kenfinch.bsky.social
@kenfinch.bsky.social
Retired engineer. Portland Oregon for 25 years, now relocated to Suquamish Washington. Dog and cat dad, married to Melissa.
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"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
defector.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
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With this decision, CBS and Paramount deserve every bit of smoke and consumer backlash as ABC and Disney got for attempting to fire Jimmy Kimmel to appease Trump.
Corporations that censor journalists and media to kowtow to fascism deserve all our ire. Money is the only language they understand.
Corporations that censor journalists and media to kowtow to fascism deserve all our ire. Money is the only language they understand.
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 5:34 AM
With this decision, CBS and Paramount deserve every bit of smoke and consumer backlash as ABC and Disney got for attempting to fire Jimmy Kimmel to appease Trump.
Corporations that censor journalists and media to kowtow to fascism deserve all our ire. Money is the only language they understand.
Corporations that censor journalists and media to kowtow to fascism deserve all our ire. Money is the only language they understand.
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Under Trump We can afford ICE a private army seizing and disappearing people
But
We can't afford ACA subsidies to help Americans afford healthcare
It's about choice
We chose
I say healthcare for all
What say you?
But
We can't afford ACA subsidies to help Americans afford healthcare
It's about choice
We chose
I say healthcare for all
What say you?
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Under Trump We can afford ICE a private army seizing and disappearing people
But
We can't afford ACA subsidies to help Americans afford healthcare
It's about choice
We chose
I say healthcare for all
What say you?
But
We can't afford ACA subsidies to help Americans afford healthcare
It's about choice
We chose
I say healthcare for all
What say you?
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open.substack.com/pub/thetonym...
Something is changing inside the U.S. military, and it isn’t happening with a press conference or a formal rewrite of the rules.
It’s happening quietly, in deleted posts, scrubbed bios, and service members deciding it’s safer to say nothing at all.
Something is changing inside the U.S. military, and it isn’t happening with a press conference or a formal rewrite of the rules.
It’s happening quietly, in deleted posts, scrubbed bios, and service members deciding it’s safer to say nothing at all.
The Silence Is the Signal
Why a Military Afraid to Speak Is a Gift to Unchecked Power
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
open.substack.com/pub/thetonym...
Something is changing inside the U.S. military, and it isn’t happening with a press conference or a formal rewrite of the rules.
It’s happening quietly, in deleted posts, scrubbed bios, and service members deciding it’s safer to say nothing at all.
Something is changing inside the U.S. military, and it isn’t happening with a press conference or a formal rewrite of the rules.
It’s happening quietly, in deleted posts, scrubbed bios, and service members deciding it’s safer to say nothing at all.
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This is a very astute observation. I hadn't thought about Keith Kellogg, he just disappeared from the scene. It makes perfect sense that Putin would want to fainthearted guy like Witkoff doing the negotiations. 🗽
December 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This is a very astute observation. I hadn't thought about Keith Kellogg, he just disappeared from the scene. It makes perfect sense that Putin would want to fainthearted guy like Witkoff doing the negotiations. 🗽
This is great.
December 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is great.
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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
They literally handing $40,000,000,000 to Argentina just because
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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
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
Just JD Vance being a racist ass shill for the extreme right.
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.
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
This. 100%.
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A candidate running on dismantling ICE, you say?
December 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A candidate running on dismantling ICE, you say?
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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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NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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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Are we tired of winning yet?
December 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Are we tired of winning yet?
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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!
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
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!
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!
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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
good shit my dude
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
Always has, always will.
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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.
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
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.
Read the whole thing.
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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)
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
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)
with links to all the publicly available documents
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
Doesn’t Mike Lee understand that it was those captains who had letters of marque who were the pirates? 🤔
Seems pretty damning.
December 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Seems pretty damning.
The great white wash has begun. Cover up etc. Whatever you want to call it.
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The great white wash has begun. Cover up etc. Whatever you want to call it.
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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
If people want to "debate" they need to find venues that don't primarily exist to drive engagement and outrage to extremists and hate.