Stephanie Baker
She/her
Higher ed policy at New America. Opinions = own. Working on fed policy re: parenting students and child care access. Opinions on lots of things.
Parent/worker/baker/learner/gardener who believes in the power of the people.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerThis is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
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- Reposted by Stephanie BakerThe US is traumatizing thousands of kids in detention camps. But we are also traumatizing *millions* of kids who are in hiding or fear their parents being snatched. Like how we have tens of thousands of kids who have survived school shootings, and a whole generation shaped by active shooter drills.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerEvery president from Nixon on released their tax returns, but Trump -- who insisted he would follow that custom -- repeatedly refused to do that. So finally they were leaked, showing he paid only $750 in 2016 and nothing in 2017. He's now demanding all of us, who *did* pay our full taxes, pay him.
- Donald Trump’s frivolous $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns, if he were to win or get a settlement, would be paid entirely by U.S. taxpayers. trib.al/eiYvT8m
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerIt is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
- Reposted by Stephanie Bakerthe Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerReally nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
- Shocking that Trump’s inner circle who excuses child sex trafficking thinks a woman journalist’s job is to smile for them. I’m shocked, I tell you.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerWe gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerSnowstorms are more than just an inconvenience for wheelchair users. Inadequate snow clean-ups means a loss of autonomy for many. New for me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Cannot fathom working at a campus where 4000 students, faculty, and staff were just notified they were exposed to measles. “According to officials, around 4,000 people were notified that they may have been exposed.”
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerDHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
- I will never understand why anyone who isn’t a billionaire is complicit or even excited about this regime’s AI agenda. If this grifting loser is excited about it, can you not recognize it will never be set up to be good for us?
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerThere is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it
- Banned in international warfare yet U.S. police and ICE use it regularly against the people at home
- These agents joined CBP in 2014 and 2018. They’re not untrained, they just like violence and work in a policing agency that is built to be structural violence.
- The same people who say they don’t have free speech on campus
- University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerIn many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
- It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerNEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- Reposted by Stephanie Baker"tired of some of their admiration for [insert lefty or left-leaning political and cultural figure]" explains a solid three-quarters of the last decade of american politics
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerEpstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerI don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerVenn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerIn 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerSo QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.
- Reposted with alt text. Chris Rufo’s so desperate to frame white anti-racists as race traitors that he’s trying to redefine whiteness to exclude people with empathy and Scandinavians.
- Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerI get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerListen. The average person just doesn’t need training to know that it’s wrong to kill people. This is not some big complex problem that requires expertise to get right. If ICE is killing people, it’s from a lack of morality, not a lack of knowledge.
- Reposted by Stephanie Bakerthere’s something about the fixation on polling when people are being brutalized in the streets by federal agents that doesn’t sit quite right
- THAT IS ALREADY ILLEGAL. Congresspeople should have to staff and answer their own constituent calls for at least 8 hours a week to get yelled at for this kinda shit. Stop giving a fascist police force money. That’s it, just fucking stop.
- the U.S., where you can be fired for being a professor and doing your job of teaching and engaging with concepts conservatives hate, but keep your job protecting your fellow unaccountable cop buddies and openly declaring the law won’t apply to them
- LAPD won’t enforce California’s mask ban on ICE/CBP/DHS www.instagram.com/reel/DUHDeCJ...
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerAn extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
- BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz cancels contempt hearing Friday where ICE chief Todd Lyons was to be forced to testify, but excoriates ICE for defying almost 100 court orders in last month. "ICE is not a law unto itself," Schiltz writes. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerProud to have been one of the 9,200 people who submitted that name to the contest. Lol blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/a...
- The only solution is abolish ICE
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerI feel like I'm losing my mind watching Dems view Tom Homan as a reasonable professional. He took $50k in cash in a Cava bag! What are we doing here.
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- Reposted by Stephanie BakerBeing a violence researcher means that basically everything I post here is some variant on: “The thing they said would make you safe is actually ineffective and/or dangerous.” “The thing they said is dangerous is actually a sign of the kind of big changes we need for a safer society for everyone.”
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- Noem’s about to learn how women will always suffer the consequences of men’s actions, and how aligning yourself with (evil) white men won’t protect you (And yes we should be pushing for both Noem and Miller to be out)
- White collar criminals are running free so Trump can pursue an ethnic cleansing agenda. We really need to name his (Miller’s) ethnic cleansing agenda. It is not an immigration agenda.
- Drowning yourself in propaganda doesn’t make you smarter or better able to bring far right neighbors out of a cult. This isn’t rocket science.
- Body cams capture the actions of the people, not so much the officers wearing them. Also look at what they are literally doing on camera.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerHigher ed is where we name who we are and dream of who we want to become. That dream is under threat. I’m proud to introduce the @alliancehighered.bsky.social and humbled to serve as its inaugural president. Join the movement in support opportunity and democracy: allianceforhighered.org
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerThere's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this? This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
- Reposted by Stephanie Bakerif bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
- Need Mamdani to suggest my next reads for me too
- gifting this article because it made me laugh, which is hard to do in this context. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/n...
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerI know this is difficult but everybody has to accept that women can have insight, even when those women are annoying.
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- Reposted by Stephanie Bakerbrass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerThe biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerThis isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years. These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
- There’s state sanctioned ‘journalism’ then there’s real honest journalism where they have to cover what weapon is the state spraying on you
- Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
- We cannot forget the atrocities happening behind closed doors. They’ll shoot people in public, but they’re also kidnapping, assaulting, killing, and otherwise tormenting people in private - all for an ethnic cleansing agenda.
- The official fed govt position is, We can shoot you dead on the street if we don’t like your local and state government.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerThis morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
- Reposted by Stephanie Baker🎶 People in the United States have been getting treated this way the whole time 🎶 It’s not a boomerang, it‘s an expansion
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- Reposted by Stephanie BakerThe calls are working!!!! Keep calling. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
- Yeah just over here suppressing tears in front of my 6 yo bc she’s scared enough as it is and doesn’t need to know the news rn
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerI'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerYesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerOnce again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerI am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
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- As an immunocompromised person this is one of my biggest fears- and a reason I’ve stayed home from the hospital when I probably needed to go. We need clean air and masks in healthcare. It is unacceptable that we have the tools to make hospitals safer, but refuse to use them.
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerThe United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
- If you kidnap people off the streets and participate in ethnic cleansing, you should no know peace in public or private.
- There’s no room for people who tolerate ethnic cleansing in the tent
- Reposted by Stephanie BakerOne of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation. We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
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- It is unbelievable that Dems still appear ready to fund DHS right now. Just appalling moral failure and colluding with an ethnic cleansing agenda.
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- Now is the time to press your alma mater + college leadership about any DEI programs they immediately ditched out of panic last year. So much damage has been done (as intended by this regime), but we can push our institutions to do better. apnews.com/article/dei-...
- Reposted by Stephanie Bakeri was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.
