Chris
@cdherron.bsky.social
City council member and civic thinker exploring how communities grow fairer, smarter, and more resilient. Passionate about dialogue that builds trust and ideas that move people to act.
What is honored is valued. The values Pike represents are just not traitorous but racist. We must reject hate and oppression if we have any hope of a sustainable future. The America I believe in, in which all have equality, justice, freedom, and opportunity, is not what the Confederates stood for.
A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.
A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled
A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
What is honored is valued. The values Pike represents are just not traitorous but racist. We must reject hate and oppression if we have any hope of a sustainable future. The America I believe in, in which all have equality, justice, freedom, and opportunity, is not what the Confederates stood for.
The radical far right isn’t conserving America. It’s trying to own it — permanently.
Democracy means saying no one owns this country. We all do.
We must stand up against this tyranny. Peacefully exercise your First Amendment rights now or just sit at home and wait for the darkness.
No Kings!
Democracy means saying no one owns this country. We all do.
We must stand up against this tyranny. Peacefully exercise your First Amendment rights now or just sit at home and wait for the darkness.
No Kings!
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The radical far right isn’t conserving America. It’s trying to own it — permanently.
Democracy means saying no one owns this country. We all do.
We must stand up against this tyranny. Peacefully exercise your First Amendment rights now or just sit at home and wait for the darkness.
No Kings!
Democracy means saying no one owns this country. We all do.
We must stand up against this tyranny. Peacefully exercise your First Amendment rights now or just sit at home and wait for the darkness.
No Kings!
This calculation clearly illustrates the need for everyone to understand the consequences of the Big Beautiful Bill on their lives, livelihoods, and families. This is a generational destructive impact which will take decades to overcome if this bill passes into law.
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
June 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This calculation clearly illustrates the need for everyone to understand the consequences of the Big Beautiful Bill on their lives, livelihoods, and families. This is a generational destructive impact which will take decades to overcome if this bill passes into law.
History is more than just a person’s name or an event, it is a signifier of the zeitgeist, lives of peoples, the realities faced, the movement of culture, and ideas blooming and dying. Erasure of history is minimizing and denigrating contributions with the intent of following with demonization.
Trump removed Medgar Evers, a fearless veteran and civil rights leader, from an Arlington Cemetery website commemorating Black soldiers.
Now the Pentagon may strip his name from a naval vessel.
This isn’t about “military preparedness.” This is about erasing history.
Now the Pentagon may strip his name from a naval vessel.
This isn’t about “military preparedness.” This is about erasing history.
June 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
History is more than just a person’s name or an event, it is a signifier of the zeitgeist, lives of peoples, the realities faced, the movement of culture, and ideas blooming and dying. Erasure of history is minimizing and denigrating contributions with the intent of following with demonization.
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This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.
If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?
If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?
June 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.
If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?
If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?
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Via @acvollers.bsky.social and @stateline.org: Nationwide, most rural hospitals no longer offer obstetric services. Since the end of 2020, more than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies, according to a new report from the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform.
‘Expensive and complicated’: Most rural hospitals no longer deliver babies | Alabama Reflector
Since the end of 2020, more than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies, according to a new report from the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform.
alabamareflector.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Via @acvollers.bsky.social and @stateline.org: Nationwide, most rural hospitals no longer offer obstetric services. Since the end of 2020, more than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies, according to a new report from the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform.
Business as usual will have us under a jackboot.
The lack of total outrage at the indictment of Congresswoman McIvey is truly frightening.
Hakeem Jeffries ought to be causing high holy hell over this.
She is indicted because she is Black.
Half of the GOP caucus engaged in sedition and Garland felt arresting a member of congress went too far.
Hakeem Jeffries ought to be causing high holy hell over this.
She is indicted because she is Black.
Half of the GOP caucus engaged in sedition and Garland felt arresting a member of congress went too far.
June 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Business as usual will have us under a jackboot.
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"But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
A quote by Martin Luther King Jr.
But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time,...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Read every word.
“But there’s no sidestepping a president deploying the military in an American city based on ludicrous falsehoods about a foreign invasion. Indeed, it’s hard to think of a clearer signpost on the road to dictatorship.”
“But there’s no sidestepping a president deploying the military in an American city based on ludicrous falsehoods about a foreign invasion. Indeed, it’s hard to think of a clearer signpost on the road to dictatorship.”
Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Read every word.
“But there’s no sidestepping a president deploying the military in an American city based on ludicrous falsehoods about a foreign invasion. Indeed, it’s hard to think of a clearer signpost on the road to dictatorship.”
“But there’s no sidestepping a president deploying the military in an American city based on ludicrous falsehoods about a foreign invasion. Indeed, it’s hard to think of a clearer signpost on the road to dictatorship.”
I’m not even a country lawyer and understand what the Founders said and meant.
June 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I’m not even a country lawyer and understand what the Founders said and meant.
Your voice matters. Get in the arena in a way that works for you.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” — President Theodore Roosevelt.
June 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Your voice matters. Get in the arena in a way that works for you.
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
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May 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
It started with erasing our histories. Now, legal recourse against racism is taken away. For those thinking it’s only the black and brown people who will be diminished, they will come for you also. Stand together or become oppressed together, before it’s too late.
They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination.
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
April 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It started with erasing our histories. Now, legal recourse against racism is taken away. For those thinking it’s only the black and brown people who will be diminished, they will come for you also. Stand together or become oppressed together, before it’s too late.
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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
April 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
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If you know, you know
April 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you know, you know
Protestors (approximately 400 people) in Lenexa, KS on April 19, 2025.
April 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Protestors (approximately 400 people) in Lenexa, KS on April 19, 2025.
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
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"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
This action of our government is plain wrong. There is a human cost to our domestic policy. There is also a moral cost which we have to bear. Our word counts for nothing. Anyone else feeling gravity pull us down a slippery slope of no return?
"Christians who sought asylum from persecution by the Taliban are being told they must leave immediately or be deported.
"The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over...
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"The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over...
www.wral.com/story/they-f...
Afghani asylum seekers, members of Raleigh church, given a week to leave the U.S.
Apostles Church in Raleigh has welcomed about 25 people who came to the U.S. after the Taliban took over.
www.wral.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This action of our government is plain wrong. There is a human cost to our domestic policy. There is also a moral cost which we have to bear. Our word counts for nothing. Anyone else feeling gravity pull us down a slippery slope of no return?
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Please repeat over and over:
“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”
—Gov. JB Pritzker
“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”
—Gov. JB Pritzker
April 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Please repeat over and over:
“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”
—Gov. JB Pritzker
“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”
—Gov. JB Pritzker
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Yes...we are there. Now let's act like it. My latest.
Are we there yet?
Yes. We are at a Constitutional Crisis
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April 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yes...we are there. Now let's act like it. My latest.
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The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships.
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
April 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships.
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
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Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution.
This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.
This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.
thehill.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution.
This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.
This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.