DC friends! My band, Witch's Mirror, is opening up for the legends Weedeater at @blackcatdc.bsky.social next Thursday, 10/15. come on out and take in some heavy, slow music. it's good for the soul. www.blackcatdc.com/shows/weedea...
Matt Cohen
@mattdcohen.bsky.social
Senior Reporter @DemocracyDocket.com, covering voting rights, far-right extremism and threats to democracy (lol). Collector of records, plants, tattoos, horror movies.
DC friends! My band, Witch's Mirror, is opening up for the legends Weedeater at @blackcatdc.bsky.social next Thursday, 10/15. come on out and take in some heavy, slow music. it's good for the soul. www.blackcatdc.com/shows/weedea...
my fiancée is a high school teacher and she just told me her school canceled their homecoming dance because no one bought tickets.
Despite all my rage i am still going to see The Smashing Pumpkins in the year of our lord 2026.
don’t much post personal stuff here but I got engaged at the beginning of the summer at our favorite drive-in @mahoningdit.bsky.social. went back a couple weeks ago for their annual slasher festival and our pal took these “engagement photos,” and i gotta post because damn we cute.
update: i bought this sweatshirt
Matt Cohen@mattdcohen.bsky.social · 2w agochat should i buy this dumb sweatshirt y/n
taken together, Jackson's dissents scattered throughout this SCOTUS term read like a very grim glimpse into the present and future of the court. not great!
Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 2w agoNEW: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the conservative majority for ignoring the harm voters will endure by allowing Trump to use a flawed system for voter purges. "The harm caused by burdening...lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the government experiences," she wrote.
how have i not heard of any of these shows??? sheesh, i'm out of the loop i guess
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoOur list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century is out now. See what came in at No. 1 here. nyti.ms/3TofmmM
DC friends: me 'n @totalvibration.bsky.social are doing a Smashing Pumpkins cover band with a couple pals next month for the annual Halloween Cover Show. Lots of other friends are doing AFI, Nirvana, and Sublime (lol) sets. And it's a benefit show! Come on out: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-hallowee...
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
James Talarico.... your new campaign just wrote itself.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w agoThe owner of a top BBQ joint in Texas decided to cut brisket, the top-selling item, from the menu rather than institute a $10 markup for customers. The decision was fueled not just by the skyrocketing price of brisket but by inflation.
I created a starter pack for the kind of people who'd want to follow @democracydocket.com and votebeat and the Election Law Blog, basically: go.bsky.app/DXpD8ya
inject this movie directly into my eyeballs rn
Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 3w agoA24 invites you to an experience you'll never forget. This is Jeremy Saulnier's SLAYGROUND.
If you're on here telling trans people to shut up and vote, you should be angry that Republicans have manipulated you to such a degree. Why aren't you angry about it
You should be angry about this. Everyone should be angry about this.
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
about to see Grouper live with my pregnant fiancée, all but guaranteeing our kid’s going to grow up to be a prominent ambient artist
Happy new Carly Rae Jepsen record day to all who celebrate 🫡
For the morning crowd: Last night's scoop that the Trump admin quietly disinvited international election observers for the upcoming midterms. This is the first time OSCE has not been invited to send an election observation mission to the US in 2 decades — not a good sign for the state of democracy.
Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 4w agoEXCLUSIVE: For over two decades, the OSCE has sent a mission to observe every federal election in the US. But the regional security organization told DD that it hasn’t received an invitation from the Trump administration to observe the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
a lil late-night scoop for your doom-scrolling
Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 4w agoEXCLUSIVE: For over two decades, the OSCE has sent a mission to observe every federal election in the US. But the regional security organization told DD that it hasn’t received an invitation from the Trump administration to observe the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Resharing because I think this deserves more attention: Joey Norris, an Iowa poll worker in 2024, had a disagreement with the auditor over ballot counting. 2 years later, he was arrested, charged with felony election misconduct, and faces 5 years in prison. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
An election worker tried to protect mail ballots. Now he faces prison amid Trump's push for voting cases
The prosecution would be concerning during any administration, but it’s particularly alarming at a moment when Trump is engaged in an unprecedented nationwide assault on voting.
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yes. i would wager that these people genuinely believe that the country is MAGA and that there is a vast and untapped audience to be appealed to. incidentally, these people also exist in an impenetrable bubble of sycophants.
🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃@golikehellmachine.com · 4w agoa lot of people think that faillison hired bari weiss to deliberately destroy CBS news and i think all of you need to consider the possibility that he hired her because he genuinely thought she would be successful.
One can only wonder who it is that Patel wanted to hire that he had to change the FBI's policy on bestiality for.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoPATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal? P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
I am so fucking sad and angry about this. I've seen some of the best live performances of my life here: Sun Ra Arkestra, Solange, Philip Glass leading a live score of Koyaanisqatsi, Suzanne Ciani... I'm probably forgetting some others. Man, this really sucks.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4w agoBreaking news: Leaders of the Kennedy Center have voted to close the venue. Critics have accused center leaders of exaggerating the building’s physical problems to justify a closure they say could conceal financial mismanagement under President Trump’s leadership.
A wild story I've been working on for a bit: Joey Norris was an Iowa poll worker in 2024. He had a verbal disagreement with fellow officials about rules for counting ballots. Two years later, cops showed up and arrested him for election misconduct. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
An election worker tried to protect mail ballots. Now he faces prison amid Trump's push for voting cases
The prosecution would be concerning during any administration, but it’s particularly alarming at a moment when Trump is engaged in an unprecedented nationwide assault on voting.
democracydocket.com
NEW: Amid Trump's ongoing attack on voting is a push to make probing election crime a top priority — a message heard loud and clear by state prosecutors. This is the story of Joey Norris, an Iowa election worker who's facing five years in prison for trying to protect ballots in the 2024 election.
An election worker tried to protect mail ballots. Now he faces prison amid Trump's push for voting cases
The prosecution would be concerning during any administration, but it’s particularly alarming at a moment when Trump is engaged in an unprecedented nationwide assault on voting.
democracydocket.com