The billionaire class is a critical threat to U.S. democracy. There’s a pun in here somewhere about “going for broke.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Patrick Finnegan
@pfinns.bsky.social
Writer, editor, and consultant focusing on human rights, history, politics/policy, and the arts. Part-time musician. Talks to cats and sometimes people. Also digs comedy. Posts & opinions my own.
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
This is the kind of unaccountable, money = speech politics for which we can thank the Supreme Court. They full intend to ram uninhibited AI down the public's throat. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Big Tech’s Money Men Don’t Care About the Backlash
Meet the two political brawlers unleashing the AI industry’s massive cash on the midterms.
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The Regime's efforts to whitewash extrajudicial killings continue apace. This is a deep and abiding threat to our public safety and fundamental rights. newrepublic.com/post/213229/...
FBI Stops Investigating ICE Confrontations After 3 Deadly Incidents
ICE was involved in back-to-back deadly shootings, and then during a third confrontation, a man died as he was running from immigration agents.
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The Regime continues to threaten the integrity of our elections on the basis of its own lies. The U.S.A. is not a stable democracy. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social shows us the purpose of Trump’s speech this week and how it relates to the greater right-wing authoritarian project. The accusations against “communists” and “the Left” are spurious, acts of projection and confession. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-17-2026
July 17, 2026
Yesterday President Donald J.
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@pkrugman.bsky.social nails the point of last night's speech. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-cant... 👇👇
The most disturbing aspect of Trump’s speech was not its content, lies and lunatic conclusions, but the fact he’d give it and think it helps justify his case for restricting our voting rights and meddling in November’s election. He doesn’t think he needs facts to support his assault on democracy.
The speech was bloviating and lies, but with the purpose of creating a permission structure to attack and attempt to overturn unfavorable election results. I hope that we the people won’t allow it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoRep. Himes: "The president was setting the basis for him to turn around on election night and say, 'I warned you that the Chinese were doing x, y, and z. It happened tonight. I'm deploying federal officers from DHS to 7 states. They will be seizing ballot boxes.'"
Feels like tonight was a turning point for many (not all, but many) mainstream media orgs. They knew in advance that Trump would spew lies, and they were ready with deep skepticism and thorough factchecks. Even Fox (for its own reasons ofc) was like “whoa fella” Good to see. Hope it keeps up.
My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.
So Trump’s position is that elections under him were the most corrupt in the world, then Biden was elected (by the Communist Party of China) and four years later they all oversaw a fair election that he won
In advance of this evening, a reminder: The lies about the 2020 election are racist tropes intended to exclude minority Americans from political power to protect the racial status quo
Kevin Morris@kevintmorris.bsky.social · 2mo agoDrafted.
U.S. security forces are committing extrajudicial killings. These are grave human rights violations. This is a horrible truth we have to face.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3w ago"What the federal government has been doing to people assumed to be immigrants is different from normal police brutality. It is a targeted campaign. We are witnessing, for the first time since Jim Crow, American death squads."
“Let me get this straight: you hired people, overpaid them, and they did a bad job. Who did you get? YOU?” 👏 😆 - Amber Ruffin on the Reflecting Pool
Per @pkrugman.bsky.social, it's not just the war itself (which is bad enough), but also the permission structure for domestic repression that Trump & co. are trying to set up with the war as a pretext. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-foreve...
Per @pkrugman.bsky.social, it's not just the war itself (which is bad enough), but also the permission structure for domestic repression that Trump & co. are trying to set up with the war as a pretext. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-foreve...
“Let me get this straight: you hired people, overpaid them, and they did a bad job. Who did you get? YOU?” 👏 😆 - Amber Ruffin on the Reflecting Pool
When Trump does his next press conference, I hope at least one reporter will ask "you mad bruh?" heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-11-2026
July 11, 2026
Last night the Department of Justice subpoenaed reporters from the New York Times over a story the newspaper published on Wednesday.
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Thanks to Human Rights Watch for doing this important work. www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
“A Manufactured Crisis”
The 180-page report, “‘A Manufactured Crisis’: Minnesota Communities Terrorized by the Federal Government,” comprehensively documents how the US government’s “Operation Metro Surge” caused a human rig...
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Elon Musk is a bigot and a threat to international peace. newrepublic.com/article/2119...
Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
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We are now in a scenario where our own federal government may be the single biggest threat to free and fair elections in this country. The U.S. is not a healthy democracy. www.npr.org/2026/06/16/n...
We are now in a scenario where our own federal government may be the single biggest threat to free and fair elections in this country. The U.S. is not a healthy democracy. www.npr.org/2026/06/16/n...
Dissecting what polls actually mean not what pundits want you to think they mean. The "strategists' fallacy" makes for bad campaigning and national Dem leadership is up to their eyeballs in it. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-06-12...
