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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kaicoggin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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.

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Susan Perabo @susanperabo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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

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…

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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.

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Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kaicoggin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

😲 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...

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Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kaicoggin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"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

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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…

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

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.

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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

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/

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Trust your anger. It is a demand for love. —Natalie Diaz & Christian Campbell

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

hey hi bluesky you may also know me from this post ::

let me stay tender-hearted, despite despite despite

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Mary @maryruthie.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"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.

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Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kaicoggin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’ve raised 4 generations of Luna moths since April & released over 150 beauties into the wild night. In late October, my 62 cocoons decided “nope” & are overwintering, meaning they’ll just hang out in their sleeping bags until spring. I make sure they still wiggle every couple weeks. 💚#naturalist

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Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kaicoggin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m so gay, I drink pre-workout to chop firewood. 🪵 🪓 🔥

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Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kaicoggin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Pincushion moss. Such a gorgeous little variegated love, like a tiny globe, a world I would live in. #moss #nature #naturalist

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Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kaicoggin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’ve been leaning into mosses and lichen lately. Parmeliaceae is a family of lichen that can grow and flourish just about anywhere, from tree canopies to in-between rocks. They thrive in a multitude of climates as well, ranging from the Arctic to the rainforest. #naturalist #nature #lichen

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

love a good “O” in a poem, little fearless halo, the line’s volume knob turned all the way up, the stanza’s submarine window through which we glimpse an ocean of thought and feeling

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Desires as round as peaches bloom in me all night, I no longer gather what falls -Anne Carson [“Short Talks” From Plainwater] #everynightapoem #ofsorts

On Hedonism
Beauty makes me hopeless. I don't care why anymore I just want to get away. When I look at the city of Paris I long to wrap my legs around it. When I watch you dancing there is a heartless immensity like a sailor in a dead-calm sea. Desires as round as peaches bloom in me all night, I no longer gather what falls.

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Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kaicoggin.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Finished my fifth book!!! MOTHER OF OTHER KINGDOMS is now looking for a home. Submission time. Y’all wish me luck. It’s the most tender book I’ve written.

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