Aaron Ross Powell ☸️
@aaronrosspowell.com
Host of the ReImagining Liberty podcast. Writing about political ethics. Radical liberal. He/him.
Podcast: https://pod.link/1614436300
Blog: https://www.aaronrosspowell.com
Podcast: https://pod.link/1614436300
Blog: https://www.aaronrosspowell.com
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ReImagining Liberty Podcast
The emancipatory and cosmopolitan case for radical social, political, and economic liberalism. Hosted by Aaron Ross Powell.
www.aaronrosspowell.com
ReImagining Liberty is my philosophy and ideas podcast that explores the emancipatory and cosmopolitan case for radical social, political, and economic liberalism.
Look for it in your favorite podcast app, or find links here: www.aaronrosspowell.com/3ma2xfol4is2o
Look for it in your favorite podcast app, or find links here: www.aaronrosspowell.com/3ma2xfol4is2o
A few weeks ago, my daughter and I watched both Blade Runners, which are my favorite movies. I remarked that Roger Deakins made every shot in 2049 look like a painting, so for Christmas, my daughter painted one for me.
December 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
A few weeks ago, my daughter and I watched both Blade Runners, which are my favorite movies. I remarked that Roger Deakins made every shot in 2049 look like a painting, so for Christmas, my daughter painted one for me.
A couple of days ago, @eladn.bsky.social and I recorded an episode of my ReImagining Liberty podcast basically about just this. And, while Internet influencers are doing real damage by spreading antisemitism, I'm skeptical Fuentes could even place second in a primary anywhere outside of maybe Idaho.
Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Nick Fuentes running for president one day.
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
December 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A couple of days ago, @eladn.bsky.social and I recorded an episode of my ReImagining Liberty podcast basically about just this. And, while Internet influencers are doing real damage by spreading antisemitism, I'm skeptical Fuentes could even place second in a primary anywhere outside of maybe Idaho.
Anyone hoping to win next year's FIFA Peace Prize is gonna have to get awfully ambitious.
First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
December 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Anyone hoping to win next year's FIFA Peace Prize is gonna have to get awfully ambitious.
Netflix paid real money to stream these games.
December 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Netflix paid real money to stream these games.
I got my son a Switch 2 for Christmas, and it turned out he asked my mom for a digital projector, and these gifts have merged, Voltron like, into the kids now playing Mario Cart eight feet wide on the living room wall. Which is very festive.
December 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I got my son a Switch 2 for Christmas, and it turned out he asked my mom for a digital projector, and these gifts have merged, Voltron like, into the kids now playing Mario Cart eight feet wide on the living room wall. Which is very festive.
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This is pretty egregious when you look at the actual context of the quote. And people are praising that book?
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is pretty egregious when you look at the actual context of the quote. And people are praising that book?
Look, if we're going to bring back blue books, at least make them with nice Japanese or French paper for those students who prefer a Lamy to a Bic.
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Look, if we're going to bring back blue books, at least make them with nice Japanese or French paper for those students who prefer a Lamy to a Bic.
One movie stood out for me this year, and it wasn't even close.
My Favorite Movie of 2025
It's not the year's best movie, but Spinal Tap 2 brought me the most joy.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
One movie stood out for me this year, and it wasn't even close.
One of the primary epistemic failure modes of otherwise intelligent people engaged in political discourse is placing too much trust in assessments of out-group ideologies written by those ideologies' opponents. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m2zncix4jk2q
The Quillette Effect - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog
Learning about ideologies exclusively from their opponents is a recipe for epistemic failure.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
One of the primary epistemic failure modes of otherwise intelligent people engaged in political discourse is placing too much trust in assessments of out-group ideologies written by those ideologies' opponents. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m2zncix4jk2q
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i posted this to badsite on 2018-07-28: "I've been mulling for the last two years the idea that the GOP's Southern Strategy was like the Bene Gesserit's Kwisatz Haderach breeding program and Trump is Paul Atreides fucking it up for them and they don't know how to put the sandtrout back in the qanat"
there is a reason that Trump is striking out in front of his own district court judges and that the Heritage Foundation is imploding. it's because this isn't true. people have been saying this for years. they were right for Gettier case reasons.
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
i posted this to badsite on 2018-07-28: "I've been mulling for the last two years the idea that the GOP's Southern Strategy was like the Bene Gesserit's Kwisatz Haderach breeding program and Trump is Paul Atreides fucking it up for them and they don't know how to put the sandtrout back in the qanat"
What's endlessly frustrating is that Trump has done nothing in the last year that he didn't openly campaign on doing if he regained the presidency, but checked-out voters didn't bother paying attention, and lots of politically informed voters refused to believe him. So much rotten ignorance.
December 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
What's endlessly frustrating is that Trump has done nothing in the last year that he didn't openly campaign on doing if he regained the presidency, but checked-out voters didn't bother paying attention, and lots of politically informed voters refused to believe him. So much rotten ignorance.
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What do Silicon Valley billionaires , weird nerds, bad philosophy, and Lovecraftian cosmic horror have to do with each other? You'll have to listen to my conversation with @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com about the rationalist movement to find out. pod.link/1614436300/e...
The Irrationality of Rationalists (w/ Samantha Hancox-Li)
Listen to 096: The Irrationality of Rationalists (w/ Samantha Hancox-Li) from ReImagining Liberty wherever you get your podcasts!
pod.link
December 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
What do Silicon Valley billionaires , weird nerds, bad philosophy, and Lovecraftian cosmic horror have to do with each other? You'll have to listen to my conversation with @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com about the rationalist movement to find out. pod.link/1614436300/e...
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*youth pastor pulling up a chair and turning it backwards to sit down*
"you know who else had hoes"
"you know who else had hoes"
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
December 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
*youth pastor pulling up a chair and turning it backwards to sit down*
"you know who else had hoes"
"you know who else had hoes"
Let's hope 2026 is the year good writers find somewhere other than Substack to publish their writing.
December 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Let's hope 2026 is the year good writers find somewhere other than Substack to publish their writing.
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In retrospect (at least to me, maybe others said it at the time) Substack was set up like a pyramid scheme - tales of big payouts and subscriber numbers to early top-of-the-pryamid adopters like Yglesias and Weiss attracted new writers who brought new readers whose attention was directed upwards
December 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In retrospect (at least to me, maybe others said it at the time) Substack was set up like a pyramid scheme - tales of big payouts and subscriber numbers to early top-of-the-pryamid adopters like Yglesias and Weiss attracted new writers who brought new readers whose attention was directed upwards
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Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
What do Silicon Valley billionaires , weird nerds, bad philosophy, and Lovecraftian cosmic horror have to do with each other? You'll have to listen to my conversation with @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com about the rationalist movement to find out. pod.link/1614436300/e...
The Irrationality of Rationalists (w/ Samantha Hancox-Li)
Listen to 096: The Irrationality of Rationalists (w/ Samantha Hancox-Li) from ReImagining Liberty wherever you get your podcasts!
pod.link
December 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
What do Silicon Valley billionaires , weird nerds, bad philosophy, and Lovecraftian cosmic horror have to do with each other? You'll have to listen to my conversation with @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com about the rationalist movement to find out. pod.link/1614436300/e...
This is why my New Year's resolution is to try my damndest to post on Bluesky less and post on my @leaflet.pub blog more. That's a whole lot of words and they'd be better spent on blog posts and essays. (I saw knowing full well the how challenging gumption can be.) www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This is why my New Year's resolution is to try my damndest to post on Bluesky less and post on my @leaflet.pub blog more. That's a whole lot of words and they'd be better spent on blog posts and essays. (I saw knowing full well the how challenging gumption can be.) www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
It seems like if you're averaging over three hours of video games every day of the month, you should maybe take a break. 9to5google.com/2025/12/23/n...
GeForce Now's 100-hour monthly game streaming limit kicks in for (almost) everyone in 2026
Nvidia is implementing a somewhat tight limit on cloud gaming via its GeForce Now service starting on January 1, 2026,...
9to5google.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It seems like if you're averaging over three hours of video games every day of the month, you should maybe take a break. 9to5google.com/2025/12/23/n...
Maybe this opinion makes me radically out of step with American sports culture, but rich guys, if they want a new building for their privately owned business, should pay for it themselves.
The Kansas City Chiefs are set to receive $1.8 BILLION from the state of Kansas for a new $3B football stadium 🏈 socialize the cost, privatize the profits, baby 🙌🇺🇸
December 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Maybe this opinion makes me radically out of step with American sports culture, but rich guys, if they want a new building for their privately owned business, should pay for it themselves.
Bring yourself some holiday cheer by listening to my conversation with @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com about the rationalists, bad philosophy, cosmic horror, and the role of emotion in guiding what we believe.
096: The Irrationality of Rationalists (w/ Samantha Hancox-Li)
Listen to 096: The Irrationality of Rationalists (w/ Samantha Hancox-Li) from ReImagining Liberty wherever you get your podcasts!
pod.link
December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Bring yourself some holiday cheer by listening to my conversation with @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com about the rationalists, bad philosophy, cosmic horror, and the role of emotion in guiding what we believe.
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If a kicker in an NFL game tells the refs before the FG attempt that he's going to hit the uprights, and then does so, he should be awarded a five-point score. The five point doink.
I've probably said this before on here but I really believe in this
I've probably said this before on here but I really believe in this
December 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If a kicker in an NFL game tells the refs before the FG attempt that he's going to hit the uprights, and then does so, he should be awarded a five-point score. The five point doink.
I've probably said this before on here but I really believe in this
I've probably said this before on here but I really believe in this
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Weiss has only been on the job two months and already has all of Bluesky raptly watching "60 Minutes"
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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December 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Weiss has only been on the job two months and already has all of Bluesky raptly watching "60 Minutes"
My son is having to use an online guide to get through Super Metroid, and I'm trying to explain to him that doing so is cheating, whereas when I used Nintendo Power at his age, it was not.
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
My son is having to use an online guide to get through Super Metroid, and I'm trying to explain to him that doing so is cheating, whereas when I used Nintendo Power at his age, it was not.
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of the new media organizations that are absolutely worthy of your support, i think the unpopulist should be on your list
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Right-wing extremism is well funded. That means liberals can't afford to hold back if they want to win.
www.theunpopulist.net
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
of the new media organizations that are absolutely worthy of your support, i think the unpopulist should be on your list