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Aaron's activity on June 25 was dominated by Supreme Court decisions, with the Court handing down a string of 6-3 rulings along strict ideological lines. He reposted coverage of several major cases: the Court siding with Monsanto/Bayer to block Roundup cancer lawsuits (with pointed commentary about Clarence Thomas's former role as Monsanto's house counsel), the ruling in Wolford v. Lopez striking down Hawaii's concealed carry restrictions on private property open to the public, and the Mullin v. Doe decision blocking lawsuits over TPS terminations — putting over 350,000 Haitians and thousands of Syrians at risk of losing their legal status. He also reposted Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's unusually blunt observation that the Court's "objective is protecting guns," and commentary criticizing Amy Coney Barrett for scolding Hawaii over its use of historical legal analogies — the exact methodology the Court itself mandated in Bruen. Steve Vladeck's observation that seven consecutive 6-3 ideological splits should put to rest any notion that SCOTUS isn't defined by partisan division captured the overarching theme Aaron was amplifying. A piece from Balls & Strikes on the opacity of Supreme Court opinion releases rounded out his Court-focused engagement.

Beyond SCOTUS, Aaron engaged with several other alarming stories. He reposted coverage of ICE agents tracking down a woman inside a polling place to demand she delete an Instagram post — commentary he shared alongside a post calling it straightforward poll intimidation. He also reposted news that a US zinester had been sentenced to 50 years in prison for publishing anti-fascist and feminist zines, which he characterized as unqualified authoritarian regime behavior. A major earthquake in Venezuela with a potential death toll in the thousands also appeared in his feed.

A few other threads ran through his reposts. He engaged with skepticism about Democratic political prospects and the limits of bipartisan institutionalism — including criticism of the long-running "Problem Solvers Caucus" — as well as a broader debate about whether economic disenfranchisement fully explains right-wing populism, with one voice pushing back on the "false consciousness" framing.