John Coate
@johncoate.bsky.social
First ever online community manager (well.com), co-founded and managed the first news website (sfgate.com), worked at EFF, managed a public radio station, worked with teens online.
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We hear a lot from conservatives about the rights of the unborn. If they care so much about that, why do they not try to reverse climate change since it is the unborn in the future who will suffer the most?
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We hear a lot from conservatives about the rights of the unborn. If they care so much about that, why do they not try to reverse climate change since it is the unborn in the future who will suffer the most?
You MAGA heads seem fine with whatever Trump does. But what if it was your daughter?
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
You MAGA heads seem fine with whatever Trump does. But what if it was your daughter?
The chickens crossed the road...
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The chickens crossed the road...
As long as the GOP stays in charge this is the United States of Crazy.
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
As long as the GOP stays in charge this is the United States of Crazy.
When I see Speaker Johnson making his lame excuses I am reminded of William H. Macy in Fargo, "I'm cooperating here ma'am.."
November 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
When I see Speaker Johnson making his lame excuses I am reminded of William H. Macy in Fargo, "I'm cooperating here ma'am.."
The Democratic Party at its core has always been about economic prosperity for all Americans, not just the privileged. Social justice and environmental responsibility are essential to that goal, but need always to be in service of it, rather than as standalone goals. If they want to win, that is.
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Democratic Party at its core has always been about economic prosperity for all Americans, not just the privileged. Social justice and environmental responsibility are essential to that goal, but need always to be in service of it, rather than as standalone goals. If they want to win, that is.
The Trump economic playbook:
1. make a self-serving decision that heads for disaster.
2. alter the decision to stave off disaster
3. get a result that is better than it would have been but worse than it was.
4. declare victory
5. mainstream media reports the victory without question
1. make a self-serving decision that heads for disaster.
2. alter the decision to stave off disaster
3. get a result that is better than it would have been but worse than it was.
4. declare victory
5. mainstream media reports the victory without question
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The Trump economic playbook:
1. make a self-serving decision that heads for disaster.
2. alter the decision to stave off disaster
3. get a result that is better than it would have been but worse than it was.
4. declare victory
5. mainstream media reports the victory without question
1. make a self-serving decision that heads for disaster.
2. alter the decision to stave off disaster
3. get a result that is better than it would have been but worse than it was.
4. declare victory
5. mainstream media reports the victory without question
Great strategy - make poor people go hungry while blaming Democrats who refuse to sign on to elimination of those same peoples' health care.
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Great strategy - make poor people go hungry while blaming Democrats who refuse to sign on to elimination of those same peoples' health care.
Is there a kind of perverse honesty in our not even pretending to be the good guys anymore?
October 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Is there a kind of perverse honesty in our not even pretending to be the good guys anymore?
Looking at the changes to the White House, Trump should be impeached for bad taste alone.
October 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Looking at the changes to the White House, Trump should be impeached for bad taste alone.
So now Trump demands the DOJ pay him $230 million because they were mean to him in the Biden years and the person who decides whether to pay him used to be his personal lawyer. No corruption there! And if you'll buy that...
October 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
So now Trump demands the DOJ pay him $230 million because they were mean to him in the Biden years and the person who decides whether to pay him used to be his personal lawyer. No corruption there! And if you'll buy that...
Take a break from all the awful news and check out this 11 minute video of a story I told yesterday at a Porchlight event. It's funny and true!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpUu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpUu...
John Coate Porchlight Story 10 19 25
YouTube video by John Coate
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October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Take a break from all the awful news and check out this 11 minute video of a story I told yesterday at a Porchlight event. It's funny and true!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpUu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpUu...
Did any of you ever imagine the President of the United states would produce a video of himself as a king flying in a military jet shitting all over the country? I know I never did. But this is where we are.
October 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Did any of you ever imagine the President of the United states would produce a video of himself as a king flying in a military jet shitting all over the country? I know I never did. But this is where we are.
Days since the news didn't cause me to say "what a fookin asshole" reading about Trump or Vance: 0
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Days since the news didn't cause me to say "what a fookin asshole" reading about Trump or Vance: 0
I find it rather tiresome to read opinion pieces by pundits telling Democrats what they should and should not be doing when none of them have the guts themselves to put themselves out there to try to actually solve the problems themselves.
October 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I find it rather tiresome to read opinion pieces by pundits telling Democrats what they should and should not be doing when none of them have the guts themselves to put themselves out there to try to actually solve the problems themselves.
What are more Americans going to realize that the worst thing they can do for the economy is vote Republican. They consistently make the economy worse and they are doing it again right now.
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
What are more Americans going to realize that the worst thing they can do for the economy is vote Republican. They consistently make the economy worse and they are doing it again right now.
We, the people, writ large over the years, tolerated the intolerant. But now the intolerant have taken over.
October 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We, the people, writ large over the years, tolerated the intolerant. But now the intolerant have taken over.
The judge admits they are right but reversing climate change is just too hard..
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
Judge dismisses suit by young climate activists against Trump’s pro-fossil fuel policies
Judge said plaintiffs had ‘overwhelming evidence’ of climate crisis but a court injunction would be ‘unworkable’
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The judge admits they are right but reversing climate change is just too hard..
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
This is the mild mannered button down face of evil.
www.salon.com/2025/10/15/j...
www.salon.com/2025/10/15/j...
John Roberts is slowly dismantling America
Twenty years of the Roberts Court has wreaked shocking damage. Is the Voting Rights Act next?
www.salon.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is the mild mannered button down face of evil.
www.salon.com/2025/10/15/j...
www.salon.com/2025/10/15/j...
If that Time cover photo is recent at all then it seems to prove that Trump's ear was never shot.
October 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If that Time cover photo is recent at all then it seems to prove that Trump's ear was never shot.
I hear the GOP Congress now hangs out at a Capitol Hill bar called Bend the Knee.
October 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I hear the GOP Congress now hangs out at a Capitol Hill bar called Bend the Knee.
Vance's main qualification seems to be his eagerness to lie about everything.
October 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Vance's main qualification seems to be his eagerness to lie about everything.
A possible model for the Trump/MAGA/GOP regime preferred outcome is the British Raj in India.
October 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A possible model for the Trump/MAGA/GOP regime preferred outcome is the British Raj in India.
GOP calling Democrats Marxist and communist is so absurdly 1952. But clearly they believe their own BS, which is dangerous.
October 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
GOP calling Democrats Marxist and communist is so absurdly 1952. But clearly they believe their own BS, which is dangerous.
The chief qualification for a GOP candidate seems to be "must be willing, able and good at lying with impunity." Exhibit A: Mike Johnson.
October 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The chief qualification for a GOP candidate seems to be "must be willing, able and good at lying with impunity." Exhibit A: Mike Johnson.