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Dean Baker

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Dean Baker

@DeanBaker13

Senior economist at the Center for Economic &Policy Research (@ceprdc). Blog-- Beat the Press (@beat_the_press) Tweets are my own views. @deanbaker13.bsky.socia

Utah

Joined July 2011

Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Aug 14, 2025
We had a person kill a Democratic state rep in MN and her husband, shoot a second and his wife, and have a list with 90 more, but the Justice Department couldn't be bothered, but they are on the case of the sandwich thrower
Man who hurled sandwich at law enforcement in D.C. charged with felony
From washingtonpost.com
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Aug 28, 2024
There are two points worth making on this incident.
David Folkenflik
@davidfolkenflik
Aug 27, 2024
From NPR’s ⁦@QuilLawrence:⁩ Arlington National Cemetery officials say Trump campaign staff verbally abused and pushed aside cemetery official who objected to filming and photography at gravesites More below and to follow on NPR
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Jan 4, 2020
very interesting that Lockheed's stock went up 2.0 percent on Thursday, the day before the attack. Looks like a lot of people should go to jail.
Alan MacLeod
@AlanRMacLeod
Jan 4, 2020
Hey guys. Look who is loving this new Iran news!
Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Dec 3, 2024
My wife made this interesting comparison. Joe Biden lied about not pardoning Hunter. That directly affected one person, Hunter. Trump lied about not knowing anything about Project 2025, that affects tens of millions of people. Which will get more media attention?
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Jun 1, 2024
Seriously, you have the Speaker of the House suggesting that he has spoken with justices of the Supreme Court about political matters. Is there some reason this is not a huge scandal.
Josh Marshall
@joshtpm
May 31, 2024
Nice to know that Speaker Johnson not only knows SCOTUS Justices "personally" but suggests he has spoken to them about this case which may come before them and they told him they're not happy with it, and that he expects they will throw out the conviction.
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Nov 8, 2024
I hate to put a lot of highly paid pundits out of business, but look at this f**king graph
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Aug 28, 2024
Replying to @DeanBaker13
The other more important point is that if the Harris campaign had ever done anything like this, EVERY SINGLE Republican politician and pundit would be screaming bloody murder.
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Aug 28, 2024
Replying to @DeanBaker13
First, any normal campaign would be apologizing to the staff of Arlington Cemetary as well as the family and friends of the veterans buried there for violating its rules.
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Sep 19, 2025
Trump has a point about the hatred under Obama. I remember some nutball running around the country insisting Obama was born in Kenya and his U.S. birth certificate was fake
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Sep 18, 2025
MacCALLUM: Do you think it's the responsibility of the president to bring people together? TRUMP: Ideally ... I saw it starting with President Obama. I saw tremendous hatred.
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Aug 28, 2024
Replying to @DeanBaker13
The rules are pretty straightforward -- no photographs for political events -- and Trump violated them.
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Jun 9, 2024
I was listening to a focus group sponsored by NPR of people who don't like Biden or Trump. They asked one person who was leaning towards Trump about what she saw happening in a second Trump term. She answered, he would create jobs.
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Oct 20, 2024
The polls keep showing the presidential race is a dead heat. I wonder where it would be if the media had not misled the country about the economy for the last 4 years, insisting everything was awful when most data showed an extraordinarily strong bounce back from the pandemic.
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Jan 20, 2023
Beef prices have fallen back the level they were at when President Biden took office tradingeconomics.com/commodity/beef Too bad the media can't find out about this
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Dean Baker
@DeanBaker13
Jun 9, 2024
Replying to @DeanBaker13
What an incredible indictment of the media that people literally have no idea of the basic facts on the economy. And don't tell me this is based on their lived experience. They don't know lots of people who are unemployed. They get this from what they hear, not from what they see
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