Alex Baker
@aabaker.bsky.social
Dem. data work, AZ->Chicago. Russian-American, Double Devil. Cardinals/Bears fan.
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it is a noteworthy shift that Bush et al felt the need to lay like two years of groundwork to justify invading Iraq on WMD grounds and Trump is just saying "Venezuela's oil is our rightful property" and sending in the Navy
December 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it is a noteworthy shift that Bush et al felt the need to lay like two years of groundwork to justify invading Iraq on WMD grounds and Trump is just saying "Venezuela's oil is our rightful property" and sending in the Navy
"The widows of Ashur, folks, they have such a tremendous wail. They cry and sob and say 'Sir, sir, we can't take it anymore!'. And the idols in the temple of Ba'al - so sad what's happened to them, very destroyed from the standpoint of broken. Someone should look into this, maybe SASSY SENNACHERIB!"
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"The widows of Ashur, folks, they have such a tremendous wail. They cry and sob and say 'Sir, sir, we can't take it anymore!'. And the idols in the temple of Ba'al - so sad what's happened to them, very destroyed from the standpoint of broken. Someone should look into this, maybe SASSY SENNACHERIB!"
Reading the knots that they contorted themselves into to deny the contents of the Chapman drone footage on Takur Ghar ("that was a millitant who took his gear, engaged in friendly fire, and then was stripped by other insurgents") made me feel real angry/stupid for ever buying the SEAL myth as a kid.
December 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Reading the knots that they contorted themselves into to deny the contents of the Chapman drone footage on Takur Ghar ("that was a millitant who took his gear, engaged in friendly fire, and then was stripped by other insurgents") made me feel real angry/stupid for ever buying the SEAL myth as a kid.
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Not saying the rest of the armed forces are blameless angels but I'm not at all surprised that it was the SEALs that went through with these boat executions.
Not saying the rest of the armed forces are blameless angels but I'm not at all surprised that it was the SEALs that went through with these boat executions.
Code Over Country
A “searing” (Jeremy Scahill) exposé of SEAL Team 6, the US military’s best-known brand, that reveals how the Navy SEALs were formed, then sacrificed, in service of American empire. The Navy SEALs are,...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Not saying the rest of the armed forces are blameless angels but I'm not at all surprised that it was the SEALs that went through with these boat executions.
Not saying the rest of the armed forces are blameless angels but I'm not at all surprised that it was the SEALs that went through with these boat executions.
Football stadium with one field oriented E/W, other N/S, overlapping around midfield.
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Football stadium with one field oriented E/W, other N/S, overlapping around midfield.