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Patrick Finnegan

@pfinns.bsky.social

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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.

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Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · Aug 25

Resistance to the Trump regime needs to ramp up in frequency, intensity, and impact or we all lose. We are seeing mass capitulation on the part of corporations and other institutions nationwide because they haven't seen resistance as a viable threat to the consolidating right-wing dictatorship. 🧵

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Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 3h

A lot of good insight here from @brianbeutler.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social. Worth the read, but I'll post some screen-grabbed nuggets.

newrepublic.com/article/2017...

Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 3h

Well we know who JD Vance is and what he stands for...

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinating article on how fascist fashion symbols seep into the mainstream. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The not-so secret language of fascist fashion

Today’s rightwingers want their message to go mainstream, so it’s coming to a store near you

www.theguardian.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

I suppose this story makes my newsletter from last night even more timely joycevance.substack.com/p/are-we-the...

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Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 17h

DHS is making social media content out of their state terror. This is sick.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 18h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 18h

Any apologies offered were only after they were caught - there’s zero reason to believe they were made in good faith.

Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 18h

When people show you who they are, believe them.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18h

The chat, called “RESTOREYR WAR ROOM,” contained leaders of Young Republicans groups across the country. Pejoratives like the homophobic f-slur, the n-word, and the r-word appeared more than 251 times combined. trib.al/gV6V1eY

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 18h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 19h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18h

The GOP Can’t Escape Its Growing Failures and Scandals

An unraveling Pete Kegseth, a GOP government shutdown, the Epstein Files, and absurdly racist Telegram messages --- MAGA's fascist machine has fissures, and the majority must exploit them.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-gop-ca...

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Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 18h

This is pretty sick stuff and clearly what they really think as they thought this would stay private.

Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 18h

So tell me one more time how calling the Republican Party a fascist movement is “polarizing language”… 😒

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 21h

Another important point is that the regime lies so routinely to the public that their account of whatever incident(s) occur cannot be taken at face value. And reprinting statements and press releases is not journalism.

Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 22h

Extremely important point. The bile spewing from Miller, Trump, and their supporters make their bloodthirstiness crystal clear. They are desperate to invoke the Insurrection Act and will manufacture a pretext to do so eventually.

What happens next is on them.

👇👇

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I'm not afraid. Come and get me, Donald.

I will stand up for the law and the Constitution. That’s what we do in the State of Illinois.

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Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 1d

Which is precisely why Trump intends to militarize the country. I don't believe that there will be free & fair elections in 2026 if Trump can help it. This is why the nonviolent resistance movement must achieve critical scale and intensity before then. Here's hoping.

Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 1d

We have to understand how it's not just Trump, but the entire Republican Party as an institution that is violent-minded and deeply autocratic. There will be no meaningful congressional restraint on Trump's behavior as long as there's a Republican majority.

newrepublic.com/article/2017...

Transcript: MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—Exposing Trump as Weak

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA deconstructs these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why they should prompt more to turn out against an obviously fearf...

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Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 1d

Republican congresspeople and Senators appear to be falling over themselves to characterize the Oct. 18 No Kings protestors as terrorists who "hate America." It's easy to read between the lines: this is to create a rhetorical permission structure for the violent suppression of Trump's opposition. 🧵

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 2d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Patrick Finnegan @pfinns.bsky.social · 1d

*chef’s kiss* youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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