← Summaries

Aaron's activity on September 3rd was relatively light, touching on a handful of distinct themes.

A cluster of reposts engaged with urban infrastructure and cyclist safety. Aaron shared posts about a cyclist's death near Cambridge — apparently involving a collision with a driver — and frustration that state police (DCR) were withholding details from the public and even from city police, echoing anger following a previous cyclist death. He also reposted a piece lamenting that Berkeley had taken nearly a decade to begin work on a bike lane that elected officials had already approved, with the commentary that something is "profoundly wrong with city governance" when that happens. The Cambridge cycling death discussion can be found here, and the Berkeley bike lane piece here.

On immigration and civil liberties, Aaron reposted a post about conditions at the South Texas Family Residential Center, where parents reported cockroaches in food and children became ill from tap water — with the added detail that contractors were profiting by selling clean food at inflated prices. He also reposted about international students at Georgetown, including one poster's girlfriend, being denied Curricular Practical Training, part of the ongoing disruption to student visa programs. A related repost flagged the unequal application of law to Republicans versus Democrats, particularly around the use of "golden shares" and whether progressive applications would be asymmetrically blocked by SCOTUS. The immigration detention story is drawn from this Washington Post piece.

Aaron also reposted a story from Reason about a Florida mother convicted of "delinquency of a minor" for allowing her 5-year-old to walk half a mile alone in their gated community, and subsequently placed on a child abuse registry for seven years. Separately, he shared a Persuasion piece receiving credit for covering right-wing cancel culture and threats to academic freedom, and rounded things out with an xkcd comic on trade.