Brandon Baumgartner
@baumer.bsky.social
Engineer, triathlete, West Coaster transplanted to the Midwest
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Much like how anyone born after 1980 has never known a functioning US government, we’ve never known an Israel close to the one our parents grew up with (and yes a lot of that version was heavily propagandized).
Boomers can’t accept that our opinions are shaped by our reality not their memories.
Boomers can’t accept that our opinions are shaped by our reality not their memories.
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Much like how anyone born after 1980 has never known a functioning US government, we’ve never known an Israel close to the one our parents grew up with (and yes a lot of that version was heavily propagandized).
Boomers can’t accept that our opinions are shaped by our reality not their memories.
Boomers can’t accept that our opinions are shaped by our reality not their memories.
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It is fascinating that a genuinely intelligent person like Clinton cannot fathom people just disagreeing with her based on the evidence, clearly this is a racial (and ideological) blindspot on her part, but this is true for pretty much everyone of her generation and of her particular elite cohort.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It is fascinating that a genuinely intelligent person like Clinton cannot fathom people just disagreeing with her based on the evidence, clearly this is a racial (and ideological) blindspot on her part, but this is true for pretty much everyone of her generation and of her particular elite cohort.
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I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.
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Fuck you if you support him.
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Fuck you if you support him.
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Dude's falling asleep while his ministers lavish him with praise for his energy and work ethic. "Surreal" doesn't even begin to describe it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Dude's falling asleep while his ministers lavish him with praise for his energy and work ethic. "Surreal" doesn't even begin to describe it.
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His endless repetition of how well he did on a "did you get kicked in the head by a horse" test is maybe the surest sign of how little anyone around him is willing to show or tell him any non-supportive news or information
Trump on his cognitive test: “I'm a smart person, not a stupid person…I got every question right, and these are tough questions. These are questions that I would say 99% of the people that I'm talking to right now, meaning…the fake news, would not do well in those exams.”
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
His endless repetition of how well he did on a "did you get kicked in the head by a horse" test is maybe the surest sign of how little anyone around him is willing to show or tell him any non-supportive news or information
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Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.
I do in fact stay awake at night sometimes thinking about how the MAGA ghouls are destroying actually-essential counterterrorism efforts in favor of directing resources towards brutalizing elderly taco truck workers
NEW: Oregon could lose nearly $18 million worth of terrorism prevention and emergency funding.
In the past, the money has paid for bomb detectors, law enforcement training and barriers that prevent cars from plowing into crowds.
In the past, the money has paid for bomb detectors, law enforcement training and barriers that prevent cars from plowing into crowds.
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.
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Let's say ... 88%
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Let's say ... 88%
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There is really an unsustainable level of bigoted gutter trash in the United States.
Cammack: "Look no further than Minnesota and the disaster there where the Somalian community has been really the root of all of the waste, fraud, and abuse that we've seen in the last several years."
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
There is really an unsustainable level of bigoted gutter trash in the United States.
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“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”
December 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”
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Can you imagine if any other politician said “I had an MRI and I have no idea why?”
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Can you imagine if any other politician said “I had an MRI and I have no idea why?”
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that palestinian children are human deserving of love and dignity is obviously not antisemitic and the idea that it is is completely deranged
the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
that palestinian children are human deserving of love and dignity is obviously not antisemitic and the idea that it is is completely deranged
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By Dan Hollaway’s own standards, it should be acceptable to let all the air out of his tires and then drone strike him while he’s waiting for AAA
Pete Hegseth will face prosecution for real war crimes, not imagined ones, so there's no problem.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
By Dan Hollaway’s own standards, it should be acceptable to let all the air out of his tires and then drone strike him while he’s waiting for AAA
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Here’s the TPUSA version of events at OU.
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Here’s the TPUSA version of events at OU.
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
Max Oh No-smer.... Wow.
November 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Max Oh No-smer.... Wow.
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This right here.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This right here.
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If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
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Marc surrounded himself with only people who kissed his ass and praised him for taking crazy risks, and now he views literally any suggestion that people merely think through the consequences of their actions, even from *the Pope*, as an affront to his entire concept of self.
It's pretty funny how the Silicon Valley tech bros have all suddenly decided that the actual Pope is the villain in their little narrative. sfstandard.com/2025/11/10/m...
Marc Andreessen v. the pope: VC starts meme-war with Leo XIV
The venture capitalist quickly deleted his social media posts mocking the pontiff’s call to build moral AI.
sfstandard.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Marc surrounded himself with only people who kissed his ass and praised him for taking crazy risks, and now he views literally any suggestion that people merely think through the consequences of their actions, even from *the Pope*, as an affront to his entire concept of self.
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Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of George W. Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC):
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of George W. Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC):
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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It's interesting that none of the geniuses who can full well see what's coming have ventured into thinking about "what then?"
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It's interesting that none of the geniuses who can full well see what's coming have ventured into thinking about "what then?"
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Maga math
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Maga math
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We are blowing up foreign boats and extrajudicially killing people in the name of stopping drugs, but Trump is happy to pardon a corrupt ex-president charged with drug trafficking.
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. n.pr/4pGmc1n
Trump plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
We are blowing up foreign boats and extrajudicially killing people in the name of stopping drugs, but Trump is happy to pardon a corrupt ex-president charged with drug trafficking.
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”Free speech culture” means that when a prominent activist calls you a “retarded pussy” you should not call it out because that’s cancel culture. You should just engage in better debate! Try going on a podcast.
Oh nothing. Just a major conservative activist, former staffer for Chuck Grassley and a former clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch calling me a "retarded pussy." Fun stuff on X, the everything site.
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
”Free speech culture” means that when a prominent activist calls you a “retarded pussy” you should not call it out because that’s cancel culture. You should just engage in better debate! Try going on a podcast.
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Ed Whelan was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OLC from 2001-2004, so when he suggests that laws of war have been violated by the executive branch, that’s… something
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Ed Whelan was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OLC from 2001-2004, so when he suggests that laws of war have been violated by the executive branch, that’s… something