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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“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 · 30/09/2026

I suppose this is a gentle call-in for each of us in positions of privilege to think through the very small things we can do to make places much safer for everyone else. it’s usually as simple as saying hey, I have a lot of privilege, and I want to be clear that I will use it on your behalf

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is very lovely and I adore him and also I cannot shake the frustration of knowing he is likely the only straight white male prof at his giant school who will make any effort to make his students feel seen this week despite it costing him literally nothing and probably meaning quite a lot 2/

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

people remember money hitting their accounts. I’m not saying we should refrain from pointing out broken promises, I’m saying there’s an obvious reason why preemptively calling people stupid for wanting to believe $ is incoming is not the move.

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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

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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

all to say tactics and ideas MATTER, and disagreement is not only natural but deeply important. we debriefed more the next day and both agreed it kind of rocked. many caveats, esp when digging heels in as a particularly privileged person, but with all the caveats: consider digging ur heels in more

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

anyway, it made me think about how rarely i dig my heels in these days, especially when disagreeing with someone i generally trust and align with, bc everything seems so urgent (also bc i am an overwhelming person to argue with lol). tbh think it has been bad for my organizing and understanding. 4/

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

and she convinced me on that point, which i hadn't been considering, and acknowledged that the points i'd been arguing were kind of separate and made sense, and we both understood each other so much better and emerged with deeper trust and new lenses and more alignment. 3/

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

and then, toward the end of the argument, my friend and i both frustrated to the point of bright-red-cheeks from the inability to align or convince the other, she exhaled and said, "oh wait i've realized what i actually disagree with you about," and dug in on a different-but-interconnected issue 2/

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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

tbf it probably isn’t stealing if there’s consent—may I borrow and use religiously

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

fantastic analogy I’ve never considered, may I have consent to steal

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I for one am shocked to see the white challenger supported by all the “progressive” billionaires leaning into racist narratives about crime in Chicago as he attempts to unseat a deeply progressive Black man who has prioritized community investment

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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

this Q has never landed any way other than with a sigh of relief and genuine gratitude to get to talk about their memories—and it’s really cool to hear what’s shared. had a similar convo yday and it occurred to me that this is a simple suggestion that many could use. my friend’s dad was cool asf

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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 · 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/

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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.

Kat and Francesca point towards text that says:
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...

open.substack.com

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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