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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social
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Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of echoesoftheunknownpodcast.com. Coffee addict. New York/Florida. 🌴

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2h
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h
‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account Text messages with a MAGA ally show her seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials ahead of her confirmation as ambassador to Greece.
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 8h
We can't eat road salt.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h
Can just one reporter please ask Trump to name the “eight wars” that he settled? 🤨
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 12h
Minnesota, you have an opportunity to select an extraordinary person and public servant as your next U.S. senator. Please take it!
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16h
A new statue titled “The Orange Plague”, also known as “King of Injustice”, by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, where it will remain through 8 October. Remember to stop by for a selfie if you have a chance. 😏📸
This sculpture is a satirical piece titled "[The Orange Plague] created by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt.

The Imagery: The 2.6-meter-tall, gold-plated bronze sculpture depicts a naked, oversized Donald Trump riding on the back of a smaller man. He is holding a golf club in one hand and a pair of scales in the other. 

The Meaning: According to Galschiøt, the piece is a satirical commentary on modern political power, climate policy, and the subversion of the rules-based international order. 

Recent Exhibition: In October 2026, the statue drew global headlines when it went on public display inside the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, organized by Danish MEP Per Clausen.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 10h
BREAKING A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure. The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint. Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl
ORDERED that Plaintiff’s [74] Motion to Unseal is GRANTED IN PART. The Clerk of the Court shall unseal in full the [65-2] Delta PowerPoint. Defendants shall submit to Plaintiff and the Court any proposals for narrowly tailored redactions to the [65-1] JLL Plan, accompanied by particularized and substantial written justifications, no later than October 14, 2026. Plaintiff shall file any response to the proposed redactions no later than October 19, 2026. The Court will then review the proposals and rule by separate order.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h
Psycho. He’s an absolute psycho.
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Paul Leigh -Some Rascal on the Internet @pleightx.bsky.social · 11h
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h
🚨LEAKED AUDIO: Mike Collins insists gas prices are “coming down fast.” Then he says they’ll drop “on November 5th” — after Election Day. Why? In his own words: “It’s politics. It’s political.” Collins is too gutless to put the blame where it belongs — on Trump’s failed policies.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h
Susan Collins, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the midterms, faced a humiliating reality check last night during her debate against Democratic challenger Troy Jackson. In the first of four televised debates, Collins struggled to defend her efforts to rein in Trump’s disastrous policies.
newrepublic.com
“We Can’t Eat Road Salt”: Susan Collins Crashes and Burns in Debate
The incumbent Maine senator gave a dumpster-fire performance.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 18h
Susan Collins is showing just how out of touch she is. “I spent a whole year without health insurance…in ‘94” That was 3 decades ago, Susan, when insurance was $1500 annually… Thanks to Susan’s vote that helped pass Trump’s murderous budget bill, premiums are $1500 a month now for some folks.
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Brian Poindexter For Congress @poindexterforcongress.com · 12h
“Total depravity.” The people who know Max Miller best say he is unfit to serve. Here are the words of his ex-father in law, Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno, about how Miller treats his own daughter.
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 12h
Our first General Election debate is TONIGHT at 7PM. I’m fighting for Iowans. She’s fighting to enrich herself and her billionaire donors. Excited to share my common-sense prairie populist vision on the debate stage tonight. Hope you tune in!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h
National Republicans have spent months trying to rescue Ken Paxton. He's complicating that effort. Tensions are brewing with some Republicans after POLITICO published Paxton's closed-door comments complaining that "D.C." Republicans were largely controlling his race.
politico.com
Paxton’s latest audio leak is making things tough for national Republicans
Paxton’s closed-door comments — that D.C. Republicans are largely controlling his race — have irked several close to the Texas Senate rescue effort.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14h
Join me in Mt. Pleasant on Friday to knock doors and talk to voters about our movement to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All!
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Knock Doors with Abdul El-Sayed in Mt. Pleasant! · Team Michigan
We are so excited to welcome Abdul El-Sayed to Mount Pleasant! Please join Abdul and One Team Michigan as we meet and then go out and talk to voters! Join the Abdul El-Sayed and Jocelyn Benson campa...
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David Jolly @davidjolly.bsky.social · 15h
NEW AD: Kelly Mason knows Byron Donalds personally, she’s worked with him in the school choice movement, and she knows he’s unfit to serve as Governor. That’s why she’s voting for David Jolly.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13h
🚨 LEAKED AUDIO: Ken Paxton admits Trump’s policies are dragging down his campaign. “It’s the war. It’s gas prices. It’s diesel. It’s over $6 a gallon… the rise of food prices and everything else.” Even Ken Paxton knows who’s responsible for the pain Texans are feeling.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13h
Senate Banking just launched the Trumpflation Tracker. The affordability crisis is not a “hoax” like Donald Trump says. See for yourself how much more you’re paying because of Trump’s failed economic agenda
Trumpflation Tracker. Cumulative inflation since Dec. 2024: 5.2%, approximately $3,388 more for the average household. Real wage growth since start of Iran War: -0.7%. Wages aren’t keeping up with Trump’s inflation. 30-year mortgage rate up from 5.99% before the war to 7.6%, or $4,330 more per year for a typical household. Household debt, Q1 ’25 to Q2 ’26: +$56B. Families going into more debt just to get by. Total cost to American borrowers of Trump’s broken promise to cap credit card interest rates: $94.9B. Share of each extra dollar of income going to household debt: 52¢. Take-home income up $109/month since 2022; debt payments up $57. Cost of Living Basket Since Dec. 2024: Electricity +12.7%, approximately $222 more for the average household. Rent +5.1%, approximately $256 more. Gasoline +43.7%, approximately $758 more. Groceries +3.7%, approximately $211 more. Child Care +7.6%, approximately $852 more. Health Care +14.6%, approximately $929 more for average family coverage.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13h
Thank you so much! That’s such an eerie coincidence — Ted Bundy was born in Burlington (at a home for unwed mothers) just one week before Paula disappeared. Knowing what he would later become makes that timing feel especially chilling in retrospect. Such a haunting mystery.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
"Gov. Greg Abbott is blaming a scheduling conflict and says he's not gonna be attending the rally in San Antonio today where the president is going to be. He's not taking time for the president."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h
Republicans are retreating — even in deep-red territory. They’re pulling money from Michael Whatley in North Carolina, scrambling to defend Roger Marshall in Kansas, and canceling $1.1M in GOP ads in NE-2 as Democrat Denise Powell surges. Democrats are on offense. Now we have to finish the job. 🌊
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 15h
Susan Collins says Kavanaugh told her Roe was settled law, then helped overturn it, and she does not feel he lied to her. Troy Jackson called her an arsonist who wants credit for bringing a cup of water. Maine has been watching this since 2018.
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Collins, Jackson clash in first Maine Senate debate: 4 takeaways
Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson faced off Tuesday in the first debate of their neck-and-neck Senate race in Maine.  A rare Republican to win statewide in blue-leaning M…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
New in PN: Roger Marshall is running an all time terrible campaign "After decades of crawling further and further into the orifice of the right-wing media bubble, GOP candidates no longer know how to distinguish truth from propaganda, much less how to persuade skeptical voters."
publicnotice.co
Roger Marshall is running an all time terrible campaign
Red state MAGAs aren’t equipped for real competition and accountability.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h
🚨 NEW SUFFOLK IOWA POLL — and Democrats have real momentum. U.S. Senate: 🔵 Josh Turek 48% (+7) 🔴 Ashley Hinson 44% (-1) Governor: 🔵 Rob Sand 55% (+7) 🔴 Zach Lahn 43% (-1) Both Democrats have surged 7 points since August. Iowa is absolutely in play. 🌊🌽
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h
Sorry — my bad!
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MeidasLindaRenee @lindameidas3112.bsky.social · 21h
Jon’s podcast are so very good. Take a few minutes to read or listen.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h
🎯🎯
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h
🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h
Republicans are flooding the electoral map with a deluge of advertising to defend their House and Senate majorities. But GOP campaign groups have begun to shift money away from races they no longer believe winnable and falling back to reinforce seats in solidly red states that no longer look safe.
politico.com
Republicans enter triage mode as their election hopes continue to dim
Top Republicans are giving up on races in purple territory and racing to save seats in deep-red states.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
When she was running for governor 32 years ago she couldn’t afford health care, so she can relate to what Mainers are going through under the regime she supports and votes with 96% of the time. 🙄
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22h
Nothing to see here...just the President of the United States inviting the country he illegally declared war on to "take out" 2 major American cities. If that's not treason, what is? 🤬 Law enforcement won't hold him accountable, but we WILL! The beginning of the end is on November 3rd. #VOTE-BLUE 🌊
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h
Thank you so much! I really appreciate you listening — and especially appreciate you helping spread the word about my podcast. It means a lot to me.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h
Susan Collins and Troy Jackson traded shots over ICE, Iran, abortion and health care during their first debate in Maine's Senate race. Jackson went on the offensive, accusing Collins of undermining abortion rights by confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and failing to stand up to Trump.
mainepublic.org
Susan Collins and Troy Jackson clash over abortion, ICE and other issues in first debate
President Donald Trump loomed large over the debate as Jackson, a Democrat, sought to portray his Republican rival as too closely aligned with the White House. Collins disputed that and touted her sen...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h
Trump’s Latino coalition is cracking. New Equis poll: his approval among Latinos is just 31%, with 63% disapproving. On the cost of living, his net approval has plunged to -57. Even worse, 42% of Latinos who voted for Trump in 2024 are disappointed or regret it. Broken promises have consequences.
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🔵Blue Dot Buckeye🔵#Blues 🦋💙🌊🗽🌪️ @buckivotesblue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Checking the newest unsolved true crime podcast later this week. ⬇️ Hoping you join me and let me know what you think! 🤔 💭👁️‍🗨️
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thanks so much for sharing it! Paula Welden’s disappearance is such a haunting mystery, and I’d really love to hear what you think after you listen. 🎧🔎
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson clearly won tonight’s first Maine Senate debate, repeatedly putting Susan Collins on the defensive over Trump, Kavanaugh and her record in Washington. Collins leaned heavily on seniority and what she’s delivered for Maine — but Jackson landed the sharper punches by far.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Power means nothing if you won't use it when the people of Maine need it. Maine deserves better. Maine deserves change. We have the chance to build a government that serves the people, not the ultra-wealthy. Let’s go win this thing.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration is struggling to get clear answers about the death of a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague, amid days of stonewalling from Russian officials about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the episode.
cnn.com
Facing stonewalling from Russia, Trump admin struggles to plan for potential plague fallout | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is struggling to get clear answers about the death of a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague, amid days of stonewalling from Russian offi...
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Abolish ICE.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: Eight years ago today, Maine women begged Susan Collins not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. She did it anyway. He helped overturn Roe v. Wade. And today, she says she has no regrets. Would you trust her to pick the next Supreme Court justice?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like it or not this what Maine Guys actually sound like. Might sound like shit to you, but this is a Meryl Streep-level performance for guys from Maine with this voice and personality.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The nation's largest trucking groups said Tuesday that Trump's executive order aimed at easing diesel prices would do little to increase availability of the key transportation fuel. They cast doubt on his claims that the move would help bring down the cost of goods across the economy.
politico.com
‘Minimal relief’: Trucking groups pan Trump’s diesel executive order
The trade associations said tax relief on dyed diesel would be complicated to implement and do little to increase availability of the fuel.
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