Rick Cooley
@rcooley123.bsky.social
Progressive, antiwar, humanitarian, environmentalist, civil liberties, human rights, Down Syndrome. #ConnectTheLeft.
Trump's United Nations Speech: Read Full Text Transcript rcooley123.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/t...
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Trump's United Nations Speech: Read Full Text Transcript rcooley123.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/t...
Fact Sheets: The Harmful Effects of Project 2025, by State - Center for American Progress rcooley123.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/f...
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Fact Sheets: The Harmful Effects of Project 2025, by State - Center for American Progress rcooley123.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/f...
The Republican Party Is America’s Foremost Anti-Democracy Force rcooley123.wordpress.com/2021/07/28/t...
November 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The Republican Party Is America’s Foremost Anti-Democracy Force rcooley123.wordpress.com/2021/07/28/t...
The House Republicans Are Bent on Self-Destruction
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The House Republicans Are Bent on Self-Destruction
people will pay with their livelihoods and in many cases their lives, and the House Republicans will destroy themselves in the process
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November 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The House Republicans Are Bent on Self-Destruction
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Trump Must Go rcooley123.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/t...
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Trump Must Go rcooley123.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/t...
Republicans Melt Down Over Tennessee Special Election, While Trump Mobile Grift Falls Apart, and The EU Stands Firm Against A Failing Regime's Bullying Tactics
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Republicans Melt Down Over Tennessee Special Election, While Trump Mobile Grift Falls Apart, and The EU Stands Firm Against A Failing Regime's Bullying Tactics
Dismantling the maga machine
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November 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Republicans Melt Down Over Tennessee Special Election, While Trump Mobile Grift Falls Apart, and The EU Stands Firm Against A Failing Regime's Bullying Tactics
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Fitness To Serve rcooley123.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/f...
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Fitness To Serve rcooley123.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/f...
Senate To Launch Bipartisan Investigation Into Pete Hegseth For Potential War Crimes www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/senate-to-... | Isn't that why Trump picked a him?
Senate To Launch Bipartisan Investigation Into Pete Hegseth For Potential War Crimes
The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee announced a bipartisan investigation into potential war crimes committed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Senate To Launch Bipartisan Investigation Into Pete Hegseth For Potential War Crimes www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/senate-to-... | Isn't that why Trump picked a him?
Democrats Are On The Cusp Of An Earthquake House Win In Tennessee
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Democrats Are On The Cusp Of An Earthquake House Win In Tennessee
Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn is within two points in a Tennessee US House special election in a district that Donald Trump carried by 22 points in 2024.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Democrats Are On The Cusp Of An Earthquake House Win In Tennessee
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Trump Must Go 2.0 rcooley123.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/t...
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Trump Must Go 2.0 rcooley123.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/t...
Read Jack Smith's unsealed court filing - POLITICO rcooley123.wordpress.com/2024/10/03/r... | Hold Trump accountable for his crimes.
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Read Jack Smith's unsealed court filing - POLITICO rcooley123.wordpress.com/2024/10/03/r... | Hold Trump accountable for his crimes.
Opinion | Trump Should Be Removed From Office and Prosecuted | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum... | If Congress was doing its job, he would have been long ago.
Trump Should Be Removed From Office and Prosecuted | Common Dreams
Under Trump’s neofascist worldview, the only “legal” act is obedience, while defiance of his whims and illegal orders is a crime.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Opinion | Trump Should Be Removed From Office and Prosecuted | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum... | If Congress was doing its job, he would have been long ago.
Economic Inequality Needs to Be Alleviated rcooley123.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/e...
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Economic Inequality Needs to Be Alleviated rcooley123.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/e...
Opinion | The Billionaires Destroying Our Media System and What To Do About It | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/opinion/bill...
The Billionaires Destroying Our Media System and What To Do About It | Common Dreams
In an era when wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few individuals who have bought up key media, there is a growing danger that the public will not be getting the truth it needs to function in th...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Opinion | The Billionaires Destroying Our Media System and What To Do About It | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/opinion/bill...
'Venezuela, for the American Oil Companies, Will Be a Field Day,' Says US Lawmaker Pushing Invasion | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/trump-v... | Congress needs to rein in Trump's desire to murder people.
'Venezuela, for the American Oil Companies, Will Be a Field Day,' Says US Lawmaker Pushing Invasion | Common Dreams
US Rep. María Salazar (R-Fla.) discussed President Donald Trump's
potential military invasion of Venezuela on Fox Business, and said that it "will be a field day" for the American oil companies.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
'Venezuela, for the American Oil Companies, Will Be a Field Day,' Says US Lawmaker Pushing Invasion | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/trump-v... | Congress needs to rein in Trump's desire to murder people.
It Begins Again: Trump Supporters Embrace Life Unworthy of Life rcooley123.wordpress.com/2020/04/23/i...
It Begins Again: Trump Supporters Embrace Life Unworthy of Life
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November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
It Begins Again: Trump Supporters Embrace Life Unworthy of Life rcooley123.wordpress.com/2020/04/23/i...
'Unspeakably Cruel': Trump Freezes Green Cards to 235,000 Refugees Admitted Under Biden | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/trump-f...
'Unspeakably Cruel': Trump Freezes Green Cards to 235,000 Refugees Admitted Under Biden | Common Dreams
In a policy advocates have called "unspeakably cruel," the Trump administration has frozen the distribution of Green Cards to more than 230,000 people approved for refugee status under Biden, who have...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
'Unspeakably Cruel': Trump Freezes Green Cards to 235,000 Refugees Admitted Under Biden | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/trump-f...
In Trump and Christian Nationalism the Racism, and the Ghosts of the Confederacy Return | The Inglorius Padre Steve's World rcooley123.wordpress.com/2022/08/22/i...
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
In Trump and Christian Nationalism the Racism, and the Ghosts of the Confederacy Return | The Inglorius Padre Steve's World rcooley123.wordpress.com/2022/08/22/i...
Trump's Thanksgiving Attack on Immigrants Likened to 'Stuff You Hear Coming Out of White Nationalists' | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/trump-i... | Um, Isn't that his base?
Trump's Thanksgiving Attack on Immigrants Likened to 'Stuff You Hear Coming Out of White Nationalists' | Common Dreams
Trump pledged on Thanksgiving Day to "permanently pause migration from all Third World countries" and expedite the removal of people his administration doesn't see as "a net asset" to the United State...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Trump's Thanksgiving Attack on Immigrants Likened to 'Stuff You Hear Coming Out of White Nationalists' | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/trump-i... | Um, Isn't that his base?
Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One rcooley123.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/f...
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One rcooley123.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/f...
The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025 rcooley123.wordpress.com/2024/01/24/t...
November 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025 rcooley123.wordpress.com/2024/01/24/t...
Trump Must Go 2.0 rcooley123.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/t...
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Trump Must Go 2.0 rcooley123.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/t...
'This Is the Scandal': DHS Data Show ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/immigra... | Quite different from Trump's claims of terrorists and murderers and drug cartels invading from Venezuela and Mexico.
'This Is the Scandal': DHS Data Show ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions | Common Dreams
The libertarian Cato Institute further undermined the Trump administration's claims that it is targeting "the worst of the worst" with its violent immigration operations by publishing data about the c...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
'This Is the Scandal': DHS Data Show ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/immigra... | Quite different from Trump's claims of terrorists and murderers and drug cartels invading from Venezuela and Mexico.
Inhumane Treatment of Prospective Immigrants Is Unacceptable rcooley123.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/i...
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Inhumane Treatment of Prospective Immigrants Is Unacceptable rcooley123.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/i...
After 9 Months of 'Israel's Abuse,' US Teen Mohammed Ibrahim Freed From Detention | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/mohamme... | Sounds like something Trump would have ICE to him if he returns to the US.
After 9 Months of 'Israel's Abuse,' US Teen Mohammed Ibrahim Freed From Detention | Common Dreams
After over nine months in Israeli detention, 16-year-old Palestinian-American Mohammed Ibrahim has finally been released.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
After 9 Months of 'Israel's Abuse,' US Teen Mohammed Ibrahim Freed From Detention | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/mohamme... | Sounds like something Trump would have ICE to him if he returns to the US.