Cynthia Baker
@cynthiathebaker.bsky.social
Three ring circus, liberal, and damned tired of watching the hate, the cruelty and the ignorance. It doesn’t have to be like this. Trying to stay sane and create a world my grandkids can thrive in.
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Yes! This!
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Yes! This!
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Heads up that this is authorization for Trump to create his own version of the Wagner Group. Which would bring the number of “armies” at his disposal to four:
*regular armed forces (most regulated)
*ICE (minimally regulated)
*private mercenaries (?)
*MAGA thugs/militias (rogue)
All pardonable
*regular armed forces (most regulated)
*ICE (minimally regulated)
*private mercenaries (?)
*MAGA thugs/militias (rogue)
All pardonable
S.3567
A bill to authorize the President of the United States to ...
SPONSOR: Sen. Mike Lee (R), UT
№ CO-SPONSORS: 0
STATUS: Introduced
LATEST ACTION: Senate - 2025-12-18 Read twice and referred to the Committee on ...
#Republicans
Details at congress.gov
A bill to authorize the President of the United States to ...
SPONSOR: Sen. Mike Lee (R), UT
№ CO-SPONSORS: 0
STATUS: Introduced
LATEST ACTION: Senate - 2025-12-18 Read twice and referred to the Committee on ...
#Republicans
Details at congress.gov
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Heads up that this is authorization for Trump to create his own version of the Wagner Group. Which would bring the number of “armies” at his disposal to four:
*regular armed forces (most regulated)
*ICE (minimally regulated)
*private mercenaries (?)
*MAGA thugs/militias (rogue)
All pardonable
*regular armed forces (most regulated)
*ICE (minimally regulated)
*private mercenaries (?)
*MAGA thugs/militias (rogue)
All pardonable
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🎯🧵by @brownecfm.bsky.social from Aug 2025:
"Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level..."
Full 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19544...
"Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level..."
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December 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🎯🧵by @brownecfm.bsky.social from Aug 2025:
"Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level..."
Full 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19544...
"Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level..."
Full 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19544...
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This is the funniest shit I have ever seen. He kicks the dude in the beans and then mocks him
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This is the funniest shit I have ever seen. He kicks the dude in the beans and then mocks him
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Mark Grantham (Canadian Artist, born 1966)
"February on June Street, Halifax", 2015.
Acrylic on Canvas Board, 24" × 18".
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"February on June Street, Halifax", 2015.
Acrylic on Canvas Board, 24" × 18".
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Mark Grantham (Canadian Artist, born 1966)
"February on June Street, Halifax", 2015.
Acrylic on Canvas Board, 24" × 18".
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"February on June Street, Halifax", 2015.
Acrylic on Canvas Board, 24" × 18".
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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This is very bad.
Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...
stateline.org
December 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This is very bad.
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Reposting for reach 👇
I used to be a professor, so I know many #academic folk spend their after-Christmas already planning spring courses. I wrote a book that talks about rise of #fascism from the roots, #LGBTQ and #science history. It’s accessible. It has back matter for students. And I have teaching materials.
Are you a professor planning to incorporate THE INTERMEDIARIES (medical #history, Weimar, #Jewish history, #transgender history, #LGBTQ fighting Nazis) into your course? I have pdf to share, additional teaching materials, images, and resources for use. Please ping me.
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
December 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reposting for reach 👇
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This is how it’s done!
And… TRO granted!
A sweet Christmas present for @imranahmed.bsky.social, @counterhate.com--& for their mission of fighting antisemitism & protecting kids online. Also nice for our all-star legal team.
A lump of coal in the stockings of authoritarians & the merchants of disinformation
A sweet Christmas present for @imranahmed.bsky.social, @counterhate.com--& for their mission of fighting antisemitism & protecting kids online. Also nice for our all-star legal team.
A lump of coal in the stockings of authoritarians & the merchants of disinformation
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is how it’s done!
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I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
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I do not love that six years into a global pandemic the general widely held consensus is that if you don’t want to consent to getting exposed endlessly your only choice is to basically be a solitary weirdo loving in isolation from even your family.
December 26, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I do not love that six years into a global pandemic the general widely held consensus is that if you don’t want to consent to getting exposed endlessly your only choice is to basically be a solitary weirdo loving in isolation from even your family.
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This quote from John Ioannidis is pretty incredible.
He is implying that Jay Bhattacharya is an apolitical actor here and that it is we, his critics, who are running the risk of making science political.
In his fantasy, these headlines are required now, to save science.
We need to STFU.
He is implying that Jay Bhattacharya is an apolitical actor here and that it is we, his critics, who are running the risk of making science political.
In his fantasy, these headlines are required now, to save science.
We need to STFU.
December 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This quote from John Ioannidis is pretty incredible.
He is implying that Jay Bhattacharya is an apolitical actor here and that it is we, his critics, who are running the risk of making science political.
In his fantasy, these headlines are required now, to save science.
We need to STFU.
He is implying that Jay Bhattacharya is an apolitical actor here and that it is we, his critics, who are running the risk of making science political.
In his fantasy, these headlines are required now, to save science.
We need to STFU.
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😱
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
😱
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“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are... contrary to, the president’s official duties. In this country, no one... is above the law.”
--Kenneth Starr (May 13, 1998)
www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...
--Kenneth Starr (May 13, 1998)
www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...
Can the President Be Indicted? A Long-Hidden Legal Memo Says Yes (Published 2017)
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are... contrary to, the president’s official duties. In this country, no one... is above the law.”
--Kenneth Starr (May 13, 1998)
www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...
--Kenneth Starr (May 13, 1998)
www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...
#GlutenFree #YuleLog was a massive hit for #ChristmasEve. Flourless chocolate sponge, raspberry and whipped cream filling, whipped chocolate cream frosting with the thinnest tempered chocolate bark pieces and meringue shrooms, and sponge moss
December 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#GlutenFree #YuleLog was a massive hit for #ChristmasEve. Flourless chocolate sponge, raspberry and whipped cream filling, whipped chocolate cream frosting with the thinnest tempered chocolate bark pieces and meringue shrooms, and sponge moss
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Again, not hidden!
They announced their intentions loudly and often.
They announced their intentions loudly and often.
December 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Again, not hidden!
They announced their intentions loudly and often.
They announced their intentions loudly and often.
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The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
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Fake cries of censorship from famous doctors paved the way for👇
December 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Fake cries of censorship from famous doctors paved the way for👇
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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🔥🧵👇 from @1goodtern on Twitter
"Ten words you need to know to understand how we can be entering the seventh year of the covid pandemic..."
Full 🧵:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/20023...
"Ten words you need to know to understand how we can be entering the seventh year of the covid pandemic..."
Full 🧵:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/20023...
Thread by @1goodtern on Thread Reader App
@1goodtern: Ten words you need to know to understand how we can be entering the seventh year of the covid pandemic. 1 Covvabarator A public health figure who sides with the virus over the people. 2 Af...
threadreaderapp.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🔥🧵👇 from @1goodtern on Twitter
"Ten words you need to know to understand how we can be entering the seventh year of the covid pandemic..."
Full 🧵:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/20023...
"Ten words you need to know to understand how we can be entering the seventh year of the covid pandemic..."
Full 🧵:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/20023...
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🎯post by Hiroshi Yasuda @Yash25571056 on Twitter:
"SARS-CoV-2 infects astrocytes via the Neuropilin 1 receptor (NRP1) and modulates the glycolysis pathway, reducing pyruvate and lactate levels..
The glutaminolysis and TCA pathways also change in..."
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threadreaderapp.com/thread/20019...
"SARS-CoV-2 infects astrocytes via the Neuropilin 1 receptor (NRP1) and modulates the glycolysis pathway, reducing pyruvate and lactate levels..
The glutaminolysis and TCA pathways also change in..."
Full 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/20019...
December 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
🎯post by Hiroshi Yasuda @Yash25571056 on Twitter:
"SARS-CoV-2 infects astrocytes via the Neuropilin 1 receptor (NRP1) and modulates the glycolysis pathway, reducing pyruvate and lactate levels..
The glutaminolysis and TCA pathways also change in..."
Full 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/20019...
"SARS-CoV-2 infects astrocytes via the Neuropilin 1 receptor (NRP1) and modulates the glycolysis pathway, reducing pyruvate and lactate levels..
The glutaminolysis and TCA pathways also change in..."
Full 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/20019...
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Ok so if no one cares about the airborne virus that infects the lining of your blood vessels and breaks basically every part of your body, maybe they'll be interested in cleaning the air because it's also full of microplastics (those little threads floating in a sunbeam aren't pixie dust).
Every breath you take: High concentration of breathable microplastics in indoor environments
The widespread presence of microplastics (MPs) in the air and their potential impact on human health underscore the pressing need to develop robust me…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Ok so if no one cares about the airborne virus that infects the lining of your blood vessels and breaks basically every part of your body, maybe they'll be interested in cleaning the air because it's also full of microplastics (those little threads floating in a sunbeam aren't pixie dust).
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NEW: After months of the government telling the court under penalty of perjury that the US Attorney alone made the decision to charge Kilmar Abrego with a crime, there is now EVIDENCE tying Todd Blanche to the decision. More to come on Substack... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#272 in United States v. Abrego Garcia (M.D. Tenn., 3:25-cr-00115) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE of Defendant's Supplemental Brief on United States' Motion to Quash (Redacted) by Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (Hecker, Sean) (Entered: 12/19/2025)
storage.courtlistener.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
NEW: After months of the government telling the court under penalty of perjury that the US Attorney alone made the decision to charge Kilmar Abrego with a crime, there is now EVIDENCE tying Todd Blanche to the decision. More to come on Substack... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The hypothesis that holding a science- and policy-based rant/therapy sesh with me, @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, and @drdemetre.bsky.social would be entertaining and useful held up to testing and has been validated. This Week in Public Hell was a success! Plus bonus 🐕
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
This Week in Public Hell. With Daskalakis, Rasmussen, and Faust
We came, we informed, we vented (just a little bit).
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The hypothesis that holding a science- and policy-based rant/therapy sesh with me, @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, and @drdemetre.bsky.social would be entertaining and useful held up to testing and has been validated. This Week in Public Hell was a success! Plus bonus 🐕
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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I say this not to be a downer or doomer, but to encourage you to create space for yourself.
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I say this not to be a downer or doomer, but to encourage you to create space for yourself.
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The earliest warning sign was the loss of smell in 2020...
That was sentient warning...
Not everyone connected the dots. Like RBD its a prodromal feature of PD
That was sentient warning...
Not everyone connected the dots. Like RBD its a prodromal feature of PD
That’s certainly the answer we should assume based on the precautionary principle…I vaguely recall that being applied in public health on occasion, in the distant past…
December 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The earliest warning sign was the loss of smell in 2020...
That was sentient warning...
Not everyone connected the dots. Like RBD its a prodromal feature of PD
That was sentient warning...
Not everyone connected the dots. Like RBD its a prodromal feature of PD