B. Baur
@bribaur.bsky.social
Immigrant.
“Volverse a sembrar.
somos raíz, brote, esqueje.” @brujazapoteca_
There is no planet B
www.VoteFromAbroad.org porque todavía podemos
“Volverse a sembrar.
somos raíz, brote, esqueje.” @brujazapoteca_
There is no planet B
www.VoteFromAbroad.org porque todavía podemos
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B. Baur
@bribaur.bsky.social
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Everyone Is Wrong
The Way To Win Is Strength, Not Moderation. The 2025 Winners Proved It.
open.substack.com
❤️this:
“fight not fold, focus on affordability, make a populist argument that names the villains, and respond to cultural attacks”
open.substack.com/pub/charting...
@waytowinus.bsky.social thank you!
“fight not fold, focus on affordability, make a populist argument that names the villains, and respond to cultural attacks”
open.substack.com/pub/charting...
@waytowinus.bsky.social thank you!
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Republican senator now publicly defending Mark Kelly
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Republican senator now publicly defending Mark Kelly
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The team hypothesized that men “require more explicit vocalizations to notice and respond to the needs of their cats.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The team hypothesized that men “require more explicit vocalizations to notice and respond to the needs of their cats.”
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We Ain’t Buying It Day 1! Spend time with your family, tell them you ain’t buying it and why! #weaintbuyingit
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We Ain’t Buying It Day 1! Spend time with your family, tell them you ain’t buying it and why! #weaintbuyingit
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On a day of thanksgiving we are so grateful Mohammed Ibrahim is on his way home.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
On a day of thanksgiving we are so grateful Mohammed Ibrahim is on his way home.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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This is both offensive and intentional. If the ICE agents are "ignorant" they are willfully and deliberately ignorant. Their job is not to uphold the law but to terrorize non-white Americans in service to the white nationalist cause.
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is both offensive and intentional. If the ICE agents are "ignorant" they are willfully and deliberately ignorant. Their job is not to uphold the law but to terrorize non-white Americans in service to the white nationalist cause.
Call your reps:
www.democratsabroad.org/protect_amer...
www.democratsabroad.org/protect_amer...
![Call Script
Hello, my name is [YOUR NAME], and I’m a constituent living abroad in [COUNTRY], voting in [CITY/STATE].
I’m calling to urge [OFFICIAL’S NAME] to vote YES on the Protect America’s Workforce Act, H.R. 2550.
The Trump administration has stripped union rights from more than a million federal workers and canceled contracts for hundreds of thousands more. Congress must restore these rights and protect workers from executive overreach.
This bill is essential for workplace fairness and democratic accountability. Please support it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:utwqaqgyntddpnb7ssrjsqgo/bafkreihzef2pxhppgjvgfwgpflplcp5h3pgqq7i4wzvgivanj44wednomy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Call your reps:
www.democratsabroad.org/protect_amer...
www.democratsabroad.org/protect_amer...
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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Trump Orders Construction of A.I. Platform to Use Troves of Government Data for Research www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
AI Research of What exactly??? Voters? Health?? This appears to be a violation of privacy using government data. Red Flags 🚩🚩everywhere.
AI Research of What exactly??? Voters? Health?? This appears to be a violation of privacy using government data. Red Flags 🚩🚩everywhere.
Trump Orders Construction of A.I. Platform to Use Troves of Government Data for Research
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Trump Orders Construction of A.I. Platform to Use Troves of Government Data for Research www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
AI Research of What exactly??? Voters? Health?? This appears to be a violation of privacy using government data. Red Flags 🚩🚩everywhere.
AI Research of What exactly??? Voters? Health?? This appears to be a violation of privacy using government data. Red Flags 🚩🚩everywhere.
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Gun and drug enforcement is down due to the immigration raids. The national guard should never have been in DC. This was all avoidable. It's collateral damage for stupidity.
Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Gun and drug enforcement is down due to the immigration raids. The national guard should never have been in DC. This was all avoidable. It's collateral damage for stupidity.
“I have no doubt that Nicolás Maduro, Jorge Rodríguez and many others are the masterminds of a system that has rigged elections in many countries, including the U.S.,” Ms. Machado told Bloomberg
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
“I have no doubt that Nicolás Maduro, Jorge Rodríguez and many others are the masterminds of a system that has rigged elections in many countries, including the U.S.,” Ms. Machado told Bloomberg
STOP feeding the war machine
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
STOP feeding the war machine
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@billmckibben.bsky.social: BlackRock "has $13.46 trillion under management as of this fall. owns ten percent of the world’s stock market. If it wanted to stop the expansion of the fossil fuel industry, it could, more easily than any other single entity on planet earth."
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
@billmckibben.bsky.social: BlackRock "has $13.46 trillion under management as of this fall. owns ten percent of the world’s stock market. If it wanted to stop the expansion of the fossil fuel industry, it could, more easily than any other single entity on planet earth."
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WHAT IS STEVE WITKOFF TRYING TO DO?
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.
By Anne Applebaum — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.
By Anne Applebaum — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
What Is Steve Witkoff Trying to Do?
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
WHAT IS STEVE WITKOFF TRYING TO DO?
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.
By Anne Applebaum — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.
By Anne Applebaum — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
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Family separation is wrong. Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of US Citizens www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Family separation is wrong. Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of US Citizens www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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They had submitted extensive paperwork and paid fees. The foreign spouses had been fingerprinted, passed medical exams, no criminal records. They entered the country legally were authorized to work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
They had submitted extensive paperwork and paid fees. The foreign spouses had been fingerprinted, passed medical exams, no criminal records. They entered the country legally were authorized to work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Meta subjects users to more ads, removes privacy protections &reduces the quality of service without losing its user base, which is hard for a company facing competition to do.
Despite a decade of Meta-related scandals & whistle-blowers, no public authority has held them meaningfully accountable.
TW
Despite a decade of Meta-related scandals & whistle-blowers, no public authority has held them meaningfully accountable.
TW
My take on the ruling in the antitrust case against Facebook (Meta) - gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | The Bad Reasoning in the Meta Antitrust Ruling Isn’t Even the Worst Part
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Meta subjects users to more ads, removes privacy protections &reduces the quality of service without losing its user base, which is hard for a company facing competition to do.
Despite a decade of Meta-related scandals & whistle-blowers, no public authority has held them meaningfully accountable.
TW
Despite a decade of Meta-related scandals & whistle-blowers, no public authority has held them meaningfully accountable.
TW
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Thanks to the GOP "big ugly bill", hospitals will lose about 20% of their revenues.
Services will be drastically cut in order to prevent hospital closure.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Services will be drastically cut in order to prevent hospital closure.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Thanks to the GOP "big ugly bill", hospitals will lose about 20% of their revenues.
Services will be drastically cut in order to prevent hospital closure.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Services will be drastically cut in order to prevent hospital closure.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
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What's going on with
sexbots?
#Bots
#AI
>>
Governments should classify these chatbots not simply as another form of media, but as a dependency-fostering product with known psychological risks, like gambling or tobacco.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
sexbots?
#Bots
#AI
>>
Governments should classify these chatbots not simply as another form of media, but as a dependency-fostering product with known psychological risks, like gambling or tobacco.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind ‘Her’
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
What's going on with
sexbots?
#Bots
#AI
>>
Governments should classify these chatbots not simply as another form of media, but as a dependency-fostering product with known psychological risks, like gambling or tobacco.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
sexbots?
#Bots
#AI
>>
Governments should classify these chatbots not simply as another form of media, but as a dependency-fostering product with known psychological risks, like gambling or tobacco.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
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““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …