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On the third anniversary of October 7th, Aaron engaged with several posts reflecting on the Israel-Palestine conflict and its political dimensions. He reposted Brad Lander's call to resist flattening empathy and mourn all lives lost, and amplified a post about antisemitism embedded in ostensibly pro-Palestinian activism, noting that well-meaning allies can carry blind spots that undermine their own cause. He also reposted commentary criticizing protesters who chanted "genocide" at NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani — a progressive figure — with the observation that movements damage themselves when they treat allies as enemies.

A particularly grim story dominated another repost: a Democratic congressional candidate in Arizona was raped while repairing her own campaign signs, a story Aaron's repost described as highlighting the moral context of running against a party led by rapists and rape apologists.

Aaron also engaged with a housing policy debate, reposting a thread on rent control research that pushed back on summaries grouping all rent control policies together regardless of design — arguing that such aggregation produces a misleading picture of the evidence.