Gina Cooper
@ginacooper.bsky.social
yoga, tech, politics, puppy, space, farmers market obsession
still writing that book
still writing that book
Oh look! Professors at the kinds of elite institutions that are responsible for today’s leadership are bailing! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Oh look! Professors at the kinds of elite institutions that are responsible for today’s leadership are bailing! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
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"We’re running out of bulwarks, and American Jews shouldn’t feel good about that just because the white nationalist arrow hasn’t yet spun in their direction." Thanks for reading.
Opinion | If the ADL thinks Trump’s thuggery is protecting Jews, it’s wrong
The Anti-Defamation League should loudly oppose the unlawful roundup of pro-Palestinian activists.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"We’re running out of bulwarks, and American Jews shouldn’t feel good about that just because the white nationalist arrow hasn’t yet spun in their direction." Thanks for reading.
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They spent years calling teachers groomers and libraries stocking porn and they were texting these go voters, including kids who will be 18 in november but 17 now.
Texts Wisconsin voters received from Trump-aligned voter turnout group Look Ahead America in the final lead up to today’s election.
The group says it sent 250,000 of these texts yesterday.
The group says it sent 250,000 of these texts yesterday.
April 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
They spent years calling teachers groomers and libraries stocking porn and they were texting these go voters, including kids who will be 18 in november but 17 now.
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While you can buy a president, you apparently cannot buy a judge in Wisconsin www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...
Trump and Musk's backing wasn't enough to flip Wisconsin Supreme Court
National Democrats sent in millions for the liberal's campaign while Trump endorsed — and Musk financed — the conservative's. Abortion, redistricting and Tesla could come before the court.
www.npr.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
While you can buy a president, you apparently cannot buy a judge in Wisconsin www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...
What makes taking over Greenland so much easier than retrieving one person he “mistakenly” sent to a prison he has an agreement with?
April 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
What makes taking over Greenland so much easier than retrieving one person he “mistakenly” sent to a prison he has an agreement with?
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Most libersls have no clue as to what we are really up against.
March 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Most libersls have no clue as to what we are really up against.
Why we need local news
MUST WATCH: 'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the influential hate group that's expanding in Tennessee www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the influential hate group that's expanding in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Why we need local news
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The FDA canceled a planned March 13 committee meeting to update next winter's flu shot.
FDA cancels meeting to pick flu vaccine strains for winter without explanation
It will make recommendations in time for updated vaccines to be available for the 2025-2026 influenza season.
www.axios.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The FDA canceled a planned March 13 committee meeting to update next winter's flu shot.
We paid for our fertility treatments, incl two failed IVFs, resulting in an ectopic pregnancy that would have killed me in Trump’s America, and was the final blow in having any hope. I struggle with compassion here, but we need these voters to speak out www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this
Ryleigh Cooper is normally more focused on motherhood than politics. Then came DOGE.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We paid for our fertility treatments, incl two failed IVFs, resulting in an ectopic pregnancy that would have killed me in Trump’s America, and was the final blow in having any hope. I struggle with compassion here, but we need these voters to speak out www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Who wants spies who look like they could fit into other societies? What's the point of that?
The CIA has moved to dismiss an unspecified number of officers who were working on recruiting and diversity issues, according to former officials, in what would be one of the largest mass firings in the agency’s history.
The C.I.A. Is Planning Its Largest Mass Firing in Nearly 50 Years
The possible purge of officers working on recruiting and diversity comes as the agency moves to comply with the spirit of an executive order banning efforts to diversify the federal work force.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Who wants spies who look like they could fit into other societies? What's the point of that?
Most people don’t care if civil servants get laid off. Fair or not, it highlights how they have enjoyed protections the rest of us have never had. Most of us have been laid off at some point in our careers and survived. It’s a fact of life. Dems should focus on loss of services, a more universal TP
February 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Most people don’t care if civil servants get laid off. Fair or not, it highlights how they have enjoyed protections the rest of us have never had. Most of us have been laid off at some point in our careers and survived. It’s a fact of life. Dems should focus on loss of services, a more universal TP
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U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...
Georgia congressman confronted by angry crowd over support for Trump’s agenda
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was met with boos and jeers at a town hall in a north Atlanta suburb Thursday.
ajc.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...
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Exactly right
Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
February 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Exactly right
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Trump & Musk have now laid off:
-Workers who respond to bird flu
-Workers who keep our nuclear arsenal safe
-FAA workers, as we see plane crashes
-Forest Service & Park Service workers, as we see wildfires
-IRS workers at height of tax filing
They really do want us to be sicker & less safe.
-Workers who respond to bird flu
-Workers who keep our nuclear arsenal safe
-FAA workers, as we see plane crashes
-Forest Service & Park Service workers, as we see wildfires
-IRS workers at height of tax filing
They really do want us to be sicker & less safe.
February 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Trump & Musk have now laid off:
-Workers who respond to bird flu
-Workers who keep our nuclear arsenal safe
-FAA workers, as we see plane crashes
-Forest Service & Park Service workers, as we see wildfires
-IRS workers at height of tax filing
They really do want us to be sicker & less safe.
-Workers who respond to bird flu
-Workers who keep our nuclear arsenal safe
-FAA workers, as we see plane crashes
-Forest Service & Park Service workers, as we see wildfires
-IRS workers at height of tax filing
They really do want us to be sicker & less safe.
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Wherein the world’s richest man — elected by no one — tanks a national security provision restricting technology investment in China so that he can get richer.
Welcome to the kleptocracy.
Welcome to the kleptocracy.
December 22, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Wherein the world’s richest man — elected by no one — tanks a national security provision restricting technology investment in China so that he can get richer.
Welcome to the kleptocracy.
Welcome to the kleptocracy.
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Let’s fucking gooooo!
LEAD CHANGE: Democrat Adam Gray is now ahead of GOP Rep. John Duarte in #CA13.
By 105 votes.
This is after a big update from Merced County.
By 105 votes.
This is after a big update from Merced County.
November 27, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Let’s fucking gooooo!
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Elon Musk, soon to be in charge of cutting federal spending, said that the U.S. should pull the plug on the Lockheed-Martin’s F-35, made in Fort Worth. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
November 27, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Elon Musk, soon to be in charge of cutting federal spending, said that the U.S. should pull the plug on the Lockheed-Martin’s F-35, made in Fort Worth. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
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French newspapers want social media platform X to pay for news reuse
French newspapers want social media platform X to pay for news reuse
It’s rare when French newspapers team up and agree on something. But major publications, such as Le Monde, Le Figaro and Le Parisien have collectively decided to take legal action against X over neighboring rights, according to a statement sent to Reuters…
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November 12, 2024 at 3:18 PM
French newspapers want social media platform X to pay for news reuse
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Meta sanctionné d’une amende 798 millions d’euros par la Commission européenne pour avoir enfreint les règles de la concurrence
Meta sanctionné d’une amende 798 millions d’euros par la Commission européenne pour avoir enfreint les règles de la concurrence
La Commission affirme que Facebook a abusé de sa position dominante. Meta a annoncé son intention de faire appel.
www.lemonde.fr
November 14, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Meta sanctionné d’une amende 798 millions d’euros par la Commission européenne pour avoir enfreint les règles de la concurrence
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La publication satirique « The Onion » rachète « InfoWars », le site conspirationniste d’Alex Jones
La publication satirique « The Onion » rachète « InfoWars », le site conspirationniste d’Alex Jones
Le site complotiste, référence de l’extrême droite américaine, a été racheté aux enchères après sa faillite. L’acquisition s’est faite avec l’aide financière des familles des victimes du massacre de Sandy Hook, auxquelles Alex Jones doit verser près d’1,5…
www.lemonde.fr
November 14, 2024 at 5:17 PM
La publication satirique « The Onion » rachète « InfoWars », le site conspirationniste d’Alex Jones
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Good morning.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
November 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Good morning.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
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How can you tell Trump’s plan to improve “government efficiency” is off to a promising start? Because his first step was appointing two people to do the same job.
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Opinion | Trump’s great government purge begins
The president-elect’s plan to make the government more “efficient” is going just swell.
wapo.st
November 14, 2024 at 4:10 PM
How can you tell Trump’s plan to improve “government efficiency” is off to a promising start? Because his first step was appointing two people to do the same job.
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