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Baker🇺🇦🌻

@bakerblue.bsky.social

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Ne’er do well-no really. Witty once in a blue moon..sometimes obtuse. Believe in freedom to get in your own way when necessary. There’s still magic in the world if we look closely and quietly..

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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · Mar 12

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George Pearkes @peark.es · Mar 12

On the lighter side, enjoy this Norwegian weather reporter’s travails.

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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 2h

How Scotland could publicly own its wealth of energy resources | Bylines Scotland

How to own Scottish energy

How Scotland could publicly own its wealth of energy resources

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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 3h

Escape…

Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 3h

An that’s really cool, very South American feel-guitar effects almost like a charango..very crisp..good to see Hermanos en the Casa ☺️

Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 4h

Haha! What a mix! They pull it off very well ..

Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 4h

Such a strong neo-western style aesthetic..

Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 6h

lol-we could use a
Couple heroes like that!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h

Love this. “NATO for nonprofits.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

'NATO for nonprofits': Groups organize to band together if targeted by Trump

Nonprofit organizations took lessons away from law firms and universities that largely decided to act in isolation after finding themselves in the administration's crosshairs.

www.nbcnews.com

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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 6h

Boom!

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6h

FBI director gets a label slapped by X on this post saying he delivered on transparency

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 6h

Megan McArdle took all of nine months to move from reluctant Harris voter to full regime apologist.

Must have something to do with being unemployable in any competitive position.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 6h

Wow, a come to Jesus moment.

CNN @cnn.com · 6h

CNN Exclusive: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on Speaker Johnson to bring the House back to DC and rails on the GOP's handling of health care.

‘Everyone’s just getting destroyed’: MTG calls on Johnson to bring House back to DC and rails on GOP handling of health care | CNN Politics

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene broke sharply with her party leaders on Wednesday as they tried to project a united front in the deepening standoff with Democrats over health care and the government s...

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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 6h

Love these all as well..

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

Nationwide protests against Trump and the rise of fascism are taking place on Saturday, Oct. 18.

You can find a local protest here:

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 6h

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 6h

I always like it when a food critic steps down and reveals his or her face after having dined incognito for years—as now has been done by longtime Washington Post critic Tom Sietsema.
www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/10...

Column | Food critic Tom Sietsema is stepping down — and dropping his anonymity

After a quarter-century of reviewing restaurants, donning disguises and turning down photos, The Post’s food critic is ready for his next course.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 6h

We need a froggy detachment to Chi-town on the double!🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 6h

A throng of late 70s to mid 80s cartoon characters lining up and staring down ICE would short-circuit their self-loathing nostalgia circuits and make them cry.

Jem lining up with Scrooge McDuck, the Care Bears, Smurfs, and Slimer would rout them.

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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 6h

Pope Leo is carrying a lot of hopes on his shoulders..🙏🏼

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 6h

Moral leadership!! www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/breaking-p...

BREAKING: Pope Leo Meets with American Migrants, Pledges to Stand Up to Trump's Raids

The American pontiff told them, “The Church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me. And I stand with you.”

www.thelettersfromleo.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

The FBI took personnel action against three special agents who worked in connection with former special counsel Jack Smith's probe of Donald Trump, firing at least two of them.

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

The FBI has fired at least three special agents who worked in connection with former special counsel Jack Smith's probe of now-President Donald Trump.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

Network television is the perfect target for Trump. He knows it matters because it made him rich and famous, and also because TV news still carries information to a lot of people who aren’t news junkies.

Nice little TV network you got there

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

www.motherjones.com

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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 6h

This is quite good.

Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 6h

This is an amazing track.

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun (Official Video)

YouTube video by Dead Oceans

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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 6h

Funny, when this tune came out it was like a salve for me..I’ve spent five years driving around and working in W. Texas..so many times I’ve been the guy stuck in caliche, freezing in my truck, lost in the sticks with cattle milling around, or watching an incredible sunset in the middle of nowhere.

Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 6h

The “ordinary” 1% of the time-largely in the 1% because they didn’t have to work-because slaves,..partnered with laborers,women, and enslaved people to ensure none but they had rights-and that enslaved people remained slaves for another hundred years. An enlightened group…

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Is PBS Okay?: "Masterpiece History" Might Be Erasing Slavery From The American Revolution

YouTube video by Tad Stoermer

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Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social · 7h

Playing dirty-as usual..the speaker is denying AZ representation to save his Orange master. Dems should find a way to bypass this-apparently rules are only for the minority-Grijalva is a duly elected officeholder AZ is being disenfranchised.

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 7h

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social explains precisely why Mike Johnson is stalling the new Dem rep's swear-in over the Epstein vote: "Right now, Johnson can pressure the four Republican signers to change their minds. He has time to do it—as long as he keeps Adelita Grijalva out of Congress."

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 8h

If we could just get every straight dude to watch this www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMSkr7bp/

TikTok video by jesseshreeves

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