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Charles Finch

@charlesfinch.bsky.social
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Novelist and literary critic. Most recent books “What Just Happened” (Knopf) and “An Extravagant Death” (Minotaur) available in paperback.

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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I reviewed this interesting book about how weird work feels in late capitalism www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/b...
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Her Job Was Real. So Why Did Her Work Feel So Fake?
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 12/06/2025
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Today is Anne Frank's birthday. Her diary.
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Brian Wilson was having a breakdown before a tour in Japan and Al Jardine said “just stay home - play around with all your pet sounds.” Which is why…if there’s a second spirit that matters most in The Beach Boys, it’s Al. Who played with him till the end. Farewell genius. I’m sorry for the world.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
if you don't like bluesky then don't use it, it's not that deep
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...
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Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Think about all the incredible writers you know who can’t get any publicity but James Fucking Frey gets the front page glow up in the Sunday NY Times, called a “literary outlaw” for making shit up in a book billed as non-fiction, and a whole paragraph devoted to him describing his orgasms.
This fucking guy, I swear to god
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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Jonathan Haidt & co like to scold parents for overestimating the dangers of letting kids roam free. But it really is more dangerous for kids to be alone on the streets now. Not because of kidnappers — because of cars.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 05/06/2025
🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
He needed air. The price was $539. When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price. 5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler. He paid with his life. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
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22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler
In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Lmao the future sucks
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Ben Paulos @paulosanalysis.com · 24/05/2025
California renewables are currently producing more than total state power demand. Exporting clean energy to Arizona, Nevada and the Pacific Northwest.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/05/2025
www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-...
And these are issues that hit everything we do, all the time, constantly, unrelentingly. Technology is our lives now. We wake up, we use our phone, we check our texts (three spam calls, two spam texts), we look at our bank balance (two-factor authentication check), we read the news (a quarter of the page is blocked by an advertisement asking for our email that's deliberately built to hide the button to get rid of it, or a login screen because we got logged out somehow), we check social media (after being shown an ad every two clicks), and then we log onto Slack (and feel a pang of anxiety as 15 different notifications appear). 

Modern existence has become engulfed in sludge, the institutions that exist to cut through it bouncing between the ignorance of their masters and a misplaced duty in objectivity, our mechanisms for exploring and enjoying the world interfered with by powerful forces that are too-often left unchecked. Opening our devices is willfully subjecting us to attack after attack from applications, websites and devices that are built to make us do things rather than operate with the dignity and freedom that much of the internet was founded upon. 

These millions of invisible acts of terror are too-often left undiscussed, because accepting the truth requires you to accept that most of the tech ecosystem is rotten, and that billions of dollars are made harassing and punishing billions of people every single day of their lives through the devices that we’re required to use to exist in the modern world. Most users suffer the consequences, and most media fails to account for them, and in turn people walk around knowing something is wrong but not knowing who to blame until somebody provides a convenient excuse.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/05/2025
New from @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social: When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.
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The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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Barchart @barchart.com · 06/05/2025
The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Lynch’s politics are obviously far left because he was smart and not a monster but there is A truth here, however accidentally, which is that his work and right wing politics are both based almost completely in one emotion: fear
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/04/2025
I'm seeing that people around here have been reading Victor Klemperer's diaries lately (there are two volumes), and I can't recommend them too highly.
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1 by Victor Klemperer: 9780375753787 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The...
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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The parties included a 7, 8, and 4-year-old. "None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys." "The 4-year-old girl in the tie-dye shirt raised her hand, dangling her pink plushy above her head. It wasn’t clear – was she responding to the question, or just playing with her toy?"
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4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'
The Trump administration cut funding for lawyers aiding unaccompanied minors in court.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 21/04/2025
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts reut.rs/4cHdnz3
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I reviewed this book! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
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Book Review: ‘Authority: Essays,’ by Andrea Long Chu
“Authority,” a new collection of reviews and essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu, showcases her smarts, humor and contempt.
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I wrote a bit about Joan Didion. Also I’m so incredibly sorry about the state of the world! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/b...
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How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer
A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by Hollywood.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Holy cow! This has been an extraordinary week of impact for @propublica and our journalists. I wanted to take a moment to share the power of accountability journalism to make a difference. Here we go!
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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
In re Claremont, Paul Fussell rightly pointed out back in the 80s that think tanks and institutes with all their talk of “scholars” and “fellows” was just people playing at university without having actually to put in the work—or, I’d add, having to face oppositional views from colleagues.
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Retweeting praise /sorry not sorry
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 31/12/2024
been thinking about this a lot. journalism, books, music, and film industries, all severely damaged or destroyed by Big Tech “innovation”
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
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Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
one of the biggest lies that is told about climate change is that: it's too late. it's out of our hands. our fate is sealed. but we know how to stop the heating up. great post from @andrewdessler.com www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-ch...
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Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check
Why future warming isn't as "locked in" as you might think
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Feel like soap and chocolate are similar enough that it seems like Dove are up to something suspicious
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Adrian Dawnwalker 🧛🏾‍♂️ 🦇 @adrianswalker.blacksky.app · 29/11/2024
No crossing the picket line!
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Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A May study in the Lancet estimated that vaccines against 14 common pathogens have saved 154 million lives over the past 50 years, a rate of six lives every minute.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I think the story of media, particularly online media, in the last couple decades is basically “market becomes more efficient, society realizes inefficiency was load bearing ”
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 27/11/2024
EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Does anyone else skip the AI search result on principle
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I am not even kidding: the dems should run Matthew McConaughey on a broad populist platform. It’s a new world, adapt or die.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is going to piss a lot of men off, but ignore them, too!
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Have the Democrats tried running a populist for president the last half century? Might want to give that a shot
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
At least one Democrat should make this a slogan in 2028.
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Had the pleasure of writing about Jean Strouse’s new Sargent book for the Boston Globe www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/21/a...
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‘Family Romance’ paints a portrait of Sargent and his patrons - The Boston Globe
Jean Strouse explores the fin-de-siècle story of the artist and one family he portrayed.
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I was late to Chappell and that’s on me
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I strongly believe that we underestimate the power of existential despair in our current cultural and political moment.
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Inherit 😭
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
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Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If you want to remember what the last year of Trump’s last presidency was like, the bleach, the lies, the insurrection - this is the book I wrote about 2020…
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/11/2024
Pete Hegseth has published three books in four years. Jonathan Chait spent the last week reading them—and concluded that Hegseth is almost certainly the most dangerous of Trump's cabinet picks. theatln.tc/80Muc59S
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string @stringy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
gotta hear both sides
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.
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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Bluesky has 'em shook
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
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