Sam Cohen
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BANNING BOOKS IN AMERICA | Kirkus Reviews
Confronting a “dangerous moment.”
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Kirkus Reviews reviews, quirkily www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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Why We Need the Lessons of Banned Books Now More Than Ever - MLA Webinars
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January 8, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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On only hours notice, hundreds of New Yorkers are gathering in Foley Square to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good
January 7, 2026 at 11:06 PM
On only hours notice, hundreds of New Yorkers are gathering in Foley Square to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good
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The Trace has been tracking shootings by federal immigration agents. They updated it to reflect today's.
How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.
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January 7, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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I guess we know why they cover their faces now
January 7, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I guess we know why they cover their faces now
Put academic freedom on your syllabus
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Your Syllabus and Academic Freedom
Making an affirmative case for the values that underpin our work.
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January 7, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Put academic freedom on your syllabus
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Join us on 1/27 at 2 p.m. ET for a free webinar about what we gain from reading & teaching banned books and how we can respond to censorship. With @becalzada.bsky.social, Shireen Campbell, @samcohen.bsky.social, & Sonya Douglass—moderated by @paulakrebs.bsky.social. webinars.mla.org/webinar/why-...
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January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Last night I wrote to you about Trump’s desperate efforts to rewrite history. Today, on the taxpayer funded WH website, he’s using our resources to pursue Orwellian 1984ish revisions. It’s our job to stop him. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Dangerous Revision Of Jan 6 History On The Official WH Website
As I wrote to you last night, five years on from January 6, Donald Trump is trying to rewrite the history of the insurrection.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Last night I wrote to you about Trump’s desperate efforts to rewrite history. Today, on the taxpayer funded WH website, he’s using our resources to pursue Orwellian 1984ish revisions. It’s our job to stop him. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
What the fuck indeed samuelscohen.com/2022/01/06/h...
January 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
What the fuck indeed samuelscohen.com/2022/01/06/h...
Well this is shameful www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Discover the real January 6 story: peaceful protest turned tragedy, Deep State entrapment, media deception, and President Trump's triumphant pardons restoring justice to patriotic Americans.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Well this is shameful www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
From the first anniversary of Jan. 6 samuelscohen.com/2022/01/06/h...
Happy Anniversary
Satellite view of New York City on September 12, 2001 I wrote something a few months ago for the Los Angeles Times about the importance of how Americans remember the events of September 11, 2001…
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January 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
From the first anniversary of Jan. 6 samuelscohen.com/2022/01/06/h...
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I believe the original sin Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, made after January 6th was viewing January 6th as the *end* of something, rather than the *beginning* of something. My post on how to remember this somber anniversary for democracy: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...
Five Ways To Remember January 6th
Too many people saw January 6th as the final aggrieved death throes of Trumpism. We can now understand it was the start of something much darker.
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January 6, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.
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I’m usually at a moderate level of annoyance with the NYT but this is fucking outrageous. The US president doesn’t get to fucking pick another country’s leader, & headlines shouldn’t present it as just a normal decision, like picking a nominee for a mid-level federal agency. It’s not our colony!
January 5, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I’m usually at a moderate level of annoyance with the NYT but this is fucking outrageous. The US president doesn’t get to fucking pick another country’s leader, & headlines shouldn’t present it as just a normal decision, like picking a nominee for a mid-level federal agency. It’s not our colony!
Who among us is not looking forward to this
New book going to press: *Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction.* It’s about social networks as context for—and formal element of—the novel. For contemporary lit, novel/narrative theory, DH, lit and sociology, network analysis crowds. Here’s what it’s about: (1/n)
January 6, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Who among us is not looking forward to this
For the people in the back
What is just crazy about this, aside from the need for this statement at all, is that Greenland already IS in the US sphere of influence. It's far cheaper for the US, in material, security, and reputational terms, to have Denmark continue administering Greenland and work within NATO on security.
Joint Statement of major EU/NATO countries on Greenland, together with Denmark:
January 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM
For the people in the back
While we spend millions attacking immigrants, other countries, sitting senators
“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
Monstrously cruel.
Monstrously cruel.
Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States
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January 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
While we spend millions attacking immigrants, other countries, sitting senators
Banned books webinar from @modernlanguage.bsky.social with @paulakrebs.bsky.social, @becalzada.bsky.social, Shireen Campbell, Sonya Douglas, and me webinars.mla.org/webinar/why-...
Why We Need the Lessons of Banned Books Now More Than Ever - MLA Webinars
Join our free webinar about what we gain from reading and teaching banned books and how we can respond to censorship.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Banned books webinar from @modernlanguage.bsky.social with @paulakrebs.bsky.social, @becalzada.bsky.social, Shireen Campbell, Sonya Douglas, and me webinars.mla.org/webinar/why-...
Uncle Cecil Wants You
January 6, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Uncle Cecil Wants You
Turns out...
McConnell said, “There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day...We have a criminal justice system in this country...And former Presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.”
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January 5, 2026
January 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Turns out...
ICYMI
OTD: the current President of the United States tried to overthrow the government.
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Statement for the Record: Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, U. S. House of Representatives, March 31, 2022
Former President Donald John Trump communicates like a dangerous demagogue does. A dangerous demagogue is a political leader who uses anti-democratic language and refuses to be held accountable for th...
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January 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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From the first anniversary of Jan. 6 samuelscohen.com/2022/01/06/h...
Happy Anniversary
Satellite view of New York City on September 12, 2001 I wrote something a few months ago for the Los Angeles Times about the importance of how Americans remember the events of September 11, 2001…
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January 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM
From the first anniversary of Jan. 6 samuelscohen.com/2022/01/06/h...
"There are many ways to diagnose the state of the nation, but if there is a sickness eating away at American democracy, it is our culture of elite impunity."
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Opinion | There Is a Sickness Eating Away at American Democracy
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January 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
"There are many ways to diagnose the state of the nation, but if there is a sickness eating away at American democracy, it is our culture of elite impunity."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
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