Jason Coupet
Towards a big, efficient public sector that serves the least of us. Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School. United Campus Workers of Georgia. Father of 3. Chicago southsider. Proud 〽️ichigan alum. 🏀 nut.
- 10yo: I don’t feel well and can’t go to school today and need to come to your causal inference seminar Also 10yo playing office chair ass rocket in the middle of said seminar:
- Reposted by Jason Coupet"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
- Reposted by Jason CoupetFT's Due Diligence: "Musk has big plans. He said the deal was needed to launch data centres into space, build factories on the moon and colonise Mars." Gil-Scott Heron: "I can't pay no doctor bills But whitey's on the moon Ten years from now I'll be payin' still While whitey's on the moon…"
- My 12yo had a friend over to work on a project. When I learned her name, I excitedly told her that she shared a name with one of the world’s top business schools. She gave me this sarcastic smile and nod like, “um, great” and it hit me how big a MFing dork my kids’ father is. Jesus I need help man.
- Man the swing states are really getting going now. This shit is bout to be nuts.
- Here we go. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
- Reminds me of a conversation I had with @doughenwood.bsky.social. Is this the most gross ruling class ever or is it just that social media is around to capture them in all their messiness?
- Reposted by Jason Coupetthere has been no de-escalation.
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- Reposted by Jason CoupetMayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system @gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
- Reposted by Jason CoupetAcademics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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- Reposted by Jason CoupetI do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
- Yeah man, anecdotally, I had so many stories in Chicago like this. It’s hard to find people that believe you but i swear there are Chicago cops with 15 years experience that earn what experienced specialist doctors make. And those same cops call some English prof making $65k elitist.
- I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
- Reposted by Jason CoupetThe Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
- Reposted by Jason Coupetthis handful of independent journalists (my former colleagues at Motherboard) do more impactful journalism than 75% of the corporate tech press on a fraction of the budget
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- Same. I was writing about this years ago because of how scared I was this was going to happen. Some of it was being in North Carolina, I swear to god that state was the canary in the coal mine. They were/are so openly hostile bro. See a piece on this I wrote in 2018: news.ncsu.edu/2019/07/risk...
- Reposted by Jason Coupetremember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
- lol omg lololololol Elon is loser lol
- Lololololol dawg this is so funny. Dude had literally every other scumbag on earth there too. Lol like do you know what that says about you lol. You are the shittiest pair of underwear in a giant laundry bag of the worst nastiest bag of dirty ass gross ass draws. The kid not even your mom will hug.
- Dawg how yall gon be pedophiles and emailing each other about pedophile shit on regular email and signing it
- Reposted by Jason CoupetYounger kid's whole middle school walked out today in solidarity with Minnesota. Apparently there were 13 year olds getting up and making impromptu speeches. They didn't prep a chant in advance, so they settled on "F*ck ICE"
- This is 💯 what I’m talking about. They want it closed and low.
- I didn’t understand this till I lived here but the good ole boy ruling class of the South *knows* shit like this makes everyone worse off, but they are small minded provincialists who’d rather rule a poor closed economy where even they are poorer than be richer in a bigger pool they don’t lord over.
- Bruuuuuuuuuh
- Big one in East Lansing tonight. Tonight I’m not sure if it’s worse to be a couch in East Lansing or JD Vance’s living room. Seems like either way you’re getting burned.
- The Democratic Party is beyond a joke.
- Jesus Christ man these people are ghouls
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- One of the most common things referees say about my manuscripts in more normative social science journals (but never from referees in economics journals!) is that my writing is “well written but boring”. Motherfucker I’m writing science not a romance novel. I’m not tryna entertain you.
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- Chicago is incredible. Of course it is: it is the city that made me!
- Finally got around to watching One Battle After Another. A plus plus film, super fitting for our times. Also A+ for the shape Sean Penn got in for this role lol. My man is brolic AF. I mean he got in premier top top shape to play this fascist thug lol.
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- I think yall are waaaay too bullish about normality elections in November www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
- Reposted by Jason Coupetplease remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
- Reposted by Jason CoupetWhile independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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- Greatest at bat of all time.
- Terrorism
- 🤡
- FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that he had opened an investigation into the Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
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- Reposted by Jason CoupetICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.
- Reposted by Jason CoupetMayor Mamdani is personally checking on the outer boroughs during the storm. Here he is stopping in Bed-Stuy to help NYCHA residents whose car got stuck.
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- Reposted by Jason CoupetThe Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L
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- All due respect @jamellebouie.net, it’s shit like this that has me tripping, not necessarily like a cancelled election declaration. The election shenanigans are already really bad down here and methinks they are about to get a lot worse.
- Lol
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- Imma get offa here and eat breakfast with my family but one of the things that’s frustrating is that if you’re a bigoted piece of shit there are *so many* places in America you can live with other bigots in peace. Why yall gotta bother places tryna do right? Gone on over there and die sad, hater.
- Reposted by Jason Coupet36-year-old Nicaraguan national Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso. The Texas Nicaraguan Community on FB reports that his mom last heard from him on Jan. 6, when he told her he was planning to go to Minneapolis to start work in a restaurant. 1/3
- 💯 I had this argument ten years ago with this vapid centrist in Raleigh trying to convince me that right wingers like her dad really just wanted small government. Then why the hell does her have that cop sticker on his car and cheer on the shooting of innocent black kids? The shit been hypocrisy
- Finally. Dawg these athletes have gotta start being more than a brand. Let’s get it.
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- This is the man the killed.
- Reposted by Jason CoupetBREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.
- We have one on our block in Atlanta.
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- Reposted by Jason CoupetThey say “where’s the gun?” — After the shots Because they don’t realize one of them had already taken it — before the shots
- Reposted by Jason Coupet“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...
- Reposted by Jason CoupetMy friends, we are in a serious constitutional crisis. The government is racially profiling, suppessing free speech, killing our own people in the streets— and lying about every fact along the way. If we don’t use our natural talents and voices to say “no,” then what’s the point of law at all?
- lol he is getting ratioooooed
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- I can’t even begin to imagine the incidence of child and spousal abuse in ICE goon households. We obviously can’t observe that number but it’s gotta be unreal.
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- I just watched the much closer video. That shit was a summary execution. My man was directing traffic and helping up another observer that one of these clowns just pushed in the face. Then the came up to him, sprayed him in the face at point blank range. Then they all just tackled him and shot him.
- Reposted by Jason CoupetThe Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- I keep watching these shit and oscillating between depression, hope, and disbelief that a grown ass man could grow up to be such an irredeemable fucking loser that they would make a living shooting bullets and tear gas at teachers who bake cookies in 30 below tundra for 6 grand a month after taxes.
- American capitalism increasingly feels like a series of rent seeking scams
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- Man peace be upon us
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- Reposted by Jason CoupetNew: an FBI agent who took the routine step of investigating the ICE officer who shot Renee Good has resigned after FBI leadership discouraged the investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
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- Reposted by Jason CoupetThey are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
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- Reposted by Jason CoupetNot exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
