Brandon Baumgartner
@baumer.bsky.social
Engineer, triathlete, West Coaster transplanted to the Midwest
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It’s hilarious that Melania is a big enough narcissist to think that people would want to see a documentary about her that she helped create. Lady, you’re literally nothing. Fuck you.
January 31, 2026 at 2:37 AM
It’s hilarious that Melania is a big enough narcissist to think that people would want to see a documentary about her that she helped create. Lady, you’re literally nothing. Fuck you.
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Pretty bold move by the WH to post this the day after Donald Trump demanded that the IRS just hand him $10 billion (more than his total net worth) of taxpayer funds for no real reason.
January 31, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Pretty bold move by the WH to post this the day after Donald Trump demanded that the IRS just hand him $10 billion (more than his total net worth) of taxpayer funds for no real reason.
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Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
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Let's speak plainly.
In a legitimate criminal cases, political appointees don't have to first hollow out U.S. Attorney offices of objecting career prosecutors with integrity; federal judges don't kill the cases at the cradle, and the government doesn't fight tooth and nail to revive them.
In a legitimate criminal cases, political appointees don't have to first hollow out U.S. Attorney offices of objecting career prosecutors with integrity; federal judges don't kill the cases at the cradle, and the government doesn't fight tooth and nail to revive them.
January 30, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Let's speak plainly.
In a legitimate criminal cases, political appointees don't have to first hollow out U.S. Attorney offices of objecting career prosecutors with integrity; federal judges don't kill the cases at the cradle, and the government doesn't fight tooth and nail to revive them.
In a legitimate criminal cases, political appointees don't have to first hollow out U.S. Attorney offices of objecting career prosecutors with integrity; federal judges don't kill the cases at the cradle, and the government doesn't fight tooth and nail to revive them.
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I just want to spit in the face of everyone who mainstreamed this contemptible freak.
I don’t know what I expected when I saw that Chris Rufo was taking on the “fascism canard” but lol
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I just want to spit in the face of everyone who mainstreamed this contemptible freak.
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hi folks, serious journalist here, it's important to understand that this all makes perfect sense if you've completely cooked your brain on Elon fanboy bullshit for the last decade
January 29, 2026 at 10:58 PM
hi folks, serious journalist here, it's important to understand that this all makes perfect sense if you've completely cooked your brain on Elon fanboy bullshit for the last decade
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it's much worse than an "absence of leadership"
this is one of the most powerful, well-resourced tech companies in human history. Even within the realm of feckless capitulation there's no reason for Cook's extracurriculars (attending this cack, the corny statue) unless you approve of fascism
this is one of the most powerful, well-resourced tech companies in human history. Even within the realm of feckless capitulation there's no reason for Cook's extracurriculars (attending this cack, the corny statue) unless you approve of fascism
“This isn’t leadership. This is an absence of leadership,” an Apple employee said about CEO Tim Cook's latest capitulation: Attending a White House screening of Bezos-funded "Melania" on the night of Pretti's murder.
Read @theintercept.com on the staff rebellion at Apple:
Read @theintercept.com on the staff rebellion at Apple:
Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti
Internal Slack logs shared with The Intercept show outrage over Cook’s coziness with Trump and Apple's silence on Pretti's death.
theintercept.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
it's much worse than an "absence of leadership"
this is one of the most powerful, well-resourced tech companies in human history. Even within the realm of feckless capitulation there's no reason for Cook's extracurriculars (attending this cack, the corny statue) unless you approve of fascism
this is one of the most powerful, well-resourced tech companies in human history. Even within the realm of feckless capitulation there's no reason for Cook's extracurriculars (attending this cack, the corny statue) unless you approve of fascism
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Given the earnings Tesla just reported, it makes sense to shift money they don’t have out of making cars they can’t sell and into a speculative AI venture focused on hallucinatory non-consensual nude image generation.
JUST IN: Tesla said it had agreed to invest about $2 billion in Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI, deepening ties between the companies as the automaker pitches itself as an autonomy and robotics-driven company reut.rs/4ajihma
Tesla to invest $2 billion in Musk's xAI startup
Tesla said on Wednesday it had agreed to invest about $2 billion in Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI, deepening ties between the companies as the automaker pitches itself as an autonomy...
reut.rs
January 28, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Given the earnings Tesla just reported, it makes sense to shift money they don’t have out of making cars they can’t sell and into a speculative AI venture focused on hallucinatory non-consensual nude image generation.
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There are people with principled takes on the 2nd Amendment, like the 1st.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 8:34 PM
There are people with principled takes on the 2nd Amendment, like the 1st.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
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getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
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This is embarrassingly on-the-nose textbook “psychology of fascism” stuff. Bitter, impotent tools getting to feel powerful by proxy watching brutality done on their behalf.
Tim Pool: “I’m not licking the boot. It’s my boot. I voted for it. I’m the one stomping…”
This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
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This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This is embarrassingly on-the-nose textbook “psychology of fascism” stuff. Bitter, impotent tools getting to feel powerful by proxy watching brutality done on their behalf.
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I hope each and every one of them, for the rest of their lives, wherever they are, alone or with family, has to suffer the fear and unease of the average non-white person in Minneapolis right now.
January 26, 2026 at 12:39 AM
I hope each and every one of them, for the rest of their lives, wherever they are, alone or with family, has to suffer the fear and unease of the average non-white person in Minneapolis right now.
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"All of the sources support the mass deportation agenda," but think ICE is going about it the wrong way. Hey fuck-o's, if you "support the mass deportation agenda," then you support this. You can't have one without the other.
Even the goons are turning on the goons (and, especially, Greg Bovino) now.
January 26, 2026 at 12:34 AM
"All of the sources support the mass deportation agenda," but think ICE is going about it the wrong way. Hey fuck-o's, if you "support the mass deportation agenda," then you support this. You can't have one without the other.
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Some of the protest signs are similar to anything else you’d see since the start of Trump 2.
Others are directed at the concentration camp guards inside.
Others are directed at the concentration camp guards inside.
January 25, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Some of the protest signs are similar to anything else you’d see since the start of Trump 2.
Others are directed at the concentration camp guards inside.
Others are directed at the concentration camp guards inside.
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This is insane. Even in wholly justified shootings, the police involved often suffer trauma and stress effects. They should absolutely not be back on the street until they receive counseling and have been cleared.
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 8:17 PM
This is insane. Even in wholly justified shootings, the police involved often suffer trauma and stress effects. They should absolutely not be back on the street until they receive counseling and have been cleared.
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Greg Bovino is, to paraphrase the great Marisa Kabas, a Gestapo bitch.
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 25, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Greg Bovino is, to paraphrase the great Marisa Kabas, a Gestapo bitch.
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Patel is lying about the law as it is traditionally understood, as it is written. He’s telling the truth about law under Trumpism: you only have a right if they deign to acknowledge it; you have no right to do anything they don’t want you to do.
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
January 25, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Patel is lying about the law as it is traditionally understood, as it is written. He’s telling the truth about law under Trumpism: you only have a right if they deign to acknowledge it; you have no right to do anything they don’t want you to do.
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He’s correct, it’s not, the party’s end game is also deporting a ton of U.S. citizens too
Per Jake Sherman, Gov. Stitt continued: "We have to enforce federal laws, but we need to know, what is the endgame? And I don't think it's to deport every single non-U.S. citizen."
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) on CNN: “I think the death of Americans, what we're seeing on TV, it's causing deep concerns over federal tactics and accountability. Americans don't like what they're seeing right now. … [Trump’s] getting bad advice right now.”
January 25, 2026 at 5:51 PM
He’s correct, it’s not, the party’s end game is also deporting a ton of U.S. citizens too
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Bovino, as required for a Trump Administration job, is a shameless liar. What’s scarier than that is perhaps 25 to 35% of the nation are totalitarian-souled bootlickers eager to believe him. How do you make a nation out of people like that?
BOVINO: He was in the scene actively impeding and assaulting law enforceme--
BASH: But he wasn't impeding. He was filming, which is a legal thing to do in the United States
BOVINO: Dana, let's not free frame adjudicate this now
BASH: But he wasn't impeding. He was filming, which is a legal thing to do in the United States
BOVINO: Dana, let's not free frame adjudicate this now
January 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Bovino, as required for a Trump Administration job, is a shameless liar. What’s scarier than that is perhaps 25 to 35% of the nation are totalitarian-souled bootlickers eager to believe him. How do you make a nation out of people like that?
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The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?
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It is not an exaggeration at all - at all - to compare this to how segregationist terrorists would murder peaceful civil rights activists and then their political and civilian allies would immediately laugh about it.
It’s the exact same moral and policy cadence
It’s the exact same moral and policy cadence
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 PM
It is not an exaggeration at all - at all - to compare this to how segregationist terrorists would murder peaceful civil rights activists and then their political and civilian allies would immediately laugh about it.
It’s the exact same moral and policy cadence
It’s the exact same moral and policy cadence
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If carrying a loaded weapon and magazines evidences an intention to massacre, then ICE is intending to massacre the population of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:22 PM
If carrying a loaded weapon and magazines evidences an intention to massacre, then ICE is intending to massacre the population of Minneapolis.
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We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.
They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.
If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.
If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.
They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.
If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.
If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
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Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act
January 25, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act
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January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM