Jason Bane
@jasonbane.bsky.social
Writer and speaker of words about politics @coloradopols.com and over @getmoresmarter.com. Strange women hanging out in ponds and distributing swords is looking like a solid form of government.
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THIS WEEK on our Colorado Politics Podcast:
🌊Yep, 2025 was an historic blue wave
✈️How's your holiday travel schedule looking?
🌽Whiplash on SNAP benefits
🌉@jeffbridges.co is BACK to talk about his run for State Treasurer, and WTF the "t-pool" is
🎧LISTEN UP🎧
🌊Yep, 2025 was an historic blue wave
✈️How's your holiday travel schedule looking?
🌽Whiplash on SNAP benefits
🌉@jeffbridges.co is BACK to talk about his run for State Treasurer, and WTF the "t-pool" is
🎧LISTEN UP🎧
Unleash the Blue-icane! (feat. Jeff Bridges)
Podcast Episode · The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics · 11/11/2025 · 1h 29m
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November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
THIS WEEK on our Colorado Politics Podcast:
🌊Yep, 2025 was an historic blue wave
✈️How's your holiday travel schedule looking?
🌽Whiplash on SNAP benefits
🌉@jeffbridges.co is BACK to talk about his run for State Treasurer, and WTF the "t-pool" is
🎧LISTEN UP🎧
🌊Yep, 2025 was an historic blue wave
✈️How's your holiday travel schedule looking?
🌽Whiplash on SNAP benefits
🌉@jeffbridges.co is BACK to talk about his run for State Treasurer, and WTF the "t-pool" is
🎧LISTEN UP🎧
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"President Trump is totally not worried about the release of more information related to the Epstein files, so he and the White House are doing what totally not-worried people do in this situation…
They’re freaking the fuck out."
They’re freaking the fuck out."
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along... #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218319...
Trump Begs Boebert (Twice) to Back Off Epstein Discharge Petition | Colorado Pols
President Trump is totally not worried about the release of more information related to the Epstein files, so he and the White House are doing what totally not-worried people do in this situation... T...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"President Trump is totally not worried about the release of more information related to the Epstein files, so he and the White House are doing what totally not-worried people do in this situation…
They’re freaking the fuck out."
They’re freaking the fuck out."
I'll just leave this here...
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I'll just leave this here...
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
It’s mind boggling to me that Congressional Republicans would be willing to run for re-election as “the party that doubled your health insurance costs.” #copolitics www.denverpost.com/2025/10/27/c...
Health insurance premiums to double next year on Colorado’s individual market
The monthly “sticker price” of health insurance is rising, and households will have to pay a larger share of that monthly cost than they have since the pandemic.
www.denverpost.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It’s mind boggling to me that Congressional Republicans would be willing to run for re-election as “the party that doubled your health insurance costs.” #copolitics www.denverpost.com/2025/10/27/c...
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Mike Johnson shamelessly lies: "We strengthened Medicaid. We improved healthcare access and we lowered premiums with our legislation."
October 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Mike Johnson shamelessly lies: "We strengthened Medicaid. We improved healthcare access and we lowered premiums with our legislation."
This happens EVERY TIME REPUBLICANS take over government. Every goddamned time. apnews.com/article/trum...
US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
The U.S. government's gross national debt has surpassed $38 trillion during the federal shutdown, marking a record high.
apnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This happens EVERY TIME REPUBLICANS take over government. Every goddamned time. apnews.com/article/trum...
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"I quit. I quit the Republican party and my job as an accomplice to the party in the throes of an authoritarian cult." www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party
Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.
www.thebulwark.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"I quit. I quit the Republican party and my job as an accomplice to the party in the throes of an authoritarian cult." www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
Just let AI place our online ads. What’s the worst that will happen? Frank Sinatra singing to people on a plane?
October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Just let AI place our online ads. What’s the worst that will happen? Frank Sinatra singing to people on a plane?
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Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history.
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!
So were the signs...
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!
So were the signs...
October 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history.
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!
So were the signs...
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!
So were the signs...
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Probably our favorite sign of the day from Denver, Colorado No Kings
October 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Probably our favorite sign of the day from Denver, Colorado No Kings
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This week on @getmoresmarter.com, hosts @jasonbane.bsky.social and Ian Silverii discuss shutdowns and dumb military gatherings. We also continue our series of interviews with 2026 candidates -- this week with State Treasurer hopeful Brianna Titone. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/217006...
Colorado Republicans Turn to Marxism (feat. Brianna Titone) | Colorado Pols
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the shitdown shutshow or the shutdown shitshow or whatever you want to call it is officially on as Democrats and Republicans in Washington DC fail to reach a...
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October 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This week on @getmoresmarter.com, hosts @jasonbane.bsky.social and Ian Silverii discuss shutdowns and dumb military gatherings. We also continue our series of interviews with 2026 candidates -- this week with State Treasurer hopeful Brianna Titone. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/217006...
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President Trump says some federal workers “don’t deserve” to get back pay when the government shutdown ends. That could have a big impact in the Denver Metro area where the Federal Center in Lakewood has the largest concentration of federal agencies outside of DC. #copolitics
October 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
President Trump says some federal workers “don’t deserve” to get back pay when the government shutdown ends. That could have a big impact in the Denver Metro area where the Federal Center in Lakewood has the largest concentration of federal agencies outside of DC. #copolitics
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Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
October 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
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Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
October 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
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Did you know that your healthcare premiums are about to double because the GOP is intentionally sabotaging the Affordable Care Act and pretending that Democrats are trying to give undocumented immigrants free insurance?
October 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Did you know that your healthcare premiums are about to double because the GOP is intentionally sabotaging the Affordable Care Act and pretending that Democrats are trying to give undocumented immigrants free insurance?
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This is beyond ridiculous.
September 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is beyond ridiculous.
I really think I could master teleportation before I could get basic assistance from United Healthcare.
September 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I really think I could master teleportation before I could get basic assistance from United Healthcare.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
The stupid...it burns. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/24/a...
The proven solution to school safety is arming teachers (Opinion)
In Colorado’s 50 districts with armed, trained volunteer staff, including rural and suburban schools alike, safety records remain unblemished.
www.denverpost.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The stupid...it burns. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/24/a...