Catie Cohen

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

The most millennial-coded thing I've said in recent weeks:

*at the veterinarian's office*

"Hi, I'm here to pick up my cat's Prozac refill."

CARTOON OF THE DAY #2 🇺🇸

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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that DOGE is subject to government transparency laws, allowing the public to access government records—a legal defeat for the White House, which had designated DOGE as an office exempt from open records laws.

Microplastics Are Messing with Photosynthesis in Plants Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows

A good part of my job is to read extremely concerning studies in order to compose cross-sectional view of What's At Stake and work out ways to engage stakeholders

This is, without hyperbole, the most concerning thing I have read in a long time www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

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As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of the HPV vaccine.

A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

Meme. Black text on white background. User @AnaSamways: What's considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich? User @konylishious: day drinking, speaking two languages, hard drugs, tax avoidance.

Always relevant. #musksucks

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Cover of Kelly Barnhill's The Crane Husband. Black cover with profile view of a person seemingly wearing a mask of multi-colored feathers.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20)

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Screenshot outlining plan for 24hour economic blackout on 2/27/25

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Book cover. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg.

Yikes. When the depression monster shows up, motivation to stick to things curls up and hides.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (10/20)

#booksky 📚💙
#read #reading
#books

Book cover of Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (9/20)

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If I could remember to update the day number, I'd be proud of myself. LOL (8/20)

Book cover: Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel. A stylized illustration of an anthropomorphic frog and toad sat together on a white background.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20)

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#read #reading
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Cover image of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. White background with a silhouette of a Black woman dressed in a red garment and headscarf.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20)

#booksky 📚💙
#read #reading
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Palisades and Eaton Fires Are Fully Contained The Palisades and Eaton fires, two of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history, reached 100 percent containment more than three weeks after they began.

A little good news. Three weeks later.
The Los Angeles Wildfires Are Fully Contained www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Thanks so much! I appreciate it. 😊

Original poem text. White font on black background. Title: Smalltalk Text: I'm without sense. Beyond rationality, bent into rounded angles in the presence of banality to try and find its opposite hidden behind bland blank faces. I'm without tether. Slightly aloft, detached enough to hover just above the conversation and tumble like a sad birthday balloon on hot currents of exhaled exchanges that signify ennui in spite of smiles.

Finished the second poem for today!

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Original poem text. White font on black background. Psychic Robbery A poem I wrote the other day ran away with all the pithy statements and artful descriptions I had at my disposal tucked deep in its pockets. When I pinned it to the wall and shook it hard, dust and lint and truth fell onto the cracked sidewalk. Another came forward and displayed its innocent palms to the light, bent at the waist, and handed the truth back to me. I'm home now and have propped it in a south facing window, where when the sun rises, it might sprout and grow.

All the best intentions are sometimes laid to waste.

Couldn't beat the writer's block the last two days, so here's the first of three poems today. Day _ of 30 writing a poem for 30 days. 😊

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I'm also curious about this!

Not to second guess the aliens but whenever you’re ready guys.

13th amendment

Today in US History: On January 31, 1865, "Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment which, on ratification, abolished slavery in America. The vote in the House was 121 to 24."

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United States v. Jones County Board of Education, 295 F. Supp. 640 | Casetext Search + Citator Read United States v. Jones County Board of Education, 295 F. Supp. 640, see flags on bad law, and search Casetext’s comprehensive legal database

My mother is 21 years younger than he is and witnessed/lived the desegregation of schools in Jones County, NC (notably a decade+ after Brown v. Board). Positive change is precious, slow to occur, and easy to undo. History is our teacher and is always relevant. (2/2) casetext.com/case/united-...

Be wary of thinking that things in the past are so distant that they 1. shouldn't be considered relevant and 2. that they shouldn't inform our present and future. Mr. Takei exemplifies history's living nature. Short🧵(1/2)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20)

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So the question is, how exactly do I get to snuggle up to a polar bear? 🥺

🤦🏻 This is day 6 out of 20...not 5.

I hope we don't collectively forget to--ultimately--be aspirational. Schadenfreude has its place, and so does misery. I don't suggest we lay down righteous anger. There's clarity in those collective demons. But, there's also blurriness. Be cautious they don't become the roadmap in and of themselves.