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Jenny Cohn

@jennycohn.bsky.social

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After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections, propaganda, and political extremism. You can find my most recent work at the Bucks County Beacon.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5d

Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Apr 16

15/ Balaji recently posted that “We do want … Anduril but for the police.” (Anduril is a military contractor.)

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Apr 16

15/ Balaji recently posted that “We do want … Anduril but for the police.” (Anduril is a military contractor.)

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4h

“Tech Executives [From Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI] Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings” 6/27/25 www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Tech Executives Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings

The new formation is set to recruit tech executives to work on major Army challenges, but the service has not articulated exactly what those individuals would do -- instead focusing on recruiting tale...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5h

“Six people dead in shootings during two separate Mississippi homecoming gatherings ***
Four people were killed and 16 injured in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in a shooting in Heidelberg” 10/11/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Six people dead in shootings during two separate Mississippi homecoming gatherings

Four people were killed and 16 injured in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in a shooting in Heidelberg

www.theguardian.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5h

“Trump critic and former national security adviser John Bolton to be charged soon, sources say ***
Bolton would be the third critic of the president to face federal charges. New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey were recently indicted.” 10/10/20

Trump critic and former national security adviser John Bolton to be charged soon, sources say

Bolton would be the third critic of the president to face federal charges. New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey were recently indicted.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Aug 9

1. Doug Wilson builds mini “fiefdom” in Moscow, ID
2. Doug Wilson disciples set up “hard tech” startups in El Segundo, CA (“The Gundo”)
3. Doug Wilson associates begin building a Christian community in TN
4. Doug Wilson plants new DC church. Pete Hegseth attends.
5. NatCon boosts Doug Wilson 1/

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 17h

Bari Weiss’s “DOGE-ness” is to be expected. Thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5d

Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 20h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21h

“Do we really want armed 18-year-olds on ICE raids?” 10/10/25 www.pilotonline.com/2025/10/10/c...

Column: Do we really want armed 18-year-olds on ICE raids?

In its rush to expand, ICE is placing immigrants, citizens and its own agents in harm’s way, immigration attorney Raul A. Reyes writes in an LA Times column.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA is freaking out & splintering over a leaked text chain—which TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet says is real—where Kirk wrote “Just lost another Jewish donor…Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot & will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” 1/

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jul 2

This seems ominous. Trump just appointed Josh Craddock—who recently signed a letter urging the DOJ to use the Comstock Act to curtail the distribution of abortion pills—to serve as Deputy Assistant AG in the OLC at the DOJ. 1/

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jun 30

👀 The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has just published an article by A3P Sr. Counsel Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to the states & requires a separation of church & state. 1/

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

I knew something was afoot in Missouri: On 9/30/25, Judge Kacsmaryk transferred a long-standing suit re: the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone from TX to the eastern district of Missouri. “All but one of the current full-time district court judges in [that district] were appointed by…Trump.” 1/

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Fox News reporter to Mike Johnson: "How can you say 'they take no pleasure in this,' and then the next minute say, 'Oh, they're just having fun and trolling?'"

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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 1d

María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician, won the Nobel Peace prize. Trump lost to a Venezuelan woman. How do you think he's taking it?

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 1d

Fox's Hugh Hewitt: If Trump isn't awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, “the Nobel committee will be discredited forever”

Whoops, looks like they're discredited forever.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 1d

Great! Name one…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

CNN: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans have no healthcare solutions. What do you say to her?

REP. PETE SESSIONS: She needs a couple more years in office and she would learn that we do have ideas on the table

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pooneil1.bsky.social @pooneil1.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi immediately starts sifting through Machado's past mortgage applications...

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