Brandon Baumgartner
@baumer.bsky.social
Engineer, triathlete, West Coaster transplanted to the Midwest
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Feels like we're going to have to keep asking, "Hey, what happens if the Seahawks are behind in the second half to a good team in the playoffs" until we get to the playoffs.
Another week of "our offense is a grungy mess and also we have slaughtered you" for the Seahawks.
December 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Feels like we're going to have to keep asking, "Hey, what happens if the Seahawks are behind in the second half to a good team in the playoffs" until we get to the playoffs.
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During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
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"If you believe a 19-year-old Jewish college student chanting “Free Palestine” is more dangerous than the vice president of the US implying that Germans should embrace the far-right party Alternative for Germany then you’re drawing the wrong lessons from history." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"If you believe a 19-year-old Jewish college student chanting “Free Palestine” is more dangerous than the vice president of the US implying that Germans should embrace the far-right party Alternative for Germany then you’re drawing the wrong lessons from history." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
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Forget strangling baby Hitler when I get a Time Machine I’m drone striking an early PayPal board meeting
December 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Forget strangling baby Hitler when I get a Time Machine I’m drone striking an early PayPal board meeting
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The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.
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“How dare you insult the emperor’s clothes”
‘What’s Your Problem?’ Gutfeld Snaps at Fox News Colleague Who Pointed Out FIFA Made Award Specifically for Trump
‘What’s Your Problem?’ Gutfeld Snaps at Fox News Colleague Who Pointed Out FIFA Made Award Specifically for Trump
Fox host Greg Gutfeld snapped back at co-host Gillian Turner on Friday after she pointed out that the peace prize awarded to President Donald Trump by FIFA was created specifically for him. During a discussion on The Five about the United State’s hosting of the upcoming FIFA World Cup, Gutfeld praised the soccer governing body for choosing Trump […]
The post ‘What’s Your Problem?’ Gutfeld Snaps at Fox News Colleague Who Pointed Out FIFA Made Award Specifically for Trump first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
December 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“How dare you insult the emperor’s clothes”
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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from top to bottom all of these guys treat the united states government as a neat toy they can show off to their friends and use to impress girls
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
lol
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
from top to bottom all of these guys treat the united states government as a neat toy they can show off to their friends and use to impress girls
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
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oh my god, he admit it x.com/Acyn/status/...
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
oh my god, he admit it x.com/Acyn/status/...
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I really can't think of a better example of "how to make it hard to fight back against antisemitism" than declaring THIS to be "Blood Libel."
This is "Boy Who Cried Wolf" levels of stupid on Eve's part...
This is "Boy Who Cried Wolf" levels of stupid on Eve's part...
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I really can't think of a better example of "how to make it hard to fight back against antisemitism" than declaring THIS to be "Blood Libel."
This is "Boy Who Cried Wolf" levels of stupid on Eve's part...
This is "Boy Who Cried Wolf" levels of stupid on Eve's part...
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MS NOW Exclusive:
FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.
FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
MS NOW Exclusive:
FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.
FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.
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We all know this is a lie, but can we stop valorizing this shit?
Sleeping this little actually really fucks you up and you make bad decisions. It makes you irritable. It fucks up your memory. It reduces your ability to react calmly and rationally.
Sleeping this little actually really fucks you up and you make bad decisions. It makes you irritable. It fucks up your memory. It reduces your ability to react calmly and rationally.
VARNEY: Do you work 18 hours a day?
MIKE JOHNSON: More. More. And I have to, because President Trump works 21 hours a day.
MIKE JOHNSON: More. More. And I have to, because President Trump works 21 hours a day.
December 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We all know this is a lie, but can we stop valorizing this shit?
Sleeping this little actually really fucks you up and you make bad decisions. It makes you irritable. It fucks up your memory. It reduces your ability to react calmly and rationally.
Sleeping this little actually really fucks you up and you make bad decisions. It makes you irritable. It fucks up your memory. It reduces your ability to react calmly and rationally.
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This would be, without any doubt, a war crime committed by the United States. We prosecuted Germans and Japanese for doing this exact thing in WWII.
December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This would be, without any doubt, a war crime committed by the United States. We prosecuted Germans and Japanese for doing this exact thing in WWII.
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It's incredibly frustrating that Trump will go to a conference of Jewish Businessman say "y'all have to vote for me, because you like money" and that won't be labeled antisemitism by the press, but protests on college campuses supporting Palestine will.
pointing and laughing, and saying "look at the stingy Hebrew."
THAT is antisemitism. Accurately describing a genocide is not.
Stop cheapening actual hatred because you support murdering children.
THAT is antisemitism. Accurately describing a genocide is not.
Stop cheapening actual hatred because you support murdering children.
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's incredibly frustrating that Trump will go to a conference of Jewish Businessman say "y'all have to vote for me, because you like money" and that won't be labeled antisemitism by the press, but protests on college campuses supporting Palestine will.
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Olivia Nuzzi? The teen pop sensation?
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Olivia Nuzzi? The teen pop sensation?
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Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?
October 8, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?
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The Oklahoma House of Representatives gave that girl an award for writing a terrible essay? For getting a trans person fired? This whole thing is an op.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Oklahoma House of Representatives gave that girl an award for writing a terrible essay? For getting a trans person fired? This whole thing is an op.
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Hard to overstate how damning it is they've spun their wheels trying to come up with their strongest possible argument and the best they can do, the rationalization for it Hegseth actually put in writing, is "we can kill shipwrecked survivors if they try to call for help."
2/ The Hegseth-approved contingency plan:
The U.S. military could try to kill shipwrecked survivors if "they took what the United States deemed to be a hostile action, like communicating with suspected cartel members."
The U.S. military could try to kill shipwrecked survivors if "they took what the United States deemed to be a hostile action, like communicating with suspected cartel members."
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Hard to overstate how damning it is they've spun their wheels trying to come up with their strongest possible argument and the best they can do, the rationalization for it Hegseth actually put in writing, is "we can kill shipwrecked survivors if they try to call for help."
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The entire U.S. population is in the low hundreds of millions (340m), meaning that according to NoemMath, nearly all of us were on track for a cocaine-related death. I am so grateful to have been saved.
Noem: You have saved hundreds of millions of lives with the Cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean
December 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The entire U.S. population is in the low hundreds of millions (340m), meaning that according to NoemMath, nearly all of us were on track for a cocaine-related death. I am so grateful to have been saved.
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The full video of the rant about Omar and Somalis is so much worse than even the snippets that can fit into text quotes can properly convey. It is the longest he's maintained a train of thought on a single topic in months, and he's just reveling in it the whole time like a pig in shit.
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The full video of the rant about Omar and Somalis is so much worse than even the snippets that can fit into text quotes can properly convey. It is the longest he's maintained a train of thought on a single topic in months, and he's just reveling in it the whole time like a pig in shit.
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i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.
I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.
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One of the lowest points in US history - the president going on unhinged white supremacist rants in public appearance after public appearance, targeting a specific ethnic group - but because it’s Trump our political class is incapable of perceiving what it is and reacting appropriately
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
One of the lowest points in US history - the president going on unhinged white supremacist rants in public appearance after public appearance, targeting a specific ethnic group - but because it’s Trump our political class is incapable of perceiving what it is and reacting appropriately
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That’s right — two thirds of the entire population of America was saved by the president’s brave war crimes.
But did they even say thank you?
But did they even say thank you?
Noem: You have saved hundreds of millions of lives with the Cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean
December 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
That’s right — two thirds of the entire population of America was saved by the president’s brave war crimes.
But did they even say thank you?
But did they even say thank you?
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Much like how anyone born after 1980 has never known a functioning US government, we’ve never known an Israel close to the one our parents grew up with (and yes a lot of that version was heavily propagandized).
Boomers can’t accept that our opinions are shaped by our reality not their memories.
Boomers can’t accept that our opinions are shaped by our reality not their memories.
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Much like how anyone born after 1980 has never known a functioning US government, we’ve never known an Israel close to the one our parents grew up with (and yes a lot of that version was heavily propagandized).
Boomers can’t accept that our opinions are shaped by our reality not their memories.
Boomers can’t accept that our opinions are shaped by our reality not their memories.
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It is fascinating that a genuinely intelligent person like Clinton cannot fathom people just disagreeing with her based on the evidence, clearly this is a racial (and ideological) blindspot on her part, but this is true for pretty much everyone of her generation and of her particular elite cohort.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It is fascinating that a genuinely intelligent person like Clinton cannot fathom people just disagreeing with her based on the evidence, clearly this is a racial (and ideological) blindspot on her part, but this is true for pretty much everyone of her generation and of her particular elite cohort.