Patrick Finnegan
@pfinns
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.
The Regime continues to threaten the integrity of our elections on the basis of its own lies. The U.S.A. is not a stable democracy. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
@pkrugman.bsky.social nails the point of last night's speech. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-cant... 👇👇
Per @pkrugman.bsky.social, it's not just the war itself (which is bad enough), but also the permission structure for domestic repression that Trump & co. are trying to set up with the war as a pretext. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-foreve...
“Let me get this straight: you hired people, overpaid them, and they did a bad job. Who did you get? YOU?” 👏 😆 - Amber Ruffin on the Reflecting Pool
We are now in a scenario where our own federal government may be the single biggest threat to free and fair elections in this country. The U.S. is not a healthy democracy. www.npr.org/2026/06/16/n...
Dissecting what polls actually mean not what pundits want you to think they mean. The "strategists' fallacy" makes for bad campaigning and national Dem leadership is up to their eyeballs in it. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-06-12...
Jim Crow 2.0, per @joycewhitevance.bsky.social joycevance.substack.com/p/alabamas-m...
This bodes potentially ill for First Amendment rights... www.wired.com/story/us-law...
Insightful analysis from @gelliottmorris.com about the real reasons Dems lost in 2024. Hint: it's not "messaging." Worth the read. National Dem leadership needs to be pushed out, along with their overpaid consultants operating on the "strategists' fallacy." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...
Once again @adamserwer.bsky.social proves to be one of the most insightful and clear-eyed analysts of U.S. politics, connecting historical Jim Crow racism to the selective "colorblindness" of the SCOTUS's right wing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Of course the Callais decision was based on bad analysis. I mean, if you're trying to engineer one-party rule from the bench, you don't want good statistical analysis... www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-08...
Important read from February. The expansion of mass detention infrastructure has only continued since then. We don't want this issue to get lost in the daily news-valanche. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...
Robert Reich isn’t having Tucker Carlson’s “repentance,”and neither should we. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-bigot-...