John Baker (El Padrino)
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Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Gentleman, Scholar
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How do we get @govpritzker.illinois.gov to do this in Illinois?
This is why I’m pushing for a state escrow account that holds federal funds before sending them on to Washington. If Trump wants to steal our tax dollars that were legally appropriated by Congress, then we should just be paying ourselves.
“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
Monstrously cruel.
Monstrously cruel.
January 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM
How do we get @govpritzker.illinois.gov to do this in Illinois?
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I’m gonna be playing soccer until I’m 90 now
they're gonna need to dunk me in this scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-i...
Anti-Aging Injection Regrows Knee Cartilage and Prevents Arthritis
A treatment that blocks an age-related protein restored cartilage in aging and injured joints by reprogramming existing cells rather than using stem cells. Researchers at Stanford Medicine report that...
scitechdaily.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I’m gonna be playing soccer until I’m 90 now
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This is why I’m pushing for a state escrow account that holds federal funds before sending them on to Washington. If Trump wants to steal our tax dollars that were legally appropriated by Congress, then we should just be paying ourselves.
“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
Monstrously cruel.
Monstrously cruel.
Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
This is why I’m pushing for a state escrow account that holds federal funds before sending them on to Washington. If Trump wants to steal our tax dollars that were legally appropriated by Congress, then we should just be paying ourselves.
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the domino meme, with the smallest block labeled "jack dorsey launches microblogging site" and the largest one labeled "united states government run by meme-poisoned white supremacists"
January 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
the domino meme, with the smallest block labeled "jack dorsey launches microblogging site" and the largest one labeled "united states government run by meme-poisoned white supremacists"
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feeling grateful to have this visual for Schumer and them going forward
February 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
feeling grateful to have this visual for Schumer and them going forward
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Democrat leaders on this platform want you to believe they are the party of resistance while supporting genocide, rubber stamping Trump's nominees, folding on trans rights, using far-right rhetoric about migrants, working with mass surveillance companies, getting mad they weren't in on a coup.
January 3, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Democrat leaders on this platform want you to believe they are the party of resistance while supporting genocide, rubber stamping Trump's nominees, folding on trans rights, using far-right rhetoric about migrants, working with mass surveillance companies, getting mad they weren't in on a coup.
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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We're the baddies.
January 3, 2026 at 8:22 AM
We're the baddies.
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Left unsaid in all this is that Starmer is following all these journalists’ political beliefs. All of his policies are what they want. They’re trying desperately to find a reason for his unpopularity that doesn’t involve them having to question whether their beliefs are wrong.
January 1, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Left unsaid in all this is that Starmer is following all these journalists’ political beliefs. All of his policies are what they want. They’re trying desperately to find a reason for his unpopularity that doesn’t involve them having to question whether their beliefs are wrong.
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2025 really was uniquely rotten. let us never speak of it again
December 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
2025 really was uniquely rotten. let us never speak of it again
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you can equally easily answer this question by asking 'which members of the public is this party supposed to appeal to?' and realising that it's a demographic almost exclusively comprised of journalists
Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer.
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
you can equally easily answer this question by asking 'which members of the public is this party supposed to appeal to?' and realising that it's a demographic almost exclusively comprised of journalists
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This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
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I do not want a SINGLE AI thing in my whole life. Anywhere.
Nothing.
Not one thing.
It's existence has not improved any part of my life. In fact, it has tangibly worsened many parts.
Nothing.
Not one thing.
It's existence has not improved any part of my life. In fact, it has tangibly worsened many parts.
December 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I do not want a SINGLE AI thing in my whole life. Anywhere.
Nothing.
Not one thing.
It's existence has not improved any part of my life. In fact, it has tangibly worsened many parts.
Nothing.
Not one thing.
It's existence has not improved any part of my life. In fact, it has tangibly worsened many parts.
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Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
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Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
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“And that’s the way Bari Weiss says it is…”
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“And that’s the way Bari Weiss says it is…”
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
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I will never understand how so many people argue “the government can’t effectively provide healthcare” when it’s one of the few things we know, for a fact, it can do, because it already does this. It’s like claiming the government can’t deliver mail. Buddy sit down you’re not gonna believe this
December 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I will never understand how so many people argue “the government can’t effectively provide healthcare” when it’s one of the few things we know, for a fact, it can do, because it already does this. It’s like claiming the government can’t deliver mail. Buddy sit down you’re not gonna believe this
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And I'd go further: I think the ability to laugh at and mock people in power *is* powerful and important, it erodes the aura of inevitability that they rely so much on
December 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
And I'd go further: I think the ability to laugh at and mock people in power *is* powerful and important, it erodes the aura of inevitability that they rely so much on
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When someone tells you a joke remember to make the correct facial expressions and laugh for a normal amount of time at an unsurprising volume
November 28, 2024 at 5:24 PM
When someone tells you a joke remember to make the correct facial expressions and laugh for a normal amount of time at an unsurprising volume
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If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
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NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
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Walking into a Tudor haberdashery:
What up, britches?
What up, britches?
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Walking into a Tudor haberdashery:
What up, britches?
What up, britches?