September 20, 2026

Aaron's activity was light but touched on a few distinct topics. On the civil service front, he reposted Democracy Forward's notice that a federal judge had blocked a political loyalty question from appearing on tens of thousands of federal job postings — a question that tested applicants' support for President Trump rather than their qualifications for the role.

He also engaged with two contrasting education and housing policy debates. On higher education, he reposted sharp criticism of a New York Times opinion piece arguing that dropping SAT requirements for the University of California system is an equity measure — the framing being that sacrificing academic standards in the name of equity effectively degrades the value of a UC degree. On housing, he reposted pushback against media comparisons between New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Berlin's Die Linke candidate Elif Eralp, with the argument that the two are meaningfully different: Mamdani is a pro-housing YIMBY while Eralp has worked to reduce Berlin's housing production and supports apartment confiscations courts are unlikely to uphold.

Finally, Aaron reposted criticism of a campaign ad from Alaska Democratic Representative Mary Peltola, in which she distances herself from transgender healthcare for minors and opposes trans women in girls' bathrooms. The reposted commentary framed this kind of electoral triangulation as morally corrosive regardless of whether it proves electorally effective.