Luke Baumgarten
@lukebaumgarten.bsky.social
Writer & organizer. Building @rangemedia.co & Spokane Workers Cooperative. Support local news https://rangemedia.co
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The rumors of Gonzaga's demise blah blah blah blah.
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The rumors of Gonzaga's demise blah blah blah blah.
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This is unfair. Kennedy returned moments later with an enormous syringe filled with the blue 10,000 Flushes fluid and administered life-saving aid.
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is unfair. Kennedy returned moments later with an enormous syringe filled with the blue 10,000 Flushes fluid and administered life-saving aid.
Who should we be honoring other than Bing Crosby?
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Who should we be honoring other than Bing Crosby?
Also, people in town are fighting Wilson’s land grab using innovative structures like permanent real estate cooperatives, which “permanently take land out of the speculative market.”
There’s cool shit happening on the hillbilly side of the Cascades, if you dare to look. www.theselc.org/prec_pilot
There’s cool shit happening on the hillbilly side of the Cascades, if you dare to look. www.theselc.org/prec_pilot
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Also, people in town are fighting Wilson’s land grab using innovative structures like permanent real estate cooperatives, which “permanently take land out of the speculative market.”
There’s cool shit happening on the hillbilly side of the Cascades, if you dare to look. www.theselc.org/prec_pilot
There’s cool shit happening on the hillbilly side of the Cascades, if you dare to look. www.theselc.org/prec_pilot
Was not a fan of the man, personally, but he was so important for representation.
RIP Dick Cheney, an ADHD king. Dude loved starting lots of different wars, but got too distracted to finish any of them. He’s just like me, fr fr.
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Was not a fan of the man, personally, but he was so important for representation.
Zoomer colleague ordering from a restaurant they have called “Millennial” (derogatory): “what the fuck is evoo and why is it on everything?!”
October 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Zoomer colleague ordering from a restaurant they have called “Millennial” (derogatory): “what the fuck is evoo and why is it on everything?!”
Good for them. It's been a while since the Far Side Legion got to see some action. abcnews.go.com/US/texas-nat...
October 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Good for them. It's been a while since the Far Side Legion got to see some action. abcnews.go.com/US/texas-nat...
Reaaally want to know the story here
sinclair pulled its kirk tribute six minutes before it was set to air on its abc affiliates
September 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reaaally want to know the story here
New excuse unlocked
Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’ | WIRED
Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’
Strike 3 Holdings is suing Meta in federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated copyrighted adult videos to train its AI models.
www.wired.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
New excuse unlocked
Really good company to be in, right here. Proud as hell that @rangemedia.co is worker-owned.
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
September 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Really good company to be in, right here. Proud as hell that @rangemedia.co is worker-owned.
Journalists are only as good as their sources and we got great sources. Thanks @katebitz.bsky.social
worth noting that @rangemedia.co completely owned this story from the beginning — here’s their report that was only made possible by a citizen journalist going to let us worship and catching the mayor on stage alongside Feucht and Matt Shea in 4k rangemedia.co/nadine-woodw...
'We don’t need to be fighting each other, Amen?' – RANGE Media
Mayor Woodward vehemently denounced Matt Shea in 2019. Last night, Shea prayed for her re-election at a Christian nationalist revival. What changed?
rangemedia.co
September 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Journalists are only as good as their sources and we got great sources. Thanks @katebitz.bsky.social
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🧵 At RANGE, we love our stats and data. Here’s a bit about Spokane’s Spiciest Candidate Forum, held at The Guardian this weekend:
- 150+ people in attendance
- 5 out of the 6 city council candidates took the Hot Seat
- candidates + RANGE reporter Erin drank over 1 full gallon of milk
- 150+ people in attendance
- 5 out of the 6 city council candidates took the Hot Seat
- candidates + RANGE reporter Erin drank over 1 full gallon of milk
September 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
🧵 At RANGE, we love our stats and data. Here’s a bit about Spokane’s Spiciest Candidate Forum, held at The Guardian this weekend:
- 150+ people in attendance
- 5 out of the 6 city council candidates took the Hot Seat
- candidates + RANGE reporter Erin drank over 1 full gallon of milk
- 150+ people in attendance
- 5 out of the 6 city council candidates took the Hot Seat
- candidates + RANGE reporter Erin drank over 1 full gallon of milk
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There's also a laundry list of people we need to thank for their role in making this spicy dream a sweaty reality! First, Chef Tony Brown, who designed some downright dangerously delicious wings + a delicious menu for the crowd (ft. a potato salad editor @lukebaumgarten.bsky.social is addicted to)
September 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
There's also a laundry list of people we need to thank for their role in making this spicy dream a sweaty reality! First, Chef Tony Brown, who designed some downright dangerously delicious wings + a delicious menu for the crowd (ft. a potato salad editor @lukebaumgarten.bsky.social is addicted to)
These people are sick and it seems like the horrors will never cease.
But you change one element and …
But you change one element and …
September 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
These people are sick and it seems like the horrors will never cease.
But you change one element and …
But you change one element and …
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I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
September 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
If they’re freaking out over this Shaolin monk, wait until they hear about RZA, ODB and, perhaps especially, Ghostface. www.wsj.com/world/china/...
A Buddhist Monk’s Alleged Indulgence in Money and Sex Transfixes China
An official probe into the jet-setting abbot of China’s Shaolin Temple has fueled cynicism about capitalism and religion.
www.wsj.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
If they’re freaking out over this Shaolin monk, wait until they hear about RZA, ODB and, perhaps especially, Ghostface. www.wsj.com/world/china/...
I fear the answer is simple: This is cuck shit.
When institutions like @apnews.com decided journalism should be “objective” — training writers & eds to ignore (or worse, mistrust) their own subjectivity — they were choosing to stop vaccinating against bullshit. /1
When institutions like @apnews.com decided journalism should be “objective” — training writers & eds to ignore (or worse, mistrust) their own subjectivity — they were choosing to stop vaccinating against bullshit. /1
The @apnews.com story on the past 24 hours feels like malpractice to me.
I don't understand how this credulous presentation works, journalistically.
Half of these opening four paragraphs is just taking the Trump administration's absurd presentation as fact.
I don't understand how this credulous presentation works, journalistically.
Half of these opening four paragraphs is just taking the Trump administration's absurd presentation as fact.
August 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I fear the answer is simple: This is cuck shit.
When institutions like @apnews.com decided journalism should be “objective” — training writers & eds to ignore (or worse, mistrust) their own subjectivity — they were choosing to stop vaccinating against bullshit. /1
When institutions like @apnews.com decided journalism should be “objective” — training writers & eds to ignore (or worse, mistrust) their own subjectivity — they were choosing to stop vaccinating against bullshit. /1
Not sure he has any power left on the contemporary right, but hearing “defund ICE” and “defund DHS” from the lips of Bill Kristol is wild
I can’t believe it and yet here’s the proof.
August 8, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Not sure he has any power left on the contemporary right, but hearing “defund ICE” and “defund DHS” from the lips of Bill Kristol is wild
Anyone know if Natalie or Rachel are still kicking around Spokane?
I’d love to talk to them at length about KEZE Rock 106. I was partial to KZZU the Zoo, myself, but respect.
www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-i...
I’d love to talk to them at length about KEZE Rock 106. I was partial to KZZU the Zoo, myself, but respect.
www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-i...
July 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Anyone know if Natalie or Rachel are still kicking around Spokane?
I’d love to talk to them at length about KEZE Rock 106. I was partial to KZZU the Zoo, myself, but respect.
www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-i...
I’d love to talk to them at length about KEZE Rock 106. I was partial to KZZU the Zoo, myself, but respect.
www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-i...
Couldn’t agree more, @sanders.senate.gov.
Since starting @rangemedia.co, we’ve had two twenty-something colleagues able to buy homes.
I don’t know for sure, but I bet those numbers for would rival all other Spokane newsrooms combined since 2020.
Cooperatives reverse inequality. Period
Since starting @rangemedia.co, we’ve had two twenty-something colleagues able to buy homes.
I don’t know for sure, but I bet those numbers for would rival all other Spokane newsrooms combined since 2020.
Cooperatives reverse inequality. Period
In a Senate hearing on worker ownership Bernie Sanders says: "We need to expand economic models that broadly benefit the middle class, not just the 1%. And I strongly believe that employee ownership is one of those models which has enormous economic potential and the potential to improve the lives..
July 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Couldn’t agree more, @sanders.senate.gov.
Since starting @rangemedia.co, we’ve had two twenty-something colleagues able to buy homes.
I don’t know for sure, but I bet those numbers for would rival all other Spokane newsrooms combined since 2020.
Cooperatives reverse inequality. Period
Since starting @rangemedia.co, we’ve had two twenty-something colleagues able to buy homes.
I don’t know for sure, but I bet those numbers for would rival all other Spokane newsrooms combined since 2020.
Cooperatives reverse inequality. Period
Next on the film pod I've never mentioned here before: middle-aged Spokie beer-leaguers joined @benjiwade.bsky.social and I to talk Eephus & the joy of gathering to play a game you love, even when the field's gonna be bulldozed.
YT: youtube.com/watch?v=7mdJ...
+ anywhere fine podcasts are streamed
YT: youtube.com/watch?v=7mdJ...
+ anywhere fine podcasts are streamed
Eephus: A Hilarious and Devastating Baseball Movie Masterpiece
YouTube video by All Those Moments
youtube.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Next on the film pod I've never mentioned here before: middle-aged Spokie beer-leaguers joined @benjiwade.bsky.social and I to talk Eephus & the joy of gathering to play a game you love, even when the field's gonna be bulldozed.
YT: youtube.com/watch?v=7mdJ...
+ anywhere fine podcasts are streamed
YT: youtube.com/watch?v=7mdJ...
+ anywhere fine podcasts are streamed
I just saw a different survey that broke housing down by units built, and by that measure, cities like Boise are still way ahead of us, but they aren’t on this list.
That suggests we might be building smarter, not harder (that 12% drop is the 6th biggest rent decline in the US):
That suggests we might be building smarter, not harder (that 12% drop is the 6th biggest rent decline in the US):
July 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I just saw a different survey that broke housing down by units built, and by that measure, cities like Boise are still way ahead of us, but they aren’t on this list.
That suggests we might be building smarter, not harder (that 12% drop is the 6th biggest rent decline in the US):
That suggests we might be building smarter, not harder (that 12% drop is the 6th biggest rent decline in the US):
It's so glaringly obvious just talking to people what they're looking for from elected leaders right now, but the stats back it up, too. Kitchen table issues are galvanizing, across difference.
Fascinating survey data on the missing Biden voters by Lake Research. The voters who sat out in '24 weren't looking for a centrist or turned off by trans rights. They want a genuine economic populist agenda: take on corporate greed, lower costs, and make the wealthy pay their fair share.
July 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It's so glaringly obvious just talking to people what they're looking for from elected leaders right now, but the stats back it up, too. Kitchen table issues are galvanizing, across difference.