Luke Baumgartner

Apparently Bo Gritz died last week?

If you fancy yourself a progressive, maybe don’t collaborate on IG reels that repackage antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Delete your account.

One of Shawn Ryan’s episodes from last month has a former Marine Corps pilot pushing ZOG. I’m going to scream.

Pete, I’m begging you — please read Clausewitz.

Me to my family whenever they ask me if I'm ever going to tell them how I really feel about things:

Putting my "Middle East regional concentration" hat from grad school back on.

Question: what the fuck is a "radical" liberal? Do those even exist?

One of these days I’m going to write a book about how the GWOT broke an entire generation of veterans’ brains and turned them into out-and-out racists.

The biggest supporters of war are either:

A) the ones who have never fought in one
B) the ones who did fight in one and thought, “Wow, that sucked. Better have someone else do it now.”
C) the ones who stand to monetarily benefit

3 dead, 14 injured in Sixth Street mass shooting; FBI investigating potential terrorism Three people are dead and 14 others were injured following a mass shooting at Buford's on West 6th Street early Sunday, officials said.

Interesting development. I think this place has the propensity to diminish the actual reach of Iran and its fanboys and dismiss it as right wing hysteria. There is a grain of truth to the right weaponizing the threat, but is indeed very real.

Well would you look at that?

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

Iran's "terrorism for hire" network is a live threat. Organised crime groups across Europe, including Foxtrot, Rumba, Hell's Angels, and Mocro-Mafia-linked networks, have been operationally directed by Iranian intelligence. With the regime on "death ground," previous restraint may no longer apply.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

I wrote a term paper on their activities in the tri-border area in grad school. Wild shit goes on down there.

I’m not in the business of telling journalists to shut the fuck up, but for this, l’ll make an exception. The world’s entire body of knowledge is at everyone’s fingertips and excuse the fuck out of me if someone running for senate is too lazy to move their thumbs. So, shut the fuck up, Ryan.

2/3 PBS Newshour talking heads drove home that democracy doesn’t come overnight from air power alone. At least someone is saying it out loud.

Let him cook

A social media post from Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, posted 9 minutes ago. The text reads: "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States:" followed by a link to justthenews.com. Below is a link preview showing the article headline "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces possible war with U.S." accompanied by a photo from what appears to be an Iranian protest or rally, showing demonstrators holding anti-Trump signs and posters with Persian text.

I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life.

Tapping the signs again

Prepare for a lot of “when the worst person you know has a point” moments.

Welcome back School of the Americas!

For fuck's sake, we basically held a state funeral for Madeline Albright—a war criminal—when she died a few years back.

It's hilarious that he's "cancelling" all the elite universities for "wicked (I.e, America-hating communism) ideology" when virtually every architect of America's failed foreign policy graduated from said universities. And I say this as a Georgetown alum.

We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now. About the state of extremism in the U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: @stevanzetti.bsky.social and @kylebazgo.bsky.social reviewed data from at least 300 Texas residents who created accounts on a white supremacist dating site with an eye for what it could illuminate about the state of extremism.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/24/3...

Over the weekend, Dawson Maloney of Albany, NY, died in what appears to be an attempted attack on a substation outside of Las Vegas. Police shared a photo of the books they found in his hotel room, which include literature popular with neo-Nazi accelerationists. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

This place is never beating the allegations.

Hell yeah

If there’s anything I’ve learned from being in this field for the last couple of years, is that:

1) Burnout is real
2) You shouldn’t take advice from someone who hasn’t done what you’re doing or hasn’t done it in so long they’re irrelevant
3) There’s a lot of wannabes and pretenders