Aaron Homer
@ahomer.bsky.social
Father, husband, dog-owner, programmer. Somewhere left of center.
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It’s been 9 days since @assignedmedia.org asked @thefireorg.bsky.social whether it would defend a trans OU instructor targeted by Turning Point USA in a highly orchestrated media attack. She was suspended for doing her job. In its silence FIRE turns its back on a founding principle: academic freedom
The nyt, which has promoted anti-trans disinformation and discrimination, has also attacked the ACLU for its defense of trans people.
It's fallen in love w FIRE, publishing a laudatory feature, given its CEO two op-ed platforms and last week, featuring him on its podcast The Daily.
It's fallen in love w FIRE, publishing a laudatory feature, given its CEO two op-ed platforms and last week, featuring him on its podcast The Daily.
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
It’s been 9 days since @assignedmedia.org asked @thefireorg.bsky.social whether it would defend a trans OU instructor targeted by Turning Point USA in a highly orchestrated media attack. She was suspended for doing her job. In its silence FIRE turns its back on a founding principle: academic freedom
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Evil cannot recognize good, and they apparently can’t recognize bad PR either.
NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Evil cannot recognize good, and they apparently can’t recognize bad PR either.
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13 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Starved of funding & with increasing demand, Natl Gender Service--Ireland's only public health service for trans adults--closes its waiting list & will take no new patients after Mar 2026. Wait for the 2,470 currently on its list is 4.5 years.
Transgender care waiting list to close due to resourcing concerns
The National Gender Service (NGS), which provides healthcare for transgender adults, is closing its waiting lists due to a lack of resources, Prime Time has learned
www.rte.ie
December 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
13 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Starved of funding & with increasing demand, Natl Gender Service--Ireland's only public health service for trans adults--closes its waiting list & will take no new patients after Mar 2026. Wait for the 2,470 currently on its list is 4.5 years.
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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apart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter.
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
apart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter.
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
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it's extremely funny that the dopes writing these op-eds about the future of the military don't *just* want the military to run like a business, they want it run like a *tech* business, companies that are run like absolutely no other type of business
December 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
it's extremely funny that the dopes writing these op-eds about the future of the military don't *just* want the military to run like a business, they want it run like a *tech* business, companies that are run like absolutely no other type of business
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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Rao (derogatory), Walker (derogatory).
This is pointless because the full court will eventually allow it to move forward. They are just Trump minions.
This is pointless because the full court will eventually allow it to move forward. They are just Trump minions.
BREAKING: Judges Rao and Walker — both Trump appointees — issue an "administrative stay" blocking Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings set to begin on Monday.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
December 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Rao (derogatory), Walker (derogatory).
This is pointless because the full court will eventually allow it to move forward. They are just Trump minions.
This is pointless because the full court will eventually allow it to move forward. They are just Trump minions.
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Strong belief that arguing over the first half of this (characterizing the system as it is this moment) is far less important than emphasizing the second part (understanding that Trump and allies are engaged in a full-on attack on democracy and the rule of law - and that they can be defeated).
The leading scholars of democratic decline say the US "has descended into competitive authoritarianism" - we "ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany, or even Argentina are democracies" - but caution that it can be contested and reversed
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
December 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Strong belief that arguing over the first half of this (characterizing the system as it is this moment) is far less important than emphasizing the second part (understanding that Trump and allies are engaged in a full-on attack on democracy and the rule of law - and that they can be defeated).
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Finally, bipartisanship will allow us to handle a censorship weapon to the Trump white house. Very smart you fucking idiots.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Finally, bipartisanship will allow us to handle a censorship weapon to the Trump white house. Very smart you fucking idiots.
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"To begin, this inquiry is not some academic exercise. Approximately 137 men were spirited out of this country without a hearing and placed in a high-security prison in El Salvador, where many suffered abuse and possible torture, despite this Court’s order that they should not be disembarked."
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"To begin, this inquiry is not some academic exercise. Approximately 137 men were spirited out of this country without a hearing and placed in a high-security prison in El Salvador, where many suffered abuse and possible torture, despite this Court’s order that they should not be disembarked."
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Yeah, I've got to tell y'all... I live under one of the flight paths for DCA and the crash over the Potomac was not too far from my apartment. This really worries me, especially in the broader context of the incompetence re: air traffic right now.
This part of the national defense reauthorization bill passed by the House should be getting more attention because the tragic accident literally just happened and apparently they’re happy for it to happen again
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
‘This is shameful': NTSB chair angered by bill relaxing DCA flight restrictions
The NTSB criticized a proposal to ease DCA air safety rules, reversing post-collision measures.
www.nbcwashington.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yeah, I've got to tell y'all... I live under one of the flight paths for DCA and the crash over the Potomac was not too far from my apartment. This really worries me, especially in the broader context of the incompetence re: air traffic right now.
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it's just a great example of the ability to drive the political narrative--even when out of power!--instead of just responding to the latest A/B 30-second ad testing
but democrats have, instead, picked fights around *orderly process*. they have highlighted the chaos of draconian immigration enforcement, the chaos of mass deportations, and the chaos and disruption it has imposed on communities.
December 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
it's just a great example of the ability to drive the political narrative--even when out of power!--instead of just responding to the latest A/B 30-second ad testing
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This is a good example of how well-off senior staff at progressive nonprofits will reflexively advocate for their own class interests as suburban car owners but launder that position by sock puppeting low-income Black and brown people.
The California ACLU is staunchly opposed to the ignition interlock device program and is a big reason that it has not been expanded. Despite the fact that California heavily subsidizes the cost for low-income drunk drivers, the ACLU says that the program is a form of "racialized wealth extraction."
December 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is a good example of how well-off senior staff at progressive nonprofits will reflexively advocate for their own class interests as suburban car owners but launder that position by sock puppeting low-income Black and brown people.
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Gift link
America is ceding the future on so much.
America is ceding the future on so much.
Opinion | Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Gift link
America is ceding the future on so much.
America is ceding the future on so much.
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Wow the Atlantic found a man willing to defend racism from the Left, how very interesting, please give them a lot of ad impressions to show them they really made a mistake publishing it
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Wow the Atlantic found a man willing to defend racism from the Left, how very interesting, please give them a lot of ad impressions to show them they really made a mistake publishing it
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I just wonder, as ever, why we poll people who aren't trans about trans healthcare. What the fuck does anybody care whether I can receive healthcare or not ...
12 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Erin Reed notes Greene's anti-GAC bill is unlikely to pass: in March 0 Senate Dems supported a sports ban. But it marks 1st national trans youth care ban vote. Public support for care is around 50/50 with somewhat fewer generally supporting a legal ban.
What To Know About Marjorie Taylor Greene's Felony National Trans Youth Care Ban, Which Will Receive A House Vote
Though the bill stands little chance of becoming law, it will be a major messaging vote for congresspeople on both sides of the aisle.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I just wonder, as ever, why we poll people who aren't trans about trans healthcare. What the fuck does anybody care whether I can receive healthcare or not ...
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This is precisely why, several years ago a political scientist and I co-wrote the article "Police as Supercitizens" in which we argued that police occupy a fully distinct tier of citizenship that affords them often along with their family/friends rights, privileges, and exemptions no one else has.
December 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is precisely why, several years ago a political scientist and I co-wrote the article "Police as Supercitizens" in which we argued that police occupy a fully distinct tier of citizenship that affords them often along with their family/friends rights, privileges, and exemptions no one else has.
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it's why left-YIMBYism is, imo, the correct position from a political economy point of view. the trade offs of rent control vs zoning + development reform really mean that the costs of the former are offset by the latter
yeah i'm not being funny but most arguments against rent controls, while they may be /economically/ sound, are bad from the perspective of /political/ economy
Um, ok...
This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.
This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.
And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.
This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.
This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.
And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
it's why left-YIMBYism is, imo, the correct position from a political economy point of view. the trade offs of rent control vs zoning + development reform really mean that the costs of the former are offset by the latter
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Not MERELY that! It's a high profile defeat that they are incapable of letting go. As we've seen even since yesterday, with this NEW Hail Mary tactic of RETROACTIVELY deporting this entirely unimportant guy. Absolutely none of this is a sign of strength OR strategic sense.
i think you can make a pretty credible case that taking a stand on abrego garcia gave the administration its first high profile, high salience defeat
December 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Not MERELY that! It's a high profile defeat that they are incapable of letting go. As we've seen even since yesterday, with this NEW Hail Mary tactic of RETROACTIVELY deporting this entirely unimportant guy. Absolutely none of this is a sign of strength OR strategic sense.
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WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
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It will be a weird kind of Orbánism when the White House controls CBS, CNN, 60 Minutes, and the Washington Post, but not the Indiana GOP.
December 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It will be a weird kind of Orbánism when the White House controls CBS, CNN, 60 Minutes, and the Washington Post, but not the Indiana GOP.
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STAND
THE
FUCK
UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE
FUCK
UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic announced, a new single-player game led by KOTOR and Mass Effect director Casey Hudson
#TheGameAwards
#TheGameAwards
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
STAND
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THE
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they did this shit during the Covid emergency too. Trump wants to to murder disabled people
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
they did this shit during the Covid emergency too. Trump wants to to murder disabled people