Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist.
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Oh we are absolutely at the John Wayne fantasy stage of cognitive decline for grandpa, huh
December 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Oh we are absolutely at the John Wayne fantasy stage of cognitive decline for grandpa, huh
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Let me tell you something daddy… if James Talarico can’t win a Texas primary he’s not beating John Cornyn
December 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Let me tell you something daddy… if James Talarico can’t win a Texas primary he’s not beating John Cornyn
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It's clear from the article that ICE is *miserable* here. They're freezing their asses off and being harassed everywhere they go. Property managers aren't allowing them access to rental properties and people know their rights and aren't letting them in.
KEEP IT UP.
KEEP IT UP.
December 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's clear from the article that ICE is *miserable* here. They're freezing their asses off and being harassed everywhere they go. Property managers aren't allowing them access to rental properties and people know their rights and aren't letting them in.
KEEP IT UP.
KEEP IT UP.
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I don’t know that Ford Motor Company and World War II would be the first example I reached for …
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I don’t know that Ford Motor Company and World War II would be the first example I reached for …
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Jim Costa's district is safe, there's no reason for him to be doing this.
7 Democrats joined Republicans in voting to prevent states from applying their own clean water laws to pipeline project reviews.
Jim Costa
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Jared Golden
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
Jim Costa
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Jared Golden
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov
December 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Jim Costa's district is safe, there's no reason for him to be doing this.
Jan 1, 2018: I was planning to go to the Boston City Council inauguration. Got a late start and when I realized that I’d have to go to an overflow room, I decided to go to the AMC for a 10 am screening of The Shape of Water. Only one there until 9:55!
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Jan 1, 2018: I was planning to go to the Boston City Council inauguration. Got a late start and when I realized that I’d have to go to an overflow room, I decided to go to the AMC for a 10 am screening of The Shape of Water. Only one there until 9:55!
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[tapping earpiece] I'm just now getting a startling revelation about the shocking thing in common between those who work forces and those who burn crosses
Gun-Toting Border Patrol Goon Unmasked as Racist Online Troll
www.thedailybeast.com/gun-toting-b...
www.thedailybeast.com/gun-toting-b...
Gun-Toting Border Patrol Goon Unmasked as Racist Online Troll
An agent criticized for his role in a violent arrest boosted racist and anti-LGBT posts on his X account.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
[tapping earpiece] I'm just now getting a startling revelation about the shocking thing in common between those who work forces and those who burn crosses
The Trump administration wants to make flying unsafe: unsafe because of surveillance, unsafe because of understaffed air traffic controllers, and unsafe because of gutted consumer protections. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The Trump administration wants to make flying unsafe: unsafe because of surveillance, unsafe because of understaffed air traffic controllers, and unsafe because of gutted consumer protections. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
7 Democrats joined Republicans in voting to prevent states from applying their own clean water laws to pipeline project reviews.
Jim Costa
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Jared Golden
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
Jim Costa
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Jared Golden
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
7 Democrats joined Republicans in voting to prevent states from applying their own clean water laws to pipeline project reviews.
Jim Costa
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Jared Golden
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
Jim Costa
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Jared Golden
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
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"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
Democrats Return Henry Cuellar to Powerful Spending Post After Trump Pardon
“We got ratified,” Cuellar told reporters after the vote.
www.notus.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
I will never forgive nor forget Ruben Gallego for saying letting people be tortured in CECOT was no big deal and could be good actually.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I will never forgive nor forget Ruben Gallego for saying letting people be tortured in CECOT was no big deal and could be good actually.
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shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
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LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
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Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
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This is so sad. How have we let reading become abnormal in HS?
In English class at my CPS HS, we read a book every few weeks. Multiple per semester. Reading books and learning how to analyze them feels so quintessential HS.
In English class at my CPS HS, we read a book every few weeks. Multiple per semester. Reading books and learning how to analyze them feels so quintessential HS.
In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is so sad. How have we let reading become abnormal in HS?
In English class at my CPS HS, we read a book every few weeks. Multiple per semester. Reading books and learning how to analyze them feels so quintessential HS.
In English class at my CPS HS, we read a book every few weeks. Multiple per semester. Reading books and learning how to analyze them feels so quintessential HS.
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It’s really just that they hate accommodating people with any disability and there are no signs for some of the fucking gibberish that come out of his mouth
What a pathetic argument apnews.com/article/amer...
Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image
The Trump administration argues that providing real-time American Sign Language interpretation for events like White House press briefings would intrude on the president’s control over his public imag...
apnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It’s really just that they hate accommodating people with any disability and there are no signs for some of the fucking gibberish that come out of his mouth
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So this "image" that he controls... is one of a man who looks like he faceplanted into a bucket of turmeric?
What a pathetic argument apnews.com/article/amer...
Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image
The Trump administration argues that providing real-time American Sign Language interpretation for events like White House press briefings would intrude on the president’s control over his public imag...
apnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So this "image" that he controls... is one of a man who looks like he faceplanted into a bucket of turmeric?
What a pathetic argument apnews.com/article/amer...
Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image
The Trump administration argues that providing real-time American Sign Language interpretation for events like White House press briefings would intrude on the president’s control over his public imag...
apnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
What a pathetic argument apnews.com/article/amer...
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That same 30% are the unabashed fascists in the country. It's always 30 to 35%. 30% would say to bring back chattel slavery if they were sure the survey was anonymous.
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That same 30% are the unabashed fascists in the country. It's always 30 to 35%. 30% would say to bring back chattel slavery if they were sure the survey was anonymous.
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The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
They know that their agenda is unpopular, and that is why they are trying to do everything they can to rig the elections in their favor. newrepublic.com/post/204361/...
Trump’s Own RNC Chair Warns Party Faces “Almost Certain Defeat”
The head of the Republican National Committee has given a particularly blunt interview on his party’s future.
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
They know that their agenda is unpopular, and that is why they are trying to do everything they can to rig the elections in their favor. newrepublic.com/post/204361/...
We are already experiencing the costs of climate change and climate inaction. And we need the major polluters who caused the crisis to start paying up.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/s...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/s...
A ‘revolving door of suffering’: Climate disasters by the numbers in Massachusetts - The Boston Globe
Extreme weather disasters in Massachusetts have cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. But investing in resilient infrastructure could yield significant returns.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We are already experiencing the costs of climate change and climate inaction. And we need the major polluters who caused the crisis to start paying up.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/s...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/s...