Isi Baehr-Breen
@isibb.bsky.social
Ru’s dad, but views are my own. Congressional PR Flack.
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Whole family was mildly (COVID) sick last week and was basically feeling fine. 10 days later I’m sick with something that *isnt* COVID and it feels like I’m going to die. I have a 102 fever.
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Whole family was mildly (COVID) sick last week and was basically feeling fine. 10 days later I’m sick with something that *isnt* COVID and it feels like I’m going to die. I have a 102 fever.
I'm making a list of important WW2 movies I haven't seen, and wondering if you guys would recommend/not recommend:
The Ascent (1978)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Sisu (2022)
The Cranes Are Flying (1952)
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
City of Life and Death (2009)
Europa, Europa (1990)
The Ascent (1978)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Sisu (2022)
The Cranes Are Flying (1952)
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
City of Life and Death (2009)
Europa, Europa (1990)
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'm making a list of important WW2 movies I haven't seen, and wondering if you guys would recommend/not recommend:
The Ascent (1978)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Sisu (2022)
The Cranes Are Flying (1952)
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
City of Life and Death (2009)
Europa, Europa (1990)
The Ascent (1978)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Sisu (2022)
The Cranes Are Flying (1952)
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
City of Life and Death (2009)
Europa, Europa (1990)
Gotta be honest, you guys: when I saw this picture of the Border Patrol Commander, I thought it was bad AI.
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Gotta be honest, you guys: when I saw this picture of the Border Patrol Commander, I thought it was bad AI.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
When I was a kid, my favorite books in the world were Pullman’s His Dark Materials.
Libi was just reading out loud to me from the interview he did with the Times on the last book of a new trilogy I didn’t even know he had started.
Has anyone read The Book of Dust? Worth?
Libi was just reading out loud to me from the interview he did with the Times on the last book of a new trilogy I didn’t even know he had started.
Has anyone read The Book of Dust? Worth?
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
When I was a kid, my favorite books in the world were Pullman’s His Dark Materials.
Libi was just reading out loud to me from the interview he did with the Times on the last book of a new trilogy I didn’t even know he had started.
Has anyone read The Book of Dust? Worth?
Libi was just reading out loud to me from the interview he did with the Times on the last book of a new trilogy I didn’t even know he had started.
Has anyone read The Book of Dust? Worth?
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That was a choice, voters are good with him as long as his cruelty, his lies, his cynicism, his police dont really touch them in any material way. They can ride. The only place it stings, they look themselves in the mirror - maybe I'm not the great liberal person I thought I was
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
That was a choice, voters are good with him as long as his cruelty, his lies, his cynicism, his police dont really touch them in any material way. They can ride. The only place it stings, they look themselves in the mirror - maybe I'm not the great liberal person I thought I was
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DA’s 🧵 is worth reading & I would only note that Davis spent a good part of the campaign with ZERO paid staff. The Minneapolis “middle” (center-left, whatever you want to call it) doesn’t have any sort of durable campaign infrastructure. Frey does & DSA does. You need 2+ years to win mayor‘s race.
this analysis is strange in that it doesnt answer the fundamental question about Minneapolis voters - if Frey's multiple lies and polarizing ways were truly against their values and they were tired of it, why did they not choose Davis? www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-r...
Roper: Jacob Frey can thank the far left for handing him another term
Frey was a vulnerable incumbent. But progressives banked on the wrong guy to beat him.
www.startribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
DA’s 🧵 is worth reading & I would only note that Davis spent a good part of the campaign with ZERO paid staff. The Minneapolis “middle” (center-left, whatever you want to call it) doesn’t have any sort of durable campaign infrastructure. Frey does & DSA does. You need 2+ years to win mayor‘s race.
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Notre Dame Law aside, I've never met a conservative law student at any law school, regardless of political reputation, who wasn't completely coddled and insulated from considering other viewpoints. there's a whole conservative legal education infrastructure set up to make sure it's like this!
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Notre Dame Law aside, I've never met a conservative law student at any law school, regardless of political reputation, who wasn't completely coddled and insulated from considering other viewpoints. there's a whole conservative legal education infrastructure set up to make sure it's like this!
This genuinely made me gasp
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This genuinely made me gasp
A really big difference between our current class of oligarchs (Theil and Musk great examples) and the last few generations is how much contempt they now have for the future. If they have children or meaningful family relations, they are not loving ones. Mostly, they eschew other human beings.
sean’s theory is that trump is unusually terrified of death, hence ‘going out like stan chera’ and changing the subject in an interview from charlie kirk’s death to the ballroom plans and now staring blankly into space rather than look at a seriously ill person
This is one of those times when social media is important. I don't trust most major news organizations to do much with this photo, even though it speaks volumes about this moment in our nation's history. But the image going viral will get it seen, and might push news orgs to use and discuss it.
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A really big difference between our current class of oligarchs (Theil and Musk great examples) and the last few generations is how much contempt they now have for the future. If they have children or meaningful family relations, they are not loving ones. Mostly, they eschew other human beings.
A lot of people are gonna have to spend a lot of time in prison, if people with a smidge of conscience ever get behind the wheel again.
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A lot of people are gonna have to spend a lot of time in prison, if people with a smidge of conscience ever get behind the wheel again.
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Some have suggested Zohran's success is rooted *only* in cost of living. But he also ran hard against Trump's authoritarianism/ICE raids. He ran the most explicitly pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory.
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Some have suggested Zohran's success is rooted *only* in cost of living. But he also ran hard against Trump's authoritarianism/ICE raids. He ran the most explicitly pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory.
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
“The Groypers are dead as fuckin… dead. Woke. Woke is coming back in a big, big way.”
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“The Groypers are dead as fuckin… dead. Woke. Woke is coming back in a big, big way.”
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Reporting this story, I heard near universal concern from Heritage staff of discrimination against unmarried women.
Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.
Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.
Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.
Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Reporting this story, I heard near universal concern from Heritage staff of discrimination against unmarried women.
Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.
Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.
Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.
Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.
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the democrats are horrible people. i despise them. they can't run their cities which are crime infested hellholes because the people they choose to lead them are low IQ. when i send the police in to get criminal ice cream men and children off the streets with extreme prejudice they take pictures
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
the democrats are horrible people. i despise them. they can't run their cities which are crime infested hellholes because the people they choose to lead them are low IQ. when i send the police in to get criminal ice cream men and children off the streets with extreme prejudice they take pictures
I’m reading Infinite Jest for the severalest time with a book club, and, as ever, this Dave Wallace guy was an absolute freak.
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I’m reading Infinite Jest for the severalest time with a book club, and, as ever, this Dave Wallace guy was an absolute freak.
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The right wing marketplace’s feud over Tucker Carlson and anti-Semitism is worth watching—it could play a role in whether JD Vance becomes the next President. My new piece at the newsletter:
open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
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Groyper trouble
Tucker Carlson interviewed a rabid anti-Semite. Believe it or not, it affects the 2028 GOP Presidential nomination.
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The right wing marketplace’s feud over Tucker Carlson and anti-Semitism is worth watching—it could play a role in whether JD Vance becomes the next President. My new piece at the newsletter:
open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
Wow, I looked up Zohran’s statements defending Pakistan’s right to exist as a Muslim state and look what I found:
No, it's antisemitic - the reason he gave was that he doesn't recognize the right of any country who treats groups preferentially to exist, but he recognizes many such nations. Take Pakistan (who his mom is accused of being an apologist for): officially Muslims, Christians can only practice (cont)
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Wow, I looked up Zohran’s statements defending Pakistan’s right to exist as a Muslim state and look what I found:
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The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
Spicy in the work slack
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Spicy in the work slack
So if this is their primary similarity, to me, their primary difference is this: Hitler actually performed economic magic in Germany. And then foreign policy and military magic. There was all the reason in the world for your average German to buy what he was selling.
What’s Trump ever done?
What’s Trump ever done?
Nobody talks about it, but this is actually the way Donald Trump is most like Adolf Hitler. It’s not his racism or his will to power or his disrespect of democracy.
It’s his ability to convince a large group of people he’s a character with magic powers.
It’s his ability to convince a large group of people he’s a character with magic powers.
This explanation is ridiculous yet likely true. Millions of people did not conceptualize Trump the way we do (e.g., "bad person who did a bad job and wants to do bad things like X, Y, Z") but rather as a TV character, an avatar of prosperity who would somehow bless them economically.
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
So if this is their primary similarity, to me, their primary difference is this: Hitler actually performed economic magic in Germany. And then foreign policy and military magic. There was all the reason in the world for your average German to buy what he was selling.
What’s Trump ever done?
What’s Trump ever done?
Deeply sick individual
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Deeply sick individual
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So much time, ink, & nonsense spilled explaining why the smallest pandemic/inflation-driven anti-incumbent backlash in the entire democratic world was a Paradigm Shifting Tidal Wave Of Crisis For The Democrats. Incredibly parochial in so very many ways.
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
So much time, ink, & nonsense spilled explaining why the smallest pandemic/inflation-driven anti-incumbent backlash in the entire democratic world was a Paradigm Shifting Tidal Wave Of Crisis For The Democrats. Incredibly parochial in so very many ways.
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
econbrowser.com/archives/202...