Kitty Kurth

Political strategist, social justice crusader, communicator. Kurth Lampe Worldwide strategic communications firm -- international reach and Chicago know how.

[Fjore ⏳ @FlowerFjoje]

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[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@maryfiorito @byaliceyin not according to Vatican and state dept protocol. Speaking of respect amendment.There are actual protocol rules for these big events. Cities can’t invite themselves. That is how diplomacy works. Nobody wants.Same for Presidential inaugurals.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

A truly despicable, corrupt, un-American, rapist, wanna-be-authoritarian “man” is running the country and everyone enabling him should be ashamed.

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@maryfiorito @byaliceyin Leading a separate Chicago delegation is proper at least according to how the State Dept used to do things.

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@maryfiorito @byaliceyin Not diplomatic protocol. Only heads of state.

[Alice Yin @byaliceyin]

Mayor Brandon Johnson has entered the Vatican, per photos provided by his photographer Vashon Jordan. Sporting a Chicago flag pin — and was greeted by some tourists in Chicago who recognized him:

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@thabanisandile3 @CalltoActivism @grok It looks like she is the interpreter at the ready to do her job.

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@Microinteracti1 Trump is just following Putins orders.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

So petty. The Trump administration doesn't like the Pope's comments about war and peace, so first it lectures the Pope on Catholic doctrine, and then it punishes migrant children who get help from a Catholic charity? This is not WWJD.

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

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@JasonR29289 @Shemars_shooter https://t.co/IdyWOje6cW

[Nels Abbey @nelsabbey]

BREAKING: Étienne Davignon, 93 year old coloniser and former EU supremo, has been charged with complicity in the murder of Patrice Lumumba. This is genuinely huge news. Great news.

"Every day for the thief, one day for the owner" - African proverb.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Donald Trump really just called Gavin Newsom “The President of the United States.”

It’s getting embarrassing! He’s losing it faster than any of us have thought he would.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Trump: “I do believe I will have the honor of taking Cuba, in some form. Whether I free it or take it, I think I could do whatever I want with it. They are a very weakened nation right now.”

WTF is wrong with this guy? This is NOT normal. I didn’t vote for this, did you

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Trump has screwed things up so badly that he’s now trying to claim reality is AI generated.

He’s now claiming that the Iranian Kamakazi Boats and the crowds in Iran supporting the regime are “AI generated.”

They are not! He is lying to us! Even FOX News reported on both of these things.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 A leaked internal email from Turning Point USA instructs staff to label Candace Owens “evil” and “demonic” — and to flood social media with that framing.

And then Dan Bongino repeats the exact language on air.

Call it what it is: coordinated messaging.

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@JeannieForsyth @anthon7yandrews Ask Roy Cohn

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

Flags at half mast speak loudly about who a nation chooses to honor.

When Charlie Kirk, a racist agitator who trafficked in division and grievance, died, Trump moved swiftly to lower the American flag, a symbolic gesture of national mourning.

But when Reverend Jesse Jackson, a global civil rights icon, freedom fighter, and lifelong advocate for justice, dignity, and unity passed away, there was no such urgency. No national gesture. No unifying call to honor a man whose life’s work helped expand democracy and human rights for millions.

Instead, the president took to social media to center himself rather than the legacy of a giant who marched with Dr. King, negotiated for the oppressed, and spent decades bringing people together across race, class, and nation.

Let that contrast sink in.

A figure known for stoking division is memorialized with the full weight of presidential symbolism, while a civil rights statesman whose mission was reconciliation, equality, and global justice is met with indifference.

That is not just an oversight.
That is a statement of values.

History will remember who was honored, how they were honored, and who was quietly minimized.

And it raises a sobering question:
What does it say about the soul of a nation when a divider is mourned with national symbols, but a unifier is not?

Talbert Swan

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Trump admin going all in to assure that Russia's blitz of promoting far-right disinformation isn't blocked by the EU.

A new portal https://t.co/GCmD1viGaR is about to assure we have Putin, Orban, Germany's AFD and France's Le Pen filling European minds with division to rip apart society.

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

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