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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 1m

Can’t find my Leatherman multitool. Gonna airtag that thing. It’s such a time saver on a job especially when you get the bit set.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18m

Seems botty I’m just blocking fwiw

Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 4h

Our big deadline is approaching and a generous donor has offered to Triple Match gifts to the BLOOD GOD!

<<rush a sacrifice now>>

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18h

“yeah” (“ya” reads to me like “how ya doin’”)

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18h

Recently read a book about John Brown that credited Thoreau with preventing abolitionists from distancing themselves from Brown — he made it a point to speak forcefully in favor of Brown’s character after the raid.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 1d

Zuck just actively runs away from even the remote possibility of doing the right thing

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18h

[Samuel Morse’s buddy Gus five minutes after he sends the first telegraph.]

Hey man can I pitch you on something real quick

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 18h

This sucks I just finished my book about this exact thing

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18h

oooh a collaboration with the exercise science department!

Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18h

they don't even know they can stay for the climate policy!

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 19h

now you might be thinking the study design could be confounded by the establishment candidate who doesn't get an intervention being able to claim they are actually the insurgent now but you would be wrong because we told them they can't do that

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 19h

pitching the DSCC on a random control trial for intervening in primaries on behalf of insurgents vs. establishment candidates vs. not intervening at all so we can finally settle the question of what the best way to do elections good is

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 19h

Makes me wonder how much having to vote multiple times w/ runoffs depresses turnout along w/ other effects.

Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 19h

they all have policy stuff on their websites; not every social media video is going to address a specific issue www.grahamforsenate.com/platform

Platform — Graham Platner | Democrat for U.S. Senate

Read Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner's plan to defeat Susan Collins and win back the seat for working Mainers.

www.grahamforsenate.com

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 19h

single issue primary voters who just want the spam to stop; interesting way to make it salient

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s why you were barraged with spam today.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 21h

Not sure anyone else in media can make a 35-minute fisking this entertaining. The self-awareness of doing a psuedo-news program is also something I'm not sure Stewart ever pulled off. It's never *just* comedy, and they take responsibility for research and errors.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 21h

This is part of why I think people who repeatedly get the label thrown at them aren't capable of grappling with the core criticism -- it's a Chomsky problem: if they were arguing from positions of deeply held ideological commitments they wouldn't resort to reactionary centrism when writing columns.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 21h

I don't see it as an ideology, I see it as public figures filling a niche in the media. A key mechanism, as the right has become more extreme, is media figures trying to find increasingly obtuse left wing things to criticize to balance out criticisms of elected officials on the right.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 21h

Part of what I was trying to describe was how public figures respond to incentives in the media to develop this orientation. Expressing conservative or centrist views on an issue is not interesting; someone who says they agree with the left, but the left has gone too far has a hook.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks for sharing. FWIW, my perspective is informed by a lot of work in media / PR, so what I initially described was a public orientation among some pundits and people in the climate debate. IIRC, I noted that some people who engage in reactionary centrism see themselves as liberals or centrist.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23h

He really put a "but I'm different" in his eulogy. What a mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22h

The Architect of the Capitol employs carpenters — lot of cool custom stuff in there to maintain.

www.aoc.gov/what-we-do/a...

Woodcrafting

The care and creation of woodworkings throughout the Congress and Supreme Court is the responsibility of AOC woodcrafters.

www.aoc.gov

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22h

IMO he does a lot of hippie punching that falls into this category. He even lapsed into it while misrepresenting my initial arguments about this term. In the original conception it was a media posture rather a coherent ideology.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 23h

And if the national party were run by people in total political alignment with me personally, I’d feel the same way!

Part of what worked so well at Swing Left in 2018 was providing a unifying point through the primary — including demonstrating the efficacy of raising money for a nominee fund.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 23h

Not enough people rag on Schumer for his sloppy baseboard miters

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