Paul Finkelstein

A Day's Work Without blemish of review

Sometimes, all we have is a day's work.
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Ten years and counting on a Republican healthcare plan.

So fix it.

10 years in and he still hasn’t proposed a plan.

Is she saying we should let them die? Or deny reimbursement when they seek emergency medical care?

Maybe she should clarify.

How quaint. Inventing crimes and creating statutes by social media tantrum.

I’m sure that’s in the Constitution somewhere.

Yes, Beach confirmed this with his own post.

By law, only the images of deceased people can be put on US currency.

No kings.

Trump says US is in 'armed conflict' with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the Caribbean President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an "armed conflict” with them, according to a Trump administration memo obtained by The ...

So, we are now engaged in a literal War on Drugs. Does that mean the President will request a Declaration of War from Congress as Constitutionally required? If we are at war with drug dealers, does that make street dealers enemy combatants?

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Well isn’t that a shame.

Fortunately, there is an appellate process to vindicate infringements on your federal rights.

Get in line.

Howard Lutnick's ties to Jeffrey Epstein come under scrutiny Lutnick was once a neighbor of the deceased criminal, and real estate records reveal Epstein's role in transactions involving his property.

This Lutnick?

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And who are these enemies he intends to “intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill” while ignoring the rules of war?

According to the speech that followed, it is our fellow citizens in the cities across the US with Democratic leadership.

So this was exactly the concern of the EO, right?

Is he invoking the Insurrection Act or just flat violating the Posse Comitatis Act and waging war on American citizens.

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

“Raided our President” = executed a valid search warrant on the residence of a former President who had not complied with voluntary efforts to return sensitive documents owned by the people to their proper custodian.

Adjective Declared Illegal: no statutory authority cited

Well my job just got much harder.

I’m looking forward to all the discussions explaining why Inuprofen and opioids aren’t better options.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Here’s an idea, if it’s working, pass tariff legislation like the Constitution contemplates.

Have they even introduced a bill?

Yep

The War on Pronouns is long underway.

The War on Adjectives has just begun.

I feel this.

Well, I mean he lied.

He obviously knew about it because he quite publicly said he wouldn’t reach out to Walz. It was a “waste of time.”

Trump/Vance/Stephen Miller are busy spreading blatant lies and glossing over violence committed by the far-right.

They're establishing a justification to unleash the government against anyone who opposes MAGA.

All of this must be understood against the backdrop of Trump’s declining popularity.

People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too | Weekly roundup for September 14, 2025 Also this week: Trump ties Biden low on inflation/the economy; Mamdani up big in New York City; independent redistricting is an 80-20 issue. + more!

Sunday post: People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too

This gives us an incredibly powerful tool for reducing mass political violence: Sharing the real (very low) numbers on how many people actually support it

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/people-are...

One semester in 2021.

He’s been living with his conservative Republican parents ever since.

They can’t even demonstrate that Trump’s would be killers were liberal.

Such casual bigotry.

Headline and lede from Time magazine (did not make the magazine cover) with a generic headshot of Minnesota House speaker Melissa Hortman that reads Minnesota Lawmaker Melissa Hortman Killed, FBI Hunt Suspect Jun 15, 2025 — Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed by an individual impersonating a police officer. -- Hortman was assassinated by a far right extremist along with her husband and dog. The man had a long list of Democrats he planned to kill, and was caught after shooting Minnesota Democrat John Hoffman and his wife Yvette who thankfully survived

Headline from time with a photo of Charlie Kirk at the event where he was murdered, smiling and waving at the crowd. The preview time has shared indicates that this will be the cover story of the next magazine. The headline reads The Killing of Charlie Kirk and the Political Violence Haunting America

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

Brett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism He showed his whole hood.

"Kavanaugh penned a concurrence confirming that, yes, the conservative justices are motivated by gutter racism, and they absolutely do intend to shred five decades of jurisprudence. YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT THEY ORDERED THE CONSTITUTIONAL CODE RED, SON! And they’ll do it again." — @lizdye.bsky.social

A killing at sea marks America’s descent into lawless power The peremptory strike on a speedboat is a warning to all who serve. Remember your oath.

Striking piece by a former U.S. Navy captain on Trump’s lethal attack in the Caribbean.

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Exactly. Any time Trump deflects from a legitimate question, it should be the only question he hears until he actually answers it.