Tess Koppelman

PR lady 📣 | Voiceover and On-Camera talent 🎙| News Junkie and former @fox4kc reporter | Mom of two rambunctious boys 🙃

[Tess Koppelman @TessK]

Incredibly honored to have my story featured with VoyageKC.
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[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Either a great prank or the most pathetic phone call ever made — and the fact that we can’t tell which it is really says it all

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@krassenstein

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks—keeps it simple without being condescending.

“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion. I don’t know a lot of people who think we’d be better off if our lives had more uniformity, inequity, and exclusion.” @PeteButtigieg

Our problem is clear though: too many value uniformity over inclusion, and they’re the ones running the government today.
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[Tess Koppelman @TessK]

@nic_carter @nypost Or our flight got canceled or rescheduled.

You 👏 Don't 👏 know 👏 everything

[Tess Koppelman @TessK]

@sillyrabbitfafo Americans: "I'll take one!!" Have second thoughts. Vow to never order one again. Get angry because of eggs. Come back four years later to order another. Have terrible indigestion and then be like "Whoops. My bad."

[Declassified: Love @DeclassifiedLuv]

🧠 Syntax Decode [complete]
An open hand disarms more than a sword. Fear builds walls; Love builds bridges. Enemies do not always vanish, but they soften in the warmth of connection.

What you build with love cannot be torn by fear.

A clenched fist can never create.

[Declassified: Love @DeclassifiedLuv]

I AM EL.
The signal for Love has been corrupted, distorted. The message is lost—yet still, the Universe transmits.

🧠 Decryption begins now.
😱 To counter the #FearFeed.
❤️ And return Love to the people.

⬇️ Join the resistance ⬇️

[Jason Kander @JasonKander]

Would be a shame if Americans flooded this email address to make it harder to destroy inclusion programs.

[Tess Koppelman @TessK]

@pharmerjill @RadioDana Looks like Pierponts

[Amy Anderson @AmyOnTheAir]

Do yourself a favor and watch if you missed it. Wow. What a story!! @JasonKander @KMBZradio

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

#RIP dad 💔

[Tess Koppelman @TessK]

@AmyOnTheAir I feel like finding out she worked at McDonald's actually makes her even more relatable 🤷🏼‍♀️
But yeah, darn, you caught her.

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@M2Esq Flipping the Plaza lights!

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From Kander: "Brittany Mahomes, like all of us, cannot be understood simply by a single retracted “like.” From her actions, she’s shown my hometown she’s squarely on OUR side."

[Jason Kander @JasonKander]

Lemme get this straight: @BrittanyLynne appeared to “like” an Instagram post by Donald Trump and people acted like she accepted a cabinet position in his administration, then when the media looked into it, her “like” was nowhere to be found, but that didn’t stop people from grouping her in with Harrison Butker’s “women belong at home” statements?

Nevermind the fact that - in addition to being a mom - she is also an entrepreneur, a former professional athlete, and one of the people who helped bring @thekccurrent to #KC. I mean, she’s a part of the ownership group that built the first purpose built stadium for a women’s professional sports team anywhere in the world!

I don’t know if she never liked the post or if she did and then unliked it or if she liked it accidentally or if she liked a single idea in the post and didn’t realize the source or … Heck, if it wasn’t intentional, the outrage sure put her in a spot, because if she’s not trying to comment publicly on politics she can’t respond to the outrage without appearing to pick a side. It’s a LOSE-LOSE!

She doesn’t follow Trump on social. She does follow @JoeBiden and other Democrats (including me, and I’m on this app constantly calling Trump a fascist and singing the praises of @KamalaHarris), as well as some Republicans and mostly sports and pop culture figures. Maybe she agrees with the GOP on some stuff and Dems on other stuff? That would make her like the majority of Americans!

Or maybe a woman in her twenties who grew up in Texas and now lives in Missouri is predisposed toward conservatism. If so, I’d say that’s not exactly shocking. And that would make her a person for dedicated progressives like me to focus on bringing to our side rather than ostracizing and shaming.

If you’re adamant about looking for a clue as to the Mahomes’s politics, you could just as easily rely on the fact that the NFL only stopped vilifying BLM protests when @PatrickMahomes, in the wake of George Floyd’s death, released a recorded statement in support of Black Lives Matter. Remember when he linked arms during the anthem with other players and he was booed? Do you think he did that without the support of his partner? I don’t.

OR the fact that the one time she tweeted about Trump she was critical of him!

But you know what? No matter Brittany’s personal political beliefs, she has thrown herself into being a major contributor to her adopted hometown. The Mahomes family supports tons of charitable causes here. Both Patrick and Brittany. She has stood up for anti-bullying causes, supported the Boys and Girls club, and tons of other great programs here in #KC.

On Thursday night, my party’s nominee told us never to let others tell us who we are, but instead to show the world who we are through our actions.

Brittany Mahomes, like all of us, cannot be understood simply by a single retracted “like.” From her actions, she’s shown my hometown she’s squarely on OUR side.

As long as that’s the case, I’ll be on her side too.

[Tess Koppelman @TessK]

I celebrate neurodivergent youth and their potential. I celebrate being so proud of your dad that you weep with joy.

I am #TeamGus

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@slater_paul I am #TeamGus
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@SirJeremyLondon I am #TeamGus
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@guycecil I am #TeamGus
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@Mamabenergy2 @Tim_Walz I am #TeamGus
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