Aaron Lord 🎻
@devlord.io
.NET developer in Northern California • former worship leader now #exvangelical • player of Irish traditional music 🎻• INTJ • he/him • blogs at https://medium.devlord.io
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December 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Joined #Storygraph and imported my Goodreads history. I’m on Bookwyrm but SG has pretty charts and graphs. app.thestorygraph.com/profile/devl...
Apple Music says I'm in the top 500 listeners for Liz Carroll and top 1,000 for Solas. But my son keeps requesting Metallica in the car. #IrishTrad #Music
December 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Apple Music says I'm in the top 500 listeners for Liz Carroll and top 1,000 for Solas. But my son keeps requesting Metallica in the car. #IrishTrad #Music
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100% the lawyers said "you can't do that," and 100% the deciders (including) POTUS said "who cares, there are no consequences."
And that is 100% the fault of SCOTUS and its wretched unitarism, fully immunized.
And that is 100% the fault of SCOTUS and its wretched unitarism, fully immunized.
BREAKING: President Trump declared that all of former President Biden’s pardons are now “invalid.” There is no legal mechanism for presidents to revoke their predecessors’ pardons but if Trump is taken seriously, thousands could be thrown into legal chaos.
Trump Claims Former President Joe Biden’s Pardons Are Invalid
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
100% the lawyers said "you can't do that," and 100% the deciders (including) POTUS said "who cares, there are no consequences."
And that is 100% the fault of SCOTUS and its wretched unitarism, fully immunized.
And that is 100% the fault of SCOTUS and its wretched unitarism, fully immunized.
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
Starting to become more resigned to firing up my old Evernote 🐘 account and paying through the nose 👃 for it. Obsidian is great but I need to take pictures of things and have the text be searchable. I use markdown for my Jekyll blog, so it will take an extra step to manually convert drafts… #gtd
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Starting to become more resigned to firing up my old Evernote 🐘 account and paying through the nose 👃 for it. Obsidian is great but I need to take pictures of things and have the text be searchable. I use markdown for my Jekyll blog, so it will take an extra step to manually convert drafts… #gtd
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Your Black Friday reminder that in 75% of U.S. industries, a smaller number of companies now control more of the business than they did twenty years ago. We must stop the monopolization of America. Shop small if you can, please.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Your Black Friday reminder that in 75% of U.S. industries, a smaller number of companies now control more of the business than they did twenty years ago. We must stop the monopolization of America. Shop small if you can, please.
Today I learned the Thanksgiving holiday was declared by Abraham Lincoln to honor the sacrifice of US soldiers during the Civil War #til #TodayILearned via @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Today I learned the Thanksgiving holiday was declared by Abraham Lincoln to honor the sacrifice of US soldiers during the Civil War #til #TodayILearned via @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Turkeys eating beef?
Trump: "Despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys. They could be fat, but they're still MAHA. They've been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef, to allow the smoothies and all the other things they have been eating for this occasion."
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Turkeys eating beef?
That’s not what “collective” means!
Rand Paul: "What is the Republican plan for healthcare? My plan would allow for people to buy their insurance through a collective. Basically to buy their insurance through Costco or Sam's Club or Amazon."
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
That’s not what “collective” means!
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"Dems seem more comfortable hitting marginalized groups with collateral damage if doing so makes it possible for them to land more effective blows against their Republican opponents." It may not in fact be politically expedient.
New from @kaivanshroff.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/why-are-de...
New from @kaivanshroff.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/why-are-de...
Why Are Democrats Teasing Homophobia in New Attacks on MAGA?
The strategy demeans an important constituency of the party without providing an obvious political gain.
www.thebulwark.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Dems seem more comfortable hitting marginalized groups with collateral damage if doing so makes it possible for them to land more effective blows against their Republican opponents." It may not in fact be politically expedient.
New from @kaivanshroff.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/why-are-de...
New from @kaivanshroff.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/why-are-de...
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November 23, 2025
November 23, 2025
“Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this ‘peace plan’ was written by Russians or Americans?” foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum asked ...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
November 23, 2025
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“They share the same forms, in that all pay homage to Jesus and quote from the Bible, just as the president still inhabits the same White House (or what is left of it). But the Jesus of this imagination – muscular, aggressive and American – is a different man than the one I grew up worshipping.”
#Christianity #Religion #Evangelicals #MAGA #Trump #GOP #Republicans
“Now the most public and powerful forms of Christianity, the vast and often denominationally independent megachurches and TV ministries, are as wildly different from that version of Protestantism as Donald Trump is from Eisenhower”
“Now the most public and powerful forms of Christianity, the vast and often denominationally independent megachurches and TV ministries, are as wildly different from that version of Protestantism as Donald Trump is from Eisenhower”
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity — Guardian US
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
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November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
“They share the same forms, in that all pay homage to Jesus and quote from the Bible, just as the president still inhabits the same White House (or what is left of it). But the Jesus of this imagination – muscular, aggressive and American – is a different man than the one I grew up worshipping.”
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Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television.
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television.
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
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If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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I missed the part in this post where you called on the House to impeach him.
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I missed the part in this post where you called on the House to impeach him.
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There's also no evidence to rule out that RFKjr causes Buttheadism, so here we are.
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
There's also no evidence to rule out that RFKjr causes Buttheadism, so here we are.
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
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As a direct result of President Trump's Big Ugly Bill, almost 300 jobs will be cut from Providence Swedish's First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, and Issaquah hospitals and clinics. These are not the only layoffs we've seen in our health care system in Washington state in recent months.
Providence Swedish to eliminate nearly 300 positions
The cuts will affect jobs at Providence Swedish’s First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard and Issaquah hospitals and nearby clinics.
www.seattletimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
As a direct result of President Trump's Big Ugly Bill, almost 300 jobs will be cut from Providence Swedish's First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, and Issaquah hospitals and clinics. These are not the only layoffs we've seen in our health care system in Washington state in recent months.
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BREAKING: Marshall Islands becomes the first country to launch a Universal Basic Income program. Every resident (about 33,000 people) will receive $200 every 3 months. This works out to being about 11% of GDP per capita. If the US did that same percentage, the UBI would be about $770/mo.
Marshall Islands Launches Nationwide Universal Basic Income Program Using Digital Infrastructure
Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands — November 19, 2025. The Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has introduced a nationwide Universal Basic Income (UBI) program, marking the...
www.koreaittimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 AM
BREAKING: Marshall Islands becomes the first country to launch a Universal Basic Income program. Every resident (about 33,000 people) will receive $200 every 3 months. This works out to being about 11% of GDP per capita. If the US did that same percentage, the UBI would be about $770/mo.
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The American people want the Epstein files released.
The House and Senate want the Epstein files released.
Donald Trump does not want the Epstein files released because he’s all over them, so he launched a new ‘pending investigation’ to thwart the will of the American people and all of Congress.
The House and Senate want the Epstein files released.
Donald Trump does not want the Epstein files released because he’s all over them, so he launched a new ‘pending investigation’ to thwart the will of the American people and all of Congress.
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The American people want the Epstein files released.
The House and Senate want the Epstein files released.
Donald Trump does not want the Epstein files released because he’s all over them, so he launched a new ‘pending investigation’ to thwart the will of the American people and all of Congress.
The House and Senate want the Epstein files released.
Donald Trump does not want the Epstein files released because he’s all over them, so he launched a new ‘pending investigation’ to thwart the will of the American people and all of Congress.
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February: Pam Bondi says the Epstein client list is on her desk.
July: Pam Bondi says there is no Epstein client list and no further information will be forthcoming on the subject.
They keep lying right to your face.
A heroic dose of Copium is required to support MAGA.
July: Pam Bondi says there is no Epstein client list and no further information will be forthcoming on the subject.
They keep lying right to your face.
A heroic dose of Copium is required to support MAGA.
July 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
February: Pam Bondi says the Epstein client list is on her desk.
July: Pam Bondi says there is no Epstein client list and no further information will be forthcoming on the subject.
They keep lying right to your face.
A heroic dose of Copium is required to support MAGA.
July: Pam Bondi says there is no Epstein client list and no further information will be forthcoming on the subject.
They keep lying right to your face.
A heroic dose of Copium is required to support MAGA.
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Minority Leader Schumer received consent that when received from the house, H.R. 4405 - Epstein Files Transparency Act, will be passed by the Senate.
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Minority Leader Schumer received consent that when received from the house, H.R. 4405 - Epstein Files Transparency Act, will be passed by the Senate.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.