All those years of paper airplane study paid off.

Throwback to 2017, when they were trying to strip us of healthcare & we went with @indivisible.org to deliver letters from constituents to their senators: the door stayed locked, so I had my husband fly the letters through the transom. Just another day expecting public servants to serve the public.

What are we even doing? This is insane.

This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.

This is a Texas Republican who was part of the January 6th mob

Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild

A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold. Where are my Originalists at?

The backstory is wild. open.substack.com/pub/noelleco...

This isn’t new. As an elder Gen Xer, I grew up expecting that disgusting behavior and knowing it was largely accepted. Men my dad’s age staring me down at the mall. Grown men catcalling us as we walked home from 6th grade. Everyone treated it as “normal.” Except us kids

First, they came for the pedophiles, and I did n-- *touching earpiece* oh, they didn't?

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

Yep. People are talking about the latest Frankenstein film. But Mary Shelley was also an abolitionist, and she and husband Percy abstained from sugar because it was produced with the the labor of enslaved people. "In every pound of sugar used… consuming two ounces of human flesh," - William Fox

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t. There’s some kind of lesson here

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

Look at the Gen X bump of racial resentment. It went down before and after us. And we are the Trumpiest generation. Kind of adds up.

The Epstein Scandal is just like Watergate! There's a 'Deep Throat' & everything. 🫠

Taking a break from the doom cycle with a tiny reminder that not everything is a dumpster fire. 🪶

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

The first section of our forthcoming book is a deep dive Gee's "Academic Transformation" at WVU from those who actually lived it; after you read it you won't be able to fathom why some people in the higher ed space still insist on taking him seriously. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

The rot of the ruling class. It's monarchy. It's the late-Roman Republic that fell into a dictatorship. Not from too much democracy, but from too much aristocratic decadence.

Importance: High subj: An article for U (gift link) i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.

the aurora looks incredible tonight down here in north georgia!

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

In the words of (the since cooked), John Lydon, anger is an energy. youtu.be/UD65MMID_jc?...

YOU LOST JONATHAN CHAIT!

When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

The Conspiracists screens this month at the SVA Film Festival in NOLA, as part of the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference. Honored to receive Best Feature Honorable Mention among a field of exceptional ethnographic films. svafilmandmediafestival.org/the-conspira...

I had zero chill about getting this screener. Here's the first of three pieces on @netflix's Death by Lightning www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...

Very excited to be the first book listed in the new @uncpress.bsky.social catalog. Spring can't get here soon enough!

There’s a viral claim that no Moms for Liberty–endorsed candidates won “contested” school-board races this week. That claim is false. Not many wins, but not zero. A short 🧵 on how selective wording can turn misinformation into something that sounds true.

In my brief time as an op-ed editor (<year), Brettbug Stephens argued Ashkenazis might be genetically superior, & Tom Cotton called for violence against George Floyd protestors. Some of us were constantly pushing back. I met with Sulzberger multiple times. Lip service was given, nothing changed.

*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions

“Tariff authority has rested squarely with the legislative branch since the nation’s founding...” Honored to join this brief by @democracyprof.bsky.social @earlymodjustice.bsky.social @lessig.bsky.social and others for today’s tariff case @democracyforward.org democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Cuomo Announces Plan To Govern New York City As Independent https://theonion.com/cuomo-announces-plan-to-govern-new-york-city-as-independent/

250 years ago this week, Lord Dunmore shook the colonies: “All indented servants, Negroes, or others (appertaining to rebels)… free, that are able and willing to bear arms.” Dunmore’s Proclamation changed the Revolution. 🎧 Hear the story #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250 #Virginia #History

www.publishersweekly.com/9798889832423 #NewBook #Nonfiction #Booksky #Conspiracy #Extremism

Noelle is extraordinary, and this book is essential 🤍

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

KK responds: "Ever heard of astral travel?" TheConspiracistsFilm.com youtu.be/9tQjQ_pOlIg?...

Publishers Weekly calls it “a moving call for compassion for those on America’s fringes.” The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging — out Jan 6. Preorder now: noellecook.com/book www.publishersweekly.com/9798889832423

"...the future of homelessness policy in the age of President Trump...plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people in what supporters call a services campus and critics deem a detention camp." (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

“The conspiracy theories you will hear in my film may sound whacky to some, but they are a bedrock of the MAGA movement and Trumpism. It is a movement that is being imported into the UK, without tariffs…” — Liz Smith, Director of The Conspiracists open.substack.com/pub/lizsmith...

This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days. It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.