Reposted by Sam CohenShawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 2hThe compounding moral and political failure of our era in one headline. 1125
Reposted by Sam CohenLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think it’s bad that a pogromnik is president. 0183
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Jesus christ That's some high T lethality right there 010
Reposted by Sam CohenScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Note how in all of this, Vance's comments are suffused with the rhetoric of 1930s Nazi eugenics, including the "elite human being" (in German, Herrenmensch or Übermensch). Straight from Curtis Yarvin, and Elon Musk, by the way. bsky.app/profile/atru... 48797266
Reposted by Sam CohenMichael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yale Law School, ladies and gentlemen. 2326
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A thing I wrote last year on America First higher ed muse.jhu.edu/article/968777 021
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This year’s “Missouri’s Own Panel” features four local authors, including Professor Samuel Cohen of the University of Missouri-Columbia, who edited the anthology “Banning Books in America.” The program is Nov. 6 at 1 p.m. at the St. Louis Jewish Community Center. stljewishlight.org/opinion/miss...stljewishlight.orgMissouri schools pulled ‘Maus.’ Jewish St. Louis fought back. - St. Louis Jewish LightAfter Missouri schools pulled books including “Maus,” Jewish St. Louis advocates are pushing back against censorship and book bans. 030
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Worth a read www.nytimes.com/athletic/765...nytimes.comThe English soccer star who vanished for 40 years to hide his secret: ‘I was living in fear’ (Gift Article)Tony Powell lost all contact with his family and left behind his entire life for four decades after leaving Norwich City in 1981. 010
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Great conversation, wonderful hosts, no superpowers were used 040
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Clever of you guys to put me in that all plastic room so I couldn't move anything with my mind 020
Reposted by Sam CohenAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The number of dangers and the amount of work AI is already causing and will cause us is astounding. Yet we keep getting advice on how to make it work for us. FU if that is your advice.nytimes.comOpinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back. (Gift Article)In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth. 510137
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026defector.com/lebron-james...defector.comLeBron James Is Commuting In A Fanatics Helicopter | DefectorLeBron James wasn’t pretending. He really is taking daily helicopter rides from his home in New York City to the offices of his new employer, the Philadelphia 76ers. Since the start of October, the Le... 000
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026open.spotify.com/album/3H0NNA...open.spotify.comRattlesnakes (Remastered) - Album by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions | SpotifyLloyd Cole and the Commotions · album · 1984 · 10 songs 000
Reposted by Sam Cohenthe hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 10/12/2024[I get home to find a note on the refrigerator that says "I'm leaving and i'm taking the kids"] me: [unplugs fridge from power outlet] you're not going anywhere, you piece of shit 234345764
Reposted by Sam CohenMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Trump stole millions of dollars from us to buy those campaign ads. Of course he won't pay us back. He's a criminal who should be in prison right now.nytimes.comTrump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional AdsA day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday. 37671228
Reposted by Sam CohenAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Like why exactly am I also on your customer service call. Why is that 699213
Reposted by Sam CohenAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear 763272477
Reposted by Sam CohenBloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Are you based in the Phoenix area and want to learn more about the threat that book bans pose to American democracy? Come to @changinghands.bsky.social this Wednesday at 7 for a conversation with Samuel Cohen (Banning Books in America) and Josh Coleman. asuevents.asu.edu/event/book-b...asuevents.asu.eduBook Bans in America: Reading and Teaching in Censored Times | ASU EventsHow do book bans affect teaching practices? 011
Reposted by Sam Cohenandy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026time for a different group of people to write a report on higher ed 094
Reposted by Sam CohenAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026The Cornell report on the Future of the American University is a disaster, mainstreaming and endorsing profoundly reactionary right-wing diagnoses of higher education that have no business in a serious report on what higher ed is or should become. 719049
Reposted by Sam CohenAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026That all of these universities producing reports on what the future of higher ed should be are collaborating with the American Enterprise Institute is a tell that they see this moment of higher ed "reform" as an opportunity to entrench reactionary policies and undermine the humanities further. 312834
Reposted by Sam CohenAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities 7615169
Reposted by Sam Cohencomissourian.bsky.social @comissourian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026University of Missouri President Mun Choi emailed Attorney General Catherine Hanaway about downtown Columbia safety concerns.columbiamissourian.comMissouri AG's probe of Reign Bar began after an email from the university presidentUniversity of Missouri President Mun Choi emailed Attorney General Catherine Hanaway about downtown Columbia safety concerns. 001
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I know what you can eat at your meetings youtube.com/shorts/HiR1-...youtube.comMitch Hedberg on club sandwich culture & origins #mitchhedberg #clubsandwich #standupcomedy #funnyYouTube video by Jamie Kindleyside 010
Reposted by Sam CohenSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The former commander of the US Border Control under Trump is a big fan of Remigration. bsky.app/profile/seth... 117625
Reposted by Sam CohenSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This detailed report tracks the rise in the term’s usage on Twitter. Unsurprisingly, Elon Musk played an important role in normalizing the use of the term in 2024. www.csohate.org/press-releas...csohate.orgNew Report: Remigration and the Globalization of Far-Right Deportation NarrativesThis report traces how “remigration” evolved from a fringe far-right concept into mainstream political discourse, mapping its spread across Europe and the US (2010–2025). 523450
Reposted by Sam CohenSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The phrase “ethnic cleansing” appears in the first sentence of the Wikipedia definition. 3473105
Reposted by Sam CohenBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Comparisons between MAGA and McCarthyism are dime a dozen. What's novel now is that today's Republicans are acting like McCarthy allies in the period between "have you no decency" and the censure vote that formally ended his reign of terror. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...offmessage.netRepublican Disarray And The Second Failure Of McCarthyismThe missing ingredient, for now, is consequences. 58920
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don't want to hear another word about how when we get these people out of party, we shouldn't punish them for what they've done 020
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Truly one of the worst people in public life in this country 120
Reposted by Sam Cohenfriend of the pod 🫛 @rebeccaschmitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“…no sportos, no motorheads, no geeks, no sluts, no bloods, no wasteoids, no dweebies, no dickheads” 182
Reposted by Sam CohenAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think we all saw that coming 41961691914