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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 · 6m

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

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 · 10m

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 · 54m

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 · 2h

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

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 13h

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 · 14h

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 · 21h

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 15h

This is hard to read.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 22h

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...

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 15h

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

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 16h

Utter morons.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 20h

I'm sparking debate with my claim that Stephen Miller is the result of cross-breeding a stick figure and a bedbug, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21h

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sparking debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

Here’s what the science actually says:

RFK Jr. linked circumcision and Tylenol to autism. Here’s what scientists say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparks debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 18h

The US has been dipping in and out of fascism for most of its history (slavery, Jim Crow laws). We’ve never reckoned with that.

We’ll keep flirting with fascism unless we do. But, my hopes are not high. Fundamental changes are needed, not just election victories.

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 20h

The image for our times.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22h

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck me if that isn’t parody.

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot get over how tacky he made that room.

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

I am very much craving this right now…

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3-Minute Molten Double Chocolate Mug Cake

Jessie Sheehan's easy 3-minute chocolate mug cake recipe is rich, tender, and moist, with a soft center reminiscent of a molten lava cake.

yum.supadish.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

This is, by the way, what the successful Nordic economies are. In America we often, erroneously, call them socialist. Ask them if they are socialist, though, and they’ll give you a quizzical look.

They are progressive, regulated, capitalist economies.

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

So, what’s in the middle? The sweet spot of innovation and competition? Progressive, regulated capitalism.

We need a new progressive era. And we need politicians leading that messaging with clarity and confidence.

Aaron Gray @asquaredgray.bsky.social · 1d

Planned economies are as dangerous as unregulated economies.

A healthy economy needs both innovation and competition.

Planned economies stifle innovation. Unregulated economies stifle competition.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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