Bruce D. Baker
@SchlFinance101
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Just a professor who uses data and models to evaluate costs and efficiency in k12 and higher education! Opinions here are my own. Personal Twitter!
Miami, FL
Joined June 2009
The role of coal in American electricity generation has been steadily falling because gas and renewables are cheaper as well as cleaner. Trump for dumb reasons wants to spend money propping up dirtier air. https://t.co/wQ9EuVFg9I
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It’s dirty, it’s not cheap, it’s not a good idea.
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Reminder that since August 2025, Mr. Abrego has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, which says it will take him, but the Trump admin outright refuses to deport him there and instead keeps trying to send him to random African countries as punishment.
BREAKING: The U.S. can't take Kilmar Abrego Garcia back into immigration custody because it doesn't have a viable plan to deport him, judge says.
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on the realities of Kavanaugh Stops
Justice Kavanaugh told the country that race based immigration sweeps were safe because any citizen caught up in them would be "promptly" released. ProPublica just walked that reassurance out to the parking lot under the fluorescent lights and showed us what really happens.
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One of the most common problems in the vaccine debate is people citing myocarditis rates that are either inaccurate, outdated, or both. This is a good example. The 2/10,000 rate (20 per 100,000) claimed here by Dr. Murthy is not supported by any published study I’m aware of.
Moderna: mRNA flu vax ~2/10000 reduction in influenza hospitalization Twitter docs: that's important! (rewind to 2021) Moderna: mRNA C19 vax ~2/10000 myocarditis rate among young males Twitter docs: that doesn't matter!
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First time in my lifetime where blame is so easily placed on bad (dumb, horrible, destructive) executive decision making, rather than some more ambiguous mix of economic conditions and lagged effects.
He destroyed our economy and everyone knows it. Whatever he or his voters would like to believe about what he did, the numbers do not lie. We are seeing the worst job growth in over two decades and it is explicitly tied to bad decisions he made and then lied about. He's pathetic.
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Infrastructure can be hard after you’ve made a career of stiffing contractors and running projects over budget and behind schedule.
These tunnels were built in 1910 and carry the busiest passenger rail line in America.
Release the funding and let us build.
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Gonna say it one more time - mRNA vaccines are the game changer that AI LLMs are NOT (AI LLMs are merely stochastic parrots, reshuffling existing word sequences).
mRNA: what happened — a COVID vaccine designed in an hour & delivered in months what’s coming — personalized cancer vaccines what’s now — a politician at FDA overruling career scientists to cancel the progress
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A special note of appreciation to @drterrysimpson & @DrNeilStone along with @DrHotez for trying so hard to shed truth, with supporting data & citations in this in this vapid fact-vacuum. Don't stop! Someone might learn something. Most won't. But someone might!
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You want a hospital? Fine. Los Angeles County. Winter surge 2020–2021. Multiple systems at or above staffed ICU capacity. Ambulance diversion. Oxygen shortages. PACUs converted to ICUs. National Guard deployment. New York City. Spring 2020. Field hospitals. Refrigerated trucks.
@drterrysimpson Name the hospital. Name the dates. I happen to be in a family with several first responders as relatives… And they know dozens of first responders… None of them were overwhelmed. None of them were called in for extra duty… In fact, they were given days off and told to take
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Apparently 75% of those who got the Covid shot are dead and the other 25% regret they got it Anyone out there who has had the Covid vaccine, is not dead, and does not regret it? I'll start Me 🤚
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“We’re not drug dealers like you.” I’m a board-certified surgeon. I operate on disease. I treat complications. I prescribe medications that have passed randomized trials, survived regulatory review, and reduced mortality in measurable ways. If that’s “drug dealing,” it’s the
@drterrysimpson 🥴 is not the “eye roll” emoji, fyi. But thank you for bringing more attention to this post. Functional/Integrative medicine is an effective, evidence-based approach for managing chronic diseases by focusing on root causes, lifestyle, & personalized care. I have 9yrs of
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Dear Social Sciences & Humanities, just a reminder that what engineering wants, engineering gets. You are called service departments for a reason.
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The United States marked the 100th anniversary of 1776 with an exhibition of new technology in Philadelphia. It marked the 200th with a show of friendship with Great Britain, the US-UK tall ships flotilla in NY harbor. It will mark the 250th with a global orgy of corruption.
SCOOP: Trump's ambassadors are raising cash from companies for USA 250-related celebrations, including a rodeo & a Christmas tree lighting at the US embassy in Singapore. “I need your money,” @USAmbSG told executives at a dinner sponsored by Philip Morris
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Patients were not “killed by ventilators.” They were placed on ventilators because they were already in respiratory failure. That’s like saying parachutes cause skydiving accidents because the worst falls involve parachutes. Remdesivir? The NIH ACTT-1 randomized trial showed
@Tamarama100 @AlanRoberts @AdrianKviolin @Cjk7Rm @f_sanz_yaguez @drterrysimpson They were put on ventilators and pumped with remdesivir which was in itself the main cause. Also had underlying health issues and when in combination with the two above so called protocols caused a mass wave of unaliving
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“The vaccine doesn’t prevent COVID.” Neither does a seatbelt prevent car crashes. It prevents you from dying in one. The COVID vaccines were never sold as magical force fields. They were designed to train the immune system to blunt severity. And they did — dramatically. I wish
@SteveCl58542482 @drterrysimpson The bottom-line is this: Not the vaccine nor the booster prevents covid 19 nor transmission.
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Whether it’s Barack Obama, putting Dijon mustard on a hotdog or Vladimir Putin poisoning a political rival with frog toxins, both leaders have a colorful history of using exotic substances.
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Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
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This is absolutely ridiculous and bigoted in so many ways. First off, the 15 million number is just straight-up fiction; a number pulled from thin air. And second and more importantly, nearly all of the recent outbreaks began in 2025 under Trump!
Stop. Please. If measles are back it’s because Biden allowed 15 million undocumented possibly disease ridden illegals in the country. Use your brain, Senator.
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Yes we need American culture — pluralistic liberalism — not Afrikaner nationalism or whatever it is Musk has been promoting.
For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a “multicultural economic zone”! American culture, with its English-Scotts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it, but that’s why people come here.
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