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Jonathan Cohn
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Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist.
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The shutdown deal includes a ban on hemp products that none of its negotiators debated in public.

Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.

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NAYs ---24 Baldwin (D-WI) Bennet (D-CO) Blumenthal (D-CT) Booker (D-NJ) Cruz (R-TX) Gallego (D-AZ) Hickenlooper (D-CO) Kaine (D-VA) Kelly (D-AZ) Klobuchar (D-MN) Markey (D-MA) Merkley (D-OR) Murphy (D-CT) Ossoff (D-GA) Paul (R-KY) Peters (D-MI) Sanders (I-VT) Schatz (D-HI) Schumer (D-NY) Smith (D-MN) Warnock (D-GA) Warren (D-MA) Welch (D-VT) Wyden (D-OR)
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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@ayannapressley.bsky.social, after a standing ovation at the Standing Together event, does an excellent job as always of connecting issues and the need for a justice lens to carry across all.

Talks about the need for imagination, strategy, and stamina.
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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“This ceasefire is only partial. It is not peace. We can’t just go back to October 6.” — Sally Abed of Standing Together
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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We want what’s worst for everyone We’re just plain evil
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Election eve lit drop in Allston
District 9 Slate Liz Breadon Marvin Mathelier Julia Mejia Ruthzee Louijeune Henry Santana
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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GOTV Day 2

Started the day in Medford for the Our Revolution Medford slate then Chelsea for @robertoj.bsky.social then the South End for Miniard Culpepper

Also made some calls for Maggie McKee (Quincy)
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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MBTA Blue Line costume
Blue shirt, MBTA sticker, Alice in Wonderland printouts
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Began the day by running down the last of my Ward 4 lit and then walked up to Cambridge to canvass for @votejivan.bsky.social and do some rent control signature collection

#mapoli
November 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Happy GOTV weekend!
The #1 reason why someone isn’t voting for you is you didn’t ask them. The #2 reason is that they are a fucking asshole. The #3 reason is that you are.
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Do you have a plan to vote on Tuesday?
Drew Barrymore on the phone in Scream
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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So many outtakes happened in my attempt to capture a short video about why Healey and MA legislators should use the rainy day fund to prevent cuts to health care and food assistance
October 31, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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No better writer on the intersecting politics of class, race, and gender than @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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But, I do care about the political trade-offs we will ask people to make in the name of pragmatism. If the Democratic future requires us to exchange our discomfort with casual Nazism to advance a political agenda, I am not interested. Maybe other voters are — some polling suggests that young voters still support Platner. And maybe Platner will find a way to redeem himself. No one owes him that chance, but there is still a way forward. It’s called doing the work. But don’t tell me that excusing that tattoo is good politics. It is the exact same politics that the right is selling, in a different outfit. Poor people can be self-determined. They prove it every day, mostly by surviving while being poor in a country that is mean and nasty and hostile to them. There is a rich history of multiracial, cross-class organizing in this country, even in the South, where so many people pretend racism is just too strident for working-class politics to thrive. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT If that history exists and if that culture still thrives in the poorest corners of our country, why do so many people feel the need to work so hard to redeem a man who had a Nazi tattoo? That’s a question for Democrats.
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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W Canton St going all out for Halloween
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Canvassing in JP in the morning with @jpprogressives.bsky.social and then later in the day in the South End for @bostonward4dems.bsky.social

#bospoli
October 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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This racist garbage from Mike Davis reminds me of how a major fault line in politics can be seen in Thomas Malthus's list of population checks: vice vs. misery.

Let me go on.
October 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Every so often, I notice the pay phone on Mass Ave and am fascinated.
October 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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2025
"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit
October 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Venn Diagram "The hottest rom-com on Netflix" "Nobody Wants This" "Rahm Emanuel 2028"
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Glad to support @ruthz.bsky.social and the Yes for a Safe MA campaign to protect MA’s recent gun safety bill on the ballot next year.

#mapoli

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October 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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MA has a problematic history of electing Republicans governors. We don’t need to make that more common, as the “all-party primary” ballot question would do.

There are real problems with our current system. This is not a solution.
MA has a problematic history of electing Republicans governors. We don’t need to make that more common, as the “all-party primary” ballot question would do. How? MA is often a 62% Democratic - 38% Republican state. Let’s say that 5 Democrats run and 2 Republicans run. Possible outcome: 20% Republican 1 18% Republican 2 17% Democrat 1 15% Democrat 2 12% Democrat 3 10% Democrat 4 8% Democrat 5 In an all-party primary, the two Republicans advance, even though a solid majority voted for a Democrat. In our current system, Republican 1 and Democrat 1 face off. In a ranked choice system (ideal), there would be an opportunity for other Democrats to make the final. Think this is just a hypothetical? It’s why CA-31 elected a Republican in 2012 despite going heavily for Obama, and it’s why Washington elected a Reoublican treasurer in 2016. Moreover, the eisk of this happening reinforces the shadow primary where party insiders get to decide who even runs and who gets forced out. There are real problems with our current system. This is not a solution. MA has a problematic history of electing Republicans governors. We don’t need to make that more common, as the “all-party primary” ballot question would do. How? MA is often a 62% Democratic - 38% Republican state. Let’s say that 5 Democrats run and 2 Republicans run. Possible outcome: 20% Republican 1 18% Republican 2 17% Democrat 1 15% Democrat 2 12% Democrat 3 10% Democrat 4 8% Democrat 5 In an all-party primary, the two Republicans advance, even though a solid majority voted for a Democrat. In our current system, Republican 1 and Democrat 1 face off. In a ranked choice system (ideal), there would be an opportunity for other Democrats to make the final. Think this is just a hypothetical? It’s why CA-31 elected a Republican in 2012 despite going heavily for Obama, and it’s why Washington elected a Reoublican treasurer in 2016. Moreover, the eisk of this happening reinforces the shadow primary where party insiders get to decide who even runs and who gets forced out. There are real problems with our current system. This is not a solution.
October 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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@electerika.bsky.social kicking off a canvass for @votejivan.bsky.social in Porter Square this morning #mapoli
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Action shots of me gesticulating while tabling at the Boston No Kings rally
October 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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A+ sign game
Deport Stephen Miller back to Hades
October 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Impressed by how much work went into putting on the @aclum.bsky.social Annual Bill of Rights Gala. Props to all involved!
October 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM