Rachel Cohen
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Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Your Taxes
Justin Elliott - ProPublica 3d 12 tweets
Come along as we try to file our taxes for free on TurboTax!
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Rachel Cohen . keeping the pressure on is so good for this country 3d
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Is Facing a Primary Challenge
The Intercept 6d 3 tweets
“I honestly don’t think in this environment anyone is safe, and certainly not Congressman Hoyer.”
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Rachel Cohen NEW: I wrote about - the 28-year-old primary challenger to 6d
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Rachel Cohen “I can guarantee you there are less fervent Hoyer supporters than four years ago because four years ago, more of them were alive” 6d
How We Characterized Michael Cohen’s Testimony
Ben Smith - BuzzFeed News 6d 11 tweets
An update on our Jan. 19 story about the Trump Moscow lies.
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Rachel Cohen this is interesting: now that the Mueller Report is released, the federal law enforcement sources said could share publicly the evidence it had used to support the controversial "Trump directed Cohen to lie" statement 6d
Trump begins National Native American Heritage month by calling Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’
Addy Baird 👽 - Thinkprogress.org 537d 2 tweets
Great start to National Native American Heritage month!
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Rachel Cohen uh so out of curiosity I wanted to see what ThinkProgress ran about Elizabeth Warren + Native Americans in November 2017 here are the two pieces: (a pro-Warren news story) and a critical op-ed by a Cherokee writer 11d
Op-Ed: I am a Cherokee woman. Elizabeth Warren is not.
Thinkprogress.org 511d 14 tweets
"As Native people, we are relegated to being invisible, while Warren is not."
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Rachel Cohen uh so out of curiosity I wanted to see what ThinkProgress ran about Elizabeth Warren + Native Americans in November 2017 here are the two pieces: (a pro-Warren news story) and a critical op-ed by a Cherokee writer 11d
"I Fully Intend to Outlast These People": 18 Federal Workers on What It's Really Like to Work for the Trump Administration
Washingtonian - Washingtonian 17d 5 tweets
What does it feel like to toil for a government that sometimes seems to despise its own workforce?
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Rachel Cohen What is it *really* like to be a civil servant in the Trump administration? I talked to 18 federal workers so you can hear them in their own words 17d
A Black Woman Said She Was Afraid of the Police. A Nearly All-White Disciplinary Panel Said We Don’t Believe You.
The Intercept 20d 3 tweets
A New Jersey state ethics panel has recommended a six-month suspension for a school board member whose tense 2018 encounter with a cop went viral.
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Rachel Cohen NEW: A black woman said she was afraid of the police. A nearly all-white ethics panel said we don't believe you. I wrote about what's been happening to Stephanie Lawson-Muhamamd in New Jersey. 20d
Financial ties between HISD charter, founder draw scrutiny before renewal vote
HoustonChronicle.com 22d 1 tweets
<p>A trio of intertwined charter school networks operating within Houston ISD have paid or loaned at least $17 million over the past five years to a for-profit company owned by their highest-ranking employee.</p>
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Rachel Cohen soooo how many stories like these are we going to read before people start understanding it as a systemic problem 22d
Free Prison Calls Could Finally Be Coming to Connecticut
The Intercept 23d 2 tweets
Decades of research have shown that keeping in touch with loved ones while incarcerated greatly improves an individual’s chance for successful re-entry.
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Rachel Cohen NEW: Connecticut is considering a bill to make phone calls from prison free — it would be the first state in the nation to take this long-overdue step 23d
How Trump could lose the election and remain president
Washington Monthly 24d 2 tweets
A step-by-step guide to what might happen if he refuses to concede.
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Rachel Cohen in , walks through the scenarios of what happens if Trump loses the election but refuses to concede 24d
Beto O’Rourke’s Free Ride on Charter Schools Won’t Last for Long
The Intercept 29d 2 tweets
Given that his opponent was Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, O'Rourke got a pass from teachers in 2018. The test will be harder this term.
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Rachel Cohen Beto O'Rourke's wife works for an education reform organization that aims to expand charter schools in El Paso. Teacher unions didn't press him on charters when he ran for senate, but say things will be different now 29d
The New Politics of the Retirement Crisis
The New Republic 29d 1 tweets
As 18 million Baby Boomers brace for the financial insecurity of old age, Democrats are pushing to expand Social Security and other elderly benefits.
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Rachel Cohen I wrote about the new politics of the retirement crisis 29d
For the record: 18 journalists on how—or whether—they use tape recorders
Columbia Journalism Review 38d 6 tweets
<p>In early February, Jill Abramson told The Cut that she had never recorded an interview in her decades-long career as a journalist. “I’m a very fast note-taker,” she said in a staid Q&A that generated a mudslide of online criticism from those who...
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Rachel Cohen found this piece on reporters who record and don't record their interviews very interesting 38d
How Beto O’Rourke Raised a Stunning $38 Million in Just Three Months
The Intercept 191d 4 tweets
Without small-dollar donors, there would be no Beto O'Rourke.
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Rachel Cohen good time to read 's piece from October on Beto's fundraising strategy 38d
Southwest Key, Known for Migrant Shelters, Cashes In on Charter Schools
Nytimes.com 41d 4 tweets
The schools are struggling with debt even as the charity sits on tens of millions.
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Rachel Cohen the largest operator of child detention centers also runs a growing # of charter schools. important investigation into Southwest Key 40d
Strategies for a Post-Roe America -- and for Post-Roe American Women
The American Prospect 45d 1 tweets
An interview with Robin Marty
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Rachel Cohen I interviewed about her new book on a Post-Roe America. Our conversation was smart, surprising, challenging and provocative: 45d
A GOP Bill in Georgia Would Jail Doctors Who Perform Abortions in a Post-Roe America
The Intercept 45d 7 tweets
Five states have already passed a so-called trigger law, which would ban nearly all abortions if the Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Rachel Cohen It's hard to overstate how important the Atlanta metro is for women across the south to access abortion. Women from neighboring states routinely make the trip because the laws in their states are too restrictive. 45d
A Clinton-era centrist Democrat explains why it’s time to give democratic socialists a chance
Zack Beauchamp - Vox 52d 101 tweets
"The baton rightly passes to our colleagues on our left."
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Rachel Cohen nice clarifying interview 52d
Oakland teachers strike ends with tentative deal for raise
SFGate 54d 1 tweets
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Striking teachers in Oakland, California, celebrated after reaching a contract deal Friday with school administrators to end a seven-day walkout. To cheers and applause, union leaders from the Oakland Education Association...
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Rachel Cohen wow, Oakland teacher strike ends with a tentative agreement for an 11 percent raise. Before they went on strike, the school district said its final offer was a 5 percent raise 54d
Hillary Clinton Is Not a Candidate. She Looms Over 2020 Anyway.
Nytimes.com 58d 4 tweets
After being first lady, senator, secretary of state and a presidential nominee, Mrs. Clinton remains a singular figure in Democratic presidential politics.
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Rachel Cohen underrated cool thing about is how she's not on speaking terms with Hillary Clinton after saying in 2017 that Bill should have resigned 55d