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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The "failed civil service exam to mass culling of political enemies" pipeline remains undefeated.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Meta should have its assets seized and Mark Zuckerberg thrown in jail.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just so everyone’s aware, the s’mores flavored Oreos are a modern day masterpiece.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Based on the quotes you'd think I just killed someone's dog and single-handedly have the power to sway election results through a skeet. I was also accused of being anti-American and suffering from "unexamined misogyny." Jesus Christ, some of you are insufferable.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know this is pessimistic, but if the Democrats do indeed end up sweeping the midterms, it won’t be because of the party’s innovation and campaign creativity. Americans just really fucking hate the GOP.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Call me crazy, but maybe we shouldn't have left data security to guys who call themselves "Big Ballz"

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was lucky enough to get away with a day between shaves. Then again, I haven't shaved in five years, so I'm not sure how true that holds now.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ll convert to paganism as an added bonus.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Growing my beard extra long just to spite Pete Hegseth.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lol I'm sorry and thank you! If it's any consolation, I basically bet the farm on entering a job market with a Democratic supermajority.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've survived the first month of my PhD program. Here's to hoping there's something better on the other side of 2028.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is how my undergrads write.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If it took the Christa Pike fiasco to convince you that the death penalty should be abolished, I’m afraid it’s too late for you.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone very high up in the ADL is creaming their jeans over this.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Pete Hegseth appoints national security threat and Nazi owner of CSAM machine to important position.”

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One thing that I haven’t seen talked about is that the Claremont Institute’s fingerprints are all over this speech.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Or former DoD civilians, for that matter.

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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

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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

Nobody tell him what actually happened in Grozny.

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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 · 27/09/2026

Sadie Plant really dodged a bullet.

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

For context, we were discussing Edwin Sutherland’s essay (written in 1940) on white collar crime

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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

I’m not expecting them to write like graduate students, but I expect the basics to be nailed down.

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

I will never understand the appeal of the Amish beard for non-Amish.

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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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