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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the wake of Trump banning numerous MSM outlets from the White House, the White House announced the creation of Trump TV. Americans are now going to see what state-run North Korea-like leader-glazing propaganda broadcasting looks like. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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White House launches Trump TV following press bans

The White House on Monday launched Trump TV, a 24/7 stream on YouTube, days after President Trump banned reporters from CNN, Politico and MS NOW over their coverage of him and his administration. T…

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🇺🇸 Mark your calendars for Sept 17–18 & join us for the inaugural Ohio Presidential History & Politics Conference! Come explore Ohio’s presidential history at the William McKinley Presidential Library & Museum. Event webpage: www.uakron.edu/bliss/ohio-p... Free & open to all!

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wait…have we now reached the point in this timeline where people are arguing about whether a pejorative term used to describe a robot is racist???

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hey, anyone remember when @michaelcohen212.bsky.social became anti-Trump, testified in front of Congress, went to prison, etc.? Well, I guess he’s back with his buddy…

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“National security is not my thing.” Utterly embarrassing for a US Senate candidate to utter those words…

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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Democratic voters still care about the longstanding kitchen-table issues—affordability, health care costs, etc.—but a Democratic candidate for POTUS who runs on “There will be consequences for Donald Trump’s and his underlings’ abuses of power” has their finger on the pulse of the Democratic Party.

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is a fantastic long-form investigation of Ohio’s march to eliminating free and fair elections…

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I have thought for awhile now that if Watergate occurred today it’d hardly make a dent in the news. How far we have fallen as a country…

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Always cool to be interviewed about my research area, the White House Chief of Staff, along with some of the top presidency scholars in the world… www.newsweek.com/the-unexpect...

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The unexpected constant in Trump’s White House

Susie Wiles has outlasted all of Trump's previous chief of staffs, becoming a symbol of a more stable second presidency behind the scenes.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/06/2026

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

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Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune

Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.

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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Nervously watching what's unfolding in Belfast as racist bigots use a stabbing as an excuse to wreck havoc and mayhem, burning cars & buses, homes, and businesses of ethnic minority residents Meanwhile, Elon Musk is doing his best to escalate the violence. This is a good 🧵 of his efforts on Twitter

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

this is a crucial response to the "hur hur silly science experiments" anti-intellectual populism that allows for cuts like this to be politically possible. prospect.org/2026/06/09/w...

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Why That Next Hamburger Is Going to Cost You - The American Prospect

The domestic return of the New World screwworm, a parasite that can devastate cattle herds, happened while the Trump administration was focused on dismantling government.

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If FIFA was a real sports organization and not a corrupt money-making machine, it would move all World Cup events out of the United States under this authoritarian regime. But instead it will keep counting the $$$ even though they can’t sell out their events here…

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Nithya Raman is going to make the runoff and be the next mayor of Los Angeles.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“Can you imagine what oil prices would be today if Joe Biden were actually in office?" Answer: I can. Oil prices would be way lower. President Joe Biden would’ve never initiated a reckless war with Iran that resulted in the closure of the Strait of Hormuz & a sharp decline in the global oil supply.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/04/2026

Breaking news: The Trump administration’s move to drop the long-standing recommendation for newborn hepatitis B vaccination within 24 hours of birth will likely lead to additional infections and millions in added health care costs, new studies show.

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CDC delay of infant hepatitis B shot likely to raise infections, studies show

Federal vaccine advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted in December to recommend delaying the first shot until at least two months of age for infants born to mothers who test negative...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2026

Trump is posting fresh blasphemies this morning

image that Trump posted on Truth Social of Jesus hugging him with a deranged caption that concludes, "God might be playing his Trump card!"

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

These are “leaders” who are not made for this moment in history…

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I hope when we wake up tomorrow (for those of us that can sleep through tonight) that this insane POTUS will not have unleashed nuclear weapons on Iran. If that were to happen, the world we have known up until that moment will have changed in a heartbeat and nothing will ever be the same.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman
President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post.

Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6.

If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.

“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps.

Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war.

Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war.

The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

On Easter Sunday, the POTUS has again, in a curse-laden post on Truth Social, threatened to commit blatant war crimes against Iran. He is desperate for an exit ramp as his poll numbers crater and energy prices skyrocket. Trump is also increasingly unhinged.

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Just re-upping this great piece on Opening Day 2026. Let’s hope there is an Opening Day 2027…

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/03/2026

Brendan Carr is threatening the media to cover the war the way the Trump regime wants. It’s one of the most anti-American messages ever posted by a government official. 1/

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack

No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

$MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.$

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Has there ever been a more insecure toddler to hold the office of president? He is desperate to be remembered & beloved. No matter how many things he tries to rename or build with his name on it, he will always be reviled as one of the true villains of the modern era. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Trump wanted Dulles Airport, Penn Station named after him — in exchange for releasing federal funds

Trump has named several landmarks and initiatives after himself since he returned to office.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Republican Tim scott… so not “fake outrage” then

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

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Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13)
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.)

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/02/2026

MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it

Springfield, too, has been given new life by immigrants. A once-thriving manufacturing hub, its fortunes so collapsed that in 2012 it was regularly called the unhappiest city in America. In 2014, seeking to stem population decline, the city launched its “Welcome Springfield” campaign to attract immigrants. Haitians, many of whom had been given T.P.S. status after a devastating 2010 earthquake, responded. As new manufacturing jobs were created in the city, more immigrants followed. Many Haitians who settled in Springfield had children. The city stopped shrinking; in 2023, there was a tiny population increase.

On Sunday evening, Rose Goute, a Haitian restaurant, was almost deserted. “People stay home,” said Jean Philistin, a 50-year-old who was there picking up takeout. “People are scared.” He said he was less frightened than many others because he became a citizen a few years ago, though he wasn’t sure how much that would matter. “The worst thing is, since you’ve got an accent, or since you’re Black, they can stop you for no reason.”
Philistin had been a civil engineer back in Haiti and now worked refurbishing houses. He has two teenage children, both born in America. “I don’t know why they hate my community,” he said sadly.

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US

Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz (Republican-appointed in ‘06): “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

From "Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong" by Adam Serwer. Recommended. [gift link] www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

They're gassing peaceful protestors at the Dilley, TX concentration camp.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

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Dave Cohen @potusprof.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

A major metropolitan area is under military siege by an occupying force of Gestapo wannabes & the opposition party is sending out gems like this. The Democratic Party brain trust must have focus grouped this. The brand is dead for good reason. No worries though—Chuck & Hakeem will save us!!!

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