DenverLib
@sethden.bsky.social
Retired small-town newspaper guy. Ran for Colorado House as a D in a deep red district in Western Colorado in 2018 by knocking on 8k doors. Now live in LoDo Denver.
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Amazing how many people over the last few years have moved from
person I sometimes disagree with, to
person I disagree with who is also unpleasant online, to
genuinely bad person whose soul has warped beyond recognition.
the politics of our times are like a solvent for decency.
person I sometimes disagree with, to
person I disagree with who is also unpleasant online, to
genuinely bad person whose soul has warped beyond recognition.
the politics of our times are like a solvent for decency.
July 11, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Amazing how many people over the last few years have moved from
person I sometimes disagree with, to
person I disagree with who is also unpleasant online, to
genuinely bad person whose soul has warped beyond recognition.
the politics of our times are like a solvent for decency.
person I sometimes disagree with, to
person I disagree with who is also unpleasant online, to
genuinely bad person whose soul has warped beyond recognition.
the politics of our times are like a solvent for decency.
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Lindsey Graham was a simple, tragic man to understand. He lacked a moral core. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made.
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Lindsey knew better. He chose worse.
Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention.
steveschmidt.substack.com
July 12, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Lindsey Graham was a simple, tragic man to understand. He lacked a moral core. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made.
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/lindsey-kn...
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/lindsey-kn...
Of Stoicism and Stupor
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Of Stoicism and Stupor
The Wars of Marcus Aurelius and Donald Trump
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June 27, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Of Stoicism and Stupor
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What Desperate Regimes Do Before They Fall www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
What Desperate Regimes Do Before They Fall
Donald Trump is already telling us he’s going to try to steal the 2026 election, and the fact that he’s saying it now, months in advance, is the whole tell. Back in February he stood up and declared…
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June 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM
What Desperate Regimes Do Before They Fall www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
We are all passengers on a packed bus driven by a madman, careening out of control across a perilous landscape. We haven't crashed .... yet.
May 8, 2026 at 12:13 PM
We are all passengers on a packed bus driven by a madman, careening out of control across a perilous landscape. We haven't crashed .... yet.
Forgive me! But as tragic as it is for all of humanity and the planet, I can't help but feel, yes, a pleasant sense of schadenfreude to watch Trump and his Republican cult followers squirm over how badly he and they have fucked up. A trivial compensation, but I'll take it for what it's worth.
May 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Forgive me! But as tragic as it is for all of humanity and the planet, I can't help but feel, yes, a pleasant sense of schadenfreude to watch Trump and his Republican cult followers squirm over how badly he and they have fucked up. A trivial compensation, but I'll take it for what it's worth.
A question for a reporter at a Trump news conference: "Mr. President, which nations would you say are America's closest allies in the world today?"
April 23, 2026 at 12:17 PM
A question for a reporter at a Trump news conference: "Mr. President, which nations would you say are America's closest allies in the world today?"
I wouldn't say the apocalypse is nigh. But what we are witnessing this morning is exactly what it would look like, sound like and feel like if it was.
April 7, 2026 at 3:08 PM
I wouldn't say the apocalypse is nigh. But what we are witnessing this morning is exactly what it would look like, sound like and feel like if it was.
Today's #NYT front page is all about the triumph of #oligarchy. Musk's vast holdings, the Ellison's media control, Trump's restoration of Empire, and in India, too, the #oligarchs rule. Their domination is so far advanced it's difficult to guess how it can be clawed back.
February 27, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Today's #NYT front page is all about the triumph of #oligarchy. Musk's vast holdings, the Ellison's media control, Trump's restoration of Empire, and in India, too, the #oligarchs rule. Their domination is so far advanced it's difficult to guess how it can be clawed back.
A record has been broken. 2020 was the worst year in recent history. That record lasted only five years. We are just completing 2025. Here's to a better 2026!
December 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A record has been broken. 2020 was the worst year in recent history. That record lasted only five years. We are just completing 2025. Here's to a better 2026!
A prediction in writing to check it out as the water flows underground: MTG will go the way of what's her name? That former governor of Alaska who was on a presidential ticket a long time ago?
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A prediction in writing to check it out as the water flows underground: MTG will go the way of what's her name? That former governor of Alaska who was on a presidential ticket a long time ago?
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“The moon, it turns out, is a great place for men.” Nathan Heller reflects on E. B. White’s “perfect paragraph” on the 1969 moon landing.
Nathan Heller on E. B. White’s Paragraph About the Moon Landing
What sort of response could measure up to the occasion? White’s idea was as simple as it was audacious.
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August 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“The moon, it turns out, is a great place for men.” Nathan Heller reflects on E. B. White’s “perfect paragraph” on the 1969 moon landing.
No doubt, there is no shortage of #Trump disasters. But #ProPublica here explains why what is being done on #climate is almost certainly the most deadly to the most people and likely irreversible. Our last glimmer of hope to avert runaway warming is fading.
The Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
by � Abrahm ....
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July 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
No doubt, there is no shortage of #Trump disasters. But #ProPublica here explains why what is being done on #climate is almost certainly the most deadly to the most people and likely irreversible. Our last glimmer of hope to avert runaway warming is fading.
It's easy to look away from unhoused people when we don't know anything about them. #denver #homeless
VISIBLE
Tebo, 16th Street, Denver.
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June 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
May 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
SITTING ON A TIME BOMB. I can’t follow the news closely. It’s too upsetting. And it's not just me. As we grow increasingly numb, we anticipate a decisive event that will move masses to rise up. The cataclysm will have to be something big, hitting us all where we live. Or am I missing something?
May 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
SITTING ON A TIME BOMB. I can’t follow the news closely. It’s too upsetting. And it's not just me. As we grow increasingly numb, we anticipate a decisive event that will move masses to rise up. The cataclysm will have to be something big, hitting us all where we live. Or am I missing something?
I'm taking action on June 14 to remind Trump and his enablers that America has No Kings. Join me in Denver to reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like. app.sosha.ai/s/oCXEwAv7
Join me on June 14
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May 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I'm taking action on June 14 to remind Trump and his enablers that America has No Kings. Join me in Denver to reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like. app.sosha.ai/s/oCXEwAv7
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Campaigns looking for a powerful theme against an incumbent should always consider the 'missing' rep approach. It is easy to understand and has a great track record.
May 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Campaigns looking for a powerful theme against an incumbent should always consider the 'missing' rep approach. It is easy to understand and has a great track record.
Yes, Facebook is every bit as malign as your darkest suspicions.
Careless People
Nonfiction · 2025
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April 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Yes, Facebook is every bit as malign as your darkest suspicions.
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I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
March 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
Hopeful.....!
How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
AOC, solidarity, and people power.
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March 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hopeful.....!