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Aaron Grote

@aarongrote.com
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MN. Red area of a blue state. Here to learn and share. Boring now, but former US Marine, terrain park designer, riverboat pilot, a bunch of other weird stuff.

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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 16h
Banner of the first Minnesota infantry regiment from the US Civil War.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 04/10/2026
In the Axios piece with an anonymous WH official saying they're monitoring the Russia plague situation, the official didn't say they're monitoring "reports" or anything similarly non-committal. The official says they're monitoring "the outbreak." www.axios.com/2026/10/04/r...
From the axios article, a screenshot that says the Trump administration quote is aware. Monitoring the outbreak and assessing options end quote the administration official said.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 01/10/2026
@davidpierce.xyz and @reckless.bsky.social there's a sighting in the wild of Google actively working on Fuchsia! blog.google/innovation-a...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 29/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/donm...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 29/09/2026
That feeling when you see your future falling into the abyss, and wondering if your dad's golf buddy will still give you that job at the ATV dealership.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 29/09/2026
This statement is either ignorant or a lie. Multiple sources including the census show 1/2 of young kids are cared for by a non-relative. And common sense says there are many parents who would love to put their kids in better care arrangements if they could afford it.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 23/09/2026
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 23/09/2026
Have we made this a thing yet?
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 23/09/2026
Has anyone made this a thing yet?
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 21/09/2026
Must be a helluva drug.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 21/09/2026
"Every accusation is a confession" never fails.
Smiley of a Trump Truth Social post saying, "It is called the Oval Office, and it should be treated with Decorum, Respect, and Dignity, not defiled by Third Rate Clowns, who purposefully distort, twist, and degrade"
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 18/09/2026
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 16/09/2026
Out of touch much, Tom Emmer?
Screenshot of the website for my local grocery store showing ground beef at $5.99 a pound.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 15/09/2026
At first you look at this chart showing the price of a tanker getting oil from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Mexico, and assume there's some Y-axis stuff going on. But nope. That puppy starts at zero.
Spot freight rate for a Persian Gulf tanker to the US Gulf Coast since 1991
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 13/09/2026
I think you're one of only two people to actually ask a real, good question about my comment, and I'm super appreciative you did. I understand you may not agree with my answer to it, but I do appreciate you asking a real question. bsky.app/profile/aaro...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 13/09/2026
A core part of our founding mythos is John Adams serving as the defense attorney for the British troops responsible for the Boston Massacre. founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 12/09/2026
Aaaaaand there it is.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 08/09/2026
Houthis making some claims about bombing Southern SA, and there really is some stuff on FIRMS that isn't normally there.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 07/09/2026
Eliminate this entire organization. I'd legitimately be willing to pay them all pensions forever if we can ban them from ever working anywhere in any capacity ever again. They're contaminated. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 07/09/2026
And this.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 07/09/2026
And this.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 07/09/2026
Nothing from Trump on the attack on a governor candidate, but he did *just* post this.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 06/09/2026
MAGA in a nutshell. Amplify a tragedy to represent Everything Wrong With The World, until you're afraid of -- literally feeling raw fear to the point of having to take flight from -- loving families at a nice farmers market. Dogs inventing cars to chase, then getting wrecked by their illusion.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 01/09/2026
This is super easy. www.regulations.gov/commenton/US...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 31/08/2026
Gotta be honest this one made me cry. bsky.app/profile/whst...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 31/08/2026
ok but also
A piece of crop art displayed at the Minnesota State Fair that features an image of Smokey the Bear in a burning Forest, holding a rake with the caption only you can rake the forest.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 30/08/2026
This admin is hiding some of it's shadiest stuff in the military -- including Egypt/Iran-style private company ownership -- and it's not good for the US if the most-trusted part of the government (and the one with all the weapons) becomes structurally compromised. www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 28/08/2026
Basically this. It'll sound melodramatic if you weren't there but it felt like the start of one in MN. It's pretty clear they made a tactical withdrawal, not a surrender. Which, also, what you'd be obligated to do if you accepted that is, well, hard. bsky.app/profile/hurr...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 24/08/2026
This is so... I don't even have words for it, that I had to verify this is real. It is.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 22/08/2026
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 20/08/2026
Here's the story behind the radioactive shrimp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_ra...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 20/08/2026
Scientific American did a good one with the images in this. The articles great of course, but it doesn't get to your "easier" goal. The photos do. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 20/08/2026
Imagine being President of the United States of America, logging onto the Internet, and announcing to the world that so many people are ignoring your sanctions that they're not working. Then going into detail about the endless ways people are ignoring you. Then saying No Guys I Mean It This Time.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 16/08/2026
Possibly the best day in the history of audio fiction.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 15/08/2026
Indistinguishable from sabotage.
Another U.S. official familiar with both the potential changes to the catapult and the island said that the Navy is taking both matters seriously because of the delays and severe cost overruns it could create.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 15/08/2026
Like wtf.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 15/08/2026
This bit just casually thrown in put me over the edge.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 13/08/2026
This is an incredibly detailed article worth your time. It's also the first time I've seen these two events connected.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 11/08/2026
I, too, am baffled as to why normal people don't think AI is improving their day to day lives. It must be a marketing problem.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 11/08/2026
Draft dodger Craft dodger
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 11/08/2026
Draft dodger Craft dodger
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 11/08/2026
Draft dodger Craft dodger
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 10/08/2026
This is the full post he QTs. It's so "you were so close" that I still can't tell if he got got by satire, or if this really is the dumbest thing on the Internet.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 09/08/2026
Because then someone might have known who was being gifted time on the yacht.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 09/08/2026
Well that's certainly one way to say, "when our Fleet's home port, base, and headquarters was destroyed by the enemy."
The active war with Iran in the Persian Gulf made it hard for supplies to get to the ship from the Navy 5th Fleet's base in Bahrain, Verissimo said during the virtual town hall meeting.

"When Bahrain was no longer a port for logistics, food and mail ... all of the gear that was there when the shooting started got stuck there," Verissimo said, according to audio and video of the meeting reviewed by MS NOW.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 06/08/2026
Weekly check-in on the state of the X algorithm went normally.
Image of an X post with the caption the worse you treat foids the more they love you, next to a picture of a woman with a bloody nose.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 06/08/2026
People are calling him the most-12 of all the entire Government Of 12-Year Olds.
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 02/08/2026
I wonder, though. caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tx-cou...
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 01/08/2026
Do they really have their own AD?
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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 31/07/2026
I'll keep saying this because I think it matters: Sudan was a model for what could happen to Iran. Be *done to* Iran, because it wasn't an accident. It seems like some of the Big Players in the ME looked at Sykes–Picot and thought the main issue with it was just that they didn't get to do it.
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