Aaron Huertas
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
Carpenter and woodworker. Democracy and unions liker. Building and fixing things: capehenlopencarpentry.com. Writing and editing: aaronhuertas.com.
:: getting burned in effigy by an angry mob ::
okay wow, so your anger is very valid and I want to start by acknowledging that
okay wow, so your anger is very valid and I want to start by acknowledging that
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
:: getting burned in effigy by an angry mob ::
okay wow, so your anger is very valid and I want to start by acknowledging that
okay wow, so your anger is very valid and I want to start by acknowledging that
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
A commendable Edmund Fitzgerald cover. (The sinking was 50 years ago today.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JLU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JLU...
Punch Brothers cover Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 3/3/22 Boston, MA
YouTube video by Less Than Face Productions
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A commendable Edmund Fitzgerald cover. (The sinking was 50 years ago today.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JLU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JLU...
I would simply not piss off my base instead of telling my base to shut up after I pissed them off but hey I’m not a senator. (And this is one of the better senators!)
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I would simply not piss off my base instead of telling my base to shut up after I pissed them off but hey I’m not a senator. (And this is one of the better senators!)
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I agree with this but would settle for "you have to go someplace that sucks to do it." If you want to do some stupid six-leg parlay you should have to say it aloud to a person through a little microphone at an OTB that's lit like the MTA offices in the original Taking Of Pelham 123.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I agree with this but would settle for "you have to go someplace that sucks to do it." If you want to do some stupid six-leg parlay you should have to say it aloud to a person through a little microphone at an OTB that's lit like the MTA offices in the original Taking Of Pelham 123.
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Bugonia was excellent. Crusher actors and takes a lot of risks.
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Bugonia was excellent. Crusher actors and takes a lot of risks.
Mayor Secretary Pete…..welcome to the resistance
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Mayor Secretary Pete…..welcome to the resistance
This gets at the heart of the kayfabe senators are putting on and how they hide behind process — and each other — in ways that should eventually lead to full filibuster nuking
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This gets at the heart of the kayfabe senators are putting on and how they hide behind process — and each other — in ways that should eventually lead to full filibuster nuking
Dem senators are in a dangerously out of touch information silo especially the handful who still hang out on X: The Big Wet Nazi App
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Dem senators are in a dangerously out of touch information silo especially the handful who still hang out on X: The Big Wet Nazi App
Reupping The Ringer plan:
Senators don’t want to be jerks to each other? Easy solution. You step down. Governor appoints a comedian.
They troll everyone mercilessly during a six day filibuster. Ted Cruz is crying. Republicans cave.
Comedian steps down. Governor reappoints you. Everyone wins.
Senators don’t want to be jerks to each other? Easy solution. You step down. Governor appoints a comedian.
They troll everyone mercilessly during a six day filibuster. Ted Cruz is crying. Republicans cave.
Comedian steps down. Governor reappoints you. Everyone wins.
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reupping The Ringer plan:
Senators don’t want to be jerks to each other? Easy solution. You step down. Governor appoints a comedian.
They troll everyone mercilessly during a six day filibuster. Ted Cruz is crying. Republicans cave.
Comedian steps down. Governor reappoints you. Everyone wins.
Senators don’t want to be jerks to each other? Easy solution. You step down. Governor appoints a comedian.
They troll everyone mercilessly during a six day filibuster. Ted Cruz is crying. Republicans cave.
Comedian steps down. Governor reappoints you. Everyone wins.
The idea that voters are going to have a specifically rational, policy-based response instead of just a "screw the incumbent party" thermostatic midterm election is basically innumerate at this point.
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The idea that voters are going to have a specifically rational, policy-based response instead of just a "screw the incumbent party" thermostatic midterm election is basically innumerate at this point.
Echoing some points I made yesterday.
Sen. Kim is a great examples of a center-left Democrat who pushed out some ossified leadership and reformed his state party as part of his run.
Sen. Kim is a great examples of a center-left Democrat who pushed out some ossified leadership and reformed his state party as part of his run.
Don’t even need a Justice Dem or a committed leftist. Just someone like Andy Kim willing to burn bridges with the political establishment of the state for the sake of a better delegation (and a promotion).
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Echoing some points I made yesterday.
Sen. Kim is a great examples of a center-left Democrat who pushed out some ossified leadership and reformed his state party as part of his run.
Sen. Kim is a great examples of a center-left Democrat who pushed out some ossified leadership and reformed his state party as part of his run.
I want a Ms. Rachel media training video with puppets and zero change in tone
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I want a Ms. Rachel media training video with puppets and zero change in tone
Republicans: Give us what we want or we shoot this puppy
Democrats: Well what are you gonna do it’s a puppy better compromise
[six months later]
Republicans: Hey we need to talk again
Democrats: Wow that is a lot of puppies oh my god is that a howitzer
Democrats: Well what are you gonna do it’s a puppy better compromise
[six months later]
Republicans: Hey we need to talk again
Democrats: Wow that is a lot of puppies oh my god is that a howitzer
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Republicans: Give us what we want or we shoot this puppy
Democrats: Well what are you gonna do it’s a puppy better compromise
[six months later]
Republicans: Hey we need to talk again
Democrats: Wow that is a lot of puppies oh my god is that a howitzer
Democrats: Well what are you gonna do it’s a puppy better compromise
[six months later]
Republicans: Hey we need to talk again
Democrats: Wow that is a lot of puppies oh my god is that a howitzer
The caucus’s deference to one another is the problem not just Schumer. They’re not going to elect a leader who will publicly call them out for hiding behind off-cycle and retiring members.
Even the handful of progressive senators don’t go after their peers in a meaningful way.
Even the handful of progressive senators don’t go after their peers in a meaningful way.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The caucus’s deference to one another is the problem not just Schumer. They’re not going to elect a leader who will publicly call them out for hiding behind off-cycle and retiring members.
Even the handful of progressive senators don’t go after their peers in a meaningful way.
Even the handful of progressive senators don’t go after their peers in a meaningful way.
Every short-term shutdown cave leads to worse long term consequences. Classic ratchet effect.
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Every short-term shutdown cave leads to worse long term consequences. Classic ratchet effect.
The base can handle some kayfabe but not when Republicans are torching the constitution and abducting people off the street.
There will be some "Wow you can't make these people happy" sentiment but what's really happening is the Dems are beginning to reap the consequences of not really believing in anything. Choreographed maneuvers, too clever by half talking points. People have just had it
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The base can handle some kayfabe but not when Republicans are torching the constitution and abducting people off the street.
Senate primary recruitment is so much tougher than for other races. But if there’s any cycle where someone goes for it instead of waiting their turn it should be this one.
Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Senate primary recruitment is so much tougher than for other races. But if there’s any cycle where someone goes for it instead of waiting their turn it should be this one.
inside you are two Angus Kings
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
inside you are two Angus Kings
good statement; caving on the heels of a bunch of odd-year electoral victories, in particular, is baffling
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
good statement; caving on the heels of a bunch of odd-year electoral victories, in particular, is baffling
Sen. Coons is a no, but this is the kind of enabling cover I'm talking about. If other senators were willing to go on TV and call them out, the cavers would be likely to back off. The level of deference and privilege they extend to one another is actually corrosive.
I understand why some of my Democratic colleagues will support this bill. President Trump and Republicans seem determined to inflict harm on vulnerable Americans not just by making health care less affordable, but also by shutting down SNAP and firing federal employees.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Sen. Coons is a no, but this is the kind of enabling cover I'm talking about. If other senators were willing to go on TV and call them out, the cavers would be likely to back off. The level of deference and privilege they extend to one another is actually corrosive.
I wonder if the other senators are giving Schumer cover because of how much pavement he ate last time he went on TV to explain a bad deal like this
*SCHUMER SAYS HE IS VOTING 'NO' ON GOP BILL
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I wonder if the other senators are giving Schumer cover because of how much pavement he ate last time he went on TV to explain a bad deal like this
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir