Brian Baughan
@brianbaughan.bsky.social
Independent nonfiction editor in the Philly area. I share reflections on books and trees at brianbaughan.substack.com.
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Let’s be clear: these protections help keep our air breathable, our water drinkable, and our communities healthy. However, Trump decided to prioritize the interests of fossil fuel companies over the health and safety of Americans.
Climate change isn't a scam; he is.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
Climate change isn't a scam; he is.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Let’s be clear: these protections help keep our air breathable, our water drinkable, and our communities healthy. However, Trump decided to prioritize the interests of fossil fuel companies over the health and safety of Americans.
Climate change isn't a scam; he is.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
Climate change isn't a scam; he is.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
Concerning Miles Davis, adaptive introgression, and long geological time. My review of "Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life," over at my Substack, The Taproot Review. brianbaughan.substack.com/p/evolutions...
Evolution's Dance
A Review of Andrew L. Hipp’s Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life
brianbaughan.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Concerning Miles Davis, adaptive introgression, and long geological time. My review of "Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life," over at my Substack, The Taproot Review. brianbaughan.substack.com/p/evolutions...
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Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
February 9, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Haymarket coming through once again with free ebooks to better understand the polycrisis.
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
www.haymarketbooks.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Haymarket coming through once again with free ebooks to better understand the polycrisis.
Another reason to support independent bookstores, either in person or through Bookshop.org and similar marketplaces.
Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.
January 26, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Another reason to support independent bookstores, either in person or through Bookshop.org and similar marketplaces.
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"The whole time our posse of masked goons were kidnapping a 5yo child and sending him to prison in a different state, their primary concern was the safety and welfare of that child."
DHS just sent another statement about ICE’s abduction of a 5-year-old in Minnesota.
They didn’t address my question about whether the child was moved to Texas. They also didn’t provide any evidence for their claims.
They are, however, claiming the child’s “alleged mother” actually abandoned him.
They didn’t address my question about whether the child was moved to Texas. They also didn’t provide any evidence for their claims.
They are, however, claiming the child’s “alleged mother” actually abandoned him.
January 22, 2026 at 9:20 PM
"The whole time our posse of masked goons were kidnapping a 5yo child and sending him to prison in a different state, their primary concern was the safety and welfare of that child."
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Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
January 19, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
Counterpoint: Does anyone give a shit at this point?
I'm sick of hearing about this peace prize. Trump ruined it. Let's move on.
I'm sick of hearing about this peace prize. Trump ruined it. Let's move on.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gifted her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump in a meeting at the White House.
Here’s what to know about whether a Nobel Prize can be regifted.
Here’s what to know about whether a Nobel Prize can be regifted.
Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump. Can it be regifted?
President Trump described the move as a “wonderful gesture of mutual respect.” The Nobel Committee said the medal can change hands, but “the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.”
wapo.st
January 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Counterpoint: Does anyone give a shit at this point?
I'm sick of hearing about this peace prize. Trump ruined it. Let's move on.
I'm sick of hearing about this peace prize. Trump ruined it. Let's move on.
ICE agents enjoyed a meal at a Mexican restaurant, then arrested the very people who served them.
Unfathomably cruel.
Unfathomably cruel.
January 16, 2026 at 12:50 PM
ICE agents enjoyed a meal at a Mexican restaurant, then arrested the very people who served them.
Unfathomably cruel.
Unfathomably cruel.
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🖤 A close friend of mine died in ICE custody after being denied medical care. His name was Parady La. This was preventable. Please watch and share so his family’s story is not erased. #ICEDetention
January 13, 2026 at 11:39 PM
🖤 A close friend of mine died in ICE custody after being denied medical care. His name was Parady La. This was preventable. Please watch and share so his family’s story is not erased. #ICEDetention
Happy Pub Day to @wralpheubanks.bsky.social. I'm grateful for the opportunity to be copyeditor on "When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land" (@beaconpress.bsky.social). Check out this terrific book AND its accompanying playlist!
It’s release day for “When It’s Darkness on the Delta.” Please join me tonight at @squarebooks.bsky.social for my conversation with Wright Thompson. And there is a Spotify playlist that includes all the music referenced in the book. Link in comment thread. Give it a listen.
January 13, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Happy Pub Day to @wralpheubanks.bsky.social. I'm grateful for the opportunity to be copyeditor on "When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land" (@beaconpress.bsky.social). Check out this terrific book AND its accompanying playlist!
It's a murder.
Cut and dry murder. Arrest the officer right now.
Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)
January 7, 2026 at 10:13 PM
It's a murder.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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All of this is confounding and infuriating, in equal measure. From the moment he opens his mouth to the "I do not play favorites with mobs" pronouncement that closes the clip.
This MF's gonna lecture us about hypocrisy?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
This MF's gonna lecture us about hypocrisy?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
just a reminder of the initial, in the moment, right wing reaction to jan 6
my favorite is greg gutfeld saying republican condemnation of the jan 6 rioters is an example of their moral superiority over the left
www.mediamatters.org/media/4018641
my favorite is greg gutfeld saying republican condemnation of the jan 6 rioters is an example of their moral superiority over the left
www.mediamatters.org/media/4018641
January 6, 2026 at 5:51 PM
All of this is confounding and infuriating, in equal measure. From the moment he opens his mouth to the "I do not play favorites with mobs" pronouncement that closes the clip.
This MF's gonna lecture us about hypocrisy?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
This MF's gonna lecture us about hypocrisy?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?
January 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
When are we going to start protecting children and young adults? When are we going to stop traumatizing and re-traumatizing them?
SANDY HOOK SURVIVOR: “I carry this trauma with me every single day… we deserve to live in a nation where you value children more than guns.” 🇺🇸
(H/T @marchforourlives.bsky.social )
(H/T @marchforourlives.bsky.social )
December 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
When are we going to start protecting children and young adults? When are we going to stop traumatizing and re-traumatizing them?
Reporters, please go back to Cotton and Perdue. Either "Why do they send us people from shithole countries?" is a vile, racist remark that Trump "never said" in 2018, or it's NOT a racist remark because, uh, the Cheeto God-King said it (and still says it), and they totally condone it. Which is it?
I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist “shithole countries” comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
TRUMP: “I said why is it we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark… But we always take people from Somalia— places that are filthy, dirty, disgusting.”
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
December 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reporters, please go back to Cotton and Perdue. Either "Why do they send us people from shithole countries?" is a vile, racist remark that Trump "never said" in 2018, or it's NOT a racist remark because, uh, the Cheeto God-King said it (and still says it), and they totally condone it. Which is it?
As a copyeditor, I find the closing of any press sad news. When it's the university press of your alma mater? Ooph. This is a must-read if you're a fan at all of literature and the humanities.
Everything about this article is spot on. University Presses are not a "bespoke ornament" but an integral part of the academic ecosystem. The claim that UPs "don't serve undergraduates" creates a (frankly head-scratching) false barrier between research & teaching--one informs the other & vice versa.
Why Close Bucknell University Press? (opinion)
Erosions of shared governance, narrow definitions of “student-centeredness” and a broader abandonment of a liberal arts ethos all lie behind the closure announcement.
www.insidehighered.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
As a copyeditor, I find the closing of any press sad news. When it's the university press of your alma mater? Ooph. This is a must-read if you're a fan at all of literature and the humanities.
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Steve Cropper played on the most enduring records ever made—his work with Otis Redding, an American treasure gone way too soon, is unreal (and that’s him on the Soul Children debut and many others). Here’s Cropper w/ the pioneering Booker T., Otis, and Sam & Dave in 1967 youtu.be/kUk1WTAReyE?...
Stax Volt Tour 1967 feat. Otis Redding, Booker T. & The MGs, Sam & Dave
YouTube video by bobbynoe1
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Steve Cropper played on the most enduring records ever made—his work with Otis Redding, an American treasure gone way too soon, is unreal (and that’s him on the Soul Children debut and many others). Here’s Cropper w/ the pioneering Booker T., Otis, and Sam & Dave in 1967 youtu.be/kUk1WTAReyE?...
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.