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Kim Coates
@kjcoates.bsky.social
Prof, writer, nature enthusiast
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Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process.

But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things.

That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"
YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC
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June 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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April 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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🚨BREAKING: Susan Crawford WINS Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Court retains 4-3 liberal majority, paving the way for future cases protecting voting rights. A huge defeat for Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

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April 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Loving the Atlantic rn. Great work @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen: theatln.tc/UHOLqA9E
March 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Socialism is what they called public power. 

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
March 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“Here you have this Christian administration neglecting what strikes me as the central tenets of Christianity”

As a recovered Catholic, nothing bugs me more than these “Christians” acting the opposite of what their religion dictates - thanks Ezra Klein for calling out the irony!
March 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
February 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Due to legal technicalities, Luigi Mangione is now the mayor of new york city
February 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Once upon a time a pseudo-hillbilly went to an Ivy League law school. Later in the story he pretended he didn't know any of the things they teach you there about the law, which had become inconvenient to his oligarchs and sordid ambitions.
February 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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February 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!
February 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Just deleted Threads🥳 Already got rid of fb, twitter/X, and Amazon prime years ago, now if I can just delete IG! No more of my 👀 attention to these loser tech companies!
January 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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November 23, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
November 16, 2024 at 6:31 AM