Kevin Baron 🧙🏻♂️😈☠️⚾️
@kevinbaron.bsky.social
“I always have coffee when I watch radar” Asst Professor at Siena University, focus on presidency & Congress. Comics enthusiast and Yankees fan. Views are snarky and mine
It’s 34 degrees outside with snow on the ground and as soon as I get to campus, the first student I see is in shorts and flip flops because of course
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It’s 34 degrees outside with snow on the ground and as soon as I get to campus, the first student I see is in shorts and flip flops because of course
If folks are pissed about how the shutdown is ending, just wait until they learn that the House discharge petition on the Epstein files is no way compels DOJ to do anything to make those files public, let alone force a vote in the Senate
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
If folks are pissed about how the shutdown is ending, just wait until they learn that the House discharge petition on the Epstein files is no way compels DOJ to do anything to make those files public, let alone force a vote in the Senate
The issue I had with Brave New World, which overall I enjoyed, but the problem was it wasn’t a Captain America film. The whole film was so focused on red hulk and the villain plot that they never let their best Cap be Cap…he was completely sidelined in his own movie, and A. Mackey is a great Cap
Marvel Studios did even more Captain America: Brave New World reshoots due to test audience responses than we knew about, according to Giancarlo Esposito.
www.thepopverse.com/movies-marve...
www.thepopverse.com/movies-marve...
Marvel Studios did even more Captain America: Brave New World reshoots due to test audience responses than we knew about, according to Giancarlo Esposito
Captain America: Brave New World test screening audiences wanted more Giancarlo Esposito
www.thepopverse.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The issue I had with Brave New World, which overall I enjoyed, but the problem was it wasn’t a Captain America film. The whole film was so focused on red hulk and the villain plot that they never let their best Cap be Cap…he was completely sidelined in his own movie, and A. Mackey is a great Cap
I was just reminded of this song and feel like it could be a good top-5 song for the current moment…or at least should be added to the Trump era of destruction playlist
youtu.be/c3QX1zMGT3w
youtu.be/c3QX1zMGT3w
Hunger Strike
YouTube video by Temple Of The Dog - Topic
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I was just reminded of this song and feel like it could be a good top-5 song for the current moment…or at least should be added to the Trump era of destruction playlist
youtu.be/c3QX1zMGT3w
youtu.be/c3QX1zMGT3w
Yes…Sleepy Joe
Does this mean we can start calling him Drowsy Don?
Does this mean we can start calling him Drowsy Don?
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“The President was not sleeping,” WH spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said.
Trump, who repeatedly mocked President Biden by calling him “Sleepy Joe,” had his eyes closed, was slumped in his chair, and snored while Dr. Oz was speaking.
Gift article:
wapo.st/4oqQm8F
“The President was not sleeping,” WH spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said.
Trump, who repeatedly mocked President Biden by calling him “Sleepy Joe,” had his eyes closed, was slumped in his chair, and snored while Dr. Oz was speaking.
Gift article:
wapo.st/4oqQm8F
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Yes…Sleepy Joe
Does this mean we can start calling him Drowsy Don?
Does this mean we can start calling him Drowsy Don?
I always find it weird when some random account likes a post I made two years ago that was completely niche and directed at a small specific group on here
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I always find it weird when some random account likes a post I made two years ago that was completely niche and directed at a small specific group on here
I’m focused this year on holiday shopping from non-fascist companies owned by billionaires speeding along americas decline, and support small and independent businesses, as local as I can. If you’ve got any favorite small or indy businesses you really like, let me know esp if I can order online
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m focused this year on holiday shopping from non-fascist companies owned by billionaires speeding along americas decline, and support small and independent businesses, as local as I can. If you’ve got any favorite small or indy businesses you really like, let me know esp if I can order online
Dude…the amount of white people who treat small grocery stores like it’s either, a) their own personal space, or b) like it’s some kind of vacation is fukin killing me today. Also, same for people who get on their phones at stop lights and then pay zero attention to when lights change
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Dude…the amount of white people who treat small grocery stores like it’s either, a) their own personal space, or b) like it’s some kind of vacation is fukin killing me today. Also, same for people who get on their phones at stop lights and then pay zero attention to when lights change
"We find that, once in office, political newcomers are less likely than career politicians to work across the aisle. The very outsiders many voters hope will “fix” Congress contribute to the partisan divisions that keep it from functioning."
theconversation.com/amateur-hour...
theconversation.com/amateur-hour...
Amateur hour in Congress: How political newcomers fuel gridlock and government shutdowns
The public’s frustration with ‘politics as usual’ has led more political newcomers to win office. But amateurs are more likely to view bipartisanship as a concession, not a tool for advancing policy.
theconversation.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"We find that, once in office, political newcomers are less likely than career politicians to work across the aisle. The very outsiders many voters hope will “fix” Congress contribute to the partisan divisions that keep it from functioning."
theconversation.com/amateur-hour...
theconversation.com/amateur-hour...
Ummmmm…a few years away? Bruh, what country are you looking at? Name a mainstream news outlet not controlled by a billionaire or a conglomerate/giant corporation
We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. trib.al/sVcBePs
The Washington Post Has Become
Right-Wing Even Faster Than I Thought
It’s not going to happen. It’s happening: The mainstream media is becoming right-wing. What are wealthy liberals going to do about it?
trib.al
November 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Ummmmm…a few years away? Bruh, what country are you looking at? Name a mainstream news outlet not controlled by a billionaire or a conglomerate/giant corporation
He’s really sooooooo close to understanding how absolutely terrible and destructive the health insurance system is and a single payer government run system like many other countries use would be better
Also, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t understand a difference between health insurance and health care
Also, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t understand a difference between health insurance and health care
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
He’s really sooooooo close to understanding how absolutely terrible and destructive the health insurance system is and a single payer government run system like many other countries use would be better
Also, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t understand a difference between health insurance and health care
Also, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t understand a difference between health insurance and health care
I feel like as some news outlets shed their investigative journalism in favor of catering to the child king and towing the official propaganda line that they should remake their fact checking stories to spin checking, this way they make sure to get the administration’s talking points correct
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I feel like as some news outlets shed their investigative journalism in favor of catering to the child king and towing the official propaganda line that they should remake their fact checking stories to spin checking, this way they make sure to get the administration’s talking points correct
Here's a feel better story and one that resonates...I think for many of us (teachers) would love to see our former students doing this
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Virginia Teen Narrowly Defeats His Former Civics Teacher in County Election
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Here's a feel better story and one that resonates...I think for many of us (teachers) would love to see our former students doing this
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Positive: my spring class on Congress is already full on day 2 of registration, as apparently student are interesting in a defunct institution
Negative: tons of emails from students asking if I can add them to an already full class 😢
Negative: tons of emails from students asking if I can add them to an already full class 😢
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Positive: my spring class on Congress is already full on day 2 of registration, as apparently student are interesting in a defunct institution
Negative: tons of emails from students asking if I can add them to an already full class 😢
Negative: tons of emails from students asking if I can add them to an already full class 😢
I definitely feel like it has more off-Strip Vegas casino feel, but definitely do agree with how stupid and tacky all of this is
Look, it's not even in the top thousand offenses of this administration, but I can't get over how fucking tacky and gaudy the Oval Office has become under this clown.
I'm surprised he hasn't thrown up some LIVE LAUGH LOVE pictures to complete the look of "strip mall Italian restaurant"
I'm surprised he hasn't thrown up some LIVE LAUGH LOVE pictures to complete the look of "strip mall Italian restaurant"
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I definitely feel like it has more off-Strip Vegas casino feel, but definitely do agree with how stupid and tacky all of this is
So Johnson knows Pelosi is retiring at the end of this Congress but still has no idea about anything Trump has done or said over the last 10 months…what a fucking pathetic coward
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
So Johnson knows Pelosi is retiring at the end of this Congress but still has no idea about anything Trump has done or said over the last 10 months…what a fucking pathetic coward
I told one of my classes about this today and they all collectively groaned as about half are flying somewhere for Thanksgiving in a couple weeks. Part of me feels like Trump et al keep thinking Dems will flinch rather than let them sink under the unbearable weight of their own incompetence
Just in time for Thanksgiving.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/u...
Trump administration will reduce traffic at 40 airports across the US starting Friday if shutdown continues | CNN
The Federal Aviation Administration will reduce flights at dozens of major airports as early as Friday if no shutdown deal is reached, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced at a news conferenc...
www.cnn.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I told one of my classes about this today and they all collectively groaned as about half are flying somewhere for Thanksgiving in a couple weeks. Part of me feels like Trump et al keep thinking Dems will flinch rather than let them sink under the unbearable weight of their own incompetence
No fucking shit
the political director for trump’s 2024 campaign today gave the game up and said trans rights literally don’t matter in deciding elections
it is “not even the top five issues, according to voters” per the intv with @politico.com
it is “not even the top five issues, according to voters” per the intv with @politico.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
No fucking shit
I mean...the fact that Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat are still producing drivel and infecting readers at the NYTs with their ridiculous bullshit pretty much answers that question...a resounding, no
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I mean...the fact that Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat are still producing drivel and infecting readers at the NYTs with their ridiculous bullshit pretty much answers that question...a resounding, no
Fucking hell…has Mamdani won yet? What is taking so long!?! Let’s just get moving so I can watch a ton of Dems and Repubs heads metaphorically explode when he’s declared the winner
November 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Fucking hell…has Mamdani won yet? What is taking so long!?! Let’s just get moving so I can watch a ton of Dems and Repubs heads metaphorically explode when he’s declared the winner
I gotta say, I think @jysexton.bsky.social sums up well how I feel about Cheney here. The reason why I’m a presidency scholar was being in college in 2004 watching the horrid abuses of power, destruction, and carelessness of Dubya and Cheney, so I channeled my void screaming into school and research
Moderates can try and launder Dick Cheney all they want, but he was a murderous war criminal who laid the tracks for Trump and overt fascism.
We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-author...
We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-author...
The Authoritarian Architect: Dick Cheney and the Dystopian World He Built
We live in Dick Cheney's America. God help us.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I gotta say, I think @jysexton.bsky.social sums up well how I feel about Cheney here. The reason why I’m a presidency scholar was being in college in 2004 watching the horrid abuses of power, destruction, and carelessness of Dubya and Cheney, so I channeled my void screaming into school and research
Happy Election Day to all who celebrate! There’s probably elections where you are…go vote. I’m voting on all city/county elections in Albany NY today…go do yourself and your community a favor and engage in democracy today while we still have the chance
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Happy Election Day to all who celebrate! There’s probably elections where you are…go vote. I’m voting on all city/county elections in Albany NY today…go do yourself and your community a favor and engage in democracy today while we still have the chance
Whaaaaaaaaaa!?! Martians? Who said anything about martians passing as humans?
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Whaaaaaaaaaa!?! Martians? Who said anything about martians passing as humans?
I fucking hate Fox interviewing the managers in the middle of the game. This is so fucking stoopid
November 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fucking hate Fox interviewing the managers in the middle of the game. This is so fucking stoopid
And for the record…
zoomies > zumiez
zoomies > zumiez
November 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
And for the record…
zoomies > zumiez
zoomies > zumiez