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Danny Cooper

@dannycooper.bsky.social
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Mets, Knicks, and democracy // lawyer & First Amendment enthusiast Opinions are my own and not my employer’s

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Several protesters just interrupted the pro-data center party, flipped everyone off while yelling “thank you for using all of our water!”
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
A pocket rescission is an illegal line item veto. It is the president saying that he and he alone will convert a bipartisan spending bill (that has been signed into law) into a partisan spending bill. He is canceling the lines of spending he doesn't like.
politico.com
Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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Ed (Tycho) Unatto @xeromonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
YEAH BECAUSE HE WAS RUNNING A CHILD PORN WEBSITE. THIS WASNT A SECRET HIS LLC UNDER HIS NAME RAN A WEBSITE CALLED THAT.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...
cmarmitage.substack.com
Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I expect for some folks it will feel strange that this week is the 10th anniversary of the NMAAHC because it has become so central to us, but it’s important to remember things we need can be built, they can be built now, and that building them will garner backlash but their impact will be profound.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pretty wild that the Texas Cattle Ranchers association is saying that deportations are affecting beef prices in the US because of labor shortages but Republican politicians and candidates never seem to get asked about that.
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's one guy in this video who facilitated monthly $15 million payments to Hamas in explicit, on tape, hopes of building Gaza into a jihadist rival of the Palestinian Authority and his name rhymes with Denjamin Petanyahu.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
nytimes.com
F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...
zeteo.com
Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC
The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Full statement now out by EPD "Officers are conducting a video canvass, preserving available body-worn-camera and in-car video, and collecting photographs and video from witnesses and community members." content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ILE...
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"He said the individual refused to provide identification, was detained for fingerprinting, and resisted detention. Agents later determined he was not the person they were seeking and learned that he was a U.S. citizen. He was released."
evanstonnow.com
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
404media.co
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Article is useful in that it shows that a) Trump is directly involved in these decisions, b) sees them in purely personalist terms - he wants to politicize research grants so he can destroy Harvard for daring to defy him
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
northwestern really hit colorado with a shot ———> chaser combo
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Very telling that a year into the maritime murders, the Trump admin has not: --released the OLC permission slip for the killing spree --allowed Hill staff counsel (as opposed to members) to see the memo --defended strikes in court (admin handed off survivors rather than detain or prosecute them)
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Trump administration's lawless killing spree at sea continues with a lethal strike on four more supposed "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean. Very real killing in a make-believe war. Outside of war the general term for premeditated killing is murder.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 19/09/2026
That's not a check & balance. That is working together to avoid accountability. Congress must return to session to vote on Hegseth's impeachment. 2/2
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The worst human being to ever occupy the office. Just reprehensible scum.
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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mickey Mouse really just corporate Snoopy huh
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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Remember when Trump actually tried to kill Biden by infecting him with COVID at the debate in 2020?
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Chad C @chadc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is particularly crazy when you see how many NFL venues are scheduled to host Kanye West, a guy who literally released a song about Hitler. Including two of the stadiums who threatened Sheeran! But he didn’t say anything good about Palestinians so it’s fine.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/09/2026
Note on new YouGov poll in Iowa: Dem gov cand Rob Sand, who has spoken out against unlawful deportations, is doing much better against his opponent (+10) than Josh Turek (+4), who has taken the centrist/Third Way/Searchlight talking points on immigration d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/io...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If Democrats get to 50 or 51, he's going to flip. Which is why if they get to 52, they should strip him of his committee assignments and exile him from the party. No tolerance for this shit. Democracy is on the line.
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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GW Law announcing the judges for its annual constitutional moot court competition — Kavanaugh and Judge Hermandorfer of the 6th Circuit. The Fed Soc folks must be going nuts.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“It has long been established that mail-in ballots are prone to fraud,” Judge Andrew Oldham wrote, according to Democracy Docket. “That is why voting by mail jeopardizes election integrity and democracy itself.” There is no evidence that mail-in ballots are “prone to fraud.”
motherjones.com
A Trump judge called mail-in ballots a threat to democracy
The new ruling revived cruel aspects of Texas' voter suppression law.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gender-affirming care saves lives, respects the rights of patients, and reflects that healthcare is supposed to be between providers and patients, not between providers and the Trump Administration. (1/3)
gothamist.com
Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors
Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration.
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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 27/08/2026
Thank you to our lawyers at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for representing me and AP to fight to bring these records to light #foia www.rcfp.org/rfk-samoa-gu...
rcfp.org
RFK Jr. lied to Congress about 2019 trip to Samoa, according to documents obtained by The Guardian, AP
The records were released in response to a lawsuit Reporters Committee attorneys filed on behalf of the AP.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
in Springfield Ohio right now. I’m told by multiple activists and religious leaders here that ICE took a second Haitian pastor
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dems too busy being Islamaphobic about a liftbro on Twitch in the name of "fighting antisemitism" to notice that ICE has been going hog wild on the down low since Homan took over for Bovino and told the Gestapo to be a bit more subtle
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The vengeance track in the democratic primary is gonna be wide and deep.
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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is so damn counterproductive
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Federal immigration authorities took the father of a U.S. Navy sailor into custody just as his son was set to return from deployment on the USS Lincoln. Joshua Aviles says his father has a driver's license, social security card, and was in the process of getting a green card when he was arrested.
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He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him
The father of a man serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln has been arrested by immigration authorities.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 24/08/2026
Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.
alternet.org
Republicans furious as Trump’s budget director goes 'rogue'
The director of the Office of Management and Budget is infuriating Republican lawmakers by "going rogue" on what appropriations were approved by the House and Senate.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Loser behavior from a guy who’s clinging like a shriveled old barnacle to a sport he doesn’t actually care about in a desperate bid for relevance. Do not cede one inch to him or anyone who acts this way.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
All ICE funding should be transferred to MRNA research and development . www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
wsj.com
Novel Cancer Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning in First for mRNA
Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/08/2026
there's going to be a wide open "look at these gross fucking assholes" lane in the 2028 primary and the current leader is jon ossoff
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The end of TPS was only finalized a few days ago and it is only now starting to break as they are losing their jobs and being detained and feeling the heft of this wholly fucking evitable human tragedy that some of the worst people on the planet have brought upon them
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I know everything feels terrible and doomy but I've been working on surveillance issues for most of my adult life and I have never seen so much energy, momentum, and concrete VICTORIES happening as what we are seeing right now on Flock cameras and facial recognition in venues. Keep. Going.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I remember sitting in a tent functioning as a courthouse in Brownsville TX about a week before COVID, watching non-English speaking toddlers go through this charade. That our government could call this “justice” sickens me and was a big reason I became a lawyer.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
the max miller blue bunny horror has me thinking of liam conejo ramos and his little hat and the endless cruelty republicans will inflict on children to achieve their political goals.
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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
God forbid they put this same energy into actually opposing fascism!
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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We’re gonna have to impeach half the Third Circuit at this rate
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If AIPAC's commitment to arming a rogue state isn't enough for you, I cannot emphasize enough that this organization is just a slush fund for GOP donors to influence Dem races. Their donor base is mostly conservatives who want Republicans to win.
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