Elizabeth (Liz) Cooper
@ebcooper.bsky.social
Work: Fordham Law Prof. - Legislative Advocacy Clinic; Scholarship: autonomy & dignity; Board Member: New Pride Agenda; Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST)
The Logic of Destruction
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The most frightening and accurate description of what is going on right now
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The most frightening and accurate description of what is going on right now
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
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February 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The Logic of Destruction
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The most frightening and accurate description of what is going on right now
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The most frightening and accurate description of what is going on right now
Exactly.
What the hell are intersex people supposed to do? I was not born male or female. Is the government going to force me to have gender reassignment surgery or something? I literally do not fit either legal definition and neither does almost 2% of the population.
January 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Exactly.
Mandatory reading: @erininthemorning.com’s extraordinary and painful explanation of the EO dismantling trans rights.
Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it.
You can find it here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
You can find it here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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January 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Mandatory reading: @erininthemorning.com’s extraordinary and painful explanation of the EO dismantling trans rights.
Day 1. What comes next? Too frightened to consider.
Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
January 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Day 1. What comes next? Too frightened to consider.
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Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.
January 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.
Some good news! For those craving thin mints and other GS treats …
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
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January 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Some good news! For those craving thin mints and other GS treats …
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I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.
January 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.
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Heartbreaking. Remember that Exxon knew 50 years ago about the potential devastating affects of rising C02 levels and buried the report.
January 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Heartbreaking. Remember that Exxon knew 50 years ago about the potential devastating affects of rising C02 levels and buried the report.
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Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
January 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
Ethics? Wait, aren’t there are rules? Oh right - not for them.
Justice Alito spoke with Trump to ask a favor—hiring a former law clerk—as Trump's request that the Court interfere with his sentencing in Manhattan hit the Court. Alito said he didn't know Trump was headed to SCOTUS, which is really odd, because the whole rest of the legal world knew it was coming.
NEWS -- Supreme Court Justice Alito spoke to Donald Trump Tuesday to recommend a former law clerk for a job in the new admin. Call occurred hours before Trump's lawyers asked the justices to block Trump's criminal hush money sentencing. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-spe...
January 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Ethics? Wait, aren’t there are rules? Oh right - not for them.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv.... A brief refresher course: it didn’t have to happen as it did.
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
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January 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv.... A brief refresher course: it didn’t have to happen as it did.
Shigatse is a beautiful part of Tibet. I’m so sorry to hear they have been hit by a powerful earthquake.
Tibet earthquake: nine dead as 6.8-magnitude quake strikes holy city of Shigatse – reports
Tibet earthquake: nine dead as 6.8-magnitude quake strikes holy city of Shigatse – reports
Morning quake damaged buildings in Shigatse and could be felt hundreds of kilometres away in Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck near one of Tibet’s holiest cities, the China Earthquake Networks Centre has said,…
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Shigatse is a beautiful part of Tibet. I’m so sorry to hear they have been hit by a powerful earthquake.
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I’ve long assumed Trump will declare we are under “invasion”, and democrats and immigrants will become the targets of unlawful emergency powers.
An important message from U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT):
January 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I’ve long assumed Trump will declare we are under “invasion”, and democrats and immigrants will become the targets of unlawful emergency powers.
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Bezos has really upped the ante for billionaires debasing themselves to gain favor with Trump.👇
Cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post because it refused to print a cartoon mocking tech and media billionaires for sucking up to Trump. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post because it refused to print a cartoon mocking tech and media billionaires for sucking up to Trump. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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January 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Bezos has really upped the ante for billionaires debasing themselves to gain favor with Trump.👇
Cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post because it refused to print a cartoon mocking tech and media billionaires for sucking up to Trump. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post because it refused to print a cartoon mocking tech and media billionaires for sucking up to Trump. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
But don’t we have real problems that need fixing? Grrr…
The GOP is prioritizing a national ban against trans athletes in sports in their newly released rules package for 2025. The bill can't pass into law without seven Democrats voting for it in the Senate.
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Speaker Mike Johnson Tees Up National Trans Sports Ban for Expedited Consideration in Newly Released Rules Package
The GOP is indicating rewriting civil rights law to ban trans people from sports across the country is a top priority for the House of Representatives in its newly released rules package.
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January 2, 2025 at 5:52 AM
But don’t we have real problems that need fixing? Grrr…
Magnificent piece about the power of love to maintain and create a society that cares - that doesn't become indifferent, as autocrats would prefer. @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Lucid lucid.substack.com?utm_source=n...
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January 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Magnificent piece about the power of love to maintain and create a society that cares - that doesn't become indifferent, as autocrats would prefer. @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Lucid lucid.substack.com?utm_source=n...
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In transforming the federal judiciary to make it more representative of the people it serves, Carter set an example—and an imperative—that endures to this day.
December 30, 2024 at 12:02 AM
In transforming the federal judiciary to make it more representative of the people it serves, Carter set an example—and an imperative—that endures to this day.
This is our country 😢
Also Tom Homan: But if you can code and are willing to work 16 hours a day without complaining we can make an exception.
December 29, 2024 at 4:53 AM
This is our country 😢
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“Candles of joy, despite all sadness
Candles of hope, where despair keeps watch
Candles of courage for fear ever present
Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days
Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens
Candles of love to inspire all my living
Candles that will burn all the year long”
~Howard Thurman
Candles of hope, where despair keeps watch
Candles of courage for fear ever present
Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days
Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens
Candles of love to inspire all my living
Candles that will burn all the year long”
~Howard Thurman
December 26, 2024 at 6:31 PM
“Candles of joy, despite all sadness
Candles of hope, where despair keeps watch
Candles of courage for fear ever present
Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days
Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens
Candles of love to inspire all my living
Candles that will burn all the year long”
~Howard Thurman
Candles of hope, where despair keeps watch
Candles of courage for fear ever present
Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days
Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens
Candles of love to inspire all my living
Candles that will burn all the year long”
~Howard Thurman
A Last Moment Of Warmth Before The Anti-Trans Storm
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A Last Moment Of Warmth Before The Anti-Trans Storm
The next few years will be hard for transgender people. I reflect on my own feelings of warmth after my wedding to Zooey, Christmas with my wife and family, and the feelings of an uncertain future.
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December 26, 2024 at 8:23 PM
A Last Moment Of Warmth Before The Anti-Trans Storm
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www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/w...
For countless reasons, this is so problematic
For countless reasons, this is so problematic
Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election
It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:31 PM
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/w...
For countless reasons, this is so problematic
For countless reasons, this is so problematic
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The result of puberty blocker bans means trans youth are just skipping to grey market hormones, not managed by a healthcare provider. So the result of bans is care that is not managed and worse for everyone involved. This is why gatekeeping doesn't work. People will get access anyways.
December 19, 2024 at 4:47 PM
The result of puberty blocker bans means trans youth are just skipping to grey market hormones, not managed by a healthcare provider. So the result of bans is care that is not managed and worse for everyone involved. This is why gatekeeping doesn't work. People will get access anyways.
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Yes. Tell it.
House Republicans have been ordered to shut down the government.
And hurt the working class Americans they claim to support.
You break the bipartisan agreement, you own the consequences that follow.
And hurt the working class Americans they claim to support.
You break the bipartisan agreement, you own the consequences that follow.
December 19, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Yes. Tell it.