Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 07/12/2025King Fauvel, Recipient of the 2025 Fauvel Peace Prize. 000
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Quoth the late Charlie Kirk: “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.” 010
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Saddened by this political assassination. But horrified as I discover the ideas, previously unknown to me, of this terrible person. And why this blanket media coverage just now, after the muted response to the Minnesota killings? 000
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Children will be taught the meaning of works like Putz, Schmuck, Momser, and Schmendrick. bsky.app/profile/asht... 000
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Hands Off! protesters in a small New England town on the New Hampshire border. Amesbury, MA., April 5, 2025 040
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 08/03/2025"Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service." -- Claude Malhuret, centrist French senator 030
Reposted by Joel CohenMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025There are 3 types of people since Oct 7th. Those who condemn only the killing of Israeli kids. Those who condemn only the killing of Palestinian kids. And those of us who condemn the killing of both. Don’t be in the first 2 groups - the 1st one dominates our politics & media. 892541338
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 15/02/2025German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...nytimes.comGerman Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays NazisAt the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections. 051
Reposted by Joel CohenLaurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Make President’s Day, Monday Feb 17, a National Day of Protest Against The MuskTakeover 29850390
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Tesla is not doing so well in France, according to Le Monde. 020
Reposted by Joel CohenPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Brueghel’s painting of the new administration has really stood the test of time 114519
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Is this injunction against Musk enforceable ? By whom? Won’t the Muskrats just keep on doing crime? 010
Reposted by Joel CohenThe Onion @theonion.com · 05/02/2025FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United Statestheonion.comFBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United StatesWASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an... 10646837015822
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Ruth Marcus, as I have read her over the years, is no flaming leftie revolutionary. So what she writes today is all the more telling www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Trump 2.0: The most damaging first two weeks in presidential historyTrump’s second term is all about curtailing government’s power and reach. 000
Reposted by Joel CohenWuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Today’s front page of the largest newspaper in Quebec, Canada and they nailed it 🤣🎯 766299137241
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 02/02/2025So how is Fox reporting the Musk takeover/coup? Are they reporting it? 000
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 01/02/2025It's a coup d'état. Why is in not being reported as such? "Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system The access — granted by Scott Bessent, Trump’s newly confirmed treasury secretary — comes after the ousting of the agency’s top career official." 030
Reposted by Joel CohenDemocratic Values @democratvalues.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Donald Trump and his Administration are preventing agencies from observing Black History Month. Now more than ever we need to celebrate Black Americans and recognize the importance of this month. Happy Black History Month! 23811157
Reposted by Joel CohenAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive 688317288421466
Reposted by Joel CohenGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Let's all say it out loud. These people are fascists & this is a fascist take-over of the United States. You can couch your words more carefully, but the speed and ferocity of what is happening now is part-and-parcel of a coup. The GOP in Congress has surrendered. The Dems are out of their depth. 1/ 12461551786
Reposted by Joel CohenJamesD'Pitch @jamesdpitch.bsky.social · 31/01/2025"The Gulf of Empathy," (11 x 15) watercolor, mixed media, pen and ink on paper. 189159682319
Reposted by Joel CohenDemocracyLover #BlueCrew-FBR-FBPE-NAFO 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @martie38.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Just bad optics 213934
Reposted by Joel CohenVoice of Reason @raggapegs.bsky.social · 26/01/2025The Resistance is strong! #Resist 18099771972
Reposted by Joel CohenJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 25/01/2025THIS!!! MORE. OF. THIS. www.mlive.com/news/grand-r...mlive.comGrand Rapids police ‘not in the business of immigration enforcement,’ chief saysGrand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom on Thursday, Jan. 23, said his officers would not be arresting people for immigration violations. 588336776182
Reposted by Joel CohenRay E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 21/01/2025“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell 4684176
Reposted by Joel CohenAuntie Megz ♿😼💙 @auntiemegz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Me, realizing we're only on Day 3. 519823
Reposted by Joel CohenKaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025To help folks out, I made this handy identifier: 992400611
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Who else has noticed the unspeakable, nausea inducing statement by the Washington Post editorial board? 010
Reposted by Joel CohenCarole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 20/01/2025“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King 4544913712504
Reposted by Joel CohenPetrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/... 5053032109
Reposted by Joel CohenDiana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 20/01/2025A poem for reflection, 01/20/24: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes. poets.org/poem/let-ame... 12671185
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 18/01/2025"The Charlatans," by Boissieu, circa 1772. Any similarity to real life is intended. 000
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The massacre at Charlie Hedo in Paris took place ten years ago. 000
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 02/01/2025James Carville: It Was, It Is and It Forever Shall Be the Economy, Stupid www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | James Carville: It Was, It Is and It Forever Shall Be the Economy, StupidPerception is everything in politics, and a lot of Americans perceive us as not feeling their pain or caring too much about other things. 010
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 19/12/2024www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Temporarily Disconnected From Politics? Feel No Guilt About It.Black women aren’t the only voters who are taking a moment. 000
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 09/12/2024This turned up in my archive from nine years ago. So what else is new? 000
Joel Cohen @trobador.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Whatever happens, Trump cannot cancel the moon and the sea. Photo: Salisbury MA., 10//2023 030
