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C Baker

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junior Gen-Xer. scientist. in favor of: books, soccer, plants, every dog I meet, any halfway decent milk chocolate, the rule of law, Warriors, 49ers (especially George and Fred)

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 9h
Most TV is just this now.
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David Helms @davidhelms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"...the boom's next phase" is sure an interesting way to say bust.
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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Traffic is going to get a lot worse’: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit system
A marvel of engineering and a model of sustainability, Bart has been financially distressed since the Covid pandemic
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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huge props to the headline writers at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please 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...
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Supreme 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.
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NFL @nflbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bijan Robinson showing love to the guys that block for him ❤️
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robertswartz.bsky.social @robertswartz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lord of the Fly-ers.
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Judith Butlerian Jihad @pghguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Portland anarchist scene getting a massive infusion of members upon this flight's return
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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This whole thread is extremely entertaining (and much more fun to read about than to experience directly)
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
About 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.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This 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-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.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...
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The 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_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It 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.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’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?
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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Only someone like Russell Vought can make Jay B look the reasonably guy in the room...
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alex 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.
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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Couldn’t invite the Police Cat: we all know what would have happen there.
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Non threatening boy. @lushattic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Police said they've got nothing to go on.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
cops 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
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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
so 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.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Brady: Nine Times? Enough Already!
ALT: Brady: Nine Times? Enough Already!
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Scotty B @scottyb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No 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.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Also this scene was brutal
Firefighters shook each other’s hands before splitting up to save folks on 9/11
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sam @samthielman.com · 11/09/2026
Bro is trying to honeypot JD Vance
David Maloney looking like a cheap couch
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026
The 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.
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Okay we all know what to do with this. We promote the hell out of the interview.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Short-LIV'd imo
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One 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.
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John Brandt @withanh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We’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.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Dan Why-Ner @danweiner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Tired: Complaining about the ending of the Michigan game Wired: Roasting the Big Ten's font choice
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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Pill bugs are crustaceans. Itty bitty land lobsters!
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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The official RNC midterm convention website is *still* redirecting to the DoJ Epstein files page : )
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los 🦦 @los-los.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If cats didn’t domesticate themselves then explain the meow in homeowner
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026
Senator @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.
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Steve Morgan @duffasteve.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The most shocking and unbelievable bit of this story is that Farage was actually in Clacton.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover 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:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover 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.
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Steve Uncle, People's Champion @the-barely-jew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this one is amazing
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He literally bankrolled your entire political career
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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 01/09/2026
The asphalt is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A 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...
Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months. 

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This 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.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I love this
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026
I’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
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Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This 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...
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The Claims of Close Reading
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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LowCalCalzoneZone 🤓 @lowcalcalzonezone.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As Josh Johnson wisely said: "JD Vance answers the question - what if a middle school dance were a person. "
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
From the other place... I am sure this sort of BS is without consequence...
A post from X about USAID/NASA collaboration being cut by DOGE involving glacier inventory and flood protection in Nepal.
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