Reposted by C BakerMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 9hMost TV is just this now. 13253191539
Reposted by C BakerDavid Helms @davidhelms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"...the boom's next phase" is sure an interesting way to say bust. 11014
C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Traffic is going to get a lot worse’: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit systemA marvel of engineering and a model of sustainability, Bart has been financially distressed since the Covid pandemic 001
Reposted by C BakerCarolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Huge props to the headline writers at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comAlberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of ratProvince’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin 321219191
Reposted by C BakerSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.apple.newsThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood ReporterThe Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing. 763614943
Reposted by C BakerNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...nytimes.comSupreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges. 31144901822
Reposted by C BakerNFL @nflbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Bijan Robinson showing love to the guys that block for him ❤️ 033
Reposted by C Bakerrobertswartz.bsky.social @robertswartz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Lord of the Fly-ers. 0582
Reposted by C BakerJudith Butlerian Jihad @pghguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Portland anarchist scene getting a massive infusion of members upon this flight's return 01684
C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This whole thread is extremely entertaining (and much more fun to read about than to experience directly) 011
Reposted by C BakerKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026About 30,000 Canadians studying at American colleges and universities each year; all the nurses on TN visas crossing the Detroit-Windsor border; the hydroelectricity exports; as well as stuff like Christmas trees, lumber, aluminum, music, and Heated Rivalry season 2. 1372
Reposted by C BakerGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 2821991231
Reposted by C BakerJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_... 4827851157
Reposted by C BakerCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China. 8527271073
Reposted by C BakerEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs? 26082461642
C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Only someone like Russell Vought can make Jay B look the reasonably guy in the room... 022
Reposted by C BakerLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens. 811510388
Reposted by C BakerFred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Couldn’t invite the Police Cat: we all know what would have happen there. 0141
Reposted by C BakerNon threatening boy. @lushattic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Police said they've got nothing to go on. 1542
Reposted by C BakerMicah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026cops doing the drug bust photo op with a bunch of rolls of toilet paper is incredible, no notes they've even got the K9 unit in the picture, give that dog a roll to play with 542125442
Reposted by C BakerSir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026so on friday I delivered an in-person lecture on eurasian nomads. It was not recorded, no livestream. I used printed visual aids, no powerpoint. I mentioned "pazyryk" once. Today several of my audience members are getting Instagram reels about the pazyryk. 162
Reposted by C BakerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026static.klipy.comBrady: Nine Times? Enough Already!ALT: Brady: Nine Times? Enough Already! 252030551
Reposted by C BakerScotty B @scottyb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026No one I know in real life, and almost no one I know online, is talking about the profound generational evil of flying people to torture prisons in countries they've never had a connection to and where they have no protections from the monsters who do this kind of thing. 1016366
Reposted by C BakerOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Also this scene was brutal 556498
Reposted by C BakerDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit. 776972170
Reposted by C BakerTom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Okay we all know what to do with this. We promote the hell out of the interview. 16403140
Reposted by C BakerLaura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One of the most respected historians in the United States and a giant in the museums world—but above all, an incredible kind man. He will be president of the AHA in 2027 (taking the gavel during the January conference), and I could not be happier to have him lead the association in these times. 171810398
Reposted by C BakerJohn Brandt @withanh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We’re calling for a total and complete shutdown of failsons entering the crypto market until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. 14811
Reposted by C BakerKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Possibly the most American news of all timelocal12.comPrison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debtResidents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457. 280173944955
Reposted by C BakerDan Why-Ner @danweiner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Tired: Complaining about the ending of the Michigan game Wired: Roasting the Big Ten's font choice 1831153
C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The official RNC midterm convention website is *still* redirecting to the DoJ Epstein files page : ) 110
Reposted by C Bakerlos 🦦 @los-los.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If cats didn’t domesticate themselves then explain the meow in homeowner 14413135
Reposted by C BakerAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026Senator @johnfetterman.com lied to paralyzed veterans and ditched a meeting with them to discuss their healthcare so he could appear on Fox News to cheerlead Trump’s war a shit on his own party. What a garbage human. 1192376802
Reposted by C BakerSteve Morgan @duffasteve.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The most shocking and unbelievable bit of this story is that Farage was actually in Clacton. 0688
Reposted by C BakerChannel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:channel4news.substack.comExclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationsUndercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 46894593989
Reposted by C BakerSteve Uncle, People's Champion @the-barely-jew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026this one is amazing 954201320
Reposted by C BakerCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026 627113892247
Reposted by C BakerSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026He literally bankrolled your entire political career 242005254
Reposted by C BakerGeoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 01/09/2026The asphalt is not in our stars, but in ourselves. 0161
Reposted by C BakerMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... 10033791416
Reposted by C BakerMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34995894679
Reposted by C BakerLeah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form 349162163298
Reposted by C BakerArife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This is very good.. I loved the relationship that @johannawinant.bsky.social establishes between close reading and speaking up and arguing for a case. She claims that the difference between a student's close reading of a Renaissance poem and a citizen's+ www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...bostonreview.netThe Claims of Close ReadingLiterary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical. 33613
Reposted by C BakerLowCalCalzoneZone 🤓 @lowcalcalzonezone.bsky.social · 29/08/2026As Josh Johnson wisely said: "JD Vance answers the question - what if a middle school dance were a person. " 327318
Reposted by C BakerJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026From the other place... I am sure this sort of BS is without consequence... 314147