Jonathan Cohn

Pedocon theory is a theory only in the sense that gravity and evolution are theories.

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bare minimum of what should be expected from a response to what’s happening from an elected Dem of any standing tbh

People can bicker about “oh Dems have drawn maps to their advantage in the past too” or w/e, but the reality is that the federal government is working, openly, to cement Trump’s…

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she's looking to redraw the state's legislative lines in response to the Texas gerrymander — even going so far as to suggest amending the state constitution to move up the timeline.

Every story on Trump and gov’t stats should reference his felony conviction for falsifying business records. Seems relevant.

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

Thread on Russ Vought's latest blatant refusal to spend appropriated funds.

US links $1.9 billion in state disaster funds to Israel boycott stance The Trump administration said states and cities will not receive funding to prepare for natural disasters if they choose to boycott Israeli companies, according to an agency statement.

The Trump administration will deny emergency preparedness funds to cities and states boycotting Israel, which is heinous but unsurprising. The Trump admin literally wants its political enemies to die.

The American Jewish Committee supports the Trump admin’s policy. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Tracking Senate Votes 2025

Note that this post said *today*. It was about the batch of votes on that day, not full-year.

I track full-year here:

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Mara Dolan in grey suit and white shirt at NBC Boston studio.

The hard-fought pay raise for the bar advocates, upholding Constitutional rights, what’s next for the Governor’s Council and more with Matt Pritchard on @nbcboston.com! #mapoli nbcboston.app.link/2OPN6oxvyVb

ANALYSIS Netanyahu Squanders His Moment to Halt the War After securing a victory over Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is pushing for an "all or nothing" deal with Hamas without offering compromises.

There could easily be an account posting nothing but New York Times headlines in which the paper comes really close to actually telling people what’s going on, but stops just short.

Remember.

Mitch McConnell refused to have a hearing for a justice for close to a year. Based on BS.

If he hadn’t have done that, partisan gerrymandering would’ve been ruled unconstitutional by a 5-4 court. (Instead of allowed by 5-4)

Stand strong, TX Dems. As long as it takes

Texas governor threatens Democrats who left state to prevent congressional map vote – US politics live Greg Abbott says he will try to remove Democrats unless they return to allow vote to take place on redrawing the US House map to favour Republicans

Do you know which state has the largest number of Black residents?

TEXAS (nearly 4 million)

Trump’s demand that TX redistrict & the Republican legislature’s acquiescence is an attack on Black representation. Stand with Texas Dems.

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One term Trump has used that I think is super effective framing of him firing the BLS head and gerrymandering: “Rig.”

Trump is trying to rig the jobs numbers and elections

It's mind-boggling how stupid this is.

Math lesson:
Let's say drug price is $100

A "1,200% cut in drug prices" means cut of market price to -$1,100 .. yes NEGATIVE $1,100

Vouchers fail at their stated goals but succeed at privatization and resegregation. DFER's declining influence among Democrats is a good thing, and electeds shouldn't be listening to them.

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Trump’s Tariffs Are Kleptocracy in Action Very little of what you’ve heard about presidential ‘deals’ is true. It’s really a shakedown on behalf of Trump’s desires and corporate whims.

"But what’s more dangerous, and more of a throwback to the past, is that trade is just a cover for corporate-driven demands on the rest of the world." prospect.org/economy/2025...

64 nations.

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

“The revelation this weekend of an American Jewish nonprofit’s involvement in promoting an Israeli politician in the throes of an election campaign comes after years of attacks by Netanyahu on liberal leaning foreign nonprofits promoting civil society in Israel.”

u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal: "She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment [sparkly picture of coal]

If a scholar of petro-masculinity said that men lust for coal, it would be seen as an exaggeration. But here we are...

In Ohio, they defied court orders and violated the Constitution seven separate times in order to gerrymander the illegal maps we are stuck w today.

Even threatened to impeach a GOP Chief Justice for ruling against them.

They are THAT addicted to gerrymandering.

Stand strong.

The Biden administration had wire and securities fraud charges in motion against Musk for doing this.

Elon Musk bought the election for Donald Trump because doing this, lying about the current and future capabilities of the vehicles he sells, is the foundation of his entire fortune.

illinois gov. JB pritzker responds to ken paxton's threat to arrest TX democrats who fled the state: "they're here in illinois. we're going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them."

thank god that the trump administration is laser focused on protecting jewish people.

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

josh hawley is an insurrectionist who was a leading figure in trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election

yet we still have elected dems praising hawley as some sort of mccain-esque maverick rather than recognize he's a pro-fascist figure who occasionally makes weak attempts to disguise his views

my brother just how high were you when you posted this??

josh hawley has nothing but lockstep support for trump & trump is the most corrupt politician in american history

it's not only bad politics to praise hawley this way—more importantly it's completely detached from reality!!

Average MAGA voter: I am declaring WAR on anyone who sells or buys goods in the global economy

Also average MAGA voter 3 months later: but black dynamite, I sell and buy goods in the global economy

how is pritzker the only one who seems to remember that he's the governor of a sovereign entity too