Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg
@revcaitlin.bsky.social
Parent. Unitarian Universalist Minister and Religious Educator. Appalachian American. Neuroqueer. Femme. Big fan of the Civilian Conservation Corps. She/her/hers
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Every one of us who makes it through this can carry with us all the people who don't. Every one of us who makes it gets to be part of whatever's next, and bring the people we lose with us. Find a hand and hold on.
July 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Every one of us who makes it through this can carry with us all the people who don't. Every one of us who makes it gets to be part of whatever's next, and bring the people we lose with us. Find a hand and hold on.
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It doesn't have to be like this and the future is not yet written. All of us, no matter how small and scared, get to write some of that future, and are writing it right now. Together, we can get pretty loud. We will have to.
July 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It doesn't have to be like this and the future is not yet written. All of us, no matter how small and scared, get to write some of that future, and are writing it right now. Together, we can get pretty loud. We will have to.
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And don't call it over, because nothing is over so long as we stick together.
The old saying is "let justice be done, though the heavens fall." If the heavens are falling already, we may as well see justice done.
The old saying is "let justice be done, though the heavens fall." If the heavens are falling already, we may as well see justice done.
July 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
And don't call it over, because nothing is over so long as we stick together.
The old saying is "let justice be done, though the heavens fall." If the heavens are falling already, we may as well see justice done.
The old saying is "let justice be done, though the heavens fall." If the heavens are falling already, we may as well see justice done.
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Okay. Once again we're doing this the harder way.
The work remains the same. Hold onto each other, get people food and medicine and shelter and safety. Tell the truth. Break the locks. The labor of hope.
The work remains the same. Hold onto each other, get people food and medicine and shelter and safety. Tell the truth. Break the locks. The labor of hope.
July 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Okay. Once again we're doing this the harder way.
The work remains the same. Hold onto each other, get people food and medicine and shelter and safety. Tell the truth. Break the locks. The labor of hope.
The work remains the same. Hold onto each other, get people food and medicine and shelter and safety. Tell the truth. Break the locks. The labor of hope.
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Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
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Heard a fellow journalist wonder aloud this week why lefty religious leaders aren’t associated with politics like the right.
I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...
I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...
July 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Heard a fellow journalist wonder aloud this week why lefty religious leaders aren’t associated with politics like the right.
I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...
I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...
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what always kills me about this stuff is that most people won’t even know. they don’t know what happened today, and the direct line between it and their loss of healthcare or what have you. That the misery encroaching on their lives was intentional, and done by people staring them in the eye
July 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
what always kills me about this stuff is that most people won’t even know. they don’t know what happened today, and the direct line between it and their loss of healthcare or what have you. That the misery encroaching on their lives was intentional, and done by people staring them in the eye
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Resilience is praised as virtue—but for the multiply marginalised, it's a cage. This essay critiques resilience discourse as neoliberal control, reclaiming survival as knowledge, not performance.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
When Resilience Becomes a Cage: The Weaponisation of Resilience Discourse Against Multiply Marginalised People
How resilience discourse gaslights the marginalised, stabilises systemic harm, and converts survival into institutional virtue — and why we must reclaim narrative sovereignty.
open.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Resilience is praised as virtue—but for the multiply marginalised, it's a cage. This essay critiques resilience discourse as neoliberal control, reclaiming survival as knowledge, not performance.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
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[redacted]
As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.
Trump Goes on a Charm Offensive as He Woos Holdout Republicans
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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If you're just joining, Rep Jeffries has been using his "magic minute" to speak for the last 3.5 hrs to delay the vote. The House has far fewer mechanisms to delay the process than the Senate. You can still call your Reps this morning, they haven't voted yet, we don't know how long Jeffries will go.
July 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
If you're just joining, Rep Jeffries has been using his "magic minute" to speak for the last 3.5 hrs to delay the vote. The House has far fewer mechanisms to delay the process than the Senate. You can still call your Reps this morning, they haven't voted yet, we don't know how long Jeffries will go.
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A lot of Americans think 'nothing ever happens' still but for Americans of *color*, it's absolutely happening, and very fast.
🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.
May 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A lot of Americans think 'nothing ever happens' still but for Americans of *color*, it's absolutely happening, and very fast.
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You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
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As nonprofits face the threat of being Trump's next target, the lesson from teachers, students and unions is that standing together is the only way forward.
If fear is the goal, then solidarity is the antidote
As nonprofits become Trump's next target, the lesson so far is that standing together is the only way forward.
wagingnonviolence.org
April 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
As nonprofits face the threat of being Trump's next target, the lesson from teachers, students and unions is that standing together is the only way forward.
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Nat M. Esparza calls us to design communities where disabled and trans people are imagined in from the start. Not charity—sacred care. Not inclusion after the fact—but justice by design.
📎 Full blog: bit.ly/43OSXSn
#DisabilityJustice #TransLiberation #UU #CommunityCare
📎 Full blog: bit.ly/43OSXSn
#DisabilityJustice #TransLiberation #UU #CommunityCare
April 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Nat M. Esparza calls us to design communities where disabled and trans people are imagined in from the start. Not charity—sacred care. Not inclusion after the fact—but justice by design.
📎 Full blog: bit.ly/43OSXSn
#DisabilityJustice #TransLiberation #UU #CommunityCare
📎 Full blog: bit.ly/43OSXSn
#DisabilityJustice #TransLiberation #UU #CommunityCare
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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April 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
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Call your Republican member of Congress bc they are likely hearing mostly from people who support what is happening.
Folks who say “it doesn’t matter” are giving those people power.
Folks who say “it doesn’t matter” are giving those people power.
April 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Call your Republican member of Congress bc they are likely hearing mostly from people who support what is happening.
Folks who say “it doesn’t matter” are giving those people power.
Folks who say “it doesn’t matter” are giving those people power.
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"If you're providing an online system with very personal data about you, like your face or your job or your favourite colour, you ought to do so with the understanding that those data aren't just useful to get the immediate outcome — like a doll." I have to explain this to students almost daily!
April 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"If you're providing an online system with very personal data about you, like your face or your job or your favourite colour, you ought to do so with the understanding that those data aren't just useful to get the immediate outcome — like a doll." I have to explain this to students almost daily!
There is so much I must be doing, but I cannot stop thinking about Andry Hernandez Romero and all those who have been kidnapped and sent to that concentration camp. I want all of them safe, all of them back with those who love them.
April 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
There is so much I must be doing, but I cannot stop thinking about Andry Hernandez Romero and all those who have been kidnapped and sent to that concentration camp. I want all of them safe, all of them back with those who love them.
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So to translate what he’s saying, he wants disease to kill those who may have underlying health issues; to give those who survive it those same underlying health issues alongside hefty medical bills; and for infants and children to die at an unprecedented rate.
April 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
So to translate what he’s saying, he wants disease to kill those who may have underlying health issues; to give those who survive it those same underlying health issues alongside hefty medical bills; and for infants and children to die at an unprecedented rate.
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There is so much wrong with this. One is that “healthy” means “having a robust immune system” and you know who doesn’t have a robust immune system because they haven’t been exposed?
Children, particularly infants and toddlers.
Children, particularly infants and toddlers.
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
There is so much wrong with this. One is that “healthy” means “having a robust immune system” and you know who doesn’t have a robust immune system because they haven’t been exposed?
Children, particularly infants and toddlers.
Children, particularly infants and toddlers.
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Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.