"All had been taken from US against their will. They’d received the most basic & sacrosanct concepts in both U.S. & int'l law: non-refoulement. No nation should intentionally deport or expel people to a place where they are likely to face torture, persecution, death, or other grave harms."

"Jim, a political refugee, had come to Miami from Liberia in the early 90s, when he was 23, after his parents were murdered for their tribal & political affiliations during the country’s civil war. Others had arrived in the U.S. recently, seeking asylum."

"Months earlier, one of these men had a job with UPS in Chicago. Another lived in Houston, where he worked for his mother’s catering business, composed R&B music & babysat his brothers. Some lived in US from an early age.

"Their faces looked glazed w/ sweat & stricken with fear. In the background, I could hear birdsong & the drone of insects. An armed guard watched over the group as they huddled around a cellphone. “There are big snakes here & scorpions! My stomach is really hurting, & we have to beg for food.”

"Kennedy also admitted that he has… issues. “I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world,” he told the outlet. Imagine a world of walking skeletons run by the Brainworm God King? Hell no."

Kerr: “It’s my responsibility to take part. It’s showing up. I’m still coaching my team & living my life. But I’m just trying to take part like every other citizen should. It's important since I have this platform to speak up for things I believe in & for people who maynot have that platform.”

@krisbrown.bradyunited.org: “There’s not a meeting I’ve been in in the 10 years that I’ve known him where he doesn’t bring his notebook & pen. We view him as kind of our North Star in terms of engagement with someone with that kind of platform.”

"He learned the impact a coach could make off the court while playing in San Antonio for Popovich, an Air Force veteran who has spoken out repeatedly on social issues. In 2016, Kerr was activated to speak out on things like silence for mass shootings at the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando."

Kerr: “It felt like the country was exhausted. There was an era of peace where there was very little protest. Kerr’s longstanding interest in politics is well-documented. He was 18 when his father, Malcolm, president of American University in Beirut, was assassinated outside his office."

"Kerr’s outspoken predecessors like Popovich, have retired from coaching. The social justice movement sparked in response to the murders of George Floyd & Breonna Taylor has faded. Kerr: “There is less of a movement right now.” Kerr is leaning in with an outstretched arm, ready to help."

Susan Jordan: “It's going to have a real-life change,” says a founder of the @ccpnmr.bsky.social, said of the regulatory amendment at the meeting.

A 2024 report "showed local govts were responsible for approving the vast majority of permits in coastal regions & this year the agency worked with housing activists to make it easier to build student housing in coastal cities."