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Rachel Cohen

@cohen489.bsky.social
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comms for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social but this is my personal account. Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7h
“They say he who laughs last, laughs best. And Ben Collins is the best.” Couldn’t agree more. time.com/collection/t...
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Ben Collins Is on the 2026 TIME100 Next
Find out why Ben Collins is on this year’s list
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 16h
my bf is a prof at an R1 in a red state and asked to talk through how to bring up the Cornell 7 in class this week and make clear he is someone who is in his students’ corner and we ended up brainstorming how to make clear his allyship includes not just women but any student unsafe in the USA 1/
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
for Chicagoans who think the drumbeat of negative coverage of the Johnson admin is fair & accurate, here’s the full Ed board of Crains claiming he is antisemitic bc 2 months ago I did not delete bot comments on a viral video about Michael Sacks donations: www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/edit...
screenshot of article headlined “editorial: Brandon Johnson is playing with rhetorical fire” with picture of me and picture of Mayor Johnson
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
me at the restaurant telling everyone it’s not JUST my best friend’s bachelorette we also all adore her future husband
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
hilarious to me when politicians are accused of pandering to the base. we’ve strayed so far from god’s light that it’s now a diss to point out that government officials are doing things that the people who elected them want them to do
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
good morning, you have no idea how much it's been killing me not to be able to tell you this but we made it and wow I can't wait to dive in: blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/11/l...
blockclubchicago.org
Lawyer Who Went Viral Opposing Midway Blitz Named Mayor Johnson’s Communications Director
Rachel Cohen first made headlines for quitting her job at a top Chicago law firm over Trump's policies. Now she's being tapped to lead messaging for Mayor Brandon Johnson.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i think enough people remember stimulus checks and associate them with Trump that coming online to preemptively call people idiots for believing he might cut a check is perhaps not the move
Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech”
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Boycott is still on. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
having such a good* month it's making me feel legitimately bad for all of my opps. thoughts and prayers *personal level only, obviously
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the DNC has apparently told him that so long as this is his team name it is ok to have Deshaun Watson as QB?
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
logging on to fantasy draft to see my friend’s team name is “I denounce hasan piker”
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/09/2026
Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and
The results chart from Massachusetts showing Markey winning nearly every city by over 40 points
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the peace that comes from only finding out about AI chatbot outages from Bluesky because you literally never interact with them…I wish it for everyone
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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I earnestly believe that one of our strongest tools for combatting the spread of fascism is good local government that is accountable to, and delivery results for, local communities in ways that they can recognize as making their lives better.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
last weekend i got into an actual argument about organizing tactics - like, RAISED VOICES argument - with a friend/fellow organizer who i respect deeply. multiple times, i or someone else unsuccessfully tried to deflate the tension/agree to disagree/move on. went for like 20-30 minutes. 1/
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
shameful to watch people call themselves progressive while fearmongering during historically low crime rates to try to give more money to a police department that goes tens of millions of dollars over budget every year. this is not a subtweet it’s about Alexi www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...
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Mayoral candidates decry Chicago violence ‘crisis,’ even as summer murders hit 61-year low
Chicago had 122 murders in June, July and August, the lowest summer total since 1965, according to city and police data. But in their mayoral quests, candidates keep stoking public anxiety about viole...
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I do not say this lightly—I think Gillian is probably the most important person you could follow on this app and also just in general. doing more than anyone I can think of to keep focus on the admin sending people to gulags
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
an echo dot? none for me, thanks, I’ll just reach out to a suburban police department to see if they can install a flock camera directly in my home
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
got to go to the inaugural daisy chain fields yesterday and when I tell you it was both incredible and a powerful reminder that many rich and powerful people are acting like they can’t do shit and FULL OF IT…Olivia Rodrigo is the moment, we are so lucky to have her I stg
pic of me and my dear friend Jessica in front of the daisy chain fields stage
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/08/2026
Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.
An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i started doing this a few years ago, but when someone shares with me that they have lost a loved one (recently or ages ago or anything in between), I like to ask if there’s a story or something about the person they don’t get to share often bc people don’t know how to respond to mentions of death.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: The US Air Force has done dozens of secret ICE flights to Honduras since early June, in the largest and most regular use of their aircraft in Trump's second term. Read it here now, or read it in NYT six months from now. gillianbrockell.com/the-air-forc...
gillianbrockell.com
The Air Force has been doing secret ICE flights to Honduras for months
At least some of the flights were third-country removals, human rights group says.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My only comment about Woke 1 vs Woke 2 is that neither of these things is real &, for the thousandth time, we don’t have to frame <every topic in American politics> on the terms of the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits. Other, more serious choices are readily available:
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
the firing of top brass was to ensure a completely loyal military in case Trump decides he doesn’t want to leave office, and everything else is a side effect. we understand this, right? “side effect” here not to minimize, but I just want to check that we’re all aware?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026
BREAKING: ICE charter Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a massive contract to operate DHS's "deportation fleet." gillianbrockell.com/breaking-eas...
gillianbrockell.com
BREAKING: Eastern Airlines gets contract to fly DHS 'deportation fleet'
Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of ICE charter airline Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a contract to operate a fleet of Boeing 737 jets acquired by the Department of Homeland Security to conduct ...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026
Nick is the hero who recorded thousands of his immigrant neighbors in Minnesota being loaded onto ICE flights, pushing airport officials to do more. And he FOIA'd the video of Liam Ramos and his dad being smuggled to a Texas family jail on a Delta flight. If I lived in Burnsville, he'd have my vote.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Happening now in Chicago: Local officials and attorneys, alongside Border Patrol shooting victim Marimar Martinez, are holding a presser outside CPD's District 19 police station to announce the filing of police reports over alleged crimes by federal immigration agents.
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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 07/08/2026
We've got a fantastic show Saturday on @heartlandsignal.bsky.social talking Michigan, Wisconsin, data centers and much more with: + @ahmedbaba.bsky.social + @cohen489.bsky.social + @timothypmurphy.bsky.social + @patkreitlow.bsky.social 🤳Stream 1-4 CT heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820/
it's the democracy, stupid logo

Airs 1-4pm every Saturday on WCPT820AM in Chicago and heartland signal-dot.com
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Last min road trip? :) We can keep this momentum going across the Midwest, but we need all the help we can get -- which is why we’re adding one more canvass trip to Milwaukee for Francesca Hong this Saturday, 8/8!! If you've been waiting for the right time to make an impact, this is it.
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LAST WEEKEND TO GET OUT THE VOTE

KNOCK DOORS FOR FRANCESCA HONG
AUGUST 8TH ACROSS SOUTH MILWAUKEE 

with a link KAPOW.WORKS/HONG
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
today, like all days, is an excellent one to listen to the Diabolical Lies episode on Scott open.substack.com/pub/diabolic...
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Scott Galloway vs. Heated Rivalry: Who Will Save the Men?
Now fellas, let's not get hysterical
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🏆 MAINSPLAINING CHAMP 😄 In a bold effort to explain flight tracking to @gillianbrockell.com this man cites a Rolling Stone article written by… Gillian Brockell 😬
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/08/2026
All-time legend. Thank you, @jjindc.bsky.social, for spotting, as I’d already blocked the guy.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
get ready everyone, it’s fran o’clock
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/08/2026
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
starting to think progressive policies might be popular outside of NYC??? difficult to say
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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
theonion.com/city-finally...
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City Finally Safe After Every Single Resident Hired As Police
CHICAGO—In a rousing success story that has eliminated all criminal activity from the streets of the metropolis, Chicago was finally declared safe Thursday after every single resident was hired as a p...
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
my parents did not believe in lying to their children so I was raised knowing full well that Santa Claus was fake so I may be trying to make up for the sense of wonder in adulthood
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
my most childish political opinion is that I still think Obama reads all the books and listens to the songs. I know everyone sells out but he strikes me as a man who would never ever let a staffer frame his Taste to the public and also I suppose I just want to believe it
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AQ | Anemoiapolis Dev @andrewquist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Let's try this cropped version
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
someone put my roommate on the Haley Stevens email list (hilarious prank tbh) (but not to do to me) and just sent our group text a screenshot of the most recent email, which is literally written entirely from the point of view of Haley’s dog
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Alexi Giannoulias says: one thousand more Chicago cops, and bring back ShotSpotter www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...
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From the chicago community on Reddit: Key points from Alexi Giannoulias' interview on NBC Chicago
Explore this post and more from the chicago community
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“I played with Obama many times” is giving “we have Haley Stevens at home” youtu.be/RP89nVzfjho?...
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Chicago’s Demand Better Movement
YouTube video by Alexi Giannoulias
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Uncommitted was a movement IN THE PRIMARY yall are so deeply annoying
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It is in fact racist to call an Arab with views you disagree with an antisemite. I know this will be a surprise to many but unless that person is actually saying something antisemitic, the Arab is not genetically predisposed to antisemitism
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
there is fully a repost about a sitting congresswoman saying she would not commit to vote for AES four posts down on my profile
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
little infuriates me quite like white women leaning into racist narratives to avoid accountability and wow has Haley Stevens made sure I stay in a constant state of bubbling rage this summer. the fact she continues to think this will work tells me we need to go a lot harder in calling this shit out!
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