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kenfinch.bsky.social
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Retired engineer. Portland Oregon for 25 years, now relocated to Suquamish Washington. Dog and cat dad, married to Melissa.
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This is great.
December 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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They literally handing $40,000,000,000 to Argentina just because
JD Vance: "We believe in honoring your father and mother rather than shipping all their money off to Ukraine"
December 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Dem voters need to be smarter about what it’s going to take to win back and hold the majority. Left wing purity tests aren’t it.
This. It drives me nuts when 3 dems defect and make a bad vote and the whole party gets smeared as caving in to Rs, when 200 Ds stood fast and 210 Rs vote with satan and no mention of either fact.
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Endangered Species Act Under Threat!
Final hours to comment!

Endangered Species Act regulations comment period ends Monday 12/22 at 11:59 pm ET.

Easy-to-use comment guide with direct links to comment: shorturl.at/NL623
December 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Just JD Vance being a racist ass shill for the extreme right.
In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."
December 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This. 100%.
If you still support Trump, I don’t judge you for your choice of political party.

I judge you for your lack of morals, ethics, compassion & humanity.

I judge you for your support of pedophilia, racism, treason & fascism.

So will others. So will history.
December 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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A candidate running on dismantling ICE, you say?
December 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Are we tired of winning yet?
December 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Mike Johnson has lost control of the House, as we continue to push through petitions to force the votes he tries so hard to run from.

Congress may be closed for the Holiday, but their inboxes aren’t. Let’s flood them with messages and urge them to vote yes on extending ACA tax credits!
Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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good shit my dude
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Always has, always will.
Vladimir Putin wanted useful idiot Steve Witkoff to represent the US because he targeted him as someone whose greed would be easy to exploit. And when it comes to the Trump admin, Putin gets what he wants. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
December 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias.

Read the whole thing.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Reup of this public resource we created

Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)

with links to all the publicly available documents
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)
A comprehensive timeline of the failure of federal law enforcement to address Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes.
www.justsecurity.org
December 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Doesn’t Mike Lee understand that it was those captains who had letters of marque who were the pirates? 🤔
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Seems pretty damning.
December 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The great white wash has begun. Cover up etc. Whatever you want to call it.
December 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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If people want to "debate" they need to find venues that don't primarily exist to drive engagement and outrage to extremists and hate.
December 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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The Guardian is right. SCOTUS is illegitimate. It serves only Trump.

If a fiend like Trump is found guilty by a jury, he's guilty!
If he loses his appeal, he's more guilty!
If he loses another appeal, he's even more guilty.

That's it! Trump's guilty! SCOTUS doesn't get to overturn everyone else.
December 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Facts.
It's still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It always will be.

It's still the Department of Defense. It always will be.

It's still the Gulf of Mexico. It always will be.
December 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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The very best Hallmark movies are made in Canada.
A Very Dad Christmas
December 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Congress demanded Jack Smith testify about his investigations, but kept him behind closed doors during his sworn deposition. If we care about transparency, then Congress should release the transcript. My thoughts in Bloomberg.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Release the Jack Smith Deposition Transcript
This week, former special counsel Jack Smith finally had the chance to speak about the findings of his investigation into President Donald Trump. It’s a shame the public couldn't hear him.
www.bloomberg.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It sure is.
This is a great insight.
December 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM