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Dave Infante
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reporter covering the beer industry (@vinepair.com), drinking in america (fingers), and east end richmond (the church hill lookout) | send tips to dave@dinfontay.com, or dinfontay.11 on signal (good tips only, thank you) | more: linktr.ee/dinfontay
⚠️⚠️⚠️: ‘The Family Stone’ hits a whole lot harder now that Diane Keaton has passed away IRL, please proceed with caution
December 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
those in the business call that “gift with purchase”
they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
December 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Per longstanding editorial policy, Fingers' 2025 Bad Holiday Gift Guide for Heavy-Drinking Frenemies™️ is being published far too late for you to actually buy any of this schlock for Christmas, even if you wanted to.

🎁 Garbage for garbage, right this way: www.fingers.email/p/the-2025-b...
December 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"You there, boy! [tinny inhale sound] What day is it?"
December 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“Donald Trump has staged a year of ‘unrelenting attacks on working people,’ according to the head of the largest federation of the labor unions in the US. Now they’re preparing to fight back.”
US labor unions gear up to fight against Trump’s ‘Billionaire First’ agenda
AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler says union ready to stand up for struggling Americans: ‘Which side are you on?’
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🎶 THEY’VE GOT CARS BIG AS BARS, THEY’VE GOT RIVERS OF GOLD / BUT THE WIND GOES RIGHT THROUGH YOU, IT’S NO PLACE FOR THE OLD 🎶
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York (Official Video) [HD Upgrade]
YouTube video by ThePoguesOfficial
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Per longstanding editorial policy, Fingers' 2025 Bad Holiday Gift Guide for Heavy-Drinking Frenemies™️ is being published far too late for you to actually buy any of this schlock for Christmas, even if you wanted to.

🎁 Garbage for garbage, right this way: www.fingers.email/p/the-2025-b...
December 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Paint me like one of your dumb fucks
December 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I'm from Whoville and I say kill the Grinch!
December 8, 2024 at 3:30 AM
if musicians are getting mistaken for pederasts i'd like it to be because a human accidentally typed "diddler" into the cms instead of "fiddler"
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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squeaky-voiced rookie: sir, it's the sloppers again... they've taken over the old content mill

me: *eyes narrowing with determination as I turn on the lights and siren* let's roll
July 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
graeme would
This person analyzes American politics for a living
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
And your Hop-ocalypse Now from the latest @vinepair.com Hop Take 🤯: vinepair.com/articles/hop...
December 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
this is the main reason i’m so pessimistic for the oligarch capture of tiktok in the us. have seen a bunch of posts being like “well they’re gonna fuck it up and users will flee” and while there’s plenty of evidence for the 1st claim, you have to square the 2nd claim with ongoing twitter usage. so.
the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now
December 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
yet another Kiggans L(OL)
December 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
December 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Biggest beverage industry donation on the list came from Anheuser-Busch, which tossed in $1 million—more than Pepsi and Coca-Cola combined.
SCOOP-1: The @nytimes.com has confirmed the following previously unreported donations/pledges to the WH ballroom:

▶️Miriam Adelson’s foundation: $25m
▶️Lockheed Martin: $10m
▶️Palantir: $10m
▶️Ripple: $5m
▶️Parsons: $2.5m
▶️Roblox CEO: $2.5

Here's a gift link.

There's more in the story 🧵…
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office (Gift Article)
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years
December 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
the bullet-infused glassware market, once a bastion of bipartisan thin blue line cop-respecting, has gone full maga for the 2025 holiday season. i am just as surprised as you are and will be taking some time to process.
December 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Dave is the best bev news source!
Don't pay for a NYT subscription, pay for a Fingers subscription instead. You'll be better informed about the booze industry, faster. And you'll enjoy reading it! Also there are shitposts. And no transphobia. You're going to love it.
December 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM