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Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg

@revcaitlin.bsky.social
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Parent. Unitarian Universalist Minister and Religious Educator. Appalachian American. Neuroqueer. Femme. Big fan of the Civilian Conservation Corps. She/her/hers

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burnlittlelight (she/her) @burnlittlelight.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
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burnlittlelight (she/her) @burnlittlelight.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
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burnlittlelight (she/her) @burnlittlelight.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
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burnlittlelight (she/her) @burnlittlelight.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 03/07/2025
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...
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Faith leaders, lawmakers argue GOP bill benefits the ultra-wealthy by hurting the poor
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘May your will be done, and may this bill be killed,’ said the Rev. Teresa Hord Owens, general minister and president of the Disciples of Christ.
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
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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.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A lot of Americans think 'nothing ever happens' still but for Americans of *color*, it's absolutely happening, and very fast.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025
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).
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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.
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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.
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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 14/04/2025
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. 📎 Full blog: bit.ly/43OSXSn #DisabilityJustice #TransLiberation #UU #CommunityCare
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“Community care isn’t charity. It’s sacred design.”
— Nat M. Esparza, Southern Regional Administrator for the UUA

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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!!!
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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Really important new resource for federal workers. workerslegaldefense.org
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Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network
Connecting federal workers to free legal support through a network of pro bono attorneys. Lawyer training and a library of resources to assist workers in need of support. If you're a lawyer looking to...
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him
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Meredith (she/her) 💛🪷 @meredith-zzle.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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.
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"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!
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Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg @revcaitlin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/04/2025
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.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/04/2025
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.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Just wanna point out that when the nazis set up death camps, they also set them up in other countries.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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...
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Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Trump pretends to love coal but his administration has been systematically attacking coal miners by slashing health programs, killing regulations, and closing mine safety offices. Meanwhile, one in 20 Appalachian coal miners has the most severe form of black lung inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
When authoritarianism rises, when rights are stripped away, when the fabric of society frays—what is the point of tending to small things? What is the point of spiritual care when fascism gains ground? #SpiritualCare #HealingInHardTimes #SacredWork #CareIsResistance #WholeHolyWorthy #FaithInAction
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When the World is on Fire: Why Spiritual Care Still Matters
Why spiritual care still matters during crisis. On grief, resilience, and tending sacred work when the world is burning.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"we are going to ship out a million americans to a prison located in another country" is not just a sign that the us constitutional order could completely fall apart. it's also a sign that the alternatives right now are the constitution or mass extermination of trump's enemies
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
A very small number of people comparatively will be grabbed off the street. Most businesses and universities won’t have accounts frozen and offices raided. Publications won’t necessarily be outright shut down. But everyone knows that it’s a possibility and will act accordingly
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I sense a lot of people in the U.S. waiting for the movie moment when Trump dissolves Congress and marches his shock troops into major cities to decide this is fascism. That’s pretty unlikely to happen; things will carry on similarly, just with ever-more constraints on what you can do or say
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gnomic heresy @gnomicheresy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If it's not fascism when he says he's going to send Americans to torture gulags in El Salvador, to the president of El Salvador, on live TV, and everyone in the room laughs... When is it? The trains have left the station. We just don't know who among us is on them yet.
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Suspended in Gaffa @leegilmore.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
There's so much to be heartsick about right now, but this one chills me to my bones and fills me with nauseated outrage. Trump must be stopped. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump officials step up defiance over man wrongly deported to El Salvador
Administration advances new misrepresentations of US supreme court order in case of Kilmar Abrego García
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Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg @revcaitlin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"The only defense against Fascism that doesn't leave us bleeding out is accepting this simple truth: There are no disposable people." As a former fencer and fencing coach, I extra appreciate this thread. And we have to know in our bones that no human being is disposable.
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Mac McGill @maddmac.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Doubt very much anyone who sees my posts needs to hear this plea from the civil service insisting that they are not our enemies, but it is worth reading. I am all for having a reasonable discussion about increasing government efficiency which could entail a force reduction but this is insanity.
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An open letter to America from career federal civil servants
In an open letter to Americans, career federal civil servants say that they're not enemies and they serve the best interests of the country.
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Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg @revcaitlin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I will be so sad when we get past the age when "Mama I'm scared" can be cured with night lights, fairy dust, and "okay here's three Jedi and a wookie to keep you safe". I wish this was enough to have all of us sleeping easy.
Image of a child's bedroom with dark blue starry ceiling, dragon mobile, planet wall stickers, and blue curtains. You can just see the fuzzy shape of a child drinking water. In focus at the foot of the bed are small figurines of Yoda, Obi-won, Luke, and Chewbacca looking ready to defend the occupant.
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Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg @revcaitlin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Eldest asked for a tea party today so I took them to the grocery to pick out a few special things and then invited my parents over. Gotta do more cucumber sandwiches this summer. Also more tea parties, because we have to keep being intentional about joy.
Image of table covered in green tablecloth. Table is covered in plates of cucumber sandwiches, small cakes and cookies, toasted English muffins, with glasses of pink juice. The hand of a small pale skinned toddler is grabbing a small cake and you can see the arm of an outdoorsy retiree in a green shirt.
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Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I emailed university faculty/staff/administrators a roadmap to support DEI through legal challenges, collective resistance, and institutional protections for faculty. The question isn’t whether institutions will comply—it’s who will fight back, and how! greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...
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This Is Not a Drill: How Universities Can Save DEI
By now, many of us have read the headlines: the U.S. Department of Education has ruled that race-based scholarships, cultural centers, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs violate...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/02/2025
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. 
Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle
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Felice @talyhawk.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
There are still kids in this thread who haven't hit their goal yet. This is a great way to support them and get cookies in the process.
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They-Ra @xanindigo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
it’s been said before, but the “water is wet” type studies aren’t done because we didn’t know something. they’re so that we have stuff to show dishonest legislators who pretend that they don’t know it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@resistlist.bsky.social here's a cool event. Angelenos protesting transportation secretary Sean Duffy with wit and bravado. bsky.app/profile/awal...
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Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg @revcaitlin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I was out of the office preaching at a local retirement community today so stopped at a coffee shop to get some computer tasks done before heading home. Holy moly was it cool to talk about how we can draw from the wisdom of the civil rights movement with folks who were involved and active in that!
Image of a gorgeous matcha latte on a wooden table with an open laptop and a plate with a free sample of almond anise biscotti behind.
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Stuart O'Neill @stuartoneill.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 19/02/2025
"democracy, today we will love you alive, make you ours, make you thrive." – Lucas Hergert. Democracy may feel fragile, under threat. But we can love it alive. Now's the time to raise our voices, take action, & help it flourish. 💬 How will you love democracy alive today? 📖 More: bit.ly/3EKrOWa
A digital graphic featuring a photograph of the Statue of Liberty in the lower left corner, standing against a clear blue sky with a few scattered clouds.

Overlaying the image is a quote from Lucas Hergert's Democracy’s Benediction in large, bold, white text reading:
"democracy, today we will love you alive make you ours, make you thrive."

Below the quote, in smaller white text, is the attribution:
"- Lucas Hergert, 'Democracy’s Benediction'"

Below this is on the right half of the image, a slightly transparent UUA logo is overlayed on the image. In the lower corner, a red rectangular banner with white text displays the website "uua.org/worship.”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025
Probationaries who have been illegally fired: this article contains information about which law firm to contact in order to join the class action suit. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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Thousands join class actions as fired feds weigh options to challenge Trump's moves
Former federal probationary employees are hopeful they can prove their dismissals were not actually performance based, as their agencies claim.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/02/2025
Just a reminder: Your representative works for YOU. Every member of the House is back home this week for recess. Republicans must feel the heat for their complicity in the Trump-Musk coup. Democrats must know we’ve got their backs when they fight back. Let's get to work: indivisible.org/musk...
A sign held up at a protest that says "The Constitution Can't Defend Itself
Congress, Do Your Job!"
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