Jeff Cohen
@jeffycohen.bsky.social
Media critic, ex-journalism professor, founder of FAIR.org media watch group, works @RootsAction.org website: http://jeffcohen.org/
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The @democrats.org choosing not to release their 2024 autopsy is a move designed to protect the failed party leadership and the corporate donors who are responsible for the embarrassing defeat.
We saw this coming. So we made our own autopsy. Read it here: democraticautopsy.org
We saw this coming. So we made our own autopsy. Read it here: democraticautopsy.org
Autopsy: How Democrats Lost the White House – A RootsAction Report on the 2024 Presidential Election
Our report’s purpose is two-fold: to illuminate why the Democrats lost and to help propel the party toward a different approach and result in the future. Without a full and honest accounting of the…
democraticautopsy.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The @democrats.org choosing not to release their 2024 autopsy is a move designed to protect the failed party leadership and the corporate donors who are responsible for the embarrassing defeat.
We saw this coming. So we made our own autopsy. Read it here: democraticautopsy.org
We saw this coming. So we made our own autopsy. Read it here: democraticautopsy.org
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The U.S. public is tired of war, disgusted by the genocide, and sick of continued military adventurism. We've been flooding Congressional offices with emails. Now, we're circling the White House and Congress with mobile billboards.
December 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The U.S. public is tired of war, disgusted by the genocide, and sick of continued military adventurism. We've been flooding Congressional offices with emails. Now, we're circling the White House and Congress with mobile billboards.
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NEW article in @theguardian.com re: RootsActions' report entitled 'Autopsy: How Democrats Lost the White House'
"RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats, & Gaza stance did not help"
More to come! @rokhanna.bsky.social @ninaturner.bsky.social
Read here:
"RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats, & Gaza stance did not help"
More to come! @rokhanna.bsky.social @ninaturner.bsky.social
Read here:
Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives’ autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures
RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats – and Gaza stance did not help
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW article in @theguardian.com re: RootsActions' report entitled 'Autopsy: How Democrats Lost the White House'
"RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats, & Gaza stance did not help"
More to come! @rokhanna.bsky.social @ninaturner.bsky.social
Read here:
"RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats, & Gaza stance did not help"
More to come! @rokhanna.bsky.social @ninaturner.bsky.social
Read here:
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$31 billion to murder civilians on the other side of the globe, while working people at home struggle to pay bills.
Time to write your Senator and Reps and let them know you're sick of it. NO MORE WEAPONS TO ISRAEL.
rootsaction.org/no-more-weap...
Time to write your Senator and Reps and let them know you're sick of it. NO MORE WEAPONS TO ISRAEL.
rootsaction.org/no-more-weap...
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
$31 billion to murder civilians on the other side of the globe, while working people at home struggle to pay bills.
Time to write your Senator and Reps and let them know you're sick of it. NO MORE WEAPONS TO ISRAEL.
rootsaction.org/no-more-weap...
Time to write your Senator and Reps and let them know you're sick of it. NO MORE WEAPONS TO ISRAEL.
rootsaction.org/no-more-weap...
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@indiab.bsky.social from Buffalo is in NYC reminding voters that the polls are open until 9:00pm! Ignore what the polling says, just get out and vote!
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
@indiab.bsky.social from Buffalo is in NYC reminding voters that the polls are open until 9:00pm! Ignore what the polling says, just get out and vote!
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A year after Trump won, why won’t the @democrats.org change their playbook ❓
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The party leadership’s devotion to economic elites continues to evade scrutiny. Read the latest from @normansolomon.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The party leadership’s devotion to economic elites continues to evade scrutiny. Read the latest from @normansolomon.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
A year after Trump won, why won’t Democrats change their playbook? | Norman Solomon
The corporate-friendly party refuses to learn the lessons of the past decade. When will it implement a truly humane agenda?
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A year after Trump won, why won’t the @democrats.org change their playbook ❓
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The party leadership’s devotion to economic elites continues to evade scrutiny. Read the latest from @normansolomon.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The party leadership’s devotion to economic elites continues to evade scrutiny. Read the latest from @normansolomon.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
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Corporate Democrats and their pricy consultants want you to believe that Medicare For All is an unpopular plan that the Democratic Party should abandon.
But voters know this is a lie designed to protect the super wealthy.
progressivehub.net/new-report-f...
But voters know this is a lie designed to protect the super wealthy.
progressivehub.net/new-report-f...
New Report from Corporate Democrats Falsely Claims Medicare for All Is “Unpopular”
The report declares that Medicare for All is in the category of “unpopular economic policies.” The claim is false.
progressivehub.net
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Corporate Democrats and their pricy consultants want you to believe that Medicare For All is an unpopular plan that the Democratic Party should abandon.
But voters know this is a lie designed to protect the super wealthy.
progressivehub.net/new-report-f...
But voters know this is a lie designed to protect the super wealthy.
progressivehub.net/new-report-f...
Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
Jews Demand Action
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October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
Denounce the betrayal of academic freedom. Remove University of California's president
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Remove UC’s President from Office. Stop the Violation of Academic Freedom and Free Speech Principles.
We urge the University of California Board of Regents to remove the current UC president and replace him with a leader willing to defend academic freedom instead of betraying it.
rootsaction.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Denounce the betrayal of academic freedom. Remove University of California's president
rootsaction.org/remove-uc-pr...
rootsaction.org/remove-uc-pr...
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🚨 ❗ "It's not just Donald Trump. Huge corporate power is also muzzling comedians."
Read the latest article from RootsAction's Jeff Cohen, now published on Salon.
www.salon.com/2025/09/20/k...
Read the latest article from RootsAction's Jeff Cohen, now published on Salon.
www.salon.com/2025/09/20/k...
Kimmel's suspension shows media censorship is a structural problem
It's not just Donald Trump. Huge corporate power is also muzzling comedians
www.salon.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🚨 ❗ "It's not just Donald Trump. Huge corporate power is also muzzling comedians."
Read the latest article from RootsAction's Jeff Cohen, now published on Salon.
www.salon.com/2025/09/20/k...
Read the latest article from RootsAction's Jeff Cohen, now published on Salon.
www.salon.com/2025/09/20/k...
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⚠️ "...amoral conglomerates control our information and media system... [they] care a lot about profit-maximization and very little about free expression and the right to dissent..."
❓why?
❗"...because of old-fashioned, bipartisan corruption"
Jeff Cohen's latest on Progressive Hub: bit.ly/421PfDd
❓why?
❗"...because of old-fashioned, bipartisan corruption"
Jeff Cohen's latest on Progressive Hub: bit.ly/421PfDd
Censorship Is A Structural Problem: Huge Corporate Power, Not Just A President, Is Muzzling Comedians
Today, a handful of amoral conglomerates control our information and media system – conglomerates that care a lot about profit-maximization and very little about free expression and the right to…
progressivehub.net
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
⚠️ "...amoral conglomerates control our information and media system... [they] care a lot about profit-maximization and very little about free expression and the right to dissent..."
❓why?
❗"...because of old-fashioned, bipartisan corruption"
Jeff Cohen's latest on Progressive Hub: bit.ly/421PfDd
❓why?
❗"...because of old-fashioned, bipartisan corruption"
Jeff Cohen's latest on Progressive Hub: bit.ly/421PfDd
RFK Jr. Must Go: rootsaction.org/tell-congres...
Tell Congress: RFK Jr. Must Go
Numerous experts are warning that actions already taken by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services will result in a great many deaths. Tell Congress that he must go!
rootsaction.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
RFK Jr. Must Go: rootsaction.org/tell-congres...
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Link to statement here: rootsaction.org/news-a-views...
RootsAction statement on DNC’s defeat of resolution for arms embargo on Israel
The DNC’s rejection of the arms-embargo resolution amounts to rejection of human decency as well as rejection of the vast majority of Democrats across
rootsaction.org
August 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Link to statement here: rootsaction.org/news-a-views...
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Will the DNC End Their Complicity in Israeli Genocide or Double Down?
As apologists for Israel, Dem leaders in Congress & at the DNC are doing major damage to the party's prospects for next year’s midterm elections or defeating the Rep. ticket in '28
@normansolomon.bsky.social in @commondreams.org:
As apologists for Israel, Dem leaders in Congress & at the DNC are doing major damage to the party's prospects for next year’s midterm elections or defeating the Rep. ticket in '28
@normansolomon.bsky.social in @commondreams.org:
Will the DNC End Their Complicity in Israeli Genocide or Double Down? | Common Dreams
As apologists for Israel, Democratic leaders in Congress and at the DNC are doing major damage to the party's prospects for next year’s midterm elections or defeating the Republican ticket in 2028.
www.commondreams.org
August 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Will the DNC End Their Complicity in Israeli Genocide or Double Down?
As apologists for Israel, Dem leaders in Congress & at the DNC are doing major damage to the party's prospects for next year’s midterm elections or defeating the Rep. ticket in '28
@normansolomon.bsky.social in @commondreams.org:
As apologists for Israel, Dem leaders in Congress & at the DNC are doing major damage to the party's prospects for next year’s midterm elections or defeating the Rep. ticket in '28
@normansolomon.bsky.social in @commondreams.org:
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Head of College Dems, Progressive Groups Back DNC Resolution for Israel Arms Embargo, Palestinian State
"Young Americans have made their voices clear," #FreePalestine
"Young Americans have made their voices clear," #FreePalestine
Head of College Dems, Progressive Groups Back DNC Resolution for Israel Arms Embargo, Palestinian State | Common Dreams
"Young Americans have made their voices clear," said the national president of the College Democrats. "A modern Democratic Party must stand against global injustice."
www.commondreams.org
August 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Head of College Dems, Progressive Groups Back DNC Resolution for Israel Arms Embargo, Palestinian State
"Young Americans have made their voices clear," #FreePalestine
"Young Americans have made their voices clear," #FreePalestine
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India Walton has a warning message for progressive Democrats during Donald Trump’s second presidency: don’t water down your politics to win over the establishment.
Listen and learn from @indiab.bsky.social's situation in Buffalo. We must adapt!!
Listen and learn from @indiab.bsky.social's situation in Buffalo. We must adapt!!
Democrat warns US progressives against moving toward the center: ‘It lost me the election’
India Walton, who defeated incumbent mayor only to lose general election, says ‘moderating is what got us here’
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
India Walton has a warning message for progressive Democrats during Donald Trump’s second presidency: don’t water down your politics to win over the establishment.
Listen and learn from @indiab.bsky.social's situation in Buffalo. We must adapt!!
Listen and learn from @indiab.bsky.social's situation in Buffalo. We must adapt!!
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ICE, RAIDS, DETENTIONS, & DEPORTATION teach-in
From ICEBlock to neighborhood patrols, #KnowYourRights pushback on raids to boycotting airlines over deportation flights, there are dozens of ways people are resisting.
Thursday, August 21st @ 8 pm ET
Sign up here: teachinnetwork.org/ice-teach-in/
From ICEBlock to neighborhood patrols, #KnowYourRights pushback on raids to boycotting airlines over deportation flights, there are dozens of ways people are resisting.
Thursday, August 21st @ 8 pm ET
Sign up here: teachinnetwork.org/ice-teach-in/
August 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
ICE, RAIDS, DETENTIONS, & DEPORTATION teach-in
From ICEBlock to neighborhood patrols, #KnowYourRights pushback on raids to boycotting airlines over deportation flights, there are dozens of ways people are resisting.
Thursday, August 21st @ 8 pm ET
Sign up here: teachinnetwork.org/ice-teach-in/
From ICEBlock to neighborhood patrols, #KnowYourRights pushback on raids to boycotting airlines over deportation flights, there are dozens of ways people are resisting.
Thursday, August 21st @ 8 pm ET
Sign up here: teachinnetwork.org/ice-teach-in/
Voters demand their representatives reject AIPAC’s right-wing billionaire brand of politics
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STOP taking AIPAC Money
Voters demand their representatives reject AIPAC’s right-wing billionaire brand of politics
rootsaction.org
August 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Voters demand their representatives reject AIPAC’s right-wing billionaire brand of politics
rootsaction.org/stop-taking-...
rootsaction.org/stop-taking-...
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"Democrats should give peace a chance in Ukraine" @normansolomon.bsky.social says in new @thehill.com piece:
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
thehill.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Democrats should give peace a chance in Ukraine" @normansolomon.bsky.social says in new @thehill.com piece:
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
Take Action to Protest Colbert Cancellation and Big Media's Complicity with Trump rootsaction.org/protest-colb...
Protest Colbert Cancellation and Big Media's Complicity with Trump
In recent months, we’ve seen one media conglomerate after another offer what amounted to multimillion-dollar bribes to Trump by settling frivolous Trump lawsuits that these companies could not possibl...
rootsaction.org
July 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Take Action to Protest Colbert Cancellation and Big Media's Complicity with Trump rootsaction.org/protest-colb...
Colbert's Termination Is a Win for Trump—and the Corporate Assault on Dissent www.commondreams.org/opinion/colb...
Colbert's Termination Is a Win for Trump—and the Corporate Assault on Dissent | Common Dreams
The conglomerates that dominate our media and our society have one and only one value: profit-maximization.
www.commondreams.org
July 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Colbert's Termination Is a Win for Trump—and the Corporate Assault on Dissent www.commondreams.org/opinion/colb...
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80 years after the atomic age began with the Trinity bomb test, words can’t possibly be adequate to describe the extent of horrors that today’s nuclear arsenals are capable of.
But mainstream US media outlets & partisan politics are routinely oblivious to the threat of oblivion. @thenation.com
But mainstream US media outlets & partisan politics are routinely oblivious to the threat of oblivion. @thenation.com
80 Years After Trinity, the Dangers of Nuclear War Have Never Been Higher
Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion.
www.thenation.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
80 years after the atomic age began with the Trinity bomb test, words can’t possibly be adequate to describe the extent of horrors that today’s nuclear arsenals are capable of.
But mainstream US media outlets & partisan politics are routinely oblivious to the threat of oblivion. @thenation.com
But mainstream US media outlets & partisan politics are routinely oblivious to the threat of oblivion. @thenation.com
'Media and Corporate Power Structures See Genuine Democracy as a Terrible Danger': - fair.org/home/media-a...
‘Media and Corporate Power Structures See Genuine Democracy as a Terrible Danger’: CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats
"These billionaires believe that there should be only two choices, and they should both be acceptable to the billionaires."
fair.org
July 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
'Media and Corporate Power Structures See Genuine Democracy as a Terrible Danger': - fair.org/home/media-a...
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Since October 7, 2023, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both World Wars combined.
Join us for special virtual screening of GAZA: JOURNALISTS UNDER FIRE - a powerful new documentary exposing Israel’s war crimes
July 9 @ 5 pm PT: bit.ly/virtual9 @bravenewfilms.bsky.social
Join us for special virtual screening of GAZA: JOURNALISTS UNDER FIRE - a powerful new documentary exposing Israel’s war crimes
July 9 @ 5 pm PT: bit.ly/virtual9 @bravenewfilms.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Since October 7, 2023, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both World Wars combined.
Join us for special virtual screening of GAZA: JOURNALISTS UNDER FIRE - a powerful new documentary exposing Israel’s war crimes
July 9 @ 5 pm PT: bit.ly/virtual9 @bravenewfilms.bsky.social
Join us for special virtual screening of GAZA: JOURNALISTS UNDER FIRE - a powerful new documentary exposing Israel’s war crimes
July 9 @ 5 pm PT: bit.ly/virtual9 @bravenewfilms.bsky.social
Farewell to Bill Moyers, Who Showed What Public TV Could Be - fair.org/home/farewel...
Farewell to Bill Moyers, Who Showed What Public TV Could Be
The 1967 Carnegie Commission called for public TV to “provide a voice for groups...that may otherwise be unheard.” Bill Moyers exemplified that ideal.
fair.org
July 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Farewell to Bill Moyers, Who Showed What Public TV Could Be - fair.org/home/farewel...