Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Thank you for coming! Official count was close to 300!

Bring your creative nonpartisan/positive handheld sign and your voice as we speak out in support of our public land, our geothermal waters, our Hot Springs history. This is a peaceful and positive gathering of solidarity for HSNP.

We are Gathering for Hot Springs National Park! Join us Sunday March 2nd, 12-3pm on Arlington Lawn at the end of Bathhouse Row to show our love and support for Hot Springs National Park, and our Rangers and staff.

If only we'd been warned about all this in advance, say with a meticulously detailed plan whose title was the year they planned to carry it out.

BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to, give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Att…

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.

This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

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Kamala told us this would happen.

Keep going.

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

Still here. Still queer.

Hugs 💙

😲 Wow. My poem “I Am My Own Country Now,” published on inauguration day as my act of resistance, was the most read poem of January at ONE ART: a journal of poetry.

If you need a reminder of how to persist in these dark days, you can find it here.

oneartpoetry.com/2025/01/20/i...

Thank you. ✊🏽

Can’t keep up with the absolute insane amount of fresh new hell unfolding each moment. This is generational damage.

This is fucking reprehensible

Do not go gentle

I AM MY OWN COUNTRY NOW by Kai Coggin I AM MY OWN COUNTRY NOW         November 6th, 2024 I am my own country now. I am seated at the very bottom of myself at this time of highs and lows, ebbs and flows, moving through colors of emotion…

"My neighbors pushed a lotus back down into the mud
when we were so close to the surface,
when we were at the cusp of breakthrough,
when we could almost see her iridescent petals"

A poem for these times, from @kaicoggin.bsky.social in @oneart.bsky.social

Happy snow days!

Just finished a Hellbender reading/workshop with Jane Hirschfield & got super emotional hearing her read. Her poems are so dear to me. Thanks to Nickole Brown and @kaicoggin.bsky.social for leading a beautiful evening.

Mother of Other Kingdoms (@kaicoggin.bsky.social)
Coggin’s poems paint a detailed picture of life with her “more-than-human children.” I love the space her poems make for mothering beyond the biological: “It’s not that I can’t have children / It’s that I already do.” @smallharborpub.bsky.social 5/

It’s my religion too

Trust your anger.
It is a demand for love.

—Natalie Diaz & Christian Campbell

let me stay tender-hearted, despite despite despite

hey hi bluesky

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"How we stand here is important, how we breathe."

Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.