Matthew Baker

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

What does BART have against The Prisoner title sequence?

$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings

But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

cover of book

book open to index pages; 1. Do not obey in advance. 2. Defend institutions. 3. Beware the one-party state. 4. Take responsibility for the face of the world. 5. Remember professional ethics. 6. Be wary of paramilitaries. 7. Be reflective if you must be armed. 8. Stand out. 9. Be kind to our language. 10. Believe in truth. 11. Investigate. 12. Make eye contact and small talk. 13. Practice corporeal politics. 14. Establish a privatelife. 15. Contribute to good causes. 16. Learn from peers in other countries. 17. Listen for dangerous words. 18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. 19. Be a patriot. 20. Be as courageous as you can.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder ©️ 2017

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Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Disney has and always will repackage your dreams and sell them back to you.

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

If Andor taught us one thing, it’s that we should probably cancel Disney+ right now.

Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ash I never thought I’d see fear spread so far and fast. Next year’s midterm elections are now crucial for the Democratic party – and for democrats everywhere, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

400 days, if we survive that long www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

National guard troops lounging outside a Krispy Kreme

Dearest Martha,

The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.

Yours in glaze,

“When she looked at the world with all the climate collapse and white supremacism and patriarchy, and greed, she didn’t stop there,” Worley says. “Which is why I don’t think the prediction or the diagnosis is where we should end. The story itself is her insistence on imagining yourself through it.”

La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

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I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

US troops rolling down the red carpet for Putin, basically bowing down to Russia.

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cover of The Port Chicago Mutiny; The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in the U.S. Naval History by Robert Allen

two rubber stamps that read, "i will not repeat myself" (repeated three times) and "drama often obscures the real issue"

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's relationship: A definitive timeline | CNN Politics A timeline of Trump's interactions with Epstein and Maxwell reveals a long pattern of social proximity and one that stands in sharp contrast to Trump's public downplaying of their friendship.

These monsters go way back. Here's the truth about Trump's history with Epstein which he's so desperately trying to distract you from: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-epstein-relationship-timeline-invs-vis

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Whatever’s in the Epstein files about Trump is so bad that he called them a hoax, accused Obama of treason, shut down the Epstein investigation, recessed Congress to prevent a vote on releasing the files, and rushed his criminal attorney to prison to offer Epstein’s accomplice an immunity deal

A painting of a bird next to the words "how the fuck did we end up here?"

Yesterday, Donald Trump said that the U.S. has "too many non-working holidays." Our "pro-worker president" thinks that w Donald Trump's Golf Spending Spree

Trump will spend his weekend promoting a new golf course at his resort in Scotland – costing taxpayers an estimated $10 million.

After this jaunt, he will have spent at least $52 million of taxpayer money on golf trips.

If that’s not fraud, waste, and abuse, I don’t know what is.

‘It was a nightmare’: Venezuelans deported from US describe conditions in Salvadoran prison | CNN For months, they say, they were beaten by prison guards, shot with pellets, deprived of adequate medical care and denied any due process inside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement.

“It was a nightmare.”

“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.”

“We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”

Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador.

Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...

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The Marines are ending their Los Angeles mission The Pentagon said that the hundreds of Marines from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment will start packing up and leaving L.A.

Marines are ending their mission to Los Angeles. It follows half of the California National Guard that was sent to L.A. being released. And after six weeks, what did they do? The Marines spent the last month standing around a few buildings. New @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marines...