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Denton A. Cohen

@dent-on.bsky.social
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Accidental Angeleno, Obligatory Ohioan. Defender of bees, cats, and libraries. Organizer, communicator, public servant. AU and USC alum. Views my own but also yours now.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is monstrous. Lethal injections are neither painless nor humane; the paralytics just make it look that way. The government should not be allowed to execute people in this way, if at all. The Supreme Court Justices who ignored new evidence to push through this order are complicit in torture.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 01/10/2026
TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on what we’ve seen in the men of Cornell University. “I want to diagnose it. I’m the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.” flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...
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Gentlemen and Scholars of the Ivy League
I heard the two men talking, this morning, before I saw them. Then I saw them, and then they saw me, walking up the steep ramp toward them to the pedestrian bridge over the expressway. Their talking s...
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@ddeaen

iphones ruined an entire generation's tech literacy because i regularly see 14+ year olds asking how to make a desktop shortcut or duplicate a File

@inkballpro

i was literally figuring out virtual machines and basic linux at like 6 lol

@ddeaen

this is also not normal im sorry
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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When Ireland attacker Jack Moylan scored, he removed his black armband honoring Gaza. He then kissed the Ireland badge on his shirt, directing the gesture at supporters of Israel, some of whom had heckled Ireland during warm-ups. Ireland then walloped Israel 3–0. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Irish Goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu’s Refusal to Play Against Israel Puts Him on the Right Side of History
Bazunu’s decision raises the perennial question: Why is a country that is currently committing a genocide allowed to compete in the first place?
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Prism @prismreports.org · 26/09/2026
Attorney Noura Erakat was arrested after refusing to leave a Palm Beach County meeting where attendees were barred from speaking about Israel bonds, @alexmar.bsky.social reports. “The whole scenario was absurd & a glimpse into how protecting Israel requires the sabotage of democratic norms.”
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As Florida residents challenge Israel bonds, public meetings grow contentious
Human rights attorney Noura Erakat was arrested after refusing to leave a Palm Beach County meeting where community members were barred from speaking about Israel bonds
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals
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Weird Alger Hiss 🎉 𓅳 @itsjoelokay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
uh, let me be clear, *most unclear and wishy-washy drivel conceivable*
C-SPAN
@cspan

Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On Saturday @jpinckney.bsky.social saw a man in his Austin neighborhood being kidnapped by ICE. Every day since then he's passed by the car, still sitting there, a horrifying lonely symbol of what is being done. www.welcometohellworld.com/his-car-is-s...
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His car is still sitting there
An ICE kidnapping in Austin
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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.
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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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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026
eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it
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Denton A. Cohen @dent-on.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh u know the polling is crazy bad
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Kelsey @yeskelsey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Reading this from Los Angeles
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B.J. Bethel @bjbethel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Insane story from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social . Unbelievable. MJ: Trump admin imprisoning Somali immigrants at Gitmo. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now that everyone has turned on Ed Sheeran I finally feel comfortable saying this: you shouldn’t be allowed to get a bunch of tattoos if you’re a musician who makes wuss music
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Absolutely amazing that Trump is viewed as so untrustworthy that not one in five people will support the promise of free money
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026
Every time one of these stories comes out, it's shown that the parents were actually abusive. There is an asymmetry where the parents are given a platform by Christian nationalist orgs and Fox News while the state cannot discuss any details due to privacy. So the narrative is set by the parents.
Screenshot of a Fox News post on X reporting on a Massachusetts family whose daughter was placed in state custody over gender transition disputes, with an embedded Fox News broadcast segment titled "Gender Treatment Lawsuit."
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Denton A. Cohen @dent-on.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
the Being Normal convention
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LA soon inshallah
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:
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Ed Sheeran’s fans came for a concert, not performative, biased and hateful anti-Israel “activism” from his opener, Macklemore.

Imagine being a Jewish or Israeli fan who came with family or friends to enjoy the show, only to be confronted with this hostility from the stage. Or feeling so unwelcome by the opening act that you leave early.

This isn’t new for Macklemore. He has a record of demonizing Israel and Israelis, falsely accusing Israel of genocide and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior.

This is completely unacceptable.

(with embedded video of Macklemore's remarks on Palestine at the Ed Sheeran MetLife concert)

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
found this in the top posts and it succeeds in being very funny while also inducing a borderline homicidal rage
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it's.....so beautiful.....
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 03/09/2026
Accountability for the wealthiest people on Earth is hard to come by. Thank you for believing in the power of independent journalism to accomplish it. (And, yes, more to come.) www.pablo.show/p/it-happened
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It Happened.
EPISODE 423: The biggest punishment in NBA history.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not when he’s got his prescription pad out
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 01/09/2026
25 years ago today, the late Barbara Ehrenreich released her masterwork Nickel and Dimed, where she went undercover to report on the daily realities working people in America face trying to get by on minimum-wage.
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There’s no such thing as ‘unskilled work’: Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Nickel and Dimed’ 25 years later
25 years ago, Barbara Ehrenreich saw the inhumane brutality of capitalism and the invisible realities of working-class life that so many Americans ignored then but can’t ignore now.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#resist
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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Dolly Parton sends signed, bejeweled guitar to Austin drag performer Brigitte Bandit
The year ended on a high note for one local performer after unwrapping a gift sent from one queen to another.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21/08/2026
incorrect. Natalie Harp, if you are reading this, you ARE married to Trump by the orders of The Lord. NO ONE can stand between you and the president. Do WHATEVER IT TAKES to keep him safe with you. NO COST is too great to protect his soul...
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Babad🎃🎃kakis @ryanwu2438.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Karen Bass reelection update: the mayor has come out as anti-taco stand. In Los Angeles.
“I do not believe that you should have a food vendor in front of a restaurant, period,” Bass shot back, adding that she wanted them off the streets completely and in brick-and-mortar locations. Their presence near restaurants “discourages people from going in, just like you shouldn’t have encampments in front of restaurants or in front of schools. You just should not do that.”
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Denton A. Cohen @dent-on.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
this is so awesome. the sepulveda basin isn’t even in cd4 lol
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jon Ossoff tells Lawrence O’Donnell: “It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults — public officials, paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust… No one cares about their feelings.”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
to recap: so Hong got 40% in Wisconsin which shows voters decisively rejected democratic socialism, but Fishback 10% in Florida, so the far-right is winning.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/08/2026
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for nightly killings in Gaza of dozens of people who he says are ‘not worthy of life’. It’s the latest in a series of attempts at making life unbearably harsh for Palestinians.
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
IF WATER WORKED YOU WOULDN’T NEED TO KEEP DRINKING IT
David Wolfe & @DavidWolfe
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IF MEDICINE WORKED YOU WOULDN'T NEED TO REFILL YOUR PRESCRIPTION
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
if this ends up going to Crowley it's a sign that TV ads *really* need to remain part of the prog playbook
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is how you know we need a wealth tax
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump just gave a massive contract to Our Rescue to represent unaccompanied immigrant children. That's the group that does international anti-sex-trafficking stings, whose founder was dramatized in Sound of Freedom and who left because he himself was accused of sex trafficking his own employees.
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Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids - The American Prospect
The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.
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Denton A. Cohen @dent-on.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
In related news, Tom has been appointed Chair of the Jerry Protection subcommittee.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Eight months ago, This American Life sent reporters from Chicago to cover the protests and counter-protests outside the ICE facility in Portland. They chose Karlyn Borsynko to be their local guide to the world of Antifa. What they failed to mention is that KB self-identifies as a fascist.
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The Making Of
How one block in Portland, Oregon became a movie-set war zone that lots of people think is a real war zone.Karlyn Borysenko, anti-comm... • X.com @DrKarlynB
I'm not actually fucking around when I say I'm a fascist.
Most people are not willing to do what is required to defeat the left.
Karlyn Borysenko, anti-communist cu... • .2h Fascist. By which I mean I would put communists in a concentration camp until I can deport them to a third world country, and ban the publication of their ideas.
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Denton A. Cohen @dent-on.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Behold, Galen The Sun God
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Well this is terrifying. Good for him for fighting back…again.
Since then, Berulis has laid low. He filed a police report, included in the suit and viewed by WIRED, and had the car seen by a mechanic who, according to the report, found “that the driver-side front impact/airbag sensor had also been removed but noted that the remaining wires had been spliced together, completing the circuit in a manner that prevented the vehicle from detecting or logging the missing component, while also preventing the vehicle from activating its safety protocols, alerting the driver, or engaging limp mode.” The police report also indicates that fingerprints had been found on Berulis’ car. According to the police report, the case is now “inactive,” “due to the lack of any specific suspect information,” though the police’s intelligence unit was notified.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Winning is the worst thing that could happen to the left” is a genre of commentary that you can expect to get more and more popular now that the “These wackos will never win” genre has lost its plausibility.
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Denton A. Cohen @dent-on.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
me every evening at 7pm:
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Haverford College has declared that it believes Jewish people are inherently driven to commit genocide. That claim is not only untrue, it’s a blatantly antisemitic & fascist talking point. Don’t go to a college that supports the 21st-century version of skull-measuring.
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Brady Klopfer @bradyklopfer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The legend Robin Lopez
Tweet from Robin Lopez that reads: Biggest issue: if you’re being drafted, people are saying “we want you around for 4 years” & I can’t imagine anybody wants Enes Kanter or Royce White around them for even 4 minutes. We’ve seen this illustrated whenever Enes is near Turkey or Royce comes close to logic/reality
Robin Lopez responding to Royce white. White says: lol join the club ROBIN … I’ll slap your big goofy ass, bitch slap you like pootie tang! I will fight over these trans rights.

Lopez responds: yes we get it you love slapping people with women’s names
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Denton A. Cohen @dent-on.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The first point of this agreement Harvard is forcing on its students and workers is pure Jew-hatred. Treating Zionism as inherent to Judaism is not only completely ahistorical; it profoundly endangers Jewish students. We are headed in a very, very dangerous direction.
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