Alex Finley
@alexzfinley.bsky.social
Former CIA, author of the Victor Caro series, watcher of yachts, alexzfinley.com
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In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
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The Zeiten, they are wending.
61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities.
66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.
61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities.
66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The Zeiten, they are wending.
61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities.
66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.
61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities.
66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.
I had missed this. US sent $7.5 million to Obiang in Equatorial Guinea to take US deportees. Cool.
Obiang won his last "election" with 98% of the vote. Totally legit.
He is Africa's longest serving dictator.
Obiang won his last "election" with 98% of the vote. Totally legit.
He is Africa's longest serving dictator.
Hemeroteca:
Moratinos celebra las elecciones “libres y democráticas” que ha ganado el dictador de Guinea Ecuatorial Teodoro Obiang con el 99,7% de los votos share.google/PYIhYuwaoCSz...
Moratinos celebra las elecciones “libres y democráticas” que ha ganado el dictador de Guinea Ecuatorial Teodoro Obiang con el 99,7% de los votos share.google/PYIhYuwaoCSz...
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I had missed this. US sent $7.5 million to Obiang in Equatorial Guinea to take US deportees. Cool.
Obiang won his last "election" with 98% of the vote. Totally legit.
He is Africa's longest serving dictator.
Obiang won his last "election" with 98% of the vote. Totally legit.
He is Africa's longest serving dictator.
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According to regional budget data, Russia continues to recruit approximately 30,000 men per month. This may explain why Russia is willing to lose thousands of soldiers each month in its assault on Ukraine, essentially treating its soldiers as "living munitions."
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
According to regional budget data, Russia continues to recruit approximately 30,000 men per month. This may explain why Russia is willing to lose thousands of soldiers each month in its assault on Ukraine, essentially treating its soldiers as "living munitions."
Confession: The state of the world has me a little down.
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Confession: The state of the world has me a little down.
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Hi All, New, free Europe Dispatch column by @alanderminna.bsky.social just released. She looks at the prospect of nuclear war and how the leaders such as Trump seem to be encouraging nuclear proliferation. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Fictional Intelligence: Imagining the Future of (Nuclear) War
In a new Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander writes about FICINT and what movies tell us about the present and the future. And how Trump is encouraging nuclear proliferation.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Hi All, New, free Europe Dispatch column by @alanderminna.bsky.social just released. She looks at the prospect of nuclear war and how the leaders such as Trump seem to be encouraging nuclear proliferation. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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To promote @adamkinzinger.substack.com recent Amazon film “The Last Republican”, re-upping our earlier discussion with Adam on how the Republican Party promotes conspiracy theories.
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Adam Kinzinger of the Congressional January 6 Committee
Podcast Episode · Mission Implausible · 02/21/2024 · 37m
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November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
To promote @adamkinzinger.substack.com recent Amazon film “The Last Republican”, re-upping our earlier discussion with Adam on how the Republican Party promotes conspiracy theories.
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Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Yeah, real professionals will quit because this is not Justice. This is a concocted lie by a corrupt President who wants his followers to believe nonsense.
Breaking MSNBC:
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign
Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Yeah, real professionals will quit because this is not Justice. This is a concocted lie by a corrupt President who wants his followers to believe nonsense.
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Personal favourites:
* Smedley Crooke, MP for Birmingham Deritend
* Seymour Cocks, MP for Broxtowe
* Waldron Smithers, MP for Chislehurst
* Dingle Foot, MP for Dundee and Ipswich
* Bartle Bull, MP for Enfield
* Isidore Salmon, MP for Harrow
* Smedley Crooke, MP for Birmingham Deritend
* Seymour Cocks, MP for Broxtowe
* Waldron Smithers, MP for Chislehurst
* Dingle Foot, MP for Dundee and Ipswich
* Bartle Bull, MP for Enfield
* Isidore Salmon, MP for Harrow
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Personal favourites:
* Smedley Crooke, MP for Birmingham Deritend
* Seymour Cocks, MP for Broxtowe
* Waldron Smithers, MP for Chislehurst
* Dingle Foot, MP for Dundee and Ipswich
* Bartle Bull, MP for Enfield
* Isidore Salmon, MP for Harrow
* Smedley Crooke, MP for Birmingham Deritend
* Seymour Cocks, MP for Broxtowe
* Waldron Smithers, MP for Chislehurst
* Dingle Foot, MP for Dundee and Ipswich
* Bartle Bull, MP for Enfield
* Isidore Salmon, MP for Harrow
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New: We've translated in full a 1988 KGB training manual on how to infiltrate U.S. government facilities in the Middle East and North Africa. Something of a Russian growth industry these days, you might say. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
How Russian Spies Infiltrate U.S. Institutions
Read a 1988 KGB textbook on how to recruit agents working for the U.S. government abroad.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
New: We've translated in full a 1988 KGB training manual on how to infiltrate U.S. government facilities in the Middle East and North Africa. Something of a Russian growth industry these days, you might say. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
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“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
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Minds over AI: To tackle disinformation, look to education www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/minds-...
Minds over AI: To tackle disinformation, look to education
Nov 10, 2025 // As AI makes misinformation and disinformation faster, cheaper, and more convincing, we need the tools to tell veracity from virality. The foundational pillar of those tools must be edu...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Minds over AI: To tackle disinformation, look to education www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/minds-...
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That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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Completely normal
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Completely normal
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Fresh insights from my colleagues @brookings.edu: fraud under universal vote-by-mail is extremely low
They find that mail voting has substantial benefits 4 the election administration & millions of voters
Find out more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
They find that mail voting has substantial benefits 4 the election administration & millions of voters
Find out more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
Mail voting fraud: Data points to low risk and high benefits for voters | Brookings
Analysis finds mail voting fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare and shows universal vote-by-mail boosts access, turnout, and cost efficiency.
www.brookings.edu
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Fresh insights from my colleagues @brookings.edu: fraud under universal vote-by-mail is extremely low
They find that mail voting has substantial benefits 4 the election administration & millions of voters
Find out more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
They find that mail voting has substantial benefits 4 the election administration & millions of voters
Find out more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
Alexander Smirnov, the Russian agent who lied to the FBI that Joe and Hunter Biden were doing corrupt business in Ukraine (which became the basis for GOP attempts to impeach Biden) is on medical furlough from prison, just months into his six-year prison sentence. 1/
FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens Quietly Released From Jail Sparking Trump Pardon Fears
Alexander Smirnov was quietly furloughed from prison months ago.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Alexander Smirnov, the Russian agent who lied to the FBI that Joe and Hunter Biden were doing corrupt business in Ukraine (which became the basis for GOP attempts to impeach Biden) is on medical furlough from prison, just months into his six-year prison sentence. 1/
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Sunday: Trump applauds the resignation of Beeb execs bc Panorama truthfully said that Trump encouraged rioters.
Monday: Trump pardons over 50 of his co-conspirators and enablers in attempting to steal the 2020 election.
Monday: Trump pardons over 50 of his co-conspirators and enablers in attempting to steal the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Sunday: Trump applauds the resignation of Beeb execs bc Panorama truthfully said that Trump encouraged rioters.
Monday: Trump pardons over 50 of his co-conspirators and enablers in attempting to steal the 2020 election.
Monday: Trump pardons over 50 of his co-conspirators and enablers in attempting to steal the 2020 election.
Another uplifting Rant! open.substack.com/pub/alexzfin...
Trump, Russia, and the coming collapse of the information space
Another uplifting Rant! Happy Friday!
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November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Another uplifting Rant! open.substack.com/pub/alexzfin...
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Peskov: we want diplomacy but we will continue the war, and it's all Europe's fault!
Russia's "peacefulness" in a nutshell.
"Of course, we would like this conflict [the Russia-Ukraine war] to end as soon as possible. And it can end when Russia achieves the goals it set initiall”he said
Russia's "peacefulness" in a nutshell.
"Of course, we would like this conflict [the Russia-Ukraine war] to end as soon as possible. And it can end when Russia achieves the goals it set initiall”he said
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Peskov: we want diplomacy but we will continue the war, and it's all Europe's fault!
Russia's "peacefulness" in a nutshell.
"Of course, we would like this conflict [the Russia-Ukraine war] to end as soon as possible. And it can end when Russia achieves the goals it set initiall”he said
Russia's "peacefulness" in a nutshell.
"Of course, we would like this conflict [the Russia-Ukraine war] to end as soon as possible. And it can end when Russia achieves the goals it set initiall”he said
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As soon as he arrived in Kupiansk, he immediately fled and surrendered to Ukrainian soldiers. Alaa also shared that Russians treat foreigners disgustingly, and they are often subjected to abuse and beatings.
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
As soon as he arrived in Kupiansk, he immediately fled and surrendered to Ukrainian soldiers. Alaa also shared that Russians treat foreigners disgustingly, and they are often subjected to abuse and beatings.
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According to him, he came to Russia on a tourist visa, but he and his friends were detained and forced to sign a contract; otherwise, they would have been imprisoned or killed. They were promised that they would not fight, but they were deceived.
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
According to him, he came to Russia on a tourist visa, but he and his friends were detained and forced to sign a contract; otherwise, they would have been imprisoned or killed. They were promised that they would not fight, but they were deceived.
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"Russians are disgusting; they treat people cruelly and beat them up. They’re very bad,treat foreigners badly,like slaves”
Ukrainian soldiers of the 125th Heavy Mechanized Brigade captured an Iraqi citizen in the Kupiansk area,a 30-yr-old Alaa Mohammed Thajil (Al-Jubair village,Dhi Qar Governorate)
Ukrainian soldiers of the 125th Heavy Mechanized Brigade captured an Iraqi citizen in the Kupiansk area,a 30-yr-old Alaa Mohammed Thajil (Al-Jubair village,Dhi Qar Governorate)
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"Russians are disgusting; they treat people cruelly and beat them up. They’re very bad,treat foreigners badly,like slaves”
Ukrainian soldiers of the 125th Heavy Mechanized Brigade captured an Iraqi citizen in the Kupiansk area,a 30-yr-old Alaa Mohammed Thajil (Al-Jubair village,Dhi Qar Governorate)
Ukrainian soldiers of the 125th Heavy Mechanized Brigade captured an Iraqi citizen in the Kupiansk area,a 30-yr-old Alaa Mohammed Thajil (Al-Jubair village,Dhi Qar Governorate)