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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 3h

With all the Hegseth talk, if you’re a journalist and a podcaster that’s going to cover what’s going on in the DoD, please for the love of god, talk to actual veterans.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 9h

Insanely good writing by @patrickobrienstrickland.com that I’m proud to have helped contribute to.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 12h

Hegseth is a deeply insecure man with GWOT-era “cult of the operator” syndrome who will stop at nothing to make sure that it’s everyone else’s problem.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She needs to be Drewski's next parody.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Émile Durkheim 🤝 James Mason’s SIEGE Just trust me on this.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Always happy to share my thoughts with @davidgilbert.bsky.social and folks over at @wired.com.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of my former colleagues happily gave Rufo commentary for one of his articles in City Magazine.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Monday in class, I said, "Bring out the guillotines," in reference to technofascist billionaires.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every time a dentist looks in your both, they see a new Rolex.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Been thinking about the concept of "stochastic parroting" in LLMs and how it applies to expressing extremist ideologies. My working hypothesis is that ideology is essentially dead and we're just living through the slopification of mass politics. I don't know, man; I'm just throwing shit at the wall.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

QAA not platforming campists challenge: impossible

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is my “old man yells at cloud” moment: The inability of undergrads to write effectively is extremely worrying to me. I’m grading assignments and that vast majority of them are littered with run on sentences, incomplete thoughts, and just awful grammar.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What’s especially rich about this is that the GOP and multiple Zionist groups are always complaining to Congress about Qatari funding at university Middle Eastern studies programs that peddle anti-Israel narratives. Can’t have your cake and eat it too.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I didn't mention this in the article, but worth writing here; these groups openly advocate against other larger Nazi groups active right now, specifically naming groups such as Blood Tribe, GDL, and PF / Patriot Youth. They hope to violently destroy ~the system~, not control it like others.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Undergraduate newspapers do better reporting and have better journalistic ethics than this fucking rag.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Welp, I’ve come face to face with my first experience grading an assignment that induced the thought of “this could make me the face of a conservative smear campaign.”

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Adding this question to the list containing such questions like: “Who was president in 2020?”

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

US taxpayers continue to bankroll a genocide

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Taylor Lorenz has a phone-shaped hole in her brain.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Professor asked to bum a Zyn off me. Safe to say I think I found my advisor.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There’s only one reason why you’re anti-antifascist. And it’s not a good one.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Okay, now that I have a passport, where in Europe should I go during my winter break this year?

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Perfect song to cry in the shower to, IMHO. Don’t ask why. No personal experience. No sir.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Having to watch the Panthers put up 21 points on the Bears with 8 minutes left in the 2nd quarter is painful.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“But won’t you think of our evil donors who don’t want their names publicly identified? What will THEY think if you speak ill of the crown?”

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Meanwhile institutions that claim to be nonpartisan and study extremism are doing flips on it for going after leftists.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ted Cruz is a vile anti-Muslim bigot. I would love to see what the Republican reaction would be to a Democrat ranting about Jews and Halakha.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This guy gave a keynote address at an antisemitism conference back in February.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's insane to watch some of the professors I used to admire descend into madness over on The Other Site.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We are live and in color. I wanted to use Baudrillard’s framing of 9/11 to see what we could possibly learn about the death of Charlie Kirk, and as it turns out, there’s quite a bit.

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The Spirit of Charlie Kirk

Political Violence, Spectacle, and the Death of Memory

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You would think that established “extremism research” institutions would want to, I don’t know, say something about this?

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey, kids. After spending almost two months pondering the potential for an article like this, it's coming out tomorrow. Make sure to subscribe! lukebaumgartner1.substack.com

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Judging from the comment section, it looks like everyone read "The Wretched of the Earth" once and said, "he just like me fr."

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The confederates were traitorous losers that should be forgotten.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Phrenology, but make it "based" for "the youths."

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Potentially hot take: Dawn Power Wash should be considered one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Shit like this is why I have a hard time getting on with “resistance” libs. It’s all just cringe cosplay, and Patton Oswald falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“We took kids to a Nazi concert” isn’t the flex you think it is. Ye literally wrote a song called “Heil Hitler.” He’s broken bread with Donald Trump and Nick Fuentes.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Pod Save bros talking about anything related to extremism that isn’t policy wonk brained is enough to make me want to claw my eyes out with rusty spoons.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The thing about Bluesky is that there is an unwillingness to acknowledge that awful people are on this platform and instead chalk it up to “bots” or “foreign psyops.”

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