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Akron PoliSci Prof; Akron Press Club Board. Focus: #POTUS (esp #WHStaff & #WHCOS) & #Congress. Posts my own; Reposts/likes ≠ endorsement. #CountryOverParty; politics by day, dynasty baseball & fantasy football enthusiast by night @Wallbangers82.bsky.social

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m a college professor. The college professor who wrote this op-ed is full of crap.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the wake of Trump banning numerous MSM outlets from the White House, the White House announced the creation of Trump TV. Americans are now going to see what state-run North Korea-like leader-glazing propaganda broadcasting looks like. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com
White House launches Trump TV following press bans
The White House on Monday launched Trump TV, a 24/7 stream on YouTube, days after President Trump banned reporters from CNN, Politico and MS NOW over their coverage of him and his administration. T…
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😂 😆 😝
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🇺🇸 Mark your calendars for Sept 17–18 & join us for the inaugural Ohio Presidential History & Politics Conference! Come explore Ohio’s presidential history at the William McKinley Presidential Library & Museum. Event webpage: www.uakron.edu/bliss/ohio-p... Free & open to all!
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And it’s dark. Not dark ominous. Dark. We can barely make out what’s happening in some scenes. I get it—it’s a silo. But pack some stronger bulbs people!
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Common. One note monotone. 😔.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wait…have we now reached the point in this timeline where people are arguing about whether a pejorative term used to describe a robot is racist???
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hey, anyone remember when @michaelcohen212.bsky.social became anti-Trump, testified in front of Congress, went to prison, etc.? Well, I guess he’s back with his buddy…
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“National security is not my thing.” Utterly embarrassing for a US Senate candidate to utter those words…
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.streetsforall.org/blog/mayor-b...
streetsforall.org
Mayor Bass has intervened to keep Forest Lawn dangerous — Streets For All
In 2023, LADOT launched its Forest Lawn Drive Safety and Mobility Project in response to “recent collisions” and stated that the project would reconfigure the road to “reduce speeding, prevent uns...
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.streetsforall.org/blog/mayor-b...
streetsforall.org
Mayor Bass has intervened to keep Forest Lawn dangerous — Streets For All
In 2023, LADOT launched its Forest Lawn Drive Safety and Mobility Project in response to “recent collisions” and stated that the project would reconfigure the road to “reduce speeding, prevent uns...
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Mayor Karen Bass helped squash safety improvements for this stretch of road. Political decisions have policy/public safety consequences… #KarenBass #LosAngeles www.streetsforall.org/blog/mayor-b...
streetsforall.org
Mayor Bass has intervened to keep Forest Lawn dangerous — Streets For All
In 2023, LADOT launched its Forest Lawn Drive Safety and Mobility Project in response to “recent collisions” and stated that the project would reconfigure the road to “reduce speeding, prevent uns...
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is a very dangerous stretch of road in LA. abc7.com/post/1-kille...
abc7.com
1 killed in fiery crash near Forest Lawn cemetery in Griffith Park area
One person was killed in a fiery crash near Forest Lawn Memorial-Park that also ignited a tree and damaged a traffic light, authorities said.
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Christine Langhoff @clanghoff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
www.wired.com/story/he-ble...
wired.com
He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut
A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Democratic voters still care about the longstanding kitchen-table issues—affordability, health care costs, etc.—but a Democratic candidate for POTUS who runs on “There will be consequences for Donald Trump’s and his underlings’ abuses of power” has their finger on the pulse of the Democratic Party.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is just a dumb take.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is a fantastic long-form investigation of Ohio’s march to eliminating free and fair elections…
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I have thought for awhile now that if Watergate occurred today it’d hardly make a dent in the news. How far we have fallen as a country…
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Always cool to be interviewed about my research area, the White House Chief of Staff, along with some of the top presidency scholars in the world… www.newsweek.com/the-unexpect...
newsweek.com
The unexpected constant in Trump’s White House
Susie Wiles has outlasted all of Trump's previous chief of staffs, becoming a symbol of a more stable second presidency behind the scenes.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Advertise your BlueSky account with a Simpsons GIF
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Homer Simpson Hides in Shrubs
ALT: Homer Simpson Hides in Shrubs
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/06/2026
A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...
fortune.com
Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune
Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.
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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Nervously watching what's unfolding in Belfast as racist bigots use a stabbing as an excuse to wreck havoc and mayhem, burning cars & buses, homes, and businesses of ethnic minority residents Meanwhile, Elon Musk is doing his best to escalate the violence. This is a good 🧵 of his efforts on Twitter
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
this is a crucial response to the "hur hur silly science experiments" anti-intellectual populism that allows for cuts like this to be politically possible. prospect.org/2026/06/09/w...
prospect.org
Why That Next Hamburger Is Going to Cost You - The American Prospect
The domestic return of the New World screwworm, a parasite that can devastate cattle herds, happened while the Trump administration was focused on dismantling government.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If FIFA was a real sports organization and not a corrupt money-making machine, it would move all World Cup events out of the United States under this authoritarian regime. But instead it will keep counting the $$$ even though they can’t sell out their events here…
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Nithya advances to the runoff!
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Nithya Raman is going to make the runoff and be the next mayor of Los Angeles.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
What the heck is this demented old man talking about???
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
100% true
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
“Can you imagine what oil prices would be today if Joe Biden were actually in office?" Answer: I can. Oil prices would be way lower. President Joe Biden would’ve never initiated a reckless war with Iran that resulted in the closure of the Strait of Hormuz & a sharp decline in the global oil supply.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/04/2026
Breaking news: The Trump administration’s move to drop the long-standing recommendation for newborn hepatitis B vaccination within 24 hours of birth will likely lead to additional infections and millions in added health care costs, new studies show.
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CDC delay of infant hepatitis B shot likely to raise infections, studies show
Federal vaccine advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted in December to recommend delaying the first shot until at least two months of age for infants born to mothers who test negative...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2026
Trump is posting fresh blasphemies this morning
image that Trump posted on Truth Social of Jesus hugging him with a deranged caption that concludes, "God might be playing his Trump card!"
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is a heck of a message for the midterms…
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
These are “leaders” who are not made for this moment in history…
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I hope when we wake up tomorrow (for those of us that can sleep through tonight) that this insane POTUS will not have unleashed nuclear weapons on Iran. If that were to happen, the world we have known up until that moment will have changed in a heartbeat and nothing will ever be the same.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026
Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
And VPOTUS is simply trying to run out the clock and not get on daddy’s bad side…
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”
NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman
President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.  NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post.

Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6.

If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps.

Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war.

Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war.

The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Any previous POTUS, regardless of party, would have been impeached for numerous actions and behaviors during this term and serious discussion of activating the 25th Amendment Section 4 would be taking place. But we have a majority party in Congress that is paralyzed by cowardice and sycophancy.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
On Easter Sunday, the POTUS has again, in a curse-laden post on Truth Social, threatened to commit blatant war crimes against Iran. He is desperate for an exit ramp as his poll numbers crater and energy prices skyrocket. Trump is also increasingly unhinged.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Why is Polymarket a thing and why is Congress not working to ban it??? thehill.com/policy/techn...
thehill.com
Democrat rips Polymarket for taking bets on fate of US pilot shot down over Iran
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Friday ripped the prediction platform Polymarket for accepting bets in a since-deleted page on the date a U.S. pilot shot down over Iran will be found. “They could be…
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Here’s a similar piece on the topic… open.substack.com/pub/roosevel...
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What If Oakland Owned the A’s?
If you’re anything like me, you won’t be able to watch this year’s Major League Baseball (MLB) Opening Day without thinking about the Oakland (Sacramento?) A’s. Today, the Oakland Coliseum, worn and d...
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Just re-upping this great piece on Opening Day 2026. Let’s hope there is an Opening Day 2027…
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
There has been an explosion at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. www.12newsnow.com/article/news...
12newsnow.com
Reports of explosion, smoke at Valero refinery in Port Arthur; shelter-in-place issued for west side residents
Residents near Port Arthur are urged to shelter after an explosion at the Valero refinery.
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🤢🤢🤮
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Every day brings another embarrassment
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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Good for Soros. Media Matters is a critical and much needed entity.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family
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