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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve called 2 places home in my life: Chicago & Portland.
Every street-corner view of people being disappeared from these places knocks the wind out of me.
But seeing Chicagoans out in full-force, & Portlanders in animal costumes mocking the SS-I’m SO proud these places have been/are home.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 10h

Portland, I love you.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

I know invoking Latin terms can be a bit esoteric, and "dementia" is fine and accurate, but I think there's real merit in zeroing in on the relevant legal concept: he is non compos mentis. Not just that he's a batty old man, he is debilitated in a concrete legal sense, fit for conservatorship.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 1d

For my Women & Law class.
It’s shocking how little the average college students cares about state surveillance. Even the cliché purple-haired anarchists are like “If you’re not doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t worry about it.”

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Texas law enforcement used a nationwide network of 83,000 traffic cameras to build a case against a woman for aborting her fetus. Aborting her fetus is not a crime in Texas. And then everyone involved lied about it to the public.

This case reveals the fundamental danger of allowing companies like Flock Safety to build massive, interconnected surveillance networks that can be searched across state lines with minimal oversight. When a single search query can access more than 83,000 cameras spanning almost the entire country, the potential for abuse is staggering, particularly when weaponized against people seeking reproductive healthcare.

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 7d

Putting this quote in my bio.

Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 7d

Seriously. Why are all the memories shopping-related?

Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 8d

Right?? “It can only good happen.” They’re filling the babies up with liquid, too much liquid.

It would be funny if it weren’t so dire. He speaks like a possessed, demented, hate-filled 2-year-old. So humiliating.

But yeah. Biden was old so…

Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve always read the transcripts for Trump’s “speeches”. Honestly, it makes what he says so much more objectively NUTS.

That 30% or whatever of the nation is hearing that and saying “fuck yeah!” makes me concerned about our literacy rate if nothing else ( a lot else).

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 8d

This is so real. I looked up the transcript for Jimmy Kimmel’s return show and I am one of the few people who has not really heard Trump speak. I *always* read the transcript. Video makes me anxious.

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Bill Nottingham @notting.bsky.social · 9d

Just read the whole damn thing that goes into the very depressing state of the numbers and the math that isn't mathing, but this is a very succinct representation of a specific type of feneric Executive (Dys)Function:

This is the true nature of labor that executives fail to comprehend at scale: that the things we do are not units of work, but extrapolations of experience, emotion, and context that cannot be condensed in written meaning. Business Idiots see our labor as the result of a smart manager saying “do this,” rather than human ingenuity interpreting both a request and the shit the manager didn’t say.

What does a CEO do? Uhhh, um, well, a Harvard study says they spend 25% of their time on “people and relationships,” 25% on “functional and business unit reviews,” 16% on “organization and culture,” and 21% on “strategy,” with a few percent here and there for things like “professional development.”

That’s who runs the vast majority of companies: people that describe their work predominantly as “looking at stuff,” “talking to people” and “thinking about what we do next.” The most highly-paid jobs in the world are impossible to describe, their labor described in a mish-mash of LinkedInspiraton, yet everybody else’s labor is an output that can be automated.

As a result, Large Language Models seem like magic. When you see everything as an outcome — an outcome you may or may not understand, and definitely don’t understand the process behind, let alone care about — you kind of already see your workers as LLMs.

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 13d

Abolish ICE. Trials all around. Truth & Reconciliation required: those are the only conceivable ways forward.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 13d

19thnews.org/2025/09/poll... 76% of Democrats oppose bans on trans healthcare for kids. mainstream Dems neglecting to mount any kind of opposition to them is unacceptable

The State of Our Nation: Gauging Americans’ political opinions in 2025

This is the fourth annual poll from The 19th and SurveyMonkey, designed to shed light on what women, particularly women of color, and LGBTQ+ people think about the issues animating our politics.

19thnews.org

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 14d

The graphic design is giving a Halloween vibe. Perfect for a contribution to the horrors.

Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 14d

I’m gonna reach back and blame Dem primary voters. We could have had Elizabeth Warren, who- whatever you think of her- would not likely be out here in the streets showing her whole ass.

Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 15d

When I woke up this morning with a swollen throat my first thought was that I’d been “debuffed”.

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 16d

Trump designates “thinking for a second” a terrorist activity.

Reuters @reuters.com · 16d

Trump signs order designating antifa a 'terrorist organization' reut.rs/4mq0oVH

Trump signs order designating antifa a 'terrorist organization'

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating the antifa movement as a "domestic terrorist organization," the White House said on Monday, after promising actions targeting left-wing groups following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 16d

“It doesn’t exist in this pretty closed society. Can’t check the veracity of that statement, eh? Eh?”

Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 16d

I don’t know what (any of your) universities allow but I have been able to add to my syllabus that I consider use of generative AI cheating. Of course, it’s easy to tell, and once or twice I’ve had to give zeros- but for the most part the students accept this idea.

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 16d

TV: You can just say “women”.

Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 17d

Same. I know that me crying in my car doesn’t help them, but lord knows I can’t stop myself.

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 18d

The Wrestler
I think it actually took a part of my soul away. Same for Neverending Story.

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 18d

I hated TheBig Lebowski the first time I saw it. (Tbf, I was a teenage girl so what do these boomer dudes have to do with me?)

Now, I probably watch it six times a year.

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 19d

True. The Plague and intestinal parasites never got a fair shake either.

Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 19d

Hahaha. Going in my saved posts.

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Fina @thefinacountdown.bsky.social · 19d

He is, possibly, the dumbest man.