Aaron van Dorn
@aaronvandorn.bsky.social
Sometime writer and (mostly) analog photography | Award winning chili maker | Baltimore via Jersey City, Kurdzhali, Bulgaria, and Ohio | Friend to cats | He/him
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Aaron van Dorn
@aaronvandorn.bsky.social
· Nov 16
[holding a glass of wine, wearing a shawl collar cardigan] We call them 'skeets'
Thinking about fucking around and getting in to Magic (I will not specify which kind)
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Thinking about fucking around and getting in to Magic (I will not specify which kind)
"At least"
lmfao they're raising the dies of literally deceased dems to epstein, they are through the bottom of the barrel
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"At least"
John Roberts looking at this and thinking, "Yes this is a civil society I approve of"
I'm sure shifting from inappropriately or non-identified agents to non-identified bounty hunters with letters of marque looking for a 9 figure payday won't have any downsides
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
John Roberts looking at this and thinking, "Yes this is a civil society I approve of"
I'm sure shifting from inappropriately or non-identified agents to non-identified bounty hunters with letters of marque looking for a 9 figure payday won't have any downsides
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm sure shifting from inappropriately or non-identified agents to non-identified bounty hunters with letters of marque looking for a 9 figure payday won't have any downsides
Negative rights ≠ positive rights
the degree to which Labour have limboed under my lowest expectations for them is remarkable.
what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Negative rights ≠ positive rights
Is there any argument that Twitch has had a positive cultural impact
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Is there any argument that Twitch has had a positive cultural impact
I think it's fascinating that the next "28 X Later" film is going to be built (at least in part) around truly horrific, true, UK-based iconography that has negative cultural cache in the US.
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I think it's fascinating that the next "28 X Later" film is going to be built (at least in part) around truly horrific, true, UK-based iconography that has negative cultural cache in the US.
My great uncle was an insane anti-seat belt person and would cut the seat belts out of his cars, but I'm not sure who else this is for
Just in time for Thanksgiving Republicans are pro-roasted children left in hot cars.
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My great uncle was an insane anti-seat belt person and would cut the seat belts out of his cars, but I'm not sure who else this is for
If you don't like cabbage, it's obvious you haven't had haluski (gift link)
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If you don't like cabbage, it's obvious you haven't had haluski (gift link)
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...
Reposted by Aaron van Dorn
"Oh look our capitalist overlords want us to eat peasant food" sure sure. Thing is, cabbage is good. You just have to cook it right
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"Oh look our capitalist overlords want us to eat peasant food" sure sure. Thing is, cabbage is good. You just have to cook it right
[Pulling the cork out of another bottle of beaujolais] Actually, my Ph.D. stands for "Phat'n'Dangerous"
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
[Pulling the cork out of another bottle of beaujolais] Actually, my Ph.D. stands for "Phat'n'Dangerous"
Bah gawd, is that PETA's music?!
full on radicalization is rarer than people think but negative polarization isn’t
I don't know it is "discredits social justice" exactly but you know, you *know* that every time it happens in its most lurid forms you've pushed a wavering conservative back into the fold.
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Bah gawd, is that PETA's music?!
States where Trump is not underwater represent about 27.5 million people, or about 8.1% of the US population.
Trump’s approval collapses nationwide, turning several deep-red states negative — Economist tracker
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
States where Trump is not underwater represent about 27.5 million people, or about 8.1% of the US population.
Google, you're doing amazing sweetie
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Google, you're doing amazing sweetie
Boy this website I dunno
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Boy this website I dunno
This seems both bad and unnecessary
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This seems both bad and unnecessary
Trump prodding his supporters into dumping huge sums of money into sure-to-fail projects is an odd flex
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Trump prodding his supporters into dumping huge sums of money into sure-to-fail projects is an odd flex
I had missed that the big dick toilet man was our ambassador to NATO
NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker admits "there's some truth" to the criticism that Putin hasn't made a single concession during negotiations
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I had missed that the big dick toilet man was our ambassador to NATO
Reposted by Aaron van Dorn
Cabbage is 大白菜, except for when the ones at the bottom of the piles by the side of the road start losing their freshness, at which point the vendors change the signs to read 爱国大白菜, "Patriotic Cabbage"
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Cabbage is 大白菜, except for when the ones at the bottom of the piles by the side of the road start losing their freshness, at which point the vendors change the signs to read 爱国大白菜, "Patriotic Cabbage"
Amazing that the "Let's ethnically cleanse Latino immigrants" administration isn't doing better with Latino voters.
Pew Research poll - Latino Voters
Trump approval
Approve 27%
Disapprove 70%
www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth...
Trump approval
Approve 27%
Disapprove 70%
www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth...
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Amazing that the "Let's ethnically cleanse Latino immigrants" administration isn't doing better with Latino voters.
Reposted by Aaron van Dorn
I do not think the juice is worth the squeeze when it comes to Dems prioritizing outreach to rural white voters, but it seems like a good chunk of this website goes back and forth on whether it’s a good idea depending on whether Dems are doing it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I do not think the juice is worth the squeeze when it comes to Dems prioritizing outreach to rural white voters, but it seems like a good chunk of this website goes back and forth on whether it’s a good idea depending on whether Dems are doing it.
"We don't make anything of value"
Making IPOs great again has its pitfalls on.ft.com/4p28eHm | opinion
Making IPOs great again has its pitfalls
The US needs more public listings but the regulatory pendulum may be swinging too far
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"We don't make anything of value"
I'm ready for Isaac Chotiner to arrive in my mentions. Sorry, I'm just built different
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I'm ready for Isaac Chotiner to arrive in my mentions. Sorry, I'm just built different
[adding another apparently needed section to the explanatory PDF I send out for the what I thought was a fairly straightforward task]
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
[adding another apparently needed section to the explanatory PDF I send out for the what I thought was a fairly straightforward task]