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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 16h

Some tell the weather, some tell the time, and rarely do they meet.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 20h

Management by Wandering About is dead.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 22h

Nobody loses a Nobel Prize.

Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 22h

If you believe you deserve a Nobel you've already eliminated yourself from the competition.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks to Trump we'll never run out of dumb things to talk about.

Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 1d

What the boob doesn't get is that the Nobel prizes, regardless of category, are not for those who pursue prizes.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 1d

My official position is, nothing Trump does is laudable. Never.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 2d

The problem with history's unkindness is it can't be enjoyed by the people who deserve to enjoy it.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 2d

Just seems like a loser to try to sell yourself as the good fascists.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 2d

It's Stony Crick, not creek.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 2d

If watched without the sound this is a decent lesson on conquering someone else's physical space.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

GOP Rep. Mike Lawler and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries get into it outside a news conference at the Capitol

(video via Rachel Schilke)

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 2d

I do like how Jeffries was able to make him physically retreat.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 2d

If he said it would take two Soldier Fields to hold them all, the Fox viewers would be even more impressed.

Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 2d

Define name-calling

Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 2d

Johnson might make an interesting game show host.

Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 2d

When they say they did nothing illegal you know they damn well did something.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u....

Tom Homan Was Said to Have Received $50,000 From Agents. He May Not Have to Return It.

www.nytimes.com

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 3d

Damn straight she's a troublemaker. That's the point.

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 3d

Trump called Thunberg a "troublemaker" after she was released from Israeli custody following the Global Sumud Flotilla's mission to deliver aid to Gaza.

Greta Thunberg Flips Trump's 'Anger Management' Dig Back At Him

Trump called Thunberg a "troublemaker" after she was released from Israeli custody following the Global Sumud Flotilla's mission to deliver aid to Gaza.

www.huffpost.com

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 3d

As no one wants to explain the whereabouts of the $50,000 we should assume Tom Homan still has it.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 3d

We, the people, ain't supposed to ask questions anymore.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Defiant Bondi Testifies in Combative Senate Hearing

www.nytimes.com

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 4d

This is a good time to be among the third and fourth rated at anything.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d

Contrary to Stephen Miller, the president is not "commander-in-chief" of law enforcement within the United States. The invocation of the title "commander-in-chief" to justify anything Trump wants to do anywhere is a sign of how far down the road the administration is to Caesarism.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 4d

The problem with the frog in the pot of slowly warming water analogy is the pot is actually full of frogs and a lot of us have known for a long time what kind of trouble we're in but we've stayed in the pot out of loyalty to the others.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 5d

Primary enemies of American Presidents. 👇

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 5d

There's a reason the clowns aren't in charge at the circus.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 5d

When draft dodgers become military historians.