Anne Baker

Anne Baker

@mittenbabe.bsky.social

Holistic nutritionist @ Www.nourishholisticnutrition.com organic cook, gardener and outdoor enthusiast, avid reader of books, cat lover, recovering news junkie, still in love w my husband of 36 years. 💜 cats deep conversations and authentic people.

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The Kyiv Independent
@kyivindependent.com

⚡️Ukraine expects US envoys in late spring or early summer, hopes to revive peace talks. Discussions between Umerov and U.S. officials focused on humanitarian issues, prisoner exchanges between Kyiv and Moscow, and details of Washington-backed security guarantees for Ukraine, according to Zelensky.

kyivindependent.comUkraine expects US envoys in late spring or early summer, hopes to revive peace talksDiscussions between Umerov and U.S. officials focused on humanitarian issues, prisoner exchanges between Kyiv and Moscow, and details of Washington-backed security guarantees for Ukraine, according to...

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The Kyiv Independent
@kyivindependent.com

⚡️Russian attacks kill at least 6, injure 58 across Ukraine over past day. Ukrainian forces downed 56 out of 67 drones, including Shahed-type attack drones, that Russia launched overnight, the Air Force reported. Eleven strikes were recorded at eight locations, according to the report.

kyivindependent.comRussian attacks kill at least 6, injure 58 across Ukraine over past dayUkrainian forces downed 56 out of 67 drones, including Shahed-type attack drones, that Russia launched overnight, the Air Force reported.

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

NEW: The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email.

propublica.orgTrump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...
Anne Baker
@mittenbabe.bsky.social

Supreme Court decision to roll back VRA to the Jim Crow era must be fought ferociously. Pro-democracy coalition should boycot corporations in Tennessee Louisiana Florida Mississippi.

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Democracy Docket
@democracydocket.com

🔎Here's what we're tracking today: Active Voting Rights Cases: 161 Active Redistricting Cases: 44 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 80 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 79 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 29 ✅ 84 Victories ❌ 36 Losses

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Jonathan Shorman
@jonshorman.bsky.social

NEW - A week after Callais, the decision is roiling politics across the South as GOP states rush to gerrymander districts with large numbers of Black voters www.newsfromthestates.com/article/kill...

newsfromthestates.com‘Killing our vote’: GOP states rush to break up Black districts after US Supreme Court caseThe day after the U.S. Supreme Court crippled the federal Voting Rights Act, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson addressed a virtual gathering for the group’s members and supporters where he ranke...

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Mara Gay
@maragay.bsky.social

Would rather disenfranchise Black people than save themselves from a tornado

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

This is crazy work by Alabama Republicans… As the Alabama Senate was being forced into the basement while tornado sirens were going off, the Republican supermajority kept moving, rammed through a cloture vote on redistricting, passed the bill, and adjourned. [video by Sen Merika Coleman]

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Bruce Wilson
@brucewilson.bsky.social

Yes, the whole mess was built upon the media-manufactured illusion of Trump as a successful businessman rather than a sociopath, born into a fortune, whose orthodox business ventures had been spectacular failures (until he ventured into crime and overt fraud, which proved somewhat more successful.)

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

I like this @aselrod.bsky.social depiction of Trump as a creature of media pathologies. I don't think it's fully understood how deeply a wholly invented version of him penetrated into the culture and how that allowed him to shrug off his disastrous 1st term. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-parasoci...

Anne Baker
@mittenbabe.bsky.social

MET GALA raised $42 million. I'm all for supporting the arets but this is grotesque. MET take 3/4 of this $ and help struggling people!

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com

The Met Gala is the rare venue where the question “Who are you wearing?” can yield substance, especially this year, Shirley Li argues. Yet the event squandered a chance to make the case for fashion as art.

bit.lyYet Another Wasted Met GalaThe evening squandered an opportunity to really make the case for fashion as art.
Anne Baker
@mittenbabe.bsky.social

Save this! If Rubio runs for office in the future this us what folks need to remember.

Steve Randy Waldman@interfluidity.com

“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

liberalcurrents.comWhat Elon Has DoneElon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Trump’s deployment of federal troops has cost taxpayers nearly $500 million so far — and could surpass $1 billion for the rest of the year. That’s after slashing SNAP and Medicaid, letting ACA subsidies expire, and gutting countless other federal programs. Priorities.

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The Ukrainian Review
@theukrainianreview.bsky.social

🇩🇪 German journalists uncovered a large-scale smuggling network that delivers sanctioned goods from the European Union directly to Moscow. Former employees of a Russian Post subsidiary created this illegal scheme to bypass trade restrictions. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/journalists-...

theukrainianreview.infoJournalists Uncovered “Putin’s Shadow Mail” NetworkGerman journalists uncovered a large-scale smuggling network that delivers sanctioned goods from the European Union directly to Moscow. Former employees of a Ru

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Democracy Docket
@democracydocket.com

Read this if you still need proof that Trump is going to try and rig the midterms👇

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

If you want proof that Trump is going to try to rig the elections, here it is: In a letter to Gov. Tim Walz Saturday, Bondi claimed that Walz could “restore the rule of law” by complying with a list of demands, including giving the Department of Justice (DOJ) the state’s voter registration records.

democracydocket.comAG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shootingHer demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.

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Sarah Longwell
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have the right to break the law and incite violence."

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Timothy Snyder
@timothysnyder.bsky.social

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...

snyder.substack.comLies and LawlessnessThe Camps, the Executions, and the Future

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Justin Wolfers
@justinwolfers.bsky.social

Let me try to articulate what I think the central economic issue of the current moment really is.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Wolfers: This is the most interventionist government of my lifetime. It’s the least conservative government of my lifetime. When you are the richest country in the world, maybe you are not the ones who should be tearing down your existing institutions. But that’s exactly what this president is doing

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."