John M. Baker
@jmbmn.bsky.social
Minneapolis attorney, advocate for planners, lover of old movies, refugee from Musk's mayhem, who rescues from obscurity fascinating people.
Life during wartime:
October 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Life during wartime:
The iron fencing looks like an appurtenance to a lamppost to me. If so, the sign was lawful under the DC municipal regulations Title 24 Section 24-1 (Occupation and Use of Public Space) Section 108.4
August 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The iron fencing looks like an appurtenance to a lamppost to me. If so, the sign was lawful under the DC municipal regulations Title 24 Section 24-1 (Occupation and Use of Public Space) Section 108.4
This pair are already there. This was Saturday morning. Somebody must have tipped off ICE that the pandas were GIANT ALIEN CCP Pandas.
August 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This pair are already there. This was Saturday morning. Somebody must have tipped off ICE that the pandas were GIANT ALIEN CCP Pandas.
Someone already has a logo T-shirt for #DoubleIndemnity fans #TCMParty
June 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Someone already has a logo T-shirt for #DoubleIndemnity fans #TCMParty
Perhaps "Democracy dies in darkness" should be replaced with a phrase that's more reflective of WaPo Editorial Board's stance: "Hey, just asking."
June 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Perhaps "Democracy dies in darkness" should be replaced with a phrase that's more reflective of WaPo Editorial Board's stance: "Hey, just asking."
This one will hurt - thankfully:
May 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This one will hurt - thankfully:
Contrast Carr's threat to Comcast's licenses after a cable news network (that does not need a license) "implied" something that conflicts with a White House talking point, with the way he "implied" in Congressional testimony under questioning from Rep. Raskin last September that he'd never do this:
April 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Contrast Carr's threat to Comcast's licenses after a cable news network (that does not need a license) "implied" something that conflicts with a White House talking point, with the way he "implied" in Congressional testimony under questioning from Rep. Raskin last September that he'd never do this:
Judge Thacker of the 4th Cir quoted a few words from Judge Xinis' description of the agreement on p. 6 of her 4/6 Memorandum. Viewed in context, she was quoting El Salvador's characterization of the agreement, not the agreement itself (which the US hasn't turned over). Here's that part of p. 6.
April 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Judge Thacker of the 4th Cir quoted a few words from Judge Xinis' description of the agreement on p. 6 of her 4/6 Memorandum. Viewed in context, she was quoting El Salvador's characterization of the agreement, not the agreement itself (which the US hasn't turned over). Here's that part of p. 6.
The order isn't directed to El Salvador. It's directed to the federal agencies and officials in the US who are defendants in the case (and plainly within the court's ability to hold them in contempt). We may be three days away from a "and bring a toothbrush" order setting a show-cause hearing.
April 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The order isn't directed to El Salvador. It's directed to the federal agencies and officials in the US who are defendants in the case (and plainly within the court's ability to hold them in contempt). We may be three days away from a "and bring a toothbrush" order setting a show-cause hearing.
Compare Rubio's rant to the U.S. Supreme Court's words when Wendell Willkie, the defeated Republican nominee for president in 1940, convinced the Court to overturn the denaturalization of a member of the Communist Party USA whom his Wall Street firm represented pro bono:
March 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Compare Rubio's rant to the U.S. Supreme Court's words when Wendell Willkie, the defeated Republican nominee for president in 1940, convinced the Court to overturn the denaturalization of a member of the Communist Party USA whom his Wall Street firm represented pro bono:
For those wondering who wrote the decision that Alito now says should be reconsidered, and whether it was one of those 5-4 opinions where Justice Kennedy let the other conservatives down and joined the libs, it was written by Justice Scalia and was unanimous.
March 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For those wondering who wrote the decision that Alito now says should be reconsidered, and whether it was one of those 5-4 opinions where Justice Kennedy let the other conservatives down and joined the libs, it was written by Justice Scalia and was unanimous.
Update: After the firm's chairman had the audacity to claim his agreement with Trump was consistent with those "Principles," the looks on the faces of Judge Rifkind and those behind him really say it all.
March 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Update: After the firm's chairman had the audacity to claim his agreement with Trump was consistent with those "Principles," the looks on the faces of Judge Rifkind and those behind him really say it all.
"Mila Joy" has a fertile imagination, particularly when it comes to telling Trump loyalists things they wish were true. For example:
March 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Mila Joy" has a fertile imagination, particularly when it comes to telling Trump loyalists things they wish were true. For example:
When a Cole Porter lyric meets Google's AI Overview, AI loses.
March 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a Cole Porter lyric meets Google's AI Overview, AI loses.
This was the New York Times' coverage of what may have been Belita's final skating performance - as a cancer survivor in New York City in 1981. #NoirAlley #TCMParty #Suspense
January 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This was the New York Times' coverage of what may have been Belita's final skating performance - as a cancer survivor in New York City in 1981. #NoirAlley #TCMParty #Suspense
Or "Harvest Gold," which was the 1969 kitchen of my later youth.
December 22, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Or "Harvest Gold," which was the 1969 kitchen of my later youth.
Also from Chicago Transit Authority in 1969, a supergroup's first album, before its name was shortened.
December 1, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Also from Chicago Transit Authority in 1969, a supergroup's first album, before its name was shortened.
The NYTimes imitates this satirical character's post earlier today.
October 2, 2024 at 2:37 AM
The NYTimes imitates this satirical character's post earlier today.
Any list of ways that Justice Thomas plays badly in the sandbox with his SCOTUS colleagues must include his tendency - even when writing for the Court - to cite his own dissents, thus casting a slight cloud over whether a case his side lost is still good law. For example:
June 13, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Any list of ways that Justice Thomas plays badly in the sandbox with his SCOTUS colleagues must include his tendency - even when writing for the Court - to cite his own dissents, thus casting a slight cloud over whether a case his side lost is still good law. For example: