Rachel Cohen

@cohen489.bsky.social

comms for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social but this is my personal account. Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.

hilarious to me when politicians are accused of pandering to the base. we’ve strayed so far from god’s light that it’s now a diss to point out that government officials are doing things that the people who elected them want them to do

i think enough people remember stimulus checks and associate them with Trump that coming online to preemptively call people idiots for believing he might cut a check is perhaps not the move

Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech”

last weekend i got into an actual argument about organizing tactics - like, RAISED VOICES argument - with a friend/fellow organizer who i respect deeply. multiple times, i or someone else unsuccessfully tried to deflate the tension/agree to disagree/move on. went for like 20-30 minutes. 1/

shameful to watch people call themselves progressive while fearmongering during historically low crime rates to try to give more money to a police department that goes tens of millions of dollars over budget every year. this is not a subtweet it’s about Alexi www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

Mayoral candidates decry Chicago violence ‘crisis,’ even as summer murders hit 61-year low

Chicago had 122 murders in June, July and August, the lowest summer total since 1965, according to city and police data. But in their mayoral quests, candidates keep stoking public anxiety about viole...

wbez.org

got to go to the inaugural daisy chain fields yesterday and when I tell you it was both incredible and a powerful reminder that many rich and powerful people are acting like they can’t do shit and FULL OF IT…Olivia Rodrigo is the moment, we are so lucky to have her I stg

pic of me and my dear friend Jessica in front of the daisy chain fields stage

i started doing this a few years ago, but when someone shares with me that they have lost a loved one (recently or ages ago or anything in between), I like to ask if there’s a story or something about the person they don’t get to share often bc people don’t know how to respond to mentions of death.

My only comment about Woke 1 vs Woke 2 is that neither of these things is real &, for the thousandth time, we don’t have to frame <every topic in American politics> on the terms of the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits. Other, more serious choices are readily available:

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the firing of top brass was to ensure a completely loyal military in case Trump decides he doesn’t want to leave office, and everything else is a side effect. we understand this, right? “side effect” here not to minimize, but I just want to check that we’re all aware?

Cheeky Alpha Monkey@alpha-aurora.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Navy is lying about the conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln as well as the suicide attempts, Kegseth needs to go, the firing of all top brass who took their jobs seriously and had professional integrity is the reason for this abuse now by this admin, this is a volunteer force, shameful🤬

Nick is the hero who recorded thousands of his immigrant neighbors in Minnesota being loaded onto ICE flights, pushing airport officials to do more. And he FOIA'd the video of Liam Ramos and his dad being smuggled to a Texas family jail on a Delta flight. If I lived in Burnsville, he'd have my vote.

Nick Benson for Burnsville@bensonforburnsville.com · 2mo ago

Good morning! Get out and vote progressive by 8pm tonight! I’m running to flip Burnsville’s conservative City Council. Learn more at bensonforburnsville.com

Happening now in Chicago: Local officials and attorneys, alongside Border Patrol shooting victim Marimar Martinez, are holding a presser outside CPD's District 19 police station to announce the filing of police reports over alleged crimes by federal immigration agents.

Last min road trip? :) We can keep this momentum going across the Midwest, but we need all the help we can get -- which is why we’re adding one more canvass trip to Milwaukee for Francesca Hong this Saturday, 8/8!! If you've been waiting for the right time to make an impact, this is it.

Kat and Francesca point towards text that says:  
LAST WEEKEND TO GET OUT THE VOTE

KNOCK DOORS FOR FRANCESCA HONG
AUGUST 8TH ACROSS SOUTH MILWAUKEE 

with a link KAPOW.WORKS/HONG