Lydia Cooper
@lydiacooper.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Complete Luddite. Views my own. (They/them)
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Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.
The degree to which the Democratic Party is failing to meet this moment is staggering. And INFURIATING, when contrasted with the courage on display from ordinary people with far, far less power & protection.
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.
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We must never forget the lives lost to anti-transgender violence & discrimination. 🏳️⚧️ Share to support the #TransgenderDayofRemembrance! #NOH8 #TDOR
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We must never forget the lives lost to anti-transgender violence & discrimination. 🏳️⚧️ Share to support the #TransgenderDayofRemembrance! #NOH8 #TDOR
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Pope Leo in new book: “We must look at our world, directly: we can no longer tolerate structural injustices in which those who have more always have more, and, conversely, those who have less become increasingly poor.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Leo XIV: Recognizing each other as brothers is antidote to all extremism - Vatican News
The Vatican Publishing House (LEV) releases Pope Leo XIV’s new book, entitled “The Power of the Gospel: Christian Faith in 10 Words.” Edited by ...
www.vaticannews.va
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Pope Leo in new book: “We must look at our world, directly: we can no longer tolerate structural injustices in which those who have more always have more, and, conversely, those who have less become increasingly poor.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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NEW: @warren.senate.gov and I just introduced our EXPERTS Act — legislation to ensure that bills passed into law actually work for Americans and don’t get warped by corporations working for their own bottom lines.
We’re taking the fight to Trump’s corruption. jayapal.house.gov/2025/11/19/j...
We’re taking the fight to Trump’s corruption. jayapal.house.gov/2025/11/19/j...
Jayapal, Warren Introduce Legislation to Curb Corporate Influence on Federal Regulation, Restore Deference to Experts - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA) are introducing the Experts Protect Effective Rules, Transparency, and Stability (EXPERTS) Act to r...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
NEW: @warren.senate.gov and I just introduced our EXPERTS Act — legislation to ensure that bills passed into law actually work for Americans and don’t get warped by corporations working for their own bottom lines.
We’re taking the fight to Trump’s corruption. jayapal.house.gov/2025/11/19/j...
We’re taking the fight to Trump’s corruption. jayapal.house.gov/2025/11/19/j...
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Thousands of indigenous leaders in education have gathered in Auckland for the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education, the event returning to New Zealand for the first time in 20 years.
#nzpol
#nzpol
'Wonderful experience': Global indigenous groups gather in Auckland
Thousands of indigenous leaders in education have gathered in Auckland for the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education, the event returning to New Zealand for the first time in 20 years.
www.1news.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Thousands of indigenous leaders in education have gathered in Auckland for the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education, the event returning to New Zealand for the first time in 20 years.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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I'm thinking today of all my fellow veterans but especially the more than 5,000 trans service members and their families who were kicked out of the military this year despite being highly qualified and serving honorably. This injustice will be a stain on our nation's history.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I'm thinking today of all my fellow veterans but especially the more than 5,000 trans service members and their families who were kicked out of the military this year despite being highly qualified and serving honorably. This injustice will be a stain on our nation's history.
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Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
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Lost your ballot? Never received it? Don’t worry, you can go to kingcounty.gov and print out a new one or vote in person at Lumen Field or the UW Hub by 8pm. Let’s win this, this is your city!
#thisisyourcity #seattle #vote #wilsonforseattle #ballot #missingballot #katiewilson
#thisisyourcity #seattle #vote #wilsonforseattle #ballot #missingballot #katiewilson
November 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Lost your ballot? Never received it? Don’t worry, you can go to kingcounty.gov and print out a new one or vote in person at Lumen Field or the UW Hub by 8pm. Let’s win this, this is your city!
#thisisyourcity #seattle #vote #wilsonforseattle #ballot #missingballot #katiewilson
#thisisyourcity #seattle #vote #wilsonforseattle #ballot #missingballot #katiewilson
Is this bad? 🫠
A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
www.pbs.org
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Is this bad? 🫠
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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My semi-annual reminder to all teachers that even when the system does fuck all to support you, your students will still be in their therapy sessions years after they’ve graduated telling their therapist (me) how much you changed their lives.
Y’all are amazing, and you don’t hear it enough.
Y’all are amazing, and you don’t hear it enough.
October 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My semi-annual reminder to all teachers that even when the system does fuck all to support you, your students will still be in their therapy sessions years after they’ve graduated telling their therapist (me) how much you changed their lives.
Y’all are amazing, and you don’t hear it enough.
Y’all are amazing, and you don’t hear it enough.
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Rachel Maddow and I discuss a shocking new move by the Trump administration: sending Department of Justice “poll monitors” — handpicked by Pam Bondi — to California and New Jersey just days before the November elections and why this poses a grave threat to free and fair elections.
Rachel Maddow & Marc Elias Break Down Trump's DOJ Poll Monitor Scheme
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Rachel Maddow and I discuss a shocking new move by the Trump administration: sending Department of Justice “poll monitors” — handpicked by Pam Bondi — to California and New Jersey just days before the November elections and why this poses a grave threat to free and fair elections.
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As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
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Three men — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos — now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined.
They own the media.
They own the algorithms.
They own politicians in both parties.
The system is rigged — but We the People can take it back.
They own the media.
They own the algorithms.
They own politicians in both parties.
The system is rigged — but We the People can take it back.
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Three men — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos — now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined.
They own the media.
They own the algorithms.
They own politicians in both parties.
The system is rigged — but We the People can take it back.
They own the media.
They own the algorithms.
They own politicians in both parties.
The system is rigged — but We the People can take it back.
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Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
So at what point do states realize that the federal government is failing the basic tenets of federalization and begin to withhold their federal taxes to care for their own states’ needs? This is a genuine question.
So Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout from our tax dollars but devastated small towns here at home — nothing.
October 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
So at what point do states realize that the federal government is failing the basic tenets of federalization and begin to withhold their federal taxes to care for their own states’ needs? This is a genuine question.
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Major disasters caused $101 billion in damages in the first half of 2025 — the costliest six month period on record.
How do we know? A nonprofit had to take over NOAA’s work tracking disasters, which Trump gutted.
What else doesn’t he want us to know?
How do we know? A nonprofit had to take over NOAA’s work tracking disasters, which Trump gutted.
What else doesn’t he want us to know?
Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows
LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Major disasters caused $101 billion in damages in the first half of 2025 — the costliest six month period on record.
How do we know? A nonprofit had to take over NOAA’s work tracking disasters, which Trump gutted.
What else doesn’t he want us to know?
How do we know? A nonprofit had to take over NOAA’s work tracking disasters, which Trump gutted.
What else doesn’t he want us to know?
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One of the last truly wild places on Earth, sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife, wilderness and cultural values.
Now, the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1.5 million acres, has been opened up for oil and gas leasing.
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Now, the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1.5 million acres, has been opened up for oil and gas leasing.
vimeo.com/247917667?fl...
Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
This is "Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" by Alaska Conservation Foundation on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
One of the last truly wild places on Earth, sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife, wilderness and cultural values.
Now, the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1.5 million acres, has been opened up for oil and gas leasing.
vimeo.com/247917667?fl...
Now, the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1.5 million acres, has been opened up for oil and gas leasing.
vimeo.com/247917667?fl...
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WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
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he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Proud of you, Seattle. @jayapal.house.gov says this is our “if you can keep it” moment. We showed up all across this country to show up for democracy, for our liberty, our rights, and our neighbors—all our neighbors. We stand together, or we won’t stand at all.
Nearly 90,000 join Seattle’s ‘No Kings’ march
Rep. Pramila Jayapal called the moment a test of whether America can keep its republic.
www.king5.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Proud of you, Seattle. @jayapal.house.gov says this is our “if you can keep it” moment. We showed up all across this country to show up for democracy, for our liberty, our rights, and our neighbors—all our neighbors. We stand together, or we won’t stand at all.
