Jason Coupet
@professajay.bsky.social
Towards a big, efficient public sector that serves the least of us. Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School. United Campus Workers of Georgia. Father of 3. Chicago southsider. Proud 〽️ichigan alum. 🏀 nut.
Had to whoop my kids’ ass in pop a shot at the Hawks game tonight.
October 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Had to whoop my kids’ ass in pop a shot at the Hawks game tonight.
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I sincerely know less than nothing about this nba gambling ring dealio. I do know that in a moment when powerful mostly white men are stealing from everybody at scale and with breathtaking gall, it’s odd that these are the faces I’m seeing.
October 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I sincerely know less than nothing about this nba gambling ring dealio. I do know that in a moment when powerful mostly white men are stealing from everybody at scale and with breathtaking gall, it’s odd that these are the faces I’m seeing.
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The US froze aid to Colombia
Much of which is used to fight drug cartels
Because the president of Colombia said the US killed Colombian fishermen
In what is supposed to be a US military campaign to stop drug cartels
Much of which is used to fight drug cartels
Because the president of Colombia said the US killed Colombian fishermen
In what is supposed to be a US military campaign to stop drug cartels
October 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The US froze aid to Colombia
Much of which is used to fight drug cartels
Because the president of Colombia said the US killed Colombian fishermen
In what is supposed to be a US military campaign to stop drug cartels
Much of which is used to fight drug cartels
Because the president of Colombia said the US killed Colombian fishermen
In what is supposed to be a US military campaign to stop drug cartels
Jfc man the papers are so hone
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Jfc man the papers are so hone
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The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
This is the whole thing I swear to god
Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.
October 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This is the whole thing I swear to god
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A post by @ebonyteach.bsky.social made me realize a lot of people don’t know this: Places that were more racially segregated experienced *more* Black lynchings. Segregation in and of itself did not insulate Black people from anti-Black violence, it enabled it.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching - Volume 42 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A post by @ebonyteach.bsky.social made me realize a lot of people don’t know this: Places that were more racially segregated experienced *more* Black lynchings. Segregation in and of itself did not insulate Black people from anti-Black violence, it enabled it.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It’s wild when the Economist is pulling their card. Shows you how far gone we really are.
September 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It’s wild when the Economist is pulling their card. Shows you how far gone we really are.
Yeah man. Also, this isn’t real life. What did I do this crazy week? Talk to like real actual friends and family. On the phone. At the bar. People that I trust with my thought and emotions. I suggest this for you too.
Social media is cool for some shit, but talk to real life in person loved ones.
Social media is cool for some shit, but talk to real life in person loved ones.
There’s a lot of pressure to react to stuff instantaneously and it’s ok to sit back and first of all decide how you actually feel/what you actually think and then also actually the entire public world isn’t owed your reaction, so ask whether you need to give it
September 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Yeah man. Also, this isn’t real life. What did I do this crazy week? Talk to like real actual friends and family. On the phone. At the bar. People that I trust with my thought and emotions. I suggest this for you too.
Social media is cool for some shit, but talk to real life in person loved ones.
Social media is cool for some shit, but talk to real life in person loved ones.
These were the same ones three years ago literally crying in meetings about racial injustice and bragging to everyone about how much work they put in “to be a good ally.”
Now they are yelling at these same black folks in defense of fascists literally arguing to the mass murder of homeless people.
Now they are yelling at these same black folks in defense of fascists literally arguing to the mass murder of homeless people.
Resist libs love to talk a big game about what they d be doing during World War 2, but if what we saw last week is any indication, they wouldn't be resisting the nazis theyd be defending their right to call for genocide
September 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
These were the same ones three years ago literally crying in meetings about racial injustice and bragging to everyone about how much work they put in “to be a good ally.”
Now they are yelling at these same black folks in defense of fascists literally arguing to the mass murder of homeless people.
Now they are yelling at these same black folks in defense of fascists literally arguing to the mass murder of homeless people.
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Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/
September 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/
Man I think it’s time to go dawg.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Man I think it’s time to go dawg.
I am sad. Why do we still live in this country? Family I guess. But things are bad and getting worse. It is hard to imagine this doesn’t end in a lot more violence. And I am near the top of the list of enemies of the state.
September 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I am sad. Why do we still live in this country? Family I guess. But things are bad and getting worse. It is hard to imagine this doesn’t end in a lot more violence. And I am near the top of the list of enemies of the state.
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No, no, no. It's not about the white guy who shot the white guy. It's about the white guy who got shot. Any time a white guy who hates Black people gets shot, it's the fault of Black people. That's even/especially true if the white guy who shot the white guy also hates Black people.
September 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
No, no, no. It's not about the white guy who shot the white guy. It's about the white guy who got shot. Any time a white guy who hates Black people gets shot, it's the fault of Black people. That's even/especially true if the white guy who shot the white guy also hates Black people.
Man this.
Especially people normally alienated from politics man. There are black folk from the south side of Chicago that don’t like racism and are deeply suspicious of white folk but are so anti vaccine and xenophobic that that will lay it all on the line for the klansman that wants them dead.
Especially people normally alienated from politics man. There are black folk from the south side of Chicago that don’t like racism and are deeply suspicious of white folk but are so anti vaccine and xenophobic that that will lay it all on the line for the klansman that wants them dead.
luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.
September 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Man this.
Especially people normally alienated from politics man. There are black folk from the south side of Chicago that don’t like racism and are deeply suspicious of white folk but are so anti vaccine and xenophobic that that will lay it all on the line for the klansman that wants them dead.
Especially people normally alienated from politics man. There are black folk from the south side of Chicago that don’t like racism and are deeply suspicious of white folk but are so anti vaccine and xenophobic that that will lay it all on the line for the klansman that wants them dead.
Tillis finally acting with decency and speaking out now that he’s not running for office is telling. Our political parties are captured.
I think this is much bigger than Trump alone. There are powerful institutions throwing their weight behind fascism that they feel like they gotta do this.
I think this is much bigger than Trump alone. There are powerful institutions throwing their weight behind fascism that they feel like they gotta do this.
Thom Tillis (R) really lays into RFK. Goes after him on everything from vaccines to the Big Beautiful Bill, gently pointing out that he's effectively, and repeatedly, lied. Wants a "written statement" from RFK on his view of Warp Speed and RNA tech. RFK not getting overwhelming support from GOP.
Notably, after this screed claiming vaccines cause autism, RFK closed with this threat, "We're being lied to by these agencies, and we're going to change that right now" by spouting conspiracy theories and using them to justify ending vaccines access for children.
September 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Tillis finally acting with decency and speaking out now that he’s not running for office is telling. Our political parties are captured.
I think this is much bigger than Trump alone. There are powerful institutions throwing their weight behind fascism that they feel like they gotta do this.
I think this is much bigger than Trump alone. There are powerful institutions throwing their weight behind fascism that they feel like they gotta do this.
My fat ass just made a southside of Chicago food mural in my office.
September 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
My fat ass just made a southside of Chicago food mural in my office.
JFC man
This is a sobering--and depressing statistic. Sizable layoffs in the federal government are likely contributing to the increase in unemployment among Black college graduates.
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
September 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
JFC man
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Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
With cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICE
How neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown.
51st.news
August 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
This might be unpopular but I’ve always felt yelling back shit like “immigrants create jobs and pay taxes!” and “we aren’t all thugs!” is mostly pissing in the wind.
Black and brown people doing well with opportunity is actually the thing that bothers those mfs most.
Black and brown people doing well with opportunity is actually the thing that bothers those mfs most.
September 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This might be unpopular but I’ve always felt yelling back shit like “immigrants create jobs and pay taxes!” and “we aren’t all thugs!” is mostly pissing in the wind.
Black and brown people doing well with opportunity is actually the thing that bothers those mfs most.
Black and brown people doing well with opportunity is actually the thing that bothers those mfs most.
It kind of drives me crazy how little liberal pundits have cared about voter suppression in the south. I’m not sure how democrats are going to ever win any election again in these “purple south” states, most of which would be deep blue but for shenanigans.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/nort...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/nort...
North Carolina May Disenfranchise Voters Targeted by GOP Scheme To Steal Election
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
It kind of drives me crazy how little liberal pundits have cared about voter suppression in the south. I’m not sure how democrats are going to ever win any election again in these “purple south” states, most of which would be deep blue but for shenanigans.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/nort...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/nort...
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Trump: "I won because Latino voters shifted to support me!"
Trump, six months later: "If you're Latino I will have armed paramilitaries harass you relentlessly, and gloat how they're going to purge your foreign culture and inferior genes from this country"
Democrats: "I see no opportunity here"
Trump, six months later: "If you're Latino I will have armed paramilitaries harass you relentlessly, and gloat how they're going to purge your foreign culture and inferior genes from this country"
Democrats: "I see no opportunity here"
August 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Trump: "I won because Latino voters shifted to support me!"
Trump, six months later: "If you're Latino I will have armed paramilitaries harass you relentlessly, and gloat how they're going to purge your foreign culture and inferior genes from this country"
Democrats: "I see no opportunity here"
Trump, six months later: "If you're Latino I will have armed paramilitaries harass you relentlessly, and gloat how they're going to purge your foreign culture and inferior genes from this country"
Democrats: "I see no opportunity here"