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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

In case you’re wondering, I never trust men who say “I’m sincerely curious….” They’re obviously not. Also, very creepy that you saw me on the news and felt it was your right to stalk me on social media and send me a direct message.

Message bubble time stamped SUN 10:19 PM that says “I watched you on the news tonight, and I’m sincerely curious! You are quoted as saying…”We deserve

Message cuts off.

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Reminder that the resistance is far stronger this time around. You all showed up this weekend!

Many more political protests in 2025 than 2017
Cumulative number of political protests, rallies, and demonstrations by day of the presidential term, Trump 1 (2017) and Trump 2 (2025), according to the Crowd Counting Consortium.

A graph shows a red line labeled 2025 with 15,396 identified protests and a yellow line labeled 2017 with 5,043 identified protests. The red line is far sharper of an incline, with fewer initial protests and crossing the yellow line around day 18 of the administration.

Note provided: Data for June 1-14 unofficial and added by author. Source: Strength in Numbers/gelliotmorris.com * Created with Datawrapper

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Still need a sign for Saturday or any one of the ongoing protests? Check out the signs from @networklobby.bsky.social, available to download and order from your local print shop at drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🔥 Have you seen the @networklobby.bsky.social signs? drive.google.com/drive/folder...

God’s economy has no billionaires
NETWORK Advocates, inspired by Catholic sisters.

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Now this is a headline. Important information at the very top. Way to lead the way in news reporting @rollingstone.com

Rolling Stone headline: “Senate bound. Trump gloats over passage of bill that will kick millions off Medicaid, food aid. Republicans are celebrating after passing the bill by the narrowest of margins. 215-214.”
Photo shows Donald Trump in a navy suit with a maroon-ish tie looking down with contempt standing next to House Speaker Mike Johnson in a black suit with red striped tie speaking from outside a stone building.

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I'm so privileged to work with incredible people. Here's what @networklobby.bsky.social advocate (and winner of the Bridge Builder Award) Tom Volkert had published this morning in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Keeping the faith
Thanks to Inquirer reporters Julia Terruso and Katie Bernard for their article about Sen. John Fetterman being wooed by the right-wing Club for Growth to support the GOP tax cuts for the wealthy and drastic cuts for those on Medicaid and food stamps. Although Fetterman claims he will never vote for the bill, many who voted for him now have doubts about him being the spokesperson for everyday working people. I haven't lost faith in Fetterman, but it's time he used his notoriety and big voice to highlight what a rotten deal for the working class the Republican budget is: Get a pittance for a tax cut (under $300 for someone making less than $50,000) in exchange for losing valuable health insurance for the working poor, decent healthcare for the sick elderly and those with disability, and food from your table. Maybe Fetterman won't get invited to Mar-a-Lago anymore if he speaks up, but he will be welcomed among Pennsylvanians -- including the three million who need Medicaid, and the two million who need food stamps.
Tom Volkert, Philadelphia

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Rapid response accountability today in Rahway, NJ. Last night Rep. Tom Kean voted to cut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. Folks from his district are gathering this afternoon at 3:30 at the Rahway Train Station to protest his vote. More information & RSVP: bit.ly/CodeBlue4Med...

Image with blue alarm light.

Text: Code Blue
Medicaid is a lifeline for children, seniors, and people with disabilities. Tom Kean just cut that lifeline.

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Indiana folks -- check out tonight's Beyond Coal campaign launch from the @sierraclub.org. Be a part of the climate crisis solution with folks from across our great state. Sign up at sc.org/indianazoom.

Indiana Beyond Coal 2025 Launch on Zoom
Thursday, May 15 at 7 PM Eastern
Guest Speakers:
Kerwin Olson, Citizens Action Coalition
Brian Flory & Abby Burnett, Solar United Neighbors
Hosted by Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign
Megan Anderson & Nicole Chandler

Graphic on green background with photos of all speakers.

sc.org/indianazoom

Sierra Club

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

It was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday.

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

"Now, along with Vivek Ramaswamy, he [Elon Musk] will oversee a new 'Department of Government Efficiency' (DOGE), named after a memecoin." I just love how this CNN article says that DOGE was named in honor of Dogecoin. edition.cnn.com/2024/12/11/b...

An animated dog giving side-eye is on a coin that says "WOW" in the middle and around the edges says "v. rich very currency wow much coin how money so crypto plz mine."

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

And the evidence is already starting to come in - the new Department of Government Efficiency (ironically the only department with two department heads) could easily put opioid addiction treatment funding on the chopping block. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Chart titled expiring funding in 2024. Veterans’ health care $119.1 billion. Drug development and opioid addiction treatment $48.2 billion.

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

The anti-Semitism, too. I wonder what Nick Fuentes would think if he knew Jesus was a Jew.

lead his followers in chants of “Christ is king” (and “Fuck off Jew”) from the street outside. But inside, the same message reigned. When Candace Owens spoke, the audience gave her a standing ovation, chanting “Christ is king.”

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

And people thought women were being hysterical when they named "The Handmaid’s Tale" as a portrait of what could come.

There were a number of things about the interview that might have given Fradd pause: Doyle’s self-description as “an internet bigot”; his fury at women who showed up at his events wearing “little trad wife dresses” and distracting from what should be “a male environment” of young men “changing history”; his hope that Republicans will govern “like it’s The Handmaid’s Tale”; his claim that interracial pornography is a plot to convince white Christian boys they’re “being bred out of existence.”

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Now this is a really powerful framing. Influencers vs. everyday interactions, pastoral presence in the ups and downs of our lives.

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

It is bizarre to think that someone would convert to a religion in order to fight that religion.

January 6 organizer Ali Alexander announced he too was converting (to “fight the evils in Christ’s own Church”). On the day itself, a Nebraska priest exorcised the Capitol.

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Emily TeKolste @emtekolste.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

It's almost like they don't read the Gospels. About sexual sin, Jesus said, "Let the one without sin cast the first stone." And about the accumulation of wealth, Jesus said "It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven."

It’s an odd time for the US Catholic Church. Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis—the first non-European pope in more than 1,200 years—has faced bitter opposition. His early calls for Catholics to lessen their “obsessive” focus on sexual issues marked him as a liberal to conservative critics; his emphasis on poverty and the environment proved him a “Marxist globalist” for the same crowd. Cardinals issued formal dubia (demands for clarification); clergy called for his resignation; some declared him an “antipope”; some prayed for his death.

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