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Aaron Gray

@asquaredgray.bsky.social

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Product builder. Progressive capitalist (market economy, regs to level playing field, taxes for robust social services). Dad to 2 ungovernable women. Believer in expansion of inclusion. DTW➡️PDX➡️FDT Throw the sandwich. Also @adventurequota.bsky.social

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · Mar 1

I’ve had a generalized pit in my stomach since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.

The use of the word Homeland instead of Domestic told us everything we needed to know about where Republicans were going. Everything happening now flows from our acceptance of that word.

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 22m

Mood.

Screenshot of Apple Music player playing Find the Cost of Freedom by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 4h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2h

This Is Fascism

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 8h

Does anyone know her? Can we get her to buy up local TV stations and newspapers?

Billionaire MacKenzie Scott doubles down on DEI with $42 million donation | Fortune

In a signal to nonprofits and boardrooms, the Yield Giving philanthropist is backing diversity and equity with no‑strings grants—building on more than $19 billion she’s distributed in five years.

fortune.com

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 4h

It’s just misty and cloudy. Typical PNW precipitation.

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 4h

Shit’s not on fire. Shot from the reservoir on Mt Tabor. South waterfront, pill hill, and downtown in the distance in front of the Tualatin Mountains (west hills).

Shot from the reservoir on Mt Tabor. South waterfront, pill hill, and downtown in the distance in front of the Tualatin Mountains (west hills).

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 5h

A lotta damn good all their praying has done. A great way to feel virtuous while washing your hands of responsibility to take any real action.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5h

One of the people killed was an expectant mother.

Could the “pro life” people help us address the gun problem now?

6 people are dead and 12 more injured in two different shootings in Mississippi.

www.cbsnews.com/news/4-dead-...

At least 6 killed in two separate shootings in Mississippi, officials say

The shootings in Leland and Heidelberg happened while people attended high school homecoming games.

www.cbsnews.com

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 7h

In the immortal words of Mac Miller, it is what it is ‘til it ain’t.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Collect a claim from one side, collect a claim from the other, present them both to the reader with an awkward shrug and a "who can say?"

And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 13h

There is no leader of Antifa.
There is no girlfriend of the leader of Antifa.

They are creating imaginary people so they can justify going after real people.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 8h

This is how little the lives of Black people matter to way too many of our law enforcement.

They left that man to DIE because they assumed all Black people are on drugs.

Even if he was on drugs, he clearly needed medical help.

Shaking my head.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 9h

Beyond this, I also think the American fetish with free speech as a concept (I can say whatever I want, it’s just words) is deluded. Words are actions. And if you dehumanize other people with words, you are doing it in fact. You should expect a response (a consequence).

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 9h

It really speaks to the dimming of the American intellect that we went from understanding that freedom of speech means freedom from state consequences for speech to believing it means the state should protect you from non-state consequences for your speech.

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 9h

This is 💯 right. I got closer to this world than I wanted due to some family relationships, and this is absolutely the unspoken understanding behind the written justifications for antivax. “It won’t affect you because you are virtuous.”

Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 11h

My theory here is that they believe health is caused by virtue and therefore healthcare spending is resources wasted on the unvirtuous. Furthermore it should be the most virtuous who are in charge of what is healthy. So it's sort of a mystic soup of eugenics and hierarchy and 'justice'.

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 12h

This is so weird though. I know people keep confidently responding “they are eugenicists” and I’m sure this is true, but that alone feels insufficient to describe the behavior

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 9h

Who’s old enough to remember when Elon Musk & Co stole all our personal data from government systems?

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 10h

I really do hope I live to see the day Stephen Miller loses his head.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 22h

I love this. Portland was not burning as of this posting.

isportlandburning.com#cameras

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking truth to power is noble and essential for a functioning democracy.

But, speaking nonsense to power is also a thing and is a distraction and a waste of everyone’s time.

I wish more people could tell the difference.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

This is hard to read.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hard to tell if having Jewish blood will be an issue…since Kushner. But, maybe he’ll just end up being “one of the ok ones.”

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone who isn’t straight or white who thinks fascism will be ok is living in a tragic fantasy.

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

A not insignificant number of Americans are ok with fascism because a not insignificant number of Americans are straight, white, conservative, and down with patriarchy.

They’ve been the beneficiaries of our previous forays into fascism (slavery, Jim Crow), they know they’ll be fine.

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

Utter morons.