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Kim Diana Connolly @kimdianaconnolly.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/n...

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A New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party

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Kim Diana Connolly @kimdianaconnolly.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In honor of Law Day 2025, a link to an article that concludes "History remembers not just the laws that were passed or the orders that were signed, but who stood by them and who stood against them. The legal profession must be a bulwark against authoritarianism, regardless of party or power."

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Speaking Truth to Power: The Biglaw Response to Executive Orders and the Emerging Resistance

Camille Stell | Silence sends a message. So does courageous, principled resistance. Here are steps every lawyer can use to speak up and push back.

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Kim Diana Connolly @kimdianaconnolly.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

As a former VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) and someone who (as a law student) researched the first time this program was targeted, I still stand with service! AmeriCorps makes a difference.

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Truth Will Reign 👑 @truthwill-reign.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"If America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love Her enough.” Cory Booker

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Karin Schall @karinschall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Cory Booker. 👇👇👇

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Senator Cory Booker -- nearly 23 hrs into this -- is more coherent than your average elected official speaking (while seated) at an average legislative hearing. Even if you haven't been watching all along, dip in for a moment -- he is making considerable sense: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

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U.S. Senate

The Senate will vote to advance President Trump's nomination of Matthew Whitaker to be the U.S. Ambassador to NATO. He previously served as Acting Attorney General during the first Trump Administratio...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Assigning Sen. Thurmond’s “longest filibuster” of the Civil Rights Act to the dustbin of history is a powerful part of the story. Because no matter what, that’s where they’re all going, no matter how hard they fight it. Men who fight the future are the most foolish of all men.

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NPR @npr.org · 11/02/2025

27 religious groups are suing the federal government in response to the Trump administration's policy giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at "sensitive locations" like churches.

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27 religious groups sue administration over immigration enforcement policy

27 religious groups are suing the federal government in response to the Trump administration's policy giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at "sensitive locations" like churches.

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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 11/02/2025

The UUA proudly joins a multifaith coalition & the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy & Protection in opposition to the federal government's rescission of ICE’s sensitive locations policy, which violates the 1st Amendment & the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. More at bit.ly/uuworld-immi... #UU

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/02/2025

The House Science Committee is now adopting its rules, authorization, and oversight plan, and introducing their new staffers. Immediately following, there will be a hearing on the future of U.S. science with the president of AAAS and two former Trump officials in academia and Trump operative.

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Adoption of Committee Rules & Approval of Authorization & Oversight Plan

YouTube video by House Science, Space, and Technology Committee

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Kim Diana Connolly @kimdianaconnolly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Data matter. "Developed in 2021 by the U.S. Digital Service and the [CEQ], the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool ... dashboard consolidates hundreds of data points to establish a community’s level of economic and environmental risk, taking into account [many] metrics..."

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‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump - Inside Climate News

As one of its first acts, the Trump administration removed the online data tool used to allocate money to environmental justice communities. In two days, a coalition of data scientists had restored it...

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Kim Diana Connolly @kimdianaconnolly.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

On #WorldWetlandsDay2025, celebrate Wetlands for Our Common Future! Wetlands sustain communities, cultures & ecosystems—playing a key role in climate resilience. Let’s #ActForWetlands to protect these vital landscapes for generations to come! 🔗 Learn more: www.ramsar.org | www.worldwetlandsday.org

Speaker on large screen at 2022 Convention on Wetlands addressing delegates and observers

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/01/2025

I love this so much! At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions. This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

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Kim Diana Connolly @kimdianaconnolly.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Boarding at SFO for a work trip to Singapore! What is a must- see there?

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Kim Diana Connolly @kimdianaconnolly.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Shopping and Wicked with beloveds today, and the tree is up! However, now paying for it packing after midnight for a morning airplane involving a working week away.

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Kim Diana Connolly @kimdianaconnolly.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Next week at this time I will be on a plane … heading to an academic conference in *Singapore* (traveling from Buffalo through NYC/San Fran)! Seeking your best ideas for: (1) surviving long haul economy flights & (2) cool things to check out in Singapore!

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Kim Diana Connolly @kimdianaconnolly.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We still take family holiday portraits (both kiddos in college!). Whilst waiting among littles in their finest I am reminded of the days of yore.

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NPR @npr.org · 21/11/2024

With climate-related disasters getting more extreme, richer countries are piloting ways to compensate developing nations, since they bear the least responsibility for causing climate change.

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Richer countries are starting to pay poorer ones for climate change damages

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Kim Diana Connolly @kimdianaconnolly.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Invest wisely! Early intervention in young humans=essential. Early investing “proven to bring the greatest returns, not just for the child and their family but for the whole of society…up to 90 percent of a child’s brain development” takes place between birth & 5. www.politico.eu/article/inve...

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Early years investment could lift millions of children out of poverty. Why wait?

Inequality takes root in the first five years of life, and only by acting now will we break the cycle of disparity and poverty.

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Kim Diana Connolly @kimdianaconnolly.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Wherever you go, there you are! So here I am.

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