strategically jumbled by reactionary centrists all the time. They love to blame 2024 on wokeness while skipping over the fact that Dems won in 2020. They talk about early COVID Iike it was a failure of Dem policy when Trump was in office.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

I don't understand why this keeps getting overlooked: Joe Biden won in 2020 in the middle of Peak Woke. I'd go one step further than @brianbeutler.bsky.social does here: Biden *defended the BLM protesters!* www.offmessage.net/p/woke-one-a...

madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · last wk.

These court documents are the clearest picture we have yet of Homeland Security's surveillance apparatus during Operation Metro Surge. Story:

Documents show how feds spied on protesters, left-wing organizations and unions during Metro Surge • Minnesota Reformer

Homeland Security investigators secretly recorded conversations, infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records for labor unions and progressive groups as part of a wide-ranging surveillance ...

minnesotareformer.com

Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 2w ago

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · last wk.

if someone in a press relations role is exceedingly helpful and goes out of their way to do something for you it's usually important to figure out what they get out of that interaction

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · last wk.

One you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you

Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · last wk.

A record-breaking stretch of high temperatures late last month was Colorado’s worst heat wave in the 75 years that such records have been collected, state climatologists said Tuesday. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

Late July heat wave was Colorado’s hottest 4-day period on record | Colorado Newsline

A record-breaking stretch of high temperatures late last month was Colorado’s worst heat wave since records have been collected.

coloradonewsline.com