Aaron
I’m a parent, a spouse, a progressive, a reader, and a dabbler in Denver, CO. My day job is COO.
- Reposted by AaronNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by AaronThis is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
- Reposted by AaronIf Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- Reposted by AaronMarimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
- have thought this for a long time, but this sure feels like a good week us as a country to stop idolizing the billionaire class, and all those licking up to them. let's tax them instead.
- Reposted by AaronThey aren’t deescalating anything. They’re claiming new extra-constitutional powers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
- Reposted by AaronSTATEMENT FROM ABBE LOWELL, ATTORNEY FOR DON LEMON
- Reposted by AaronThe national Press Club released the following statement on the arrest of Don Lemon: "The world is watching closely, and the implications of this case extend far beyond any one reporter."
- Reposted by AaronMinnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!
- I assume the right wing libertarian, small government, freedom crowd is outraged about this.
- Reposted by AaronThis line ought to set off a huge alarm at MLS HQ: "The Loons were negotiating transfer deals with Slovenian midfielder Tomi Horvat and Dutch defender Cherrion Valerius, but both players cited concerns about life in Minnesota for them and their families as why they declined contracts with MNUFC."
- “People are scared; we are, too.” Article: Federal immigration raids in Minnesota has put 'fear' into #MNUFC players; and the situation has curtailed #Loons signings of foreigners this winter. Argentine midfielder Joaquin Pereyra shares his experiences and views. www.twincities.com/2026/01/29/l...
- What scares me most is that if they truly believe their own bs, then they have absolute certainty in their own righteousness, and then there is potentially no limits to how cruel and brutal they will be to prove their righteousness.
- Reposted by AaronJournalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
- Reposted by AaronAlex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
- Reposted by AaronHere's a gift link to the New York's Times' timeline of Homeland Security's killing of Alex Pretti. It shows clearly what actually happened and makes it abundantly clear that the Trump regime is lying to cover up a murder.
- Reposted by AaronFootage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.
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- A future Congress must convene a “47 Truth Commission” and publicly document the corruption, lawlessness, & atrocities of this administration. Ideally to hold those responsible to account, but at a minimum to document the crimes perpetrated by an administration during one of our darkest periods.
- Reposted by AaronSayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."
- Reposted by AaronNuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
- Reposted by AaronRemember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?
- More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
- Reposted by AaronOpinion | I'm a pro-family conservative. Here's why I'm ok with Trump being best friends with a pedophile, Elon Musk creating a mountain of kiddie porn, and ICE abducting five-year-olds.
- Reposted by AaronICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
- Reposted by AaronTomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
- Reposted by AaronNasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
- Why are we still giving this f’ing guy a platform? @npr.org can’t we move on already? Is he relevant in any way in 2026? 🙄
- Reposted by AaronKavanaugh home invasions Kavanaugh kiddie detentions Kavanaugh pepper spray torture
- I guess just like Justice Kavanaugh said, they’re just simply stopping to ask about your citizenship and then they move on and you can happily go about your business (doing things like fixing your smashed in front door) apple.news/AQ37sdWJURqS...
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- My god, put on NPR and there is some rambling old man incoherently spouting made up grievances and ridiculous demands. It’s so embarrassing. Imagine people putting some idiot like this guy in a position of power?
- A sobering speech from Carney. America can no longer be trusted on the global stage. Republican leadership will remain a constant threat to the world Because Republicans, and 70m Republican voters, are broken. The world can’t trust America as long as that remains our reality.
- Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
- Reposted by AaronCarney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
- Reposted by AaronTo be fair ..
- So, if I understand this correctly, Trump will permanently chair the “board of peace” and they intentionally invited other authoritarians to participate by buying in for a $1B. So basically he’s creating an out in the open SPECTRE?
- Reposted by Aaron“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. “Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
- Reposted by AaronSunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2
- Reposted by AaronThe Governors of the free States of America, particularly Democratic states, need to hold a summit to create a deliberative body and as a framework for collective action against those who would wage war against those states
- Reposted by AaronAnyone with a shred of class and decency would have politely refused it, so naturally Trump took it.
- one of the saddest, most pathetic things to ever happen. Really. For both of them.
- #BREAKING: Venezuela's Machado says she 'presented' her Nobel Prize to Trump
- Relieved that these cuts were rolled back. Beyond frustrated about the constant unnecessary chaos roller coaster.
- The entire Republican Party right now: “I am a life-long small government libertarian. Here’s why I support the government flooding cities with masked agents to demand papers while dragging people from their cars and homes to imprison them.”
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- Cutting federal funding for mental health and substance use prevention puts lives at risk and undermines progress on the opioid crisis. Our organization is urging immediate action to restore these life-saving programs before the damage becomes irreversible.
- I hope folks understand that the $2B in congressionally approrpiated SAMHSA cuts today will have direct impacts for communities. It will literally lead to more death and despair. No, literally, it will lead to more deaths. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
- Reposted by Aaronover the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
- Reposted by AaronThis is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
- Reposted by Aaron🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
- Reposted by AaronRead this story and decide if this is the America you want to live in. ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white. He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
- Reposted by AaronA teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
- Reposted by AaronOne basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.
- Reposted by AaronThe epitome of a “Kavanaugh Stop.” “[CBP] sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check immigration status…. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a US citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.” History will remember Brett.
- Reposted by AaronAny Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.
- Reposted by AaronAuchincloss: "When you have a badge & gun and you are interacting with a citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment. Nobody watching that video will buy the argument that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face 3 times."
- The insanity of this moment could come to a screeching halt if 4 republican senators & 4 representatives decided to do the right thing and caucus with Dems. FOUR. That’s it. One of the truly insane pieces of this moment is that they’re so far gone in the cult that 8 can’t find an ounce of courage.
- Reposted by AaronWhat can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
- Reposted by AaronWith Trump going full authoritarian on Venezuela-Greenland, ICE, and the Fed, the response has to be serious. Four Republican senators (Tillis, McConnell, Murkowski, Collins?) could announce they’ll caucus for now with the Dems to give them control of the Senate to check Trump.
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- Reposted by AaronThe message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
- Reposted by AaronI have some congresspeople who follow me, so I'll just throw this out there: As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.
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- Presented for your consideration, the worst take of 2026 (a mere ten days in) apple.news/AXt8_lFCrTeC...
- Reposted by AaronThis is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you
- Reposted by AaronI can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
- Reposted by AaronKind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
- Reposted by Aaron"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them." (Published Oct. 2025)
