Aaron Leong
@aarondleong.com
"Simplify, then add lightness” - Colin Chapman
This is nuts. “Let’s remove all consequences of political failures, thus ensuring politics remains broken.”
"Time to Privatize U.S. Air Traffic Control—Copy Canada’s Model" marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Time to Privatize U.S. Air Traffic Control—Copy Canada’s Model - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yesterday, the FAA grounded flights at Reagan (DCA) because there weren’t enough air traffic controllers. By mid‑afternoon, thousands of flights were delayed nationwide. The same thing is happening…
marginalrevolution.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is nuts. “Let’s remove all consequences of political failures, thus ensuring politics remains broken.”
Reposted by Aaron Leong
Game 5 of the ALDS has entered the 9,748th inning, the Sounders are in round 3,250 of their shootout and Katie Wilson leads the vote count for mayor by 91 votes. Seattle just doesn’t like knowing results.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Game 5 of the ALDS has entered the 9,748th inning, the Sounders are in round 3,250 of their shootout and Katie Wilson leads the vote count for mayor by 91 votes. Seattle just doesn’t like knowing results.
Reposted by Aaron Leong
“Diverse people who ran curiously to type, with drilled shoulders and bone-deep sunburn, and a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. Their speech was flavored with navy words…”
1/
1/
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“Diverse people who ran curiously to type, with drilled shoulders and bone-deep sunburn, and a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. Their speech was flavored with navy words…”
1/
1/
Reposted by Aaron Leong
Montford Point Marines, coming back from a hike
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Montford Point Marines, coming back from a hike
Happy birthday, Marines.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy birthday, Marines.
A little bit of moral courage would be great right about now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM
A little bit of moral courage would be great right about now.
Reposted by Aaron Leong
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Reposted by Aaron Leong
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Number of owls who've made the Owl Box their home: 0
Number of N. Flickers picking away at the Owl Box for a meal: 1
Number of N. Flickers picking away at the Owl Box for a meal: 1
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Number of owls who've made the Owl Box their home: 0
Number of N. Flickers picking away at the Owl Box for a meal: 1
Number of N. Flickers picking away at the Owl Box for a meal: 1
Reposted by Aaron Leong
Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
“40th Anniversary?” That math doesn’t seem right.
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
“40th Anniversary?” That math doesn’t seem right.
I can feel John Philip Sousa echoing through these halls.
s/f
s/f
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I can feel John Philip Sousa echoing through these halls.
s/f
s/f
Reposted by Aaron Leong
If you want to make it to Veterans Day
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you want to make it to Veterans Day
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
Reposted by Aaron Leong
Edward Burtynsky built a career photographing landscapes altered by human exploitation—hedgerows of disposed tires, sprawling oil refineries, pockmarked mountainsides. But he hasn’t given up on documenting the pristine, @andrewaoyama.bsky.social writes:
Wheels Up
What the photographer Edward Burtynsky found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Edward Burtynsky built a career photographing landscapes altered by human exploitation—hedgerows of disposed tires, sprawling oil refineries, pockmarked mountainsides. But he hasn’t given up on documenting the pristine, @andrewaoyama.bsky.social writes:
Reposted by Aaron Leong
‘He growled, “When one of your Marines is dying, what are you gonna do, recite poetry at him?”
Well . . . no, probably not.’
I wrote about the Yeats poem “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” for @thefp.com
www.thefp.com/p/things-wor...
Well . . . no, probably not.’
I wrote about the Yeats poem “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” for @thefp.com
www.thefp.com/p/things-wor...
Things Worth Remembering: Finding Meaning in the Madness of War
Memorizing poetry began as a way to kill time in the Marines. It turned into a lesson in how to live with the possibility of death, writes Phil Klay for The Free Press.
www.thefp.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
‘He growled, “When one of your Marines is dying, what are you gonna do, recite poetry at him?”
Well . . . no, probably not.’
I wrote about the Yeats poem “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” for @thefp.com
www.thefp.com/p/things-wor...
Well . . . no, probably not.’
I wrote about the Yeats poem “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” for @thefp.com
www.thefp.com/p/things-wor...
When you read this story, one can't help but feel we owe a debt of gratitude for the honorable service these men gave. How callously petty you must be to take back that thank you.
www.history.com/articles/bla...
www.history.com/articles/bla...
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
When you read this story, one can't help but feel we owe a debt of gratitude for the honorable service these men gave. How callously petty you must be to take back that thank you.
www.history.com/articles/bla...
www.history.com/articles/bla...
Reposted by Aaron Leong
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Reposted by Aaron Leong
A good government builds and funds great infrastructure to allow private businesses to thrive. This was the entire point of Obama’s “you didn’t build that” speech. The private sector forgets and/or denies this at their peril.
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A good government builds and funds great infrastructure to allow private businesses to thrive. This was the entire point of Obama’s “you didn’t build that” speech. The private sector forgets and/or denies this at their peril.
Has our ability to model weather degraded this bad already?
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Has our ability to model weather degraded this bad already?
Reposted by Aaron Leong
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
Reposted by Aaron Leong
