Aaron Kraemer
@aaronkraemer.bsky.social
Landscape Architect and an anti-car transportation dork. I pick things up and put them down. Upper Midwest transplant. 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
I crossed 1,000 followers. My bad humor, even worse regular posts, and political reposts didn’t scare people away?
a cartoon character is standing in front of a door and says everything 's coming up milhouse .
Alt: a cartoon character is standing in front of a door and says everything 's coming up milhouse .
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I crossed 1,000 followers. My bad humor, even worse regular posts, and political reposts didn’t scare people away?
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Who will map the Retreat from Chicago as Minard mapped Napoleon's retreat from wintry Moscow?
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Who will map the Retreat from Chicago as Minard mapped Napoleon's retreat from wintry Moscow?
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Remplacer l’académie française par la umbrella academy
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Remplacer l’académie française par la umbrella academy
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The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List
Over the last couple days I’ve argued both that the denouement of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
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A cat and her northern lights.
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
A cat and her northern lights.
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We cannot let “haunted ICE agent regretfully explores his feelings/past/guilt” become a genre the way we did with every bad actor since the Confederates.
This is why they were in downtown Chicago today.
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We cannot let “haunted ICE agent regretfully explores his feelings/past/guilt” become a genre the way we did with every bad actor since the Confederates.
Wow, I am surprised by this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Wow, I am surprised by this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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A solemn 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to you all
“We are holding our own.” -Captain Ernest M. McSorely in the final radio message
“We are holding our own.” -Captain Ernest M. McSorely in the final radio message
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
open.spotify.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
A solemn 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to you all
“We are holding our own.” -Captain Ernest M. McSorely in the final radio message
“We are holding our own.” -Captain Ernest M. McSorely in the final radio message
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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So yeah, Schumer is fucking awful. But there’s enough Democrats supporting this debacle that it’s obviously more than a one-guy problem. The party that consistently presents itself as the only bulwark against fascism keeps surrendering to fascism.
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
So yeah, Schumer is fucking awful. But there’s enough Democrats supporting this debacle that it’s obviously more than a one-guy problem. The party that consistently presents itself as the only bulwark against fascism keeps surrendering to fascism.
Yeah, fuck this. Lucy and her football win again.
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Yeah, fuck this. Lucy and her football win again.
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Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50
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Some might commemorate the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm going to celebrate the anniversary of the T.D. Mischke wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald interview. youtu.be/hv4yMUKBOX8?... still maybe the best and weirdest radio thing ever.
TD Mischke - the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald
YouTube video by IkeO_556
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Some might commemorate the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm going to celebrate the anniversary of the T.D. Mischke wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald interview. youtu.be/hv4yMUKBOX8?... still maybe the best and weirdest radio thing ever.
Tonight’s viewing is Pleasantville. It seems appropriate for the current moment and my husband had never seen it.
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Tonight’s viewing is Pleasantville. It seems appropriate for the current moment and my husband had never seen it.
Who is she? I can’t remember the last time I was completely clean shaven.
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Who is she? I can’t remember the last time I was completely clean shaven.
We have the perfect opportunity to do it again.
Polite reminder that the American government wasn't actually established until 1787 and next year is the anniversary of telling the king to go fuck himself.
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We have the perfect opportunity to do it again.
Looking at @kvetch.gay’s pics from his vacation makes me yearn for the plains and the Midwest.
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Looking at @kvetch.gay’s pics from his vacation makes me yearn for the plains and the Midwest.
The world has turned and left me here.
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The world has turned and left me here.
All of the taco trucks will be halal.
It is 2029. Daily battles between the Taco Truck Corners and the Goat Meat Vendors rage across the nation. Everyone’s hair has been forcibly dyed blue, and sleeping is now outlawed because woke. Billionaires have fled the planet.
It is also the strongest economy ever.
It is also the strongest economy ever.
Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
All of the taco trucks will be halal.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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Say what you want about Schumer because he's done some truly stupid shit before, but they only presented this offer because they *knew* the GOP would say no and give us all the finger, which just brings heat on themselves because they're morons who can't govern their way out of a wet paper bag
schumer's audience for this isn't bluesky, it's caucus moderates, state governors, and federal worker unions who might be getting shaky about holding the line, and it worked, at least with the caucus mods, who showed up for this in solidarity.
Senate Democrats propose 1-year Obamacare subsidies punt in new shutdown offer
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made the offer in a Friday floor speech.
www.politico.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Say what you want about Schumer because he's done some truly stupid shit before, but they only presented this offer because they *knew* the GOP would say no and give us all the finger, which just brings heat on themselves because they're morons who can't govern their way out of a wet paper bag
The cruelty is the point of everything they do.
BREAKING UPDATE: The Trump administration is asking the First Circuit Court of Appeals for an emergency stay — or pause — of U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s order requiring it to fully fund SNAP by today by using other funding sources. on.nbcboston.com/ZpPvIL5
Trump administration asks for emergency pause of judge's order on SNAP benefits
on.nbcboston.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The cruelty is the point of everything they do.