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Kay Coughlin

@kaycoughlin.bsky.social
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Business coach for human & planetary well-being. Ohio citizen organizer for human rights. Free Palestine and all oppressed people. My website is FacilitatorOnFire.net #BanGuns #MeanwhileInOhio

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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Produce art from my resistance garden
A smiley face composed of squash, eggplant and tomatoes
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I'm rooting for wins for her! Big Oil certainly needs to be held accountable and stopped from doing further harm to, frankly, all human and non-human life and our entire planet. truthout.org/articles/jul...
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Juliana Leon Died in a Climate-Linked Heat Wave. Her Daughter Is Suing Big Oil.
This case is reportedly the first to hold Big Oil accountable for an individual’s death in a climate-related disaster.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Cucamelons in my resistance garden
Cucamelon, a tiny type of cucumber held by a hand.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
#MeanwhileInOhio the Center of Science & Industry in Cbus is planning a wild west night of fun that erases the Indigenous people who were victims of the genocide perpetrated by the U.S. govt & settlers 🤔 cosi.org/MOBILEAPP/co...
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COSI After Dark - August 13, 2026 - Wild Wild West Broad
Saddle up, Columbus. For one night only, COSI transforms Broad Street into a lively Wild West adventure.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The level of privilege and entitlement in this administration is off the charts. RFK Jr preaches making 2 home-cooked meals per day at $5/serving. That's $1120/mo for a family of 4 but SNAP benefits max out at $994/mo. Imagine trying to feed a family on $994/mo 👀
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We need a headline from @theonion.com on this please. Because it's so absurd it's somehow its own satire?
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I cannot stop thinking about how dystopian it is to put PEPPER SPRAYING DRONES IN SCHOOLS. This is beyond sick. Who wakes up one day and decides to do this. Parents: fight this! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings
Company supplying drones said Ukraine-war inspired effort, where technique was effective in face of Russian attack
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
WHAT IS WRONG WITH US IN THE U.S.?! Pepper-spraying drones in schools. The depravity of this is remarkable, even in July of 2026. This is a daily promise of violence aimed directly at teachers and kids, period. Parents: scream against this!!!! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings
Company supplying drones said Ukraine-war inspired effort, where technique was effective in face of Russian attack
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🚨Nvidia wants to build the largest data center in the world in Ohio. FUCK NVIDIA! Southern Ohio isn't a wasteland for shitty tech projects. Why isn't Ohio media covering this nonstop? #StopDataCenters #MeanwhileInOhio www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
Headline: "Nvidia in talks to guarantee $250 billion for mega Ohio data center"
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Sky pumpkin. In my resistance garden.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I'm becoming more and more convinced that the only way U.S. women will get full human rights is to go on a sex strike. If power-holders see us as nothing but sex appliances, we must stop consenting to being used #DismantlePatriarchy #lysistrata ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/23/r...
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Feds have a new teen pregnancy prevention plan: Fertility and ‘reproductive goals’ • Ohio Capital Journal
The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy: Beginning this summer, it will steer millions of dollars toward organizations that focus on anatomy, fertility tracking,...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Thought we didn’t have money in the USA for healthcare. Yet the Defense Department’s latest estimate puts the cost of the war with Iran at $37.5 billion. Funny how we’re always told we can’t afford to invest in people’s health, but somehow tens of billions of dollars for war can be found.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🚨 Musk is funding Ramaswamy's run for governor in Ohio.🚨 Anybody remember what Musk did to the federal government *just last year*? DO NOT LET FASCISTS HAVE MORE CONTROL OVER OHIO (see thread for more info on why tech bros run Ohio already) #MeanwhileInOhio ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/22/e...
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Elon Musk, 3 other billionaires give pro-Ramaswamy super PAC $12 million
The world’s richest man is officially invested in the 2026 Ohio governor’s race. Musk joined billionaires Jeffrey Yass, Ratmir Timashev, Bill Ackman, and Ross Stevens as the primary backers of V-PAC: ...
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Brilliant. I'm ordering a set. From the amazing @ykhong.bsky.social #DoNotRecordMe #IDoNotConsent jeomshim.com/product/do-n...
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"Do Not Record Me" Set of pin buttons - Jeom Shim
This design is based on the lens of a mechanical camera. It is noticeable from a distance so that if someone sees it they may ask what it is for. It is a great way to start a conversation with others ...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
#Fact
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This policy statement reads very much like a free speech issue. We need to be opposing it. Less than 2 weeks to submit responses (due July 31)
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Look I once had to quit a job because a powerful white man blamed me for failing to cover up his daughter's bad behavior. I had never met his daughter. He demanded my head on a platter anyway. Y'all, white male supremacists do lies & false retribution like nobody else
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Doesn't bribery count as either a high crime or misdemeanor? Perhaps colluding with a foreign national meets the threshhold? #ImpeachTrump www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...
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Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation
The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Saw this on a hike yesterday. The trail it's on is NOT a loop and only has parking at one end. 🤔
Trail sign reads, "One way by day; Bike this way Tuesday Thursday Sunday; Hikers go opposite direction"
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
White patriarchal entitlement will continue to win until we dismantle it www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat
The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It's mind-bogglingly inhumane to say Ohio is "good for business" when it's not actually great for the humans who are trying to get by here. Fuck CNBC and their metrics created in a vacuum #MeanwhileInOhio ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/16/c...
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CNBC rated Ohio 'Top State for Business.' Here's what that means — and what it doesn't. • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Republicans are touting a CNBC business rating, but one of its authors says it doesn't mean that life is great for average Ohioans.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Is it just me or does AI slop seem to be getting more boring and less relevant? Whether it's video or writing or "music", it's all starting to look and sound the same to me. What a big snooze. 🥱
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
For anybody worried about having enough fertilizer, there is plenty to go around if we can just allow ourselves to access it #fertilizer #repurpose mosan.com/index.html
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Mosan — Transforming waste into healthy soil
Mosan transforms organic waste — sludge, coffee pulp, coconut shells — into enriched biochar that rebuilds degraded soils, increases biodiversity and stores carbon. A circular, climate-positive system...
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 13/07/2026
Every time this tech comes around, we make it so no one wants to wear them outside, and that is good and correct and we must keep it up until it fades away yet again. And then th enext time? We do it all over again.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What if all the people who say they've been having conversations with Mitch McConnell have been talking to an AI simulation 👀
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Public comments on this anti-science funding rule due TODAY Monday July 13 2026!
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What's your guidance on this @eff.org ? We have until July 31 to submit comments and this seems like an effort to protect a correct "ideological" viewpoint. I mean trying to assure "AI accuracy" is a phrase that just chills me to the bone. Yikes 😬 www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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FTC Seeks Public Comment on Policy Statement Addressing AI Accuracy
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham has died. He is being remembered for the way he lived . If you do not wish to be mocked when dying , do not make your dying the only way vulnerable people can find peace
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Snapdragon joy in my resistance garden
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Woke up to these 2 headlines. US govt insists there's no funding for healthcare but manufactures excuses to lavishly fund the war economy. We must never accept this violence against everyone as normal or right.
Headline that reads, "One of Ohio's fastest growing counties will soon lose a labor and delivery unit" by Erin Gottsacker, the Ohio Newsroom, 7/6/26Headline that reads, "The real cost of the Iran War: $103 billion in 120 days" by Stephen Semler, Popular Information, 7/7/26
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
💯 open.substack.com/pub/mcsweene...
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If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi from "Indiana Jones" Wouldn’t Make a Good Senator
by Rebecca Saltzman
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Scarlet runner beans starting to flower in my Resistance Garden
Scarlet runner beans beginning to flower while climbing up corn plants
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
We cannot expect bystanders to compensate for - much less reverse - the mass shooter culture that exists to soothe the male ego. open.substack.com/pub/kaycough...
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"Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings" study has a patriarchal accountability gap
A critical reading of “Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings,” a study by the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, Rockefeller Institute of Government, released June 4, 2026.
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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 04/07/2026
A gentle reminder that the US is a settler colony founded on genocide and that's why it's the way it is.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Protecting mass shooters from any accountability by piloting warning behavior observation trainings in groups that don't, well, actually observe the warning behaviors 👀 🤔 open.substack.com/pub/kaycough...
Screenshot from my article. Two charts from the "Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings" study, showing they are rejecting their own findings, choosing to offer trainings to groups who don't observe mass shooter warning behaviors. Citations included here https://open.substack.com/pub/kaycoughlin/p/sharing-information-to-stop-mass
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The “Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings” project doesn’t even try to match bystander training to groups who actually observe warning signs. This is according to their own data. #patriarchy open.substack.com/pub/kaycough...
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"Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings" study has a patriarchal accountability gap
A critical reading of “Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings,” a study by the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, Rockefeller Institute of Government, released June 4, 2026.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the U.S., patriarchy & white male narcissism are trying to make *bystanders* responsible for controlling mass shooting culture. open.substack.com/pub/kaycough...
open.substack.com
"Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings" study has a patriarchal accountability gap
A critical reading of “Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings,” a study by the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, Rockefeller Institute of Government, released June 4, 2026.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
There is no excuse good enough to expect or train schoolchildren and teachers to bear the burden of stopping mass shootings. Focus on the actual root causes instead: male violence and law enforcement agencies who uphold patriarchy and white male narcissism. open.substack.com/pub/kaycough...
open.substack.com
"Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings" study has a patriarchal accountability gap
A critical reading of “Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings,” a study by the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, Rockefeller Institute of Government, released June 4, 2026.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
No, bystanders cannot make mass shootings go away by reporting warning behaviors to law enforcement who don't listen and don't act on the tips they already get #HumanGiverSyndrome open.substack.com/pub/kaycough...?
open.substack.com
"Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings" study has a patriarchal accountability gap
A critical reading of “Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings,” a study by the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, Rockefeller Institute of Government, released June 4, 2026.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My thoughs on a brand-new study on mass shootings that upholds patriarchy and white male narcissism, instead of working to dismantle these systems that produce mass shooters open.substack.com/pub/kaycough...?
open.substack.com
"Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings" study has a patriarchal accountability gap
A critical reading of “Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings,” a study by the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, Rockefeller Institute of Government, released June 4, 2026.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hey anybody in Youngstown Ohio need a pool contractor? This one has experience with really big pools #MeanwhileInOhio #Corruption www.cleveland.com/news/2026/06...
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J.J. Cafaro donated $250,000 to Trump Victory in 2020. Now his company holds a no-bid contract at one of Washington's most famous landmarks.
Youngstown-area businessman J.J. Cafaro's ties to Donald Trump, two prior guilty pleas and a no-bid federal contract are all part of a complicated story unfolding in Washington surrounding the Reflect...
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hey anybody in Youngstown Ohio need a pool contractor? This one has experience with really big pools #MeanwhileInOhio #Corruption www.cleveland.com/news/2026/06...
cleveland.com
J.J. Cafaro donated $250,000 to Trump Victory in 2020. Now his company holds a no-bid contract at one of Washington's most famous landmarks.
Youngstown-area businessman J.J. Cafaro's ties to Donald Trump, two prior guilty pleas and a no-bid federal contract are all part of a complicated story unfolding in Washington surrounding the Reflect...
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." - attributed to Mark Twain
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
More corruption in Ohio, this time from Ramaswamy's gubernatorial campaign. More than $500,000 in credit cards bills they refuse to disclose details on. Illegal & this guy wants to be governor #MeanwhileInOhio #Corruption ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/24/o...
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Ohio GOP candidate for governor has put $500,000 on the campaign credit card • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for governor has racked up more than half a million dollars in credit card bills without disclosing what it’s purchasing. And the campaign’s credit card spen...
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ohioans deserve better than this crypto-bros corruption #MeanwhileInOhio tiffinohio.net/posts/crypto...
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Trump crypto founders bankrolled Ramaswamy as he pushes to invest Ohio public funds in Bitcoin
The $116,000 cluster arrived on primary day from founders of a venture under Senate scrutiny, while Ramaswamy holds Bitcoin and backs a bill to invest state pension funds in crypto.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The narcissism and smugness of the mere existence of Dialog is off-the-charts #EatTheRich
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What the fuck are we doing funding research whose goal is to "reduce" firearm deaths? It's inhumane to pursue anything other than *eliminating firearm deaths completely*. Even one is too many. This study reveals so many layers of systemic crises rockinst.org/gun-violence...
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Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings | Rockefeller Institute of Government
This project analyzes warning signs from mass public shootings and develops public awareness and bystander intervention training programs to prevent future tragedies.
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Kay Coughlin @kaycoughlin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I've rarely seen a report try so hard to hide the information that 62.3% of perpetrators studied were white males. I wonder how they're going to bury this very relevant fact in phase 2 when they design trainings for bystander interventions rockinst.org/gun-violence...
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Sharing Information to Stop Mass Shootings | Rockefeller Institute of Government
This project analyzes warning signs from mass public shootings and develops public awareness and bystander intervention training programs to prevent future tragedies.
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