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Russ Baker

New York, Ontario

Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Who What Why

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Troublemaker-at-Large...Editor in Chief @WhoWhatWhy, Author of @FamilyofSecrets. Directness and humor. Follow my Substack at https://t.co/t4Um1uUKmu

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  • Memorial Day Flyover: Off We Go Into the Wild Red Yonder

    1 week ago | whowhatwhy.org | Russ Baker

    Politics Another merry medley of madness The first thing to remember as we honor those who gave their lives for this country is that our Mad King has expressed contempt for them. Such as this odious comment Donald Trump made back in 2015, referring to John McCain who was shot down over North Vietnam:He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured. Not a war hero?

  • Silicon Valley: In the Land of the Digital Robber Barons

    2 weeks ago | whowhatwhy.org | Russ Baker

    Items: Car talk, RFK bathes in sewage, and new nuttery from Trump I’ve been staying in Silicon Valley for a bit and the perspective is certainly different from that in my bohemian quarter of New York.  As you undoubtedly know, there’s a gold rush over AI, especially around here. A lot of young people, and even some older people, whom I run into want a piece of this — and everyone is worried about where it is all going.

  • The Ditzes of TrumpWorld Ratchet Up the Crazy

    3 weeks ago | whowhatwhy.org | Russ Baker

    Politics Watching the king and his courtiers compete with each other in clownishness would be fun if it weren’t all so dangerous and deadly. As I write this, a new, even more liberal pope, has taken over — an American who has openly criticized Donald Trump and JD Vance on everything from deportations to Vance’s take on religion.

  • Then They Came for Smokey the Bear: Trump Sics DOGE on Our National Parks

    1 month ago | whowhatwhy.org | Russ Baker

    What else would Trump do with a national treasure but plunder it? The Trumpian onslaught is so overwhelming that major developments which at one time would have provoked tremendous outrage now pass almost unnoticed. Like this: The entity that oversees our national parks has increasingly been taken over by a DOGE associate from the oil industry.

  • The Real Reason They’re Attacking Universities

    1 month ago | whowhatwhy.org | Russ Baker

    Politics Trying to intellectually neuter the populace. Even those who aren’t surprised by the simple fact of Donald Trump’s assault on America’s universities must be shocked by the full frontal magnitude of it all, belated attempts to walk back parts of it, notwithstanding.

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9 May 25

Stephen Miller says White House is ‘actively looking at’ suspending habeas corpus.

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Russ Baker (@realrussbaker.bsky.social at Bluesky) @RealRussBaker
9 May 25

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Russ Baker (@realrussbaker.bsky.social at Bluesky) @RealRussBaker
8 May 25

In a win for voters, a three-judge panel with two Trump appointees ruled that Alabama’s 2023 congressional map is unconstitutional and violates the VRA, calling it “an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamians’ voting strength.” (democracy docket)