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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 1h

I should also say I’ve had tons of interesting offline conversations with people who work there, but obviously they’re selective about who speaks out publicly.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 1h

One of their reporters used to “nutpick” the worst critics he could find on Threads and couldn’t come up with a direct response when I asked him if there were any good faith criticisms he thought were worth responding to. It’s this weird denial of power when they clearly have lots of power.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 3h

Also a consistent pattern with bad faith arguments: Do you know this policy has TRADEOFFS? Yeah, man, it’s a policy. Do you know of one that doesn’t?

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 3h

My old Congressman used to say everyone wants more benefits and fewer taxes, but I think it’s deeper than that: millions of people want the benefits of living in society with none of the social obligations.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 3h

No one who works in management at the NYT for years can internalize the criticism — it’s self-selecting.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 3h

Michael Brooks (RIP) called these minor media figures the “dumb dum left” and it’s worth differentiating people who exclusively produce podcast criticism from people who actively engage with unions, advocacy groups, electoral campaigns, etc.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 3h

Mark got to live the dream here for media critics. Can they keep doing these?

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 3h

in the lab cooking up the stupidest john brown imaginable

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 3h

You’d be mad too if someone was running around jumping on your robots and collecting golden rings

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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 6h

what I'm getting from this is that if we had medicare for all, the dodgers are up 2-1 in the series

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 7h

Relatedly, I think the "permanent Democratic majority" stuff was always offbase because your opponent doesn't sit there and say "oh well, guess we lost based on demographic change forever!" If we're tied to thermostatic elections, the goal is getting the other party to move your way to win.

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Jeff Singer @jeffsinger.bsky.social · 8h

One of my pet peeves is when there's a story about a group's plans to raise $100 million or whatever. These plans, as these tweets from teddyschleifer.bsky.social show, don't always amount to much, especially when they're reliant on a few big donors who may get cold feet and fail to follow through.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 9h

Part of a much broader court packing argument is that it would advance elections being referenda on actual party positions as opposed to someone like Collins trying to campaign having it both ways.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 9h

One good counterargument against escalation that stood for a while is that Rs would go ham and do crazy stuff like overturn Roe. Obviously they got there anyway. If the parties took turns court packing it would be much harder for R candidates to obscure their actual position on abortion.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 9h

This is so funny. Like it’s one thing to pick this fight but you pick it with Mehdi Hasan, the one guy on TV who absolutely cares what words mean?

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 19h

It’s actually Latin for “to Gumbert”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It’s easy to do the right thing when it doesn’t cost you anything. It’s harder to do the right thing in cases like this, where it will cost Sally Rooney quite a lot. A really uncommon display of principle. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support

Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Probably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is so pathetic. If you don’t want reporters recording video of you at a public event, plenty of other career options out there.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Okay but I call shotgun on menacing the townfolk

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sitting outside the theater waiting for disappointed audience members to emerge, clapping and cheering as they fulfill the artist’s vision.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The satire enjoyer: Watches South Park The meta-satire enjoyer: Sees Digger The meta-meta-satire enjoyer:

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is really good

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Cylons were simply enacting revenge on Carrie’s behalf.

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TheSickness @thesickness.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It’s afraid!

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

And of course someone beans Digger with a shoe, presumably a reference to the shoe Bush dodged (what if it hit!) but I think this is also meant to be interpreted as largely symbolic and therefore ineffective at stopping the fossil fuel industry.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At the parliamentary hall, Digger and Ganesh are rather nonchalant about the protestors outside accusing Digger of genocide and launching molotovs at them. And at the very end, in the NYC street scene, we see anti-oil graffiti on the walls. There IS a resistance movement, but its outside the film.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Two things I'd add that I think you and @mollytaft.com might appreciate: Don't Look Up briefly depicts a sit-in / strike at a legislative hall, IIRC, but otherwise depicts direct action for laughs. Digger has two key scenes that point to more direct action, which none of the characters engage w/

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David Turnbull @dturnbull.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This review by @mollytaft.com is the best I've seen of this surprisingly complicated movie. But don't read it until after you've seen it -- spoilers abound.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I think she’s a former employee now. Used to be easier to Google but Rs have flooded the zone on him.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Honestly kind of odd how little it comes up that Talarico is dating an employee, which is arguably one of the most cishet male politician things about him.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Cook gets so much info from campaigns, when their ratings change it’s based on much more than polling.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yeah! I think at least one of the head-mashers was a dummy, too.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The parliamentarians with their heads pressed against too-low-ceilings seemed to symbolize the limits of their own power as does their bland clothing and use of recording devices. The one parliamentarian who throws a shoe and the molotov-chuckers outside point to a different theory of power!

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

To be fair, the Digger speech in the film is 10x more coherent than Billy Bob Thornton in Landman blowing everyone's minds by revealing that wind turbines use oil to lubricate moving parts.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Darkly funny to see guys on Reddit criticizing Digger's "message" by uncritically repeating some version of the everyone-uses-fossil-fuels argument the main character uses *in the movie*.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Chatted about the weird ending to the Commanders / Giants game with a stranger while grabbing lunch and it’s remarkable how quickly one can reasonably leap to thinking it’s a gambling fix. Really corrupting for fans.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I worked in climate policy for 20 years and am evangelizing this thing so hard. It’s head and shoulders above Don’t Look Up.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We happy few We band of Digger-enjoyers

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At the same time, the streaming era, compellingly, brings us thousands of people who just leave it on in the background at home like old timely radio.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yeah, this is directed at political leaders who have explicit responsibility to the Constitution. I still think back often to Khizr Khan busting out his pocket copy at the 2016 DNC convention -- the law applying to everyone equally is the unfulfilled promise we're all supposed to be striving toward.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

DAMB IT - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELITON AT THERE COMPUTER " CANT BELIEVE I DIDNT LOOK UP MORE COOL SHIT WHEN THE INTERNET STILL WORKED" ,,, THE FUNNYEST THING ABOUT A SOCIETY IN DECLINE IS YOU DONT REALLY EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN TO YOU AND WHEN IT DOES IT FEEL'S LIKE A PERSONAL OFFENSE, WE WATCHED COMPUTERS AND NET GET BETTER AND BETTER FOR SO MANY YEARS THAT IT SEEMED OBVIOUS IT WOULD CONTINUE, WHY WOULD THINGS GET BAD ON PURPOSE, HOW CAN YOU MAKE MORE MONEY WITH WORSE PRODUCT'S , WELL THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO IT , THEY SOLD OUR COMMUNITYS AND RESOURCES UP THE DAMB RIVER TO MAKE A FEW MORE TRILLION'S, AND WHAT CAN THEY EVEN BUY WITH IT, OBVIOUSLY NOT THE ABILITY TO ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE IN PEACE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN BBUT IM STILL KICKEN A$$ AND ADDING CUSS WORD'S TO MY GOGGLE SEARCHES SO THEY DONT SHOW ME AI SHIT !!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Pretty rare for editorial boards to explicitly say what's over the line. That'll do it!

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Not arguing with the mayor here, but the oath is not to our nation -- it is to our constitution. That is what makes us a nation of laws and, through immense advocacy and strife, a nation of immigrants.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is very funny and I hope they are also doing this with one of the straight news reporters they keep around at Fox News dot com.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I learned about him through Christiana Figueres who led the breakthroughs that led to the Paris climate agreement. I think she studied at a Plum Village location.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Western psych: you gotta heal yourself Buddhist monk: absolutely, one quibble there though

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Interesting thought exercise from Thich Nhat Hanh (Buddhist monk and peace activist): If there's no "I" then you and your inner child and whoever hurt you have no distance. So your inner child is still with "you" and can see your adult freedom and acceptance through their eyes.

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Papageno but with IBS @papagenobutwithibs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Say that they’re not actually innovative all you want but they just discovered a way to make smoking uncool

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