Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist.
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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Progressive groups yes but also a lot of the federal employees involved with all this
www.gravityisgone.com/a-slap-in-th...
www.gravityisgone.com/a-slap-in-th...
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Progressive groups yes but also a lot of the federal employees involved with all this
www.gravityisgone.com/a-slap-in-th...
www.gravityisgone.com/a-slap-in-th...
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JFC, WHAT NEXT????🤬
Shameful that our 80+% Democratic House of Representatives is trying to gut our state's climate commitments
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
House moves forward with bill to weaken 2030 climate goals - CommonWealth Beacon
The plan reverberating around Beacon Hill, as first reported by CommonWealth Beacon last week, is sure to put lawmakers in a politically difficult position and test their willingness to defend the cli...
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
JFC, WHAT NEXT????🤬
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Let a single person feed their family with food stamps when they don't "deserve" the benefit and Republicans will be filled with such rage that they'll take away those benefits from millions of others.
Meanwhile the administration is doing this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
Meanwhile the administration is doing this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Let a single person feed their family with food stamps when they don't "deserve" the benefit and Republicans will be filled with such rage that they'll take away those benefits from millions of others.
Meanwhile the administration is doing this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
Meanwhile the administration is doing this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
The MA House wants to abandon the state's commitment to clean energy.
Trump would be proud.
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
Trump would be proud.
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
House moves forward with bill to weaken 2030 climate goals - CommonWealth Beacon
The plan reverberating around Beacon Hill, as first reported by CommonWealth Beacon last week, is sure to put lawmakers in a politically difficult position and test their willingness to defend the cli...
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The MA House wants to abandon the state's commitment to clean energy.
Trump would be proud.
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
Trump would be proud.
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
Trump is *unilaterally* giving massive tax cuts to private equity, crypto, and foreign real estate investors.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Trump is *unilaterally* giving massive tax cuts to private equity, crypto, and foreign real estate investors.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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... and again: www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
High-profile Jan. 6 defendant facing charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting woman
John Banuelos' case was unique among Capitol riot prosecutions because he was the only defendant accused of pulling and firing a gun while on Capitol grounds.
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
... and again: www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
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fetterman literally made cannabis legalization a central plank of his campaign.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
fetterman literally made cannabis legalization a central plank of his campaign.
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Love to have a President who can't be left alone for five minutes with his grifting, con men advisors.
‘Sold POTUS a bill of goods’: WH furious with Pulte over 50-year mortgage
The White House was blindsided by the idea and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Love to have a President who can't be left alone for five minutes with his grifting, con men advisors.
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If you're bleeding internally you just uhh call around and compare health care plans. Make a budget spreadsheet and see what you can afford. Do I have to spell it out for you. I have a ballroom to build
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
If you're bleeding internally you just uhh call around and compare health care plans. Make a budget spreadsheet and see what you can afford. Do I have to spell it out for you. I have a ballroom to build
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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Not just alcohol, but cash-rich cannabis producers in legal states who want to keep the market cornered in their dispensaries and see hemp products sold in convenience stores as an existential threat to their business.
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Not just alcohol, but cash-rich cannabis producers in legal states who want to keep the market cornered in their dispensaries and see hemp products sold in convenience stores as an existential threat to their business.
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
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Hemp is defined as <0.3% delta-9 THC in dry weight. The minibus adds a ban on “any intermediate hemp-derived cannabinoid products which are marketed or sold as a final product or directly to an end consumer for personal or household use,” and sets a limit of 0.4 mg THC per container.
The shutdown deal includes a ban on hemp products that none of its negotiators debated in public.
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Hemp is defined as <0.3% delta-9 THC in dry weight. The minibus adds a ban on “any intermediate hemp-derived cannabinoid products which are marketed or sold as a final product or directly to an end consumer for personal or household use,” and sets a limit of 0.4 mg THC per container.
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They're definitely doing elder abuse and showing him AI videos all day
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
They're definitely doing elder abuse and showing him AI videos all day
Yep. I read it the same way. It feels like a vote that is a proxy for "keeping the deal together." If they voted to kill this amendment, it's because they want the deal to pass. And they should be yelled at for both tabling a good amendment and wanting a shitty bill to pass.
Probably a safe bet that every Dem who is not a Nay on this vote was part of the Cave Caucus.
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Yep. I read it the same way. It feels like a vote that is a proxy for "keeping the deal together." If they voted to kill this amendment, it's because they want the deal to pass. And they should be yelled at for both tabling a good amendment and wanting a shitty bill to pass.
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Folks! Here is the CBD/Hemp list 👇
BUT - read this backwards. I think. If you Senator is NOT on this list, go yell at them.
BUT - read this backwards. I think. If you Senator is NOT on this list, go yell at them.
The shutdown deal includes a ban on hemp products that none of its negotiators debated in public.
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Folks! Here is the CBD/Hemp list 👇
BUT - read this backwards. I think. If you Senator is NOT on this list, go yell at them.
BUT - read this backwards. I think. If you Senator is NOT on this list, go yell at them.
The shutdown deal includes a ban on hemp products that none of its negotiators debated in public.
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The shutdown deal includes a ban on hemp products that none of its negotiators debated in public.
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
This sounds like things he dreams or pays for. So uncomfortable to watch.
Trump: "You have people in Chicago, beautiful Black women wearing a MAGA hat, red MAGA hat -- 'please come Mr Trump, president' -- they call me president, they call me mister, they can call me whatever they want. 'Please come President Trump, please come.' They're begging us to come."
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This sounds like things he dreams or pays for. So uncomfortable to watch.
Shameful that our 80+% Democratic House of Representatives is trying to gut our state's climate commitments
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
House moves forward with bill to weaken 2030 climate goals - CommonWealth Beacon
The plan reverberating around Beacon Hill, as first reported by CommonWealth Beacon last week, is sure to put lawmakers in a politically difficult position and test their willingness to defend the cli...
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Shameful that our 80+% Democratic House of Representatives is trying to gut our state's climate commitments
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
Congrats, @gigi4district1.bsky.social!
A huge congratulations to Madam President Gigi Coletta Zapata! A historic win for District 1, as this is the first time the district has had the City Council President seat. I am both proud and excited to watch @gigi4district1.bsky.social lead! 🎉
#mapoli #bospoli
#mapoli #bospoli
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Congrats, @gigi4district1.bsky.social!
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The Democratic Party is a European Grand Coalition, and the Republican Party is the Nazi legacy party others shun.
"Would you say that the Democratic Party today is more of a..."
Mainstream Liberal Party: 37%
Socialist Party: 34%
Moderate Party: 28%
Harvard-Harris / Nov 6, 2025
Mainstream Liberal Party: 37%
Socialist Party: 34%
Moderate Party: 28%
Harvard-Harris / Nov 6, 2025
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The Democratic Party is a European Grand Coalition, and the Republican Party is the Nazi legacy party others shun.
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
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Either Schumer isn't able to keep his caucus organized, or the whole thing was a work. Both possible scenarios work out to the same conclusion: he can't be leader anymore.
Welp not a conspiracy anymore
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Either Schumer isn't able to keep his caucus organized, or the whole thing was a work. Both possible scenarios work out to the same conclusion: he can't be leader anymore.