Lynne Cohee
@lynnecohee.bsky.social
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🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
If we want to actually be a representative democracy, then the platform needs to be institutional reform. All the Popularism and all the policies follow from that, not the other way around.
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
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Whether it's Joe Lieberman going MAGA or Tim Kaine caving in on ACA, both vice-presidential nominees turned out to be assholes.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Whether it's Joe Lieberman going MAGA or Tim Kaine caving in on ACA, both vice-presidential nominees turned out to be assholes.
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Full argument is here:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Trump Humiliation Worsens as Fresh Info Reveals Scale of GOP Losses
The results showed that Democrats don’t have to choose between attacking Trump and highlighting the economy. In fact, they are often inseparable.
newrepublic.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Full argument is here:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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If you look at the White House demolition story and your first reaction is "no one gives a shit about this, they're worried about their bills" and not "this is the easiest proof point ever that the GOP doesn't give a shit about your bills" I'm afraid you have failed a fairly easy political IQ test
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
If you look at the White House demolition story and your first reaction is "no one gives a shit about this, they're worried about their bills" and not "this is the easiest proof point ever that the GOP doesn't give a shit about your bills" I'm afraid you have failed a fairly easy political IQ test
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The Washington Post thinks the White House Ballroom is a splendid idea and anyone who thinks otherwise is a NIMBY. In other news Post owner Jeff Bezos is helping to pay for the Ballroom
October 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Washington Post thinks the White House Ballroom is a splendid idea and anyone who thinks otherwise is a NIMBY. In other news Post owner Jeff Bezos is helping to pay for the Ballroom
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
Really good piece by @nhannahjones.bsky.social about how the cloying, selective memorialization of Kirk is helping his reprehensible ideas go mainstream.
Really good piece by @nhannahjones.bsky.social about how the cloying, selective memorialization of Kirk is helping his reprehensible ideas go mainstream.
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
Really good piece by @nhannahjones.bsky.social about how the cloying, selective memorialization of Kirk is helping his reprehensible ideas go mainstream.
Really good piece by @nhannahjones.bsky.social about how the cloying, selective memorialization of Kirk is helping his reprehensible ideas go mainstream.
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NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
www.motherjones.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
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🎉🎉🎉Shout out to Kaiser Permanente - they recently updated their website to say that they WILL be covering COVID-19 vaccines all of their members 6 months old and up!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you KP - let's hope their announcement kicks off more like it
kp.org/covidvaccine
Thank you KP - let's hope their announcement kicks off more like it
kp.org/covidvaccine
COVID-19 Vaccine Information | Kaiser Permanente
Get up-to-date information on the COVID-19 vaccine, including how to schedule an appointment and safety and effectiveness.
kp.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
🎉🎉🎉Shout out to Kaiser Permanente - they recently updated their website to say that they WILL be covering COVID-19 vaccines all of their members 6 months old and up!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you KP - let's hope their announcement kicks off more like it
kp.org/covidvaccine
Thank you KP - let's hope their announcement kicks off more like it
kp.org/covidvaccine
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We are a massive global outlier & our institutions are not fit for purpose.
He's right, and it's not just Brazil.
Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
September 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We are a massive global outlier & our institutions are not fit for purpose.
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When there was positive economic data under Biden, the New York Times told us to worry, with headlines like:
“Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery”
and
“Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead”
But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:
“Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery”
and
“Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead”
But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:
August 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
When there was positive economic data under Biden, the New York Times told us to worry, with headlines like:
“Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery”
and
“Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead”
But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:
“Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery”
and
“Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead”
But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:
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Here's a really galling example of what we're talking about. Note that @npr.org is only able to conceive of Trump's military occupations as a *political problem for Democrats.* This is some shockingly credulous and derelict framing.
August 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Here's a really galling example of what we're talking about. Note that @npr.org is only able to conceive of Trump's military occupations as a *political problem for Democrats.* This is some shockingly credulous and derelict framing.
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@ucs.org We think you might be interested in our statement on the domestic terror attack on CDC's main campus on Aug 8. FBF is made up of illegally fired CDC staff and their allies. Please consider amplifying our messages to #savescience, #saveCDC, and #savepublichealth.
August 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
@ucs.org We think you might be interested in our statement on the domestic terror attack on CDC's main campus on Aug 8. FBF is made up of illegally fired CDC staff and their allies. Please consider amplifying our messages to #savescience, #saveCDC, and #savepublichealth.
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Important.
1. You may have noticed something. I used to talk about the president’s dementia pretty regularly, but haven’t in months. That’s because I’ve lost faith. I used to believe the Washington press corps would see the plainly obvious. I no longer believe that. The hypocrisy is too baked in.
August 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Important.
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The only way out of our endless, 160 year-long cycle of total elite non-accountability is through:
We should have started doing the elite accountability thing in 1865, & kept doing it & then we wouldn’t be here. We should have finished Reconstruction & become an actual Republic of laws & equal rights for everyone. We still could do that now. It’s long past time.
🧵 The racist traitor, Robert Edward Lee, who was totally owned by Ely Parker at Appomattox, should have spent the rest of his life in prison & was an utterly horrible human being. We would know this if we observed Union Day as a federal holiday & had finished Reconstruction like a serious country.
August 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The only way out of our endless, 160 year-long cycle of total elite non-accountability is through:
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👇🎯💯
We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
If we do the Gerald Ford thing again, or the Rehabilitate Everyone Involved In Iran-Contra thing again, or the Bring Back The Adults Of The GWB WH Who Brought Us Katrina & Torture thing again, we’re doomed
We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
If we do the Gerald Ford thing again, or the Rehabilitate Everyone Involved In Iran-Contra thing again, or the Bring Back The Adults Of The GWB WH Who Brought Us Katrina & Torture thing again, we’re doomed
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
👇🎯💯
We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
If we do the Gerald Ford thing again, or the Rehabilitate Everyone Involved In Iran-Contra thing again, or the Bring Back The Adults Of The GWB WH Who Brought Us Katrina & Torture thing again, we’re doomed
We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
If we do the Gerald Ford thing again, or the Rehabilitate Everyone Involved In Iran-Contra thing again, or the Bring Back The Adults Of The GWB WH Who Brought Us Katrina & Torture thing again, we’re doomed
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Hey folks. We are just as furious as CDC. Kennedy created this perfect storm that put CDC employees in danger. This can be any of us agencies, given the admins disdain for us and making it impossible to do our job. This needs-attention,this needs calls to reps and senators. We need your voice.
We are furious this is not getting the attention it deserves.
🚨Domestic terrorism on a federal institution.
Readers, please tag reporters, news organizations, ANYONE & ask them to cover this.
It could have been far worse.
And without leaders addressing the root causes, the risk remains.
🚨Domestic terrorism on a federal institution.
Readers, please tag reporters, news organizations, ANYONE & ask them to cover this.
It could have been far worse.
And without leaders addressing the root causes, the risk remains.
August 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Hey folks. We are just as furious as CDC. Kennedy created this perfect storm that put CDC employees in danger. This can be any of us agencies, given the admins disdain for us and making it impossible to do our job. This needs-attention,this needs calls to reps and senators. We need your voice.
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New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution” @mcsweeneys.net
“As a tailor might stitch together a suit from pieces of textile, so too did the president fashion himself a bespoke garment from the supple threads of the nation’s legal fabric.”
“As a tailor might stitch together a suit from pieces of textile, so too did the president fashion himself a bespoke garment from the supple threads of the nation’s legal fabric.”
New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution”
“The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.”
“Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the ...
www.mcsweeneys.net
August 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution” @mcsweeneys.net
“As a tailor might stitch together a suit from pieces of textile, so too did the president fashion himself a bespoke garment from the supple threads of the nation’s legal fabric.”
“As a tailor might stitch together a suit from pieces of textile, so too did the president fashion himself a bespoke garment from the supple threads of the nation’s legal fabric.”
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Democrats stood strong, and Donald Trump got nothing.
August 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Democrats stood strong, and Donald Trump got nothing.
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Joe Biden <actually> won the war on a pandemic & inflation, without wildly violating the law or ratified international treaties, & he was eviscerated in the National Conversation™️ for it. He never got treated like this One Special Boy 🧐🤷♂️🤦♂️
July 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Joe Biden <actually> won the war on a pandemic & inflation, without wildly violating the law or ratified international treaties, & he was eviscerated in the National Conversation™️ for it. He never got treated like this One Special Boy 🧐🤷♂️🤦♂️
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And yes, this is happening because of House Democrats, Republicans did not do it to themselves and would not be halting if Dems were not using amendments this way
July 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
And yes, this is happening because of House Democrats, Republicans did not do it to themselves and would not be halting if Dems were not using amendments this way
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We’ve noticed that local news outlets are doing a much better job at communicating the reality of right wing policies.
We consider subscribing to local news sharing local news journalism - actions.
Here’s our 50-state local journalism directory.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
We consider subscribing to local news sharing local news journalism - actions.
Here’s our 50-state local journalism directory.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
Local Journalism Directory | Media and Democracy Project
We created a directory to help you find local journalism and local news sources in your area worth reading and supporting.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org
July 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We’ve noticed that local news outlets are doing a much better job at communicating the reality of right wing policies.
We consider subscribing to local news sharing local news journalism - actions.
Here’s our 50-state local journalism directory.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
We consider subscribing to local news sharing local news journalism - actions.
Here’s our 50-state local journalism directory.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
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We love America, and love keeping Americans safe, so we introduced the Visible Act. It requires ICE agents to wear identifiable badges and conduct their duties unmasked.
Policies centered around transparency and accountability are effective in making communities, and law enforcement safer.
Policies centered around transparency and accountability are effective in making communities, and law enforcement safer.
July 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We love America, and love keeping Americans safe, so we introduced the Visible Act. It requires ICE agents to wear identifiable badges and conduct their duties unmasked.
Policies centered around transparency and accountability are effective in making communities, and law enforcement safer.
Policies centered around transparency and accountability are effective in making communities, and law enforcement safer.
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Senate Ds did fight every step of way, made the bill toxic, forced Tillis to retire, made them vote in broad daylight as bill got worse, nixed some truly awful parts. They need more members. In 2026, vote out every R. That is what the lesson is here.
July 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Senate Ds did fight every step of way, made the bill toxic, forced Tillis to retire, made them vote in broad daylight as bill got worse, nixed some truly awful parts. They need more members. In 2026, vote out every R. That is what the lesson is here.