Debra Rae Cohen
Finally here. Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, M/m; past president, CELJ. Modernism and media, especially the BBC. Anti-fascist, trans ally. Bean soup, pickles, word games. She/her. 🍉
- May all politicians (and grownups) be like ZM.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenI read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenThe connections among Epstein, AI oligarchs, cognitive scientists, eugenicists, misogynists, rapists, and outright fascists are so strong it's stunning that they are not outlined in every account of AI development and deployment. If you are bullish on AI you might want to check yourself.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenCorporatist fascism, plain and simple. DHS is trying to get tech companies to hand over data on Trump critics. This is unconstitutional, and Congress must shut it down, before we turn into East Germany. techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenWe found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. This is how he did it (published 2021):
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenWe cannot ask survivors to speak out about sexual violence while simultaneously punishing them for it. We cannot hold survivors responsible for their own justice while refusing to give it to them. We cannot expect survivors to come forward while making it impossible for them to do so.
- Reposted by Debra Rae Cohenif you took my advice last year and bought used leather pants, wore those leather pants, and then resold them on eBay, you would have made more money than if you invested in bitcoin
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenThey’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenHistorian here President Abraham Lincoln opposed the Mexican War as a land grab for slavery when he was a first term Congressman from Illinois.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenSwear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenJust like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go
- I have played this for everyone I know today.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenKatie Britt is In On All These Horrors and NYT readers shouldn't have to wade through 3,300 words of bullshit about her deep compassion for Liam Ramos before finally encountering the tiniest hint that maybe it wasn't entirely sincere
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenReminder that the National Prayer Breakfast was founded by extreme anti New Deal evangelicals and is a venue for Christian Nationalists to lobby and influence Washington insiders
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenThis is truly incredible. Shakespeare speaking to RIGHT NOW—on the “mountainish” inhumanity of punishing and casting out strangers from your country.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenCivil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenIt’s pretty jarring at this time to see so many people saying clearly: stop terrorizing and taking our neighbors While leaders try to synthesize the ask as: take our neighbors more politely
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenThe only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"
- Flooding the zone with shit, but for the legal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenThis highly influential White House advisor now states openly: use paramilitary forces to intervene directly in our elections. This is what the conspiracy theories have been for. This moment. Conservative and Liberal Americans reject fascism. We know it won't help any 'side'. It is time to act.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenEpstein, Thiel, and their buddies figured out, probably from observing the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, that it's *much* easier to make a $ killing off preying upon a collapsing economy, than off a functioning, growing one.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenThis has been so drawn-out and sadistic. I hope everyone who has to deal with this is doing as well as possible today.
- Reposted by Debra Rae Cohen"Gov. Kelly Ayotte has repeatedly denied any knowledge of the plan" to put an ICE warehouse in NH. It's only thanks to @aclu-nh.bsky.social that we now know state gov't was aware. 1/2 www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...
- Reposted by Debra Rae Cohenso crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenNot a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum on the violence inflicted by ICE agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis last month. www.c-span.org/program/publ...
- Reposted by Debra Rae Cohen“5 shots, 7 holes” That’s what Charles Exum texted other ICE agents after nearly killing Marimar Martinez. “5 shots, 7 holes”. He treated her like a piece of meat. He counted the bullet holes. He celebrate his “triumph”. And he’s not being held accountable.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenFloored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenIn retrospect as the world accelerates into increasingly efficient and effective green technologies, it is insane that the US spent the 2010s doubling down on fracking
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenThey’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
- Reposted by Debra Rae Cohencontinue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition
- This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenNoem: We're putting cameras on the gestapo Me: How about no gestapo Noem: We're putting reflectors on the gestapo Me: I said no— Noem: We're putting bells on the gestapo
- Reposted by Debra Rae Cohenimagine how many people we could have fed and housed with $35 billion
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenIt's not a crime to eat with Jeffrey Dahmer
- Reposted by Debra Rae Cohensomething that's really important to keep in mind about this administration is that they have exactly one move, and it is escalation it does not mean that the escalation is going to work, or that they're actually winning
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenReminder that the war against the state of Minnesota is economic not just physical.As of this month,the state is fully cut off from funding for much of their social and economic resources to help the most at risk in the state and because of that we are going to see increasingly large social problems
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenHe's totally tearing it down.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenBREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenThere’s the winning message. They finally nailed it.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenThe Trump regime illegally redacted the names of various men, including the President, who likely committed heinous crimes against women and girls, while illegally releasing nude photos and names of possible victims. These people are truly evil.
- New: The DOJ left multiple unredacted nude images in the Epstein data dump. They only removed them after 404 Media reported the links. This is very disturbing: www.404media.co/doj-released...
- Reposted by Debra Rae Cohen'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
- Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
- Reposted by Debra Rae Cohen👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
- Folks are dying from winter storms and the power has been out for a week but the government can spend big money on detention camps. bsky.app/profile/cost...
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenThe partisans of the "center left" (aka the courtiers of Abundance) won't tell you this, or even try to account for it, but: Taylor Rehmet, who just flipped a district in TX that Trump took by 17 points, ran on "strong unions and worker power" as well as "environmental justice." 1/3
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenRight now: the federal government has to help these folks and get the power back on, and if they can’t, they should resign After that: we need a Grid New Deal and rebuild the grid for this century
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenWhat a convenient way to avoid bankruptcy plus cancel contracts, with unions, service providers and artists.
- Reposted by Debra Rae Cohen*Way to go Denmark #skininthegame
- Reposted by Debra Rae Cohendeath from disease in concentration camps is so widespread and so predictable that it's pretty clearly a feature, not a bug.
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- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenGonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines. Alternatives: "With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely" "Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"
- Breaking news: President Trump said that the Kennedy Center could temporarily close for roughly two years to undergo construction. wapo.st/49VsdCk
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenBad Bunny: Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say, ICE out. We're not savages, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenWell done @propublica.org
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenBillie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenMy current congressman corporate democrat @repbillfoster.bsky.social has an “open mind” about Kevin Warsh for one of the most critical positions in the country—Warsh is in the Epstein Files. Who needs MAGAs with corporate democrats like Foster for whom the Epstein Files are not a deal breaker. Smh
- Reposted by Debra Rae CohenAlarmed yet?
