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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Pretty embarrassing for all the blue states that Florida (!) is the first state to file a lawsuit like this.

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Aaron Balick 🍉 @aaronbalick.com · 29/05/2026

For kicks and giggles here’s a photo of Freud boarding a plane for the first and only time in 1928. He didn’t like it. Have a nice weekend.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Okay then, let’s triple it, or quadruple it if that’s what it takes.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This was as spectacular as expected. Joshua Henry 🤩🥵

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

And this was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in a theater.

Playbill for Cats: The Jellicle Ball held in front of stage.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Death of a Salesman last night. One of the best productions of any play I’ve seen in years.

Playbill for death of a salesman on broadway with stage in background

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It’s heartbreaking to read these horrific accounts of systematic torture. And it’s even more painful knowing there are people I could send this to - people whom I respect, who are otherwise empathic and compassionate - who would likely respond by saying something akin to: “But Hamas…”

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Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Maybe I’m over reading this, but it seems telling that he says we cannot go back to the prior status quo AND says Democrats need to deliver “universal health insurance coverage.” Why not say universal health care or even universal health coverage unless you’re open to ACA-like insurance subsidies?

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Yes, speak in plain language as much as possible, sure. But the “jargon” of means-tested v. universal program does indeed matter when it comes to solving the problem of “the rent is too high.” It’s disingenuous to paper over real differences between liberals and leftists by lamenting jargon.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It’s very telling to see Newsom and Jeffries call for further investigation and not immediately tell him to drop out.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

World peace might also be accomplished via a revival of Follies with Audra playing Phyllis (and Steven Pasquale as Ben).

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

My primary litmus test for 2026 and 2028 is an unwavering commitment to tossing Schumer, Jeffries, and those aligned with their corrupt, incompetent politics out of leadership.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I‘m solidly in both of these eras.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Barack Obama doesn’t think there is any political event that requires an immediate response (he took days to post about both Renee Good and Alex Pretti) but you will never see him let 12 hours pass without congratulating a sports team winning a championship. He clearly sees it as his essential duty.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Impeachment and removal needs to be the near-term objective. But more immediately, Democrats need to be screaming from the rooftops that ANYONE who participates in executing these war crimes WILL be prosecuted AND that military members who refuse to follow his commands will be protected & honored.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

💯 These arguments against universal programs are an argument FOR class-based segregation. These arguments heighten class divisions; universal programs weaken class divisions. And many rich people are very invested in maintaining class divisions.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I still remember watching the DVD of this for the first time when I was 15 years old, knowing nothing about it before pressing play. Not an exaggeration to say it changed my life.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My god… So much to say about this, but the main thing that occurs to me right now is how little regard our country has for the human rights of children.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It's like the campaign asked ChatGPT for a progressive policy strategy to improve rural healthcare.

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Burnside Gooch @burnsidegooch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I’m waiting for sing-along Pacific Overtures.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This is all true. In fact, I was just talking about points 2/3 tonight with 8 grad students who are in my pay-what-you-can psychoanalytic consultation/study group for new therapists interested in analytic treatment. And the mere existence of such a group highlights the veracity of the point 1.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

For me, Sondheim’s dramatic brilliance stems from how he musicalizes his characters’ unconscious lives. Sondheim understood his unconscious psychic life well in part d/t his own psychoanalysis. Helping writers access this for themselves may be the best way to further his legacy beyond death.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

People who live like this often end up in jail.* *if they’re poor and/or brown

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

“In the last resort, we must begin to love in order not to fall ill, and we are bound to fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we are unable to love.” - Freud

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It’s been said many times by many people, but it’s appalling how so many of these centrists have abandoned the idea that politics is about persuasion.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I saw someone repost this saying that taken at face value, there’s nothing wrong with what he’s said. Except the very first thing he does is conflate the state of Israel with the Jewish people. That’s literally the rotten core of ADL, AIPAC, and right wing Israeli propaganda.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Does the Woke Ginger always have this much charisma, or is it just the awe inspiring AIPAC-approved text he’s reciting?

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/03/2026

All this week I've written about how here in IL, dark money and MAGA aligned PACs are spending absurd sums of money to prop up establishment corporate Dems while attacking progressive Dems who are actually willing to fight. MSNOW has the scoop on just how deep this goes: www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate

Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I was offered a position as a staff psychologist within a VA outpatient mental clinic in 2018, during Trump 1.0. I was told I’d need to maintain a caseload of 150-200 patients. I turned down the job. It was hard to imagine care standards getting worse. But it clearly has gotten much much worse.

"It was always bad," said one VA psychologist, referring to staffing at a facility in Arizona. "And now it's at a breaking point."

The therapist described being stretched so thin that schedulers replaced some one-on-one sessions with online group sessions that included as many as 35 veterans. The therapist said despite that they were still overloaded with individual sessions and had to limit each one to as little as 16
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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

💯 Ya know who doesn’t have to think about the price of items at the grocery store, restaurants, or really the price of most anything they want to buy for themselves? Billionaires. Millionaires. Almost all of our US senators and congresspeople.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There's a chance the left-wing candidates (Kat, Simmons, Huynh) could get a plurality of the votes but none of them win. We can't let that happen. Kat has the best chance of beating the establishment candidate. For this and many other reasons, we should all rally behind her.

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C @notmiddlec.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"Once you ditch needing to be believed, then you have a conversation on your hands. You don’t need to be right. You don’t need to persuade the other person." Therapists are made to "teach" these days. Sometimes I think it's terrible.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

A toxic environment poisons people. We should make the environment less toxic so people don’t get poisoned. But just removing someone from the toxic environment doesn’t mean they will no longer be poisoned. We should make less toxic environments AND help people recover from being poisoned.

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

If you can't solve in a post the hard problem of consciousness the machine is conscious. Check mate mother fuckers

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Consciousness is embodied. All irrefutably conscious creatures have organic bodies and are conscious of feelings through their bodies. Claude has no body. Any “feelings” it appears to have are very plausibly explained w/o resorting to a fundamental change to our base understanding of consciousness.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I just left a concert fundraising for the National Immigrant Justice Center to head to Broadview. Here’s why:

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Poor sad souls Itching to be switching roles Lucy wants to do Jessie does Jessie wants to be what Lucy was

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I appreciate the impulse to appeal to medical authorities, but medicalizing gender has done a lot to shape our current anti-trans hellscape. To be clear, a doctor is as capable of determining a person’s “true” gender OR sexuality as they are capable of determining a person’s “true” favorite color.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Just like there’s no reforming ICE, there’s no reforming this. The AIPAC-funded Democratic establishment has to be entirely dismantled.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It’s maddening that chuck seems more upset he wasn’t fully briefed than the fact that trump has launched an illegal, unconstitutional, immoral war.

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A person can be genuinely anti-war, anti-imperialist, and anti-military industrial complex *and* allow for the possibility of military action as an absolute last resort in defense of the right to national self-determination. That's Kat's position, and I think its a popular one in my part of #IL09

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Where I Stand: Self Determination & Diplomacy | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois

YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Let me re-introduce myself. And why our campaign is doing things differently.

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ostonox @ostonox.com · 26/02/2026

Kat Abughazaleh on Israel "It's important that any solution has full legal rights for anyone living there. And that it's decided by the people that actually live there. We spend so much time as a country interfering in other countries and dictating how they live, and it's just made places worse."

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Philip Cooke @philipcooke.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

If this is allowed to stand, it will kill thousands of people and cause pointless suffering for many more.

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