richard-baker.bsky.social
@richard-baker.bsky.social
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When you’re making your #NoKings posters, remember… Donald Trump LOVES a good nickname.
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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How much does Fox News pay if you go on one of their shows and claim to be a "Former ANTIFA Member"?

Because I'm ready to spill tea on the Real-Housewives-level shenanigans that go down in the 72-story ANTIFA corporate headquarters. Especially by the lab assistants on the Molotov Cocktail floor.
October 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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‘One last thing’: Trudeau posts message to Canadians on final day as prime minister #Canada #cdnpoli #ThankYouPMTrudeau 🍁💪🏻

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
‘One last thing’: Trudeau posts message to Canadians on final day as prime minister
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians are great and shouldn’t change, in a final message posted from his office on his last day in it.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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love this @rokhanna.bsky.social

We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos

Please share off line as well !!!
March 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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This is what a real leader looks like!!
March 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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#KnowYourRights
For now, in English, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), and Arabic. doggiedrawings.net/products/kno...
February 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Relevant History: The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 established the first comprehensive merit-based civil service system in the US.

It was intended to do away with "The Spoils System" whereby unqualified people got govt jobs for their political loyalty, a bad system we've returned to.
February 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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One of the most persistent myths in American politics is that Ronald Reagan was for smaller government.

When he left office, there were more federal government employees than the day he was inaugurated.
February 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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February 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Ive said this before. Unions have a moment in time to create parallel, Non Profit Trust or Associated Health Plans and
offer them to small to medium size businesses.

Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations .

Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ?

Thoughts ?
February 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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People who think removing DEI in universities leads to meritocracies, are too stupid to get into universities on the merits.
January 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I just learned that there is a death metal band called HATEBEAK whose lead vocalist is a parrot. “Birdseeds of Vengeance” is a banger that delivers a screeching indictment of food insecurity couched in avian existential dread

Polly does NOT want a cracker
January 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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January 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
January 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Over 15,000 doctors have signed a letter imploring the US Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation for Secretary of HHS.

The letter states:

“RFK Jr. is not only unqualified to lead this essential agency — he is actively dangerous.”

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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
15,000 doctors sign letter begging Senate to reject RFK Jr for health secretary
Kennedy, among other controversies, has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Remembering Jim Croce, singer-songwriter who was born on this day in 1943.

What are some of your favourite songs by Jim Croce?
#JimCroce
January 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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the "esc" key on a keyboard is a holdover from early-'90s personal computers. on some models it would dispense a can of escargot out of one of the unused drive bays. they put it in the corner so you wouldn't press it by accident because you only got three of them. i pushed it once and got grounded
January 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Jimmy Carter spent his post-presidency preaching kindness and building homes for those without homes.

Donald Trump spent his post-presidency screeching about vengeance and threatening to yank people from their homes to deport them.
Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at age 100, spent his childhood on a peanut farm and returned there after serving in the Navy. His political career took him to Atlanta, the White House and beyond. Here is a timeline of the former president’s life. nyti.ms/4035qyu
December 29, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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Counties in states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA saw a 25% decrease in drug arrests, a 19% drop in “violent offense” arrests, and a 24% decrease in “low-level” offense arrests (Simes & Jahn 2022). Expanding public benefits leads to lower crime rates!
November 20, 2023 at 12:37 PM
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As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their
December 7, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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IMPORTANT: Paris has been implementing a 5-Year Pedestrian Plan:
- 300 million € invested by 2026
- 100 new hectares of pedestrian space
- 100 more “streets for kids”
- Focus on 0 pedestrian deaths #VisionZero
- Longer pedestrian cross times geared to seniors

Leadership.

Does your city have one?
December 2, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Best explanation of the situation in the Middle East that I’ve found.

Also, I’m aware that Obama is no longer President, but nothing else has changed as far as I can tell.
November 30, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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As climate change continues to have disastrous effects amid larger existential complexities around collapse, especially services and infrastructure, it is only becoming more and more obvious that we must take some valuable lessons to heart with us in the future.
November 26, 2024 at 10:13 PM