Mitchell Ignatius Baker
@mitchellignatius.bsky.social
College of the Holy Cross ‘22
Mansfield College, Oxford VSP ‘21
Fulbright 🇹🇼
NYC Urban Fellows ‘23
Policy and Comms Nerd
Brooklyn
Views My Own
Mansfield College, Oxford VSP ‘21
Fulbright 🇹🇼
NYC Urban Fellows ‘23
Policy and Comms Nerd
Brooklyn
Views My Own
Pinned
Controversial take that isn’t so controversial - we need to Big Dig 290
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...
www.whitehouse.gov
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
Vile
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Vile
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
trying to portray Epstein as a math genius kills me, imagining one of those scenes from a bad movie where he stares at a blackboard full of equations and it just resolves itself into 'sex = <18'
November 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
trying to portray Epstein as a math genius kills me, imagining one of those scenes from a bad movie where he stares at a blackboard full of equations and it just resolves itself into 'sex = <18'
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
March 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
Good day to catch the elusive worcester tumble weed (recycle bin in the road)
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Good day to catch the elusive worcester tumble weed (recycle bin in the road)
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
Pope Leo criticises high, Musk-style corporate pay packages reut.rs/3InAG6a
Pope Leo criticises high, Musk-style corporate pay packages
Pope Leo criticised corporate pay packages that offer executives much higher salaries than their employees in excerpts from his first media interview released on Sunday, citing Tesla's recent $1 trillion compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk.
reut.rs
September 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Pope Leo criticises high, Musk-style corporate pay packages reut.rs/3InAG6a
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
Congrats to Michelle Wu for beating Josh Kraft 72 to 23 and winning every ward and neighborhood!
Glad to see her absolutely crush him in every South End precinct despite his gross attempt to capitalize on Mass & Cass, for which he offered nothing.
Glad to see her absolutely crush him in every South End precinct despite his gross attempt to capitalize on Mass & Cass, for which he offered nothing.
September 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Congrats to Michelle Wu for beating Josh Kraft 72 to 23 and winning every ward and neighborhood!
Glad to see her absolutely crush him in every South End precinct despite his gross attempt to capitalize on Mass & Cass, for which he offered nothing.
Glad to see her absolutely crush him in every South End precinct despite his gross attempt to capitalize on Mass & Cass, for which he offered nothing.
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
Many media types and Dems continue to operate as if Trump is a politically invincible figure, a "Teflon Don." But in truth he's becoming an increasingly weak, failing, diminished, unpopular, naked-emperor figure, and it's time to treat him as such. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
It’s possible for Trump to be an inept buffoon—but still extremely dangerous. And it shouldn’t be so hard to make that case.
newrepublic.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Many media types and Dems continue to operate as if Trump is a politically invincible figure, a "Teflon Don." But in truth he's becoming an increasingly weak, failing, diminished, unpopular, naked-emperor figure, and it's time to treat him as such. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
This is heinous and Gowdy should be out of a job for saying it
Fox News' Trey Gowdy: "The only thing that can give us any modicum of peace at all is those two children are with the person who loved them the very most, the person who created them, that being Jesus. That is the only thing that can possibly give parents in the future any modicum of peace."
August 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is heinous and Gowdy should be out of a job for saying it
People need to stand up and call out these cowardly acts like the AG is doing.
The announcement from the University of Michigan that they will no longer provide their transgender patients with all of the healthcare options available is shameful, dangerous, and potentially illegal.
www.freep.com/story/news/h...
www.freep.com/story/news/h...
Michigan AG: U-M 'cowardly' for halting gender-affirming care for trans young people
Michigan AG Dana Nessel says University of Michigan decision to stop gender-affirming care for young people may be illegal.
www.freep.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
People need to stand up and call out these cowardly acts like the AG is doing.
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
“‘Look what you made me do!’ wails WPD at literal baby as it grinds a teenage girl’s face into the pavement.
May 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“‘Look what you made me do!’ wails WPD at literal baby as it grinds a teenage girl’s face into the pavement.
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
unironically bring back the works progress administration and federal art project one
my unironic arch opinions is that building design peaked during the Art Deco era
Photo I took of the Federal Trafe Commission building in DC last weekend. Built in 1938.
Since we seem to be reliving the 1930’s again, Art Deco would be on brand.
Since we seem to be reliving the 1930’s again, Art Deco would be on brand.
April 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM
unironically bring back the works progress administration and federal art project one
Public service announcement: Everyone, file your tax returns now before Trump and Musk screw up the IRS and working class Americans get screwed out of their tax returns.
February 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Public service announcement: Everyone, file your tax returns now before Trump and Musk screw up the IRS and working class Americans get screwed out of their tax returns.
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
Joshua Croke on Worcester’s LGBTQ+ Protests: ‘A Fight for Transparency and Inclusion’ (via Radio Worcester)
radioworcester.com/joshua-croke... @joshuacroke.bsky.social
radioworcester.com/joshua-croke... @joshuacroke.bsky.social
Joshua Croke on Worcester’s LGBTQ+ Protests: ‘A Fight for Transparency and Inclusion’
Joshua Croke discusses Worcester’s LGBTQ+ protests, the City Council’s sanctuary vote, and the need for transparency, inclusion, and political activation.
radioworcester.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Joshua Croke on Worcester’s LGBTQ+ Protests: ‘A Fight for Transparency and Inclusion’ (via Radio Worcester)
radioworcester.com/joshua-croke... @joshuacroke.bsky.social
radioworcester.com/joshua-croke... @joshuacroke.bsky.social
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
for decades the federal govt has bent over backwards to limit spending even on totally sensible things like office coffee, all so they can say your tax dollars aren't going to pay for coffee. and it was all for nothing bc elon is tweeting out conspiracy theories about non-existent fraud.
February 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
for decades the federal govt has bent over backwards to limit spending even on totally sensible things like office coffee, all so they can say your tax dollars aren't going to pay for coffee. and it was all for nothing bc elon is tweeting out conspiracy theories about non-existent fraud.
Reposted by Mitchell Ignatius Baker
57 people by my count a good number of them trans people asked the city council tonight to support a simple resolution affirming this place is safe for them. And they fuckin didn’t. Didn’t condemn the republican member of the committee who tied it up. They blamed the audience for being angry.
February 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
57 people by my count a good number of them trans people asked the city council tonight to support a simple resolution affirming this place is safe for them. And they fuckin didn’t. Didn’t condemn the republican member of the committee who tied it up. They blamed the audience for being angry.
Councilor Colorio is frankly a coward. Hiding behind a procedural motion to avoid taking a vote on a key resolution that would save lives. Worcester didn’t raise me to be a coward, and I don’t think one should be serving in office.
February 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Councilor Colorio is frankly a coward. Hiding behind a procedural motion to avoid taking a vote on a key resolution that would save lives. Worcester didn’t raise me to be a coward, and I don’t think one should be serving in office.
ByteDance not willing to sell TikTok to keep its American consumer market or enact privacy protects is the most glaring piece of evidence it’s an op from the CCP.
January 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
ByteDance not willing to sell TikTok to keep its American consumer market or enact privacy protects is the most glaring piece of evidence it’s an op from the CCP.
Wow, that’s bad. Shoutout to the Dickens’s reference.
January 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Wow, that’s bad. Shoutout to the Dickens’s reference.
Taking bets on how long Hegseth will last before a scandal emerges forcing him to leave.
January 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Taking bets on how long Hegseth will last before a scandal emerges forcing him to leave.
Controversial take that isn’t so controversial - we need to Big Dig 290
January 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Controversial take that isn’t so controversial - we need to Big Dig 290