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Kevin Baird

@kevinbaird.bsky.social
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US Navy Vet (VFA-115) and Dad of two. Building a grassroots environmental network to monitor our local air and trying to learn as I go. They not like us. independenceair.org Views are my own.

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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 6h
"Of the 12 sites they proposed could be associated with future earthquakes, 83 per cent experienced a corresponding earthquake within three months of the seismo-ripple patterns emerging."
scmp.com
China-led team hits 83% success rate anticipating earthquakes in study
Strong predictive potential shown as anomalous patterns verified against 12 major earthquakes in China between 2022 and 2024.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 7h
It's almost the two-year anniversary of Diaper Don nominating this snake to be Attorney General of the US. These kind of accusations are a badge of honor for the mAgAt manosphere.
youtu.be
Trump reads "The Snake" poem
YouTube video by CBS News
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 8h
"The day our trucks stop, America stops!"
youtu.be
Al Pacino / Jimmy Hoffa on Trucking
YouTube video by Liam Shannon
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 10h
Maybe they should issue more bonds. This is the next industrial revolution after all, at least that's what they keep saying. Bondholders, stockholders, etc. They get what they get and they don't throw a fit...
My arch nemesis Nebius is down over 10% today and 22% for the month as of the time of this post
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 10h
Their plan is whatever Diaper Don tells them it is. He has no plan for the country, they have no plan for Missourians. Joe Nicola and Mike Steinmeyer pollute my neck of the woods. Ol' Joe is only worried about overriding the will of his constituents. Steinmeyer is dead weight So, folks suffer.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Musk and Diaper Don are one in the same. This is a massive betrayal to an ally fighting for its sovereignty.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Even with “overbuilding” solar and batteries to deliver continuous uptime, Longmier said the company can be profitable at $100 per megawatt-hour, making it competitive with natural gas turbines that many hyperscalers are planning to use to power their data centers."
techcrunch.com
Ambrosia Energy will build a 10 GWh factory in Texas to make batteries for off-grid data centers | TechCrunch
Startup Ambrosia Energy will build a massive factory to crank out batteries to augment solar panels, creating a round-the-clock clean power plant.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General projected that, over the past two years alone, $233 million may have been lost due to food assistance theft — largely driven by skimming. And in most states, stolen benefits are not replaced." Where is JayDeez Vance for this theft?
npr.org
'They're stealing from the poor': A major source of SNAP fraud robs recipients of millions
Organized criminal rings target SNAP recipients because of the government program's outdated security features. But upgrading the tech costs money and states' SNAP budgets are getting squeezed.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Bulgarian power prices have already fallen around 15% relative to neighbouring markets over the last six months. Battery systems have made more electricity available during what are usually the most expensive evening hours, according to data from Bulgaria's transmission system operator."
reuters.com
COMMENTARY: Europe's battery boom has a dirty secret: Martin Vladimirov
Europe's battery boom is proving that storage can help lower peak power prices. But unless government policy changes, battery systems may simply profit from fossil-fuel use instead of helping to elimi...
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Just remember, Diaper Don inherited the worst inflation ever at...3%.
theguardian.com
US inflation rose to 3.7% in September in blow to Republicans before midterms
Final inflation report before voters go to polls comes amid widespread anger over cost of living under Trump
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just remember the butt hurt MAGA senators had when they found out Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records. This is an escalation.
theguardian.com
Federal agents search Ilhan Omar’s home as part of fraud investigation
Video posted by Fox shows what appears to be law enforcement in HSI jackets at Omar’s DC residence
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"These things are important now to put clearly on the record and I believe help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, namely Russia." US, too.
abc.net.au
Russia interfered in Brexit referendum, British PM says
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says it is important to state for the record that Moscow interfered in the referendum and to warn Germany and France of the danger.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Cleaning house in Wuhan.
scmp.com
Wuhan’s Covid mayor Zhou Xianwang jailed for 14 years for corruption
Zhou, who was widely criticised for the delayed announcement that the virus had been detected in the city, was convicted of bribery.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Since sodium-ion has a similar manufacturing process to lithium-ion, established battery manufacturers with highly automated gigafactories and large-format module assembly will be well positioned to make that switch." Sodium is abundant. I'm still partial to thermal storage. Lots of options...
renewableenergyworld.com
What comes after lithium?
Will the future of energy storage be defined by one dominant technology, or by a diverse mix of technologies designed for different applications?
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I was literally radicalized against the death penalty in the early 1990s by music like this. I can remember listening to this on my headphones on the way home from vacation Bible school. Thug life. 🤣👹
music.youtube.com
Capital Punishment in America
YouTube video by Da Lench Mob - Topic
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The market for U.S. natural gas will narrow in the coming decade. In the Middle East and Africa, four-hour batteries will be 33% cheaper by 2035, “displacing gas peaking on cost across every gas market in the region.” In China, energy storage costs are 55% below its neighbors’."
techcrunch.com
Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers | TechCrunch
Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's corruption and collusion with our enemies in plain sight.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump rewards Putin, always. May Ukraine continue to burn down their refineries.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Someone would just have to start calling him Little Marco on stage again and it would be all over for him.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"His campaign reported roughly 117,000 donations at an average of $784 a piece." "Her campaign reported nearly 437,000 donations at an average of $50 each."
houstonchronicle.com
The biggest donors backing Greg Abbott, Gina Hinojosa in Texas governor race
The race between Gov. Greg Abbott and Gina Hinojosa is attracting big-dollar donors. Here is a list of the top ones supporting each candidate.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Almost 1.2 million cubic feet per day of gas production, representing over 57% of U.S. production in the Gulf, is also offline."
heatmap.news
Hurricane Isaias Halts Two-Thirds of U.S. Gulf Oil Production
On Canadian retrofits, Polish nuclear, and Latin American hydro
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Elon Musk is a modern day Thomas Edison and a "very special person," per the diapered POTUS. Nevermind the Nazism and the mass casualty event caused by him putting USAID in the wood chipper... Diaper Don knows who his daddy's are.
youtube.com
Trump on Musk: "Modern day-Thomas Edison"
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It took 5+ years for the S&P, Dow, and NASDAQ to recover after the 2008 Great Recession. After the dot com bubble, it took the S&P and the Dow ~7 years to recover. If you were heavy NASDAQ, you're still feeling the pain because it took 15 years for it to set a new high again. Good luck, all.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Everybody wants to motherfuck the secretary of state,” said Bernie Ryan, a 64-year-old electrician in St Louis. 🤯🤣
theguardian.com
‘Undistilled cheating’: Missouri voters furious in aftermath of Trump bid to rig electoral maps
State residents express anger at Republicans who allowed chaotic voting maps saga to unfold ahead of the midterms
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"According to the UN, Ukraine saw more civilians killed by August this year than were killed in all of 2025."
bbc.com
Russian strike on buses kills at least 30, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge
Ukraine accused Russia of targeting the crowded vehicles in the front line city of Kramatorsk to kill as many civilians as possible.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is what I'm talking about. MAGA scum like Joe Nicola are fundamentally un-American. Just read this opinion piece he wrote arguing his position that citizen led ballot initiatives in Missouri are a threat to the republic itself. He's upset he and his cronies can't override the people. Wow.
themissouritimes.com
Opinion | Nicola: Out-of-State Dark Money Shouldn’t Write Missouri Law: Why I’m Voting No on 6 - The Missouri Times
This November, Missouri voters will decide the fate of Amendment 6, an initiative petition proposal to change Missouri’s laws around those very citizen-led law changes.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Who's gonna be the first Congressional nut licker to go to bat for this like they did with the ballroom? Byron Donalds is my pick 🕑
bbc.com
Trump wants a new Camp David retreat at his posh Florida golf club
Trump's estate would stand in stark contrast to the rustic Camp David and mark another tradition transformed by Trump.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pegasus was also used to target 35 activists, journalists, etc. in Jordan from 2019-2023.
accessnow.org
How Pegasus spyware crushes civic space in Jordan
Access Now launched the new investigation report to reveal how Pegasus spyware crushes civic space in Jordan.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here's a recent case of their Pegasus spyware being used to target pro-democracy activists in Serbia via their iPhones.
citizenlab.ca
Pegasus Spyware Infection of Serbian Pro-Democracy Student Activist - The Citizen Lab
In collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, the Citizen Lab confirmed that the iPhone of a member of Serbia’s student protest movement was infected with Pegasus spyware.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sanctioned spyware company, NSO Group, "...after being acquired by a group of US investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds, appointed David Friedman, President Trump's former bankruptcy attorney and former US ambassador to Israel, as its executive chairman."
darkreading.com
Citizen Lab Slams Trump, 'Techno-Fascist' Executives
The Citizen Lab's Ron Deibert warns the US government is pushing for pervasive surveillance, saying some technology executives are all too happy to help.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Asked, for example, whether OpenAI models could break into and operate an oil and gas facility, Kwon admitted that "we don't know," and advocated that such organizations update their penetration testing processes to account for AI-grade attacks." This is fine...💀
darkreading.com
Australian Gov't Weighs Mandatory AI Incident Reporting
In the wake of an agentic attack against its own systems, Australia's government is feeling out what regulations might look like for frontier AI companies.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He hasn't terminated them. He clearly said if there's a conflict, he'll terminate them. Since Diaper Don runs a pro-Russia regime here in America, there's not much of anything to make of this.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Does Diaper Don have the plague? He gets more grotesque looking every day, but let's hope everything will be fine.
youtube.com
Trump says Russia claims to have plague 'under control'
YouTube video by CNN
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The loss will be hard to see: it will be counted in inventions never made, firms never founded, races against other countries lost,” he said. “It will not be easy to hold accountable the people who caused it. But the loss will nevertheless be colossal.”
scmp.com
US proposes US$70,000 fee for foreign students to work after graduation
Schools would have to pay for graduates’ initial OPT participation, with a further US$30,000 charge, affecting thousands of Chinese students.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Diaper Don and his mAgaT movement are all about selling out Americans and our allies so he and his cronies get rich and decimate America's standing in the world. It is, and always has been, a planned and coordinated operation with foreign entities. This is why we are not a serious country.
youtube.com
Trump's Team Sells Out the US
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Had to get deep in this article before Grok's affinity for generating child porn was mentioned...in passing. What are we even doing here, @bloomberg.com?
bloomberg.com
Child Predators Turn to Open-Source AI to Make Unlimited Illegal Images
Open-source AI tools are fueling a rise in explicit child sexual images, and current laws are ill-equipped to stop it.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Yellen, who served as Treasury secretary under former Democratic President Joe Biden, said she believed “it’s important for Canada and other countries not to accept this lying down and to retaliate.” How long until Diaper Don tries to prosecute former officials for statements like this?
bloomberg.com
Yellen Says Trump ‘Appalling’ on US Allies, Backs Retaliation
Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen criticized President Donald Trump’s treatment of US allies, and backed the idea of retaliation for protectionist moves.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Politicking is hard work.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Weakest leader in recorded history? We are retreating from our position while our enemy has their way with us.
youtube.com
Trump on Iran bringing Combat Drones into U.K.
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“The senators and representatives are directly accountable to the people. And if they don’t like what we’re doing, they can vote us out,” Nicola said. *We have a Republican supermajority here in Missouri. When you knock one MAGA dipshit down, another one is right there to take its place.
kcur.org
Missouri Amendment 6 could make it harder for lawmakers to overturn voter-led ballot issues
If passed on Nov. 3, the amendment would enshrine the “Respect Missouri Voters” initiative into the state constitution. That would require an 80% threshold for lawmakers to overturn citizen-led measur...
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Case numbers have risen over the past three months, with the highest number of infections in the 24-49 age range."
theguardian.com
Pennsylvania faces largest measles outbreak in decades as case count rises to 1,000
Neighboring states are also reporting hundreds of cases, with over 3,800 recorded across the country
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in Diaper Don's orbit, let alone his cabinet, your credibility has long since departed this world.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“It has hurt his credibility, there’s no question about it,” says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, a right-leaning think tank in Washington. “That’s not good for the Treasury.” 🤣💀
bloomberg.com
Scott Bessent’s Rosy Forecasts Are Putting His Credibility at Risk
The US Treasury Secretary risks boxing himself in with his prognostications on gasoline prices, the housing market and the economy.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Anyone who thinks that Elon musk is just flying by the seat of his pants and has all this power but doesn't know what to do with it is delusional. He owns the United States government. He pals around with Vladimir Putin. His friends in Germany just won SpaceX, Nazi X, Nazi AI Seems clear to me.
youtube.com
‘Musk’ Director discusses Elon Musk’s ‘enormous power’
YouTube video by CNN
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Even the non-binding nuclear power agreement is bullshit. $20 billion / yr is all that South Korea has pledged for overseas infrastructure, and funding is dependent upon all kinds of things related to the projects themselves. Smoke and mirrors, always.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Oracle...has nearly doubled its long-term debt to more than $160 billion over the past two years, as the company refashions itself as a provider of computing power for artificial intelligence work. It now ranks as the fifth-largest borrower in the US corporate bond market..."
bloomberg.com
Larry Ellison Risk Exposed by Paramount and Oracle Debt Binges
As Paramount Skydance Corp. and Oracle Corp. vault into the ranks of corporate America’s biggest borrowers, their links to the same man — billionaire Larry Ellison — are starting to stir angst on Wall...
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Corey has banged multiple members of the current and former Trump regime, so his opinion is in high demand for respected outlets like the NYT.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He's only slobbish because he'd further lower America's birthrate if he showed off his abs.
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is why it makes no sense for Democrats to continue marching to the same beat as they have been since the 90's That country you remember and think you're defending is dead Tactics from that time period are outdated and invalid We have Nazis, fascists, cultists and weirdos running things now 🔎
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Kevin Baird @kevinbaird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This video is from 3 years ago. We are not a serious country. You may think you're part of a serious country, but that's not reality.
youtube.com
Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again
YouTube video by CNN
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