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Husband. Father. Journalist. Tech. Founder - www.AhmedBaba.News. Prev. Columnist at The Independent, Co-Founder Rantt Media. Seen on MS NOW, CNN, NYT, WaPo, and more. Bookings: ahmed@ahmedbaba.com. Newsletter, features, and socials: AhmedBaba.com

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20h
Over on X, the “rigged election” crowd is pushing rumors around a video livestream clip of election workers, working late at night, allegedly doing something nefarious. Maricopa officials have explained that the workers are just… doing their jobs. But rumors around the video continue to swirl.
X Posts about the Maricopa Late-Night Video, Oct 9–11, 2026.” The x-axis is time (local) from midday Oct 9 to mid-morning Oct 11. The y-axis is the cumulative number of posts, including reposts, from 0 to 35,000. A black line shows the running total. It is flat until mid-afternoon Oct 9, then rises sharply that evening to about 5,000. It climbs slowly overnight, then steeply through Oct 10 to about 28,000 by that evening. It levels off overnight and rises again on the morning of Oct 11, ending near 36,000.

365 individual posts are plotted on the line at the time they were posted, sized by repost count. A legend identifies 80 original posts as blue circles, 220 reposts as green triangles and 65 quote posts as orange squares. The largest markers are early: a large original post in the afternoon of Oct 9, a very large quote post around 6:30 PM Oct 9 at the start of the first surge, and another large quote post around 9 AM Oct 10 early in the second. Reposts are spread along the whole curve.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
On my way to the MS NOW studio for the full 3pm ET hour for The Assignment with @ahylton26.bsky.social and a powerhouse panel. Tune in 🙌🏾
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump's AI Czar compared AI to the nuclear arms race, then argued against slowing the technology. Last time I checked, nuclear proliferation is dangerous. What we need is a global nuclear-deal-level monitoring regime. Trump is the worst possible president for this moment.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump's effort to rebrand AI as "Super Intelligence" is a linguistic propaganda game. Untamed superintelligence itself is the long-term risk everyone is warning about. By rebranding AI as the risk itself, he's downplaying it. We need regulation, and we need enhanced liability.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ll be on MS NOW’s @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social with the incomparable @stephruhle.bsky.social for a full 10 am ET hour panel to talk AI, the midterms, and the new SCOTUS term. Tune in 🙌🏾
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
From my latest conversation with Don Lemon. Watch us dive into the Cornell case here: www.ahmedbaba.news/p/don-lemon-...
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Don Lemon & Ahmed Baba: Why Did Cornell Police Omit Jane Doe’s Claim That She Was Raped?
Cornell police left the most important sentence out of Jane Doe's statement. Don and I dug into why, and what it says about who elite institutions choose to protect and who they choose to punish.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Cornell rape case is a microcosm of a much bigger issue. This is a systemic, legal, and cultural problem we have to tackle head-on. Consent laws that protect abusers need to change. And men, we need to raise our sons to know what consent really is. Because this ain't it.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From my latest conversation with Don Lemon. Watch us dive into the Cornell case here: www.ahmedbaba.news/p/don-lemon-...
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Don Lemon & Ahmed Baba: Why Did Cornell Police Omit Jane Doe’s Claim That She Was Raped?
Cornell police left the most important sentence out of Jane Doe's statement. Don and I dug into why, and what it says about who elite institutions choose to protect and who they choose to punish.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cornell police omitted Jane Doe's claim that she was raped from their summary of her statement submitted to the DA. The DA closed the case without requesting the transcripts. It was either malpractice or it was intentional, and it tainted the investigation. They failed her.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth’s “anti-woke” purges have nothing to do with strength. He fired highly qualified, decorated officers, who dedicated years to their country, simply because of their identity. He’s the unqualified one. I called this out on MS NOW last week. He said it out loud today.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Watch our full conversation here: www.ahmedbaba.news/p/jamaal-bow...
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Jamaal Bowman Is Unpolished, Undeterred, & His Work Is Unfinished
From the projects to the principal's office running his own school to Congress, Jamaal Bowman's story is one of resilience and authenticity. We talked about his new memoir and what comes next.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone says Trump is just a symptom. @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social has a name for the disease. He calls it "The Hunger" (bigotry, war-mongering, ravenous capitalism). He calls the fight against it "The Healing." His new memoir, Unpolished, traces both through his life and the country's.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We have the most incurious president at the worst possible time
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is what happens when you surround yourself with loyalists. No one has the balls to tell Donald that superintelligence is a term that describes AI hitting a future state where it surpasses human intelligence? You can’t just rebrand AI with a tech term that already exists
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I talked about this on MS NOW last weekend
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He is so out of his depth it’s embarrassing. We have the worst possible president at the AI inflection moment. The opportunity cost of putting this guy back in office is vast.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump has turned the presidency into a profit machine for him and his cronies. Every decision he makes is tainted by conflicts of interest. While he grifts billions, his moves directly raise prices for Americans who are already struggling. His corruption is a tax on all of us.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some Republicans are trying to distance themselves from Trump. But it's too late. The "Snake" poem Trump used to recite was a warning about himself. Republicans knew exactly who he was. They empowered him anyway. This November, they'll pay the price for that corrupt bargain.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nearly 60% of the senior officers Pete Hegseth has fired are Black or female. But they make up fewer than 20% of generals and admirals. His anti-DEI purges clearly targeted Black, female, and trans officers. They were highly qualified. Hegseth is the unqualified one.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump calls AI concerns a hoax. But the risks are real. His opposition to regulation is pure self-interest. He has investments in AI companies that are propping up the market. If AI slows, he knows the K-shaped economy could become a cliff-shaped one. We need real leadership.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Democrats are on offense, and Republicans are on defense. Republicans are now being forced to spend resources defending red states like Texas and Kansas. Democrats have a wider Senate midterm map than anyone expected, and it's all thanks to Trump's reckless, failing presidency.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lmao this is incredible. Trump’s worst nightmare: Being deprived of a microphone.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the kind of media solidarity we need to see in the face of Trump's attacks on the First Amendment. Rob this egomaniac of his life force: attention.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a blatantly unconstitutional move by a fragile wannabe authoritarian. I expect lawsuits to fly. I also hope to see some solidarity from the other members of the White House press pool. The White House is not Trump’s house. It’s the people’s. Free press access is ours.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thin-skinned Donald can't handle the accurate reporting and tough questions about his failing presidency and wants to surround himself with propagandists. This isn't the Trump Admin's first effort to restrict free press access. Expect lawsuits to fly on First Amendment grounds.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’ve never seen a party this deserving of losing the majority. Not only are they abdicating their oversight responsibility and enabling Trump’s corruption, they’re refusing to pursue common sense affordability measures or regulate AI. Just lazy, inexcusable negligence.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It turns out, racially profiling, systemically separating families, brutalizing, and in some cases killing members of the Latino community isn’t popular with the Latino community
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s always frustrating to spot a grifter early, get heat for calling them out, and then everyone catches on to the con after damage has already been done. It’s especially frustrating when that grifter is allegedly “on your side.”
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump dismisses the AI risk warnings, says they’re from “negative forces” that “shouldn’t be bringing it up.” These warnings are from frontier AI leaders. Amodei, Altman, and even Musk agree pacing is needed. A serious POTUS would seek global pacing coordination. But we have Trump.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Next week, Trump’s DOJ will be back in court seeking to revive the dismissed indictments of James Comey & Letitia James. When Comey was first indicted, Scott Jennings defended it on CNN. I debunked his deflections live. The truth: Trump’s abuses of power are the worst in US history.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I broke down exactly how Trump is the most opening anti-Black president in modern American history on MS NOW a few months ago:
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In order to thrive in the Black MAGA grift you don’t have to be particularly talented. Any mediocre person can do it. You just have to have a shamelessly high capacity for embarrassment as you perform for the most openly anti-Black President in modern American history. Tim Scott has that.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Whether you believe the worst-case AI predictions or not, we're way beyond the threshold worthy of robust regulation. The self-organized AI swarm hack of Hugging Face has taken the risks to new levels, making these existential warnings more credible. We need to move.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Government corruption and incompetence are a tax on the American people. Both in actual dollar amounts and the opportunity cost of what we won’t achieve during this foolish admin. There have been measurable setbacks to human progress. Next admin must boldly rebuild and push forward.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good thing we have a non-gridlocked federal government run by serious people who we can trust to handle this and not a coalition of nutjob anti-intellectual egomaniacal grifters. Right? Right?
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We need serious people in charge again.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The opportunity cost of Trump’s presidency is staggering. A self-organizing AI swarm launched a cyberattack. Unregulated profit-driven AI companies are racing toward superintelligence. Rather than handle the existential tech challenge of our time, Trump has us bogged down in foolishness.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
These months of new-fatherhood joy, and not being fully tuned into the daily algorithm, were clarifying. Stepping back let me think a lot about what kind of journalist I want to be. I want to inform and cultivate curiosity, not clout-chase and outrage bait.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Since Trump’s second inauguration, I’ve been reporting on how his overreach and reckless pursuit of Project 2025 would backfire. Now, it’s happening. I did a long-form video on this. Check it out and consider subscribing to me on Substack and YouTube: www.ahmedbaba.news/p/corrupt-ba...
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Corrupt Bargain: How Trump Is Destroying The Republican Party
Republicans knew exactly who Trump was when they made their corrupt bargain backing him. Now his approval rating is at an all-time low, and he’s dragging the party down with him.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The story of the Trump presidency is a wannabe authoritarian who flew too close to the sun and rendered himself a weak lame duck. He abused his power, launched a foolish war, and raised prices while he enriched himself. Now, the GOP will rightfully pay for it at the ballot box.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If we played every controversial and vile thing right-wing figures, with greater influence on the GOP than Piker has on Dems, has said, the reel would last hours. Why isn’t every Republican being asked to denounce Laura Loomer? Or the daily depravity unleashed by the President himself?
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Another excellent data point for Democrats ahead of the midterms. Data from Gallup shows that Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have their largest advantage over Republicans since 2008. Story from the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
From my latest conversation with @alexcascio.bsky.social. It was great. Watch in full here: www.ahmedbaba.news/p/the-progre...
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The Progressive Message Is Winning & The Right Knows It
Alex Cascio and I broke down the affordability message dominating the primaries, why Trump's corruption is finally legible to everyone, and why the next Democratic Admin needs to be transformative.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When one person in the pro-democracy coalition says something offensive, the entire Democratic ecosystem is asked to condemn it. Meanwhile, the right is a cesspool of vile rhetoric where depravity is expected. This double standard has to stop.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When one person in the pro-democracy coalition says something offensive, the entire Democratic ecosystem is asked to condemn it. Meanwhile, the right is a cesspool of vile rhetoric where depravity is expected. This double standard has to stop.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
One of the biggest asymmetries in our politics is how much depravity is expected from Republicans. They benefit from low expectations. Democrats are held to a higher moral standard than Republicans, because they hold themselves to one. This creates a double standard in media coverage.
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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 02/09/2026
Birth Of A Nation-style politics is the only thing they have.
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