Hey folks, today you'll be listening to an interview that we conducted with Rachel Cohen, a Chicago-based attorney and activist and all around just banger political commentator.

I don't know if she described herself that way, but I'm going to go with it.

We talked to her about her activism, including her tax resistance, as well as her quitting her previous law firm job over their capitulations to the Trump regime.

We also talked to her about what Supreme Court cases she's keeping an eye on as an attorney, as well as if law even matters at all anymore. We also talked a little bit about the failures of the Democratic Party and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you want to support Rachel Cohen's work or if you just want to check her out, links for that will be down there in the description. And if you want to support our work, you can do so over at patreon.com

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Anyways, here is Rachel Cohen.

We are now joined by Rachel Cohen, Chicago-based attorney and activist, also the author of the Planting Trees Substack Newsletter.

Thanks for coming on the show.

Thanks so much for having me.

I've been really excited.

For those in our audience who may not know who you are, can you give a brief overview of the kind of content you make and also the stuff you do

outside of social media? For sure. And I always think I'm going to give a brief summary of things

and then it spirals a little bit, which I guess tells you I make like legal-based content because I am an attorney and

so over-explanning and caveating everything. But I'm particularly interested in kind of breaking

down complex topics, especially around like law and politics and bringing those ideas back

to kind of transformative change and abolition

and things that I did not originate but have instead learned from mostly black authors and

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