Rick Bahr

Rick Bahr

@rgbtoo.bsky.social

Adjunct EE prof/Stanford, retired from the semi industry. Keywords: Wi-Fi, CPU, Supercomputing, SoC & grandkids. Always curious, often traveling. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickbahr

919 followers149 following313 posts

I share his thankfulness. I might had added additional thanks for the 100s of thousands of now dead children and refugees that cutting USAID induced, as well as the indiscriminate sharing of our heretofore protected personal SSA info.

Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)@portlandken.bsky.social

Trump told Americans to vote as if he is on the ballot...

Rick Bahr reposted

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

Rick Bahr reposted

America’s future is already sitting in our classrooms. K-12 students are majority non-White, and as they grow up, they’ll become a bigger share of the electorate. It’s America doing what America does: changing. Change isn’t waiting for our politics to catch up. It’s coming either way.

Rick Bahr reposted

⚡️️️️️️️Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system. "Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said.

kyivindependent.comAmid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system"Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said in a press release announcing the deal with Kyiv.

Rick Bahr reposted

Ohio isn’t going to elect Amy Acton because she was abused. It’s going to elect her because she has the courage, character, and decency to stand up to bullies, and she understands the difference between wielding power and serving people.

“If Stalin and his Cold War successors could see what Trump and Putin have created, and how the mighty United States has been humbled and humiliated, they might think that their evil hopes were not wrong, but only that they dreamed them too early.”

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories... "But this alliance now exists." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Rick Bahr reposted

Russia's KOSMOS 2612 executed multiple burns to intersect that orbit of the US-owned ICEYE-X36 satellite, which is currently supplying information to Ukraine. Today, the Russian satellite passed within 26 meters of the US satellite. Will Russia attack a US satellite? Will Trump care?

orbitalradar.comCOSMOS 2612 ⟷ ICEYE-X36: 26 m close approachCOSMOS 2612 (CIS) passed within 26 m of ICEYE-X36 (US) at 2026-10-19 16:07 UTC, ~541 km altitude, closing at 0.00 km/s. Live close-approach data from Orbital Radar.

This is disgusting behavior by Musk. Not only is the throttling likely causing unnecessary Ukrainian deaths and betraying our national interest, but his dissembling (trying to blame Trump, then hiding behind false technical issues) is sheer cowardice.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

This is pathetic. Ukraine tested Starlink speed restrictions in Europe and had no issues - the restrictions only exist in Ukraine. The Trump administration is actively helping Russia kill Ukrainians - and risking the lives of US and NATO advisors in Ukraine.

Rick Bahr reposted

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...

theatlantic.comHe Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.

Rick Bahr reposted

The crowd absolutely erupts when Carney says the Pacific Link pipeline will reduce Canada's dependence on the U.S. Mark Carney: "Careful. They might think that's election interference. They're a little touchy down there. We're not. We're getting on with it."

Rick Bahr reposted

Rick Bahr reposted

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

Unbelievable and yet so believable with the Trump regime.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

Rick Bahr reposted

No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, this argument should be chilling. Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.

Rick Bahr reposted

Trump says he's banning CNN, MSNow & Politico from the White House. If he goes through w/ this, the WH press corps needs to boycott. Fox too No more of the correspondents association's white-tablecloth, gladhanding bullshit. Pentagon reporters showed they don't need in-house access. You can too.