Charlene Finn
@litscrib.bsky.social
Novelist. The Goode Sisters pub date April 6, 2027 by She Writes Press, distributed by Simon & Schuster. charlenefinn.com Believer in science, human rights for all, feminist, environmental protection. Avid cyclist, cook, gardener and writer
Doesn't it feel there is more to the Cornyn/Tillis deal? Was part of the deal Trump agreeing to spend hundreds of millions of his ill-gotten SuperPAC funds on GOP Senate candidates, including Paxton? Has Trump been holding up campaign spending during his fight with the Senate?
Well…yes. You CAN rein in the president. Try…reading the Constitution and CHECKING the executive. My God.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
From the newsletter: - Let's call our Senators and demand they vote against the venal Todd Blanche, and not institutionalize Trump's corruption & lawlessness. - Three months out data tells us Dems have a legit shot at winning both the House and Senate 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/three-mont...
Three Months Before Election Day Democrats Have A Legitimate Shot At Taking Both The House And Senate
Senate Republicans are attempting to institutionalize Trump's unprecedented corruption today - we need to hit the phones everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!
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DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...
ICE agents raided the family dormitories at the Dilley detention center and snatched this Bluey coloring page from a child before they could finish. I sued ICE to get these drawings back. You can what they sent me here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
I think I have more Capital One accounts in good standing than the Trump Organization. I definitely pay more in taxes. Do I get audit immunity or nah?
This is pretty straightforward, and it's weird to me that people are against it.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d ago👀 Nathan Robinson takes full advantage of a chance to explain to Katie Pavlich why Democratic Socialism is on the rise 🔥
From the weekend. Trump's repeated whining abt Davey Hearn's case, and especially Doug Burgum's tweet claiming prosecutors lied, could give Hearn more ways he can fight back. emptywheel.net/2026/08/02/d...
Doug Burgum Accuses Jeanine Pirro of Lying - emptywheel
I've been saying for weeks that Trump would have to be fucking stupid to dick around with a criminal case on which Norm Eisen is a defense attorney. And yet, Trump just dicked around on a criminal cas...
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Last year I took a pic about 15km from Trump's Irish golf course, showing the energy plant that no longer burns coal thanks in part to the wind turbines put up w/in view of Doonbeg.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 11mo agoWent to Scattery Island today instead of [waves hands]. This is Church of the Dead. You can see the plant that no longer burns coal, and the turbines that made that possible. 15km to Doonbeg which is one reason Trump hates wind power.
I wrote this two days after Davey Hearn was arrested and damnit, I should start betting on Kalshi. emptywheel.net/2026/06/21/t...
Did Stan Woodward Get Paid Via the Proceeds of the Money Laundering that Todd Blanche Immunized? emptywheel.net/2026/08/03/d...
Did Stan Woodward Get Paid Via the Proceeds of the Money Laundering that Todd Blanche Immunized? - emptywheel
Were any of the people appointed to high positions in the current administration beneficiaries of the money laundering Blanche is attempting to immunize?
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The entire point of demanding Pirro frame people for vandalism was to distract from the disastrous outcome of Trump's own corruption. And now Trump's pique with Pirro for not sustaining the frame job is distracting from the disastrous outcome of Trump's corruption. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
We rep former Trump Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham in her lawsuit against Cong. Max Miller (R-OH). Mr. Miller has been served with the Summons & Complaint, as well as discovery requests (7/22/26). He has 28 days from that date to respond with details. More to follow.
Mark Zaid, Esq@markzaidesq.bsky.social · 4w agoToday my law firm & @dannfighter.bsky.social filed lawsuit in Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (cp.cuyahogacounty.gov) against Cong. Max Miller (R-OH) on behalf of former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham. The litigation is related to prior defamation case, 21-CV-953971.
🎥NEW: a federal court just blocked a USCIS policy that banned nonprofit organizations from registering new citizens to vote at naturalization ceremonies. Marc Elias breaks down the ruling, and what this win means for new Americans and the fight to protect voting rights ahead of the midterms.
BREAKING: Federal Court Blocks Trump's Voter Registration Ban
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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COMMENTARY: Crickets: Four fatal shootings by the Memphis Safe Task Force and almost no national news coverage. At the root lie Tennessee politicians who approve of the task force, writes Editor @jhollymc.bsky.social.
Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout
Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?
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CATO argues Bill Pulte could not legally serve after Jay Clayton was confirmed, so everything Pulte did in the last week (like firing a bunch of people) can be challenged. www.cato.org/blog/william...
William Pulte Served Illegally as Acting Director of National Intelligence for Nearly a Week
William Pulte purported to act as the director of national intelligence for nearly a week after Jay Clayton was confirmed as his successor. That violates the plain text of the Vacancies Act.
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Set aside that Juicebox Jeanine is Trump's friend, who talked him into pardoning her ex. The US Attorney, who should NEVER have contact w/WH at all, was just in the WH for hours, not defending rule of law, but proving her loyalty v. Burgum. Reason enough Blanche shouldn't be confirmed.
An important lesson given RFK's claims he's doing a "cooking show."
Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social · 2d agoTransportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...
@jasonleopold.bsky.social gets a sneak preview of @wyden.senate.gov's report on how banks ignored Jeffrey Epstein's suspicious transactions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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Trump endorsed both Ashley Moody and James Uthmeier in advance of the August 18 primary yesterday. Both are implicated in the suspected theft of $10M in Medicaid payments to use for political purposes--basically what Trump is trying to frame Tim Walz for. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
Sick and tired of journalists asking politicians how they *feel* about the Bad Thing that just happened. Ask them what they're going to *do* about it!
“Dude, you are the government.” RFK Jr. tells Dana Bash the press should be more skeptical of authority, then bristles when she questions him. @saletan.bsky.social calls out the hypocrisy.
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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The Davey Hearn Motion to Dismiss ALSO Debunks Trump's Vandalism Claim emptywheel.net/2026/08/04/t...
The Davey Hearn Motion to Dismiss ALSO Debunks Trump's Vandalism Claim - emptywheel
According to the motion to dismiss in the Davey Hearn case, the damage Jeanine Pirro accused Hearn of doing was there not only over an hour before Hearn showed up, but also 41 minutes before the video...
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Reuters finds that judges have ruled Trump abridged speech in 75 cases. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it
President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of "government censor...
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