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Caroline Baxter

@ccbaxter.bsky.social
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Impact and leverage are not verbs. I am not your key stakeholder.

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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“Well Ezra, it’s pretty simple - we didn’t believe women.” “I think that’s a good place to leave it. As always our final question: what are three books you’d recommend to the audience?”
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Dammit.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Why do I feel like Knicks vs Spurs is a referendum on the American republic.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I love this America.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Reading conflicting press accounts of a shooting at a press event; waiting for the hydrocodone to kick in, prescribed b/c US medicine is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ when it comes to women’s menstrual health; the NSF board was fired but a new bureau was created to oversee offshore oil drilling. Another day in America.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Constructed two raised cedar beds, planted herbs and leafy greens, took down old bushes, planted new bushes, pruned the silver maples, and planted a young blossoming apple tree. Deeply aware of my own privilege when I say that no tonic on earth is more potent than working your land by hand.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
At last! Infrastructure Week!
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Experts on waffles? Waffle House? Teleportation? God? God’s hands? Georgia? FEMA? Journalism? Reality?
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
36 years and two audio formats apart, two kids - one who would become the parent of the other - select the exact same album as their first consciously purchased piece of music. Talk about synchronicity. 🥁
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...
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@joekent16jan19
X.com
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.Director of National Intelligence
National Counterterrorism Center
President Trump,
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, 2024, which you enacted in your first term. Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.
In your first administration, you understood better than any modern President how to decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into never-ending wars. You demonstrated this by killing Qasam Solamani and by defeating ISIS.
Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again.
As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved vife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation of to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of
I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran, and who we are doing it for.…
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
At the airport this morning I heard that a flight to Salt Lake City was cancelled because there was no crew to fly the plane.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Hello from the rollercoaster in the sky that is the flight I’m on! Welcome to my in-flight panic attack, where I look around my fellow passengers and wonder why they aren’t all screaming! Some are even sleeping! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE! What’s great is that climate change is making this SO MUCH WORSE!
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Do any other working parents feel incredibly morose the night before a big work trip? Boy and Spouse are a-ok and I’m moping around like I’m going into space, not a few airplanes. Ooof.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Sinners WAS better. Markedly better. It was the foundation on which OBAA rested.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Sinners was robbed. Send twe — whatever the hell these are.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 16/03/2026
BREAKING Australia says won't send navy ship to Strait of Hormuz after Trump request
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
At the local playground and there’s a kid walking around quietly saying “shit…shit…shit…” They’re going to grow up to be a great American.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Meanwhile Russia has been helping Iran target US forces and the US has asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
washingtonpost.com
For Russia, Trump’s sanctions pause means more money to fight Ukraine
The Kremlin hopes the Trump administration’s move to contain oil prices sent soaring by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran will lead to further relief.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I have no words. www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...
cnn.com
Trump fundraising email uses photo from soldiers’ dignified transfer and promises ‘private national security briefings’ | CNN Politics
A political fundraising email from President Donald Trump’s political action committee has a provocative pitch.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It’s comforting to think this is the reason why Trump started a war with Iran b/c the reality - he just wanted to - is worse. Don’t overestimate the amount the public cares about children and women. Everybody who’s anybody either knew about or cavorted with Epstein and nothing happened.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
According to CNN there’s a “strong odor” coming from a VA-based ATC tower. One can only hope it’s something benign, like RFK Jr in his exercise jeans doing pull-ups to motivate the unpaid air traffic controllers.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Yesterday at this time I was in a tank top. Then it got cooler and rained a whole lot. Then this morning is got real cold and snowed. Then it rained. Now it’s sunny and melting the snow. Did we live thru a year of weather? Is it 2027 now? How’d the midterms go?
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
$11.3 billion is a third of USAID's annual budget. It could fund USIP for 205 years.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
*throws computer against the wall* *quits field* *moves to New Zealand* *becomes an apiarist* *names her bees* *learns their language* *becomes a bee* *pollenates* *dies unknown and content*
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
theguardian.com
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Input: "I need new pants." Output: "The PLA's logistics doctrine explicitly prioritizes material readiness. We must not fall behind. Acquiring new pants, ideally reshored and domestically manufactured, is not a lifestyle choice. It is a strategic one." *dying* timhwang.github.io/because-china/
timhwang.github.io
Because China
Justify anything through the lens of great power competition.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas is the lamest addition to the Marvel Universe.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Just another data point to reinforce the hypothesis that are are, in fact, living in the dumbest timeline.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
reuters.com
U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
You're a freakin' igit, kid. Like wicked fakkin dumb to pick this fight. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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RFK Jr.’s dunk on Dunkin’ riles up New Englanders: ‘Come and take it’
“We’re going to ask Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks, ‘Show us the safety data that show that it’s okay for a teenage girl to drink an iced coffee with 115 grams of sugar in it,’” the health secretary sai...
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
“Other regime change-curious interventionists also purchased Ecuador” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
nytimes.com
U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Amazing how this Administration’s foreign policy goes from strength to strength. What could be a better plan to bring peace and democracy than by setting up an ethnic minority to get absolutely slaughtered again. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
cnn.com
CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say | CNN Politics
The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran and the Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish lea...
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If you think this Iran war is a distraction from Epstein you’re delusional. No one cares about sexual abuse of women and girls that much.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
and this is why people like me want to legally prevent anyone in uniform from owning a phone, period (like only 10% joking) giving out free BDA in real time, insane
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/02/2026
Minutes after Donald Trump announced that the US and Israeli governments had launched a “major combat operation” against Iran, disinformation about the attack and Tehran’s response flooded X. wrd.cm/4aYONte
wired.com
X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran
WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Secretaries of Defense are literally scheduled down to the minute, their days are so packed. To have dedicated 6 minutes to this record this video, plus the staff time required to write, vet, and film it, is insane. Doing so during a military buildup in Iran’s backyard is criminally frivolous.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
www.propublica.org/article/life...
propublica.org
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The horror of this is too immense to comprehend. It will leave a permanent stain on the United States, and we deserve it.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Putin wants his shtick back
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
thank you, algorithm
Watcher.Guru on Twitter writes: JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says "prices and inflation are way down, stock market and your 401ks are way up."

Just below it on the timeline, Kalshi on Twitter writes: JUST IN: US housing market reaches most "unaffordable" level in history
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Today in Hellscapes of Commerce, we have whatever this thing is
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It’s impossible to watch luge and not make a “nnnnnyyyeeEOWWWWW” sound as they zoom by
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
All of us with young sons hope that, if we have a kid like Ilia Malinin, we can comfort and sustain them when they have that kind of a bad day. The real work of parenting isn't getting them to the Olympics - it's guiding our kids through failure, and Ilia is still a kid. Man that made my heart hurt.
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is the only thing that will make me uproot and move my family to a foreign country. I will never recover from having an infant during a pandemic with no vaccine to give him - so watching good, safe, normal vaccines get trashed is an actual waking nightmare. I cannot do it again.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
There’s no war. The US wasn’t attacked, and isn’t under imminent threat. Congress didn’t authorize it. Treaties don’t allow it. Drugs aren’t armaments. Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists. Even with all that, we don’t know these were all drug traffickers. And even if they were, they’re low level.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
mprnews.org
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
With apologies for using Strategy Cheese’s trademark emoji but — 🎯
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
That Ring followed by that Budweiser horse-with-eagle ad was a real one/two punch of technojingoism. Woof.
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