Aaron Lehr
@aaronjlehr.bsky.social
Lefty, #AllForCincy, recovering Reds fan, northern OTR resident
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-article-paul-crider/
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-article-paul-crider/
The Reds are honestly so depressing. Everything about this is pathetic. The fact that the only reason they considered it is because he’s from a town 30 miles away. There was mutual interest but they came in more than 15% below market. He fills their exact need and now they’ll just ignore it.
The Cincinnati #Reds were the biggest losers from MLB's Winter Meetings according to two different writers over at ESPN
www.redlegnation.com/2025/12/11/t...
www.redlegnation.com/2025/12/11/t...
The Reds were the biggest losers at MLB's Winter Meetings - Redleg Nation
Two writers at ESPN were in agreement that the Cincinnati Reds walked away from the Winter Meetings as the biggest losers.
www.redlegnation.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The Reds are honestly so depressing. Everything about this is pathetic. The fact that the only reason they considered it is because he’s from a town 30 miles away. There was mutual interest but they came in more than 15% below market. He fills their exact need and now they’ll just ignore it.
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Bryce Harper, Mookie Betts, Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso. Why don't owners care about keeping your favorite player?
What Do the Owners Owe the Fans?
Pete Alonso is on the move because of money and that's a shame.
www.joeposnanski.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Bryce Harper, Mookie Betts, Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso. Why don't owners care about keeping your favorite player?
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please buy The Originalism Trap--my writing is better, my analysis is sharper, and I have never been professionally or personally involved with RFK Jr
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The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
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December 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
please buy The Originalism Trap--my writing is better, my analysis is sharper, and I have never been professionally or personally involved with RFK Jr
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Best songs that include non instrumental sound…
1. Muse — “Knights of Cydonia” (horses galloping)
2. Deftones — “Rickets” (accidental phone ringing)
3. Garth Brooks — “The Thunder Rolls” (thunder)
1. Muse — “Knights of Cydonia” (horses galloping)
2. Deftones — “Rickets” (accidental phone ringing)
3. Garth Brooks — “The Thunder Rolls” (thunder)
Top 5 Songs That Feature Vocals From Actual Dogs:
1. Jane's Addiction — "Been Caught Stealing"
2. Beach Boys — "Caroline, No"
3. Mitski — "I'm Your Man"
4. Fiona Apple — "Fetch the Bolt Cutters"
5. Hélène Barbier — "Plastique Couch"
1. Jane's Addiction — "Been Caught Stealing"
2. Beach Boys — "Caroline, No"
3. Mitski — "I'm Your Man"
4. Fiona Apple — "Fetch the Bolt Cutters"
5. Hélène Barbier — "Plastique Couch"
December 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Best songs that include non instrumental sound…
1. Muse — “Knights of Cydonia” (horses galloping)
2. Deftones — “Rickets” (accidental phone ringing)
3. Garth Brooks — “The Thunder Rolls” (thunder)
1. Muse — “Knights of Cydonia” (horses galloping)
2. Deftones — “Rickets” (accidental phone ringing)
3. Garth Brooks — “The Thunder Rolls” (thunder)
Aptos is far superior
At least while we are screwing over our allies around the world we will be doing it in an anti-woke font.
December 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Aptos is far superior
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"We live in hell, and the rapacious need for growth in every industry, unrelenting, forever and ever, is decimating all of our institutions and our way of life."
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"We live in hell, and the rapacious need for growth in every industry, unrelenting, forever and ever, is decimating all of our institutions and our way of life."
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
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The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
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Georgetown University launched a research hub tasked with investigating the deaths of minors who perished in juvenile facilities nationwide in the last 150 years, an effort that will initially focus on the graves of Black boys who died in Maryland state custody. https://wapo.st/3MstO9v
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Georgetown University launched a research hub tasked with investigating the deaths of minors who perished in juvenile facilities nationwide in the last 150 years, an effort that will initially focus on the graves of Black boys who died in Maryland state custody. https://wapo.st/3MstO9v
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It’s incredible that the government is supposed to be so completely and utterly race blind that it can’t even try to keep factories out of poor neighborhoods, but the actual president of the US is going around saying “Somalis? Bunch of filthy dirty people, kick them all out of the country”
worth noting here that the position of the conservative legal movement is that trying to remedy environmental racism is itself illegal race discrimination
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It’s incredible that the government is supposed to be so completely and utterly race blind that it can’t even try to keep factories out of poor neighborhoods, but the actual president of the US is going around saying “Somalis? Bunch of filthy dirty people, kick them all out of the country”
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This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
Trump's MO is the equivalent of taking the idea of hierarchy and distilling it, over and over, until all "impurities" (not just liberalism itself but any ideal whatsoever) are removed.
It's the exercise of power purely for the sake of demonstrating the ability to exercise power.
It's the exercise of power purely for the sake of demonstrating the ability to exercise power.
Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Trump's MO is the equivalent of taking the idea of hierarchy and distilling it, over and over, until all "impurities" (not just liberalism itself but any ideal whatsoever) are removed.
It's the exercise of power purely for the sake of demonstrating the ability to exercise power.
It's the exercise of power purely for the sake of demonstrating the ability to exercise power.
The 2nd Trump administration makes it explicitly clear that their world view is those with money and power are entitled to accumulate as much money and power they'd like, and anyone who's harmed in the process deserve what they get because their lack of money and power proves their inferiority.
worth noting here that the position of the conservative legal movement is that trying to remedy environmental racism is itself illegal race discrimination
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
December 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The 2nd Trump administration makes it explicitly clear that their world view is those with money and power are entitled to accumulate as much money and power they'd like, and anyone who's harmed in the process deserve what they get because their lack of money and power proves their inferiority.
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the only thing that doesn’t appear to be illegal race discrimination to the conservative legal movement is actual racist discrimination
worth noting here that the position of the conservative legal movement is that trying to remedy environmental racism is itself illegal race discrimination
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
December 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
the only thing that doesn’t appear to be illegal race discrimination to the conservative legal movement is actual racist discrimination
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you now have to go all the way to the 19th largest city in Florida, Lakeland, to find an openly Republican mayor/mayor-elect.
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
you now have to go all the way to the 19th largest city in Florida, Lakeland, to find an openly Republican mayor/mayor-elect.
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A huge night for Democrats:
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
A huge night for Democrats:
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
Also, didn’t I see an Athletic prediction that the Reds would offer 5 for $160M?
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Also, didn’t I see an Athletic prediction that the Reds would offer 5 for $160M?
Exactly why I couldn’t get myself excited over it. Until this team demonstrates a departure from its MO for the last decade or so, no singular flirtation with a fan friendly star is going to change anything.
The Reds sales pitch to free agents is “Come play for a non-profit company that’s worth over a billion dollars”
Shocking it doesn’t work out.
Shocking it doesn’t work out.
December 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Exactly why I couldn’t get myself excited over it. Until this team demonstrates a departure from its MO for the last decade or so, no singular flirtation with a fan friendly star is going to change anything.
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One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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The current SCOTUS majority is a bunch of sophists who like to dismiss evidence in favor of hypotheticals. They are spending enormous political capital trying to empower a guy that tried to overthrow the US government. If any good comes of this, hopefully it will radicalize people about SCOTUS.
The conservative justices have their talking point -- what if Congress turned every department into a multimember commission -- and it is totally absurd considering that has never happened under the existing law.
December 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The current SCOTUS majority is a bunch of sophists who like to dismiss evidence in favor of hypotheticals. They are spending enormous political capital trying to empower a guy that tried to overthrow the US government. If any good comes of this, hopefully it will radicalize people about SCOTUS.
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The Republican Party is full of Nazis, while also accusing all progressives of antisemitism.
It’s one of the stupidest things of all time.
It’s one of the stupidest things of all time.
The right tore itself apart over Tucker Carlson’s interview with the white nationalist. Trump shrugged. Now he's everywhere.
Read: bit.ly/3KJb6K2
Read: bit.ly/3KJb6K2
December 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Republican Party is full of Nazis, while also accusing all progressives of antisemitism.
It’s one of the stupidest things of all time.
It’s one of the stupidest things of all time.
There’s an alternate universe where Obamacare was popular almost immediately instead of being treated like a sword to fall on if Dems weren’t obsessed with apologizing for making government work better.
obamacare still winning, nearly 16 years on
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
There’s an alternate universe where Obamacare was popular almost immediately instead of being treated like a sword to fall on if Dems weren’t obsessed with apologizing for making government work better.
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obamacare still winning, nearly 16 years on
December 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
obamacare still winning, nearly 16 years on
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One of the most dramatically underreported aspects of Trump 2.0 is his ultra-corrupt direct interventions in business. Handing companies to his friends, taking chunks of private companies for the sake of doing businesses, granting tariff exemptions as favors. He’s crushing the rules-based economy.
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
One of the most dramatically underreported aspects of Trump 2.0 is his ultra-corrupt direct interventions in business. Handing companies to his friends, taking chunks of private companies for the sake of doing businesses, granting tariff exemptions as favors. He’s crushing the rules-based economy.