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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3h

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 4h

Based on where she parked, she lives in P17! 🤔

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 5h

Shout out to the Mom blasting pink pony club alone in her minivan driving thru my block.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18h

and it probably would have killed. in a more innocent world, david s. pumpkins grossed a respectable $130M at the box office on a modest $55M budget

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 20h

If Clinton had won there would've been a David S. Pumpkins movie

merritt @merrittk.com · 20h

remember david pumpkins? that was like 10 years ago

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 19h

Suggested protest chant: WHO LET THE FROGS OUT (WHO WHO WHO WHO)

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 19h

Narrator: She had, in fact, not matured.

Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 20h

I am at my Townie bar, I am sitting next to a first date, and I realize I have aged / mellowed / matoored to the point where I shan’t live-skeet it.

(But I daresay they are vibin’.)

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 19h

She had a bunch of colorful tats! I hope they never see this.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 19h

My food has arrived.

Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 19h

Eavesdropping on the Crusty Locals is like watching an episode of Hightown.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 20h

But trust if it TAKES A TURN you will hear it here first.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 20h

I am at my Townie bar, I am sitting next to a first date, and I realize I have aged / mellowed / matoored to the point where I shan’t live-skeet it.

(But I daresay they are vibin’.)

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 21h

< scoffs > no they're not

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 23h

Le Groundhog Day

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23h

UPDATE: The new Prime Minister that Macron just named is... Sebastien Lecornu.

Lecornu is the Prime Minister who Macron appointed in September, and who resigned on Monday because he couldn't form a government.

I don't know what to tell you—situation has been risible for a year.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 1d

thanks, will look into this!

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 1d

this kind of shit--this kind of intentional, deliberate cruelty--is why i still like to believe that Hell exists.

Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 1d

I have been getting endless spam calls from numbers that are almost identical except for the last 4 digits and I so deeply want to be able to block numbers at the area code + exchange level.

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 1d

Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle.

Deadline Oct. 22.

www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant

Rapoport Doctoral Dissertation Grants

Supporting projects for PhD students doing political science research, democracy and social justice.

www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 1d

It's so interesting to think about how so MUCH of sports training is to get the human animal to do the best possible thing in a moment of unbearable pressure and stress.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting to think about AI against a massive decline in trust in institutions generally.

And then to think about how (how??) democracy is supposed to persist in a culture, a society that lacks trust.

Can't even believe your eyes anymore!

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 2d

Now. now. The ER will be gone when their rural hospital closes

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Huge, huge swathes of *Trump voters* will effectively have no health care available except for emergency ER.

It is simultaneously a) the worst way to maintain public health and b) the most *expensive* way to do it.

Idiocy from moral degenerates. That's our country now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who has been paying around $57,000 per year for daycare for two kids on my professor salary, I really think DINKS would be getting a bargain if they had to pay an extra $5k in taxes and continue not having children.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 3d

The scale of the structural problems facing our democratic republic feels overwhelming right now.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 3d

This pun is actually on my slides when I teach about polling

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