Fina
@thefinacountdown.bsky.social
PhD candidate, adjunct faculty, law & politics. Always kind to NPCs.
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Message me to request whistles, or check out links to get you started on your own whistle operation!
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November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Message me to request whistles, or check out links to get you started on your own whistle operation!
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
Oh fuck.
Everyone figured out we’re bad and scary except for us.
Everyone figured out we’re bad and scary except for us.
Exclusive: European financial stability officials are debating whether to create an alternative to Federal Reserve funding backstops by pooling dollars held by non-US central banks in a bid to reduce their reliance on the US under the Trump administration, sources say reut.rs/47OPvJf
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Oh fuck.
Everyone figured out we’re bad and scary except for us.
Everyone figured out we’re bad and scary except for us.
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You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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This is going to get spun as a "thermostatic shift" chart, but it should be properly interpreted as a "information environment is broken" chart.
In 2024, voters didn't know what Trump would do, and so they shifted towards him based on vibes. Now they are finding out, and they hate it.
In 2024, voters didn't know what Trump would do, and so they shifted towards him based on vibes. Now they are finding out, and they hate it.
Nearly every county in Virginia has shifted blue in a massive statement against Donald Trump.
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is going to get spun as a "thermostatic shift" chart, but it should be properly interpreted as a "information environment is broken" chart.
In 2024, voters didn't know what Trump would do, and so they shifted towards him based on vibes. Now they are finding out, and they hate it.
In 2024, voters didn't know what Trump would do, and so they shifted towards him based on vibes. Now they are finding out, and they hate it.
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Bluesky rn
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Bluesky rn
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
A lot for the kids today. For my Intro to Law class. Students believe with their hearts and souls that the appeals process rights the wrongs of trial courts. Sorry guys…
A Tennessee appeals court had upheld a shaken baby conviction, despite pleas to overturn by the DA’s office and a recantation by the medical examiner who testified for the prosecution.
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Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony — ProPublica
Dissenting from the court’s majority, one judge sounded the alarm about ignoring recanted forensic testimony, saying the medical examiner’s reversal “calls into doubt the foundation of the trial.”
apple.news
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A lot for the kids today. For my Intro to Law class. Students believe with their hearts and souls that the appeals process rights the wrongs of trial courts. Sorry guys…
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
For my Intro to American Politics class. Exhibit A that people don’t tell their party what’s important, the party tells the people.
Aka no one believes or knows anything.
Aka no one believes or knows anything.
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
For my Intro to American Politics class. Exhibit A that people don’t tell their party what’s important, the party tells the people.
Aka no one believes or knows anything.
Aka no one believes or knows anything.
For my 221 students: judicial oversight remains a contradiction in terms.
Great reporting here on a measure on the TX ballot this week that would expand Greg Abbott’s growing influence over a commission that disciplines judges www.texastribune.org/2025/11/03/t...
Judicial conduct proposal raises concerns about Abbott overreach
Proposition 12 would allow the governor to appoint a majority of the commission that disciplines judges, as Abbott condemns “activist judges.”
www.texastribune.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
For my 221 students: judicial oversight remains a contradiction in terms.
Why are disciplinary records kept private? Police unions make confidentiality a huge priority, letting collective bargaining agreements lapse for years, if needed, until jurisdictions agree to keep these records locked up.
For one of my final stories with @wired.com, I teamed up with @peggylowe.bsky.social at KCUR to dig through a Kansas City, KS police hack
Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted
Here are a few of them:
Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted
Here are a few of them:
Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List
A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arres...
www.wired.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Why are disciplinary records kept private? Police unions make confidentiality a huge priority, letting collective bargaining agreements lapse for years, if needed, until jurisdictions agree to keep these records locked up.
One of the things I most resent is knowing who Ezra Klein is. For the exact reasons below: he knows nothing, has no expertise, is clinically wrong for living.
For a person who has worked hard to develop expertise and has struggled to be taken seriously, Ezra Klein is a living nightmare.
For a person who has worked hard to develop expertise and has struggled to be taken seriously, Ezra Klein is a living nightmare.
It's rich that Klein of all people would weigh in on this. He's the quintessential lib pundit who 1) talks to no one on the ground, 2) has no relevant expertise at all, and yet 3) is confident in the path forward. It's the pundits and consultants who have strangled the party to death!
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
November 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
One of the things I most resent is knowing who Ezra Klein is. For the exact reasons below: he knows nothing, has no expertise, is clinically wrong for living.
For a person who has worked hard to develop expertise and has struggled to be taken seriously, Ezra Klein is a living nightmare.
For a person who has worked hard to develop expertise and has struggled to be taken seriously, Ezra Klein is a living nightmare.
For my intro to law class.
A 61-year-old Tennessee man posted a liberal meme on Facebook after Charlie Kirk's death. A conservative sheriff had him arrested. Bail was set at $2 million.
He spent nearly 40 days in jail before charges were dropped. Now he's planning to sue. Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
He spent nearly 40 days in jail before charges were dropped. Now he's planning to sue. Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail.
The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech advocates say it’s a symptom of a wider crackdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For my intro to law class.
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every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes
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The first version of “Disco Elysium” contains about a million words; “Final Cut” has even more. Gabriel Winslow-Yost parses some of them in our new issue and turns to the novel the game was built upon: Robert Kurvitz’s “Sacred and Terrible Air.”
The World’s Memory of the World | Gabriel Winslow-Yost
The world of Disco Elysium evokes both postrevolutionary melancholy and communist fervor for a more just world.
thebaffler.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The first version of “Disco Elysium” contains about a million words; “Final Cut” has even more. Gabriel Winslow-Yost parses some of them in our new issue and turns to the novel the game was built upon: Robert Kurvitz’s “Sacred and Terrible Air.”
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Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings
Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden."
www.reuters.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
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Dear ppl who are complaining that this image "has no alt text": the image is CLEARLY DESCRIBED IN THE SKEET. THAT IS ALT TEXT. Using the specific Bluesky mechanism to add an alt="" attribute to an image is ONE WAY of doing image description but some of y'all treat "alt text" as a magic incantation.
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Dear ppl who are complaining that this image "has no alt text": the image is CLEARLY DESCRIBED IN THE SKEET. THAT IS ALT TEXT. Using the specific Bluesky mechanism to add an alt="" attribute to an image is ONE WAY of doing image description but some of y'all treat "alt text" as a magic incantation.
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"45% of AI-generated news is wrong, new study warns" ... followed by an AI summary button.
Perfect. No notes.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Perfect. No notes.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
October 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"45% of AI-generated news is wrong, new study warns" ... followed by an AI summary button.
Perfect. No notes.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Perfect. No notes.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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"In order to defeat fascism, we must embrace many factions: liberals, centrists, conservatives, white nationalists, transphobes, misogynists, fascists, "
it's funny how their 'big tent' only extends right, never left, and how they always blame its failure on dirty hippies refusing to come inside, not their own embrace of TERFs, fascists and other exclusionary demographics
Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
October 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"In order to defeat fascism, we must embrace many factions: liberals, centrists, conservatives, white nationalists, transphobes, misogynists, fascists, "
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Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
#NoKings
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
#NoKings
#NoKings
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John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
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They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
October 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.