Deborah Baker
@deborahbaker.bsky.social
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist. Guggenheim, Cullman, Whiting Fellow. Charlottesville: An American Story June 2025 Graywolf Press. www.deborahbaker.net
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Deborah Baker
@deborahbaker.bsky.social
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“Charlottesville” Is an American Story That Refuses To Let Hate Win
A look into Deborah Baker’s ‘Charlottesville’ and how past resistance connects to the future’s stand against hate.
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“Perhaps I should admit now that I don’t know how to write this review.”
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
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A disgusting infringement of liberty.
December 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A disgusting infringement of liberty.
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Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
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Conservatives: The constitution is colorblind, discrimination does not justify reverse discrimination
Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for
Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Conservatives: The constitution is colorblind, discrimination does not justify reverse discrimination
Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for
Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for
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Oceans of data on job, education and housing discrimination:
Try harder, losers, stop blaming everyone else
Anecdotal evidence and innumeracy:
There's no point in trying, the deck is stacked against us and it is a great injustice that must be rectified
Try harder, losers, stop blaming everyone else
Anecdotal evidence and innumeracy:
There's no point in trying, the deck is stacked against us and it is a great injustice that must be rectified
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Oceans of data on job, education and housing discrimination:
Try harder, losers, stop blaming everyone else
Anecdotal evidence and innumeracy:
There's no point in trying, the deck is stacked against us and it is a great injustice that must be rectified
Try harder, losers, stop blaming everyone else
Anecdotal evidence and innumeracy:
There's no point in trying, the deck is stacked against us and it is a great injustice that must be rectified
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Read the whole thing, but especially this recognition of how anti-alarmists in the press ignore the firsthand experiences of critics who have lived in the midst of rightwing fanaticism
December 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Read the whole thing, but especially this recognition of how anti-alarmists in the press ignore the firsthand experiences of critics who have lived in the midst of rightwing fanaticism
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A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
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very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
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The Holsinger Studio Portrait Project is back! A traveling version of our hugely successful 2022-2023 exhibition, Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style, and Racial Uplift, will open in mid-January at a well known C-ville church. Stay tuned! (And find us on Instagram at: holsingerstudio.)
December 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The Holsinger Studio Portrait Project is back! A traveling version of our hugely successful 2022-2023 exhibition, Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style, and Racial Uplift, will open in mid-January at a well known C-ville church. Stay tuned! (And find us on Instagram at: holsingerstudio.)
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2025 has obviously been a busy year for the Trump businesses, and there's been a lot of good reporting on it in various outlets, some of which didn't get much pick-up. In this year end piece, I pulled some of it together:
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
The Year in Trump Cashing In
In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money.
www.newyorker.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
2025 has obviously been a busy year for the Trump businesses, and there's been a lot of good reporting on it in various outlets, some of which didn't get much pick-up. In this year end piece, I pulled some of it together:
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
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Baalbak, mon amour!
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Baalbak, mon amour!
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Affordability and "a critique of the state of Israel" were the two main messages that helped Zohran Mamdani get elected mayor of New York, says his father Mahmood Mamdani.
“Learn from Your Kids”: Mahmood Mamdani on Raising Zohran, NYC’s Next Mayor
The acclaimed academic and writer Mahmood Mamdani speaks with Democracy Now! about the rise of his son, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. The professor cites Zohran’s “refusal to budge, to sof...
www.democracynow.org
December 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Affordability and "a critique of the state of Israel" were the two main messages that helped Zohran Mamdani get elected mayor of New York, says his father Mahmood Mamdani.
Invented by Desmond Margetson an avid tennis player and Black engineer
Not a great picture, but at McCarren Park in Williamsburg the outdoor tennis courts become indoor courts during the cold weather months via this tent/dome thing. Makes me wonder if we could do a version of this with some of our tennis or basketball courts in Cville.
December 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Invented by Desmond Margetson an avid tennis player and Black engineer
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Really well presented testimony from a brave man with one small, devastating story that captures so much of the moment.
George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was unjustly pepper-sprayed, arrested, and imprisoned for three days by ICE.
Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇
Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇
December 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Really well presented testimony from a brave man with one small, devastating story that captures so much of the moment.
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Reading.
The NYT's top editor did an "interview" with a staff sycophant and the result was an embarrassment to him and his organization. Press critic Dan Froomkin explains why:
New York Times editor Joe Kahn misunderstands what the readers want | Press Watch
They want the Times to be more honest, not more partisan
presswatchers.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reading.
Hudson Valley peeps. Come in from the cold.
December 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hudson Valley peeps. Come in from the cold.
Congratulations!
Some news: today is my first day at @wsj.com as a senior video correspondent! I’m so excited about joining this incredible team and I can’t wait to dive in
December 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Congratulations!
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
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"As just about any working-class American family will tell you, the real 'distortion of reality' is the idea that a family of four can do anything but suffer on $32,150 a year." Commentary from @danawormald.bsky.social #NHPolitics
How much does it cost to stop being poor in America? • New Hampshire Bulletin
Last month, a Wall Street portfolio manager named Michael Green created a bit of a stir with a Substack article headlined, “How a broken benchmark quietly broke America.” His provocative economic…
newhampshirebulletin.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"As just about any working-class American family will tell you, the real 'distortion of reality' is the idea that a family of four can do anything but suffer on $32,150 a year." Commentary from @danawormald.bsky.social #NHPolitics
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tapping the "please support billionaire free, worker run, reader supported news" holiday edition
Corporate-owned outlets that answer to billionaires are increasingly showing they’re not built for this moment. Independent media is filling the gaps and building something new.
Help us keep building for another year with a gift subscription to one of these awesome outlets:
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Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
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www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
tapping the "please support billionaire free, worker run, reader supported news" holiday edition
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THIS
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
THIS
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goes without saying, kim is the greatest... from labor, to metal, to freakshows, gunpower, resistance +++
also if you run a cool publication and like my writing, please hit me up, I am EXTREMELY open to assignments right now!!!
December 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
goes without saying, kim is the greatest... from labor, to metal, to freakshows, gunpower, resistance +++
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
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no i don’t think so.
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
no i don’t think so.