Baker🇺🇦🌻
@bakerblue.bsky.social
Ne’er do well-no really. Witty once in a blue moon..sometimes obtuse. Believe in freedom to get in your own way when necessary. There’s still magic in the world if we look closely and quietly..
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Baker🇺🇦🌻
@bakerblue.bsky.social
· Mar 12
On the lighter side, enjoy this Norwegian weather reporter’s travails.
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ALL MN PROTESTERS
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
January 24, 2026 at 5:47 PM
ALL MN PROTESTERS
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
Keep thinking about the congresspeople that decided this was worth funding..
Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."
January 24, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Keep thinking about the congresspeople that decided this was worth funding..
Not an expert, but doesn’t look like he approached them with a gun. Video in thread.
January 24, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Not an expert, but doesn’t look like he approached them with a gun. Video in thread.
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"For some, it's a family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next, you have those who just need a job. Then there's the kind who want a legal means of killing other people." - Jack Reacher
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
"For some, it's a family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next, you have those who just need a job. Then there's the kind who want a legal means of killing other people." - Jack Reacher
As angry as we all are-this is realistic-we only have the the beginnings of resistance and organization..the regime is hell-bent and telegraphing it’s intentions-because they’re idiots…we have to know we win in the end-like a tide rolling in, washing the shore so we can start again.
This is a bonkers construction. This is not the way. Tactical absolutism for the weak party is suicide.
Ignore the Ls, focus on the positives, and survive to fight the next day, for "as long as possible."*
Ignore the Ls, focus on the positives, and survive to fight the next day, for "as long as possible."*
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
As angry as we all are-this is realistic-we only have the the beginnings of resistance and organization..the regime is hell-bent and telegraphing it’s intentions-because they’re idiots…we have to know we win in the end-like a tide rolling in, washing the shore so we can start again.
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@cnn.com @cnn-news.bsky.social take down that graphic! DHS is lying. Take that fucking deceptive propaganda graphic down. They are EXECUTING Americans in Minneapolis! Take that down!
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
@cnn.com @cnn-news.bsky.social take down that graphic! DHS is lying. Take that fucking deceptive propaganda graphic down. They are EXECUTING Americans in Minneapolis! Take that down!
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It's straight from the fascist playbook to create chaos and then demand unquestioned authority to stop the chaos.
January 24, 2026 at 5:49 PM
It's straight from the fascist playbook to create chaos and then demand unquestioned authority to stop the chaos.
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📣 I realize this may seem a bit tone deaf under the circumstances, but a reminder that #ACA Open Enrollment is still going on for another week across 8 states +DC.
acasignups.net/26/01/24/rem...
acasignups.net/26/01/24/rem...
Reminder: 2026 Open Enrollment is still happening for 30% of the population!
Two things are true as of today: 2026 ACA Open Enrollment has ended...and 2026 ACA Open Enrollment is still going on (in some states). The official Open Enrollment Period is over in 42 states...but re...
acasignups.net
January 24, 2026 at 5:49 PM
📣 I realize this may seem a bit tone deaf under the circumstances, but a reminder that #ACA Open Enrollment is still going on for another week across 8 states +DC.
acasignups.net/26/01/24/rem...
acasignups.net/26/01/24/rem...
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DHS (once again) announces conclusion (within 3 hours) without any investigation.
- Conclusion about federal agent's intent
- Conclusion about individual's intent
- Implicit conclusion about timing of disarming the individual and shooting him
- Conclusion about federal agent's intent
- Conclusion about individual's intent
- Implicit conclusion about timing of disarming the individual and shooting him
January 24, 2026 at 5:49 PM
DHS (once again) announces conclusion (within 3 hours) without any investigation.
- Conclusion about federal agent's intent
- Conclusion about individual's intent
- Implicit conclusion about timing of disarming the individual and shooting him
- Conclusion about federal agent's intent
- Conclusion about individual's intent
- Implicit conclusion about timing of disarming the individual and shooting him
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The Senate passed an environmental spending package that rejects many of Trump's cuts but could still harm climate research.
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Congress passes environmental funding without Trump’s deep cuts - High Country News
But the bipartisan effort still trimmed climate research and fails to solve agencies’ chronic underfunding. The Senate passed an environmental spending package that rejects many of Trump's cuts but…
www.hcn.org
January 24, 2026 at 3:33 PM
The Senate passed an environmental spending package that rejects many of Trump's cuts but could still harm climate research.
buff.ly/hyH2e9X
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All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
All the good done by people in the last few weeks. And some goon just kills a person.
Video of murder of person by ICE storm troopers in the past hour in Minneapolis:
January 24, 2026 at 5:33 PM
All the good done by people in the last few weeks. And some goon just kills a person.
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Why “untrained” thing, when Good was killed by an agent who was in fact a trainer?
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Why “untrained” thing, when Good was killed by an agent who was in fact a trainer?
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this is not a matter of training
January 24, 2026 at 4:21 PM
this is not a matter of training
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This is why those Congressional Dems who voted to fund DHS this week are so appalling. They act like this is about securing the border or about arresting violent criminals. The reality is that ICE is terrorizing anyone who isn't white in an attempt to ethnically cleanse the country.
No news reporter should go uncorrected whenever they call this an "immigration crackdown".
When they are kidnapping people simply based on the color of their skin that is an ethnic cleansing.
When they are kidnapping people simply based on the color of their skin that is an ethnic cleansing.
January 24, 2026 at 2:44 AM
This is why those Congressional Dems who voted to fund DHS this week are so appalling. They act like this is about securing the border or about arresting violent criminals. The reality is that ICE is terrorizing anyone who isn't white in an attempt to ethnically cleanse the country.
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One lesson to be learned from extremism in the 1970s is that violence can be avoided if calls for radical change are given a political outlet—but if governments ignore people's needs, “the violence will soon return,” Jason Burke argues:
Lessons From the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
If calls for radical change aren’t given a political outlet, violence will always return.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 2:45 AM
One lesson to be learned from extremism in the 1970s is that violence can be avoided if calls for radical change are given a political outlet—but if governments ignore people's needs, “the violence will soon return,” Jason Burke argues:
John Prine on Austin City Limits "When I Get to Heaven"
YouTube video by Austin City Limits
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January 24, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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Exactly. Fear can be an effective regulator in the absence of forces sufficient to control a population.
They’re also making content to create a permission structure for others on their side to engage in violence (stochastic terrorism).
So far they’re failing, but this is state domestic terrorism.
They’re also making content to create a permission structure for others on their side to engage in violence (stochastic terrorism).
So far they’re failing, but this is state domestic terrorism.
fear.
they need to demonstrate that resistance is worse than useless, that it will be broken, and that their agents have impunity regardless of their actions.
they need to demonstrate that resistance is worse than useless, that it will be broken, and that their agents have impunity regardless of their actions.
So… what’s the strategic goal for the administration in Minnesota, exactly?
I’m not being cute, I don’t understand the theory of victory here and want someone to explain it to me.
I’m not being cute, I don’t understand the theory of victory here and want someone to explain it to me.
January 24, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Exactly. Fear can be an effective regulator in the absence of forces sufficient to control a population.
They’re also making content to create a permission structure for others on their side to engage in violence (stochastic terrorism).
So far they’re failing, but this is state domestic terrorism.
They’re also making content to create a permission structure for others on their side to engage in violence (stochastic terrorism).
So far they’re failing, but this is state domestic terrorism.
Yay!
✊🏼 Must watch! Nekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Allen celebrate as they are released. To see video, click below. ⤵️
January 24, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Yay!
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Children
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
January 24, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Children
What like someone drawing the storm out of the way with a sharpie?
CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….
January 24, 2026 at 2:34 AM
What like someone drawing the storm out of the way with a sharpie?
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They were already fools, or they wouldn't go along with him.
One of Trump's few redeeming qualities: "He makes fools out of all the people who go along with him."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZL...
Trump Is Now Deeply Unpopular | Secret Podcast Preview
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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January 24, 2026 at 2:22 AM
They were already fools, or they wouldn't go along with him.