@aaronleavy.bsky.social
Dad. Ultimate frisbee coach. Tottenham fan. Nuggets fan. Progressive. Killifish keeper. Silver Jews fan. Oberlin grad. Live in Colorado. Probably other things as well, but that's a start.
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If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
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i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
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Trump’s first nominee for Attorney General of the United States
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Trump’s first nominee for Attorney General of the United States
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
At the USMNT match, we are not a real chanting nation. I heard a cheer I associate with little kids softball (everywhere we go people ask us…). Gotta up our cheer game
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
At the USMNT match, we are not a real chanting nation. I heard a cheer I associate with little kids softball (everywhere we go people ask us…). Gotta up our cheer game
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This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.
You need to see this:
“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.
On the other hand, the whiny, narcissist, dickhead committee is eager to celebrate his achievements
Lol, maybe next year buddy
October 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
On the other hand, the whiny, narcissist, dickhead committee is eager to celebrate his achievements
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.
September 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.
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In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal.
The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.
Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.
The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.
Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.
Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
September 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal.
The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.
Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.
The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.
Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.
“I’m a hypocritical coward”….
GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...
Kimmel’s suspension prompts free-speech Republicans to reconsider their boundaries
One Republican said she no longer considers the First Amendment to “be sort of the ultimate right,” as she would “in normal circumstances.”
www.semafor.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“I’m a hypocritical coward”….
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KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
September 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
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This is why they’re deleting studies
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is why they’re deleting studies
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Approximately 62 million people died in the entire world last year in total. I feel like if nearly 4% of the world’s population died in a single year, we’d notice, let alone most everyone in the United States.
Reporter: The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal
Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs
Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs
September 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Approximately 62 million people died in the entire world last year in total. I feel like if nearly 4% of the world’s population died in a single year, we’d notice, let alone most everyone in the United States.
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korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
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It's long past time for people to fully accept that the right simply does not care about being called hypocrites. To them hypocrisy is a weapon to be used against their enemies who feel embarrassed if they are revealed to be inconsistent. They feel no such shame themselves.
September 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It's long past time for people to fully accept that the right simply does not care about being called hypocrites. To them hypocrisy is a weapon to be used against their enemies who feel embarrassed if they are revealed to be inconsistent. They feel no such shame themselves.
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This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
September 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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I regret to inform you that Thomas Chatterton Williams is at it again.
Chris Rufo is "learning" to use cancel culture. What the fuck do you think his entire career is based on?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Chris Rufo is "learning" to use cancel culture. What the fuck do you think his entire career is based on?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Christopher Rufo’s Cancel Culture
The right-wing activist is learning from his enemies—and changing the rules of the culture war.
www.theatlantic.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I regret to inform you that Thomas Chatterton Williams is at it again.
Chris Rufo is "learning" to use cancel culture. What the fuck do you think his entire career is based on?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Chris Rufo is "learning" to use cancel culture. What the fuck do you think his entire career is based on?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Some of the high quality content Zuckerberg’s platform is algorithmically shoveling into the brains of American consumers. This story is 100% made up, in case that wasn’t obvious.
September 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Some of the high quality content Zuckerberg’s platform is algorithmically shoveling into the brains of American consumers. This story is 100% made up, in case that wasn’t obvious.
As a staffer on the last Wellstone campaign I remember attending his service and it being mocked and criticized by the right because it was too political. That was cruel and hateful. She can grieve in a way that feels ugly to outsiders as far as I’m concerned. She deserves a bit of grace.
Erika Kirk is using her husband's death to promote Kirk's vehicle of hate, Turning Points USA.
Fascinating to watch this right now.
Fascinating to watch this right now.
September 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
As a staffer on the last Wellstone campaign I remember attending his service and it being mocked and criticized by the right because it was too political. That was cruel and hateful. She can grieve in a way that feels ugly to outsiders as far as I’m concerned. She deserves a bit of grace.
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So people who were worried about a killer on the loose had to worry about little longer because Trump wanted to tell his TV friends in person.
September 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
So people who were worried about a killer on the loose had to worry about little longer because Trump wanted to tell his TV friends in person.
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Wow, y’all really went from “we have confirmed it was an antifascist trans person because of markings” to “we have zero comprehension of this clearly random and incomprehensible act” as soon as it turned out he was a white right-winger.
“I have no idea why he did this.” A young man's descent from model student to suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk. on.wsj.com/48gbtoN
September 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Wow, y’all really went from “we have confirmed it was an antifascist trans person because of markings” to “we have zero comprehension of this clearly random and incomprehensible act” as soon as it turned out he was a white right-winger.
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going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable
“I have no idea why he did this.” A young man's descent from model student to suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk. on.wsj.com/48gbtoN
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable