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John Peyton Cooke
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🏳️‍🌈 Whippet lover. Dilettante clarinettist. Author of novels and stories. Reader of great fiction (mostly). I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦.
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 16d
My latest on Medium: “5 Great Works of Personal Nonfiction”

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5 Great Works of Personal Nonfiction
Stunning works by writers passionate about their subjects
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 1d
Messaging is NOT the problem!
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 2d
I feel sad for the National Symphony Orchestra.
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 4d
Relics from ancient Assyria and Egypt show that Herr Trympënführer isn’t the first leader to build monuments to his own glory, employ sycophants, retell history, and claim to have been annointed by God. I wonder what his mausoleum will look like. #BritishMuseum
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The Liberty Pear @thelibertypear.com · 4d
We have GOT to get out the vote for Zohran.

🌹 We can not be complacent!!

🗳️ Vote early if you can! Otherwise, make a plan to vote for sure on Election Day! 🗳️

🫡 Help get out the vote (call or canvass!) www.zohranfornyc.com/gotv

‼️Engage with Zohran on his socials (comment, repost!)

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Get Out The Vote for Zohran | Zohran for NYC
We need YOU to get your neighbors out to vote for Zohran! Our movement has to win big on November 4th to have the strength to pass our affordability agenda. Sign up for our final stretch shifts now an...
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 4d
The parade of cars and people and cans and boxes of food, and back in Washington D.C., the SNAP program, even with its struggles, amount to living proof that this country has a soul. Even with all its struggles, that soul is a good one.
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How I learned that having enough food to eat should be a right, not a privilege
Blissful ignorance.
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 4d
I once worked as a “police report typist” which can probably be done by AI today. Most came to me on micro-cassette, but important ones were dictated to me live by the arresting officer. Sometimes I had to prompt them things like “Did you draw your service weapon?” “Oh, yeah, I did! Put that in!”
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BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d
Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days.

Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote

Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d
"No longer should we think about our political process as settling for the lesser of two evils. We can demand a greater good.

And in doing so, we can make City Hall a place from which New Yorkers expect change, not failure."
Zohran at the podium looking to the left. Zohran, Bernie and AOC holding hands on stage. Zohran on stage with people seated on the sage behind me.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d
Thank you, New York City.

Now let’s win.
Bernie, Zohran and AOC on stage.
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 9d
US citizen here, lived in London for 7 yrs. I love Owen and his reporting. I’ve lived most of the rest of my life in NY, and truly dislike Andrew Cuomo. Now I live in this dark year 2025, and Mamdami gives me hope. Other lesson here for candidates: project your voice! Don’t rely on amplification!
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 10d
Me either.
mrsbettybowers.bsky.social Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10d
Hakeem Jeffries was just now on Chris Hayes and refused to endorse Zohran Mamdani. I can't even.
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 10d
Andrew Cuomo at this point is the second least likable person in the country.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10d
In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.

She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.

So I confronted him.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d
NYC’s Dept. of Education spends around $10 billion/year on contracts.

Many provide essential services to our schools, yet with over 3,000 active contracts, DOE faces major efficiency challenges.

DOE needs procurement reform.

Yesterday I announced my platform to deliver it.
NYC Mayor’s Race: Mamdani unveils plan to root out ‘duplicative’ education spending at city’s public schools | amNewYork
Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday rolled out a plan to overhaul how the city's Education Department inks contracts with
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12d
Federal agents from ICE and HSI—some in military fatigues and masks—descended on Chinatown today in an aggressive and reckless raid on immigrant street vendors.

Once again, the Trump administration chooses authoritarian theatrics that create fear, not safety. It must stop.
Federal agents descend on Chinatown in apparent raid
The raid follows recent federal arrests at a Midtown migrant shelter, part of what officials call a broader push to “restore law and order” in New York City.
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 12d
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 12d
"White Europeans have a tradition of genocide" - Yanis Varoufakis
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 12d
He’s very dislikeable!
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 12d
Don’t Look Now
Psycho
The Exorcist
Night of the Living Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Friday the 13th
Basketcase
Re-Animator
The Evil Dead
Carnival of Souls
Suspiria
Halloween
The Omen
Phantasm
Quartermass and the Pit
Rosemary’s Baby
The Abominable Dr Phibes
Candyman (the original)
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 12d
New test: reach for a beer can 15 times, press a button on a TV remote 32 times, and walk one lap around a mall within 1.5 hours.
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 12d
I was about to start myself a countdown to October 21st … then, d’oh! It’s today!!!
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12d
⚡️ Poland warns Putin's flight to Hungary for Trump talks could be diverted to The Hague.

"I cannot guarantee that an independent Polish court won't order the government to escort such an aircraft down to hand (Putin) over to the court in The Hague," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.
Poland warns Putin's flight to Hungary for Trump talks could be diverted to The Hague
"I cannot guarantee that an independent Polish court won't order the government to escort such an aircraft down to hand (Putin) over to the court in The Hague," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikors...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13d
No British prime minister has discarded their claimed beliefs and policies so comprehensively or so swiftly.

The biggest political conman of our age.
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 15d
I don’t understand why anyone finds this nightmarish look to be “beautiful”. Yikes.
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John Peyton Cooke @johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social · 16d
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5 Great Works of Personal Nonfiction
Stunning works by writers passionate about their subjects
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