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Kevin Finkelstein ☭
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Director/Writer/Historian (Shakespeare/activism/disability performance). MA Univ of Colorado-Boulder (2026). Hard-of-hearing. Views my own. he/him #cwa7799 #blm #transrightsarehumanrights
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Lol. Lmao. Etc
Blocked without engagement by an uncritical sheep.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Oh, it's so much worse than that.

"You can't blame the guy for what he agreed to say and do here" is some real "have it both ways" garbage.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Representatives for Neeson have pushed back against claims that the actor is against the use of vaccines. “We all recognize that corruption can exist within the pharmaceutical industry, but that should never be conflated with opposition to vaccines,” a statement sent to the Guardian reads. “Liam never has been, and is not, anti-vaccination. His extensive work with Unicef underscores his long-held support for global immunisation and public-health initiatives. He did not shape the film’s editorial content, and any questions about its claims or messaging should be directed to the producers.”
December 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
kfinkelstein.bsky.social
Gee, why would these partisan, arrogant ghouls frame spending in terms of GDP?

Oh, right, because it makes things look scary without acknowledging facts.

I'm so tired of lying liars using their platforms to stoke fear by exploiting ignorance.
A screenshot from the article showing a downward trend of "national defense spending as a percent of GDP" which "is nearing historical lows." A chart from the St. Louis Fed demonstrating how GDP has exponentially increased since 1950. A chart showing how US military spending has exponentially increased since 1965
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Once again, it's striking how the Editorial Board of the Washington Post is comprised by a bunch of soulless ghouls. Never once has a single member of the board claimed that M4A is "must-pass legislation," but when it comes to the largest military spending bill on the planet...

archive.today/QsJDx
To start, Capitol Hill authorized $8 billion more for the military than President Donald Trump requested as part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act. The must-pass legislation, carefully negotiated over several months, funds several of the president’s big-ticket priorities, including next-generation fighters for the Air Force and Navy, the B-21 Raider stealth bomber and Air Force drone wingmen. The end-of-year bill also makes progress at reforming the Pentagon’s sclerotic acquisitions process while shoring up funding for shipbuilding, missile development and munitions production.
December 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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The complete and utter uselessness of Google Search in 2025, as told in two screenshots.
The top Google search result for "stream blazing saddles" is a Netflix link entitled "Watch Blazing Saddles." Clicking on the previous link takes you into Netflix's web platform, where you are informed that you cannot, in fact, stream Blazing Saddles.
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Anyway, if you want a case study of a company that defined a medium only to then fuck it all up with a bunch of anti-consumer capitalist bullshit, look no further than Microsoft. Making people pay for hardware/software AND hoovering up their data?

I mean, honestly. What the fuck is this shit?
A captcha designed and drawn by a six year old, with an image on the left that doesn't really exist on the right.
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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And there it is: blocked without engaging. What a fragile ego.

Stephen *could* be advocating for a new UK-only platform, if his concerns were grounded in reality, but instead he's trying to co-opt an international platform. How very British of him.
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk 3h It's been obvious for years that many social media accounts are foreign trolls. The tragedy has been the utter complacency about it. All an enemy had to do was tinkle a little bell and the dumb doggies would bark away at each other. Why bother with a nuclear arsenal? Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk 3h The difficult truth is that there is a clear national security element to social media information flows. It can't all be viewed through the single lens of free speech. Disinformation sabotage is a hostile act intended to destablise our societies. Our societies need appropriate protection.
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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It's always, always these guys.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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I guess we can add Andrew Doyle to the list of self-important fuckwits who want to pretend that aligning themselves with a far-right hate group is normal.

"Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent" indeed.

archive.ph/moYmt
The dark void of ideological thinking has rarely been more evident than in the celebrations following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Even committed leftists were horrified to witness the sheer relish expressed online from those who seemed oddly eager to advertise their lack of basic humanity. The ugliness was still evident this week at the University of California at Berkeley. Turning Point USA — the organization that Kirk had founded and helmed — held an event on campus, in defiance of those who gloated over his death, that would have been the final stop of the college tour Kirk was on when he was killed. I was invited to appear as a panelist for the evening, along with the comedian Rob Schneider, the atheist philosopher Peter Boghossian and the Christian apologist Frank Turek. We had an enjoyable time fielding questions from the audience and discussing our shared commitment to liberty despite our many other differences. It was, as expected, a jovial and good-natured exchange of ideas.
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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"Legitimize an illegitimate attack against the arts" is some really, really entitled stuff. It won't surprise you to learn that the author of this nonsense has a degree in Anthropology that she has somehow convinced herself entitles her to be called a journalist.

archive.ph/SguY2#select...
Regarding the Nov. 1 news article “At the Kennedy Center, thousands of empty seats”: Having just heard the National Symphony Orchestra’s stupendous rendition of George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, I was dismayed to read of the Washington community’s failure to support our important local arts institutions during President Donald Trump’s takeover of the traditionally nonpartisan John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. I can well understand that Trump’s takeover has repelled many former Kennedy Center patrons and supporters. But quite a number of them have, unfortunately, decided to express their objection by boycotting performances. This reaction does nothing to help their cause. Rather, it punishes the orchestra, whose dedicated musicians continue to provide world-caliber performances. Washington is blessed to have such a fine hometown orchestra. If it — as well as the equally threatened Washington National Opera — falters or fails because of lack of financial support, it will be the city’s music lovers, as well as students, children and other future music fans, who will suffer. Beryl Lieff Benderly, Washington
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Incredible paragraph in an incredible article. 10/10, no notes.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Everything about All’s Fair, on both a micro- and macro-level, is terrible. The scripts are terrible. The performances are terrible. The grotesque demonstrations of wealth porn are terrible. Everything is both far bigger and far flatter than it needs to be. All’s Fair is the Kansas of television.
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Langdon Grant... I got the idea from being an alive sentient human who didn't sleep through the years 2000, 2016, and 2024. The current Supreme Court majority is built on Nader voters in Florida and Stein voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. But hey, at least they have their purity. How nice for them.
October 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Oh, he's super mad.
A post from the aforementioned Bishop Douche crying about all of the blocks he's receiving. Kinda wild for a mediocre dude with the IQ of a tennis ball to use the phrase "Starbucks Communist," but here we are.
October 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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He made it worse. Just an absolute garbage human being.
Bromance's bio: DONALD TRUMP WILL FALL, BOW AT PRESIDENT PARKER MOLLOY'S FEET AND SAY: "YES, PARKER, YOU WON BECAUSE YOU DEFENDED TRANS RIGHTS, WHICH KAMALA FAILED TO DO!"
September 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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A sign from downtown Denver that says "NO ICE IN CO" and the image is of Blucifer melting a cube of ice with rays from his eyes, a la Superman
September 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Shanna "Read Blac... @srmilesauthor.bsky.social Kamala Harris is not an elected official. Heckling outside her book tour is racially motivated. The White House lawn is right there.
September 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Matt Bai not beating the allegations of being a terrible human being, Chapter 281.

archive.ph/HP3yi
To my horrified friends on the left, though, I feel compelled to ask a different question. Now do you understand why all speech is worth defending? Like some conservative writers and a handful of hardy liberals, I’ve written repeatedly over the last several years about the threat to free expression from the left. Since 2020, we’ve seen White journalists and academics punished just for repeating words that qualified as “hate speech”; the issuance of inoffensive language manuals by groups like the American Medical Association and the Sierra Club; the removal of books from library shelves and bookstores because they trafficked in uncomfortable stereotypes, or because the authors were said to be bad people.
September 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Tracks.
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September 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Is 31 "young?" I guess, compared to the leaders of his party, maybe so, but it feels so weird to phrase it this way.

It's just wild to call someone born in the 1990s "young."
Who is Charlie Kirk: A prominent young conservative activist Ben Kamisar Kirk is a 31-year-old conservative activist and father of two who helped found Turning Point USA, a prominent nonprofit that activates conservative youth on school campuses. A well-known supporter of President Donald Trump and a close ally of many in his circle, Kirk spoke at the 2024 presidential convention just days after an assassination attempt on Trump.
September 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Newsom then added, "And by political violence, I obviously don't mean the harm my office is inflicting upon the residents of California, but the violence perpetrated against a living, breathing Nazi."
Among notable Democrats, Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., also weighed in on X, writing, "The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form."
September 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
kfinkelstein.bsky.social
I can't imagine why this person chose this hill to die on.

Oh, wait, yes I can. Because they are a monster.
Joshua Casey Can liberals and conservatives just hurry up and kill each other? The world would be a better place if the rest of us didn't have to deal with those fuckers. #CivilWar2ElectricBoogaloo
September 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The absolute privilege it takes to write this and still claim to be a "Leftist."

Does this person really think any politician cares *why* you voted for them? A vote for is a tacit endorsement, full stop.
A nauseating thread from a nauseating liberal. 1 Voting is not about saying "I tacitly endorse all of this person's policies." It's about choosing your opponent. 2 I live in a state that lets me vote in GOP primaries and sometimes I do that. Is that because I support that GOP candidate's policies? Fuck no, it's because I'm choosing which opponent I'd rather fight in the election. 3 It's the same thing in general elections. For me, voting is not a moral choice, it is a strategic one.
September 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM
kfinkelstein.bsky.social
Nailed it.
In this house etc etc
September 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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It's wild to me that we're still treating Stephen Greenblatt as a historian, and not a writer of speculative historical fiction.

archive.ph/gnTEm
Stephen Greenblatt has the rare ability to write vivid narratives for the general public that rest on firm scholarly foundations. This gift is particularly valuable in his new book, “Dark Renaissance,” because there is scant documentary evidence about Christopher Marlowe, the groundbreaking Elizabethan playwright who paved the way for Shakespeare. In lieu of a straightforward biography, Greenblatt crafts a brilliant recreation of the world Marlowe inhabited.
September 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I really just open my camera and hold it up to a qr code. The link displays on the screen, and I can click through.
A screenshot of looking at a qr code with my Pixel camera and the link that displays.
September 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM