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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 46m

Was thinking along similar lines when I first saw this story. The use of lethal injection -- and in previous eras electrocution -- were promoted as more humane ways of performing executions, but at a technical level they are all barbarous, prone to failure and clear violations of the 8th Amendment.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 1h

This is riveting so far. The author got a hold of a lot of correspondence, so you get a sense of the guards and inmates as individuals. One inmate tells his girlfriend in a letter which radio show to call into with requests so he can hear her voice. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 …

The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attic…

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 12h

Flaming hot OSHA violation take: Not everybody wants to trade their body’s deterioration and possible injury for money and that’s okay.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 17h

Just saw a recitation of the Army’s Soldier’s Creed and while it helpfully mentions the people of the U.S. there is no reference to the Constitution or democracy. An older version is even more focused on representing the Army. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier...

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Soldier's Creed - Wikipedia

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22h

Geriatric Millennial Proustian reverie at the supermarket

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h

Would you say, Mr. Thune, that Kansas is bleeding (votes to the Democrats)?

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 23h

One knock on effect of Musk buying out Twitter is that the “respectable” racists have lost their sense of how many layers of kayfabe they have to slap on their bigotry.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My hot take on permitting reform is Democratic senators should not work with election denying conspiracy theorists like Sen. Mike Lee. That guy should be barred from public office for trying to overturn an election. He even tried to get you killed! @whitehouse.senate.gov @heinrich.senate.gov

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A transcript like this underscores how much news outlets -- including print and edited TV news -- routinely clean up his quotes or don't quote the elliptical non sequiturs. Worth comparing to what happens when, for instance, Rep. AOC says "uh" or "um" while discussing foreign policy.

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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

please help… my son…

photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As with Mamdani, you simply can not make someone with this much kindness-coded rizz look menacing.

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 01/10/2026

Even if you've never been a union member, the attacks on unions have cost you money. The typical worker would be earning $5,000 more a year if unions were as strong today as they were five decades ago

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI might be a bubble, but is it a tulip bubble or a railroad bubble

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This here barndominium ain’t big enough for the both of us

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good thread. Even GOP internal polling shows no one persuadable has any idea who Piker is.

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veery @veery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

yes you could say i’m a centrist

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/10/2026

if you think about it, winning via a direct connection to the divine father of all creation through His appointed emissary on Earth is a much more egregious cheating scandal than banging on trash cans

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is no way to fairly or humanely administer the death penalty. Never has been, never will be.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes I feel like this podcast was made in a lab for me. (Wait that’s a different conspiracy theory.)

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lot of good reasons to see Primetime but foremost for me is that it’s visually rich and immersive in a way that perfectly matches the material. Everything is viewed through layers of reproduction and the colors are of the specific era in TV. Baudrillard would approve.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Custom cabinet job with two hidden storage panels. Client was thrilled. This is City Loft to match the walls with walnut tops. Big shoutout to Steve Patton with Aloha Kustom Wood for design guidance on this one.

Four bookcases, two tall, two low in the middle and sticking out a little.

Small tab at the top of this panel you can pull on to remove it diagonally for hidden storage.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is like me telling someone they need more cabinets on top of their cabinets.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wrapped up a job early and now I’m the only person in a theater screening of Primetime. Life is good.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

David Byrne’s mind is an absolute palace and he’s protecting it.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sneezed so hard I cleared my cache for expectations about anti-incumbent midterm elections.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cave’s full mate get yer own shadows!

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kate Manne is an incredible writer and thinker. I forgot she was at Cornell. Please read this as well as her excellent book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. On here at: @katemanne.bsky.social

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How do you do fellow text based social media app users who actually care what the text says

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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 30/09/2026

one thing i understand more and more as i get older is that i do not have to post every half-baked inane thought that blows through my weary, addled brain. i do it by choice. i can stop anytime i want.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not every situation but got a lot of mileage out of "Yeah, man, or you could just treat women with respect and find a cool girl who wants to date you." So much misogyny stems from deep insecurity.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Haven’t had a 4k calorie burn day in a while according to my watch. Was going hard installing cabinets. Built in bookshelves with walnut tops and hidden storage. Pics tomorrow.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 29/09/2026

At @fiftyplusone.news, Noah Wyhof-Rudnick recently showed that the share of internal House polls released by each party correlates fairly closely with the national House popular vote blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/why-does-e...

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friedersdorf is such a perfect reactionary centrist. His studious ignorance about what motivates right wing operatives is his job security.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some great news here: big majorities want to prioritize changing the system over just stopping Trump, including a quarter of Rs! But rather than target those entirely gettable and plentiful Rs, some Dems are still saying they want to work with him. It's madness.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The press coverage of the Academy of Natural Sciences has gone from "Oh how sad" to sounding like a hostage negotiation. Which maybe sounds bad, but elected leaders, the press, the people online, all saying "You don't have to do this, man" is better than mourning. share.inquirer.com/YTQg0s

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Philadelphia shouldn’t give up on the Academy of Natural Sciences’ historic museum | Editorial

The Academy's 150-year-old building faces roughly $150 million in deferred maintenance costs. While that may seem daunting, it is not insurmountable.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Has Collins ever had anything like this dragging on her in October of an election year? Often one of the conditions for an incumbent finally taking the L.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Genuinely surprised that Google Gemini can't input the mileage from location X to location Y into a spreadsheet for accounting purposes, probably one of the most common annoying things small businesses need to track. The Google Maps company will send you a prompt asking YOU how many miles it is.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Developing a finishing move called The Promulgator.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s just a guy who keeps telling the agents “I don’t know about that buddy”

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hey Scully ever hear of the knife lawyer

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would listen to a sports podcast devoted entirely to proposed rule changes across various sports and levels of play.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For those not following, there’s a city in Russia occupied Ukraine near the frontline cut off from everywhere by mines and torn up roads, the people who haven’t been able to evacuate have only food they can grow themselves or have been rationing for a year, and Russia does not care.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

[Not dunking] I think this is an interesting difference in approach between operatives and journalists / media figures that's worth unpacking. That said, there's very little media infrastructure on the center left to left. And I tend to disagree when some candidates do FNC, too.

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At what point do these corporations get charged with felonious activity? Humans certainly aren't allowed to mess with government websites or else the FBI would be knocking on their door. We all saw Wargames.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A small thing that will really stick with me from the book Careless People is the author recounting how Zuckerburg’s inner circle would let him win at Settlers of Catan. Broken culture.

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