Rachel Cohen

@cohen489.bsky.social

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pragmatic optimist and well-known email author. lawyer never giving legal advice. views are mine alone. cohen489.substack.com americandemands.com BOOK RECS THAT PAY ME + LOCAL STORES: https://bookshop.org/shop/cohen489

Nikki Blonsky tweeting at Amanda Bynes “hey girl I texted u hit me back live u boo boo!!! Xoxo”
LinkedIn post announcing FedSoc’s new “in-house counsel network”
Many MAGA feel that the Democrats did not open the border for humanitarian reasons. Once the Supreme Court said that the census was to count all people, they felt the Dems saw it as a way to lessen the effect of outmigration on a liberal state’s congressional appropriation. Who knows if that is true? This line of thought leads to Trump’s push for nationwide voter ID laws.
January 23, 2016 headline: Donald Trump: ‘I Could…Shoot Somebody And I Wouldn’t Lose Any Voters’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel called Mr. Graham a “beloved friend” in a social media post. “Lindsey understood that the security of Israel and America are inseparable,” Mr. Netanyahu wrote, adding, “Israel has lost one of its greatest friends.”
the world if meme (image of a futuristic city)
Some photographs of my grandfather capture him as an athlete, even ones taken decades after he hung up his jersey. In these photographs, I can really see him. I can see him in a way that reminds me that not so long ago, he, too, was in his thirties, was even younger. These photographs fill me with tenderness. I almost always send them to my friends.
Photograph of Lorenzo reading A BELOVED HUSBAND AND FATHER LORENZO SALGADO ARAUJO WAS MURDERED BY ICE ON JUSY 7, 2026 IN HOUSTON TX
snip from politico, quoting Trump Trump: well, so he won the primary, right? POLITICO: and now there are these new allegations. Trump: it’s very hard for them to do. It’s really a question of whether you believe the woman. A lot of people say big falsehoods.
photograph of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo standing in his home, smiling, in front of a cake with candles on it that show it is his 52nd birthday.
Cover: The Banality of Misogyny Graham Platner, Jeffrey Epstein, and the complex, straightforward nature of violence.
quote from platner accuser: "One of the reasons I didn't come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person," she said. "I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person."
Quote: the question was simple: does the constitution say what it says? the court said yes. four of the nine justices said no.
The Court’s decision to grant certiorari in Barbara legitimizes the administration in asking the question at all, normalizing the idea of birthright citizenship as a question as opposed to a foundational piece of our country’s history.9 The Court’s likely eventual preservation of birthright citizenship will allow pundits desperate for evidence that the current moment is not as dire as it is to celebrate a win, gaslighting a public similarly desperate for reassurance. It focuses people’s attention on a legal issue that isn’t really a legal issue at all, no matter how much the Court wants you to believe it might be. Meanwhile, the government will continue grabbing people off the street regardless of citizenship status, blocking pathways to legal immigration, and losing people it detains. Stay focused, stay angry, and protect your neighbors.
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results screenshot with 65% in showing Melat Kiros with 47.5 and Diana DeGette with 45.1
mocking spongebob meme
screenshot of p 52 of Thomas dissent with relevant cites highlighted
The common law “made no distinction on account of race or color.” United States v. Rhodes, 27 F. Cas. 785, 789 (No. 16,151) (CC Ky. 1866) (Swayne, J.). But the slave States did. As the Civil War approached, more and more Southern States sought to deny citizenship to black Americans—and openly rejected the common law to reach that result.
In a Nation of immigrants—an “asylum for mankind,” in Thomas Paine’s words—jus soli’s broad scope took on particular importance.
Barbie doll with smeared makeup and disheveled hair meme
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is—we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.
texts in succession, from me: like these fucking losers flipping on people in Spokane and Prairieland rot Stephen Miller is a little bitch also happy birthday lmao
stills from interview with Mayor Johnson where he goes from very serious to a big grin, reading: there has been a lot of discourse around Mamdani, and looking for the Mamdani of Chicago and I’m actually old enough to remember when you were a union endorsed left leaning candidate polling at 3% ahead of the mayoral election so here he is y’all
still from video of me interviewing Brandon Johnson: superimposed text up top reading ‘Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faces HARD HITTING QUESTIONS from white people who have NEVER BEEN TO THE CITY’ I look very serious, MBJ has a shit-eating grin
text exchange with my parents Me: Can I make a joke about Dad’s low spice tolerance in a video I’m making with the Mayor today Mom: absolutely but he is going to chime in and say that his spice tolerance is not that low
screenshot of NYT News alert reading ‘JD Vance joins interesting times to defend the Iran deal. ‘if you think this is a bad deal, what is your alternative?’
pic of me making Hasan Piker read my ‘dick cheney died on the day that Zohran Mamdani was elected Mayor of New York City, November 4, 2025’ shirt on stream
cover of substack post ‘good faith electability arguments are over’ with pic of Chris Rabb. full post is voice recorded at the link, other images are screenshots of text from the post
pic of Kat and Andre leaving the courthouse
pic of me and Chris chatting captioned ‘oh yeah we can say fuck ICE’
Signal exchange first text 'also do you see what's happening with the correspondents dinner' second 'nooo my phone is bricked'
picture of a man in an inflatable shark costume standing in front of anna at a bar in bedstuy
text exchange where I say ‘these hurt bc of the heel I think I need to suck it up and get insoles’ and my friend replies ‘ok Ron desantis’
Logan Roy saying ‘you are not serious people’
NYT live updates headline reading ‘Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Tariffs but He Plans a Workaround’