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Steve Cooper (Coop)
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Journalist & creative generalist.
COO at GymCastic
Co-Author of Best-Selling books: THE BALANCE with Aimee Boorman
and LIFE IS SHORT, DON'T WAIT TO DANCE with Miss Val.
Beats: 📸🤸🏽🫶🏼🧑‍🦱📱💼
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The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles - out April 22

I am so excited to share this book with everyone!
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“Minnesota’s top prosecutors will conduct their own review of Renee Nicole Good’s killing by an ICE agent after the state’s criminal investigative bureau said the FBI had cut it out of the investigation.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
Minnesota to review ICE shooting after FBI blocks state agents from case
Top state prosecutors said the review would ensure state authorities have access to investigative materials in the event they bring charges.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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NEW: A federal judge has blocked an effort by President Trump to threaten election assistance funding for states who refuse to update their voter registration forms to include his preferred “documentary proof of citizenship” requirement.

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 10, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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ALERT: Jack Smith will testify PUBLICLY before the House Judiciary Committee as early as this month

Smith has been pressing to do so... in a public setting
January 9, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Breaking News: The Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center after President Trump’s intervention upset artists and donors. The opera has performed there since 1971.
Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned by declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term.
nyti.ms
January 9, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Trump threatening a NATO ally.
Trump: "We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not because if we don't it, Russia or China will take over Greenland. If we don't do it the easy way we're gonna do it the hard way."
January 9, 2026 at 10:14 PM
“I mean, Apple and Google are fine distributing an app that has created an undressed image Grok made of Renee Nicole Good, the mother who was shot by ICE in Minneapolis. How do you plan to defend getting rid of the ICEBlock app while allowing X to generate degrading images of a woman ICE killed?”
January 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
January 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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It sounds like these goondas are being told that 18 U.S.C. 111 means they can arrest anyone who protests or “opposes” them. They seem to have missed the “forcibly” part. Also, not for nothing, but this crime is a misdemeanor www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
January 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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January 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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After the House refused to display it, the Senate unanimously agreed to hang a plaque honoring the officers who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6. It only took five years. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Senate votes to display Jan. 6 plaque after House GOP refuses to hang it at Capitol
The office of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has argued that the federal law requiring the plaque's display was "not implementable."
www.nbcnews.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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2026 Week 2 — Schedule & Links

Need a link? Here you go!

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2026 Week 2 — Schedule & Links
Visit the post for more.
balancebeamsituation.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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BREAKING: A 5-4 Supreme Court *refuses* to limit how many times a federal inmate can challenge the legality of their sentence, saying they aren’t limited to one try like state prisoners. Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch & Barrett dissent. #SCOTUS www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Reminder: Fantasy lineups lock tomorrow at 2:45pm PT
The full slate of teams are competing this weekend so be sure to give your lineup a second look. Good luck.

Play here (it's free!):
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GymCastic 2026 College Fantasy League
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January 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Welcome to the resistence: Senate passes bill to block further military action in Venezuela www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Senate passes bill to block further military action in Venezuela
Though largely symbolic, the vote was a rare assertion of Congress’s role in using lethal force after the stunning raid to capture Nicolás Maduro.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Our first fantasy update of the 2026 NCAA season is up! New episode also appearing in YouTube and your favorite podcast player
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Fantasy News: 2026 NCAA Season, Week 1
A quick update on what's happening in the GymCastic Fantasy Gymnastics League. Who's on a bye, who you should add to your roster and more.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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After border patrol agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, agents showed up to a high school and released chemical weapons during dismissal, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Their live reporting here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Live updates: Minneapolis confirms name of woman shot by ICE agent
Renee Good, 37, was identified as the woman shot and killed Wednesday morning by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said Good was shot while trying to run over agents with her car. Mayor Jacob Fre...
www.mprnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.
Minnesota Could Prosecute the ICE Shooter. Trump Can’t Pardon Him.
Shortly after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, city leaders began looking into whether the officer had violated state criminal law.
slate.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.

Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.

Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.

It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.

Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
🚨For the 1,000th time... it is not a journalist's job to parrot the government. Especially when the current administration has repeatedly and in bad faith openly lied to courts, the public, journalists and anyone else when they feel lies benefit them.
January 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM