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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes an absurd idea deserves an equally absurd response. Building a 20,000-seat baseball stadium inside Grand Teton National Park is one of those ideas.

“Doug Burgum’s field of nightmares would drop a 20,000-seat stadium into one of America’s most-visited national parks while his department blocks hundreds of grants to the partner organizations that keep parks running. It’s another swing and a miss from the Interior secretary, who has already diverted millions of dollars from park entrance fees to the president’s botched vanity projects. We can’t afford to let Grand Teton become his single-use sandlot. A ballpark there would be bad news for the park’s bears… and every other animal.”

“America’s national parks are already in a league of their own. We have a responsibility to care for them, not turn them into a TV spectacle.”

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tyler Hassen, the DOGE operative who blew up our national parks, has a new memoir. Unsurprisingly, he leaves out the dead children and taxpayer ripoffs. New from me: westwise.substack.com/p/doge-memoi...

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DOGE memoir skips the part where children died and taxpayers got ripped off

Tyler Hassen’s revisionist history isn’t fooling anyone

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm entering a baking contest for the first time. (The Community Baking Festival at Rebel Bread in Denver on October 3.) I'm working on miso-maple biscuits and I think they're dialed in, with the exception of a few tilters because they're small. Up next: Strawberry-gojuchang jam w/ black pepper.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Which is not to say that responses to climate change are not political — they are. But the impacts are not, and that's the starting point for communication.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

...the same thing we do every night, Pinky

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The worst kind of trend story: "Data clearly show this is not, in fact, a trend, but we're going to cover it like it is anyway." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/s...

Home From College, 2 Weeks Later
Dozens of videos on social media feature freshmen moving out early in the first semester.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Chevy Suburban vs Ford Expedition: Which is better for the environment?

Five Guys Vs Shake Shack: Which Serves A Healthier Classic Cheeseburger?

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And they're third-rate costume designers at that

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Does Waymo always avoid providing service to predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods or is that special for Denver?

Waymo's Denver map, with notable holes in Athmar Park, Aurora, and Globeville.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Is this the lowest solve rate for any Connections puzzle?

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Why would you write this headline when 'Pains, Sprains, and Automobiles' is RIGHT THERE

Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The ancient art of managing expectations

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hot Take: in the annals of Silly Trek, puppet SNW is at least as good as TNG Robin Hood. I needed that.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If we make it out of this as a country, there's going to have to be a reckoning for everyone in a position of power who was "just following orders"

Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Finally a political story that doesn't suck

Chuck Grassley bids farewell to beloved family vacuum, Beth

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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

big @jael.bsky.social scoop: developer clearway isn't going forward with its data center and gas plant proposal (that had already been swapped out for an existing solar proposal) heatmap.news/sparks/clear...

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Scoop: Clearway Cancels Plan to Swap Solar Farm for Data Center and Gas Plant

The energy developer is backing off after a Heatmap report.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The most surprising thing about all of this is that Pirro admitted as much to the court yesterday and threw Doug Burgum under the bus in the process.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I CAN'T BELIEVE HE DIDN'T LET ME GIVE HORSE DEWORMER TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just devastated to hear about Glen Hansard's death. What a loss for the world. If for some reason you haven't seen Once, go stream it now.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Y'all, the film capture of Hadestown is SOMETHING ELSE. Go see it in a theater in the next 2 days if you possibly can.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"mixed messages" doing a lot of heavy lifting here

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane
The Trump administration has sent mixed messages on vaccinations against measles as cases have continued to climb.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

These prices are all $30-$60 after inflation today

Tweet: Amazing concert schedule for the Philadelphia Spectrum in 1975

Concerts range from Marshall Tucker Band to Elton John to ZZ Top to Eagles. Prices are $4.50-$9.50

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We've reached the "and find out" portion of the proceedings. Question for @kenwhite.bsky.social (or others): when he inevitably TACOs and moves to dismiss, is there anything the BBC can do to keep the case going and force discovery anyway?

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Nailed it, bitches

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Even by Doug Burgum's incompetence standards this is horrific. Underneath the Lincoln Memorial, the National Park Service is keeping rare copies of the 13th Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation at temperatures above 80⁰. dc.citycast.fm/news/lincoln...

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Rare Lincoln Documents Exposed to Unsafe Heat in New Exhibit, NPS Staff Say · City Cast DC

Beneath the Lincoln Memorial, another potential disaster is brewing for the Park Service.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So now Pete Hegseth supports gender-affirming health care?

Soldiers under the age of 30 would also be able to choose whether to get tested, Hegseth said. And soldiers diagnosed with testosterone deficiency would be offered hormone therapy but would not be forced to undergo it, he said.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is literally why the emoluments clause exists

Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation
The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You'd think any of the dozens of people Mitch has talked to could write down a statement about Lindsey Graham's death in 20 minutes

Mitch McConnell press releases
The last one is from June 9

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

MAGA: No more participation trophies! Also MAGA:

Colorado Pavilion named ‘best in show’ at Great American State Fair — and so were 9 other states’ pavilions
By Amanda Kesting and Caitlyn Kim

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I learned how to read on a TRS-80 Model 1

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Are we just creating new Bond villains IRL now?

F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry
A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Today, Davey Hearn pled not guilty — because he is not guilty," Norm Eisen, one of his attorneys, said outside DC Superior Court. "If Mr. Hearn can be charged with a felony for touching the reflecting pool, every American is at risk — and every American should be alarmed about this prosecution."

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Are any of the USMNT players from Maine and available to sub in after tonight?

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Playing Pearl Jam's "Alive" in the stadium as USMNT does a spot-on Mitch McConnell impersonation is quite a choice

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