Rick Baumhauer

I went with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social yesterday to the Trump-Epstein Reading Room in Detroit, a traveling exhibit which displays all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files. I’m so grateful for the hard work to make this exhibit happen.

Once again, I simply said this is what they were going to do because they've repeatedly and consistently said this is what they were going to do.

Its amazing that there was this conspiracy theory that Biden was withholding disaster aid from North Carolina that even people in the larger liberal/left believed in and now this is happening and...its barely news.

As I have repeatedly said, white conservative American evangelicalism (Amerevangelicalism) is demonic to its core. It openly contests and defies the teachings of Jesus, and has reduced the idea of salvation by faith alone to the recitation of “Jesus is my personal saviour” as a magic spell.

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

Nick Park spent the '80s making A Grand Day Out mostly alone. It was a school project that got out of hand -- he wanted to quit many times. But Park stuck with it and fulfilled his dream of bringing a cinematic feel to stop motion. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-an...

Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.

Adolf Hitler, semi-professional painter and author jailed for failed putsch, dies in Berlin with wife

The easy way to stop there being new art for you to steal is to make it financially impossible for anybody to earn a living making art. Every branch we all sit on sawn through. Nobody asked for the branches to be sawn through. But they came and sawed through them for us all the same. Twats.

Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.

Today I reviewed @jcbradbury.com's upcoming book "This One Will Be Different" which stands as the foremost statement about and against public subsidies for professional sports facilities. A must read for those interested and impacted by the topic. jcbradbury.com/towbd/

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

The Department of Homeland Security is celebrating that for the first time in ~50 years, more people left America than moved here. These people are so stupid and so racist they don’t realize they are scoring own goals

My magnum o'puss? CATS ON FILM (kindle or paperback), which includes the short story "MY DAY BY JONES" - ALIEN from the POV of Jones the cat. "possibly the greatest book ever" "original, diverse, intelligent, and multi-cultural" www.amazon.com/dp/1978038747

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

This is Ilya Honcharov. He was only 14 years old. Russia killed him in Vyshhorod, Kyiv Region on September 30 🕯💔 ​Ilya’s family had moved to the Kyiv region from Sumy to escape relentless bombings, only for a Russian missile to strike the building where they lived.

Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...

look, if the pentagon wants IT security then they have to do what the rest of us do: hire trans furries who go to renfest don't ask me why, idk, i just know that data is insecure until sanctified by the holy aura of someone who checks at least one of those boxes. it's part of god's plan.

Joe Rogan: "No one thought we were gonna go into this prolonged war." Me:

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

It’s hard to separate the legitimate technologies being developed by Anduril from the MAGA corruption party.

These are all the dogs we sponsored in September ❤️‍🩹

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

On the second point, see the "Supermom Myth" chapter in Holding It Together, where I detail how decades of conservative fear mongering made parents wary of sending their children to childcare, even though the real goal was to keep women trapped at home. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

​This is 16-year-old Katya. Russia killed her in Sumy on September 27 when three guided bombs hit a residential neighborhood💔🕯 ​She was in her final year of high school. Her school shared: “Katya will forever stay in our hearts as a student, a friend, and an irreplaceable part of our school family”

While the Trump ads paid for by the taxpayers are shocking, his abuse of federal resources for campaign activity is nothing new. Just a little louder and more obvious. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

The robbery continues. “This is theft from the American people, plain and simple.”

In a few years, no one will debate that Trump was not mentally fit in his second term. Unfortunately, by then it will not matter anymore.

Let’s call it the “Donald J Trump Place Where Presidents Go to Die”

That scene where the comic book villain addresses the United Nations has finally come true.

There are some people in this administration who are imbecilic true believers (e.g., Hegseth, Kash). There are others who know exactly what they're doing and why it's wrong, but who want power. Rubio is in the latter group. To quote Dylan, "All the money you made / Will never buy back your soul."

All of the tech executives who prostrated themselves before Trump are destroying their industry's public perception. Having this hated buffoon as your biggest booster is absolute poison. The US internationally has already seen this, and now perception of AI will go even lower.

We're one month out from the publication of Serling: A Journey Into the Twilight Zone with TV's First Visionary. Every day from now until October 13, I'll be counting down the 31 best Twilight Zone episodes, in this thread. Preorder the book: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

I keep seeing articles about men worrying they won't pass on their genes, and I don't understand why the media won't tell the plain truth: as a man hoping to sire children, the most important thing to do is artfully assemble a bower and surround it with a collection of startlingly blue objects.

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

Osama bin Laden's great hope for the attack was that the US would overreact -- tear itself apart, destabilize the post-war international order, & sacrifice its moral standing. The Republican Party obliged him, beyond his wildest dreams. (And let him get away!)