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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Of course Trump wants more from the law firms. Once you give in to Trump, he won’t stop, not even when he’s fitted you for a collar. There are no deals with Trump. There’s only resistance or capitulation.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Yes, there's snow on the ground. and YES, we're still meeting! === The Audacity Meets Twice Today (3/29) in Rockland #Maine === AT 10 AM: Meet at the Universalist Church (345 Broadway) to Organize (Park across the street, please) AT NOON: Demonstrate in Chapman Park (Corner of Park & Main) #Resist

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The 1930s Nazi vibes are getting stronger. Get on the street while you can.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Historian Eric Johnson’s conclusion in “Nazi Terror”: Germans who weren’t in an “unfortunate minority” during the Third Reich typically got along just fine. Nazis prevailed because many Germans loved them, others grumbled but shrugged their shoulders, and too few actively resisted.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

And when the artist tried to post it on Twitter, it was immediately banned for “violating community standards,” which is apparently code for “questioned Elon Musk.” Killing hungry kids while siphoning off government funds, then shutting people up when they point this out? The oligarchy is here.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

What if the goal isn't deportation, but a new system of perpetual subjugation and slavery?

Cozycryptidcorner writes, "I don't think the main goal is mass deportation. Currently there are huge detainment camps being built in Texas for ICE. Slavery is legal in the case of prisoners. "How will we have field workers if they're all in detainment camps?" you ask. Girl, they will still be field workers, but under the thumb of for-profit prison owners.... If Texas and Mississippi both have plans to build large-scale detainment camps for undocumented immigrants to hold them indefinitely per Trump executive order, and if there is a large labor vacuum as undocumented immigrants are arrested and go into hiding, what do you THINK is about to happen?

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Singing a meditation to community this morning. #Love #Song

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

"There are so many things to resist and rebel against one can’t imagine where to begin. We can't all do everything. But we each must do something." - Joline Godfrey, 1-30-25 #Resist #WakeUp #DoSomething

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Most original protest sign at the Portland, Maine People’s March: I time traveled for this? #mepolitics #peoplesmarch

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Message from the Portland People’s March: we know Senator Susan Collins is Complicit. #susancollins #peoplesmarch #mepolitics

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

At the Portland, Maine People’s March. You know, you can’t pray away the gay, but you can gay away the pray… #peoplesmarch #gay #mepolitics

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

History is watching at the Portland People’s March: Maine will not give ground to the billionaires and busybodies

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Messages at the People’s March in Portland, Maine. #peoplesmarch #mepolitics

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Pinning 100 buttons to my vest to distribute to the crowd assembling at Monument Square in Portland, Maine in a half hour. How are you prepping for the People’s March? #mepolitics #peoplesmarch

Putting buttons on a vest for the People’s march. This one says Lincoln would be ashamed of today’s Republican party. Another one says get your Bible off my body.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Wake up, Maine! Saturday January 18 Portland: Monument Square 10:30 AM Augusta: State House Noon peoplesmarch.com #mepolitics

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Maine anticipates the horrors that will surely follow Inauguration Day by mourning & organizing. The Audacity is a new group bringing together artists & creatives to design and mount effective protest. Meeting in Rockland on February 1: Learn more at www.audacitycat.com/news/next-me... #MEPolitics

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

What the Christian Broadcasting Network says the ACLU says about Christmas, vs. what the #ACLU says about #Christmas. Isn’t “Thou shalt not bear false witness” one of those ten… what was it? Ten Suggestions?

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Window markers: washable, pluripotent, available, noticeable. #Grassroots #Resistance

Window markers are a great way to get your issue noticed.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

To reverse the throttling of information about governments, elections, political issues, and social issues, you have to drill down five levels in settings (Profile -> Settings and Privacy -> Content Preferences -> Manage Defaults -> Political Content). Hard to find. #socialmedia #censorship

Meta is by default throttling posts about "Political content":
Like content about governments, elections and social topics.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Keep saying it, one way or another: the King is a Fink! #WizardOfId

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Elizabeth Warren follows up EPI with a great point that is true and lands well: www.dataforprogress.org/insights/202...

What they're not telling you is that corporate profits have increased by 75% since 2020 - far outpacing inflation.

Giant companies are making record profits by hiking prices. And don't take my word for it, take the word of Big Food CEOs who get on their conference calls and tell their investors that they're using inflation as an excuse to raise prices way above costs. Beyond that, these companies use a number of tricks and traps to cut out competition, which raises costs even further.

As a result, food prices have become one of voters' top priorities heading into the
November election. Recent Data for Progress polling found that 88% of voters are concerned about inflation, and when asked what costs they're most concerned about, food prices overwhelmingly rise to the top.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If you want to win workers back, try the Economic Policy Institute’s message. The EPI documents what workers (who are NOT stupid) know from experience: while the value produced by workers for corporations has gone way up, since Reagan and Clinton targeted labor workers’ wages have not kept pace.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If you want to win workers back, stop taking the corporate point of view that the Democratic Party has come to rely on. Rep. Marc Pocan — a Democrat — gets the message right here: pocan.house.gov/trade-agreem...

"Trade agreements promote the practice of sending jobs overseas where work is done work in sweat shops, while disregarding the rights of workers around the world," said Representative Pocan. "Trade deals allow multinational corporations to take advantage of unfair labor practices and unsafe working conditions to rake in billions. On top of that, these deals not only ship jobs to foreign countries, but they depress U.S. wages and make it harder for jobs to be created here in America."
The abysmal working conditions and despicable wages workers face in countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnam are well documented. Minimum wages of 28 cents an hour and almost no days off of work are the norm. The collapse of Rana Plaza garment-factory in Bangladesh last year left more than 1,100 people dead. In Vietnam wages are only about two thirds of what wages are in China making Vietnam attractive to multinational corporations looking to make billions off of cheap labor. This all means more jobs shipped overseas, in sweatshop-like conditions.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

And Democrats’ memes about how workers don’t get the “amazing” Biden economy slides further into elitism. Ignore rampant inflation: stocks are great! Stocks are all about the wealth class, not workers, people. When you can’t pay rent or buy meat, this message really is going to piss you off.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It’s easy to fall into the trap of disagreeing with every word Donald Trump says, because yes, he’s a fascist bigoted ass, but that turns you into an elitist, which he uses to win. You do realize you’re using the word “consumers” and not the word “workers” here… …don’t you?

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Why did working class voters stop voting Democrat? Well, let’s talk messaging. You do realize when you pass along anti-tariff memes like this that you sound like an apologist for the Clinton-WalMart deal that propped up sweatshops and tanked wages of American workers… … don’t you?

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Today the Portland Press Herald offered me a 14-day subscription. But I notice that the PPH hasn’t covered the story of Donald Trump ordering Susan Collins to block Biden’s remaining judicial appointments, and Collins obeying. Why subscribe to your silence, @pressherald.bsky.social? #mepolitics

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Portland Press Herald folks, why haven’t you covered Trump’s post-election order to GOP senators that all remaining judicial nominations be blocked? Why do I have to visit Truth Social instead of your paper to get this information? Why haven’t you covered Senator Collins’ obedience in her votes?

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Five years ago this week, constituents in Rockland sent Senator Susan Collins a photo collage with questions, since she had refused to hold a public meeting. Neither the Senator nor her office ever responded. #MEPolitics

SUSAN COLLINS, WHY DONT YOU STAND UP to Trump?

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This trio of actors wants you to start seeing government-corporate corruption as normal. That’s #Fascism

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Look for the CBS News source on this point in @joesudbay.bsky.social ‘s detailed post. It’s a 60 Minutes piece. Two excerpts are especially relevant:

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

People with immigrant parents, get your passports renewed as soon as you can. The ability to wait out the Trump years with your papers in good order all the way through is crucial. #Fascism #Passports #Citizenship

effort during Trump's second term. Expect to see an executive order, perhaps on Day 1, targeting the Constitutional Citizenship guarantee in the 14th Amendment. As detailed reporting by the New York Times illustrated:
"the [Trump] team plans to stop issuing citizenship-affirming documents, like passports and Social Security cards, to infants born on domestic soil to undocumented migrant parents in a bid to end birthright citizenship."

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

One Person Can Make a Difference… when they have a movement backing them up. And sometimes differences made turn sour.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Jewish & Arab American students at the University of Maine @umaine.bsky.social are working together to ask for divestment from genocidal activities by the government of Israel. In response to their activity, the UMS Board of Trustees has written proposals to restrict campus speech. #MEPolitics

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It amazes me every time a Reasonable Republican sells themselves to Trump, thinking they’ve made a Deal. The Deal with Trump is that there is never a Deal. Never. With Trump, you’re only giving your soul away. RFK Jr., you should have seen it coming. You’re his property now.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The stock price of for-profit detention and prison program Geo Group jumped immediately after the election of Donald Trump.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The stock price of CoreCivic, the for-profit prison and detention corporation, rose sharply immediately after the election of Donald Trump.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

On behalf of every human being in America and beyond America’s borders who is about to suffer because of Trump’s election, Go to hell, Jared Golden. #MEPolitics

Rep. Jared Golden says Donald Trump will win
'and I'm OK with that'
The Lewiston Democrat predicts Joe Biden will lose the presidential election in November, and that democracy will not fail because 'no one man is strong enough to take it away from us.'

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

German sociologist of extremism BindestrichSoz www.reddit.com/u/Bindestric... writes about the aftermath of the 2024 election #Trump #Fascism #Sociology

I don't know anyone in the field that is not classifying trumpism as a kind of facism.
> Are we truly on a razor's edge right now?
I don't know how to put this without sounding unreasonable. You are far over the edge. The USA had serious structural issues in their institutions for decades and the democrats unfortunately made not much progress in improving this.
Everything indicates the USA moving towards authoritarianism. Both houses are in the hands of the GOP, the supreme court is mayority of GOP pics.
Project 2025 is a roadmap to an authoritarian system. If trumps does follow it and ideed does replace all government officials across all levels of gouverment with the planed trump loyalist checks and balances is over. Anything short of well organzied mass opposition will mean the end of free elections (free by low US standards). I am talking 3.5% of the population (12 Million people) enganged in a peacefull protest movement as an absolute minimum. Not just one time participation in protest march.
What to expect for the next months? Think of hungary now - not 1940 Germany. The US already has put kids in cages, deathcamps and torture, it's not like violence and killing of political opposition is new to US agencies either. The only difference will be to apply it domestically.

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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James Cook @jamesmcook.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Been reading this book, remembering the Raging Grannies at all kinds of demonstrations in the 90s and 2000s. Carole Roy weaves histories and songs together so well… … and guess what? The Raging Grannies are still around. We need them! raginggrannies.org

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