Kevin Cooper
@kjcooper.bsky.social
Baseball, soccer, travel, and politics. Other stuff from time to time. Attorney. Irish-American. Views are my own.
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Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
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We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.
October 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.
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What ICE and the National Guard don't realize is that tear gas is basically vaporized Malört. Won't work in Chicago. They love it
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
What ICE and the National Guard don't realize is that tear gas is basically vaporized Malört. Won't work in Chicago. They love it
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It’s time for Senate Democrats to play hardball.
Why would Congress want to fund its own irrelevance??
Why give an out of control Executive branch a blank check to destroy even more of America??
apnews.com/article/hous...
Why would Congress want to fund its own irrelevance??
Why give an out of control Executive branch a blank check to destroy even more of America??
apnews.com/article/hous...
House passes a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown, but prospects in the Senate look dim
The House has passed a short-term spending bill to extend government funding for seven weeks and avoid a partial government shutdown on Oct. 1.
apnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It’s time for Senate Democrats to play hardball.
Why would Congress want to fund its own irrelevance??
Why give an out of control Executive branch a blank check to destroy even more of America??
apnews.com/article/hous...
Why would Congress want to fund its own irrelevance??
Why give an out of control Executive branch a blank check to destroy even more of America??
apnews.com/article/hous...
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Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
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Question:
When in the actual fuck, as a country, did we decide that our government gets to demand that we mourn someone in some particular way?
When in the actual fuck, as a country, did we decide that our government gets to demand that we mourn someone in some particular way?
September 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Question:
When in the actual fuck, as a country, did we decide that our government gets to demand that we mourn someone in some particular way?
When in the actual fuck, as a country, did we decide that our government gets to demand that we mourn someone in some particular way?
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It is not even close. It’s just such a blatant and sprawling crackdown on the most basic of free speech rights and values that it should make it laughable for any of these morons to claim “free speech” as an issue ever again; but it won’t because collectively we don’t understand terms
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It is not even close. It’s just such a blatant and sprawling crackdown on the most basic of free speech rights and values that it should make it laughable for any of these morons to claim “free speech” as an issue ever again; but it won’t because collectively we don’t understand terms
This could have been us…I mean, if we had a functioning judiciary that hadn’t been captured by right-wing interests.
September 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This could have been us…I mean, if we had a functioning judiciary that hadn’t been captured by right-wing interests.
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
Turns out that he’s murdering people, just not on 5th Avenue…yet.
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Turns out that he’s murdering people, just not on 5th Avenue…yet.
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“Chicago is a lot of things, but it’s certainly not a ‘hellhole,’ as claimed by the convicted felon, sexual predator, and pathological liar in the White House.”
In fact, Chicago is a city of fierce defiance.
My free Stop the Presses newsletter.
In fact, Chicago is a city of fierce defiance.
My free Stop the Presses newsletter.
In Chicago, we do not submit.
Trump is trying to intimidate a city that refuses to be intimidated
www.stopthepresses.news
September 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“Chicago is a lot of things, but it’s certainly not a ‘hellhole,’ as claimed by the convicted felon, sexual predator, and pathological liar in the White House.”
In fact, Chicago is a city of fierce defiance.
My free Stop the Presses newsletter.
In fact, Chicago is a city of fierce defiance.
My free Stop the Presses newsletter.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
September 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
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September 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Chicago is absolutely amazing. Met my wife there. Got married there. Had children there. We had to move away, but we’d go back in a heartbeat. Chicago is rightly regarded as a world-class city & everyone should make sure to visit. Anyone who says otherwise is either lying or an idiot. Or both.
“I love this city fiercely. It has given me every good thing in my life. It has given me my children. It has given me my friends who are now my family. It has given me purpose.“
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Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming • The TRiiBE
Crime is down. Tourism is up. And the city’s population is growing. Don’t let the media, or Trump, fool you.
thetriibe.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Chicago is absolutely amazing. Met my wife there. Got married there. Had children there. We had to move away, but we’d go back in a heartbeat. Chicago is rightly regarded as a world-class city & everyone should make sure to visit. Anyone who says otherwise is either lying or an idiot. Or both.
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It's going to be the weirdest thing watching every news network trying to sell "a nation in mourning" while Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" becomes the new national anthem.
August 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
It's going to be the weirdest thing watching every news network trying to sell "a nation in mourning" while Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" becomes the new national anthem.
Yes. This is the way.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Yes. This is the way.
Looks like the entire confederacy wants to occupy Washington, D.C. Too bad they don’t look at their own crime stats before joining the Dear Leader’s coalition of idiocy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana becomes sixth GOP-led state to authorize troop deployment to DC as part of Trump show of force.
August 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Looks like the entire confederacy wants to occupy Washington, D.C. Too bad they don’t look at their own crime stats before joining the Dear Leader’s coalition of idiocy.
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I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
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[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
August 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
This cannot ever become normalized. Ever.
A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture.
More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
August 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This cannot ever become normalized. Ever.
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Trump and Putin have no more right to carve up Ukraine than Hitler and Stalin did to carve up Poland
Freedom for Ukraine from the fascist thugs meeting in Alaska
Freedom for Ukraine from the fascist thugs meeting in Alaska
August 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Trump and Putin have no more right to carve up Ukraine than Hitler and Stalin did to carve up Poland
Freedom for Ukraine from the fascist thugs meeting in Alaska
Freedom for Ukraine from the fascist thugs meeting in Alaska
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The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men
August 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men
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Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.
It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.
It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.
August 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.
It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.
It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.
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This is unconscionable. Our entire profession should be up in arms.
Masked law enforcement and now anonymous lawyers. Our courts are open as is our legal system. If you can’t put your name to your representation as a lawyer then you should not be allowed to appear in court. @americanbar.org
Masked law enforcement and now anonymous lawyers. Our courts are open as is our legal system. If you can’t put your name to your representation as a lawyer then you should not be allowed to appear in court. @americanbar.org
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.
interc.pt
July 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is unconscionable. Our entire profession should be up in arms.
Masked law enforcement and now anonymous lawyers. Our courts are open as is our legal system. If you can’t put your name to your representation as a lawyer then you should not be allowed to appear in court. @americanbar.org
Masked law enforcement and now anonymous lawyers. Our courts are open as is our legal system. If you can’t put your name to your representation as a lawyer then you should not be allowed to appear in court. @americanbar.org
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Turn up the grooves til 11pm.
track names in the comments here as we play them
on air for the next 2 hours !
Listen LINK
www.rte.ie/radio/pulse/
Great vibes and all brand new music
Let me know if you’re listening and I’ll shout you out live !
Turn up the grooves til 11pm.
track names in the comments here as we play them
July 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A sure fire way to make your Monday evening better. Listen live on RTE Pulse ⬇️ or listen back on Mixcloud.
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