Aaron
@aaronc-smith.bsky.social
I’m a parent, a spouse, a progressive, a reader, and a dabbler in Denver, CO. My day job is COO.
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The American right, including Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to weaponize free speech by crying censorship.
But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
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But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
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Saying bad ideas are bad isn't censorship
The core goal is a free and fair public debate, and billionaires promoting their favored speech tilts the free marketplace of ideas.
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The American right, including Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to weaponize free speech by crying censorship.
But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
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But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach.
To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk.
New post from me:
1/
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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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CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
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This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
Everyone needs to watch this. If only to learn first hand what our government illegally did to these men. But also to show CBS and Weiss that the truth will get out.
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Everyone needs to watch this. If only to learn first hand what our government illegally did to these men. But also to show CBS and Weiss that the truth will get out.
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This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
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The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
We need safer streets in Denver. And yes, even if it means inconveniencing drivers just a bit to make our city safer and more livable for all. @westword.com
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Sacrificing Convenience for Safety Is the Right Thing to Do — Denver Westword
More than halfway into his first term, Mayor Mike Johnston finally met with his own Bicycle Advisory Committee and reiterated a familiar promise: Denver can increase road safety without taking any con...
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December 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
We need safer streets in Denver. And yes, even if it means inconveniencing drivers just a bit to make our city safer and more livable for all. @westword.com
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
Blue states need to start serious conversations about rebuilding government leadership at the state, or multi-state, level. We need government leadership, leaving everything to every individual is foolish and if the federal system can't guarantee support, then states need to step in to fill the gap.
The government should just go ahead and legalize drunk driving, outlaw bans on indoor smoking and give every 5 year old a gun. Same difference.
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Blue states need to start serious conversations about rebuilding government leadership at the state, or multi-state, level. We need government leadership, leaving everything to every individual is foolish and if the federal system can't guarantee support, then states need to step in to fill the gap.
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In 2014 during the net neutrality wars, Obama voiced his support for net neutrality. Republicans REPEATEDLY, for YEARS, (falsely) claimed this was an illegal, unethical affront to FCC independence.
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
FCC chief Brendan Carr tells Senate that his agency is 'not formally ... independent'
FCC chairman Brendan Carr testified to a congressional committee for the first time since ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show following a Carr threat.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
In 2014 during the net neutrality wars, Obama voiced his support for net neutrality. Republicans REPEATEDLY, for YEARS, (falsely) claimed this was an illegal, unethical affront to FCC independence.
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
Gutting science, retreat from world stage, rolling back of rights, and on and on…
It’s something to consider that my kids were born at the earliest stages of American decline. At the start of a century to feature world chaos and American power decline with declining standards of living at home.
It’s something to consider that my kids were born at the earliest stages of American decline. At the start of a century to feature world chaos and American power decline with declining standards of living at home.
December 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Gutting science, retreat from world stage, rolling back of rights, and on and on…
It’s something to consider that my kids were born at the earliest stages of American decline. At the start of a century to feature world chaos and American power decline with declining standards of living at home.
It’s something to consider that my kids were born at the earliest stages of American decline. At the start of a century to feature world chaos and American power decline with declining standards of living at home.
I remember talking in 2002/3 that we should invest to develop green tech, not wars, and end our addiction to Middle East oil. Now >20 years later we’re apparently about to invade Venezuela for their oil.
Imagine if over these >20 yrs we’d put the $T’s into energy tech instead of the military.
Imagine if over these >20 yrs we’d put the $T’s into energy tech instead of the military.
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I remember talking in 2002/3 that we should invest to develop green tech, not wars, and end our addiction to Middle East oil. Now >20 years later we’re apparently about to invade Venezuela for their oil.
Imagine if over these >20 yrs we’d put the $T’s into energy tech instead of the military.
Imagine if over these >20 yrs we’d put the $T’s into energy tech instead of the military.
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In a bike lane with all the safety gear, still killed by a driver. A wife widowed and two young kids without a father just before the holidays. It doesn’t have to be this way. #bikesky
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Former Swarthmore College professor killed in bike crash in Upper Darby
Loved ones are calling for changes to make streets safer for cyclists after a former Swarthmore College professor was killed while riding his bike in Upper Darby.
6abc.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
In a bike lane with all the safety gear, still killed by a driver. A wife widowed and two young kids without a father just before the holidays. It doesn’t have to be this way. #bikesky
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What a great convo tonight in Denver with @thewaroncars.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social.
And thank you @kylec.bsky.social we’re lucky to have you here in Denver.
And thank you @kylec.bsky.social we’re lucky to have you here in Denver.
December 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
What a great convo tonight in Denver with @thewaroncars.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social.
And thank you @kylec.bsky.social we’re lucky to have you here in Denver.
And thank you @kylec.bsky.social we’re lucky to have you here in Denver.
Absurdly ridiculous.
It's Quite remarkable how far they will go to truly hurt a smaller vulnerable population for no reason. Literally nobody asked for this, TNR sucks. But any change, meant to help anyone is "woke".
It's Quite remarkable how far they will go to truly hurt a smaller vulnerable population for no reason. Literally nobody asked for this, TNR sucks. But any change, meant to help anyone is "woke".
The State Department is swapping out Calibri for Times New Roman in all its official documents, reversing a Biden-era change that aimed to increase accessibility for readers with disabilities. n.pr/4oSF4cx
The State Department reinstates an old font, in a typeface about-face
The State Department is swapping out Calibri for Times New Roman in all its official documents, reversing a Biden-era change that aimed to increase accessibility for readers with disabilities.
n.pr
December 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Absurdly ridiculous.
It's Quite remarkable how far they will go to truly hurt a smaller vulnerable population for no reason. Literally nobody asked for this, TNR sucks. But any change, meant to help anyone is "woke".
It's Quite remarkable how far they will go to truly hurt a smaller vulnerable population for no reason. Literally nobody asked for this, TNR sucks. But any change, meant to help anyone is "woke".
If you want safer streets in Denver, consider signing the petition from the West Wash Park Neighborhood Association, asking DOTI to restore their original final plan to make Alameda Avenue safer. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjgX8BU-DyZpPd9qgi4P8oEthfVCHaR-Wdqc2-aFs1MGEWEw/viewform
West Washington Park Neighborhood Assoc. (WWPNA) Petition to Prioritize Safety on Alameda Ave.
After a decade of being asked for safety improvements, and 6 years of planning with the West Washington Park Neighborhood, the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) has rolled back a ...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you want safer streets in Denver, consider signing the petition from the West Wash Park Neighborhood Association, asking DOTI to restore their original final plan to make Alameda Avenue safer. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjgX8BU-DyZpPd9qgi4P8oEthfVCHaR-Wdqc2-aFs1MGEWEw/viewform
“Why did the DOS revert from Calibri? It became too woke.”
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“Why did the DOS revert from Calibri? It became too woke.”
If a country seizes some oil tanker, isn’t that just piracy?
December 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
If a country seizes some oil tanker, isn’t that just piracy?
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Polis encouraged Coloradans to follow two controversial online personalities, saying they do “actual thinking.” One used to write for a white supremacist publication, the other has posted in defense of sex crimes: westword.com/news/colorado-gov-promotes-white-supremacist-pedo-defender-40815741/
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Polis encouraged Coloradans to follow two controversial online personalities, saying they do “actual thinking.” One used to write for a white supremacist publication, the other has posted in defense of sex crimes: westword.com/news/colorado-gov-promotes-white-supremacist-pedo-defender-40815741/
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social the real winner in tonight’s Miami mayoral race? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
December 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social the real winner in tonight’s Miami mayoral race? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Post-pandemic, we actively moved our office to a downtown co-working space as part of our sustainability plan commitments. Since then, I’ve had multiple colleagues try the RTD train multiple times, deal with significant, sometimes multi-hour delays, and eventually give up and now regularly drive.
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Post-pandemic, we actively moved our office to a downtown co-working space as part of our sustainability plan commitments. Since then, I’ve had multiple colleagues try the RTD train multiple times, deal with significant, sometimes multi-hour delays, and eventually give up and now regularly drive.
I think the “aesthetics NIMBY” is my favorite NIMBY.
I remember the same argument against a bike lane that would defile a beautiful street… lined on both side with fume belching cars. But sure, explain to me how slim cones or a small sign ruins aesthetics, which is more important than safety.
I remember the same argument against a bike lane that would defile a beautiful street… lined on both side with fume belching cars. But sure, explain to me how slim cones or a small sign ruins aesthetics, which is more important than safety.
December 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I think the “aesthetics NIMBY” is my favorite NIMBY.
I remember the same argument against a bike lane that would defile a beautiful street… lined on both side with fume belching cars. But sure, explain to me how slim cones or a small sign ruins aesthetics, which is more important than safety.
I remember the same argument against a bike lane that would defile a beautiful street… lined on both side with fume belching cars. But sure, explain to me how slim cones or a small sign ruins aesthetics, which is more important than safety.