Jason “JB” Baker

When my wife is now officially let go from her job, & we figure out how to adjust life while she looks for work in a saturated job market, what happens if a court ultimately finds this was done illegally?

Not to mention loss of critical services or the fact the firings weren’t based on performance

Could everyone stop with the Iraq War analogies?

This is a different kind of crisis with distinct risks and strategic blunders from the US and its Iranian adversaries. Remaining analytically stuck in the world of 2003 is a sign of intellectual laziness.

Quick, worthwhile 🧵

My social media is full of far left environmentalists and gun and hunting gear sponsored outfitters in violent agreement over their opposition to this.

Call your Senators and tell them America the beautiful belongs to the people.

I’ve been WILDLY impressed with the backlash I’ve seen on Instagram, from all walks of life—both sides of the aisle—against this idea.

Public land is the people’s land, where we use our beautiful American landscape to hunt, hike, fish, camp and enjoy nature as it was intended.

I think it's important not to conflate "attack nuclear sites" with "launch a nuclear attack"

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t?

So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

What would we say if replaced the names or institutions with ones from Turkey or Belarus or Hungary, telling stories like this, or disappearing people, or masked raids?

Just replace the names or organizations and leave everyone else the same.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

As you should. When I’m on a walk near a pond and see territorial Canada Geese, I give them wide berth!

That could very well be true—my point is just to those who seem discouraged the army “can’t march.” It shouldn’t alter anyone’s view of their modern day combat capability.

To be fair, this is not something the military practices much anymore. Drill is no longer needed to fight wars, and event coordination is not an MOS.

I’m actually uplifted that this did not come off as a goose stepping DPRK or PRC military parade. Our military exercises executing, not showmanship.

A good sign for us.

it actually speaks to our core american values that we're bad at the goose-stepping parades

Good thread here

People who are surprised by how the Army went about fulfilling this task it was handed, haven’t been to an installation-wide 4th of July fest or division week. I’d much rather the parade have that vibe than something more ominous. 6/

“Hundreds of thousands” is not how you spell millions.

We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.

I came back to town that direction today too and there were multiple slow downs as people honked and waved at the overpass gatherings.

We drill into military officers that Members of Congress have Constitutional oversight rights, Members outrank four-stars in protocol, and even Congressional staffers are treated like generals/admirals.

To see sworn federal officers manhandle and handcuff a U.S. Senator... I'm still shook up.

It's beyond norms. And unethical.

Give it time

The First to Stand Before the Emancipation Proclamation, before the parades, a forgotten skirmish proved who was ready to fight for freedom.

Was going to wait for Juneteenth, but the timeline could use a cleanse & a reminder of where we’ve come from, what we’ve fought for, and who did the fighting.

My short historical fiction piece was just published for a contest prompt about erased, forgotten, or overlooked history.

This and a DD-214

The “twisted” history of Trump’s legal theory for using troops against protesters The roots of a protective power authority can be traced back to enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.

This is a really clear, easy to understand description of the history of and restrictions on domestic use of the American military (h/t @clarajeffery.bsky.social)

I’ve been in army units who treated guys who were just shooting at us better than federal authorities are treating citizens exercising their 1A rights in LA.

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.