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Kevin Finkelstein ☭
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Director/Writer/Historian (Shakespeare/activism/disability performance). MA Univ of Colorado-Boulder (2026). Hard-of-hearing. Views my own. he/him #cwa7799 #blm #transrightsarehumanrights
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I guess we can add Andrew Doyle to the list of self-important fuckwits who want to pretend that aligning themselves with a far-right hate group is normal.

"Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent" indeed.

archive.ph/moYmt
The dark void of ideological thinking has rarely been more evident than in the celebrations following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Even committed leftists were horrified to witness the sheer relish expressed online from those who seemed oddly eager to advertise their lack of basic humanity. The ugliness was still evident this week at the University of California at Berkeley. Turning Point USA — the organization that Kirk had founded and helmed — held an event on campus, in defiance of those who gloated over his death, that would have been the final stop of the college tour Kirk was on when he was killed. I was invited to appear as a panelist for the evening, along with the comedian Rob Schneider, the atheist philosopher Peter Boghossian and the Christian apologist Frank Turek. We had an enjoyable time fielding questions from the audience and discussing our shared commitment to liberty despite our many other differences. It was, as expected, a jovial and good-natured exchange of ideas.
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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"Legitimize an illegitimate attack against the arts" is some really, really entitled stuff. It won't surprise you to learn that the author of this nonsense has a degree in Anthropology that she has somehow convinced herself entitles her to be called a journalist.

archive.ph/SguY2#select...
Regarding the Nov. 1 news article “At the Kennedy Center, thousands of empty seats”: Having just heard the National Symphony Orchestra’s stupendous rendition of George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, I was dismayed to read of the Washington community’s failure to support our important local arts institutions during President Donald Trump’s takeover of the traditionally nonpartisan John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. I can well understand that Trump’s takeover has repelled many former Kennedy Center patrons and supporters. But quite a number of them have, unfortunately, decided to express their objection by boycotting performances. This reaction does nothing to help their cause. Rather, it punishes the orchestra, whose dedicated musicians continue to provide world-caliber performances. Washington is blessed to have such a fine hometown orchestra. If it — as well as the equally threatened Washington National Opera — falters or fails because of lack of financial support, it will be the city’s music lovers, as well as students, children and other future music fans, who will suffer. Beryl Lieff Benderly, Washington
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Incredible paragraph in an incredible article. 10/10, no notes.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Everything about All’s Fair, on both a micro- and macro-level, is terrible. The scripts are terrible. The performances are terrible. The grotesque demonstrations of wealth porn are terrible. Everything is both far bigger and far flatter than it needs to be. All’s Fair is the Kansas of television.
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Langdon Grant... I got the idea from being an alive sentient human who didn't sleep through the years 2000, 2016, and 2024. The current Supreme Court majority is built on Nader voters in Florida and Stein voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. But hey, at least they have their purity. How nice for them.
October 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Oh, he's super mad.
A post from the aforementioned Bishop Douche crying about all of the blocks he's receiving. Kinda wild for a mediocre dude with the IQ of a tennis ball to use the phrase "Starbucks Communist," but here we are.
October 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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He made it worse. Just an absolute garbage human being.
Bromance's bio: DONALD TRUMP WILL FALL, BOW AT PRESIDENT PARKER MOLLOY'S FEET AND SAY: "YES, PARKER, YOU WON BECAUSE YOU DEFENDED TRANS RIGHTS, WHICH KAMALA FAILED TO DO!"
September 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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A sign from downtown Denver that says "NO ICE IN CO" and the image is of Blucifer melting a cube of ice with rays from his eyes, a la Superman
September 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Shanna "Read Blac... @srmilesauthor.bsky.social Kamala Harris is not an elected official. Heckling outside her book tour is racially motivated. The White House lawn is right there.
September 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Matt Bai not beating the allegations of being a terrible human being, Chapter 281.

archive.ph/HP3yi
To my horrified friends on the left, though, I feel compelled to ask a different question. Now do you understand why all speech is worth defending? Like some conservative writers and a handful of hardy liberals, I’ve written repeatedly over the last several years about the threat to free expression from the left. Since 2020, we’ve seen White journalists and academics punished just for repeating words that qualified as “hate speech”; the issuance of inoffensive language manuals by groups like the American Medical Association and the Sierra Club; the removal of books from library shelves and bookstores because they trafficked in uncomfortable stereotypes, or because the authors were said to be bad people.
September 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Tracks.
A screenshot showing this dumb Saucy Minx account having joined bluesky on 1.26.25.
September 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Is 31 "young?" I guess, compared to the leaders of his party, maybe so, but it feels so weird to phrase it this way.

It's just wild to call someone born in the 1990s "young."
Who is Charlie Kirk: A prominent young conservative activist Ben Kamisar Kirk is a 31-year-old conservative activist and father of two who helped found Turning Point USA, a prominent nonprofit that activates conservative youth on school campuses. A well-known supporter of President Donald Trump and a close ally of many in his circle, Kirk spoke at the 2024 presidential convention just days after an assassination attempt on Trump.
September 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Newsom then added, "And by political violence, I obviously don't mean the harm my office is inflicting upon the residents of California, but the violence perpetrated against a living, breathing Nazi."
Among notable Democrats, Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., also weighed in on X, writing, "The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form."
September 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I can't imagine why this person chose this hill to die on.

Oh, wait, yes I can. Because they are a monster.
Joshua Casey Can liberals and conservatives just hurry up and kill each other? The world would be a better place if the rest of us didn't have to deal with those fuckers. #CivilWar2ElectricBoogaloo
September 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The absolute privilege it takes to write this and still claim to be a "Leftist."

Does this person really think any politician cares *why* you voted for them? A vote for is a tacit endorsement, full stop.
A nauseating thread from a nauseating liberal. 1 Voting is not about saying "I tacitly endorse all of this person's policies." It's about choosing your opponent. 2 I live in a state that lets me vote in GOP primaries and sometimes I do that. Is that because I support that GOP candidate's policies? Fuck no, it's because I'm choosing which opponent I'd rather fight in the election. 3 It's the same thing in general elections. For me, voting is not a moral choice, it is a strategic one.
September 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM
kfinkelstein.bsky.social
Nailed it.
In this house etc etc
September 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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It's wild to me that we're still treating Stephen Greenblatt as a historian, and not a writer of speculative historical fiction.

archive.ph/gnTEm
Stephen Greenblatt has the rare ability to write vivid narratives for the general public that rest on firm scholarly foundations. This gift is particularly valuable in his new book, “Dark Renaissance,” because there is scant documentary evidence about Christopher Marlowe, the groundbreaking Elizabethan playwright who paved the way for Shakespeare. In lieu of a straightforward biography, Greenblatt crafts a brilliant recreation of the world Marlowe inhabited.
September 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I really just open my camera and hold it up to a qr code. The link displays on the screen, and I can click through.
A screenshot of looking at a qr code with my Pixel camera and the link that displays.
September 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Dude's responsible for one of the absolute dumbest things I've ever read. Straight up ahistorical propaganda and white supremacy baked into one staggeringly inept skeet.
Not kale. Not gonna b... @notkale... America has been a 250-yr long experiment in a form of government that hadn't been attempted since the Roman Empire. It's currently the best country on the face of the earth. We've made mistakes, of course, but we ended slavery within a century of our founding and incorporation, and that certainly
September 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Lol. The mask always falls off.
Carol's bluesky bio, which states that she is "Trying out a kinder gentler presence on social media." A post from Carol this morning: "My personality is always going to be better than your Hamas loving, rapist loving, murderer loving self living thousands of miles away in the comfort of your home repeating jargon from people that hate you too."
September 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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How do you even reach people who can't define the word "progressive," much less stop them from propping up a false binary that doesn't serve their interests?

Can't wait to see the infantalization turn into pleading for votes for yet another centrist candidate.

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social You have no point. The choice was the VP of the most progressive administration in damn near 100 years or an orange demon that told you he was going to be a dictator and roll back all the progress made over the last 60 years. Everything else was just noise and y'all failed the test...AS USUAL.
September 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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David Tenant crying in his first "last" episode of Doctor Who before he regenerates, saying in a very meta way, "I don't want to go."
September 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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And even if I had voted for Stein, why would that be a problem for you? Do you hate democracy so much that the very exercise of it is offensive?

I mean, I'm not even a big fan of the candidate, but laughing off her work while your account is crickets is...certainly a choice.
This use has never posted about Palestine This user has never listed about Gaza
September 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Ah, I see that shitty liberals have moved on from blaming voters for voting third party to blaming candidates for...

/checks notes

Yes, I'm now being told Jon Cooper, a shining example of a mediocre white guy failing upwards, hates democracy.
A dumbass Jon Cooper post calling Jill Stein and Cornell West "goddamn, self-serving hypocrites." while QTing another asshole from Twitter.
September 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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One of my "hotter" takes is that liberals are far more interested in abolishing the Electoral College so that they can finally realize their myth of, "You cost so-and-so the election."

Liberals hate 3rd parties, because 3rd parties highlight their own immorality

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Eight-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents favor replacing the Electoral College with a popular vote system. Republicans and Republican leaners are more evenly divided: 53% favor keeping the Electoral College, while 46% would prefer to replace it.
August 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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You're telling me this guy is advocating for harm reduction that centers his own priorities? I'm shocked!!!
Dan Nexom in the wild. Wonder why he's so concerned that others give up their values so easily.
August 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM