Sonali Kolhatkar
@ruwithsonali.bsky.social
Journalist, Author, Senior Editor YesMagazine, Host/Exec. Prod of Rising Up With Sonali, Author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice, Senior Correspondent, Independent Media Inst & The Zero Hour, former Astrophysicist, mom of 2.
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Obvious statement but worth magnifying, from @ruwithsonali.bsky.social
Obvious statement but worth magnifying, from @ruwithsonali.bsky.social
Let’s Fund Real Public Safety, Not ICE - OtherWords
We should be funding schools, health care, and education, not $50,000 signing bonuses for ICE agents.
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September 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Obvious statement but worth magnifying, from @ruwithsonali.bsky.social
Obvious statement but worth magnifying, from @ruwithsonali.bsky.social
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We'll be joined by @fairmediawatch.bsky.social founder & RootsAction co-founder Jeff Cohen, journalist @ruwithsonali.bsky.social, Jesse Myerson @ifnotnowmovement.org comms director, Michael Arria from @mondoweiss.net & Alexandria Shaner @officialznet.bsky.social
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Teach-In: Noncooperation with Trump
YouTube video by RootsAction
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May 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We'll be joined by @fairmediawatch.bsky.social founder & RootsAction co-founder Jeff Cohen, journalist @ruwithsonali.bsky.social, Jesse Myerson @ifnotnowmovement.org comms director, Michael Arria from @mondoweiss.net & Alexandria Shaner @officialznet.bsky.social
See you then! See more TIN calls:
See you then! See more TIN calls:
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Abolition is about building "a fairer world where there is less need and thus, less violence. In this world, crime and punishment are prevented rather than responded to. Who wouldn’t want to live in such a world?” @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social @yesmedia.bsky.social
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When We Prevent Trauma, We Prevent Crime
When people's needs are met, there is less violence—and less need for policing and prisons.
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April 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Abolition is about building "a fairer world where there is less need and thus, less violence. In this world, crime and punishment are prevented rather than responded to. Who wouldn’t want to live in such a world?” @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social @yesmedia.bsky.social
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I’m on @freespeechtv.bsky.social right now talking with @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social about my recent reports for @yesmedia.bsky.social 🫶🏽 tune in!
April 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I’m on @freespeechtv.bsky.social right now talking with @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social about my recent reports for @yesmedia.bsky.social 🫶🏽 tune in!
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Thank you @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social for excellent interview on @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social
Thank you @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social for excellent interview on @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Thank you @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social for excellent interview on @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social
Thank you @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social for excellent interview on @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social
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Mother Who Lost Son to MS-13 Denounces Trump’s Immigration Policies — revisiting an interview I gave seven years ago!! All too relevant today. Thank you @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social
Mother Who Lost Son to MS-13 Denounces Trump’s Immigration Policies
As I continue to write about the current crisis of Trump illegally “deporting” people to prison in El Salvador (last two posts here and here), I found myself listening to an interview I gave seven yea...
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April 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mother Who Lost Son to MS-13 Denounces Trump’s Immigration Policies — revisiting an interview I gave seven years ago!! All too relevant today. Thank you @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social
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Can Public Education Survive Trump’s Attacks? 😰
#All4Ed's Anne Hyslop joins @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social to discuss the impact of Trump’s attacks on public education. Be sure to watch and tune in!
#All4Ed's Anne Hyslop joins @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social to discuss the impact of Trump’s attacks on public education. Be sure to watch and tune in!
Can Public Education Survive Trump’s Attacks?
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s “final mission” will disproportionately harm students from marginalized communities.
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March 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Can Public Education Survive Trump’s Attacks? 😰
#All4Ed's Anne Hyslop joins @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social to discuss the impact of Trump’s attacks on public education. Be sure to watch and tune in!
#All4Ed's Anne Hyslop joins @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social to discuss the impact of Trump’s attacks on public education. Be sure to watch and tune in!
@freespeechtv.bsky.social #BookClub is discussing my new book, #TalkingAboutAbolition. If you want to join in the fun, click here freespeech.org/donate to get your own copy for a donation to #FSTV and you’ll get an invitation to participate
March 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
@freespeechtv.bsky.social #BookClub is discussing my new book, #TalkingAboutAbolition. If you want to join in the fun, click here freespeech.org/donate to get your own copy for a donation to #FSTV and you’ll get an invitation to participate
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First up: @dreanyc123.bsky.social is interviewed about abolition and how to realize a world that funds public safety, not violent impunity, in this new book by @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social, Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World is Possible: www.tinyurl.com/TalkingAbout...
March 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
First up: @dreanyc123.bsky.social is interviewed about abolition and how to realize a world that funds public safety, not violent impunity, in this new book by @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social, Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World is Possible: www.tinyurl.com/TalkingAbout...
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Communities with infrastructure to support the development of whole, healthy people won’t need police.
We Keep Us Safe: Imagining a Police-Free World
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February 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Communities with infrastructure to support the development of whole, healthy people won’t need police.
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Most domestic violence interventions focus on helping survivors. Far fewer resources are dedicated to helping the people causing the harm to stop what they’re doing. This violence prevention helpline is working to fill those gaps👇
A Violence-Prevention Helpline for Those Who Want to Change
A Call for Change helps domestic violence perpetrators hold themselves accountable.
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February 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Most domestic violence interventions focus on helping survivors. Far fewer resources are dedicated to helping the people causing the harm to stop what they’re doing. This violence prevention helpline is working to fill those gaps👇
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Don't let the overwhelm win! www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/20... @yesmedia.bsky.social for solutions
7 Ways to Rise Up Against Trumpism 2.0
Grassroots movements, legal organizations, and nonprofits are leading the opposition.
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February 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Don't let the overwhelm win! www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/20... @yesmedia.bsky.social for solutions
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▶️ WATCH: The world's richest man spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money to help elect Donald Trump. Now, Musk's team is accessing sensitive financial information and pushing out federal workers.
Who’s Going to Stop Elon Musk?
Since being named the head of DOGE, Elon Musk appears to be acting without any oversight.
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February 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
▶️ WATCH: The world's richest man spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money to help elect Donald Trump. Now, Musk's team is accessing sensitive financial information and pushing out federal workers.
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▶️ WATCH: In his new book, "Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life," Joe Trotter Jr., Ph.D., delves into how African Americans launched cities from the ground up.
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#BlackHistoryMonth #Reparations
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#BlackHistoryMonth #Reparations
Building the Black City
Joe Trotter explores how Black Americans have created, sustained, and expanded cities across the U.S.
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February 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
▶️ WATCH: In his new book, "Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life," Joe Trotter Jr., Ph.D., delves into how African Americans launched cities from the ground up.
Tap the link below to watch the full interview ⬇️
#BlackHistoryMonth #Reparations
Tap the link below to watch the full interview ⬇️
#BlackHistoryMonth #Reparations
Best line in a book I’ve read in a very very long time 🙌🏾
February 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Best line in a book I’ve read in a very very long time 🙌🏾
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WATCH: Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.
A Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care
Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here’s what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like. #Progress2025
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February 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
WATCH: Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.
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If U.S. democracy is exclusionary by design, is it even a democracy at all?
YES!'s very own @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social explains 👇
YES!'s very own @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social explains 👇
Can We Fix Our Democracy?
To live up to its stated ideals, the United States must finally cede power to the people.
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February 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If U.S. democracy is exclusionary by design, is it even a democracy at all?
YES!'s very own @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social explains 👇
YES!'s very own @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social explains 👇
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When disaster strikes, we have a strong human instinct to set aside profit, propriety, and discrimination and simply help each other. It’s this same instinct we need to rely on to transform a system that allows mass human suffering.
@sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social:
@sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social:
Let’s Embrace our Instinct for Collective Action — In Bad Times and Good - OtherWords
The Los Angeles fires brought out the compassion we need all the time, not just during “natural” disasters.
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February 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
When disaster strikes, we have a strong human instinct to set aside profit, propriety, and discrimination and simply help each other. It’s this same instinct we need to rely on to transform a system that allows mass human suffering.
@sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social:
@sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social:
I spoke at a #TeachIn about #Militarism, #Policing, parallels between the two, and the need for #CultureShifting so we can all have the nice things we pay for via our taxes. And yes, it was 2 days into the #EatonFire and somehow I managed to be coherent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIvJ...
Sonali Kolhatkar on Changing the Culture of Militarism | Teach-In Network
YouTube video by RootsAction
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January 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I spoke at a #TeachIn about #Militarism, #Policing, parallels between the two, and the need for #CultureShifting so we can all have the nice things we pay for via our taxes. And yes, it was 2 days into the #EatonFire and somehow I managed to be coherent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIvJ...
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"The actual success of the ceasefire is related to the fact that Israel has reached a conclusive outcome that there can be no way of beating the Palestinian people and their organic resistance." - Ramzy Baroud
Watch the full interview 👇
Watch the full interview 👇
What Made the Gaza Ceasefire Possible?
Survivors of the genocide are returning to the rubble of their homes.
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January 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"The actual success of the ceasefire is related to the fact that Israel has reached a conclusive outcome that there can be no way of beating the Palestinian people and their organic resistance." - Ramzy Baroud
Watch the full interview 👇
Watch the full interview 👇
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We heard journalists can actually do journalism here 👀👋 so hey
We’re YES! Media, a nonprofit movement publication focused on radical solutions to the biggest problems of our time. Like many, we lost hope in X when, well … you know
Follow us for journalism that is silenced elsewhere. ♥️
We’re YES! Media, a nonprofit movement publication focused on radical solutions to the biggest problems of our time. Like many, we lost hope in X when, well … you know
Follow us for journalism that is silenced elsewhere. ♥️
January 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We heard journalists can actually do journalism here 👀👋 so hey
We’re YES! Media, a nonprofit movement publication focused on radical solutions to the biggest problems of our time. Like many, we lost hope in X when, well … you know
Follow us for journalism that is silenced elsewhere. ♥️
We’re YES! Media, a nonprofit movement publication focused on radical solutions to the biggest problems of our time. Like many, we lost hope in X when, well … you know
Follow us for journalism that is silenced elsewhere. ♥️
Popped in at Vroman’s, and I swear I hadn’t planned it but I found my new book, just out this week. 🤗🤗🤗🤗 Support indie book stores and pick up your copy today!! #TalkingAboutAbolition #IndieAuthor #IndieBookstore
January 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Popped in at Vroman’s, and I swear I hadn’t planned it but I found my new book, just out this week. 🤗🤗🤗🤗 Support indie book stores and pick up your copy today!! #TalkingAboutAbolition #IndieAuthor #IndieBookstore
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In awe of my YES! Media colleague @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social, who has continued to report and bear witness to the Eaton fire + Altadena neighborhood while also dealing with her own displacement. She has been on Democracy Now! a few times and will be doing an IG live this Thursday as well:
January 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
In awe of my YES! Media colleague @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social, who has continued to report and bear witness to the Eaton fire + Altadena neighborhood while also dealing with her own displacement. She has been on Democracy Now! a few times and will be doing an IG live this Thursday as well:
Tune in this Thursday on IG live at www.instagram.com/yesmagazine_
January 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Tune in this Thursday on IG live at www.instagram.com/yesmagazine_