Carol Cofer
@ccofer.bsky.social
We are only beginning to realize that the obligations of democracy outweigh the privileges. Eleanor Roosevelt 1943
Teacher📚💕, wife💕, mother💕, dog & cat mom🐾🐾💕, lifelong democrat📚, reader📚, Chicagoland
Teacher📚💕, wife💕, mother💕, dog & cat mom🐾🐾💕, lifelong democrat📚, reader📚, Chicagoland
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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79. American citizen.
September 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
79. American citizen.
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Truth bomb‼️
This man should be the one speaking on college campuses…
“They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.”
Watch
This man should be the one speaking on college campuses…
“They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.”
Watch
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Truth bomb‼️
This man should be the one speaking on college campuses…
“They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.”
Watch
This man should be the one speaking on college campuses…
“They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.”
Watch
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As a bookish kid, I admired the Supreme Court for having the character to unanimously come out against segregation in the 1950s, when no other branch of our government would have had that courage.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
As a bookish kid, I admired the Supreme Court for having the character to unanimously come out against segregation in the 1950s, when no other branch of our government would have had that courage.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
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Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"
September 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"
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It's Time to Release the Epstein Files.
People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files
People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide.
open.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files.
People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
August 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
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The question for Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer in some sense is: What do you think and feel when you watch Pritzker’s remarks? Are you inspired, like millions of Democratic Party voters? Or do you think he’s a fool for not pivoting to tariffs? www.offmessage.net/p/jb-pritzke...
JB Pritzker And The Void Of Federal Leadership
Here's a template for Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.
www.offmessage.net
August 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The question for Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer in some sense is: What do you think and feel when you watch Pritzker’s remarks? Are you inspired, like millions of Democratic Party voters? Or do you think he’s a fool for not pivoting to tariffs? www.offmessage.net/p/jb-pritzke...
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If anyone in or out of government wants to chat securely as the unraveling unfolds, I’m vermontgmg.14 on Signal. That’s my normal username, everywhere, with an extra Vermont: the 14th state.
January 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If anyone in or out of government wants to chat securely as the unraveling unfolds, I’m vermontgmg.14 on Signal. That’s my normal username, everywhere, with an extra Vermont: the 14th state.
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The year I was born. we basically had no idea why cancers happened and now we understand the underlying force behind it with 100% clarity and the molecular forces behind it with many orders of magnitude more resolution.
We were entirely in the dark, and now the room is lit.
We were entirely in the dark, and now the room is lit.
August 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The year I was born. we basically had no idea why cancers happened and now we understand the underlying force behind it with 100% clarity and the molecular forces behind it with many orders of magnitude more resolution.
We were entirely in the dark, and now the room is lit.
We were entirely in the dark, and now the room is lit.
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Friend, with all due respect, this assumes a good faith process on the part of the DOJ. May I ask if the past seven months have illustrated anything resembling a good faith process to you?
Why can't we just let the justice system play out its course? If Bolton did nothing illegal (likely true) then DOJ just ends up embarrassing itself.
August 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Friend, with all due respect, this assumes a good faith process on the part of the DOJ. May I ask if the past seven months have illustrated anything resembling a good faith process to you?
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I'm not interested in what notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell has to say. I'm interested in evidence of what she did.
Release the Epstein Files. Stop Donald's coverup.
Release the Epstein Files. Stop Donald's coverup.
August 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'm not interested in what notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell has to say. I'm interested in evidence of what she did.
Release the Epstein Files. Stop Donald's coverup.
Release the Epstein Files. Stop Donald's coverup.
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A heat index of 102+ didn’t deter nearly 1K people from showing up in South Elgin, IL for a #WeCanLeadChange emergency pop-up #StopTheTrumpTakeover rally with @foxvalleyrising.bsky.social & many more. TOGETHER, we are strong! Hydrate, friends!
@maddow.msnbc.com
@maddow.msnbc.com
August 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A heat index of 102+ didn’t deter nearly 1K people from showing up in South Elgin, IL for a #WeCanLeadChange emergency pop-up #StopTheTrumpTakeover rally with @foxvalleyrising.bsky.social & many more. TOGETHER, we are strong! Hydrate, friends!
@maddow.msnbc.com
@maddow.msnbc.com
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Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
August 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
August 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
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Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
August 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
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Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
August 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
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Proof "The Art of the Deal" was ghostwritten:
August 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Proof "The Art of the Deal" was ghostwritten:
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Yes!
August 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Yes!
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They're so good.
August 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
They're so good.
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Damn the evil prick ending $500 million in vaccine research while children die of preventable diseases.
August 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Damn the evil prick ending $500 million in vaccine research while children die of preventable diseases.
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Ghislaine Maxwell has been barred from participating in service dog training while in prison because of her crimes.
I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.
I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.
August 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Ghislaine Maxwell has been barred from participating in service dog training while in prison because of her crimes.
I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.
I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.