Danny Cooper

Danny Cooper

@dannycooper.bsky.social

Mets, Knicks, and democracy // lawyer & First Amendment enthusiast Opinions are my own and not my employer’s

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Stephen Miller’s financial disclosure says he’s recused himself from all “official action” involving Elon Musk’s xAI (meaning Twitter, SpaceX, etc.) Less officially, here he is sharing the bullshit from Elon Musk’s super PAC on Twitter

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Makes sense, let’s look up who the President of the US was during 2020… oh

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu

With Republicans facing tight U.S. Senate races, Trump and party leaders are casting France’s unrest as a warning for what the future looks like under Democrats. 🔗 vist.ly/5pcsq

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Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WaPo: Trump officials scrutinized Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2019. They didn't find citizenship issues. 
The earlier review of Omar's immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.

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Personally, I think what really threatens American Jews is insisting our safety is dependent on denying what the whole world sees, that the Israeli gov committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians. Force people to think protecting Jews means denying reality, and they will stop caring about us.

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read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.

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Good morning. Federal prosecutors in Chicago filed partially redacted documents overnight in the "Broadview Six" case. The redactions appear to include the signature block (including the name) of one of the attorneys representing the United States government:

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social

When federal prosecutors assured Judge April Perry last spring they'd had no contact with top DOJ brass while pursuing the "Broadview Six," she took them at their word. Those days are over. From me and @sophiesherry.bsky.social on Perry's fact-finding effort: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/1...

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Trump's suit appears to be part of Jos. A. Bank's Traveler line. The suit is listed as having been made abroad using a wool-polyester-spandex blend. The company describes it as having the "ultimate stretch" and was designed to minimize body odor.

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Replying to @atrupar.com

Tom Emmer, the House Whip, called Somali-Americans 'enemy combatants' and said round them up. Not a foreign army. His own constituents. That is war language aimed at American citizens. Say the quiet part, Tom. We hear it fine.

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“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tom Emmer refers to Somali-Americans as "enemy combatants" and says they should be "rounded up and put in jail"

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You know what I don't see on the agent who shot a dad with a military assault rifle? THE BODY-CAM THAT THE TRUMP ADMIN HAS PROMISED TO PUT ON ALL ICE AGENTS.

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social

See this ICE agent? He’s a holding a *military assault rifle.* And according to a witness, that‘s the agent who shot a man **while the man was in his car with his 5-year-old kid.** Also, I’m no expert, but i’m pretty sure it’s bananas to hold your phone in one hand & your ASSAULT RIFLE in another

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jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

nytimes.comJustice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted RanksThe civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.

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This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

Newsweek@newsweek.com

A Michigan nurse is accused of helping an injured immigration detainee escape from a hospital while in federal custody.

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Replying to @phillewis.bsky.social

Several protesters just interrupted the pro-data center party, flipped everyone off while yelling “thank you for using all of our water!”

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Pretty wild that the Texas Cattle Ranchers association is saying that deportations are affecting beef prices in the US because of labor shortages but Republican politicians and candidates never seem to get asked about that.

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There's one guy in this video who facilitated monthly $15 million payments to Hamas in explicit, on tape, hopes of building Gaza into a jihadist rival of the Palestinian Authority and his name rhymes with Denjamin Petanyahu.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Netanyahu directly attacks Zohran Mamdani (and his wife) from the UNGA podium, calling him the "antisemitic mayor of New York City," parroting The Free Press's stories about Rama Duwaji, tying Mamdani to Hasan Piker, and claiming the mayor is "buddies" with Hamas.

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NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...

zeteo.comSusan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PACThe Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social

Rough day for Susan Collins in the local Maine press, where ProPublica's bombshell story is the lead story.

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Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Replying to @mattheweadie.bsky.social

"He said the individual refused to provide identification, was detained for fingerprinting, and resisted detention. Agents later determined he was not the person they were seeking and learned that he was a U.S. citizen. He was released."

evanstonnow.comFederal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston NowPolice chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.

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NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.

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A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Article is useful in that it shows that a) Trump is directly involved in these decisions, b) sees them in purely personalist terms - he wants to politicize research grants so he can destroy Harvard for daring to defy him

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Replying to @bcfinucane.bsky.social

Very telling that a year into the maritime murders, the Trump admin has not: --released the OLC permission slip for the killing spree --allowed Hill staff counsel (as opposed to members) to see the memo --defended strikes in court (admin handed off survivors rather than detain or prosecute them)

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The Trump administration's lawless killing spree at sea continues with a lethal strike on four more supposed "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean. Very real killing in a make-believe war. Outside of war the general term for premeditated killing is murder.

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Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.

Remember when Trump actually tried to kill Biden by infecting him with COVID at the debate in 2020?

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social

Trump is flatly accusing the Democrats of orchestrating the assassination attempt against him in Butler, PA. He's literally calling it a "Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election."