Dave Infante
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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What if I told you that the entire point of the COPs is, at root, to single out their key export
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
What if I told you that the entire point of the COPs is, at root, to single out their key export
it’s not cheap or easy but i do hope more brewers start offering smaller packaging options like this. 8.4oz is nice!
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
it’s not cheap or easy but i do hope more brewers start offering smaller packaging options like this. 8.4oz is nice!
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November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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what a fucking putz
Joe Rogan Slams 'Really Bad' Federal Hemp Ban Trump Signed, Blaming Alcohol Industry For Influencing Congress - Marijuana Moment
Podcaster Joe Rogan says Congress needs to fix the “really bad” mistake lawmakers made by recriminalizing consumable hemp products—warning that restricting access to cannabinoids like CBD will harm pe...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
what a fucking putz
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people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
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something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
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well maybe it destroyed journalism, and education, and massively fueled global fascism and various genocides, and caused an epidemic of loneliness and collapsing birthrates, but at least companies could sell targeted ads
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
well maybe it destroyed journalism, and education, and massively fueled global fascism and various genocides, and caused an epidemic of loneliness and collapsing birthrates, but at least companies could sell targeted ads
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I bet Zohran just Remembered Some Guys with Trump. Crazy Eddie. Dr. Zizmor. Jacoby & Meyers.
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I bet Zohran just Remembered Some Guys with Trump. Crazy Eddie. Dr. Zizmor. Jacoby & Meyers.
[guy who doesn’t know if “lizza” is pronounced with a short or long “i” sound] more like ryan sleaza, amirite? no seriously amirite
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
[guy who doesn’t know if “lizza” is pronounced with a short or long “i” sound] more like ryan sleaza, amirite? no seriously amirite
please confidently purchase a subscription to fingers knowing that it is NOT a newsletter about the appendages that right-wing politicians have put inside me, and never will be. this is my editorial promise to you.
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
please confidently purchase a subscription to fingers knowing that it is NOT a newsletter about the appendages that right-wing politicians have put inside me, and never will be. this is my editorial promise to you.
this must have been what illiterate youtube stans felt like when that try guy cheated on his wife
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
this must have been what illiterate youtube stans felt like when that try guy cheated on his wife
Only one I remember is a profile of Nick Kristof where she let him claim that nobody ever died of “Pinot Noir alcoholism” to defend his own forays in wine-/cider-making, without a) fact-checking that or b) following up on the implicit classism. So not really a “favorite” per se. But, y’know.
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Only one I remember is a profile of Nick Kristof where she let him claim that nobody ever died of “Pinot Noir alcoholism” to defend his own forays in wine-/cider-making, without a) fact-checking that or b) following up on the implicit classism. So not really a “favorite” per se. But, y’know.
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Phone Didion
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Phone Didion
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Trump filling out his NYC DSA membership card to vote on primarying Jeffries right now
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Trump filling out his NYC DSA membership card to vote on primarying Jeffries right now
Reagan in the cuck chair of democracy
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Reagan in the cuck chair of democracy
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imagine knowing literally anything about Haiti and deciding to try this
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
imagine knowing literally anything about Haiti and deciding to try this
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“Rentier class,” it’s a beautiful word, an old fashioned word but it’s beautiful, and they are a big problem I’ll tell you. Not good
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“Rentier class,” it’s a beautiful word, an old fashioned word but it’s beautiful, and they are a big problem I’ll tell you. Not good
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
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Well you’ve got your boomers, your zoomers, your doomers, your Loomers and your Schumers. who am i missing
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Well you’ve got your boomers, your zoomers, your doomers, your Loomers and your Schumers. who am i missing
middlebury chapel during freshman orientation is on my list. also: into a coffee mug at a bob evan’s in myrtle beach.
what's the most exotic place you've ever puked? mine's not exactly exotic but i did once have a hangover at the nyc facebook office and barfed in their very nice bathroom
Got food poisoning from Fogo De Chao. Puked out the side of a moving cab along beautiful Copacabana Beach. The most exotic place I'll probably ever puke!
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
middlebury chapel during freshman orientation is on my list. also: into a coffee mug at a bob evan’s in myrtle beach.
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![What’s actually possible for the industry to accomplish in the next year? A year is a long time for some things, but that’s not that long to get something done in Congress.
You’re absolutely right: it takes too damn long to get anything done in Congress. You gotta keep trying, you gotta keep looking for the avenues to get it done. That’s what I’ll be doing. But I think there are two ways of looking at this. One is, as I understand it, the path that [Minnesota] Representative [Ilhan] Omar is looking at which is: is there a way to do a carveout for states like Minnesota that have good rules and regulations in place? That would be one path forward. Another path would be to—and I'm quite interested in this—I've been working at very early stages with the Minnesota craft brewers on legislation that would try to find a way to bring the framework that we feel works in Minnesota to the federal level. Now, that's obviously going to take a long time, I'm not naive about that. But I do, at this early stage, think that would be a really good approach. If you’ve got a framework that's working so well in Minnesota, is there a way to write that into federal law?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7keeiuhmqfxim42c6tibwvzw/bafkreihfvqsvi3cmfmhqv7rk7otepdvdwvmy25rnifzjbgmykyrpjgrovy@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
ICYMI: I interviewed @smith.senate.gov about the impending hemp-derived THC ban—how it went down, what it will do to MN's nation-leading drinks market, and what boosters can do to try to reverse it before the jig is up in November 2026: www.fingers.email/p/an-inside-...