Rachel Cohen

Appreciate that folks lift up the Panthers. Black groups pre-dating the Panthers were also doing community patrols. See one example here: nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah...

Joshua Clark Davis's Police Against the Movement offers some other examples too.

I fear I must continue discussing Brad Karp and asking questions like “did the nonsensical decisions of major corporate law firms that directly undermined legal resistance to fascism in this country last year stem from the lemmings following a guy who knew he was in the Epstein files?”

What a useful resource for organizing.

Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.

We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.

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why are we pretending DJT isn’t testing the waters to run again instead of calling that shit out and organizing to prevent it liiiike
anyway that’s @americandemands.bsky.social we aren’t as active over here and were slow over the holidays but r back to it

sooo many political strategist types continue to act like it’s ridiculous (or counterproductive) to name that Trump obviously wants to subvert the 2028 election and stay in power. meanwhile, NYT is scratching its chin noting no one seems to be gearing up to enter a Republican primary

every other powerful man in the country when

YouTube video by Chicago Sun-Times Marimar Martinez speaks with WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times reporters about getting shot 5 times by ICE.

NEW: The @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org have published a 12-minute excerpt of our interview with Marimar Martinez, in which she describes being shot by Border Patrol in Chicago.

You can find it here: youtu.be/mCO4vI_KH1w?...

I’m sure this is old news but today is the day that I personally learned Alan Dershowitz is on Substack

do NOT tempt me I will do this on Microsoft Teams

anyway! read my explainer on how to get involved in mutual aid/organizing from scratch or send it to a friend who needs it—concrete steps and book recs and some gentle but still tough love

open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...

if the cryptic observations are about the hypothetical one-degree-removed observations they don’t count, they taught this in law school

kid holding in fart meme

me, millennial to the bone, resisting the urge to overshare pithy and cryptic observations about my personal life on social media because I am arguably a “public figure” and also “almost 32”

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Jeff Bezos does NOT

Kim rocks

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

ALL THESE PEOPLE DO IS GOSSIP. SOCIAL CAPITAL IS EVERYTHING. EVERYONE KNEW IF SOMEONE THOUGHT YOU DIDNT KNOW THEY WOULDVE PULLED YOU ASIDE AND TOLD YOU

I know everyone knows this but I do think it’s worth acknowledging—as someone who went to Harvard and then worked at an elite law firm and exists in these stupid little white shoe spaces—there is no FUCKING world in which a single person was unaware that Epstein was a sex offender. NO WORLD.

Brad Karp’s DEFENSE being ‘no you don’t get it I just wanted Jeffrey Epstein to get my son a job on the Woody Allen movie’ is sending me into orbit like these people aren’t even trying

Illinois residents—we have a shot at passing superfund legislation, call ur state reps

I don't think people should say this without proof -- they are literally not "now in ICE." Most of them are in the Portland PD, if you want to make a point of it.
Yes, right-wing dudes are in the police everywhere and all at once. This line is just a way to maintain police exceptionalism.

starting to feel like the country is taking a Too Big To Fail approach to the Epstein files and paired with all the fascism and Horrors it kind of feels ripe for major systems change and I think we should discuss that more openly tbh

Start Here. Has the government crossed your red line? Let's get you plugged in!

for those more into the Written Word, a writeup of “mutual aid mutual aid the answer is mutual aid”

open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...

mutual aid mutual aid the answer you are seeking is mutual aid (and probably already exists near you)

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.

Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

leftist infighting again (suggesting the Democrats do something beyond passing laws calling on the authoritarian to follow the laws)

like the UFC birthday party might ACTUALLY be a distraction from the Epstein filed