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John Carl Baker

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nuclear weapons, foreign policy, Korea, the left - occasional antiquity and cocktail posts Words: Nation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, NK News, US Institute of Peace, Jacobin, New Republic, elsewhere seniores tollunt omnia

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · Jan 29

Sen. Charles Sumner attacking the whole notion of white supremacy in 1866

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 8h

genuinely think the intellectual left is struggling rn

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 8h

liberation theology about to blow his mind

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 8h

it’s the most wonderful time of the year

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 10h

Ever have one of those days where you never want to see a six digit code again?

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 13h

One of the recommendations is that the Pentagon "should pursue hypersonic delivery options for nuclear weaponry" www.axios.com/2025/10/09/h...

Exclusive: The hypersonic weapons "asymmetry" plaguing the U.S.

The document lands as Trump 2.0 begins cobbling together Golden Dome, a $175 billion missile shield.

www.axios.com

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 13h

Didn't realize the acting governor of Kursk is going to attend this parade www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

North Korea to flaunt nuclear arsenal at military parade in challenge to West

Kim Jong Un is likely to show off new weapons systems at a parade in Pyongyang, with Chinese and Russian guests of honor, in their latest display of solidarity.

www.washingtonpost.com

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 15h

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 16h

One of the things that irritates me about the worst centrist commentators is the juxtaposition between the self-consciously "adult" tone and the breezy superficiality of the analysis; usually just building off instinctive appeals to elite conventional wisdom.

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 17h

"if workers could live on a diet of air, they wouldn't sell themselves at any price"

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many such cases

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently it’s Robert Simonson, which is weird because he clearly knows his stuff

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny to me that they recognize you should use Old Tom gin but not that that impacts the sweetness level

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

I can stand the NYT covering for Trump - what I cannot abide is bad cocktail recipes

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

nyti.ms

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 1d

If they'd take just some of those hundreds of billions of dollars they're putting into AI and used it to invent a device that puts the duvet in the cover for you without it becoming a WWF cage match, I think it might do more good for humanity.

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

"the capitalist production process doesn't simply produce commodities and surplus-value: it also produces and reproduces the capital relation"

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

"The Roman slave was fettered with chains. Invisible ties bind the wage laborer to his owner: he merely seems to be independent."

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

This is good:

“As the leadership of the Senate with responsibility for appropriations…we will work with our colleagues to ensure that the commonwealth does not subsidize an institution that has ceded its independence to federal political control.” virginiamercury.com/2025/10/09/v...

Va. Senate Dems call Trump admin's UVA funding proposal 'political extortion' • Virginia Mercury

Virginia Senate Democrats warned there would be significant consequences in future budget cycles for the University of Virginia if the school’s leadership accepts a proposed funding agreement with Pre...

virginiamercury.com

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

And for electioneering…AntifaPAC

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

501c3: Antifa Education Fund

501c4: Antifa Action

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

There’s no such thing as “Antifa,” at least not as an actual organized institution, but repressive measures of the kind the regime is doing will certainly create one

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 1d

meet me at the

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 2d

This is why making the shutdown about healthcare was always risky.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 2d

If Dems win the standoff and get their policy demands, yes they will have substantively helped millions of Americans (a good thing, to be clear), but also they will have kept Republicans from a self-inflicted wound in upcoming elections

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Ploughshares @ploughshares.bsky.social · 1d

🎉 Our deep congratulations to Ploughshares grantee Sébastien Philippe, who was awarded a prestigious @macfound.org fellowship to support his work as a multidisciplinary, innovative nuclear security specialist 👏 👏 👏
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Sébastien Philippe

Exposing past harms and potential risks from building, testing, and storing launch-ready nuclear weapons.

www.macfound.org

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

*in the trenches of WWI* look we can’t uninvent chemical weapons

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone is lying except the people we know lie to us multiple times per day

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Kristi Noem: "I was in Portland and met with the governor and mayor and chief of police and superintendent of the highway patrol. They are all lying and disingenuous and dishonest people. Because as soon as you leave the room, then they make the exact opposite response."

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