Christopher Bakke
@christopherbakke.bsky.social
Doctoral student in technical art history at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. Study caravaggeschi. Co-authoring critical study of Louis Pasteur at the École des Beaux-Arts. Heavily accented polyglot and urban ethnographer.
Trastevere this evening. The skies in Rome are crystalline in winter.
January 17, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Trastevere this evening. The skies in Rome are crystalline in winter.
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It’s all about the buildup to the ending.
Why is Trumpism based so heavily on Nicolae Ceaușescu?
January 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
It’s all about the buildup to the ending.
When all the deaths Trump caused are finally tabulated, the suicides will unjustly go underreported. The despair he has instigated is immeasurable.
“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:15 PM
When all the deaths Trump caused are finally tabulated, the suicides will unjustly go underreported. The despair he has instigated is immeasurable.
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my politics are domestically now largely anti kidnapping and anti murder, an apparently controversial position to the majority on Capitol Hill
January 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
my politics are domestically now largely anti kidnapping and anti murder, an apparently controversial position to the majority on Capitol Hill
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A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
How depressing is it to instantly recognize that this statement refers to the duly elected government of the United States murdering a woman in cold blood on camera.
Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
January 7, 2026 at 10:58 PM
How depressing is it to instantly recognize that this statement refers to the duly elected government of the United States murdering a woman in cold blood on camera.
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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We now live in the country the Jan. 6 attackers and coup plotters hoped to create.
January 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
We now live in the country the Jan. 6 attackers and coup plotters hoped to create.
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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Trumpism is the worst of the last 50 years of Republican politics, amped up, legally unbound, and garnished with some noise and nonsense about tariffs. That's all it is and all it's ever been.
January 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Trumpism is the worst of the last 50 years of Republican politics, amped up, legally unbound, and garnished with some noise and nonsense about tariffs. That's all it is and all it's ever been.
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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Remember this bullshit?
January 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Remember this bullshit?
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Some Nobel prizes are deserved
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Some Nobel prizes are deserved
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Indie book store owners are up there with poll workers, librarians and public school teachers as the front line Guardians of Democracy, whether they like it or not!
December 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Indie book store owners are up there with poll workers, librarians and public school teachers as the front line Guardians of Democracy, whether they like it or not!
Living in Italy makes you deathly sensitive to the mildest cold weather. It’s 12 celcius and I’ll head for the only bar I know of with a working fireplace.
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Living in Italy makes you deathly sensitive to the mildest cold weather. It’s 12 celcius and I’ll head for the only bar I know of with a working fireplace.
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I grew up the modal example of a middle class white millennial boy and by sheer virtue of my being a white boy of any class status, I have breezed into white manhood completely unencumbered. I face no material obstacles of any kind. None.
This is pathetic garbage.
This is pathetic garbage.
December 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I grew up the modal example of a middle class white millennial boy and by sheer virtue of my being a white boy of any class status, I have breezed into white manhood completely unencumbered. I face no material obstacles of any kind. None.
This is pathetic garbage.
This is pathetic garbage.
It’s remarkable how obvious this is outside the US. In Europe, Reiner is mourned. Yet here Kirk’s murder was greeted by the most normie people with a gigantic “who gives a shit?” “A racist, American gun fetishist who hated women was shot by a deranged young man? And you’re surprised because?”
I should just add, for the record: Reiner was worth 1000 Kirks. He was a creative dynamo, a deeply decent human being, a force for philanthropy & pro-social values. Kirk was a small-minded, resentful, thumb-faced grifter who made the world worse by spreading his resentments.
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It’s remarkable how obvious this is outside the US. In Europe, Reiner is mourned. Yet here Kirk’s murder was greeted by the most normie people with a gigantic “who gives a shit?” “A racist, American gun fetishist who hated women was shot by a deranged young man? And you’re surprised because?”
Thinking today of the Mexican-born MAGA voter who told me that she had no choice but to go full Nazi because Trump would protect children from hospitals forcing them to change genders. Brilliant work all around people.
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Thinking today of the Mexican-born MAGA voter who told me that she had no choice but to go full Nazi because Trump would protect children from hospitals forcing them to change genders. Brilliant work all around people.
I’ve waited 14 years for the Metro C station at the Colosseum. It finally opened today at 4 in the afternoon.
December 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I’ve waited 14 years for the Metro C station at the Colosseum. It finally opened today at 4 in the afternoon.
Sane country.
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Sane country.
The best way, and maybe the only way, to see an exhibition is to see it with someone who knows the art as deeply as they know their spouse of 40 years and who talks continuously about the works on view. That’s what I got at the Palazzo Strozzi’s Fra Angelico show with Andrea De Marchi.
December 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The best way, and maybe the only way, to see an exhibition is to see it with someone who knows the art as deeply as they know their spouse of 40 years and who talks continuously about the works on view. That’s what I got at the Palazzo Strozzi’s Fra Angelico show with Andrea De Marchi.
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.
There is no more damning indictment of the United States than the pleasure it takes in guns—a pleasure that it refuses to relinquish.
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
There is no more damning indictment of the United States than the pleasure it takes in guns—a pleasure that it refuses to relinquish.
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Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.