Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 11/02/2026www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...forbes.comTrump’s History With Jeffrey Epstein: The Full TimelineTrump acknowledged he knew about Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme in a 2006 phone call with then-Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter. 000
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...act.indivisible.orgTell your senators to rein in ICE NOWOn Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, on January 24, Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. These deaths were a direct... 010
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 12/12/2025He doesn’t have any basic answers for Rep. Thompson. This is an entirely fabricated threat. 49615
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 21/10/2025This sums it up pretty well - Trump shitting all over America 020
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Trump did indeed drain the swamp of lazy alligators but then he refilled it and stocked it with man-eating piranhas. 000
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Republican officials and leaders need to stop having secret group chats that someone later exposes. This happened again, and the creepy crawlies under this particular rock were, in a word, insane. My write up and mini-rant in today’s piece, link in the replies. 104551101
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 14/10/2025I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS San Luis Obispo” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...mobilize.usNO KINGS San Luis Obispo · No Kings**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo... 010
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Jane Goodall for Nobel Peace prize Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...nytimes.comJane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 030
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 29/09/2025theodoragoss.com/2025/09/28/a...theodoragoss.comA Quiet RevolutionI am not a revolutionary. I am far too introverted, too much inside my own head most of the time. I went to a march once, back in 2017, and found it both inspiring and ineffective. But I look at th… 030
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanBywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2025🏳️🌈📚 It's a good day to remind folks that the literature you ❤️ is on the chopping block—so put on your Big Gay Undergarments & stand up for your First Amendment rights & in opposition to book bans & censorship. Friends tell friends . . . 👊 #SapphicBookSky #LGBTQBookSky #BookSky #AuthorSky 0115
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Thanks, Booktrib for the nice review! booktrib.com/2025/08/27/c...booktrib.comA Groundbreaking LGBTQ+ Crime Fiction Anthology | BookTrib.There have been some excellent novels published in the last several years looking at historical crime fiction through a queer lens — books set in 1950s Los Angeles, 1950s Washington, D.C., 1828 Edinbu... 010
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Thank you, tRump - we haven't stayed up for late night TV in decades, but yesterday we taped Kimmel's return show. We watched it tonight and it's our new favorite show! Probably would have missed it forever without Donnie getting his sticky fingers in the mix. 010
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Go out there and be the force you want to see in the world today. Be Johnny or Janey Appleseed planting the seeds you want to see thrive. 020
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 14/09/2025There Are Monsters in Your Midst, Too www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...nytimes.comOpinion | There Are Monsters in Your Midst, Too 010
Reposted by Baxter Clare Trautman50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Meta is an unethical company run by Peter Thiel’s techno-fascist billionaire protégé—Mark Zuckerberg—and is part of the Trump regime’s surveillance state. It’s time to leave Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—and while you’re at it, drop Amazon, Google, and OpenAI as well. Learn how in this thread: 49810334
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Let Your Garden Grow www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Let Your Garden Grow 010
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Honored to be included in such august company. 000
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/08/2025In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The president and his allies have reshaped the military for their own purposes, say Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson, former members of the National Security Council. “We no longer expect resistance from that institution,” they write.nyti.msOpinion | How the Military Became Another Instrument of Trump’s PowerThe president and his allies have reshaped the military for their own purposes. 2612468
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 29/07/2025www.gofundme.com/f/assist-nyp...gofundme.comThank you for donating to Assist NYPD Officer Didural Islam's Wife and Children...<div>As a person that values the dedication and <span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:1rem;color:inherit;">service to the City of New York by those in the NYPD, I felt compelled to act. </span> <... 111
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanWendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Another burrowing owlet video from yesterday. 🪶 311254174
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 25/07/2025All the more reason to support independent news outlets - subscriptions can be dirt cheap - worth it to keep unbiased news sources Fox Shock open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...open.substack.comFox ShockA truth-challenged channel when we need it least 000
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Why’s trump in a hard hat? There’s nothing in his head. www.nytimes.com/video/embedd...nytimes.comVideo: 000
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/07/2025As a vote to cut more than $500 million per year in federal funding from public media nears, stations like PBS and NPR are making their pitches to lawmakers, listeners and “Viewers Like You.”trib.alPBS and NPR’s Last-Ditch Fight to Save FundingAs a vote to cut more than $500 million per year in federal funding nears, stations are making their pitches to lawmakers, listeners and “Viewers Like You.” 613048
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 13/07/2025www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/07/s...themarginalian.orgUncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Us HumanI once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me. The AI had the wh… 000
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Let’s all start making 8647 with sea shells, and branches, and stones, and paint, and… You get the idea. I have been 86d from many a bar in my day and am still alive - it just means I am no longer allowed on the premises. Not dead! 000
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanAltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 08/07/2025Two young Women, hero's, saved 20 children in the Texas floods. Silvana Garza and Maria Paula> Thank you thank you thank you. Why aren't they on any of the major news outlets ? And why aren't they being honored for their courage ? 631877
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized. 33562102277
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 05/07/2025How Bad Is This Bill? The Answer in 10 Charts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comOpinion | The Ugliness of the ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill, in ChartsSteven Rattner reveals the ugly reality lurking within the “big, beautiful bill.” 000
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...nytimes.comTax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill 011
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Cruel Summer open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...open.substack.comCruel SummerThe American president salivating over suffering 000
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 21/06/2025@thelunaea.bsky.social look what I got today! 💗 010
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting 1517315756167
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Trump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...nytimes.comTrump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service 000
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanAltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 04/01/2025The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world. 579227639404
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 17/06/2025statuskuo.substack.com/p/my-duty-is...statuskuo.substack.com“My Duty Is To Call It Out.”A judge and a senator offer moral clarity in a time of monsters. 000
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 16/06/2025gofund.me/68b327b9gofund.meDonate to Help Laura, Vera, and Isaac After Afa's Passing, organized by Lindsey OlsonOn June 14th, our sweet friend Laura lost her beloved husband Arthur Fol… Lindsey Olson needs your support for Help Laura, Vera, and Isaac After Afa's Passing 000
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 16/06/2025www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what... The woman next to me at the rally and I were trying to figure out why the MAGAs have no empathy. This helped.psychologytoday.comThe Decline of Empathy and the Appeal of Right-Wing PoliticsChild psychology can teach us about the current GOP. 000
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 16/06/2025bookshop.org I love this - I get the convenience of books mailed to me, my local bookstore makes money, and I don’t have to support Jeff Bozos. Win win win!bookshop.orgBookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community. 000
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Find something you can do. There is *always* something. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something. 8679201
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Sleepy redneck Atascadero, CA got woke! ❤️ 030
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... Is this the country your fathers and forefathers fought and died for? I think not. GET OUT IN THE STREETS TODAY - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!nytimes.comLive Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’ 000
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Don’t think the Dump eill stop with LA podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comA Message from Governor NewsomPodcast Episode · This is Gavin Newsom · 06/11/2025 · 9m 000
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/06/2025Faith leaders and a crowd are gathered at the Federal Building right now. Video taken by a 50501 organizer on the ground. @50501movement.bsky.social 13272171605
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 11/06/2025 Chevron crybaby wankers. Bet none of them had to live through the smog of the 70s and 80s. I’m okay paying for breathable air. 000
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanBywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Haters gonna hate, and let's be honest—who needs that kind of negativity? Check out Bywater Books, the Foreword INDIES 2024 Publisher of the Year, for your next LGBTQ book crush. www.bywaterbooks.com #BookSky #LGBTQBookSky #SapphicBookSky #PrideMonthSky 071
Reposted by Baxter Clare Trautman50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11/06/2025We know it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. It’s easy to feel worn down by our democracy being chipped away. YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT. Look at this map of NO KINGS protests. There are OVER 1,800 in the US, South America & Europe! This is a GLOBAL stand. Join us on JUNE 14th for NO KINGS ❌👑 641493505
Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 10/06/2025www.reddit.com/r/vetsagains...reddit.comJune 14th 000
Reposted by Baxter Clare TrautmanThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/06/2025Gina Ortiz Jones, a Filipino American who served as under secretary of the Air Force during the Biden administration, won a runoff election on Saturday to become the mayor of San Antonio, making her the first openly gay leader of the seventh-largest city in the country.trib.alGina Ortiz Jones, a Progressive, Is Elected San Antonio’s MayorMs. Jones, a former under secretary of the Air Force under the Biden administration, prevailed over Rolando Pablos, a conservative with ties with to Gov. Greg Abbott. 15883137