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@dmcohen.bsky.social

Lifelong Democrat. Husband, father,former diplomat, current lawyer. If you DM me, I can’t guarantee you that I won’t automatically block you, but it will definitely be on the table.

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“Offer”, not “puffer”. Damn autocorrect!

07.11.2025 16:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

10% bonus for essential workers who worked without pay during the shutdown, to be paid in December.

07.11.2025 16:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If the GOP does try to negotiate, our counter puffer should be : After Tuesday’s results, the price just went up: subsidies continue in full AND, all Federal workers get back pay AND all RIFs during the shutdown are rescinded AND

07.11.2025 16:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Murphy 2028

07.11.2025 16:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Evil Woman
YouTube video by Electric Light Orchestra - Topic Evil Woman

For Nancy Pelosi, after Trump’s Oval Office comments on her retirement.

youtu.be/nxz1DuVaRr8?...

07.11.2025 12:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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06.11.2025 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First thing to learn is knowing how to count to 218.

06.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is The Way

05.11.2025 21:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If he’s smart, he’ll contact it out to Pay-per-View

05.11.2025 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s why he’s starting new wars with Venezuela and Nigeria - so he can “solve” those wars and get the Nobel Peace Prize.

05.11.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s the thing with gerrymanders. You dilute the vote in your safe seats in order to secure new seats. In a wave election, you could lose both.

05.11.2025 14:33 — 👍 23    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh, the copium!

05.11.2025 02:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pay per View?

05.11.2025 02:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Commonwealth of Virginia

04.11.2025 21:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The medics say I should survive, but I doubt that I’ll ever eat from a NYC hot dog stand again.

In constant faith,
Your Iceman

04.11.2025 15:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dear Abigail,
The front has become more intense with the enemy now resorting to chemical warfare against our righteous cause. Today, my Kevlar vest was hit by a sandwich. Miraculously, I was spared injury by the protection of the vest. But, I was overwhelmed by the strong odor of onions & mustard

04.11.2025 15:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“Wake up and smell the onions and mustard!”

04.11.2025 15:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wrong. He has one love - himself.

04.11.2025 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Surely, that will earn him the Nobel Peace Prize.

03.11.2025 23:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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03.11.2025 20:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Under Bari Weiss, they need to rename the show “60 Lies per Minute”

03.11.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Inconceivable!

02.11.2025 21:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"They were careless people,… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

From The Great Gatsby (h/t Heather Cox Richardson)

02.11.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Nobel committee should immediately announce that any head of state initiating nuclear weapons tests will be permanently disqualified from consideration for the Peace Prize.

30.10.2025 18:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All it needs is a soundtrack, the Horst Wessell Leid

29.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Sergeant Schultz of House Speakers.

29.10.2025 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And for the DOJ’s lies and misrepresentations to the courts.

29.10.2025 12:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And that doesn’t even take into account that for every dollar spent on SNAP, between $1.54 and $1.80 of economic activity (ie, contribution to GDP) is created.

29.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The guy who ran the retreat in the 70s

29.10.2025 11:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Personally, I’d go with a British barrister’s kit (black robe and powdered wig).

29.10.2025 10:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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