C Baker

The sidewalk under the telephone wire Looked like a painting of Jackson Pollock’s. Under the artists, a man stopped to text. His dome a fresh canvas, soon hit - “Bollocks!”

Former Federal Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch New Organization to Ensure Criminal Accountability for Public Officials in the United States ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

thanks AI!!! www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

Ukraine lost access to Elon's Starlink satellites, so Jon Stewart called Starlink customer service

Sandhill cranes have returned to the Minnesota farm field where my father was born. His mother remembered them from her childhood, but he never saw them until a decade or two or so back.

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

There goes 6250 tonnes of CO₂ removal every year…

@bakerbarnes loves the stick library at the beach: #AGoodPlace

Fascinating that as even as other Republicans who long ago sold their souls to MAGA still have enough baseline political acumen to see how poisonous this is, Vance is completely oblivious. It isn't just that he has no principles, decency, or moral compass, he's also really fucking bad at politics.

So the reporting on this wasn’t done correctly

North Carolina’s Democratic governor warns that the absentee ballot rejection rate is twice as high as in 2022 thanks to last-minute changes by Republicans. He recommends voting in person if you can (early voting is even better!) wcti12.com/news/local/g...

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

No other building stands a chance at the annual Ballroom & Military Complex Combination Awards.

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

The White House says the malicious manipulation of Ukrainian access to StarLink and StarShield is over. Zelenskyy says it continues. And Zelenskyy, of course, is correct.

Talking about police officer quantity is pointless without first addressing police officer quality and the community's overall theory of policing. "We just need more cops" is the laziest, most harmful approach possible.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

“the commission planned to take up the sale of ‘1,300 acres’ in Cameron County during a closed-door executive session at a meeting on November 5, two days after the election”

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Stepping back to spend more time cramming for the bar

Speaking of gratitude, someone who was gifted a senate seat and the vice presidency by sugar daddy should probably show a bit more

Sure, Katie Zacharia never passed the bar. But Pete Hegseth has never passed one either.

"Shout out to the guy I'm campaigning for who's too embarrassed to be seen with me."

The vote marked the second time the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) denied students at the nation’s largest historically Black university, with over 15,000 students, a midterms voting site. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

She done lost her damn mind.

Ivanka#247 is malfunctioning

A Susan Collins PAC bought ads in the wrong Portland and has been airing them in Oregon theintercept.com/2026/10/12/s...

Ynterviewer: Kan you explayne thys gap yn your resume? Dante Alighieri: Yn the middle of thys journeye of lyfe Ich founde myselfe yn a shadowye woode, for...

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume. me: yes, that’s the store where i sold clothes

hahaha Trevon Diggs tried to trash talk Mike Evans, so Evans gave him the "who are you?" so hard he had to check his jersey and goaded Diggs into a shove

ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

Miniature is today’s Inktober challenge word.

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

Most TV is just this now.

"...the boom's next phase" is sure an interesting way to say bust.

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