SDBaker
@sdbaker.bsky.social
Let's start with the truth and end with it.
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Name names. Shame on all the ACIP members who voted to strip the recommendation for the birth dose of the HBV vaccine. Call them out. Give them no peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Name names. Shame on all the ACIP members who voted to strip the recommendation for the birth dose of the HBV vaccine. Call them out. Give them no peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
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REPUBLICAN MAYOR IN KANSAS FACING DEPORTATION OVER VOTER FRAUD
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
REPUBLICAN MAYOR IN KANSAS FACING DEPORTATION OVER VOTER FRAUD
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
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Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut said the unedited video clearly shows the U.S. striking helpless people. interc.pt/49Z6zxr
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut said the unedited video clearly shows the U.S. striking helpless people. interc.pt/49Z6zxr
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Minutes after Minnesota House Speaker and GOP gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth (R) refused to condemn President Donald Trump's anti-Somali hate speech, Senate Majority Leader @epmurphymn.bsky.social (DFL) starts off her speech by condemning it.
December 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Minutes after Minnesota House Speaker and GOP gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth (R) refused to condemn President Donald Trump's anti-Somali hate speech, Senate Majority Leader @epmurphymn.bsky.social (DFL) starts off her speech by condemning it.
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Trump’s remarks about Somalis being “garbage” reflects the bigoted logic of an administration whose policies are designed to maintain an aristocracy of race and class www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism?
Immigration isn’t breaking our society. We are.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Trump’s remarks about Somalis being “garbage” reflects the bigoted logic of an administration whose policies are designed to maintain an aristocracy of race and class www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Here’s my article on the links between Soviet ideology and anti science @plosbiology.org
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Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine
This Essay argues that COVID-19 exposed how a rising tide of anti-science rhetoric and activities can dramatically exploit society's vulnerabilities to an infectious disease, suggesting that anti-scie...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Here’s my article on the links between Soviet ideology and anti science @plosbiology.org
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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This was across the road from my house. So many people showed up within minutes. ICE agents circled the block for 45 minutes after they’d been chased off, just to troll. There is no hell hot enough to roast those fuckers.
We encountered an ICE immigration enforcement action on Park Ave. in Minneapolis today. When my colleague Ben Hovland and I arrived there were only a couple observers, but there were dozens blowing whistles by the time ICE agents left without making an arrest.
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MPR News on Instagram: "Nearly two dozen community members surrounded a house on the 3100 block of Park Avenue in Minneapolis when Homeland Security Investigations officers detained an East African ma...
Residents of Minneapolis's Park Avenue neighborhood respond to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation with a community watch, as reported by MPR News. The community watches as federal agents...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This was across the road from my house. So many people showed up within minutes. ICE agents circled the block for 45 minutes after they’d been chased off, just to troll. There is no hell hot enough to roast those fuckers.
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This is a message from an official, tax-payer funded White House account, written by government employees barred by law from engaging in partisan politics
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This is a message from an official, tax-payer funded White House account, written by government employees barred by law from engaging in partisan politics
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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Yesterday, the Deportation Data Project posted new FOIA data on ICE arrests through October 15 and it’s staggering how much it instantly disproves every claim the Trump admin has made about targeting “criminals” during its splashy arrest operations.
Here’s arrests in Illinois since April.
Here’s arrests in Illinois since April.
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Yesterday, the Deportation Data Project posted new FOIA data on ICE arrests through October 15 and it’s staggering how much it instantly disproves every claim the Trump admin has made about targeting “criminals” during its splashy arrest operations.
Here’s arrests in Illinois since April.
Here’s arrests in Illinois since April.
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The impact of the destruction of USAID is so wide-ranging. We got a field report from one of the poorest states in India, where foreign aid funded "TB champions" who educate and assist tuberculosis patients. Without their help, advocates expect a 36% increase in cases & 68% rise in deaths from TB.
Losing India’s Guardian Angels - The American Prospect
USAID funding supported efforts to eradicate tuberculosis in India, one of the country’s deadliest diseases. Now, that money and support is gone.
prospect.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The impact of the destruction of USAID is so wide-ranging. We got a field report from one of the poorest states in India, where foreign aid funded "TB champions" who educate and assist tuberculosis patients. Without their help, advocates expect a 36% increase in cases & 68% rise in deaths from TB.
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The WSJ Editorial Board
“Those 400 tons of cocaine, transshipped via Honduras, were worth $10 billion in the U.S. . . “‘he knew and understood the violence that accompanies drug trafficking, and in facilitating trafficking, he knowingly facilitated the violence.’”
www.wsj.com/opinion/juan...
“Those 400 tons of cocaine, transshipped via Honduras, were worth $10 billion in the U.S. . . “‘he knew and understood the violence that accompanies drug trafficking, and in facilitating trafficking, he knowingly facilitated the violence.’”
www.wsj.com/opinion/juan...
Opinion | Trump’s Pardon for Cocaine Juan
A jury found Honduras’s former President guilty. Why set him free?
www.wsj.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The WSJ Editorial Board
“Those 400 tons of cocaine, transshipped via Honduras, were worth $10 billion in the U.S. . . “‘he knew and understood the violence that accompanies drug trafficking, and in facilitating trafficking, he knowingly facilitated the violence.’”
www.wsj.com/opinion/juan...
“Those 400 tons of cocaine, transshipped via Honduras, were worth $10 billion in the U.S. . . “‘he knew and understood the violence that accompanies drug trafficking, and in facilitating trafficking, he knowingly facilitated the violence.’”
www.wsj.com/opinion/juan...
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Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney
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December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
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The administration's foreign policy is to performatively murder the weak and defenseless to distract from the fact that it is abandoning U.S. strategic interests worldwide.
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The administration's foreign policy is to performatively murder the weak and defenseless to distract from the fact that it is abandoning U.S. strategic interests worldwide.
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Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
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“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
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November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
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The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
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This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
This is pure fascism.
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sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
Family of man swept up in St. Paul raid say agents had no warrant
A day after an immigration raid outside an East Side home devolved into clashes with protesters, family members of a second man swept up in the operation say they were taunted and humiliated during a ...
sahanjournal.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This is pure fascism.
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sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.
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Surprising nobody at all, the feds are doing less actual law enforcement as they focus on terrorizing immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Surprising nobody at all, the feds are doing less actual law enforcement as they focus on terrorizing immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
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A great article in @foreignaffairs.com about the "toothless" Trump sanctions on Russian oil, that people have been getting wrong. China is still buying lots of oil, and without secondary sanctions, this will protect Moscow
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
America’s Toothless Sanctions on Russian Oil
Last month, the Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, signaling a renewed desire to drive Moscow to the negotiating table in its war a...
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A great article in @foreignaffairs.com about the "toothless" Trump sanctions on Russian oil, that people have been getting wrong. China is still buying lots of oil, and without secondary sanctions, this will protect Moscow
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Cristiano Ronaldo has magically had his ban reduced so he can start the World Cup. There is no precedent...but then he met the President. How depressing...
Column:
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
Column:
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
Cristiano Ronaldo's World Cup reprieve stinks
Portugal star’s magic non-ban is depressingly inevitable
inews.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Cristiano Ronaldo has magically had his ban reduced so he can start the World Cup. There is no precedent...but then he met the President. How depressing...
Column:
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
Column:
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...