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Writer, journalist, author, former USC journalism prof. Former translator for martyred Chilean President Salvador Allende.Poker player. Photographer. Find me here or sign up for free thecoopscoop.substack.com. Free. Contrarian.

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Can Idiocracy Defeat Fascism? "A lot of people are saying we maybe like a dictator"

Can Idiocracy Defeat Fascism?
open.substack.com/pub/thecoops...

26.08.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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A Flailing Trump Threatens To Wreck Midterms All while the ghost of Epstein haunts his days and nights
06.08.2025 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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First There Was a File, Then There Was No file, Then There Was The Trump Era Begins to Sink

This is an historic moment. The beginning of the end of an ugly era,

28.07.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The ICEman Cometh? Welcome to America's first national police force. Trump is its Commander

America's first national police force. Trump is its commander.

12.07.2025 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Era of Depravity Depravity, Cruelty and Hatred Have Become America's New Core Values

The Era of Depravity

America opens its first concentration camp today in an alligator -filled Florid swamp. And the BBB hires 10,000 more ICE agents and triples its budget. ICE will become the largest law enforcement agency in the country.

02.07.2025 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Strongly Suggested Summer Reading "Chile In Their Hearts" by John Dinges.

Suggested reading. The new and definitive book on the murder of two young Americans days after the 1973 Chilean military coup. Read it. Full of surprises.

01.07.2025 02:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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How I Got Snatched By A Death Squad And how ICE in some ways treats the public worse

I survived an arrest by the notorious Argentine death squads. Their similarity and differences with ICE tell a worthy story.

29.06.2025 01:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The Unholy Trinity Behind The Iran War Netanyahu, Trump and the Supreme Leader Are A Trio of Madness

Will Trump's falling poll numbers push him toward or away frrom the Iran war?

21.06.2025 00:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Emergency Post: Street Resistance Against ICE Erupts in L.A. Raising the stakes and the social cost of mass deportation

Physical resistance to ICE flares throughout Los Angeles

07.06.2025 22:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ICE Now Expanding into Local Law Enforcement As Spearhead of Trump Repression. "Operation At Large" looks to boost thousands of daily arrests

Time to confront ICE

04.06.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump, Tapper, Tariffs, Mao, and Madness If your head is spinning you're sane.

A week like no other and about another 170 or so more to come.

31.05.2025 05:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing โ€” which ICE had just had dismissed.

www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

30.05.2025 01:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9502    ๐Ÿ” 5780    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1046    ๐Ÿ“Œ 847
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Will the Democrats Accept the Gift House Now Being Offered to Them? Trump's BBB is an act of class war opposed by a vast majority of Americans

Trump's big win on his tax and budget bill pave the way for a big MAGA loss in the midterms.

23.05.2025 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump's Great Healthcare Con Not going to cut benefits -- Just churn out the beneficiaries

Trump's Great Healthcare Con

16.05.2025 00:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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WWJD? What Will John Roberts Do? We are at the authoritarian abyss and all eyes turn to SCOTUS

Democracy or dictatorship? It's going to be decided as early as next month and Trump pushed SCOTUS to fold.

17.04.2025 22:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Birth of a Cruel Dictator Trump ignoring the Supreme Court and the Rule of Law Makes Him a Dictator

No longer any doubt. The moment is now. Trump ignoring the courts renders him a dictator.

14.04.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Have We Just Turned The Corner Toward Defeating Trump? Yes and No. Mostly No.

A summation of the last ten dramatic days in national politics. Their consequences and lessons.

06.04.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Are the 2026 Midterms a Mirage? Depends on whether we are a democracy or a dictatorship or somewhere in between
31.03.2025 01:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Emerging Police State Bares Its Teeth Special Edition: Please Read!

It's Code Red as Trump scoffs at Rule of Law. Time to act!

24.03.2025 22:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Schumer Helps Block the Opposition The anger against him is only building, not receding.

Democrats are bow at 29% popularity. I wonder why?

18.03.2025 02:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Expect the worst. Hope for the best.

17.03.2025 06:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Exactly

14.03.2025 05:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Leader Schumer Leads Another Capitulation to Trump He's ready to bail out Trump from a GOP-Induced Gov't Shut down

Pathetic clown.

14.03.2025 05:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pushover.

14.03.2025 00:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Backlash Has Been Ignited Fan the flames, but with utmost intelligence

No more asking what can we do. Only who can we join?

11.03.2025 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trumpski Gives a Tough Guy SOTU Speech But MAGA popularity is lame. As are the Democrats.

The Great Flying Monkeys Trio present the worst state of the union speech in recent history.

05.03.2025 07:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump and Vance Berate and Kick Zelensky Out of the White House with Full Video A day that will live in infamy

Trump and Vance Berate and Kick Zelensky Out of the White House with Full Video. It's a day that will live in infamy as Trump officially allies with Putin and rubs our national reputation into the mud. ORGANIZE TO DEFEAT TRUMP.

28.02.2025 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bezos focuses Washington Post opinion pages on free markets and liberties The move marks a major shift and prompted the outlet's opinion editor David Shipley to resign.

Bezos is now a steroid-pumped, bald-headed re-incarnation of Ayn Rand. I suppose he will retain the paper even as its death has been accelerated. The financial losses don't even ding his fortune. But he now joins Musk as the owner of his own private MAGA propaganda sheet.

27.02.2025 05:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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