Stephanie Baker
@stephabaker.bsky.social
She/her
Higher ed policy at New America. Opinions = own. Working on fed policy re: parenting students and child care access. Opinions on lots of things.
Parent/worker/baker/learner/gardener who believes in the power of the people.
Higher ed policy at New America. Opinions = own. Working on fed policy re: parenting students and child care access. Opinions on lots of things.
Parent/worker/baker/learner/gardener who believes in the power of the people.
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We have video of Renee Good and Alex Pretti being executed by ICE
We don’t have video of the torture in the ICE camps
We know Geraldo Campos was choked to death
We know Randall Gamboa was put in a persistent vegetative state and deported
We know 2025 was the deadliest year on record
Abolish ICE
We don’t have video of the torture in the ICE camps
We know Geraldo Campos was choked to death
We know Randall Gamboa was put in a persistent vegetative state and deported
We know 2025 was the deadliest year on record
Abolish ICE
January 25, 2026 at 12:22 AM
We have video of Renee Good and Alex Pretti being executed by ICE
We don’t have video of the torture in the ICE camps
We know Geraldo Campos was choked to death
We know Randall Gamboa was put in a persistent vegetative state and deported
We know 2025 was the deadliest year on record
Abolish ICE
We don’t have video of the torture in the ICE camps
We know Geraldo Campos was choked to death
We know Randall Gamboa was put in a persistent vegetative state and deported
We know 2025 was the deadliest year on record
Abolish ICE
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January 24, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Yeah just over here suppressing tears in front of my 6 yo bc she’s scared enough as it is and doesn’t need to know the news rn
Sobbing at another senseless act of extreme violence by ICE while simultaneously on hold trying to get my kids registered for summer camp.
Parenting in America.
Parenting in America.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Yeah just over here suppressing tears in front of my 6 yo bc she’s scared enough as it is and doesn’t need to know the news rn
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I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
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Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
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Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.
January 24, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.
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I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...
minnesotareformer.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
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Seeing how children everywhere are being affected by ICE is heartbreaking. You have kids being kidnapped and living in fear of that but also their friends living in fear of who won’t be at school the next day and why. People who support ICE don’t care about traumatizing kids en masse at all
January 23, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Seeing how children everywhere are being affected by ICE is heartbreaking. You have kids being kidnapped and living in fear of that but also their friends living in fear of who won’t be at school the next day and why. People who support ICE don’t care about traumatizing kids en masse at all
As an immunocompromised person this is one of my biggest fears- and a reason I’ve stayed home from the hospital when I probably needed to go.
We need clean air and masks in healthcare. It is unacceptable that we have the tools to make hospitals safer, but refuse to use them.
We need clean air and masks in healthcare. It is unacceptable that we have the tools to make hospitals safer, but refuse to use them.
#MedSky
“I got COVID in hospital. My kidneys started to back up. Everything seemed to converge at the same time,” he continued.
Can we please do something about infection control of airborne disease.
People are being hurt by healthcare. People are avoiding care.
“I got COVID in hospital. My kidneys started to back up. Everything seemed to converge at the same time,” he continued.
Can we please do something about infection control of airborne disease.
People are being hurt by healthcare. People are avoiding care.
Relax everyone, I'm not going to cover Phil Collins.
people.com/phil-collins...
people.com/phil-collins...
January 23, 2026 at 12:57 PM
As an immunocompromised person this is one of my biggest fears- and a reason I’ve stayed home from the hospital when I probably needed to go.
We need clean air and masks in healthcare. It is unacceptable that we have the tools to make hospitals safer, but refuse to use them.
We need clean air and masks in healthcare. It is unacceptable that we have the tools to make hospitals safer, but refuse to use them.
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The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization.
This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
January 23, 2026 at 1:57 AM
The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization.
This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
If you kidnap people off the streets and participate in ethnic cleansing, you should no know peace in public or private.
Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
January 23, 2026 at 12:43 PM
If you kidnap people off the streets and participate in ethnic cleansing, you should no know peace in public or private.
There’s no room for people who tolerate ethnic cleansing in the tent
Someone just called me a believer in "purity tests" because I think the Democrats who just voted to fund the president's unaccountable masked goon squad deserve to be primaried.
If your definition of "purity" is that basic, you're beyond helping
If your definition of "purity" is that basic, you're beyond helping
January 23, 2026 at 12:33 PM
There’s no room for people who tolerate ethnic cleansing in the tent
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One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
The new NYT poll finds Trump 17 points underwater on immigration, and the nonwhite and young voters who went to Trump in 2024 have snapped back to Dems
It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary
It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM
One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
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“I’m proposing a bill that redirects $75 billion from the people who harass and kill minorities to the people who harass and kill minorities”
Public safety means stopping violent crime — not weaponizing ICE against our communities.
That’s why I'm proposing a bill that redirects nearly $75 billion from ICE to local law enforcement.
That’s why I'm proposing a bill that redirects nearly $75 billion from ICE to local law enforcement.
January 21, 2026 at 7:17 PM
“I’m proposing a bill that redirects $75 billion from the people who harass and kill minorities to the people who harass and kill minorities”
It is unbelievable that Dems still appear ready to fund DHS right now. Just appalling moral failure and colluding with an ethnic cleansing agenda.
Breaking WaPo:
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide
The report deeming an ICE detainee’s death in Texas a homicide comes the same day that a federal judge temporarily barred the deportation of two witnesses.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:32 AM
It is unbelievable that Dems still appear ready to fund DHS right now. Just appalling moral failure and colluding with an ethnic cleansing agenda.
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This is why you apply pressure.
Hakeem Jeffries comes out against the bill funding ICE and DHS. This seems like quite a big deal.
Scoop: House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries opposes bill funding DHS and ICE
Democrats are lining up against the bill.
www.axios.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:36 PM
This is why you apply pressure.
Now is the time to press your alma mater + college leadership about any DEI programs they immediately ditched out of panic last year.
So much damage has been done (as intended by this regime), but we can push our institutions to do better.
apnews.com/article/dei-...
So much damage has been done (as intended by this regime), but we can push our institutions to do better.
apnews.com/article/dei-...
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colle...
apnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Now is the time to press your alma mater + college leadership about any DEI programs they immediately ditched out of panic last year.
So much damage has been done (as intended by this regime), but we can push our institutions to do better.
apnews.com/article/dei-...
So much damage has been done (as intended by this regime), but we can push our institutions to do better.
apnews.com/article/dei-...
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i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.
Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
January 18, 2026 at 4:39 PM
i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.
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Look I know this is going to be hard here but rigid adherence to lies about Covid is going to push you to the right. It has to. The eugenicist ideas that we can abandon the vulnerable and that vaccine mandates and lockdowns weren’t necessary because only “those people” died can never be democratic.
NEW: This week, Daily Show host Jon Stewart introduced his audience to Jenin Younes, describing her as a courageous civil rights attorney who had been canceled by both the right and left and therefore “must be doing something right.”
Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.
Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.
Jon Stewart Praises Attorney Behind Years of Anti-Vaccine and Anti-Lockdown Lawfare
“You’re a civil rights attorney who has been canceled by both the right and the left, which means you must be doing something right.”
www.importantcontext.news
January 18, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Look I know this is going to be hard here but rigid adherence to lies about Covid is going to push you to the right. It has to. The eugenicist ideas that we can abandon the vulnerable and that vaccine mandates and lockdowns weren’t necessary because only “those people” died can never be democratic.
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Bill Cassidy voted to confirm RFK Jr. which will led to children getting measles and dying. Now Trump screwed Cassidy.
January 18, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Bill Cassidy voted to confirm RFK Jr. which will led to children getting measles and dying. Now Trump screwed Cassidy.
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
The authoritarian problem, how do you weaponize the government against people while simultaneously trying to abolish government agencies?
It’s the latter. And it answers a question I kept posing: how do you punish people with complex bureaucracy if you dismantle…the complex bureaucracy that can punish?
You can’t.
You can’t.
On the Friday afternoon before a three-day weekend, the Department of Education announces that borrowers will not have their wages or tax refunds garnished for being in default on their student loans. This could be driven by political considerations or difficulties in actually collecting funds.
January 17, 2026 at 3:13 PM
The authoritarian problem, how do you weaponize the government against people while simultaneously trying to abolish government agencies?
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So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.
Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
January 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.
Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
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Minnesotans “stayed calm” last night and Trump is still talking about the Insurrection Act today.
It’s like an abusive relationship. He will say “look what she made me do,” no matter what she actually did.
It only works if everyone else is willing to blame the victim.
It’s like an abusive relationship. He will say “look what she made me do,” no matter what she actually did.
It only works if everyone else is willing to blame the victim.
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Minnesotans “stayed calm” last night and Trump is still talking about the Insurrection Act today.
It’s like an abusive relationship. He will say “look what she made me do,” no matter what she actually did.
It only works if everyone else is willing to blame the victim.
It’s like an abusive relationship. He will say “look what she made me do,” no matter what she actually did.
It only works if everyone else is willing to blame the victim.
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The right in 2020 when asked to wear a mask to protect others:
“Do not comply!”
The right in 2021 when asked to get vaccinated:
“Do not comply!”
The right in 2026 after the killing of Renee Good:
“Just comply and you won’t get hurt”.
Almost like it was never about freedom.
“Do not comply!”
The right in 2021 when asked to get vaccinated:
“Do not comply!”
The right in 2026 after the killing of Renee Good:
“Just comply and you won’t get hurt”.
Almost like it was never about freedom.
January 14, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The right in 2020 when asked to wear a mask to protect others:
“Do not comply!”
The right in 2021 when asked to get vaccinated:
“Do not comply!”
The right in 2026 after the killing of Renee Good:
“Just comply and you won’t get hurt”.
Almost like it was never about freedom.
“Do not comply!”
The right in 2021 when asked to get vaccinated:
“Do not comply!”
The right in 2026 after the killing of Renee Good:
“Just comply and you won’t get hurt”.
Almost like it was never about freedom.