Philip Cooke
@philipcooke.bsky.social
Psychoanalysis. Licensed psychologist. Anti-Fascist. Progressive politics. (Musical) Theatre.
The first democratic senator to publicly call for Schumer’s ouster will get my money and enthusiastic support. I’m sure I’m not alone in that.
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The first democratic senator to publicly call for Schumer’s ouster will get my money and enthusiastic support. I’m sure I’m not alone in that.
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Veteran politicians need to earn and *maintain* respect, like everyone else.
Any respect Durbin may have once earned has long been lost.
Any respect Durbin may have once earned has long been lost.
I know some folks like to show respect for veteran politicians, but I’m done with that.
Dick Durbin has been useless in a job that could’ve been held by someone who actually understood the fascist threat.
If you’re not built for the fight, get out of the fight. But don’t throw us to the dogs.
Dick Durbin has been useless in a job that could’ve been held by someone who actually understood the fascist threat.
If you’re not built for the fight, get out of the fight. But don’t throw us to the dogs.
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Veteran politicians need to earn and *maintain* respect, like everyone else.
Any respect Durbin may have once earned has long been lost.
Any respect Durbin may have once earned has long been lost.
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The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.
It's insanity to shutdown the government for 40 days, and just when gaining some real leverage, entirely cave. Why make people suffer for 40 days and gain nothing?
It's past time for rank and file democratic politicians to openly call for a change in leadership. We can't keep folding like this.
It's past time for rank and file democratic politicians to openly call for a change in leadership. We can't keep folding like this.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
It's insanity to shutdown the government for 40 days, and just when gaining some real leverage, entirely cave. Why make people suffer for 40 days and gain nothing?
It's past time for rank and file democratic politicians to openly call for a change in leadership. We can't keep folding like this.
It's past time for rank and file democratic politicians to openly call for a change in leadership. We can't keep folding like this.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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If you’re wondering what the future of the Democratic Party looks like, watch the young, brown democratic socialist on the TV right now.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
If you’re wondering what the future of the Democratic Party looks like, watch the young, brown democratic socialist on the TV right now.
Democrats everywhere need to campaign for policies like this: tax the rich to pay for universal public services.
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
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Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Democrats everywhere need to campaign for policies like this: tax the rich to pay for universal public services.
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🧵 A classic psychoanalytic phenomenon, "fear of breakdown," helps convey why it's essential––if we're to beat back fascism––to understand Trump not as the cause of democracy's destruction but rather as a symptom of it. We are on the edge of the breakdown of democracy, liberals say. Unity, not...
November 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🧵 A classic psychoanalytic phenomenon, "fear of breakdown," helps convey why it's essential––if we're to beat back fascism––to understand Trump not as the cause of democracy's destruction but rather as a symptom of it. We are on the edge of the breakdown of democracy, liberals say. Unity, not...
Opening night for @jcclementz.bsky.social 5th Broadway show. So proud of him ☺️
October 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Opening night for @jcclementz.bsky.social 5th Broadway show. So proud of him ☺️
Freudian slip at the end of this clip: “[Trump] has tried to do everything he can to make this as unpainless as possible.”
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Freudian slip at the end of this clip: “[Trump] has tried to do everything he can to make this as unpainless as possible.”
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POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet
October 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet
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it’s beyond comprehension that scenes like this have become routine in chicago.
masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets.
this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*
masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets.
this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*
Video from witness here from the moment CBP gassed neighbors who had gathered outside after the kidnapping.
Agent rolls a canister at the crowd out of the window of their car as they reverse away from people with whistles and bikes.
Agent rolls a canister at the crowd out of the window of their car as they reverse away from people with whistles and bikes.
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
it’s beyond comprehension that scenes like this have become routine in chicago.
masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets.
this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*
masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets.
this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*
Psychoanalysis changes people’s worlds for the better every single day.
Some thoughts on psychoanalysis, fascism, and changing the world, with assistance from Adam Phillips🧵
Some thoughts on psychoanalysis, fascism, and changing the world, with assistance from Adam Phillips🧵
October 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Psychoanalysis changes people’s worlds for the better every single day.
Some thoughts on psychoanalysis, fascism, and changing the world, with assistance from Adam Phillips🧵
Some thoughts on psychoanalysis, fascism, and changing the world, with assistance from Adam Phillips🧵
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None of this "you've had years to leave, why didn't you etc" nonsense. We *want* people to defect, we *want* the GOP to lose operatives and supporters. It is *hard* to deprogram cult-like beliefs, especially ones that have had a lifetime to marinate. We need these pieces so others leave too!
“Republican Party has devolved into a cult of personality that mirrors the worst authoritarian regimes… today, I quit allowing my complacency to destroy 🇺🇸, and urge you to quit too…”
GOP insider Miles Bruner writes in @thebulwark.com he wishes he did it sooner
www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
GOP insider Miles Bruner writes in @thebulwark.com he wishes he did it sooner
www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
October 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
None of this "you've had years to leave, why didn't you etc" nonsense. We *want* people to defect, we *want* the GOP to lose operatives and supporters. It is *hard* to deprogram cult-like beliefs, especially ones that have had a lifetime to marinate. We need these pieces so others leave too!
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
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Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov, you need to do something about these ISP goons attacking protesters like @katmabu.bsky.social.
Police escalated the situation here in Broadview incredibly quickly. Saw multiple brutal arrests. ISP jabbing protesters with their batons like battering rams.
Here ISP lifts @katmabu.bsky.social by her feet to flip her over a concrete barrier.
Here ISP lifts @katmabu.bsky.social by her feet to flip her over a concrete barrier.
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov, you need to do something about these ISP goons attacking protesters like @katmabu.bsky.social.
Is this dementia or is this the same old playbook Trump has used for years: deny, deflect, and distort reality to his own benefit?
I’m not arguing trump is a paragon of cognitive health, but arguing he truly forgot he was president on 1/6 lets him off the hook for his sinister Roy Cohn tactics.
I’m not arguing trump is a paragon of cognitive health, but arguing he truly forgot he was president on 1/6 lets him off the hook for his sinister Roy Cohn tactics.
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?
October 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Is this dementia or is this the same old playbook Trump has used for years: deny, deflect, and distort reality to his own benefit?
I’m not arguing trump is a paragon of cognitive health, but arguing he truly forgot he was president on 1/6 lets him off the hook for his sinister Roy Cohn tactics.
I’m not arguing trump is a paragon of cognitive health, but arguing he truly forgot he was president on 1/6 lets him off the hook for his sinister Roy Cohn tactics.
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This brown skinned landscaper was minding his business on a job in Edgewater when 3 masked ICE thugs took him away. Then on leaving the 3 reportedly got out of their car, turned their guns on a woman and tried to get into her car for apparently driving too close searching for parking near her home
October 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This brown skinned landscaper was minding his business on a job in Edgewater when 3 masked ICE thugs took him away. Then on leaving the 3 reportedly got out of their car, turned their guns on a woman and tried to get into her car for apparently driving too close searching for parking near her home
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ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance
Perpetual anticipation is a delicate art:
Keeping control while falling apart.
Keeping control while falling apart.
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Perpetual anticipation is a delicate art:
Keeping control while falling apart.
Keeping control while falling apart.
The number of news pieces on this story, as well as the conservative justices’ and plaintiff’s views, that rely on entirely erroneous ideas about psychotherapy, autonomy, sexuality, motivation, and coercion is infuriating and devastating.
The reason this therapy is used on kids is because it's often abusive, coercive, manipulative and dangerous—no kid would choose it if they had adult faculties, making Justices' claims that the therapy is "voluntary" profoundly misleading. And the idea that therapy has no medical component is insane.
Supreme Court’s conservative majority prepared to rule against conversion therapy ban | CNN Politics
A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Tuesday it is prepared to rule against Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for minors, with several justices indicating they sympathize with a licensed coun...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The number of news pieces on this story, as well as the conservative justices’ and plaintiff’s views, that rely on entirely erroneous ideas about psychotherapy, autonomy, sexuality, motivation, and coercion is infuriating and devastating.
There need to be state charges filed against the ICE agents who did this. @ilattygeneral.bsky.social
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
October 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
There need to be state charges filed against the ICE agents who did this. @ilattygeneral.bsky.social
We need to protect protestors, not limit protests.
Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson signed an executive order effective immediately, designating new protest hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., until it is “deemed no longer necessary to protect residents’ health, safety, and welfare.” trib.al/3YGQqL5
Broadview mayor signs executive order setting fixed protest hours outside ICE facility
The new protest hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, citing public safety concerns, according to the executive order. Protests have popped up almost daily outside the ICE facility since President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign ramped up last month.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We need to protect protestors, not limit protests.
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Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.
A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.
October 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.