Charles Cooper

Stay humble but question everything.

[Charles Cooper @coopeydoop]

@thestustustudio Insanity on steroids

[Charles Cooper @coopeydoop]

@LeeKuanYimby This has to be a satire.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Kudos to @RoKhanna for refusing to back off nonviolent beliefs and endorse the october 7th attacks, just because Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill are pitching tents over Baader-Meinhof fantasies.

https://t.co/OIc52R5Rhc

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Progressive media is a pack of spineless snitches-in-waiting breathlessly agreeing with each other until one escalates the rhetoric, and the rest all wait to see if they need to denounce someone

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

This is wrong - the Times since about 2017 has become an industry leader in the field of not acknowledging major factual mistakes.

[Charles Cooper @coopeydoop]

A Vance presidential run will face the impossible task of overcoming his record of flip-flopping. Devastating column. https://t.co/vZWr2LUka5

[Charles Cooper @coopeydoop]

Maybe it's just me but so far, this France-Spain match is more boring than Moby Dick. @FIFAWorldCup

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Vaccines are good.
Markets work.
Criminals belong in prison.
Ukraine is right.
Hamas is wrong.
Fascism is wicked.
Socialism is dumb.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

A lot of people wonder how the pro-Palestine/Anti-Israel protests started within hours of the Hamas terror attack and often included preprinted posters and ready made "genocide" chants. How was it so organized and "spontaneous"?

I, and other journalists, are chasing the 'follow the money' story behind the movement that appeared "out of nowhere" on October 8.

This past week, an @NGOmonitor report provided the data inside the UK experience. It maps 40 major post-October 7 protest and mobilization campaigns in the UK — and it undercuts the "spontaneous grassroots reaction" narrative that took hold right after Hamas's October 7 massacre.

The findings: At least 11 of the 40 organizations mapped have links to extremist actors — the Iranian regime and IRGC, Hamas, Hezbollah, the PFLP, or the Muslim Brotherhood — either directly or through officials who met or cooperated with them.

Leadership overlaps heavily across the six primary coordinating groups. Jeremy Corbyn—the antisemitism former Labour Party leader— alone holds posts in three of them simultaneously. The funding for Corbyn's own group, the People's Forum UK, is undisclosed.

Youth recruitment is a high priority — Amnesty International UK is cited for running an activism-training program aimed at UK youth; Friends of Al-Aqsa for youth-mobilization messaging.

—Of the 40 groups, only 10 are registered charities.
—Thirteen operate completely outside any formal UK regulatory framework — while still soliciting public donations.
—Nineteen receive UK government funding via the FCDO or Gift Aid. At least 11 draw taxpayer money from other governments too, including the US and several EU states.
—Funding also flows from major US progressive foundations — Open Society, Rockefeller Brothers Fund among them — plus, per the report, cryptocurrency channels used by CAGE and Palestine Action, the latter now a proscribed organization under UK law as of a June 2026 Court of Appeal ruling.

What the NGO Monitor report shows is a well-funded, coordinated infrastructure that existed before October 7 and moved fast because it was already built — organizationally, financially, and rhetorically — around "genocide" messaging with no space made for Israeli victims.

Here is the full report: https://t.co/mKZ52y67Oy

[Charles Cooper @coopeydoop]

@SenSanders Thanks for the morality lecture, Mr. Obvious. Now, how about doing something to help average Americans - other than running your mouth.

[Charles Cooper @coopeydoop]

@IhabHassane In part. A big part of the problem remains how one defines "occupation." Are we talking about the West Bank and Gaza or downtown Tel Aviv as well? Answers change depending on which Palestinian leader you ask and on which public opinion poll is conducted.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

It's kind of ironic that Beavis & Butthead here said that voters don't want candidates "grown in vats," but their entire process of recruiting Platner was a sort of mad science experimenet/talent search based solely on outward appearances with no vetting whatsoever.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

I know everyone’s freaking out about Graham Platner, but isn’t it kind of a big media story that the New York Times editor is publicly dunking on the the fact-review process of the paper’s opinion section?

[Charles Cooper @coopeydoop]

@HenMazzig Jeez. Insanity on steroids.

[Lyle Culpepper @ShutupLyle]

The couple that discovered Graham Platner address the allegations.

[Charles Cooper @coopeydoop]

@mattduss For a self-described "foreign policy advisor," the lack of nuance in your assertion is extraordinary. There's more than enough stupidity on both sides without more stupidity offered by out-of-touch bloviators who don't live in the region.

[Charles Cooper @coopeydoop]

What exactly qualifies @karaswisher to issue these weighty pronouncements? Spoiler alert: nothing. Just another reflection of our podcast-heavy infatuation with bloviators famous - for bloviating.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Here's video of Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway just a couple weeks ago defending Graham Platner and saying that Platner's past should not matter at all.

They defended the nazi tattoo, the obscene posts, the sexting, all of it.

Swisher (a self-proclaimed strong feminist) said that Platner reminded him of Bill Clinton because Clinton made some mistakes but was a good President.

Galloway (a Jew) gave Platner a "hall pass" for his nazi tattoo.

The only thing that matters to the Left is power. When you see them outraged about anything, remember they truly do not care. It is all performative.

These two frauds have both accused Elon Musk of making nazi gestures. Galloway once said he couldn't drive a Tesla anymore because a joke Musk made could be interpreted as homophobic.

Two terrible people.

[Charles Cooper @coopeydoop]

@ChrisMurphyCT Murphy, before going any further, read this piece by Brett Stephens. You guys need to take a principled stand or you're gonna wind up as road kill in the next election. And the one after that. And the one after that. https://t.co/5pXX6A6mOc

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

PURE HAPPINESS: This 16-year-old girl was disappointed that she missed a Jonas Brothers concert because she was undergoing chemotherapy treatment. But then, she got a surprise right in her hospital room 🫶

[Charles Cooper @coopeydoop]

@BernieSanders Stop already. This is not about "AIPAC." It's about how to make lives better for Americans. Meanwhile, when are you going to weigh in on this clusterfuck? https://t.co/QU2XVHOz44