Kevin Cooper

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.

What ICE and the National Guard don't realize is that tear gas is basically vaporized Malört. Won't work in Chicago. They love it

Yes, he did.

House passes a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown, but prospects in the Senate look dim The House has passed a short-term spending bill to extend government funding for seven weeks and avoid a partial government shutdown on Oct. 1.

It’s time for Senate Democrats to play hardball.

Why would Congress want to fund its own irrelevance??

Why give an out of control Executive branch a blank check to destroy even more of America??

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Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

Question:

When in the actual fuck, as a country, did we decide that our government gets to demand that we mourn someone in some particular way?

It is not even close. It’s just such a blatant and sprawling crackdown on the most basic of free speech rights and values that it should make it laughable for any of these morons to claim “free speech” as an issue ever again; but it won’t because collectively we don’t understand terms

This could have been us…I mean, if we had a functioning judiciary that hadn’t been captured by right-wing interests.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Turns out that he’s murdering people, just not on 5th Avenue…yet.

In Chicago, we do not submit. Trump is trying to intimidate a city that refuses to be intimidated

“Chicago is a lot of things, but it’s certainly not a ‘hellhole,’ as claimed by the convicted felon, sexual predator, and pathological liar in the White House.”
In fact, Chicago is a city of fierce defiance.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:

"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

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This has been a perfect soundtrack for our Labor Day cookout here in the US today. Cheers!

Chicago is absolutely amazing. Met my wife there. Got married there. Had children there. We had to move away, but we’d go back in a heartbeat. Chicago is rightly regarded as a world-class city & everyone should make sure to visit. Anyone who says otherwise is either lying or an idiot. Or both.

It's going to be the weirdest thing watching every news network trying to sell "a nation in mourning" while Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" becomes the new national anthem.

Yes. This is the way.

Looks like the entire confederacy wants to occupy Washington, D.C. Too bad they don’t look at their own crime stats before joining the Dear Leader’s coalition of idiocy.

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

[writing the constitution]

Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"

Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that

Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

This cannot ever become normalized. Ever.

Trump and Putin have no more right to carve up Ukraine than Hitler and Stalin did to carve up Poland

Freedom for Ukraine from the fascist thugs meeting in Alaska

The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

This is unconscionable. Our entire profession should be up in arms.

Masked law enforcement and now anonymous lawyers. Our courts are open as is our legal system. If you can’t put your name to your representation as a lawyer then you should not be allowed to appear in court. @americanbar.org

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It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.