On April 16th, Aaron engaged with a pair of posts from @volts.wtf reflecting on how bad-faith political tactics — from Trump's lies about Haitian immigrants, to Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, to crypto money flooding state races — have repeatedly succeeded and been rewarded rather than punished. The throughline was a sense of exhaustion and frustration that cynical, destructive behavior keeps working, reinforcing the lesson that more of it is worth trying.

Aaron also reposted a pointed critique of the language used to describe ICE operations, arguing that framing them as "immigration enforcement" obscures what the administration is actually doing — ethnic cleansing aimed at eliminating safe spaces for immigrants entirely. A related repost made a structural observation about American governance: that there is effectively infinite friction around building social, transportation, or educational programs, but essentially zero friction around using state violence.

He also reacted with visible shock to a Boston Globe report about the Virginia lieutenant governor's wife dying in an apparent murder-suicide.