COOLJEN
@cooljenim.bsky.social
Trying to stay sane. Not paid to be here. Here for interesting people & to fight for our Democracy. Swear like a sailor so be forewarned. Soft spot for all animals. If you're expecting "nice" at the expense of my truth, I AM NOT THE ONE TO FOLLOW.
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COOLJEN
@cooljenim.bsky.social
· Jan 9
Democracy is our greatest test of our ability to overcome our differences for a common goal...
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Reporter: "Zelensky said today that his country would risk either giving up a partner or giving up its dignity."
Trump: "You mean he doesn't like it?"
Reporter: "It's unclear."
Trump: "Well, he'll have to like it. And if he doesn't like it, then they should just keep fighting."
Trump: "You mean he doesn't like it?"
Reporter: "It's unclear."
Trump: "Well, he'll have to like it. And if he doesn't like it, then they should just keep fighting."
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Reporter: "Zelensky said today that his country would risk either giving up a partner or giving up its dignity."
Trump: "You mean he doesn't like it?"
Reporter: "It's unclear."
Trump: "Well, he'll have to like it. And if he doesn't like it, then they should just keep fighting."
Trump: "You mean he doesn't like it?"
Reporter: "It's unclear."
Trump: "Well, he'll have to like it. And if he doesn't like it, then they should just keep fighting."
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it's in here 👇
![pic of the cover of the Book "The Paranoid Style in Politics" [and other essays] written by Richard Hofstadter](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v62t5ntdsxngbg3eg2smonjk/bafkreigl2qyvmrk3uk7f3rdaeegoohncli4ktpkcsnfl42i7acsytngbpe@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
it's in here 👇
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Mandami owned the president in the Oval Office today. Nobody on here is saying Trump earns brownie points for fawning over the mayor-elect. Trump threw a bunch of Republicans’ messaging under the bus because Trump has no principles beyond himself and Mandami is a good politician with charm to burn.
No it isn't. That traitor ass was calling for executions yesterday. And today everyone is gufawwing at his smiling shit smeared mouth.
Mamdani called the bluff of a meeting, but looks like trumpy got his hail mary distraction from his behavior yesterday.
This shit isn't cute.
Mamdani called the bluff of a meeting, but looks like trumpy got his hail mary distraction from his behavior yesterday.
This shit isn't cute.
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Mandami owned the president in the Oval Office today. Nobody on here is saying Trump earns brownie points for fawning over the mayor-elect. Trump threw a bunch of Republicans’ messaging under the bus because Trump has no principles beyond himself and Mandami is a good politician with charm to burn.
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Trump endorsed Mamdani today.
You know who still hasn't?
Chuck Schumer and Senator Gillibrand, both Democrats.
You know who still hasn't?
Chuck Schumer and Senator Gillibrand, both Democrats.
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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I completely agree people shouldn't be on X unless necessary, but I don't think it's true that you can't create content that gets views unless it aligns with Musk. He *hates* the kind of nuanced immigration stuff I do, but I still get millions of engagements a week.
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I completely agree people shouldn't be on X unless necessary, but I don't think it's true that you can't create content that gets views unless it aligns with Musk. He *hates* the kind of nuanced immigration stuff I do, but I still get millions of engagements a week.
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Can you imagine being the richest person in the world and being so pathetically insecure that you have to build an entire AI just to fluff you?
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Can you imagine being the richest person in the world and being so pathetically insecure that you have to build an entire AI just to fluff you?
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Just a reminder that it's nice the Mamdani thing went better than everyone expected, but Trump should still be immediately impeached & removed for unprecedented things that were once beyond the pale of American politics.
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Just a reminder that it's nice the Mamdani thing went better than everyone expected, but Trump should still be immediately impeached & removed for unprecedented things that were once beyond the pale of American politics.
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A properly functioning democracy would not allow Gmail to train AI on users’ private email data BY DEFAULT and take away critical longstanding features if you opt out
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A properly functioning democracy would not allow Gmail to train AI on users’ private email data BY DEFAULT and take away critical longstanding features if you opt out
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IJs aren’t even ALJs! They’re technically just attorneys working for DOJ, so they can’t be fired at will, and yet that is EXACTLY what they are doing; citing “Article II” to just fire anyone they deem insufficiently pro-deportation.
As a former ALJ ... ALJ is a terrible system and should never be part of an executive agency.
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
IJs aren’t even ALJs! They’re technically just attorneys working for DOJ, so they can’t be fired at will, and yet that is EXACTLY what they are doing; citing “Article II” to just fire anyone they deem insufficiently pro-deportation.
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All I know is that if I’m still practicing I’m raising that issue in every PFR. The problem, of course, would be proving it has an impact in any specific case.
At some point this has got to become a due process issue, right? Lack of a neutral decisionmaker?
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
All I know is that if I’m still practicing I’m raising that issue in every PFR. The problem, of course, would be proving it has an impact in any specific case.
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Maybe in 2027 but sure as hell not in 2026. And meanwhile, thanks to a stupid, ill-conceived law from 1996, challenging any of this crap on a systematic basis is nearly impossible. slate.com/news-and-pol...
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Maybe in 2027 but sure as hell not in 2026. And meanwhile, thanks to a stupid, ill-conceived law from 1996, challenging any of this crap on a systematic basis is nearly impossible. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
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WATCH: TN-7 nominee Matt Van Epps Sneaks Out the Back of a Brentwood Fundraiser to Duck Us
A Van Epps stooge came to gloat he snuck out (after going in the front)— then pretended not to know who Matt was 🤷🏼 when we filmed… only to have a Van Epps pamphlet on his dashboard🤡
A Van Epps stooge came to gloat he snuck out (after going in the front)— then pretended not to know who Matt was 🤷🏼 when we filmed… only to have a Van Epps pamphlet on his dashboard🤡
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
WATCH: TN-7 nominee Matt Van Epps Sneaks Out the Back of a Brentwood Fundraiser to Duck Us
A Van Epps stooge came to gloat he snuck out (after going in the front)— then pretended not to know who Matt was 🤷🏼 when we filmed… only to have a Van Epps pamphlet on his dashboard🤡
A Van Epps stooge came to gloat he snuck out (after going in the front)— then pretended not to know who Matt was 🤷🏼 when we filmed… only to have a Van Epps pamphlet on his dashboard🤡
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Students know: ICE doesn't belong in our schools or our community.
Over 30,000 Charlotte students absent from school in protest of ICE operation, reports say
Over 30,000 Charlotte students were absent on Monday, according to school officials.
www.wafb.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Students know: ICE doesn't belong in our schools or our community.
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The Bulwark, famously the place to go to find excuse making for Trump supporting business types.
To the Bulwark motherfuckers like @timmiller.bsky.social and @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social who make excuses for the "business-types" who voted for Trump: Yes, they DID sign up for this. Do you assholes not remember theses signs at the RNC. Business didn’t give a fuck, they were getting tax cuts.
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 AM
The Bulwark, famously the place to go to find excuse making for Trump supporting business types.
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The Trump Admin repeatedly defies court orders & its officials are lying to judges.
My take on the latest examples of judges calling out the Trump Regime for overt noncompliance & defiance of orders, and why after criminal contempt, accountability hearings must happen.
youtu.be/ezoQkytgHpk?...
My take on the latest examples of judges calling out the Trump Regime for overt noncompliance & defiance of orders, and why after criminal contempt, accountability hearings must happen.
youtu.be/ezoQkytgHpk?...
FED UP Judges SKEWER Trump DOJ After HUMILIATING STUNT
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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November 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The Trump Admin repeatedly defies court orders & its officials are lying to judges.
My take on the latest examples of judges calling out the Trump Regime for overt noncompliance & defiance of orders, and why after criminal contempt, accountability hearings must happen.
youtu.be/ezoQkytgHpk?...
My take on the latest examples of judges calling out the Trump Regime for overt noncompliance & defiance of orders, and why after criminal contempt, accountability hearings must happen.
youtu.be/ezoQkytgHpk?...
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GJ may not lead to dismissal w/ prejudice, but that's no longer the issue. Rather, it's the competence and credibility of the DOJ and Halligan. So this squirrelly document as I read it just pours oil on the fire. It tries to imply the GJ saw ind #2 but doesn't say so and it looks as if they didn't.
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
GJ may not lead to dismissal w/ prejudice, but that's no longer the issue. Rather, it's the competence and credibility of the DOJ and Halligan. So this squirrelly document as I read it just pours oil on the fire. It tries to imply the GJ saw ind #2 but doesn't say so and it looks as if they didn't.
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the record would have to be informing Court of actual facts -- and in this situation making 1000% sure you had it right. But the document i think -- it's very vague--doesn't do that. Instead, it just argues that the (unpresented) 2nd indictment is operative. The blunder on not re-presenting to a new
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
the record would have to be informing Court of actual facts -- and in this situation making 1000% sure you had it right. But the document i think -- it's very vague--doesn't do that. Instead, it just argues that the (unpresented) 2nd indictment is operative. The blunder on not re-presenting to a new
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More on this "notice correcting the record." the issue that prompted the gobsmacking revelation in court was that there didn't seem to be time to have done a separate GJ presentation w indictment #2 so when was it presented to GJ;and the stunning answer was "it wasn't." So now a notice of correcting
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
More on this "notice correcting the record." the issue that prompted the gobsmacking revelation in court was that there didn't seem to be time to have done a separate GJ presentation w indictment #2 so when was it presented to GJ;and the stunning answer was "it wasn't." So now a notice of correcting
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BREAKING: Following this week's shenanigans from Lindsey Halligan and crew, James Comey seeks dismissal of the indictment against him "because the grand jury never approved the operative indictment." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
BREAKING: Following this week's shenanigans from Lindsey Halligan and crew, James Comey seeks dismissal of the indictment against him "because the grand jury never approved the operative indictment." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I've told this story before, but I'm going to tell it again, because I think it's important with all the copaganda floating around On Here.
Last year I was representing a marginalized client charged with a crime in a rural client who had been denied the public defender.
Last year I was representing a marginalized client charged with a crime in a rural client who had been denied the public defender.
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I've told this story before, but I'm going to tell it again, because I think it's important with all the copaganda floating around On Here.
Last year I was representing a marginalized client charged with a crime in a rural client who had been denied the public defender.
Last year I was representing a marginalized client charged with a crime in a rural client who had been denied the public defender.
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calmatters.org/economy/2025...
Trump alters trucking regulations, targeting immigrant drivers | Up to 61,000 truck drivers in California could soon lose their licenses. Here’s why |
Trump alters trucking regulations, targeting immigrant drivers | Up to 61,000 truck drivers in California could soon lose their licenses. Here’s why |
Trump’s newest fight with California? Immigrants who drive trucks for a living
The Trump administration’s new trucking rules ban certain immigrant drivers. Up to 61,000 California truck drivers could lose their licenses.
calmatters.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
Trump alters trucking regulations, targeting immigrant drivers | Up to 61,000 truck drivers in California could soon lose their licenses. Here’s why |
Trump alters trucking regulations, targeting immigrant drivers | Up to 61,000 truck drivers in California could soon lose their licenses. Here’s why |
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If Paramount succeeds in buying WBD, since 2016, the following major news outlets will have turned Trump-adjacent:
-- CBS News;
-- CNN:
-- Twitter;
-- Washington Post;
-- LA Times.
-- CBS News;
-- CNN:
-- Twitter;
-- Washington Post;
-- LA Times.
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If Paramount succeeds in buying WBD, since 2016, the following major news outlets will have turned Trump-adjacent:
-- CBS News;
-- CNN:
-- Twitter;
-- Washington Post;
-- LA Times.
-- CBS News;
-- CNN:
-- Twitter;
-- Washington Post;
-- LA Times.
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Trump ultimately is very easy to play. Mamdani is popular, therefore Trump wants to be near him because then HE will be popular too.
Is Mamdani a socialist, a communist, a jihadist, yada yada yada?
Trump doesn't care. What he wants to know is, is he a star (and, very important as a follow-up: does he seem to like me and thus confirm that I, too, am a star)?
Trump doesn't care. What he wants to know is, is he a star (and, very important as a follow-up: does he seem to like me and thus confirm that I, too, am a star)?
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Trump ultimately is very easy to play. Mamdani is popular, therefore Trump wants to be near him because then HE will be popular too.