John Finagin
@johnfinagin.bsky.social
Writer, blogger, cartoonist, guitarist, Europhile & paraglider pilot who's got a thing about solving wordle then writing clue-rhymes about it. So it goes!
I follow back, but dm only those I know, or have had conversations about my listed interests
I follow back, but dm only those I know, or have had conversations about my listed interests
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It's been almost three weeks now and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's been almost three weeks now and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
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The Epstein Files STILL have not been released.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The Epstein Files STILL have not been released.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
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Happy Tuesday. I mustn't let the fact that if I had my second starter word as my first (I rotate them) it could well have been a 2️⃣, spoil being happy with my 3️⃣. Putin's like this. When a couple of decades ago a TV channel had a programme portraying him like this, he shut the whole business down!
December 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Happy Tuesday. I mustn't let the fact that if I had my second starter word as my first (I rotate them) it could well have been a 2️⃣, spoil being happy with my 3️⃣. Putin's like this. When a couple of decades ago a TV channel had a programme portraying him like this, he shut the whole business down!
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Spotify Wrapped: But make it pardons
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …
December 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …
Being a Brit on the other side of the pond, I wonder if anyone is able to let me know how many Americans are going to be a wee bit more than mildly upset if Trump has been fully redacted out of the Epstein files, when they are released.
December 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Being a Brit on the other side of the pond, I wonder if anyone is able to let me know how many Americans are going to be a wee bit more than mildly upset if Trump has been fully redacted out of the Epstein files, when they are released.
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Tech elites really are starting their own for-profit cities, supposedly to escape regulation and “failing” democracys.
“While some are aspirational, reliant on their founders securing hard-to-come-by special economic zone status, there are now about 120 “start-up societies” in the works”
“While some are aspirational, reliant on their founders securing hard-to-come-by special economic zone status, there are now about 120 “start-up societies” in the works”
I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Tech elites really are starting their own for-profit cities, supposedly to escape regulation and “failing” democracys.
“While some are aspirational, reliant on their founders securing hard-to-come-by special economic zone status, there are now about 120 “start-up societies” in the works”
“While some are aspirational, reliant on their founders securing hard-to-come-by special economic zone status, there are now about 120 “start-up societies” in the works”
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45 years ago today.
a man in a white suit is playing a white grand piano
ALT: a man in a white suit is playing a white grand piano
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
45 years ago today.
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Trump has published his National Security Strategy and has declared Europe as the biggest threat to The United States and pledged positive relations with Russia and other autocratic regimes around the world. Russia is celebrating Trump's betrayal of global democracy.
youtu.be/pvdkNgrReVo
youtu.be/pvdkNgrReVo
Russia Controls The United States - Europe Must Prepare for War
YouTube video by Jake Broe
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Trump has published his National Security Strategy and has declared Europe as the biggest threat to The United States and pledged positive relations with Russia and other autocratic regimes around the world. Russia is celebrating Trump's betrayal of global democracy.
youtu.be/pvdkNgrReVo
youtu.be/pvdkNgrReVo
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I think a lot more people are anti government today than they were eight years ago.
I don't mean Maga anti-government.I just mean , in general after what donald trump has gotten away with.
I don't mean Maga anti-government.I just mean , in general after what donald trump has gotten away with.
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I think a lot more people are anti government today than they were eight years ago.
I don't mean Maga anti-government.I just mean , in general after what donald trump has gotten away with.
I don't mean Maga anti-government.I just mean , in general after what donald trump has gotten away with.
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Escape from X, I need a new place, fresh air
August 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Escape from X, I need a new place, fresh air
Happy Monday. One of those 'recherchez les lettres' days. Verse best read with a French accent. Not obligatory, but it does seem to add a piquance of 'je ne sais quoi' to it, n'est ce pas? 👨🍳😁
December 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Happy Monday. One of those 'recherchez les lettres' days. Verse best read with a French accent. Not obligatory, but it does seem to add a piquance of 'je ne sais quoi' to it, n'est ce pas? 👨🍳😁
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Some say it is illegal to arrest a sitting president. It is not. The president is subject to the law like everyone. That none have been arrested in the U.S. is only a policy internal to the DOJ based on the need for continuity of government operations--a policy that never imagined a criminal POTUS.
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Some say it is illegal to arrest a sitting president. It is not. The president is subject to the law like everyone. That none have been arrested in the U.S. is only a policy internal to the DOJ based on the need for continuity of government operations--a policy that never imagined a criminal POTUS.
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‘What’s going on?’ asks Laura Kuenssberg - suddenly fired up with Labour.
Funny how that energy was missing during 14 years of Tory rule.
So the real question:
Where were you then, Laura?
Your scrutiny felt absent, and Boris Johnson, whom you once called ‘gifted politician’, never got this heat.
Funny how that energy was missing during 14 years of Tory rule.
So the real question:
Where were you then, Laura?
Your scrutiny felt absent, and Boris Johnson, whom you once called ‘gifted politician’, never got this heat.
December 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
‘What’s going on?’ asks Laura Kuenssberg - suddenly fired up with Labour.
Funny how that energy was missing during 14 years of Tory rule.
So the real question:
Where were you then, Laura?
Your scrutiny felt absent, and Boris Johnson, whom you once called ‘gifted politician’, never got this heat.
Funny how that energy was missing during 14 years of Tory rule.
So the real question:
Where were you then, Laura?
Your scrutiny felt absent, and Boris Johnson, whom you once called ‘gifted politician’, never got this heat.
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Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
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Mr. Feldman Said This At Chump's
1st Impeachment Trial.......
1st Impeachment Trial.......
December 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Mr. Feldman Said This At Chump's
1st Impeachment Trial.......
1st Impeachment Trial.......
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Using hydrogen for low/medium temperature industrial process heat is by far the most expensive option available.
Our recent analysis shows that heat pumps coupled with electro-thermal storage is the most cost-effective technology.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our recent analysis shows that heat pumps coupled with electro-thermal storage is the most cost-effective technology.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Using hydrogen for low/medium temperature industrial process heat is by far the most expensive option available.
Our recent analysis shows that heat pumps coupled with electro-thermal storage is the most cost-effective technology.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our recent analysis shows that heat pumps coupled with electro-thermal storage is the most cost-effective technology.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I understand the president has the pardon power but I expected the press to make a bigger deal about the people Trump has been pardoning
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I understand the president has the pardon power but I expected the press to make a bigger deal about the people Trump has been pardoning
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I’m from the generation that remembers when these diseases ran rampant. Perhaps we need to be reminded with a dose of repeated history
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m from the generation that remembers when these diseases ran rampant. Perhaps we need to be reminded with a dose of repeated history
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I didn't vote for Trump either time, not because he ran under the Republican banner, but because I knew what kind of man he was. He's proven me right in so many ways during his second term in office, it's sickening and demoralizing to see what he's done to our once proud nation. 🗽
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I didn't vote for Trump either time, not because he ran under the Republican banner, but because I knew what kind of man he was. He's proven me right in so many ways during his second term in office, it's sickening and demoralizing to see what he's done to our once proud nation. 🗽