Aaron Huertas
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
Carpenter and woodworker. Democracy and unions liker. Building and fixing things: capehenlopencarpentry.com. Writing and editing: aaronhuertas.com.
Like to imagine he was live posting through it before he realized he was in there
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Like to imagine he was live posting through it before he realized he was in there
Chotiner: So how many of your relationships involved contractual agreements?
Lizza: Well, marriage is a contract.
Chotiner: These were not all marriages though.
Lizza: No.
Chotiner: Okay.
Lizza: Well, marriage is a contract.
Chotiner: These were not all marriages though.
Lizza: No.
Chotiner: Okay.
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Chotiner: So how many of your relationships involved contractual agreements?
Lizza: Well, marriage is a contract.
Chotiner: These were not all marriages though.
Lizza: No.
Chotiner: Okay.
Lizza: Well, marriage is a contract.
Chotiner: These were not all marriages though.
Lizza: No.
Chotiner: Okay.
I’ve worked with a lot of great journalists who do serious investigative public service work. I’ve never worked with glorified gossip columnists (and I don’t mean this to demean actual committed to the bit gossip columnists).
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I’ve worked with a lot of great journalists who do serious investigative public service work. I’ve never worked with glorified gossip columnists (and I don’t mean this to demean actual committed to the bit gossip columnists).
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You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:
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In the past the press would badger a president until they extracted the response they believed appropriate. Typically an admission of sorts or contrition over some thing the press is fixated on. Epstein stuff as of late is the first time I've seen the press really do this with Trump.
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
In the past the press would badger a president until they extracted the response they believed appropriate. Typically an admission of sorts or contrition over some thing the press is fixated on. Epstein stuff as of late is the first time I've seen the press really do this with Trump.
It's so hard for someone to challenge an incumbent, let alone someone in leadership. Absolutely worth following when it happens, especially this cycle. (It should be routine. Primaries are good for democracy!)
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
It's so hard for someone to challenge an incumbent, let alone someone in leadership. Absolutely worth following when it happens, especially this cycle. (It should be routine. Primaries are good for democracy!)
:: slapping Jorge Luis Borges's gravestone ::
you can fit so many hexagonal rooms filled with randomly generated text in this baby
you can fit so many hexagonal rooms filled with randomly generated text in this baby
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
:: slapping Jorge Luis Borges's gravestone ::
you can fit so many hexagonal rooms filled with randomly generated text in this baby
you can fit so many hexagonal rooms filled with randomly generated text in this baby
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Happy to be of service.
November 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Happy to be of service.
The we’re-a-leaderless-movement to we-are-run-by-cranks pipeline is well outlined in Astra Taylor’s phrase “ad hocracy” meaning an organization run by people who have enough free time and idiosyncratic drive.
You don’t have to professionalize politics but you need to pay people and take turns.
You don’t have to professionalize politics but you need to pay people and take turns.
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The we’re-a-leaderless-movement to we-are-run-by-cranks pipeline is well outlined in Astra Taylor’s phrase “ad hocracy” meaning an organization run by people who have enough free time and idiosyncratic drive.
You don’t have to professionalize politics but you need to pay people and take turns.
You don’t have to professionalize politics but you need to pay people and take turns.
When my opponents are throwing gas and lit matches at each other in their tent I never think to myself hell yeah let’s have one of them over.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
When my opponents are throwing gas and lit matches at each other in their tent I never think to myself hell yeah let’s have one of them over.
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Best movie plot is a bunch of people go to space and everything’s ok BUT THEN somebody gets Space Madness
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Best movie plot is a bunch of people go to space and everything’s ok BUT THEN somebody gets Space Madness
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
He stared at me Kennedyishly with a voice like a rock in Plymouth spinning around in a widening gyre that even his falcon could not hear. He was an affliction with no inoculation.
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
He stared at me Kennedyishly with a voice like a rock in Plymouth spinning around in a widening gyre that even his falcon could not hear. He was an affliction with no inoculation.
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An unstated issue here is that donors read the NYT so Klein’s advice is privileged above 99% of operatives who actually work for elected officials and political organizations.
www.axios.com/2025/11/16/e...
www.axios.com/2025/11/16/e...
How Ezra Klein's power play is guiding Democrats
The New York Times columnist, podcaster and author has helped shape the party's strategies and policies in President Trump's second term.
www.axios.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
An unstated issue here is that donors read the NYT so Klein’s advice is privileged above 99% of operatives who actually work for elected officials and political organizations.
www.axios.com/2025/11/16/e...
www.axios.com/2025/11/16/e...
Well well well it appears my loathsome interlocutor has offered…
No reply, because he is a coward
One reply, because hit dogs holler
Two replies, because he is big mad
Three replies, because his family has disowned him
Four replies, because he is a bot
No reply, because he is a coward
One reply, because hit dogs holler
Two replies, because he is big mad
Three replies, because his family has disowned him
Four replies, because he is a bot
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Well well well it appears my loathsome interlocutor has offered…
No reply, because he is a coward
One reply, because hit dogs holler
Two replies, because he is big mad
Three replies, because his family has disowned him
Four replies, because he is a bot
No reply, because he is a coward
One reply, because hit dogs holler
Two replies, because he is big mad
Three replies, because his family has disowned him
Four replies, because he is a bot
Presumably you only get shown a conduct card if you act out at a game? Otherwise do they turn into collector’s items?
Draymond Green has a nice conversation with a baseline fan about running his mouth and a nice conversation with the referee about that conversation. Fan gets a chat with security for the dreaded conduct card
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Presumably you only get shown a conduct card if you act out at a game? Otherwise do they turn into collector’s items?
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the ULP strike. 🪶
November 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the ULP strike. 🪶
The dominance of midwits will continue until morale is simulated with artificial intelligence
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The dominance of midwits will continue until morale is simulated with artificial intelligence
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‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
WASHINGTON—Responding to recent revelations suggesting the prominent economist was a close associate of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a devastated nation reportedly joined together to...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
So you’re telling me time has passed at a rate of one year per year for many years and young people are unfamiliar with aspects of culture and technology you grew up with? That’s crazy.
November 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
So you’re telling me time has passed at a rate of one year per year for many years and young people are unfamiliar with aspects of culture and technology you grew up with? That’s crazy.
Part of a longer thread. IMO this is the biggest conceptual gap between writers and political communication operatives
Not even dumbed down. Words have actual meaning. They say what they do whether it's the intent or not.
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Part of a longer thread. IMO this is the biggest conceptual gap between writers and political communication operatives
I don’t hate it! A little shimming goes a long way. Total run will be nine cabinets with a miter saw station and dust collection in between.
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I don’t hate it! A little shimming goes a long way. Total run will be nine cabinets with a miter saw station and dust collection in between.
This is right but a lot of us beat our heads against this wall for years because the sticking point is getting elected officials to do anti-corruption work so they can provoke attention toward it beyond messaging.
I don’t understand why Dems have to choose? “Trump is a corrupt billionaire pedo whose self-serving policies have made your life more expensive” is not that hard of a message imo
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This is right but a lot of us beat our heads against this wall for years because the sticking point is getting elected officials to do anti-corruption work so they can provoke attention toward it beyond messaging.
2A is not a fundamentally individual right, it is a *community* right and I’d love to see some of these folks open ranges and do community-oriented trainings, not just around firearms, but first aid, police interactions, and resistance to authoritarianism.
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns out of fear
The image of gun ownership in America has been white, rural and Republican, but that's been changing as more liberals and minorities have been buying guns, especially after the 2024 election.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
2A is not a fundamentally individual right, it is a *community* right and I’d love to see some of these folks open ranges and do community-oriented trainings, not just around firearms, but first aid, police interactions, and resistance to authoritarianism.
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...