Aidan Smith
@aidan_smx
Interested in: antitrust/housing/transit/FP etc. | alum @dataprogress | Seen in @WaPo, @TheNation etc. | Often on @SkyNewsAus
I get this is a joke, but it needs to be stressed: This isn’t going to be a draft and Americans are not the victims. Ordinary Ukrainians - a country of 40 million - are the ones who have to put their entire lives on hold and possibly leave everything behind so they don’t die.
Gen Z after the draft starts.
To recap: Firms have been making people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription, trapping Americans in needless bureaucracy and wasting their time & money. @FTC began writing a “click-to-cancel” rule promoting efficient cancellation, a rulemaking process that…
The United States is abetting a world-historic atrocity nytimes.com/2025/07/24/wor…
Pretty much every major boulevard in LA is wide enough to have this. Instead, we have wide travel lanes, on-street parking, and generous slip lanes.
One thing I wish we could take from Mexico City are their camellóns - interior trails within the median of streets
Amazing to have thrown away your credibility for absolutely nothing.
Congratulations to Zohran on a successful campaign. While the outcome is different from what I had envisioned for New York, I recognize the incredible effort it takes to run such a powerful campaign. I respect the passion and conviction behind it and look forward to seeing how…
Andrew Tate brags about breaking a woman's jaw on top of extensive rape and human trafficking allegations and Dana white slapped his wife on video so this is a real fork found in kitchen moment
Dana White meets up with Andrew and Tristan Tate
And I don’t really know where we go from here exactly. I’m not putting forth any bold strategy ideas. All I’m saying is that I think that acknowledging that a huge portion of this country prefers fascist-adjacent politics right now is a requisite first step