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Baker Owens

@bakediddypop.bsky.social
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ATL resident and booster, working across rural Georgia. Write stuff sometimes about the same.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 15h
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just despicable by MS NOW, which has accepted stolen taxpayers dollars for 38 illegal ads. Give me a break with this bullshit statement too. So your hosts are on air all day saying this is illegal while you are taking the money and running the ads? Just gross.
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Does anyone have a functioning survival mechanism?
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Trump buys ads on CNN, MS NOW as he fights to bar them from the White House
Taxpayer-funded ads denouncing the “deep state” and “globalists” aired locally on the two cable networks Trump has sought to ban from White House grounds.
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, there’s 100 things to hate about these f-ing data centers, and I think the water is not not a concern, but it’s ultimately weak to base opposition on.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An entire massive industry that has the potential to cause tremendous damage and destruction by their own admission completely unregulated because they have Trump and the Republican Party in their pocket. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Look at this face in the moments before the whole charade blows up…
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know it’s a real long time ago but what were these numbers in ‘06 and 10?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How long until the Iran War ends? “About two weeks.” youtu.be/8ndmDTVM9gM?...
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How long until the Iran War ends? “About two weeks.”
YouTube video by Home of the Brave
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump last week touted "one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng." The U.S. switched sides.
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover @firinglineshow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Architecture is not incidental or accidental. It reflects who we are." @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu argues President Trump's White House renovations are damaging the ideas behind America. "It's changing what it means to be an American president." Follow on Apple: shorturl.at/nQU2k
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@willsommer.bsky.social come on man, don’t let MAGA own tinned fish.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
YOU NEED TO SEE THIS Rob Bonta (California AG): “We think it’s limitless what he (Trump) will try and what he is capable of. So, if you can imagine it, we have thought of it and we have a plan.” Every attorney general should be planning for this.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I get why gatekeeping in its negative sense is bad but also it feels an awful lot like gatekeeping in the positive sense was a load bearing pillar of society.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are Black Democrats not a thing or…
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy told Catholics to “fight every dimension” of the Trump administration’s war on immigrants and to replace politicians who tolerate it. “In abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and of the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.”
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Aren’t we already far enough through the looking glass that these pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on? Next president can say “I unpardon. Investigate the shit out of them and prosecute whoever you can.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.
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Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Sarah Obscura's Confused Look
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
White House announced it is breaking the law again.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fact that a bunch of lefty state legislators signed onto this ridiculous anti-nuclear fearmongering letter is unbelievable Cuomo teamed up with RFK Jr. shut down a nuclear plant and it caused NY emissions to skyrocket!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
200K is a lot, even in Texas… Beto lost to Ted Cruz by 215,000~ votes
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Rachael Hamlet @karmamylanta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can watch the trailer here:
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wonder why! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Fa...
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2021 Facebook leak - Wikipedia
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Being really enthusiastic about new technology and our scientific and technology industries was the USA’s brand for what, the entire 20th century? And seems like over the course of about 20 years, big tech and our abject failure to meaningfully regulate it has pretty successfully lit that on fire.
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 25/09/2026
In 2022, Dan Sullivan gave a speech on the Senate floor sounding the alarm on $4.69 gas. Today the average price of gas in Alaska is $5.06. Anywhere from $9 to $26 in the Bush. Where's the speech, Dan?
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dudes middle name is “petty, self-defeating chaos.” If guy had come in and done literally nothing, he could have still talked about how amazing what he’s doing was and coasting off of Biden would’ve been easy. But he’s incapable of not meddling.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/09/2026
The Bulwark community has raised more than $100,000 for the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio, which is helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs. If you’re able, please consider donating.
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The Bulwark Community Stands With Springfield
Over the past year, we’ve been telling you about what is happening to Springfield’s Haitian community, and about the extraordinary people there who have stepped up to help their friends and neighbors through an incredibly difficult time. Now we’re asking the Bulwark community to step up with them. We’re raising money for the Haitian Support Center, which is on the ground in Springfield helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs.
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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The biggest threat to our national security right now is Donald J. Trump. My latest @washingtonsun.bsky.social column, on the press ban, snipers atop the Arc de Trump and his surrender to Xi. www.washingtonsun.com/perspectives...
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It Was Already a Pretty Bad Week. Then Trump Surrendered to China.
Xi came to town, and the American president became a supplicant.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Where the U.S. Gets Its Potash From, by Country" www.visualcapitalist.com/where-the-us... No Belarus.... YET. 🤣
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But he gave up the salary!
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“My nightmare is that we have bots on Emory Healthcare’s side, bots on Cigna’s side that keep talking to each other,” said Dr. Joon S. Lee, the chief executive of Emory Healthcare. “A whole data center could be occupied just doing that.”
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Slobbing the knob of dictators world over…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“.. the first instance of an agent autonomously choosing to hack into a government.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do it!!!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nobody kisses the asses of dictators and autocrats as eagerly and enthusiastically as Donald Trump.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 24/09/2026
Under the current structure of the US Senate and the two-party system, I fear impeachment has long since ceased to be a real thing. Maybe the current two party system collapses and a window opens. I wouldn’t hold my breath though. None of this is a good thing, it’s just a thing that is.
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Baker Owens @bakediddypop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Baja be like “Marco!”
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