Robert Cotter
@robertcotter.bsky.social
From Chicago, or as David Letterman once called it, "the cradle of civilization." @IllinoisStateU. @NorthwesternLaw. Election law @StatesUnited. Views my own.
History repeats itself. With taxpayer money, no less.
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
History repeats itself. With taxpayer money, no less.
Binders full of notebooks full of concepts of ideas.
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Binders full of notebooks full of concepts of ideas.
Sneak peek at the upcoming offer from Republicans:
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Sneak peek at the upcoming offer from Republicans:
Watching the excellent “The White House Effect” on Netflix, which documents in exquisite detail just how the Reagan and H.W. Bush administrations completely fucked us on climate change.
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Watching the excellent “The White House Effect” on Netflix, which documents in exquisite detail just how the Reagan and H.W. Bush administrations completely fucked us on climate change.
My governor. 🫡
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My governor. 🫡
Call me crazy, but I still find it wild that an American president can essentially declare war on an American city and it doesn’t result in immediate and bipartisan demands for them to be removed from office.
September 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Call me crazy, but I still find it wild that an American president can essentially declare war on an American city and it doesn’t result in immediate and bipartisan demands for them to be removed from office.
Nathan Fielder is a prophet and I think you ought to listen to what he can say to you.
May 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Nathan Fielder is a prophet and I think you ought to listen to what he can say to you.
“Get me to God’s country.”
March 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“Get me to God’s country.”
Joe Buck calling baseball again just feels right.
March 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Joe Buck calling baseball again just feels right.
The Fab 5 have thoughts on Chuck Schumer.
March 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The Fab 5 have thoughts on Chuck Schumer.
IT’S CALEB’S LEAGUE!
Center Drew Dalman to the Chicago Bears on a 3-year deal (Adam Schefter)
Bears have added LG Joe Thuney, C Dalman and likely RG Jonah Jackson this offseason
Bears have added LG Joe Thuney, C Dalman and likely RG Jonah Jackson this offseason
March 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
IT’S CALEB’S LEAGUE!
Me with my cable bundle.
March 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Me with my cable bundle.
Remember when Elon’s X crashed at the start of 2025 NFL free agency, Bluesky took over, we never went back, and we were all happier and smarter for it?
March 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Remember when Elon’s X crashed at the start of 2025 NFL free agency, Bluesky took over, we never went back, and we were all happier and smarter for it?
Donald Trump is using this joint session of Congress to lay the groundwork to take Social Security away from the American people who’ve earned it.
March 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Donald Trump is using this joint session of Congress to lay the groundwork to take Social Security away from the American people who’ve earned it.
Never forget that Chicagoans shut down a planned Trump 2016 rally in the city. There’s a reason we’re the first city challenged by this ridiculous lawsuit.
February 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Never forget that Chicagoans shut down a planned Trump 2016 rally in the city. There’s a reason we’re the first city challenged by this ridiculous lawsuit.
If you trade 25-year-old Luka Doncic, you don’t deserve an NBA franchise. Fold the Mavs.
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
If you trade 25-year-old Luka Doncic, you don’t deserve an NBA franchise. Fold the Mavs.
JB Pritzker is one of the best messengers in the Democratic Party and folks in the party need to follow his lead.
Pritzker: "He promised he was gonna lower costs & make us safer. He's done none of it. I realize he's only been in office 2 weeks, but it's gotten worse, not better. You think grocery prices have gone down? No, they've gone up bc of what he's threatening or what he's already put in place"
February 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
JB Pritzker is one of the best messengers in the Democratic Party and folks in the party need to follow his lead.
When the next foreign policy disaster happens, remember the Trump State Department was hard at work on the most pressing issues of our time, like removing optional pronouns from email signatures.
State Department now ordering diplomats to remove pronouns from email signature blocks, per memo leaked to me
January 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
When the next foreign policy disaster happens, remember the Trump State Department was hard at work on the most pressing issues of our time, like removing optional pronouns from email signatures.
I saw the leak of the memo and thought it was a hoax. Cartoonishly racist.
Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month and more
The Defense Department intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events in response t...
apnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I saw the leak of the memo and thought it was a hoax. Cartoonishly racist.
We’ve got to stop putting people hellbent on destroying government in charge of government. Incompetent and incapable of governing.
January 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
We’ve got to stop putting people hellbent on destroying government in charge of government. Incompetent and incapable of governing.
Larry never did anything this awful to Cheryl Hines.
January 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Larry never did anything this awful to Cheryl Hines.
Who can forget when we learned in school that the Constitution gives the power of the purse to *checks notes* Russell T. Vought?
Asked how organizations that rely on federal funding should make payroll, Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says they should call Russ Vought and make a case
January 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Who can forget when we learned in school that the Constitution gives the power of the purse to *checks notes* Russell T. Vought?
Trump 2.0: Making us all worse off so he can punish the groups he doesn't like.
–Freeze on federal financial assistance like Medicaid, SNAP, and FAFSA.
–Diverting resources from drug trafficking and terrorism prosecutions to go after non-violent undocumented immigrants. tinyurl.com/yhz26s7n
–Freeze on federal financial assistance like Medicaid, SNAP, and FAFSA.
–Diverting resources from drug trafficking and terrorism prosecutions to go after non-violent undocumented immigrants. tinyurl.com/yhz26s7n
Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of federal aid
In a two-page memo, the Office of Management and Budget ordered all federal agencies to temporarily suspend payments.
tinyurl.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Trump 2.0: Making us all worse off so he can punish the groups he doesn't like.
–Freeze on federal financial assistance like Medicaid, SNAP, and FAFSA.
–Diverting resources from drug trafficking and terrorism prosecutions to go after non-violent undocumented immigrants. tinyurl.com/yhz26s7n
–Freeze on federal financial assistance like Medicaid, SNAP, and FAFSA.
–Diverting resources from drug trafficking and terrorism prosecutions to go after non-violent undocumented immigrants. tinyurl.com/yhz26s7n
There's no policy objective imaginable that justifies terrorizing children - and especially not in the safe haven that are schools are supposed to be.
Fucking shameful act and shame on anyone supporting it. On the other hand, proud of CPS. We don't play that in Chicago.
Fucking shameful act and shame on anyone supporting it. On the other hand, proud of CPS. We don't play that in Chicago.
BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents attempted to conduct an enforcement action at Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards, Ald. Jeanette Taylor and Chicago Public Schools officials said Friday. @wttw.bsky.social
ICE Agents Turned Away From Back of the Yards Elementary School: Officials
The agents were turned away and no one appears to have been detained, Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th Ward) told WTTW News.
news.wttw.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
There's no policy objective imaginable that justifies terrorizing children - and especially not in the safe haven that are schools are supposed to be.
Fucking shameful act and shame on anyone supporting it. On the other hand, proud of CPS. We don't play that in Chicago.
Fucking shameful act and shame on anyone supporting it. On the other hand, proud of CPS. We don't play that in Chicago.