Max A. Cohen
@cohenmaxa.bsky.social
Economic justice agitator. PhD @ Princeton. Writing an anthropology of venture capital, startups, & tech.
Philly/Baltimore/SF Bay Area.
Views my own. He/him.
Philly/Baltimore/SF Bay Area.
Views my own. He/him.
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They want violence. They fear mockery.
October 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
They want violence. They fear mockery.
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I don’t really understand the people who think we shouldn’t situate the current moment in context of the last 25 years in American politics, including the actions of the three Democrats who were president during that time
October 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I don’t really understand the people who think we shouldn’t situate the current moment in context of the last 25 years in American politics, including the actions of the three Democrats who were president during that time
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Just going to keep saying it, it is remarkable (you can still be shocked without being surprised!) that the rest of the Republican party has decided that blatant corruption and enrichment off the office of the presidency is legal for this one guy
September 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Just going to keep saying it, it is remarkable (you can still be shocked without being surprised!) that the rest of the Republican party has decided that blatant corruption and enrichment off the office of the presidency is legal for this one guy
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Cannot emphasize this enough.
On the whole, police don’t solve crimes for shit, and they don’t prevent crimes for shit. They are actively bad at both. The average Law & Order fan would be stunned to tears after following around real cops for a day.
On the whole, police don’t solve crimes for shit, and they don’t prevent crimes for shit. They are actively bad at both. The average Law & Order fan would be stunned to tears after following around real cops for a day.
July 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Cannot emphasize this enough.
On the whole, police don’t solve crimes for shit, and they don’t prevent crimes for shit. They are actively bad at both. The average Law & Order fan would be stunned to tears after following around real cops for a day.
On the whole, police don’t solve crimes for shit, and they don’t prevent crimes for shit. They are actively bad at both. The average Law & Order fan would be stunned to tears after following around real cops for a day.
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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Happy 4th of July. 🍦
July 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Happy 4th of July. 🍦
On appeasers like my alma mater, @upenn.edu: "Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
On appeasers like my alma mater, @upenn.edu: "Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.
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On appeasers: "Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last."
-Winston Churchill*
Embarrassed but not surprised at my alma mater @upenn.edu.
(*Notwithstanding Churchill's imperialism etc., his point is apt.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
-Winston Churchill*
Embarrassed but not surprised at my alma mater @upenn.edu.
(*Notwithstanding Churchill's imperialism etc., his point is apt.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
July 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
On appeasers: "Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last."
-Winston Churchill*
Embarrassed but not surprised at my alma mater @upenn.edu.
(*Notwithstanding Churchill's imperialism etc., his point is apt.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
-Winston Churchill*
Embarrassed but not surprised at my alma mater @upenn.edu.
(*Notwithstanding Churchill's imperialism etc., his point is apt.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
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next up: can you primary the times ed board
June 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
next up: can you primary the times ed board
The heat wave can only but help Mamdani. Both bc it could lower turnout among older people, as @ericklinenberg.bsky.social rightly points out. & bc 100°, humid, sunny weather drenching voters in sweat might encourage people to give good climate policies more weight.
June 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The heat wave can only but help Mamdani. Both bc it could lower turnout among older people, as @ericklinenberg.bsky.social rightly points out. & bc 100°, humid, sunny weather drenching voters in sweat might encourage people to give good climate policies more weight.
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Just me reminding you all that Christian Nationalists are in charge and not a side show but rather The Show
“That the ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag is being flown on a government building alongside the American flag should be shocking to anyone who doesn't wish to live in a theocracy,” says Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.
Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at Jan. 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
www.wired.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Just me reminding you all that Christian Nationalists are in charge and not a side show but rather The Show
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the rest of the world be like
June 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
the rest of the world be like
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I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace.
And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
June 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace.
And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
June 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
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BEGGING LIBERALS TO READ THIS
Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on:
“We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
BEGGING LIBERALS TO READ THIS
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social killing it as usual:
"the fascists have identified a new talking point, and they are too lazy to each formulate it in their own words, so now they just copy/paste each other. …
"the fascists have identified a new talking point, and they are too lazy to each formulate it in their own words, so now they just copy/paste each other. …
June 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social killing it as usual:
"the fascists have identified a new talking point, and they are too lazy to each formulate it in their own words, so now they just copy/paste each other. …
"the fascists have identified a new talking point, and they are too lazy to each formulate it in their own words, so now they just copy/paste each other. …
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“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
June 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
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It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
June 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
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It’s not yet known whether Waymo vehicles were deliberately targeted. This year the LAPD revealed it had obtained footage from a Waymo driverless car as part of an investigation, indicating that they are being used as potential sources of surveillance footage. Waymo has been contacted for comment.
June 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It’s not yet known whether Waymo vehicles were deliberately targeted. This year the LAPD revealed it had obtained footage from a Waymo driverless car as part of an investigation, indicating that they are being used as potential sources of surveillance footage. Waymo has been contacted for comment.
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This is still one of the best ways to limit deportations. Stop collaborations between ICE, local police departments, sheriffs, and county jails.
Glendale ends ICE contract, will no longer hold detainees
Glendale ends ICE contract, will no longer hold detainees
Glendale announced it would end its agreement to hold federal immigration detainees.
www.latimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is still one of the best ways to limit deportations. Stop collaborations between ICE, local police departments, sheriffs, and county jails.
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MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House
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MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House
SAN DIEGO—Shocked by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids affecting her very own community, local 43-year-old Jillian Beamer told reporters Monday she had assumed President Donald Trump would only deport people on the list she mailed to the White House. “With all of these deportations going on, I can’t help but feel like he’s breaking […]
theonion.com
June 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House
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Setting shit on fire: not violence
Forcefully ripping people from their lives and separating them from their families: Very Much IS Violence
Forcefully ripping people from their lives and separating them from their families: Very Much IS Violence
June 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Setting shit on fire: not violence
Forcefully ripping people from their lives and separating them from their families: Very Much IS Violence
Forcefully ripping people from their lives and separating them from their families: Very Much IS Violence