Isi Baehr-Breen
@isibb.bsky.social
Ru’s dad, but views are my own. Congressional PR Flack.
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it's got to be kind of surreal, gathering in the white house SITUATION ROOM like you're in some kind of high-stakes political thriller but it's for crisis meetings on what to say about your boss paying for handjobs from underaged models in the 90s
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
it's got to be kind of surreal, gathering in the white house SITUATION ROOM like you're in some kind of high-stakes political thriller but it's for crisis meetings on what to say about your boss paying for handjobs from underaged models in the 90s
It’s funny that one of the most competent people in Nazi Germany was an architect with 0 industrial, political, civil, or military experience.
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It’s funny that one of the most competent people in Nazi Germany was an architect with 0 industrial, political, civil, or military experience.
I've been watching a bunch of foreign WW2 movies to go along with what I've been reading, and its hard to decide who gets depicted worse, the Japanese in Chinese movies, or the Nazis in Polish, Ukrainian, and Soviet movies.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I've been watching a bunch of foreign WW2 movies to go along with what I've been reading, and its hard to decide who gets depicted worse, the Japanese in Chinese movies, or the Nazis in Polish, Ukrainian, and Soviet movies.
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New Epstein emails "seem to show Trump understood who Epstein was, how he and Maxwell were acting, and the kinds of crimes they were committing. He was adjacent to, if not involved in, those crimes."
On the pod Nicole Hemmer is brilliant on bigger Epstein-MAGA story:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
On the pod Nicole Hemmer is brilliant on bigger Epstein-MAGA story:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Trump Press Sec’s Epstein Spin Implodes as New Info Rattles Him Deeply
As Karoline Leavitt struggles to explain away Trump’s growing panic over new Jeffrey Epstein revelations, a sharp observer of the right explains why MAGA is cracking up over the scandal—and what to ex...
newrepublic.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
New Epstein emails "seem to show Trump understood who Epstein was, how he and Maxwell were acting, and the kinds of crimes they were committing. He was adjacent to, if not involved in, those crimes."
On the pod Nicole Hemmer is brilliant on bigger Epstein-MAGA story:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
On the pod Nicole Hemmer is brilliant on bigger Epstein-MAGA story:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
No one cared who I was until I put on the mask
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
No one cared who I was until I put on the mask
Contempt can be a healthy emotion. Sometimes, it’s your conscience telling you there’s nothing worth saving.
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Contempt can be a healthy emotion. Sometimes, it’s your conscience telling you there’s nothing worth saving.
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Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:
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God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg
Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
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BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Watched City of Life and Death (2009), and my takeaway is we don’t hassle the Japanese anywhere near enough for what they did during World War 2. Fuckin freaks.
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Watched City of Life and Death (2009), and my takeaway is we don’t hassle the Japanese anywhere near enough for what they did during World War 2. Fuckin freaks.
Whole family was mildly (COVID) sick last week and was basically feeling fine. 10 days later I’m sick with something that *isnt* COVID and it feels like I’m going to die. I have a 102 fever.
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Whole family was mildly (COVID) sick last week and was basically feeling fine. 10 days later I’m sick with something that *isnt* COVID and it feels like I’m going to die. I have a 102 fever.
I'm making a list of important WW2 movies I haven't seen, and wondering if you guys would recommend/not recommend:
The Ascent (1978)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Sisu (2022)
The Cranes Are Flying (1952)
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
City of Life and Death (2009)
Europa, Europa (1990)
The Ascent (1978)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Sisu (2022)
The Cranes Are Flying (1952)
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
City of Life and Death (2009)
Europa, Europa (1990)
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'm making a list of important WW2 movies I haven't seen, and wondering if you guys would recommend/not recommend:
The Ascent (1978)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Sisu (2022)
The Cranes Are Flying (1952)
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
City of Life and Death (2009)
Europa, Europa (1990)
The Ascent (1978)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Sisu (2022)
The Cranes Are Flying (1952)
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
City of Life and Death (2009)
Europa, Europa (1990)
Gotta be honest, you guys: when I saw this picture of the Border Patrol Commander, I thought it was bad AI.
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Gotta be honest, you guys: when I saw this picture of the Border Patrol Commander, I thought it was bad AI.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
When I was a kid, my favorite books in the world were Pullman’s His Dark Materials.
Libi was just reading out loud to me from the interview he did with the Times on the last book of a new trilogy I didn’t even know he had started.
Has anyone read The Book of Dust? Worth?
Libi was just reading out loud to me from the interview he did with the Times on the last book of a new trilogy I didn’t even know he had started.
Has anyone read The Book of Dust? Worth?
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
When I was a kid, my favorite books in the world were Pullman’s His Dark Materials.
Libi was just reading out loud to me from the interview he did with the Times on the last book of a new trilogy I didn’t even know he had started.
Has anyone read The Book of Dust? Worth?
Libi was just reading out loud to me from the interview he did with the Times on the last book of a new trilogy I didn’t even know he had started.
Has anyone read The Book of Dust? Worth?
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That was a choice, voters are good with him as long as his cruelty, his lies, his cynicism, his police dont really touch them in any material way. They can ride. The only place it stings, they look themselves in the mirror - maybe I'm not the great liberal person I thought I was
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
That was a choice, voters are good with him as long as his cruelty, his lies, his cynicism, his police dont really touch them in any material way. They can ride. The only place it stings, they look themselves in the mirror - maybe I'm not the great liberal person I thought I was
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DA’s 🧵 is worth reading & I would only note that Davis spent a good part of the campaign with ZERO paid staff. The Minneapolis “middle” (center-left, whatever you want to call it) doesn’t have any sort of durable campaign infrastructure. Frey does & DSA does. You need 2+ years to win mayor‘s race.
this analysis is strange in that it doesnt answer the fundamental question about Minneapolis voters - if Frey's multiple lies and polarizing ways were truly against their values and they were tired of it, why did they not choose Davis? www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-r...
Roper: Jacob Frey can thank the far left for handing him another term
Frey was a vulnerable incumbent. But progressives banked on the wrong guy to beat him.
www.startribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
DA’s 🧵 is worth reading & I would only note that Davis spent a good part of the campaign with ZERO paid staff. The Minneapolis “middle” (center-left, whatever you want to call it) doesn’t have any sort of durable campaign infrastructure. Frey does & DSA does. You need 2+ years to win mayor‘s race.
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Notre Dame Law aside, I've never met a conservative law student at any law school, regardless of political reputation, who wasn't completely coddled and insulated from considering other viewpoints. there's a whole conservative legal education infrastructure set up to make sure it's like this!
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Notre Dame Law aside, I've never met a conservative law student at any law school, regardless of political reputation, who wasn't completely coddled and insulated from considering other viewpoints. there's a whole conservative legal education infrastructure set up to make sure it's like this!
This genuinely made me gasp
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This genuinely made me gasp
A really big difference between our current class of oligarchs (Theil and Musk great examples) and the last few generations is how much contempt they now have for the future. If they have children or meaningful family relations, they are not loving ones. Mostly, they eschew other human beings.
sean’s theory is that trump is unusually terrified of death, hence ‘going out like stan chera’ and changing the subject in an interview from charlie kirk’s death to the ballroom plans and now staring blankly into space rather than look at a seriously ill person
This is one of those times when social media is important. I don't trust most major news organizations to do much with this photo, even though it speaks volumes about this moment in our nation's history. But the image going viral will get it seen, and might push news orgs to use and discuss it.
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A really big difference between our current class of oligarchs (Theil and Musk great examples) and the last few generations is how much contempt they now have for the future. If they have children or meaningful family relations, they are not loving ones. Mostly, they eschew other human beings.
