Sam Cohen
@samcohen.bsky.social
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Sam Cohen
@samcohen.bsky.social
· Sep 5
Proud to be in the new issue of the Dial with these people, talking about the current state of higher ed
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55494
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55494
You know you guys I think they might be racist
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
You know you guys I think they might be racist
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Roberts Court Republicans use shadow docket to refuse to allow its precedents to be applied because it would be an electoral disadvantage for the Republican Party www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/robe...
Roberts Court Republicans use shadow docket to refuse to allow its precedents to be applied because it would be an electoral disadvantage for the Republican Party - Lawyers, Guns & Money
And in doing so shows its typical unbridled contempt for federal judges who try to apply rules other than “Trump wins”: Notably, in assessing “irreparable harm” that Texas would face, the court also s...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country.
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country.
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
What a country
"Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY."
Homeland Security Busts Into Jackson Heights Apartment Building in Pre-Dawn Raid
Dozens of agents wielding assault rifles took two middle-aged, Spanish-speaking people away in cuffs early Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead.
www.thecity.nyc
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
What a country
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Where’s the CBS News town hall focused on the Democrats assassinated in Minnesota?
Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
Bari Weiss to moderate CBS News town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk
Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Where’s the CBS News town hall focused on the Democrats assassinated in Minnesota?
Go to grad school, I said to myself, live the life of the mind, immerse yourself in books, I said
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Go to grad school, I said to myself, live the life of the mind, immerse yourself in books, I said
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I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Idk if this is the quintessential Onion headline but I've thought of this at least once a week for almost a decade
December 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Idk if this is the quintessential Onion headline but I've thought of this at least once a week for almost a decade
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What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
May 19, 2024 at 12:26 PM
What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
Some pretty perfect guitar here. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5c...
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Some pretty perfect guitar here. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5c...
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If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
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One of the lowest points in US history - the president going on unhinged white supremacist rants in public appearance after public appearance, targeting a specific ethnic group - but because it’s Trump our political class is incapable of perceiving what it is and reacting appropriately
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
One of the lowest points in US history - the president going on unhinged white supremacist rants in public appearance after public appearance, targeting a specific ethnic group - but because it’s Trump our political class is incapable of perceiving what it is and reacting appropriately
What a goddamn embarrasment
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
What a goddamn embarrasment
Scenes from the end of a semester
December 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Scenes from the end of a semester
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Nodding at this from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social in the context of the exchange about MAGA propaganda that's below:
www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Nodding at this from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social in the context of the exchange about MAGA propaganda that's below:
www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
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Abstractions without principles are mere euphemisms.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
Yeah, what is 'Post-Liberalism' anyway?
Questions for Ross Douthat
www.unpopularfront.news
December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Couldn't be happier to become one of the (minor heads) on the Flaming Hydra. Writing about Death By Lightning, growing up in Ohio, Hungarian film tax incentives—the usual.
ALSO TODAY: J.D. Connor remembers some dead presidents. “But the wild thing about Garfield’s assassination is that there was nothing lightning about it. It took forever—two and a half months from the shooting to his eventual death from sepsis.” flaminghydra.com/lets-remembe...
Let’s Remember Some Presidents
a fiery writer-owned cooperative
flaminghydra.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Couldn't be happier to become one of the (minor heads) on the Flaming Hydra. Writing about Death By Lightning, growing up in Ohio, Hungarian film tax incentives—the usual.
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Good reminder that Trump was guilty of an egregious crime simply in Georgia, let alone the rest of the country, and should have served a significant stint in prison. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Last Big Case Against Trump Has Been Dropped
The U.S. justice and political systems have shown that they can’t hold the president and his allies to account for trying to steal the 2020 election.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Good reminder that Trump was guilty of an egregious crime simply in Georgia, let alone the rest of the country, and should have served a significant stint in prison. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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If a man personally implicated in war crimes can remain atop the Pentagon, why would he stand by and risk his freedom should Vance (or Trump again) lose the 2028 election?
And unless Bradley sees the inside of a brig, the message to USSOCOM's chain of command is that no action is impermissible.
And unless Bradley sees the inside of a brig, the message to USSOCOM's chain of command is that no action is impermissible.
Pete Hegseth And Adm. Mitch Bradley Belong In Prison
The South American boat strikes are plainly murders. Now we have the names of the murderers. Do we have the political will to lock them up?
www.forever-wars.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If a man personally implicated in war crimes can remain atop the Pentagon, why would he stand by and risk his freedom should Vance (or Trump again) lose the 2028 election?
And unless Bradley sees the inside of a brig, the message to USSOCOM's chain of command is that no action is impermissible.
And unless Bradley sees the inside of a brig, the message to USSOCOM's chain of command is that no action is impermissible.
Talk to anybody in cities with Somali immigrant communities from Minnesota to Maine and they'll tell you how wrong he is. Also: it doesn't matter. Your parents are supposed to teach you when you're little not to judge people by where they come from. His didn't. There's your garbage.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Talk to anybody in cities with Somali immigrant communities from Minnesota to Maine and they'll tell you how wrong he is. Also: it doesn't matter. Your parents are supposed to teach you when you're little not to judge people by where they come from. His didn't. There's your garbage.
She's at it again
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
She's at it again