Kathryn Coffey
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PhD Ed Leadership, Retired teacher. Interested in education policy, ELA & Math literacy, kayaking, fiddling, gardening 💫 Michigander
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February 28, 2025. A shameful day for America. I’m angry, embarrassed, and disgusted beyond words. I stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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This "No Kings" song from Jesse Welles is giving me Dylanesque vibes and flashbacks to earlier eras of protests for peace and civil rights and women's rights. Those led to big things. This is starting to feel big, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXWD...
No Kings
YouTube video by Jesse Welles - Topic
www.youtube.com
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"...it did not take long for the myth of “Akromiya” to be debunked. I know, because I was the one who debunked it."

another amazing loreflash from the inimitable kendzior! #Hero
Inventing Antifa
In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
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In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters.

Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...
Inventing Antifa
In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
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So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
It’s easy to forget that our Founding Fathers were all immigrants. Ben Franklin was an honorable Englishman—until he wasn’t.
I'm going to talk about the Hutchinson Letters Affair, because it's an important episode that's not often taught in schools, and I think it's instructive.
#NOKINGS Lake Superior Region Indivisible, Marquette, MI, had an incredible turnout on this beautiful blue sky day!!
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The war zone in Portland is out of control.
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Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!

Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.

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@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."
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Pritzker’s observation that Trump is being manipulated by his own staff is quite savvy. Not in a political way but in the sense that our Federal leadership has been corrupted. Trumps descriptions of Chicago and Portland are so off base…someone is feeding him lies. Which he repeats.
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Thanks.
FTR, the very first time I had to call NCIS (I was working for the Navy) and then the FBI because of threats from Trumpers was almost ten years ago. I also had to fight being fired; I told my family, including my young daughter, that I might be unemployed soon.
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But I am glad you are resisting. Thank you.
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There are days when it can feel like it’s already over and the bad guys won. That’s how they want us to feel. But it isn’t. Not by a long shot. Let’s not make it easy for them.
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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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Wow. This really says it all.
Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.
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Lots of crim legal reformers have been arguing—correctly—that ICE’s behavior that is drawing outrage isn’t *that* much different from lots of routine police actions.

But I think this is. Even the bigger gang raids have not indulged in this magnitude of wanton indiscriminate collective punishment.
Terrorizing and wrecking an entire 150-unit apartment building--hundreds of people, mostly legal or citizens--to detain 37 people. This should be a much more massive story.
“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”…

“Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”
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If Trump "determined" the moon was made of green cheese, would the NYT give it a headline this stenographic? I'm glad they broke this story (gift link) but it is such an outrageous "determination" it ought to be treated as such AT THE TOP. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told
www.nytimes.com
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Theresa Claiborne
"retired badass Black woman pilot 👩🏾‍✈️✈️💙"
7 years USAF active duty
13 years USAF Reserves duty
34 years as a united pilot (767 and 787)
President of Sisters of the Skies
And most recently, recipient of the Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Aviation Inspiration Award
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“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
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ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org