Patrick Finnegan
@pfinns.bsky.social
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Patrick Finnegan
@pfinns.bsky.social
· Aug 25
Resistance to the Trump regime needs to ramp up in frequency, intensity, and impact or we all lose. We are seeing mass capitulation on the part of corporations and other institutions nationwide because they haven't seen resistance as a viable threat to the consolidating right-wing dictatorship. 🧵
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Don't hold your breath for Republicans in congress to stand up to Trump in any decisive manner. I'd _love_ to be wrong about this, but they're too dependent on him and his connected money to stay in power, and they'd rather do that than have a democracy.
NEW: In a move that ramps up pressure on Senate Republicans, the House is allegedly pushing to pass a new, more aggressive version of the SAVE Act — the GOP’s major voter suppression measure that could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters if enacted — to the Senate.
Trump, Musk, House Republicans push for super-charged SAVE Act
“Pass the SAVE Act,” trended on X Tuesday afternoon.
www.democracydocket.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Don't hold your breath for Republicans in congress to stand up to Trump in any decisive manner. I'd _love_ to be wrong about this, but they're too dependent on him and his connected money to stay in power, and they'd rather do that than have a democracy.
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I picked a hell of a week to visit Europe, and Switzerland, at that.l I’ve spent three days at an international gathering, and, Americans: everybody else is deep into planning a post-US world. We are only worth considering as an opponent. New alliances are being formed. We are being left behind.
January 21, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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This is a hugely significant speech from Canadian PM Carney 🇨🇦, articulation of how to operate as a "middle power" in the new international reality. Worth the read.
Also, contrast the eloquence here with the bizarre ramblings of our mad wannabe king here in the U.S....
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
Also, contrast the eloquence here with the bizarre ramblings of our mad wannabe king here in the U.S....
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
January 21, 2026 at 6:40 PM
This is a hugely significant speech from Canadian PM Carney 🇨🇦, articulation of how to operate as a "middle power" in the new international reality. Worth the read.
Also, contrast the eloquence here with the bizarre ramblings of our mad wannabe king here in the U.S....
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
Also, contrast the eloquence here with the bizarre ramblings of our mad wannabe king here in the U.S....
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
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it's bizarre to see both CNN and CNBC run with chyrons reporting that Trump said he won't "use force" to take Greenland, when the comments in question were clearly a threat to take Greenland by force. How naive are we at this point?
January 21, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Big thread but important. We can’t say we didn’t know….
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#2891):
All the pretense is gone. Trump is out right running on an ethnic cleansing platform.
Even European extreme-right parties haven’t gone this far.
The most desperate he gets, the darker he gets. This is going to get extremely scary and extremely ugly.
Even European extreme-right parties haven’t gone this far.
The most desperate he gets, the darker he gets. This is going to get extremely scary and extremely ugly.
January 21, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Big thread but important. We can’t say we didn’t know….
“It’s worth a reminder that Americans are the ones paying for all of Trump’s tariffs. So our country’s threat to Europe…is ‘give us Greenland or I swear to God, we’re gonna punch ourselves in the balls so hard.’”
- Stephen Colbert
- Stephen Colbert
January 21, 2026 at 3:25 PM
“It’s worth a reminder that Americans are the ones paying for all of Trump’s tariffs. So our country’s threat to Europe…is ‘give us Greenland or I swear to God, we’re gonna punch ourselves in the balls so hard.’”
- Stephen Colbert
- Stephen Colbert
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We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 20, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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As with any of @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletters, the whole thing is worth your time, but this quote alone (see image) was enough to stop me cold for a few seconds. Let it sink in.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-19...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-19...
![Text in image reads: “We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tlh5xrlfjhlu3gcwduhbwunb/bafkreihzeapdzuncje44qmt2vm6lcjvea746wi3ohxz5riq7rbms5w66ga@jpeg)
January 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM
As with any of @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletters, the whole thing is worth your time, but this quote alone (see image) was enough to stop me cold for a few seconds. Let it sink in.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-19...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-19...
Resistance organizations need to prepare for serious action when -- not if -- Trump tries to shut down or rig the 2026 elections. He will not abide by any unfavorable results. We need to be prepared for massive-scale action, like a huge general strike.
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-last-e...
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-last-e...
January 19, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Resistance organizations need to prepare for serious action when -- not if -- Trump tries to shut down or rig the 2026 elections. He will not abide by any unfavorable results. We need to be prepared for massive-scale action, like a huge general strike.
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-last-e...
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-last-e...
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The right wing, whose leader called for the execution of members of Congress a couple months ago, is filled with trepidation over “verbal assaults,” also known as yelling at someone.
"We've seen over a thousand percent increase in assaults on ICE officers, 8,000 verbal assaults on them...."
January 18, 2026 at 10:58 PM
The right wing, whose leader called for the execution of members of Congress a couple months ago, is filled with trepidation over “verbal assaults,” also known as yelling at someone.
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We need bigger and more creative actions at scale: shopping blackouts, boycotts, a run on banks, a general strike, or other creative strategies. "At scale" is the operative term here as other economic actions so far have had limited effectiveness.
January 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
We need bigger and more creative actions at scale: shopping blackouts, boycotts, a run on banks, a general strike, or other creative strategies. "At scale" is the operative term here as other economic actions so far have had limited effectiveness.
Resistance to scale up to have serious economic impact. The billionaire class and the regime are not responsive to soft power pressure, but they understand money.
The U.S. leadership class has basically abandoned democracy. They are betting that pay-to-play autocratic rule is our future. This is why resistance needs to ramp up to impose economic consequences on those who collaborate with or appease Trump regime.
robertreich.substack.com/p/where-the-...
robertreich.substack.com/p/where-the-...
Where the hell are America’s leaders?
Too many people with formal authority are intimidated by Trump or sucking up to him. That leaves you and me and everyone else without official power to resist his tyranny.
robertreich.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Resistance to scale up to have serious economic impact. The billionaire class and the regime are not responsive to soft power pressure, but they understand money.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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👇👇 Democrats shouldn’t make the same mistake again.
This isn't a left-right ideological issue. But it blows me away that anyone who is actually anti-Trump would think running back Joe Biden/Merrick Garland 2.0 will work the second time. No political party can tolerate a very large, armed secret police force committed to murdering its voters.
January 18, 2026 at 8:49 PM
👇👇 Democrats shouldn’t make the same mistake again.
Let us not forget... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-15...
January 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Let us not forget... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-15...
I believe that ICE is actively recruiting people who fit this profile, not in spite of a proclivity for violence, but _because_ of it. Trump is turning ICE into a personal paramilitary force with the primary functioning of enforcing terror and white supremacy.
About the ICE agent who fatally shot a man on New Year’s Eve while off-duty:
A court document "says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."
A court document "says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."
ICE agent believed responsible for L.A. killing accused of child abuse, racism in court filings
A court filing made public this week claims that a federal immigration agent thought to have shot and killed a Los Angeles man on New Year's Eve was previously accused of child abuse and making racist...
www.latimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
I believe that ICE is actively recruiting people who fit this profile, not in spite of a proclivity for violence, but _because_ of it. Trump is turning ICE into a personal paramilitary force with the primary functioning of enforcing terror and white supremacy.
That sound you hear is satire dying 🤦♂️.
Grinning like a 5-year old getting his participation trophy at the post-season T-ball pizza party.
January 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM
That sound you hear is satire dying 🤦♂️.
From insurrectionist thug to ICE thug: youtube.com/post/UgkxH9f...
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Fork found in kitchen.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:00 AM
From insurrectionist thug to ICE thug: youtube.com/post/UgkxH9f...
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So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them
January 15, 2026 at 11:33 PM
So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them
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Seems like a good time to bring this up again.
Extremely important point. The bile spewing from Miller, Trump, and their supporters make their bloodthirstiness crystal clear. They are desperate to invoke the Insurrection Act and will manufacture a pretext to do so eventually.
What happens next is on them.
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What happens next is on them.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Seems like a good time to bring this up again.
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JUST IN: New ACLU class action lawsuit in Minnesota seeks to bar ICE from stopping Latino and Somali residents without probable cause. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
JUST IN: New ACLU class action lawsuit in Minnesota seeks to bar ICE from stopping Latino and Somali residents without probable cause. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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