Stephanie Cook

Stephanie Cook

@stecook.bsky.social

(They/them) Ex Twitter lurker, rabid democracy defender. Not the most eloquent writer but grateful to be here.

953 followers1.6K following2.8K posts

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Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

Treason

Russia Is Helping Iran Target Our Troops, and Trump Keeps Rewarding Moscow: 14 Russian spy satellites passed over our base. Two days later, 12 Americans were wounded. Every one of our soldiers deserves a commander in chief who protects them.👇 open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

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🤔 James Carville: “I’d rather Republicans keep the house by 5 than Dems win by 5… Because then they’re hostage to DSA, and Hakeem can’t move.” 😬Bill Kristol: “Good point.” So afraid of DSA folks who want M4ALL, etc. they’d rather Republicans hold power. Unreal. True colors.

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Of the 2 options, White America opted for the party proudly hosting racist rallies, who—months before Election 2024—publicized its 900-pg plan to transform the U.S. into a Christian White Nationalist ethnostate. Project 2025 formally whitewashes U.S. History™️—it will be up to us to preserve Truth. 🇺🇸

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SOMEBODY EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB? Brenden Cuni, the same ICE agent seen on video brandishing a rifle at the scene of the shooting in NY, where officers shot an unarmed man in front of his 5-year-old child, was also filmed kneeling on a pregnant woman in Minneapolis last December.

This is what the second amendment is actually for! Wake up!

Bosphorus Observer@yoruk.bsky.social

Trump has been hiding his Russian diesel deal for over a month: the deal was announced yesterday, but it was likely agreed when Witkoff and Kushner visited the Kremlin on 5th September. While Trump was signing the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 on 18th September,…

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Gaza is under bombardment right now. We don’t understand what is happening here The bombing is literally everywhere The aircraft are flying extremely low,making terrifying sounds that are impossible to describe. Don’t stop talking about Gaza.Don’t let the world become numb to what is happening here.

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Flashback, this is how ICE acted immediately after they shot Renée Good. 1/7/26. When I first posted the video, her name had not even been released.

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social

👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfi...

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President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally change Title IX. LGBTQ students continue to be protected from discrimination under federal civil rights law. With the administration's continued cruel anti-trans actions, schools must not waver in their commitment to protecting queer students.

time.comTrump's Title IX Announcement Is Cruel. But It Does Not Change The Law“Schools can and should continue to include transgender students equally in all educational programs,” writes Chase Strangio.

Amen to that. Vote blue

Author Myron J. Clifton@deardean22.bsky.social

The big tent is messy and many factors don’t like one another. That doesn’t have to change.. because with history as our guide, it won’t. But in Nov the only focus should be voting the same way: For democrats.

Fuck the fascists

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social

💥 This is Kyiv, Ukraine. Today. Russia continues to kill civilians. Meanwhile, Trump is inviting Putin to G20 and his golf course. No Justice in America, thx to Republican traitors.

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A drone show using 2,977 lights, representing each victim of the 9/11 attacks, recreated the Twin Towers at full scale in Manhattan in honor of its 25th anniversary.

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🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.comRevealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIHAn agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
ICE Flight Monitor@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social

An ICE Air deportation flight carrying third country nationals landed in Georgetown, Guyana at 7:10pm local time. It left Alexandria, LA at 7am local time before it stopped in Miami and Bogota en route. This is the first third country transfer to Guayana. www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org/guyana

Fascism. Period

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...

Listen to the congresswoman!

The Contrarian@contrariannews.org

Don't look away from the horrors happening at Delaney Hall detention center, operated by a for-profit prison corporation. To date, there have been labor and hunger strikes by detainees, reported deaths in custody, and widespread accounts of medical neglect. @replamonica.bsky.social explains:

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Frank Figliuzzi@frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social

Our government has awarded a $158M contract for the care and feeding of unaccompanied migrant children to a group run by an ex-ICE agent accused of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Much more on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...

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Corporate media in the age of monopolization isn’t worried about ratings or views, those are secondary to appealing to oligarchs and corporations who will supplement lost viewership in order to ensure control of mainstream discourse and the information diet of politicians and parties

We only freak out when the kill a white. Basic facts

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social

Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...

The upside down continues

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social

The 1997 Flores settlement says children can only be in immigration detention for 20 days. A new legal filing shows that kids at CoreCivic's detention facility in Dilley, TX have been there as long as 323 days, & includes firsthand accounts of the abuse guards are inflicting on children.

This is now happening almost daily. Enough! Rise the fuck up people!

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

Amen to this thread!

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social

37-year-old lifelong New Yorker here. You know, growing up, I don’t remember being trapped inside by toxic wildfire smoke. Certainly not with this regularity. I have a toddler. I am beyond outraged over the state of the planet he will inherit—a crisis fueled by greedy businessmen and their allies

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It's a sign of how shockingly corrupt this country has become that a nominee for Attorney General is given a hearing by the Senate *the very same week* he has been referred by a judge for possible disbarment for unethical behavior. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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A young dad with a toddler in the backseat. A father of 3 on his way to work. A mom who had dropped her 6-year-old son off at school. A VA nurse helping a woman pushed down by masked federal agents. Enough is enough. Abolish ICE.

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Please help defend Minnesota heroes who tried to thwart the ICE gestapo, and often succeeded!! They're being persecuted by this authoritarian clownshow Dept. of Justice. bsky.app/profile/bill...

Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social

Please join me in supporting this Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers! Just like in Chicago, the DOJ is trying to make examples of people who LEGALLY resisted this administration’s reign of terror. (See their story.) Let’s fight back!! chuffed.org/project/1865...

True

Johnathan Perkins@johnathanperk.bsky.social

All white people are racist to some degree. This is a verifiable fact, not an opinion. Literally every white person does and says racist stuff every day, most without even realizing it. As any Black person can confirm, racism often shows up different when it’s unintentional—but it’s still racism.

A fucking men! Wake up, my fellow white assholes!

Demanding that Black people support you after your fuckery caused us to lose rights that we fought and died for centuries to get is straight up diabolical. We are losing voting rights. We are losing the ability to teach true history. The hoods are off and you are talking about AIPAC? Fuck you!

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Voting for me is easy. You can write my name in the write-in box and then fill in the bubbles accordingly. If you need to pull out your phone to look up how to spell my name, that’s completely fine. I hope I can earn a first place ranking on your ballot. Andreaformaine.com

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