ryan cooper
Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast patreon.com/leftanchor
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- again, the hogs do not know that they are playing with fire
- Was talking to a random nice older woman from East Isles last night and ICE came up. She then detailed, totally free of irony, her plan for reforming US government, which included the simultaneous mass execution of every leading member of the Trump administration, many of whom were mentioned by name
- when you get Fuentes and company going "executing civilians in the street is good actually" then there is a logical response that naturally occurs to every potential target
- the core MAGA chud base are people who are so used to gleefully blurting out whatever deranged shit pops into their head every minute of every day and getting away with it, the idea that one day even buttoned down normie liberal grandmas will snap simply does not fit into their heads
- another example. middle aged suburban lady talking like a radicalized Union soldier in 1862 bsky.app/profile/jcol...
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- yep. Obama FP was mid to awful but that was the best part and they never forgave him
- similar story with Biden and Afghanistan. cutting bait on a war that had been an obvious unwinnable quagmire for over a decade drove them into hysterics
- I’d forgotten a lot of this theweek.com/politics/100...
- Reposted by ryan cooperI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Reposted by ryan cooperReporting this story in Cameroon, I met people who were blind because larval worms died in their eyeballs: NTDs cause immense suffering and disability. But they're preventable! And treatable! And eliminatable!
- Reposted by ryan cooperif the whole genocide thing wasn't enough for you, another good reason to get AIPAC money out of democratic politics is that the organization now exists to move republican donor money into democratic races to sow chaos and get the most republican-friendly democrat elected
- Reposted by ryan cooperMacKenzie Scott should publicly offer to buy Washington Post
- Reposted by ryan cooperNew Bellingcat investigation: Made in the USA: How American-Built Weapons Have Wrought Destruction in Gaza. The article examines how US-made weapons have been used in Israeli strikes and the civilian harm linked to their use. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
- Reposted by ryan cooperTucker Carlson thought he could do a high quality conservative news outlet and when he found there was no audience for it he decided to become Julius Streicher
- well, someone reversed the decision at least
- an ex-Republican pastor is one of the central organizers in the anti-ICE effort in Springfield OH www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
- MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it
- Reposted by ryan cooperIf you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286
- says in here that Matt Lauer is trying to make a comeback at CBS. wouldn't that be just the perfect capstone of the Bari Weiss Era www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
- one thing I'd emphasize about this and WaPo is that the MAGA billionaires aren't really doing the Putin style authoritarian thing of simultaneously corrupting all media, they are more obliterating parts of it one by one bsky.app/profile/medi...
- it's real bad, don't get me wrong, but suggests a potential opening for replacements. most CBS viewers and WaPo readers plainly do not want to be force-fed poorly produced MAGA slopaganda
- Reposted by ryan coopera detailed look at the mechanics of the new American censorship regime It runs on threats of accusations, administrative ambiguity, and pervasive, amorphous fear of sudden termination.
- Reposted by ryan cooperCrazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.
- Reposted by ryan cooperBasically the foreign aid playbook. Make the system more “punitive” (when in fact the median American thinks the immigration system should be far easier to navigate than what it actually is)
- Reposted by ryan cooperBezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
- Reposted by ryan cooperThe underlying dynamic is that for Jeff Bezos and the other media oligarchs, their news business is a tiny fraction of their overall business holdings and they are willing to sacrifice it to appease Trump. They resisted in term one; this time, they capitulated. www.mediamatters.org/cbs/year-med...
- one area where popularism is most preposterous is where voters are quite obviously confused
- Pew finds 60% oppose pausing visas and 66% oppose nixing asylum! People overinterpreted 2024 as a seismic shift to Trump on immigration. But the data is showing very broad opposition to the restrictionist, ethnonationalist, anti-humanitarian aspects of Trumpism. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- as others have said I think you could sell a massive liberalization of immigration by loudly promising to crack down on scofflaws and whatnot
- “we’re going to Get Tough on illegal immigration” [10x the number of asylum judges, massively cut citizenship time requirements, abolish ICE and CBP, etc]
- “The case against Kavanaugh was the case against the culture of Georgetown Prep, of fraternities at elite colleges, of the entire social world that produced the entire conservative elite.” thebaffler.com/salvos/teena...
- Reposted by ryan cooperRemember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.
- “I would often see an odd-sounding accusation about someone or something I knew, and find (after untangling the thread of internet telephone and tendentious bullshit) a severe distortion or even the complete opposite of what was being claimed.”
- Reposted by ryan cooper"Musk was quite lucky that just as his previous recklessness was about to catch up with him, he stumbled into the AI bubble, and another attendant geyser of gullible investor cash. If and when that bubble pops, a true reckoning may be at hand for the first time in his life." — @ryanlcooper.com
- the actual Smart Tactics move here
- this is excellent www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
- this might sound bad. but if you look into the story it's actually much, much worse prospect.org/2022/04/08/h...
- "From 2006 to 2022, the best available tickets to World Cup openers cost between $600 and $725 (adjusted for inflation). Now they are selling for triple that amount: $2,170 in Toronto, $2,355 in Mexico City, and a whopping $2,735 in Los Angeles." prospect.org/2026/02/03/f...
- "when you look under the microscope at these teams, to understand why they never win or get their act together, there’s often a common answer: a billionaire" prospect.org/2026/02/02/f...
- reminded of this old Pareene piece www.salon.com/2014/01/03/h...
- "In 1960, an NFL Championship Game ticket ran you $8; adjusted for inflation, that’s about $87.60. Last year, the cheapest seat for the Super Bowl ... was $3,000." prospect.org/2026/02/03/f...
