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Alex Finley
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Former CIA, author of the Victor Caro series, watcher of yachts, alexzfinley.com alexzfinley.substack.com
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 15h
The RU defense industry is implementing long term efforts to increase T-90 tank production and recreate RU’s pre-war tank reserves, indicating that RU intends to present a long term military threat to NATO. (1/5)

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 11, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar101125
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h
Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
Nigel Farage on Russia Today.
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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 10h
A Ukrainian initiative that encourages enemy combatants to surrender said it had data on more than 1,000 Cubans recruited by Russia since 2023.
Cuba Denies Participating in Ukraine War - The Moscow Times
Cuba on Saturday denied U.S. assertions that it is involved in the military conflict in Ukraine or had sent soldiers there.
www.themoscowtimes.com
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NPR @npr.org · 16h
At 92, Cameroon's President aul Biya is running for an eighth term on Sunday — a reminder of how Africa's aging leaders continue to cling to power, even as their nations face unrest, corruption, and calls for change.
Africa's oldest leader isn't ready to retire - and he's not the only one defying age
At 92, Cameroon's President aul Biya is running for an eighth term on Sunday — a reminder of how Africa's aging leaders continue to cling to power, even as their nations face unrest, corruption, and calls for change.
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Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social · 1d
This week‘s Rant! is a different kind of #YachtWatch, looking at the limits of the law when dealing with asymmetric threats. Plus: two cases where we did get justice. open.substack.com/pub/alexzfin...
Evolving threats require evolving rules
A look at holding accountable those who carry out Russia's asymmetric attacks on the West, including a different kind of #YachtWatch
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d
It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.
The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d
And also, this headline? Inadequate
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 1d
“Last week, we saw the limits of Western legal systems when a Finnish court ruled that a case involving a Russian shadow fleet tanker was out of its jurisdiction,” writes @alexzfinley.bsky.social

alexzfinley.substack.com/p/evolving-t...
Evolving threats require evolving rules
A look at holding accountable those who carry out Russia's asymmetric attacks on the West, including a different kind of #YachtWatch
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Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social · 1d
This was last year
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d
Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
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Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social · 2d
Jfc
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
― Hannah Arendt,
The press release in which U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan announced the indictment is only three paragraphs long — remarkably brief for such a high-profile prosecution. “No one is above the law,” she says in the release. Halligan, 36, is an insurance lawyer with no prosecutorial experience who was a White House aide before Trump handpicked her to replace Erik S. Siebert, the U.S. attorney who concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge Comey. While she had served as Trump’s personal lawyer as part of his defense team in his criminal trial in New York, she seldom appeared in court and seemed to have a limited role in his defense.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d
Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 2d
It's hard to overstate how alarming NY AG Letitia James's reported indictment is.

This is the second time in weeks that a political opponent of Trump has been indicted, at his urging, against the advice of career prosecutors and Trump's own appointees. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Justice Department indicts N.Y. attorney general
Justice Department wins indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, accusing her of committing mortgage fraud in 2023.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2d
Here's your lede:

Less than three weeks after Donald Trump ordered his attorney general to hurry up and start charging his enemies, the Justice Department indicted a second one: New York Attorney General Letitia James, the prosecutor who defeated him in court.
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Politico @politico.com · 2d
Dominion Voting Systems, which was at the center of false fraud allegations in 2020, has been sold.

The election machine company is being rebranded as Liberty Votes.
Dominion Voting Systems, which was at the center of false fraud allegations in 2020, has been sold
The election machine company is being rebranded as Liberty Votes.
www.politico.com
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Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social · 2d
Jfc
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2d
I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d
and that's why we don't trust private equity
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2d
I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2d
On the home page, NYT frames it correctly: WaPo fails.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d
Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social:

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...
Next Up: Letitia James Molly Roberts Monday, October 6, 2025, 9:59 AM Share On: f X in $ It's hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey-until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 2d
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...
Next Up: Letitia James
It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.
www.lawfaremedia.org
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d
How to negotiate with Putin: First, make sure he knows he can't win
From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...
Opinion | I’m the Foreign Minister of Poland. This Is How to Negotiate With Putin.
www.nytimes.com
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Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social · 3d
I hope he picks me!
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 3d
Emmanuel Macron’s office said he will choose a new French prime minister by Friday evening.

The person picked to replace Sébastien Lecornu will face an uphill battle trying to negotiate a budget that brings down the French deficit.
Who wants to be the next prime minister of France?
The French president is expected to name his next prime minister by Friday evening.
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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 3d
BREAKING: President Vladimir Putin told Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev on Thursday that two Russian anti-aircraft missiles had exploded several meters from an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet that crashed last December, killing 38 people on board.
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