Rick Baumhauer

@rickbaumhauer.bsky.social

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Photographer, caretaker for too many cats, auto racing fan since the 70s

A gray cat with a very fuzzy belly rears up on his back legs and stretches his front paws up in the air, trying to catch an unseen toy.
A gray cat with white markings and no tail sleeps while hugging his upside-down head with one of his legs.
Imagine that you are a first-rate grifter: the president of the United States, say. Your grift is that you pretend to be a successful businessman, and use that supposed expertise to make your case for the presidency, which office you then use to make money. Or imagine instead that you are the vice-president. Your grift is that you claim to understand poor people, whose problems, you say, are the fault of gays, immigrants, and billionaires; and then you rise to power thanks to the money and support of a gay immigrant billionaire.
A live activity from an iPhone lock screen showing the score and other information from a baseball game.
The genius of this project lies not in its intellectual rigor—Shane shows there is none—but in its systematic audacity. Every opinion Roberts reserves for himself (Shane notes the senior justice assigns opinions, and Roberts kept the transformative ones), every piece of precedent he casually discards, every historical “fact” he cheerfully invents serves the same ultimate purpose: ensuring that democratic institutions can never again meaningfully constrain concentrated wealth. The beauty of the scheme is that it sounds so respectably academic. “Unitary Executive Theory” rolls off the tongue with such scholarly authority that one almost forgets to ask why this crucial constitutional principle remained hidden from legal scholars for two centuries, only to be discovered by the same people who needed it to eliminate the regulatory agencies that threatened their inherited fortunes. The funders and promulgators of this theory? American intergenerational wealth, channeled through think tanks, law schools, and the Federalist Society itself. The same oligarchs who needed a legal framework to dismantle New Deal constraints funded decades of constitutional scholarship to provide that framework, then acted surprised when their handpicked judges discovered that the Constitution had always forbidden democratic accountability.
Jim Mora asking incredulously "Cracker Barrel?"
A poster for "Andor" with two screenshots from "Bob's Burgers" in which Bob says,"I mean, I don't to oversell it, but it changes you forever."
The cover of Wang Chung's soundtrack album for "To Live and Die in L.A.", signed by the band (Jack Hues and Nick Feldman). It's a photo of lines of palm trees and utility poles at sunset, everything bathed in orange, with the band name and movie title in green block letters.
Tori Amos's "Little Earthquakes" CD, signed "Rick with Love Tori Amos".
Starting to insert the Decurling Panel into the box of Reynold’s parchment paper.
A black and white cat lounges on the top of a cat tree. One front leg is draped over the side of the top level of the tree, while the other leg dangles through the hole in the base of the level.
Wang Chung's soundtrack album for "To Live and Die in L.A.", signed "Have fun!" by Jack Hues and Nick Feldman.
A gray and white cat sits with its back legs on the arm of a couch while standing with its front legs on an end table.
A very tiny (2-3mm) jumping spider on the rim of a small plastic cup.
An osprey against a blue sky, carrying a fish it caught near sundown in early September 2024; West Haven, Connecticut, USA. The osprey has a white body, with the underside of the wings mottled white and dark brown, and a white head with a dark brown mask across the eyes.
A large orange and white cat sits on an orange wool blanket on a bed, looking at the camera. His front paws are crossed in a distinguished fashion.
A black and white tuxedo cat lying on top of a cat tree. His markings are asymmetrical, with white only on the right side of his nose and muzzle.
A male osprey - a large bird of prey, brown above and white below, with a dark stripe through its eye - calls out to the female on the nest while holding a large fish in a tree.
This is going to be the last series the Giants play in Oakland because some rich people are chasing that line going up like a kitten chasing a laser pointer. The passion isn't a consideration. The history isn't a factor. It's just sad as heck, and everyone responsible should feel everlasting shame.
An orange cat sitting in a cardboard scratcher, with her face disappearing into her neck and looking very grumpy.
A man and woman standing on the rocks on the beach in La Jolla, California, as waves crash against the rocks. The woman is in a wedding dress and holding a boquet.
An orange and white cat lays on its back and licks the ear of a gray and white cat that is laying next to him.
Two cats - one gray and white, the other orange and white - look out through a glass door at a gray and white kitten laying on a wooden deck.
A screenshot of three consecutive BlueSky posts, the first two discussing fascist riots in northwest England in August 2024, the third memorializing Marguerite Sznajderman, a 6-month-old Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers in 1944.
Black and white photo of Harrison Ford with a neatly -trimmed beard, sitting on the arm of a couch or chair, circa late 1970s or early 1980s.
A gray and white cat curled up and sleeping partly on its back in an adorable fashion.
Six cats arrayed around our kitchen and dining room. Left to right: Tino, Pippin, Earl, Ginger, Penny, Steve.
A “King of the Hill” screenshot with Dale Gribble sitting at the foot of Hank Hill’s bed in the glow of a television in his underwear. Hank looks agitated, and Peggy is asleep.
Approximately 30 green, blue, and gray parrots on an elaborate set of bird feeders. Taken in the New Haven, Connecticut area on December 30th, 2020.
A bearded man with long hair holds a gray and white cat in his right arm while sitting at a desk.
A photo of Ted Neeley and me (Rick Baumhauer) in Detroit, probably late 1995. Ted has put his floppy blue hat on me.
A black, orange, and white cat standing, staring directly into the camera.
When Jill Stein says that "we're an unstoppable majority" she isn't wrong. We are if we want to be. It is time to go after what we want in earnest and stop allowing ourselves to be fooled and distracted by a manipulative and oppressive establishment.
A cute, one-eyed grey and white cat.
A tortoiseshell cat snuggling with a grey and white cat.
Screenshot of the Stickers and Emoji areas in the iOS emoji keyboard
The cast of the TV show "All Things Great & Small", about a rural veterinarian in Yorkshire in the 1930s and 40s.
An orange cat looking cute and innocuous.
Michael Douglas with slicked-back hair as Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street"