Jay D. Aronson
@jaydaronson.bsky.social
History, STS, human rights documentation, deaths in custody, criminal legal system, etc.
New Book: https://deathincustodybook.com
Podcast: https://officialignorance.com
New Book: https://deathincustodybook.com
Podcast: https://officialignorance.com
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People who think evil, corrupt, and incompetent don’t go together have it backwards.
Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.
Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
People who think evil, corrupt, and incompetent don’t go together have it backwards.
Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.
Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.
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I am, quite honestly, absolutely OUTRAGED at what a collective media failure this is.
Sensationalized it-bleeds-it-leads fearmongering combined w who-cares-if-the-bleeding-stops indifference weaponizes crime in ways Trump has repeatedly exploited.
Sensationalized it-bleeds-it-leads fearmongering combined w who-cares-if-the-bleeding-stops indifference weaponizes crime in ways Trump has repeatedly exploited.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I am, quite honestly, absolutely OUTRAGED at what a collective media failure this is.
Sensationalized it-bleeds-it-leads fearmongering combined w who-cares-if-the-bleeding-stops indifference weaponizes crime in ways Trump has repeatedly exploited.
Sensationalized it-bleeds-it-leads fearmongering combined w who-cares-if-the-bleeding-stops indifference weaponizes crime in ways Trump has repeatedly exploited.
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These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
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Alexa Koenig’s research on human rights violations at CECOT was to be featured on “60 Minutes."
She says it was "incredibly disappointing" to learn that her and her students' work for the show would be shelved when CBS News pulled the segment.
She says it was "incredibly disappointing" to learn that her and her students' work for the show would be shelved when CBS News pulled the segment.
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Alexa Koenig’s research on human rights violations at CECOT was to be featured on “60 Minutes."
She says it was "incredibly disappointing" to learn that her and her students' work for the show would be shelved when CBS News pulled the segment.
She says it was "incredibly disappointing" to learn that her and her students' work for the show would be shelved when CBS News pulled the segment.
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i just don't think there are any shortcuts--if we want kids who are readers, we need teachers who are readers, and if we want teachers who are readers, we need professors who are readers
December 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
i just don't think there are any shortcuts--if we want kids who are readers, we need teachers who are readers, and if we want teachers who are readers, we need professors who are readers
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Hell yes to all of this. Just say no!!!
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hell yes to all of this. Just say no!!!
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in years! Props to the commies at the Wall Street Journal!
And why are all AI guys the same? I mean I know why, but they are like an army of AI-generated caricatures of a very specific type of annoying, socially oblivious, yet somehow confident person.
And why are all AI guys the same? I mean I know why, but they are like an army of AI-generated caricatures of a very specific type of annoying, socially oblivious, yet somehow confident person.
December 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in years! Props to the commies at the Wall Street Journal!
And why are all AI guys the same? I mean I know why, but they are like an army of AI-generated caricatures of a very specific type of annoying, socially oblivious, yet somehow confident person.
And why are all AI guys the same? I mean I know why, but they are like an army of AI-generated caricatures of a very specific type of annoying, socially oblivious, yet somehow confident person.
Sorry but this is an SNL skit and no one will ever be able to convince me otherwise.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sorry but this is an SNL skit and no one will ever be able to convince me otherwise.
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If you've ever been curious about how the Mafia helped the CIA in Cuba, how the US government planned to smuggled sea urchin toxin in a dart gun to kill elected African leaders, the real playbook by which the US government tried to tear apart the Civil Rights and anti-war movements--this is for you.
One month until the release of the Church Committee Report!
For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.
For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.
December 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you've ever been curious about how the Mafia helped the CIA in Cuba, how the US government planned to smuggled sea urchin toxin in a dart gun to kill elected African leaders, the real playbook by which the US government tried to tear apart the Civil Rights and anti-war movements--this is for you.
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The report includes the attempts by the FBI to sabotage the Civil Rights and anti-war movements, blackmail of Martin Luther King, foreign assassination plots including the CIA's involvement w/ the Mafia, the CIA's mind-altering drug and poison experimentation, and mass surveillance of Americans.
The Church Committee Report
After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, readable volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens., The Church...
wwnorton.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The report includes the attempts by the FBI to sabotage the Civil Rights and anti-war movements, blackmail of Martin Luther King, foreign assassination plots including the CIA's involvement w/ the Mafia, the CIA's mind-altering drug and poison experimentation, and mass surveillance of Americans.
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One month until the release of the Church Committee Report!
For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.
For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.
December 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
One month until the release of the Church Committee Report!
For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.
For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.
I wonder if I could get away with teaching a full semester class that is literally just reading the Church Committee report from cover to cover. Might FA and FO…
One month until the release of the Church Committee Report!
For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.
For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.
December 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I wonder if I could get away with teaching a full semester class that is literally just reading the Church Committee report from cover to cover. Might FA and FO…
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WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
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Bondi Beach hero Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the shooters, was shot twice by a second gunman who was on a nearby bridge.
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Bondi Beach hero Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the shooters, was shot twice by a second gunman who was on a nearby bridge.
Only in the United States of America can kids survive multiple school shootings. It’s just beyond comprehension. I don’t expect anything to happen anytime soon-that ship sailed after Sandy Hook-but eventually we will have to elect congresspeople brave enough to place serious limits on gun ownership.
December 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Only in the United States of America can kids survive multiple school shootings. It’s just beyond comprehension. I don’t expect anything to happen anytime soon-that ship sailed after Sandy Hook-but eventually we will have to elect congresspeople brave enough to place serious limits on gun ownership.
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This is one benefit of having an independent student newspaper that doesn't depend upon university financial support :)
(...I also appreciate how lots of their DJT-related pieces make sure to identify him as a Wharton alum *right there in the headline* 😈)
(...I also appreciate how lots of their DJT-related pieces make sure to identify him as a Wharton alum *right there in the headline* 😈)
Year in Review: Four Penn alumni who stepped into the national spotlight in 2025
From the Oval Office to courtrooms, several Penn alumni made national headlines this year — repeatedly tying the University to high-profile controversies.
www.thedp.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is one benefit of having an independent student newspaper that doesn't depend upon university financial support :)
(...I also appreciate how lots of their DJT-related pieces make sure to identify him as a Wharton alum *right there in the headline* 😈)
(...I also appreciate how lots of their DJT-related pieces make sure to identify him as a Wharton alum *right there in the headline* 😈)