Mika Cooper
@mikacooper.bsky.social
Once an English professor, now a layabout, laying stuff about.
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Pass it on. Link below.
January 27, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Pass it on. Link below.
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One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings.
This can't be "reformed"
This can't be "reformed"
January 27, 2026 at 3:20 PM
One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings.
This can't be "reformed"
This can't be "reformed"
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Chuck Schumer's starting position should be as maximalist as possible -- complete abolition of ICE, resignations of Bovino, Homan, Noem and Miller, unmasking of all agents, and prosecution by state authorities of the murderers.
Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.
Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Chuck Schumer's starting position should be as maximalist as possible -- complete abolition of ICE, resignations of Bovino, Homan, Noem and Miller, unmasking of all agents, and prosecution by state authorities of the murderers.
Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.
Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.
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This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 AM
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
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Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”
January 25, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”
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BREAKING - Iran update
As some Iranians have been able to use messaging apps, confirmed fatalities, arrests, etc have skyrocketed.
Currently 22,490 fatalities have been confirmed and are under investigation.
As some Iranians have been able to use messaging apps, confirmed fatalities, arrests, etc have skyrocketed.
Currently 22,490 fatalities have been confirmed and are under investigation.
January 25, 2026 at 5:10 AM
BREAKING - Iran update
As some Iranians have been able to use messaging apps, confirmed fatalities, arrests, etc have skyrocketed.
Currently 22,490 fatalities have been confirmed and are under investigation.
As some Iranians have been able to use messaging apps, confirmed fatalities, arrests, etc have skyrocketed.
Currently 22,490 fatalities have been confirmed and are under investigation.
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Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
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I STILL haven’t gotten over this.
Imagine the kind of person you’d have to be to have just either shot someone or been in the scrum of people who did, a person who posed no threat and who was now dead, and faced with understandable outrage, said BOO HOO.
Imagine the kind of person you’d have to be to have just either shot someone or been in the scrum of people who did, a person who posed no threat and who was now dead, and faced with understandable outrage, said BOO HOO.
Boo hoo? He’s walking away from a KILLING and he says BOO HOO?
“One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling (protesters): ‘Boo hoo.’” apnews.com/article/immi...
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 AM
I STILL haven’t gotten over this.
Imagine the kind of person you’d have to be to have just either shot someone or been in the scrum of people who did, a person who posed no threat and who was now dead, and faced with understandable outrage, said BOO HOO.
Imagine the kind of person you’d have to be to have just either shot someone or been in the scrum of people who did, a person who posed no threat and who was now dead, and faced with understandable outrage, said BOO HOO.
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Quid Pro Quo.
We’ll use ICE to murder US citizens and terrorize your cities unless you give us your voter records so we can rig the election for Trump in 2028.
We’ll use ICE to murder US citizens and terrorize your cities unless you give us your voter records so we can rig the election for Trump in 2028.
January 25, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Quid Pro Quo.
We’ll use ICE to murder US citizens and terrorize your cities unless you give us your voter records so we can rig the election for Trump in 2028.
We’ll use ICE to murder US citizens and terrorize your cities unless you give us your voter records so we can rig the election for Trump in 2028.
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We already had the real-world experience of unvaccinated people getting measles, and it's why we invented the vaccine for measles.
It's one thing to be a sociopath playing with the lives of others. It's another to be gleefully stupid about it.
It's one thing to be a sociopath playing with the lives of others. It's another to be gleefully stupid about it.
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
January 23, 2026 at 2:47 PM
We already had the real-world experience of unvaccinated people getting measles, and it's why we invented the vaccine for measles.
It's one thing to be a sociopath playing with the lives of others. It's another to be gleefully stupid about it.
It's one thing to be a sociopath playing with the lives of others. It's another to be gleefully stupid about it.
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Trump: "RECORD NUMBERS ALL OVER THE PLACE! SHOULD I TRY FOR A FOURTH TERM?"
January 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Trump: "RECORD NUMBERS ALL OVER THE PLACE! SHOULD I TRY FOR A FOURTH TERM?"
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I know we normalize everything this thoroughly abnormal man does but to reiterate: the president is SUING a newspaper over a poll result he doesn’t like and claims not to believe.
He is suing over a poll. Insanity. 25th Amendment territory. Again.
He is suing over a poll. Insanity. 25th Amendment territory. Again.
Trump says he's adding his bad poll numbers to his lawsuit against the Times. Deeply embarrassing stuff.
January 22, 2026 at 7:25 PM
I know we normalize everything this thoroughly abnormal man does but to reiterate: the president is SUING a newspaper over a poll result he doesn’t like and claims not to believe.
He is suing over a poll. Insanity. 25th Amendment territory. Again.
He is suing over a poll. Insanity. 25th Amendment territory. Again.
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Q: Do you have any moral or ethical qualms about detaining a five-year-old on his way back from preschool?
Border Patrol Chief Bovino: I've got no qualms about making America a safer place
Border Patrol Chief Bovino: I've got no qualms about making America a safer place
January 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Q: Do you have any moral or ethical qualms about detaining a five-year-old on his way back from preschool?
Border Patrol Chief Bovino: I've got no qualms about making America a safer place
Border Patrol Chief Bovino: I've got no qualms about making America a safer place
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VOA's headquarters, 'the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal,' faces possible destruction as part of the Trump administration's drive for "maximum value for the federal real estate footprint." wapo.st/4a5NCsq
The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal
Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.
wapo.st
January 22, 2026 at 2:07 PM
VOA's headquarters, 'the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal,' faces possible destruction as part of the Trump administration's drive for "maximum value for the federal real estate footprint." wapo.st/4a5NCsq
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watching sobbing teenagers getting pulled out of their cars by masked goons glowering at us through tiny slits in their fully-masked uniforms, brandishing weapons at the crowd, and launching huge amounts of teargas into parks and businesses to make their escape
January 21, 2026 at 9:53 PM
watching sobbing teenagers getting pulled out of their cars by masked goons glowering at us through tiny slits in their fully-masked uniforms, brandishing weapons at the crowd, and launching huge amounts of teargas into parks and businesses to make their escape
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Bret Kavanaugh's legal legacy.
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Bret Kavanaugh's legal legacy.
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This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
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"In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis... an FBI agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a probe into the actions of the officer who shot Good..."
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:44 PM
"In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis... an FBI agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a probe into the actions of the officer who shot Good..."
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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I think Democrats are reluctant to say that welfare fraud is a significant problem because welfare fraud is not a significant problem.
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
January 19, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I think Democrats are reluctant to say that welfare fraud is a significant problem because welfare fraud is not a significant problem.
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
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The Atlantic laundering yet another right-wing narrative into the mainstream
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
January 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The Atlantic laundering yet another right-wing narrative into the mainstream
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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No federal judge has the power or authority to make DOJ comply with the mandatory provisions of the Epstein Act, says Pam Bondi. It's unenforceable and meaningless. Essentially, DOJ is a lawless if not criminal enterprise, not a law enforcement agency, at this point.
January 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM
No federal judge has the power or authority to make DOJ comply with the mandatory provisions of the Epstein Act, says Pam Bondi. It's unenforceable and meaningless. Essentially, DOJ is a lawless if not criminal enterprise, not a law enforcement agency, at this point.
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I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
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A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:
January 16, 2026 at 8:16 PM
A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting: