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Aaron

@aaronc-smith.bsky.social
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I’m a parent, spouse, progressive, urbanist, reader, and dabbler in Denver, CO. My day job is CEO.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why don’t people commute by train in Denver? Train in Denver:
Decibel app reading of 89.1Photos from train platform of highway right next to it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A classics approach to fraud: Pay out the ass for something and get nothing out of it.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Justin Ellis with a #USMNT 4th minute goal! Is it too early to declare us the contenders for the 2030 World Cup?
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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s amazing how the internet has exposed just how many people are atrocious racist sexist pieces of shit. My assumption is this was always there, suppressed & not public, and the Internet just gives people the platform and license to be complete fucking assholes. apple.news/Ale5SgezpTte...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work — WIRED
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
youtu.be/7C4EMFNr-bc?... “A lot of glazed here, some ‘sprinkles stuff’, ...just whatever makes sense" JD Vance ordering donuts is objectively hilarious. For the life of me I'll never understand why Harris/Walz went "serious" when they should have stayed with "weird".
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They're saying the "J" in J.D. Vance stands for "Juiceless"
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A must-read from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. Pairs well with End Times Fascism by @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins has learned her lesson. - by Susan Collins
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Prediction: 26 - Dems take House & Senate. 27-28 - Any of: Economy tanks, inflation sores, etc. 28 - Dems win presidency but other shit pinned on them, Republicans win back House & Senate. 29-32 - Republicans block everything. Dem president gets blamed for everything. 32 - Republicans sweep again
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i don't understand how the gas prices have not yet caused a mutiny
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
msnow is currently doing a segment about hasan piker being a problem for dems
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandmother was a polio survivor. I only ever knew her without a leg brace and special shoes so that she could even walk. Vaccines are one of the 5 greatest medical discoveries in human history. We need a defined and clear plan to shut these nuts down and stop disinformation.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore can sue Robert Kraft for Tortious Interference for economic harm and I hope he does. Discovery would be fun: "Which other stadium owners did you talk to?" and "We need all related emails, text messages and contracts between you and them and you and Sheeran and Sheeran's team."
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We learned this about nuclear weapons before, but it could again in fact be the case that there is global alignment to regulate something that could end society. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/w...
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China’s Top Spy Chief Warns A.I. Is a Threat to Party Rule
Even as Beijing urges the United States not to hype the dangers of A.I., its own spy chief is framing the technology as a threat to the Communist Party’s security.
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
quite something this paragraph.
After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This story buries the lede, but if you pull out a calculator and do the math, AAA found that the average American spends $15,031 a year for a single car! www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/c...
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Car ownership costs an average of $5,851 a year on top of auto loan payments, analysis finds
The cost of insurance, gas, and maintenance or repairs can add thousands of dollars a year to the price of owning a car.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"He's a miserable little pig man" 😂🎯 @jamellebouie.net nails it again. youtu.be/z5nbscsx3VI?...
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JD Vance is the Richard Nixon of the Groypers
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is stochastic terrorism. Ted Cruz is an extremist encouraging violence.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On the same day Ted Cruz gets roundly booed by Texas fans, Abdul El-Sayed has Michigan fans running over to shake his hand. Please tell us more about who's popular with Real Americans™
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After booing him, the crowd breaks out in a loud, “Ted Cruz sucks!” chant.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
pls find my edits attached thx
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Have you seen this
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
On 9/11, the people of Gander stepped up. They showed the very best of Canada.
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On this anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the US government is unlikely to express the appropriate gratitude to the Canadian people for all their efforts to help on that day and the days after. So I suggest retweeting Canadians congratulating themselves.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My Denver bike hot take: cherry creek trail sucks. it’s boring & ugly. But I mostly take it b/c 1) it’s the only direct route downtown 2) street cycling in Denver while more interesting, it’s death defying - random lane endings, construction / cars blockages, speeding traffic 3) 30% longer into LoDo
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Been wondering a lot lately what the difference is between MAGA and how the 1960s Klan would run the country today. it's hard to think of a true difference.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I lost my job, my kids have measles, I can't afford gas, and I have explosive diarrhea. But at least now Africa will still look small on world maps.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Good thing for this kid his name isn't Hasan Piker because otherwise journalists would be asking a lot of questions.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I've never spoken like "pahk the cah in the yahd", but I guess even after leaving 25 years ago, the New Englander still runs deep in me.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sure, data centers need regulation (and to get far more efficient) but the real threat isn’t bldgs, it’s that Congress won’t regulate anything, social media, environment, and now AI. We should all be very worried about AI in the next 5 years. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...
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How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face
A nonprofit’s study of how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure wasn’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My contention is still that the most effective election strategy against the Right was Walz's "Weird". Because they're all just deeply disturbed weird people, social misfits who happened to gain power, and most ppl know they're weirdos don't want to be associated with them.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Takes" by @jamellebouie.net on YouTube is one of the best daily short conversations about our current moment. Just always insightful, with such clarity, about our current moment. Worth your watch/listen literally every day. youtu.be/-JshF6IgPA0?...
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"America First" has been the worst failure in American history
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s amazing the free media coverage Waymo has earned coming to Denver. near daily status updates.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If employers own employee work, the People own the work product of Justices. It's not their personal property. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u... Add yet another thing to the long list of needed SCOTUS reforms, especially given the lawlessness of this court, we need to understand what happened.
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How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Seriously, F Google.
Google Maps screenshot showing Lake Ontario but Google has renamed it "Lake America"
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yet another grotesque story from this administration and why can't just "turn the page" this time around. All of them, from top to bottom, need to be held accountable for their actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Aaron @aaronc-smith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Random observation, it’s a shame that we let people fan out and privatized so much of the land. When you drive up into the mountains here (CO) there are all these beautiful mountains ...all pock-marked with single houses. A shame all this land was developed for individual not public uses.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“The majority of Americans are open to living car-free even after decades of car-centric planning, a new survey finds…A stunning 18% of car-owning U.S. residents indicated that they were ‘strongly interested’ in living car-free, and another 40% said that they were ‘open’ to it.” @usa.streetsblog.org
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Survey: Most Americans Are Open To Ditching Their Cars — Streetsblog USA
Automakers have spent a century and countless trillions of dollars making car-dependent living the American norm. But U.S. resident still aren't sold, a new survey suggests.
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