Mika Cooper
@mikacooper.bsky.social
Once an English professor, now a layabout, laying stuff about.
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Imagine being so utterly incapable of joy
December 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Imagine being so utterly incapable of joy
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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As is the case with Musk, and even Trump, the most grotesque part is not their existence — awful people have always been around and always will be. The most grotesque part is nominally smart or honest or decent people taken in by them. Or, at least, pretending to be taken in, for advantage.
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
As is the case with Musk, and even Trump, the most grotesque part is not their existence — awful people have always been around and always will be. The most grotesque part is nominally smart or honest or decent people taken in by them. Or, at least, pretending to be taken in, for advantage.
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Ørsted and Vestas, which are behind the projects that Trump is cancelling. And its timing, coming immediately after Trump's appointment of Jeff Landry as his leader for the occupation and absorption of Greenland, is also understood. Trump is at war with Denmark, and these are early blows.
December 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Ørsted and Vestas, which are behind the projects that Trump is cancelling. And its timing, coming immediately after Trump's appointment of Jeff Landry as his leader for the occupation and absorption of Greenland, is also understood. Trump is at war with Denmark, and these are early blows.
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no foreign enemy has ever done more damage to the USA than this administration — not all of them combined throughout history
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
no foreign enemy has ever done more damage to the USA than this administration — not all of them combined throughout history
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
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Congratulations to Batya for winning the 2026 Donald Trump-Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
December 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of
The Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party
The Court held its first-ever office Christmas party in 1946. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting Black employees. It did not go over well.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of
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Every descendant of slaves has more American heritage than Trump. But I don’t imagine that figures large in the minds of most people using the phrase.
December 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Every descendant of slaves has more American heritage than Trump. But I don’t imagine that figures large in the minds of most people using the phrase.
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Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”
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A judge who is only allowed to rule one way
This, too, is outrageous -- firing an immigration judge because he granted asylum to six people. Trump's folks have made clear they want "deportation judges." Just rejecting any semblance of due process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US army lawyer fired as immigration judge after defying Trump deportation agenda
Christopher Day was fired barely a month into the job after granting asylum to migrants at a high rate
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A judge who is only allowed to rule one way
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FUN FACTE: The Emu ys the onlye flightless bird whose name ys also an abbreviacioun for Eastern Michigan Universitye.
December 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
FUN FACTE: The Emu ys the onlye flightless bird whose name ys also an abbreviacioun for Eastern Michigan Universitye.
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Renaming the Kennedy Center, our national fine arts center, after such a coarse, lowbrow, and ignorant buffoon is America at its very stupidest.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Renaming the Kennedy Center, our national fine arts center, after such a coarse, lowbrow, and ignorant buffoon is America at its very stupidest.
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I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat
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In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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definitely written by a very real human
December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
definitely written by a very real human
Evil monsters. (free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...
Trump Moves to End Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Evil monsters. (free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...
One final column from Doctorow for the year, in which he takes inspiration from a John Lanchester review pointing out that 97% of the financial sector of the economy—its largest sector—consists entirely of gambling. No socially productive use of money at all.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/s...
pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/s...
Pluralistic: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (18 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
One final column from Doctorow for the year, in which he takes inspiration from a John Lanchester review pointing out that 97% of the financial sector of the economy—its largest sector—consists entirely of gambling. No socially productive use of money at all.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/s...
pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/s...
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year
Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year
SPRINGFIELD, MA—Facing intense backlash and scrutiny from critics who say the reference book publisher had failed to take all words into consideration, Merriam-Webster was accused of bias Monday after...
theonion.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year
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In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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There's an exchange during Watergate where a Nixon official is giving the lie about Rosemary Woods accidentally erasing 18 1/2 minutes from an Oval Office tape.
The reporter asks "But is that believable? Do you think people will believe that?!"
"... Uh, sure."
"HOW?"
The reporter asks "But is that believable? Do you think people will believe that?!"
"... Uh, sure."
"HOW?"
What's striking about Trump's lies, and those of his apologists, is that they're not even plausible. They don't try to be plausible. As others have noted, that's kind of the point. True authoritarian control and power is telling a blatant and obvious lie, and showing you can get away with it.
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
There's an exchange during Watergate where a Nixon official is giving the lie about Rosemary Woods accidentally erasing 18 1/2 minutes from an Oval Office tape.
The reporter asks "But is that believable? Do you think people will believe that?!"
"... Uh, sure."
"HOW?"
The reporter asks "But is that believable? Do you think people will believe that?!"
"... Uh, sure."
"HOW?"