Gavin Aronsen
@garonsen.bsky.social
Probably getting back to this in a bit: garonsen.substack.com
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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
What's going on over here these days
July 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
What's going on over here these days
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They kidnapped people and should be treated like kidnappers.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
May 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
They kidnapped people and should be treated like kidnappers.
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Again, my wife lost her excellent job at a nonprofit Seattle hospital because the trump administration simply stopped paying medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year, throwing it into complete financial turmoil
the cuts are already here
the cuts are already here
Johnson: "Do not believe the lies the Democrat Party has said. We had their ads taken down. They were running ads around the country in swing districts trying to convince people Republicans are going to 'gut Medicaid.' It's just simply not true & that's why their ads & billboards had to come down"
April 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Again, my wife lost her excellent job at a nonprofit Seattle hospital because the trump administration simply stopped paying medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year, throwing it into complete financial turmoil
the cuts are already here
the cuts are already here
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ICE is entrapping people who are here legally---telling them to report to the Immigration Office to advance their status--and then abducts them for deportation without due process. This can't be legal.
April 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
ICE is entrapping people who are here legally---telling them to report to the Immigration Office to advance their status--and then abducts them for deportation without due process. This can't be legal.
Need to dox this anonymous dem
What does it take for someone's soul to be this emptied
April 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Need to dox this anonymous dem
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There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
April 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
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not going to say the timeline would have turned out way differently if elite universities had just told Elise Stefanik to fuck off a year ago, but it probably wouldn't have hurt
April 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
not going to say the timeline would have turned out way differently if elite universities had just told Elise Stefanik to fuck off a year ago, but it probably wouldn't have hurt
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House voted 216-215 to adopt this rule 👇
This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.
April 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
House voted 216-215 to adopt this rule 👇
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White people love bells
Incredible shit. Just an amazing moment in bleakness.
April 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
White people love bells
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I wish news outlets would stop credulously embracing the “fighting antisemitism.” It’s so clear that’s a red herring for a broad based assault on higher ed.
Breaking News: The Trump administration said it was reviewing billions in federal grants to Harvard, accusing the school of allowing antisemitism to run unchecked on its campus.
Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard
The administration has already canceled hundreds of millions in federal grants and contracts at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I wish news outlets would stop credulously embracing the “fighting antisemitism.” It’s so clear that’s a red herring for a broad based assault on higher ed.
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At least 10,000 dead feared in Burma/Myanmar after 7.7 quake www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...
Earthquake Batters Myanmar and Thailand; High Toll Is Feared as Buildings Topple
The 7.7-magnitude earthquake near Mandalay, in a country already torn by war, was felt across Southeast Asia, and experts warned there could be tens of thousands dead.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
At least 10,000 dead feared in Burma/Myanmar after 7.7 quake www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...
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Well, UMN has officially been hit. We just got an email from our president that an international grad student was detained yesterday. No further details provided.
This. Is. Crushing.
This. Is. Crushing.
March 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Well, UMN has officially been hit. We just got an email from our president that an international grad student was detained yesterday. No further details provided.
This. Is. Crushing.
This. Is. Crushing.
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No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
March 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
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Ron DeSantis is there sitting next to Iowa Governor, Kim Reynolds. Both seated directly behind EdSec McMahon.
March 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ron DeSantis is there sitting next to Iowa Governor, Kim Reynolds. Both seated directly behind EdSec McMahon.
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Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Trump changes have "forced more than a third of global organizations that provide essential HIV services to close" by February, and "hundreds of thousands of people are losing access to HIV treatments as a result." www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/18/1...
HIV could infect 1,400 infants every day due to US aid disruptions
Survey data suggests that over a third of organizations that relied on US funding for HIV had already closed by February.
www.technologyreview.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Trump changes have "forced more than a third of global organizations that provide essential HIV services to close" by February, and "hundreds of thousands of people are losing access to HIV treatments as a result." www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/18/1...
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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One senior Democratic Senate aide notes that the party spends “all our time fundraising off of taking the fight to Trump and Elon; so what are we supposed to say to our own people when we demonstrate to them that we aren’t able to put up even a minimum level of resistance?”
Multiple senior GOP sources in both chambers on the Hill and within the Trump administration were quick to blab to Rolling Stone about how thrilled they were at Schumer’s willingness to cave.
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
March 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
One senior Democratic Senate aide notes that the party spends “all our time fundraising off of taking the fight to Trump and Elon; so what are we supposed to say to our own people when we demonstrate to them that we aren’t able to put up even a minimum level of resistance?”
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🚨BREAKING | Columbia University Sued Over Student Record Disclosure*
Mahmoud Khalil, detained pro-Palestinian Columbia graduate, & 7 other students have filed a federal lawsuit against Columbia University, Barnard College, & the U.S. House Committee on Education & Workforce.
Here’s what we know 🧵:
Mahmoud Khalil, detained pro-Palestinian Columbia graduate, & 7 other students have filed a federal lawsuit against Columbia University, Barnard College, & the U.S. House Committee on Education & Workforce.
Here’s what we know 🧵:
March 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
🚨BREAKING | Columbia University Sued Over Student Record Disclosure*
Mahmoud Khalil, detained pro-Palestinian Columbia graduate, & 7 other students have filed a federal lawsuit against Columbia University, Barnard College, & the U.S. House Committee on Education & Workforce.
Here’s what we know 🧵:
Mahmoud Khalil, detained pro-Palestinian Columbia graduate, & 7 other students have filed a federal lawsuit against Columbia University, Barnard College, & the U.S. House Committee on Education & Workforce.
Here’s what we know 🧵:
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You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time
March 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time
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DOGE has been sending their mass emails from a misconfigured server, causing DOGE emails to fail SPF (Sender Policy Framework) validation.
This means that agencies are probably marking DOGE emails as spam.
This means that agencies are probably marking DOGE emails as spam.
I am hearing from gov employees who got the OPM email but won't open it because it seems so shady. Things are going great.
February 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
DOGE has been sending their mass emails from a misconfigured server, causing DOGE emails to fail SPF (Sender Policy Framework) validation.
This means that agencies are probably marking DOGE emails as spam.
This means that agencies are probably marking DOGE emails as spam.
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I literally reported this Wednesday.
SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him
Data analyst Leland Dudek was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with the U.S. DOGE Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I literally reported this Wednesday.