Chase Woodruff

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Propaganda works, and is most effective when its inserted in places where audiences aren't prepared for it or might not even realize they're watching it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/climate/climate-propane-influence-campaign.html
The New Soldiers in Propane’s Fight Against Climate Action: Television Stars

An industry group is spending millions of dollars to push back against efforts to move heating away from oil and gas.

The New York Times
unbelievably funny for contrarian heterodox market-of-ideas icon Steven Pinker to answer the "name a book that changed your mind" prompt with a book that just confirmed all his priors https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/07/it-altered-my-entire-worldview-leading-authors-pick-eight-nonfiction-books-to-change-your-mind
‘It altered my entire worldview’: leading authors pick eight nonfiction books to change your mind

Steven Pinker, Mary Beard, Rebecca Solnit and others reveal the books that made them see the world differently

The Guardian
Going full fash over a minor, temporary supply chain issue but instead of eggs it’s Topo Chico
Sad week for the country. The partisan left may be enjoying some schadenfreude for the moment, but every day that this circus goes on is another day that our elected representatives can't knuckle down and start the hard work of subpoenaing Hunter Biden's Erowid profile and making it illegal to mute your grandpa on Facebook
Former Rep. Ed Perlmutter takes lobbying job with Holland & Knight

After 16 years representing Colorado’s 7th Congressional District in Washington, former Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter is joining Holland & Knight as a partner in its public policy and reg…

The Denver Post
The farce of Biden's "30x30" commitment reflects poorly not just on the administration's credibility but on that of the whole green NGO-industrial complex. Effective climate action will require routinely setting ambitious goals and actually following through on them; instead the 30x30 flop just reinforces the sense that they're meaningless PR exercises. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opinion/biodiversity-summit.html
Opinion | Biden Set an Ambitious Goal for Nature. It’s Time He Went After It.

The president can do more to better protect America’s natural world.

✨🎉✨ New Year’s resolution inspo 2k23 ✨🎉✨

🌙 In the coming night men would band together in the hills. ⛰️

🔥 Feeding their small fires with the deeds and the covenants and the poetry of their fathers. 👨‍👩‍👦

📚 Documents they’d no gift to read in a cold to loot men of their souls. 🥶

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Colorado’s only refiner of gasoline to close for months because of a little cold weather? Clearly internal combustion engine technology is not ready for prime time. https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/29/suncor-shutdown-cold-equipment-commerce-city/
Pump prices to rise in Colorado after Suncor begins months-long shutdown of its Commerce City oil refinery

Motorists in Colorado should get ready to pay more at the pump after Suncor Energy announced this week it would shut down its Commerce City oil refinery for as long as three months due to equipment…

The Denver Post
Have a lot of Complicated Franzen Feelings but he’s crazy for this one