Finchey
@finchey.bsky.social
Trans-Atlantic Studies
Pantheon: Montaigne, Montesquieu, Hume, Constant, Tocqueville, Weber, Halévy, Collingwood, Isaiah Berlin, Judith Shklar, Bernard Williams, Stuart Hampshire, Kołakowski, Avishai Margalit, Raymond Aron and Stanley Hoffmann
Pantheon: Montaigne, Montesquieu, Hume, Constant, Tocqueville, Weber, Halévy, Collingwood, Isaiah Berlin, Judith Shklar, Bernard Williams, Stuart Hampshire, Kołakowski, Avishai Margalit, Raymond Aron and Stanley Hoffmann
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Finchey
@finchey.bsky.social
· Oct 19
“Liberals are not seeking the good life; they are seeking to avoid the worst.” - Judith Shklar
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when the executive is unitary
President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.
Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
when the executive is unitary
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genuine question, does anyone have standing to sue here
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
genuine question, does anyone have standing to sue here
“Liberals are not seeking the good life; they are seeking to avoid the worst.” - Judith Shklar
October 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
“Liberals are not seeking the good life; they are seeking to avoid the worst.” - Judith Shklar
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Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
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"Papa Bear, this is Red State Lib. Fire on my position!
I repeat, FIRE ON MY POSITION!"
I repeat, FIRE ON MY POSITION!"
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"Papa Bear, this is Red State Lib. Fire on my position!
I repeat, FIRE ON MY POSITION!"
I repeat, FIRE ON MY POSITION!"
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Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way
October 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way
Who would’ve thunk?
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Who would’ve thunk?
Al-Sharaa is slated to meet with Putin tomorrow in order to negotiate a handover of Assad back to Syria to stand trial for his crimes against the Syrian people. May he be brought to justice.
Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds
From 2019 to 2021, Syria’s authoritarian government carried out a secret operation to move tens of thousands of bodies from the exposed Qutayfah mass grave to a hidden site in the desert east of Damascus. The goal of the clandestine reburial was to hide evidence of atrocities as Bashar Assad tried to regain international standing
www.reuters.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Al-Sharaa is slated to meet with Putin tomorrow in order to negotiate a handover of Assad back to Syria to stand trial for his crimes against the Syrian people. May he be brought to justice.
I recently wrote a paper about media leaks and the Intelligence Community, and I included a quote from Karl Popper that seems most prescient now;
“We must plan for freedom, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security secure.”
“We must plan for freedom, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security secure.”
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I recently wrote a paper about media leaks and the Intelligence Community, and I included a quote from Karl Popper that seems most prescient now;
“We must plan for freedom, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security secure.”
“We must plan for freedom, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security secure.”
