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Joseph Finneran

@dcprogress.bsky.social
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Event & broadcast producer DC / NY based, Podium Arts & ClipSocial founder. Lifelong Cardinals fan. Proud, confounded American. Ireland lover. 💙🏳️‍🌈

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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
These people…and clearly many of their voters.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The foreigners are literally subsidizing the education and research of Americans, ya dipshit
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Read: I didn’t want to be a parent. I derive no pleasure from spending time with my child.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Surprise, surprise! Hate-based populist movements eventually gas themselves out when they realize hate & destruction doesn’t improve anything…and they get bored. (While not admitting any mistakes.) ‘He’s Not Making Sense’: How Trump Has Alienated Voters for the G.O.P. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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How Trump Has Alienated Republican Voters Ahead of the Midterms (Gift Article)
Signs are emerging that dispirited Republican voters may stay home in November, bringing a Democratic surge without many conversions.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Agree with other comments. All other reforms to repair U.S. democracy only happen with fundamental SCOTUS reform. Money in politics and the corruption it engenders can be the reason, but to spend a minute down that path without SCOTUS refounded as an objective, non-partisan body, is a wasted minute.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Running a base turnout campaign when your cultish figurehead’s popularity is falling off a cliff has to have been a known failure strategy to most pro GOP pol’s. But they did it anyway. That blithe self-fu**ing mindset will be the political legacy of the MAGA era.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Actually, it’s the grand jury that indicts, under the supervision of a court.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I always rely on the “Washington Reporter” as my top independent news source.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
First I’ve heard of it and despite the projected FOMO of the piece I feel zero interest in learning what I’ve missed.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hear, hear! Sorry I missed the segment but was there a candid acknowledgement of why meaningful AI regulation is a non-starter at this time? Lots of legit, growing concern, but…serious bipartisan movement on this is a fantasy when the leadership of the gov is literally invested in rapid AI growth.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m continually befuddled by the MSM’s unwillingness to just report the damn facts of such stories without framing them as a critique of both sides. The GOP controls all aspects of government and are slavishly captured by their dear leader’s whims. How can any Fed Gov failure not be on them?
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@nytimes.com David Sanger conflates Trump admin & its corrupt GOP counterparts with “Washington” as he rightly calls for bipartisan action on AI. DC IS slow to react, but that ain’t this. “As Fears of A.I. Catastrophe Magnify, Washington Stirs, but Mostly Slumbers” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...
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As Fears of A.I. Catastrophe Magnify, Washington Stirs, but Mostly Slumbers (Gift Article)
President Trump has been at the forefront of the “what-me-worry?” crowd, refusing to engage on how to balance the risks and rewards of A.I.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What is this?!
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Danny Devito wore it better.
Danny Devito as “The Penguin” in the film “Batman Returns.”
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Is this jacket too understated?
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
But the flightless cormorant!
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We all know what a piker is, right?
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
An 80% reduction sounds great!
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Where is Jake Tapper when you don’t need him? I mean we don’t truly ever need him, right?!
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Here it is on Insta… www.instagram.com/reel/DcXAwtc...
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What was it about the daily ‘storm clouds of her emails’ campaign reporting that didn’t disappoint you?
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Reading this article, waiting for some sympathy to kick in…but it never did. This experience and the reported conditions at the ice facility are horrendous. But her husband voted for it, not caring about ‘others.’ He Was a MAGA Patriot. ICE Took His Wife Away. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
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He Was a MAGA Patriot. ICE Took His Wife Away. (Gift Article)
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Looking for the loser emoji…
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Girl Making Loser Sign & Tongue Out
ALT: Girl Making Loser Sign & Tongue Out
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m sure you were scolding all the folks in 2016 like this who stayed home because Hillary didn’t excite them or who insisted she was evil.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Tobey Maguire purist
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s like they shit themselves and then wrote a public letter celebrating the value of shitting themselves.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Objective, fact-based documentation of this please? I know it’s a crazy idea, but in critical situations like this the standard for posting a statement like that should be that there’s publicly available documentary evidence to support it. Thanks for providing it if you can!
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you dig into the campaign lit., the linchpin of this claim is funding from and endorsement by DMFI PAC. Which Stevens has as well. It’s not AIPAC but they coordinate outside spending and share donors, etc. “Israel First” clearly crosses a line. That’s not even coded. But DMFI isn’t “nothing.”
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s also because he’s got the money to sue people and organizations into bankruptcy. He’s got the resources to destroy people’s lives and an obvious willingness to do that on a whim.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
He should first investigate the conspiracy behind that rug.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
WTF. THIS is the f’ing President of the United States.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Today is July 21, 2026. Let’s see how long this month lasts, and if on October 21, 2026 @nytimes.com will admit that it parroted a ridiculous talking point. White House Says New Air Force One Will Be Out of Service for a Month for ‘Upgrades’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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White House Says New Air Force One Will Be Out of Service for a Month for ‘Upgrades’
The White House press secretary said the unspecified “enhancements” would take place this fall. The plane has been under scrutiny over whether it has sufficient defensive capabilities.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In that simplistic way that’s not anything like what I wrote…yes, you’re completely right. That seems like what matters most to you.
wrote.xn--youre-1v3b
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The cankles really sell it.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is that thing where you misstate everything in a simplistic, nonsense way so no factual info is addressed, then draw a dumb conclusion from it, emphatically. What’s the point? Why waste everyone’s time?
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It was an ill-conceived call to action by activists, not a candidate’s campaign slogan. It was a demand of the most outspoken side of the Black Lives Matter movement post-George Floyd. Though it was undefined and practically impossible, it was used as both a test and a cudgel against candidates.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
His unwillingness to force this issue to a decisive conclusion and leverage it to expose the political corruption he’s supposedly fighting is maddening, and reduces his viability moving forward. This whole charade is nonsense and he seems to be dithering.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
AI is Soylent Green.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Was he really a great, transcendent leader deserving to now be eulogized as a tragic figure? Like many Republicans of his era, he seems like a talented tool who swung with the wind, posturing as the politics required, but basically unmoored from any great mission or morality. Then Trump appeared.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Barely. Barely won, because of knucklehead overreach like “Defund The Police.”
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Folks who think “Defund The Police” was politically stupid aren’t (necessarily) opposed to racial justice. Insisting they are only proves one is lost in a dim, self-righteous bubble. Reversing endemic, institutional racism in a country this big and complex is hard. Seeing how dumb this was is not.
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This tech that we’re using to share and discuss this silly, self-serving generalization from Friedman was created by a combination of government agencies. Are you all that dumb or just don’t think your target audience cares that you’re full of it?
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Joseph Finneran @dcprogress.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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