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Paul Finkelstein @paulhfink.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Yes, Beach confirmed this with his own post. By law, only the images of deceased people can be put on US currency. No kings.

Paul Finkelstein @paulhfink.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

So, we are now engaged in a literal War on Drugs. Does that mean the President will request a Declaration of War from Congress as Constitutionally required? If we are at war with drug dealers, does that make street dealers enemy combatants? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Trump says US is in 'armed conflict' with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the Caribbean

President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an "armed conflict” with them, according to a Trump administration memo obtained by The ...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 21/09/2025

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Trump/Vance/Stephen Miller are busy spreading blatant lies and glossing over violence committed by the far-right. They're establishing a justification to unleash the government against anyone who opposes MAGA. All of this must be understood against the backdrop of Trump’s declining popularity.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14/09/2025

Sunday post: People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too This gives us an incredibly powerful tool for reducing mass political violence: Sharing the real (very low) numbers on how many people actually support it www.gelliottmorris.com/p/people-are...

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People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too | Weekly roundup for September 14, 2025

Also this week: Trump ties Biden low on inflation/the economy; Mamdani up big in New York City; independent redistricting is an 80-20 issue. + more!

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

Headline from time with a photo of Charlie Kirk at the event where he was murdered, smiling and waving at the crowd. The preview time has shared indicates that this will be the cover story of the next magazine.

The headline reads

The Killing of Charlie Kirk and the Political Violence Haunting America

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2025

"Kavanaugh penned a concurrence confirming that, yes, the conservative justices are motivated by gutter racism, and they absolutely do intend to shred five decades of jurisprudence. YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT THEY ORDERED THE CONSTITUTIONAL CODE RED, SON! And they’ll do it again." — @lizdye.bsky.social

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Brett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism

He showed his whole hood.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Striking piece by a former U.S. Navy captain on Trump’s lethal attack in the Caribbean. www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...

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A killing at sea marks America’s descent into lawless power

The peremptory strike on a speedboat is a warning to all who serve. Remember your oath.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

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Your Mad Woman @yourmadwoman.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

An essay on the complexities of the first person. Was Adam an I or an Adam first? open.substack.com/pub/thescrib...

An essay on the perspective nested in a perspective

The Three "I"s

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Paul Finkelstein @paulhfink.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

2018 story that didn’t generate widespread denials and defamation claims.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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Paul Finkelstein @paulhfink.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If you care about the Epstein files, Trump does not want your support. You heard him.

Paul Finkelstein @paulhfink.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

What an embarrassing clown show.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

since I see ppl posting pictures from a pseudoscience convention this morn, I will re-up this. Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia (read: his taxonomy & etiology) have been disproved by multiple research studies (see my reviews here): juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

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Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

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Your Mad Woman @yourmadwoman.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

In appreciation to those of succinct character, who don't need our silly commas. open.substack.com/pub/thescrib...

Bonus Poems: Littlest Words

The words are normal. There are simply few.

Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

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Your Mad Woman @yourmadwoman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

A first exercise in revision and demolition and the art in the cracks in the sidewalk. open.substack.com/pub/thescrib...

Revision Rewind 1: The Lines We Dream

How Telling Tales became Out the Other

Paul Finkelstein @paulhfink.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Senator Padilla was provoked by Noel’s patently imperialist declaration that they intent to occupy LA until they “liberate” it from their duly elected Mayor and Governor. In short, she declared an invasion until they achieve regime change.

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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The only reason people think LA is a postapocalyptic nightmare is because of the X algorithm. An unreality machine.

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Without X a majority of Americans would think Los Angeles was peaceful and public support would be against President Trump.
X is where the truth lives
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The estimated cost of the unnecessary troop mobilization to Los Angeles ($134M) would have funded gender-affirming care in the military for the next 26 years. The trans military ban was never about funding.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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MAinNC @martyd409.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

As I said yesterday: We can no longer believe any numbers the Trump Administration gives us. 🚨 We must find a way to gather, organize, analyze and share data from local and state sources ... though R-dominated states may soon follow the Vought(P25)-Trump lead.

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Paul Finkelstein @paulhfink.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This is your chance to get in on the ground floor! Read more poetry!

Your Mad Woman @yourmadwoman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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Various spooky things in spooky places doing spooky activities. open.substack.com/pub/thescrib...

Ghouls, Cryptids and the Like

Spooky? I hope.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/06/2025

Ah. So, all the attacks on Harvard are supposedly about stopping antisemitism on campus... but they need to hire a holocaust denier in the name of "diversity of viewpoints." Got it.

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Your Mad Woman @yourmadwoman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Sometimes, we must consume what is outside us. Sometimes, all we need is to sup upon ourselves. open.substack.com/pub/thescrib...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/05/2025

THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

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Paul Finkelstein @paulhfink.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

During the records case, I argued that the records were US property and Trump could not take them home and keep them any more than he could take home Air Force One and keep it. It sounded convincing at the time.