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October 2025

Maybe You Don't Have to Kill the Lawyers
A postmortem for the American legal system.
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Rachel Cohen
DOJ Indicts Illinois Democrats Over ICE Protests, Supreme Court Targets Gay Marriage, Trump Tariffs Tank Job Market — with Mike Nellis and…
A recording from Rachel Cohen and Mike Nellis's live video
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Rachel Cohen
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Mike Nellis
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A Tale of Two Cities
Ninth Circuit judges have drastically different understandings of the on-the-ground reality in Portland.
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Rachel Cohen
Donald Trump's Tyranny of Bureaucracy
Tyranny without a tyrant (and also with one).
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Rachel Cohen
Joy is Resistance! (When it's Resistance)
My motivation comes from loving my life, and knowing other people deserve to love theirs, too.
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Rachel Cohen
Chicago's on a winning streak
But make no mistake: we shouldn't have to play at all.
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Rachel Cohen

September 2025

American Demands.
I'm finally launching my campaign! (Grassroots campaign. Also it's not mine, it is the work of so, SO many people, but I got to help a lot.)
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Rachel Cohen
How to Stay Sane
Reports on the ground indicate the only way out may, unfortunately, be through.
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Rachel Cohen
Cities are Figuring Out How to Fight the Feds
The only acceptable form of NIMBYism: weaponizing code violations against the Feds.
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Rachel Cohen
Corporate Media's Manufacturing Consent Contest Keeps Heating Up
Reporting on today's tragic shootings outside a Dallas ICE facility provides some of the most egregious examples yet.
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Rachel Cohen
Democratic talking heads are allergic to standing for anything, I guess
This would be inexcusable no matter what, but it's also a losing strategy.
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Rachel Cohen
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