@baldwinrobertson.bsky.social
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I appreciate @jamellebouie.net ‘s frankness, we should not whitewash what is happening
December 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I appreciate @jamellebouie.net ‘s frankness, we should not whitewash what is happening
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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
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At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert not as similar as people think. Greene grew up in Forsyth County, Georgia, which is incredibly upper-class. She went to UGA and inherited her dad's business. Boebert was a dropout, was on Welfare and came from a single family.
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert not as similar as people think. Greene grew up in Forsyth County, Georgia, which is incredibly upper-class. She went to UGA and inherited her dad's business. Boebert was a dropout, was on Welfare and came from a single family.
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I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Where are all the news stories about how someone slipped the marijuana or the fentanyl gummies into a child's Halloween candy. Rituals matter.
November 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Where are all the news stories about how someone slipped the marijuana or the fentanyl gummies into a child's Halloween candy. Rituals matter.
Just going to point out here that you don’t have to read the WaPo or NYT to get news. The Guardian’s US edition is a great newspaper! Subscribe!
Here’s a free link to a house editorial that illustrates the collapse of the new Washpost Opinion page.
It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.
wapo.st/3J2IdIh
It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.
wapo.st/3J2IdIh
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
wapo.st
October 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Just going to point out here that you don’t have to read the WaPo or NYT to get news. The Guardian’s US edition is a great newspaper! Subscribe!
The Commanders' D.C. Stadium Deal Is An Abomination | Defector
The Washington Commanders have a deal with Washington D.C. to build a new 65,000-seat stadium in Ward 7, on the site of the crumbling old bones of RFK Stadium. The D.C. city council passed a funding b...
defector.com
September 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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It shows how far into authoritarianism we’ve descended that journalists can be fired for simply acknowledging what a right-wing activist said and not participating in collective hagiography.
Democracy dies in darkness indeed.
Democracy dies in darkness indeed.
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It shows how far into authoritarianism we’ve descended that journalists can be fired for simply acknowledging what a right-wing activist said and not participating in collective hagiography.
Democracy dies in darkness indeed.
Democracy dies in darkness indeed.
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The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
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So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?
September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?
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Alright fuck it. I sprained my ankle this morning and have nothing else to do.
So here’s my counterargument to @jerusalem.bsky.social’s argument for staying on X.
www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...
So here’s my counterargument to @jerusalem.bsky.social’s argument for staying on X.
www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...
The case for staying on Twitter
Against a politics of hygiene
www.theargumentmag.com
August 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Alright fuck it. I sprained my ankle this morning and have nothing else to do.
So here’s my counterargument to @jerusalem.bsky.social’s argument for staying on X.
www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...
So here’s my counterargument to @jerusalem.bsky.social’s argument for staying on X.
www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...
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Missing the opportunity to educate the public about what Trump is really up to (controlling Dem cities in anticipation of 2026 elections) and exercising maximum control over every aspect of American life. And in the process setting up Trump to move on Baltimore & other cities next.
August 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Missing the opportunity to educate the public about what Trump is really up to (controlling Dem cities in anticipation of 2026 elections) and exercising maximum control over every aspect of American life. And in the process setting up Trump to move on Baltimore & other cities next.
$175b federal money annually goes to highway projects that end up costing municipalities revenue and forcing us to buy and maintain cars that reduce our personal wealth.
More than half of government money spent on highways comes not from drivers but from property taxes, income taxes, & sales taxes.
More than half of government money spent on highways comes not from drivers but from property taxes, income taxes, & sales taxes.
The Biggest Scam in Transportation History (and how Rochester came back from it)
YouTube video by Strong Towns
www.youtube.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
$175b federal money annually goes to highway projects that end up costing municipalities revenue and forcing us to buy and maintain cars that reduce our personal wealth.
More than half of government money spent on highways comes not from drivers but from property taxes, income taxes, & sales taxes.
More than half of government money spent on highways comes not from drivers but from property taxes, income taxes, & sales taxes.
Perfectly disqualifying
I don’t know if Newsom, Shapiro and Rahm are idiots, but this is an idiotic strategy.
August 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Perfectly disqualifying
2026 will be the 250th anniversary of the Decl of Independence. What is the right doing but creating $200b in concentration/work camps. What is the media doing but … helping. What is the Dem party doing … nothing.
What is the left going to do? That message is meaningful, and ours for the taking.
What is the left going to do? That message is meaningful, and ours for the taking.
July 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
2026 will be the 250th anniversary of the Decl of Independence. What is the right doing but creating $200b in concentration/work camps. What is the media doing but … helping. What is the Dem party doing … nothing.
What is the left going to do? That message is meaningful, and ours for the taking.
What is the left going to do? That message is meaningful, and ours for the taking.
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"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process."
My latest:
My latest:
FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge
Staffers sound the alarm.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process."
My latest:
My latest:
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What are we supposed to do about the fact that a huge number of supposedly “serious” intellectuals are clearly socially networked with race science bigots, and at best only one degree of separation from out-and-proud neo-Nazis calling for genocide and extermination of Jews?
July 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
What are we supposed to do about the fact that a huge number of supposedly “serious” intellectuals are clearly socially networked with race science bigots, and at best only one degree of separation from out-and-proud neo-Nazis calling for genocide and extermination of Jews?
Someone put this on the wall in the NYT newsroom.
• Mamdani is not in the country illegally
• He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic
• He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’
• He’s not a communist
• He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic
• He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’
• He’s not a communist
Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics
www.rollingstone.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Someone put this on the wall in the NYT newsroom.
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NYT completely f**ks up the Social Security tax cut story. Contrary to what they tell you, the Republican bill did ZERO for low-income seniors. They were already not paying taxes on their Social Security,
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
July 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
NYT completely f**ks up the Social Security tax cut story. Contrary to what they tell you, the Republican bill did ZERO for low-income seniors. They were already not paying taxes on their Social Security,
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
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I think one of the big takeaways here is not that Mamdani is a generational talent as some assert but rather that people in this country are so hungry for politicians with actual vision that any reasonably charismatic young socialist who puts in a strong ground game can pull this off elsewhere
June 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I think one of the big takeaways here is not that Mamdani is a generational talent as some assert but rather that people in this country are so hungry for politicians with actual vision that any reasonably charismatic young socialist who puts in a strong ground game can pull this off elsewhere
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I’ve never seem anything like this attached to a quote from an academic. But it is in keeping with the right’s contention that nobody has any legitimacy to speak out—or rule—against Trump if they’ve ever supported Democrats. WaPo is beyond broken.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
June 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I’ve never seem anything like this attached to a quote from an academic. But it is in keeping with the right’s contention that nobody has any legitimacy to speak out—or rule—against Trump if they’ve ever supported Democrats. WaPo is beyond broken.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
youtu.be/oPEIFMSAkcQ?... RIP defiant legend
Underdog
YouTube video by Sly and the Family Stone - Topic
youtu.be
June 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
youtu.be/oPEIFMSAkcQ?... RIP defiant legend
Because Joe Biden is old, I guess?
Why isn't Trump's clear and open call for federal law enforcement to arrest a Democratic governor based on zero lawbreaking of any kind leading every single news site right now?
June 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Because Joe Biden is old, I guess?