Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

A lot of Americans think 'nothing ever happens' still but for Americans of *color*, it's absolutely happening, and very fast.

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).

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.

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.

Animated graphic featuring a quote from Nat M. Esparza. The background shows a city sidewalk scene with the long shadows of people walking, rendered in warm, muted tones. A translucent beige circle sits in the center with a hand-painted texture, overlaid by the quote in bold black text: “Community care isn’t charity. It’s sacred design.” — Nat M. Esparza, Southern Regional Administrator for the UUA A textured, gold-painted heart appears in the bottom left corner of the circle. A gold painted circle appears and disappears around the beige circle in clockwise motion. In the lower right corner of the graphic is the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) flame logo in pink and orange gradient. In the top right corner is a beige rectangle with the text “UUA.ORG ” in all caps.

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.

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#DisabilityJustice #TransLiberation #UU #CommunityCare

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!!!

Really important new resource for federal workers.

workerslegaldefense.org

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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.

"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 are some typos in here, but I hope my meaning is clear. I hope we find a way to bring these folks to safety soon, I hope this beautiful person does not die. I hope for so much. Please stay in the practice of hope with me.

This time, for me, it's the image of Andry Hernandez Romero's head being shaved. A relatively small thing, in all that is happening and being threatened, but it will haunt me the rest of my life.

With these sorts of huge structures there is often one image that sticks in the mind and the heart extra. I remember when I studied the genocide in Cambodia it was the image of a little boy with the pair number safety pinned directly to the skin of his chest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Just wanna point out that when the nazis set up death camps, they also set them up in other countries.

BREAKING: The United Mineworkers and United Steelworkers unions are suing the Trump admin over its decision to delay enforcement of a lifesaving new silica rule meant to curb the black lung epidemic in Appalachia.

My exclusive for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social: inthesetimes.com/article/trum...