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A place for random thoughts motivated by random things I read, here and elsewhere. To the extent they are reactions I suppose that make me a reactionary.
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 8h
Republicans Know How Vulnerable Trump Is. The Attacks on No Kings Prove It. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

I have a different read: elected Republicans (who are not “true believers”) are more afraid of Trump than they are afraid of the electorate.

That ought to concern us all.
Opinion | Republicans Know How Vulnerable Trump Is. The Attacks on No Kings Prove It.
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 10h
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
Conservatives don’t know what satire is, it’s a word Rush Limbaugh taught them to say whenever they can’t justify or defend something bsky.app/profile/atru...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 1d
And your point is?
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 1d
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/i...

At the fed level, the electorate can’t hold the elected responsible >except< at elections. Protests like these are the only means of showing broad public disagreement with policy. Media ought to note when the numbers are large and the message is focused.
How The Times Covers Crowds: Focusing on the Content, Not the Count
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d
If you don’t understand that the central challenge faced by traditional media is bad-faith attacks from political opportunists, you should not be running a traditional media outlet.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d
The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal
When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life
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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d
Young Republicans Under Fire Over Racist, Homophobic Group Chat
https://theonion.com/young-republicans-under-fire-over-racist-homophobic-group-chat/
“I’m happy to see young Republicans still care about upholding traditional conservative values.” Wes Turner, Glitter Packager
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 2d
A tacit admission that they are committing murder.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d
So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 2d
“I hate Trump more than I hate crowds”
lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 2d
“Why Protest?

Because it’s easier than hiding a family in my attic.”
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 2d
“Elvis is the only King we need”
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 2d
“If Melanie doesn’t have to live with him why do we?”
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 2d
Scenes from a protest…

“It’s so rotten I think that it’s Epstein in the Trump Files”
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 3d
Will establish him as the Duke of New York.
lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 3d
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social President Trump Considering Pardon For Prince Andrew
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 3d
Perhaps you could put the bill's author in parantheses? Or even rephrase? What immediately pops out to me is "blah blah Rep. Tom Cole [...] was killed..."
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d
It’s sad to realize how much of Andrew Cuomo’s career was just riding the coattails of his famous father.

by Meghan McCain
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 3d
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Sacramento” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Sacramento · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 4d
I’m old enough to remember when it was a scandal to say that a portion of your opponents were “deplorable.” This seems a lot worse?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
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lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 4d
‘Course, same can be said about Davids & Rosss & …

Writing 3 times/week is asking to much of anyone, let alone a one trick pony
lsfinn @lsfinn.bsky.social · 4d
#kavanaughStop
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6d
Trump is practicing dementia in the right way.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6d
Be thankful I've instructed my ICE agents to treat immigrants like violent criminals. I could have said to treat them like puppies.

by Kristi Noem
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