Aaron
@silversed.bsky.social
Just curious enough… at least that’s what I tell myself.
📍post-apocalyptic Minneapolis, MN
📍post-apocalyptic Minneapolis, MN
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I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.
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The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer.
New York Times tomorrow
New York Times tomorrow
September 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer.
New York Times tomorrow
New York Times tomorrow
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[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY]
[FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban.
[FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.]
/1
[FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban.
[FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.]
/1
September 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY]
[FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban.
[FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.]
/1
[FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban.
[FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.]
/1
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stop doomscrolling. sleep will feel better than staying up late. I know things are super hard right now. I know how hard you are trying. Take care of yourself. One thing at a time.
August 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
stop doomscrolling. sleep will feel better than staying up late. I know things are super hard right now. I know how hard you are trying. Take care of yourself. One thing at a time.
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The first draft of the Wedge LIVE Park Board Voter Guide is here. You are allowed to bring this graphic into the arena with you for the Minneapolis DFL city convention.
July 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The first draft of the Wedge LIVE Park Board Voter Guide is here. You are allowed to bring this graphic into the arena with you for the Minneapolis DFL city convention.
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The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.
July 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.
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Inexplicably very on sale today, thanks @raygunsite.com.
The Onion: Right v Wrong
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June 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Inexplicably very on sale today, thanks @raygunsite.com.
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Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.
June 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.
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Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
June 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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The whole trans girls in sports discussion is absolutely being used to propagandize people into being transphobic bellends.
In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five.
In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President.
You're being manipulated. Please stop.
In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five.
In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President.
You're being manipulated. Please stop.
What amuses me is that Gavin Newsome could have probably ridden this shit all the way to the White House if he’d kept his yap close about trans girls in sports. Now no matter what he does in response to this Trump manufactured crisis, all I’ll ever think is “you raised a kid who likes Charlie Kirk.”
June 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The whole trans girls in sports discussion is absolutely being used to propagandize people into being transphobic bellends.
In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five.
In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President.
You're being manipulated. Please stop.
In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five.
In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President.
You're being manipulated. Please stop.
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Amazing. Respect the lede.
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Amazing. Respect the lede.
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I remember the first time my dad asked me to punch him in the face. Me and my 27 brothers (no sisters) and their 26 moms were there with me and dad. All 55 of us were just wrasslin. "Let me have it," dad said. He had been awake since 1991, because of the drugs and blackmail. Weeks later he died.
May 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I remember the first time my dad asked me to punch him in the face. Me and my 27 brothers (no sisters) and their 26 moms were there with me and dad. All 55 of us were just wrasslin. "Let me have it," dad said. He had been awake since 1991, because of the drugs and blackmail. Weeks later he died.
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We are not under invasion.
There is no justification for suspending our constitutional rights.
Every single American should speak out against this, loudly and forcefully.
There is no justification for suspending our constitutional rights.
Every single American should speak out against this, loudly and forcefully.
Stephen Miller: "The writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion. So I would say that's an option we're actively looking at."
May 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
We are not under invasion.
There is no justification for suspending our constitutional rights.
Every single American should speak out against this, loudly and forcefully.
There is no justification for suspending our constitutional rights.
Every single American should speak out against this, loudly and forcefully.
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It’s clear that the leadership of the Democratic Party is absolutely fucking worthless and has no grasp of the moment they are in.
The Senate just voted 67-32 to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary, which means a lot of Dems voted for her. During a fucking constitutional crisis.
March 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
It’s clear that the leadership of the Democratic Party is absolutely fucking worthless and has no grasp of the moment they are in.
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Jim Rowader, the city attorney for a time under Jacob Frey, shits on his former boss from a great height in a rebuttal to Strib conservative Andy Brehm: www.startribune.com/counterpoint... (no -atwall)
Counterpoint: Public safety failures in Minneapolis now belong to the (strong) mayor
The price of executive leadership comes with the ultimate accountability to deliver results. That was the intent and purpose of changing the city charter in 2021.
www.startribune.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Jim Rowader, the city attorney for a time under Jacob Frey, shits on his former boss from a great height in a rebuttal to Strib conservative Andy Brehm: www.startribune.com/counterpoint... (no -atwall)
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The question I am really struggling with right now is:
What is "law & order" and the entire American constitutional order *for* if it isn't a Go Directly to Jail card for guys like Donald Trump and Elon Musk for doing *exactly* what they're doing right now?
What is "law & order" and the entire American constitutional order *for* if it isn't a Go Directly to Jail card for guys like Donald Trump and Elon Musk for doing *exactly* what they're doing right now?
February 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The question I am really struggling with right now is:
What is "law & order" and the entire American constitutional order *for* if it isn't a Go Directly to Jail card for guys like Donald Trump and Elon Musk for doing *exactly* what they're doing right now?
What is "law & order" and the entire American constitutional order *for* if it isn't a Go Directly to Jail card for guys like Donald Trump and Elon Musk for doing *exactly* what they're doing right now?
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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.”
Beyond parody.
Beyond parody.
February 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.”
Beyond parody.
Beyond parody.
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
February 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
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when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien
Teamsters President Sean O'Brien downplays Trump's reckless firings of federal workers: "We don't want to see anybody losing their jobs, but he thinks he's within his right."
February 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien
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This is fucking incredible.
![REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional- REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it... People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country... calling them liars. (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmtjkssv6jeneahkgfdxuy7p/bafkreicmr3wybkn6acxmmdf4vuqnzxho2nk7kp3v7tx7vkclg2cjmwvixm@jpeg)
February 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is fucking incredible.
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Repeating myself, but the idea of Trump & Musk as "masculine" remains bizarre. They're just the toxic and immature parts with none of the traditional "masculine" virtues. They're whiny, entitled, unreliable, dishonest, self-absorbed, never take responsibility, never put duty over self-interest, etc.
I mean, Jesus Christ, can you people even *hear* yourself?
I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.
I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.
February 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Repeating myself, but the idea of Trump & Musk as "masculine" remains bizarre. They're just the toxic and immature parts with none of the traditional "masculine" virtues. They're whiny, entitled, unreliable, dishonest, self-absorbed, never take responsibility, never put duty over self-interest, etc.
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Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday, break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday, I'm in love
Tuesday, Wednesday, break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday, I'm in love
December 3, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday, break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday, I'm in love
Tuesday, Wednesday, break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday, I'm in love