Eli Finnegan @finnarchist.bsky.social
@finnarchist.bsky.social
Nothing to see here. Just go about your business.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US sees surge in bills seeking criminal punishments for protected speech
Forty-one anti-protest bills in 22 states have been introduced since start of 2024, according to law tracker
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Nothing to see here. Just go about your business.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Useful assessment of what a trade deficit actually is, courtesy of George Lakoff's FrameLab.
www.theframelab.org/unveiling-tr...
www.theframelab.org/unveiling-tr...
Trump’s Fake Emergency Over Trade Deficit Exposed
Trump’s trade war is based on a fake economic emergency, distorting facts to justify tariffs, gain power, and threaten U.S. stability.
www.theframelab.org
April 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Useful assessment of what a trade deficit actually is, courtesy of George Lakoff's FrameLab.
www.theframelab.org/unveiling-tr...
www.theframelab.org/unveiling-tr...
What on earth is there to "consider"? As I understand what several lawyers have written, there is nothing ambiguous about this case.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador
The chief justice, acting on his own, issued an “administrative stay,” a brief pause meant to give the court time to consider the matter. The justices are expected to act in the coming days.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
What on earth is there to "consider"? As I understand what several lawyers have written, there is nothing ambiguous about this case.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
April 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
Proposition: Let's stop using/accepting the term "Traditional families" and instead just use the decoded version: "Patriarchal, heteronormative families."
April 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Proposition: Let's stop using/accepting the term "Traditional families" and instead just use the decoded version: "Patriarchal, heteronormative families."
I guess the idea is you don't need staff to handle FOIA if you get rid of all the I.
April 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I guess the idea is you don't need staff to handle FOIA if you get rid of all the I.
TFW the NYT Editorial Board calls you & yr colleagues in a learned profession "liberal ideologues." Of course, to be fair, they do make you sacrifice your firstborn to the dark gods of DEI when you get yr Phd. And yowza can that dizzying power to make college students "uncomfortable" go to yr head!
March 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
TFW the NYT Editorial Board calls you & yr colleagues in a learned profession "liberal ideologues." Of course, to be fair, they do make you sacrifice your firstborn to the dark gods of DEI when you get yr Phd. And yowza can that dizzying power to make college students "uncomfortable" go to yr head!
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👋 We’re hosting an Instagram Live discussion tomorrow, March 14, at 3:30 PM EST with Equity Forward and @aftunion.bsky.social on the right-wing ecosystem’s backlash to DEI and the impact on public policy, education, and even reproductive rights. www.instagram.com/p/DHJChJgxAp9/
March 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
👋 We’re hosting an Instagram Live discussion tomorrow, March 14, at 3:30 PM EST with Equity Forward and @aftunion.bsky.social on the right-wing ecosystem’s backlash to DEI and the impact on public policy, education, and even reproductive rights. www.instagram.com/p/DHJChJgxAp9/
In other news, the war on women is still going strong:
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
Trump Quietly Made 3 Chilling Moves Against Reproductive Freedom
Opinion | The moves are all steps toward achieving the Project 2025 goals of banning abortion and restricting access to birth control nationwide.
www.democracydocket.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
In other news, the war on women is still going strong:
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
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Oh my god Susan Rice
anti-establishment crusader uhhh Susan Rice
March 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Oh my god Susan Rice
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everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
What I really want to see is every single Democratic Senator standing up and yelling, "There! Are! Four! Lights!" when their Republican colleagues try to pass this dangerous and delusional spending bill. #startreknerd
March 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
What I really want to see is every single Democratic Senator standing up and yelling, "There! Are! Four! Lights!" when their Republican colleagues try to pass this dangerous and delusional spending bill. #startreknerd
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
The fact that President Zelensky was able to keep himself from punching the lights out of the U.S. Prez and VP stands, in and of itself, as incontrovertible evidence he's a true leader and diplomat. I'm shocked they didn't burst into flames being that close to genuine integrity & self-discipline.
February 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The fact that President Zelensky was able to keep himself from punching the lights out of the U.S. Prez and VP stands, in and of itself, as incontrovertible evidence he's a true leader and diplomat. I'm shocked they didn't burst into flames being that close to genuine integrity & self-discipline.
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Well, this comes as a complete surprise.
www.wired.com/story/usaid-...
www.wired.com/story/usaid-...
The Collapse of USAID Is Already Fueling Human Trafficking and Slavery at Scammer Compounds
The dismantling of USAID by Elon Musk's DOGE and a State Department funding freeze have severely disrupted efforts to help people escape forced labor camps run by criminal scammers.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Well, this comes as a complete surprise.
www.wired.com/story/usaid-...
www.wired.com/story/usaid-...
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“Market consolidation and private equity investment can have deadly consequences in the healthcare industry…”
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US health department condemns private equity firms for role in declining healthcare access
Government report says private equity investment in nursing homes led to 11% increase in patient deaths
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“Market consolidation and private equity investment can have deadly consequences in the healthcare industry…”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
WE NEED A NATIONAL STRIKE. NOW. They want to shut down democracy? Shut down our lives? Shut down this beautiful Earth? We need to shut down their whole twisted machine.
February 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
WE NEED A NATIONAL STRIKE. NOW. They want to shut down democracy? Shut down our lives? Shut down this beautiful Earth? We need to shut down their whole twisted machine.
NCL Strongly Opposes the 'Nullify Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act'
The cruelty is the point. With this gang of feckless thugs, it always is.
The cruelty is the point. With this gang of feckless thugs, it always is.
February 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NCL Strongly Opposes the 'Nullify Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act'
The cruelty is the point. With this gang of feckless thugs, it always is.
The cruelty is the point. With this gang of feckless thugs, it always is.
This information belongs to us! Their power requires either our ignorance or our consent. Our power begins with refusing to consent to ignorance.
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
February 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This information belongs to us! Their power requires either our ignorance or our consent. Our power begins with refusing to consent to ignorance.
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
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Eine neue Studie dokumentiert die Beschleunigung der globalen Erwärmung und warnt erneut vor der Abschaltung der AMOC.
New Research Led by James Hansen Documents Global Warming Acceleration - Inside Climate News
The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern Eur...
insideclimatenews.org
February 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Eine neue Studie dokumentiert die Beschleunigung der globalen Erwärmung und warnt erneut vor der Abschaltung der AMOC.
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I have two current NOAA grants and I said to colleagues yesterday, “well, at least we don’t have to do the work if they take them away.”
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I have two current NOAA grants and I said to colleagues yesterday, “well, at least we don’t have to do the work if they take them away.”