Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn
@JonathanCohn
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Editor. Political director for @ProgressiveMass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist. Philly native.
Boston, MA.
Joined December 2008
The "far right": "Jews will not replace us.". The "far left": "Everyone deserves health care.". Centrists: "These, to me, are the same.".
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Minnesota has a Democratic governor. Minneapolis has a Democratic mayor. The Minneapolis City Council is 12-1 Democratic. The 1 is a Green. Voting alone does not fix this if elected officials remain deferential to the cops.
If you woke up today angry, confused or frustrated about the direction our country is heading, I have one word for you: vote.
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Dolly Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt for vaccine research. Vanderbilt researchers were involved in the Moderna trials. Ergo, Dolly Parton helped cure COVID.
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If you can secure the release of hostages via a ceasefire deal but you prefer military attacks as a strategy instead, it is because you affirmatively want to kill people.
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The F-15 flyover bullshit is peak dying empire.
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DoorDash Spent $5.5 Million To Advertise Their $1 Million Charity Donation
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COVID is working harder than Senate Dems to stop the rushed confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.
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Clyburn says he won’t attend Netanyahu’s address to Congress. "Because I’m going to treat him the same way he treated Barack Obama." .
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The problem with capitalism is you eventually run out of other people's lives.
Wall Street has had enough of the lockdown: “People will die. People do die,” says one investment banker. “People have to take responsibility for their own lives. And people do die. That is kind of what happens”
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Joe Biden impressively manages to combine everything I dislike about Hillary Clinton and everything I dislike about Bill Clinton into one person.
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Russ Feingold losing to Ron Johnson is one of the biggest tragedies from 2016.
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Quinnipac poll . 18-34 year-olds: Sanders 71% - Biden 21%. 65+ year-olds: Biden 80% Sanders 11% . The generational divide really has been a defining feature of this cycle and last.
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To my Christian friends: Merry Christmas. To my Jewish friends: Happy Hanukkah. To my democratic socialist friends: Bernie would have won.
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Democratic co-sponsors of Medicare for All who just won re-election in swing districts:. Jared Golden (ME-02; R+2).Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-02; R+1).Mike Levin (CA-49; R+1).Katie Porter (CA-45; R+3). Susan Wild (PA-07; D+1) and Matt Cartwright (PA-08; R+1) seem on track to win as well.
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I say “Happy Holidays” because I mean Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Solstice, New Year, and this.
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Ed Markey's record, like the record of every politician, is not above critique. But there is just simply no problem with Ed Markey to which Joe Kennedy is the solution.
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No, NYT, you do not need to even pretend that "mass deportations" is an affordable housing strategy from Trump. FFS.
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You were picked to soften the impact of electing a Black guy for racist white people.
Joe Biden: "I doubt [President Barack Obama] would've picked me if these accusations about my being wrong on civil rights were correct."
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So where are all those "pro-lifers" on this ICE story?.
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The Lincoln Project is going to use all of your money to fight the Democratic Congress next year and to demand steep budget cuts and Pentagon increases, folks.
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There's a fixation with pretending that Trump's base is working class. If you have the money to fly to/from DC, book a hotel, and take off work multiple days, you're economically comfortable.
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LOL @ the fact that Nancy Pelosi's endorsement of Joe Kennedy brought Ed Markey triple the amount it brought Joe Kennedy ($300,000 via 9,000 individual contributions).
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Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. This is disgusting.
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Tim Walz is the rare politician praised by both the online left AND Joe Manchin. That does not happen often, and it is an opportunity not to be missed.
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Really proud of this graphic I just made for a presentation
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I went to an elite college. I left thinking, "The kids who get drunk all the time and skip class are going to nonetheless make ridiculous sums of money after they graduate. Meritocracy is a lie."
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Marco Rubio mixing up John Lewis and Elijah Cummings is a good reminder of how facial surveillance technology is racist.
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Only NO votes on the shameful anti-free speech/anti-BDS bill . Blumenauer.Carson (IN).Dingell.García (IL).Grijalva.Jayapal.Lee (CA).Massie.McCollum.Moore.Ocasio-Cortez.Omar.Pingree.Pocan.Rush.Tlaib.Watson Coleman.
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Just realized that Bernie endorsed Biden before Warren did, which I find funny on a variety of levels.
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Love to start my y axis at *checks notes* 2.1K people dead.
Omicron cases are on the rise, but it’s clear that vaccines and boosters are making a difference. Vaccines and boosters help prevent severe illness and death — if you haven’t already, go get your vaccine and booster.
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Is he proposing that we nationalize Whole Foods so that the provision of healthy food is not something that varies greatly by zip code?.
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: The 'best solution' is to not need health care and for Americans to change how they eat and live (via @CNBCMakeIt)
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I still can't get over that we had to deal with a whole cycle of "Biden was mean to Republicans for comparing them to segregationists" and then Mitch McConnell straight up says that African Americans aren't Americans.
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Noteworthy that AOC offered to help some of her colleagues, and the ones who turned her down lost.
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US added to list of ‘backsliding’ democracies for first time
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"I'm socially pro-union, but fiscally anti-union.".
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The Senate adopted (90 to 10) a milquetoast amendment from Inhofe to say it's okay to give state/local police military equipment as long as they're trained to protect people's constitutional rights. Lol, sure. 5 NO votes from the left: Booker, Harris, Markey, Sanders, Warren.
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The vote on an amendment to keep the US embassy in Jerusalem. Just shameful.
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Ilhan Omar filed amendment to accelerate the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. These Democrats voted NO.
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That Quinnipac poll is wild when it comes to breakdowns by age. 18-34 year-olds: Sanders 44%, Warren 22%, Biden 9%. 65+ year-olds: Biden 41%, Warren 26%, Sanders 2%.
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House Democratic Leadership only opposes primary challenges when they are from the left, I see.
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Members of the Democratic Caucus who voted to advance another Trump judicial nominee today: . Cardin .Carper .Casey.Cortez Masto.Duckworth .Durbin .Hassan .Jones.King.Leahy .Manchin .Murphy .Peters .Rosen.Shaheen .Tester.Udall.Warner.
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Republicans celebrating Columbus Day by creating a super-spreader event is pretty meta.
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The president's personal feelings are literally one of the least important things in all of this.
My latest reporting. President Biden is deeply frustrated in Delaware this weekend with those he perceives as unhelpful and who he believes are participating in an informal, somewhat slow-moving, misguided revolt against his candidacy.
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Pete Buttigieg is an old person's idea of what a young person should be.
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"Not for nothing, clearance rates have dropped to all-time lows at the same time that police budgets have swollen to all-time highs, suggesting that more funding has actually resulted in police being less effective."
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Imagine being so out of touch that you think angsty teens shopped at Abercrombie and not Hot Topic.
Angsty teens who think they’re sticking it to the man by wearing Abercrombie grow up to be Lefties who think free daycare sticks it to the suits.
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"Don't worry. We'll get it in the next bill." -- The Congressional Democrats' proverb.
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That's a weird way to describe "paid charter school advocate.".
When Bernie Sanders blamed segregation in schools on charters, it was “galling,” said one longtime advocate for racial equity in education
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I can't believe that Pete, Amy, and Joe standing on each other's shoulders in a trench coat got 53% of the vote. What tricksters!
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If the Boston Police Department saw nothing wrong with keeping a known child molester on the force *for years*, maybe it's far past time for us to pretend that police view their job as "public safety.".
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Waiting for the "Democrats shouldn't criticize other Democrats" crowd to chime in here.
Claire McCaskill on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "I’m a little confused why she’s the thing"
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Setting all policy issues aside, what bothers me most about Shapiro being actively considered for VP is that he has only been governor for a year and a half. Walz, Whitmer, and Beshear are in their second terms.
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Report finds not one police department in the 20 largest American cities are compliant with international rights laws.
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Democrats who voted to confirm the right-wing judge in PA who just ruled Tom Wolf's COVID rules unconstitutional: . Casey .Jones.Kaine.Manchin .Sinema.
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Settlements for cases where police torture should come out of the police budget. Sell off the toys. Shrink the forces. Taking it out of the general fund is a way that police doubly victimize the public. And the cops should not be able to get off with just a settlement either.
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I'm waiting for a "centrist" Democrat to start accusing libraries of "providing free books to rich people.".
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If you want to donate to a Democratic woman working to flip a Senate seat, Sara GIdeon and Theresa Greenfield are more progressive than Amy McGrath and, unlike Amy McGrath, could actually win.
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"The Jew has a money tree." -- Politico
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If people are protesting the police, then the police are not there to keep the peace -- they are counter-protesters.
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The fact that "He had a handgun in his car" is their excuse is a reminder that neither Republicans nor the NRA nor the police believe that "gun rights" apply to Black people in this country.
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Dems who voted to confirm at least 1 Trump judge this week: . Brown: 1/2.Carper: 2/2.Coons: 2/2.Cortez Masto: 2/2.Feinstein: 2/2.Hassan: 2/2.Jones: 2/2.Kaine: 2/2.Leahy: 2/2.Manchin: 2/2.Murphy: 2/2.Peters: 1/2.Reed: 1/2.Rosen: 1/2.Shaheen: 1/2.Warner: 2/2.Whitehouse: 1/2.
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The police officers who walk by and do nothing as a fellow police officer knocks an old man to the ground, where he lies supine bleeding, are a great example of the sociological forces behind "How the Third Reich happened.".
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The 22 Democrats who joined Republicans to block an amendment that would have prevented transfers of grenade launchers and armed drones to local police.
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So the existence of police didn't prevent car theft?.
Atlanta councilman Antonio Brown, who voted to defund police, has car stolen
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ISIS to Syrians: "Be ISIS or die." . *Syrians flee*. GOP: "You're ISIS. Go back and die.".
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New Yorkers love to make fun of Boston. But New York, you just elected as mayor a cop who loves Bitcoin and corruption, and we here in Boston elected Michelle Wu.
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If two people were killed & one injured at the protests in Kenosha, THEN HOW IS THAT LARGE POLICE PRESENCE KEEPING ANYONE SAFE? . Police say they are necessary for safety at protests & repeatedly fail at that basic stated job. Which indicates that they see the job differently.
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Americans are all "Eugenics? That was some evil Nazi shit." *five seconds later* "If you don't have health insurance through your workplace, you should be allowed to die.".
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The fires at Berkeley are getting more coverage than when a Milo fan shot a student in WA, aren't they?.
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If this message were for the residents of Gaza -- who, because of you -- don't have Internet access anyway, then why is it English?.
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Democratic judges voiding Democratic gerrymanders while Republican judges uphold Republican ones just says so much about how the two parties think about power.
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I am very anti-conspiracy theory, and the Iowa Democratic Party is really making it hard.
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It's weird when leftists treat AOC as though she were their favorite indie band that they are sad is gaining popularity.
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Joe Biden is the candidate you'd get if you took almost all of the bad things that Sanders people said about Hillary and almost all of the bad things that Hillary people said about Sanders, and none of the good things about either.
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Take: If Biden gets the nomination, it's not because of some white liberals voting Warren but because white progressives have yet to figure out how to win Black voters. We see this race after race.
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I would prefer someone for VP who doesn't vote for Republican messaging amendments.
49-47: Senate narrowly approves Capito (R-WV) motion to instruct conferees on science & technology bill to clarify the President cannot use climate change as the basis to declare a national emergency. Kelly and Manchin joined all Republicans in voting Yes.
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Hi, I'm everyone who complains that Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat but thinks that Michael Bloomberg, who bankrolls Republican candidates, is great.
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Merrick Garland, an embarrassment to the end
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Only 6 members of the Democratic caucus voted against moving forward to the NDAA last night (and effectively ending the short-term push fro a vote on $2,000 checks): . Markey.Merkley.Sanders.Van Hollen.Warren .Wyden.
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Only 14 Dems voted against extending Trump's surveillance powers: . Baldwin .Brown.Cantwell.Durbin .Heinrich .Hirono .Markey .Merkley .Murray .Schatz.Tester.Udall .Warren .Wyden.
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What part of a Biden run are you most excited about? . ✅Extolling old-school white supremacists from the Senate 30 years ago.✅Emotionally manipulative comments about his dead son.✅Inappropriate touching of women.✅Policy agenda to the right of Clinton 16.
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All of Trump's Space Force logos look like icons for a Disney ride.
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The fact that VA Dems, when they had a governing trifecta, made their redistricting commission bipartisan -- and that that commission produced a Republican gerrymander -- is just so depressingly on brand.
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A family income cap of $60K is absurd. Two people making only $15 an hour each full-time would exceed that.
NEW: Sen. Manchin has told the White House the child tax credit must include a firm work requirement and family income cap in the $60k range, Axios has learned. These demands would dramatically weaken one of Biden's signature programs.
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If you need to do this, then maybe your guy just shouldn't be running.
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Kyrsten Sinema looks and acts like a villain in a 1990s children's film where the heroes are three 10 year-olds and at least one talking animal.
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Republican attacks on Joe Biden always make him sound way cooler than he actually is.
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I've counted only 10 US Senators who have said anything on their Twitter account about the IDF's killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers.
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All of the Gritty memes are giving me life.
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This is the normie Democrat’s version of Henry Kissinger dying, and I love that for them.
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Reminder: Sanders delegates wanted to strike mention of Jerusalem in the Democratic platform, but Clinton's delegates demanded that the platform call for a united Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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The 5 Democrats who just voted to abandon DREAMers: . Joe Donnelly.Heidi Heitkamp.Doug Jones.Joe Manchin.Claire McCaskill.
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It doesn't inspire confidence that shortly after becoming head of the Democratic caucus, he is out there stumping for a judge opposed by labor, reproductive justice groups, and NAACP and engaging in intraparty warfare on behalf of a conservative governor.
"Judge Hector Lasalle is highly qualified to be the chief judge of the state of New York. Period. Full stop," @RepJeffries says, adding LaSalle should be given the same rights as every other chief judge nominee to get a vote in the Senate.
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"Much as you shouldn’t be a surgeon if you faint at the sight of blood, you shouldn’t be a police officer if you cannot control your temper in front of the people you are paid to keep safe."
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