Dr. Katherine Haenschen
@drkath.bsky.social
Asst Prof at Northeastern. Digital media & politics. Proud NJ native. Fan of #UCONN, enabling multi-family housing near transit, meatballs, field experiments.
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Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.
The sequel to The Big Short is gonna be lit
February 10, 2026 at 9:50 PM
The sequel to The Big Short is gonna be lit
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One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
My research w/ @albertsonb2.bsky.social shows that raising alarm about election procedures WITHOUT offering solutions is harmful to confidence in elections.
Voters: If you are worried about the U.S. Midterm elections, make sure to vote early in the voting window, either in person or in the mail.
Voters: If you are worried about the U.S. Midterm elections, make sure to vote early in the voting window, either in person or in the mail.
Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...
February 9, 2026 at 7:10 PM
My research w/ @albertsonb2.bsky.social shows that raising alarm about election procedures WITHOUT offering solutions is harmful to confidence in elections.
Voters: If you are worried about the U.S. Midterm elections, make sure to vote early in the voting window, either in person or in the mail.
Voters: If you are worried about the U.S. Midterm elections, make sure to vote early in the voting window, either in person or in the mail.
Working 40hrs/wk at the $7.25/hr fed. min. wage for all 52 weeks of the year would generate an annual income of $15,080.
It's embarrassing to our country, and cruel to our neighbors.
It's embarrassing to our country, and cruel to our neighbors.
Reminder: the nat'l minimum wage today is *HALF* what it was in the 1960s.
A number of states have kept up, but most Republican-led states and most purple states haven't.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum...
A number of states have kept up, but most Republican-led states and most purple states haven't.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum...
Minimum wage in the United States - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Working 40hrs/wk at the $7.25/hr fed. min. wage for all 52 weeks of the year would generate an annual income of $15,080.
It's embarrassing to our country, and cruel to our neighbors.
It's embarrassing to our country, and cruel to our neighbors.
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Immigration —> more healthcare workers —> more seniors aging at home & living longer
Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found.
www.nber.org/papers/w34791
www.nber.org/papers/w34791
February 9, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Immigration —> more healthcare workers —> more seniors aging at home & living longer
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bad bunny 500 electoral votes
February 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
bad bunny 500 electoral votes
Someone’s gonna make her one with Ocasio ‘28 on it, right?
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Someone’s gonna make her one with Ocasio ‘28 on it, right?
The surprise appearance by Lady Gaga gives new meaning to their kind and affectionate interactions at The Grammys. 🥺
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
The surprise appearance by Lady Gaga gives new meaning to their kind and affectionate interactions at The Grammys. 🥺
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I’m going to have to re-watch since my smaller child was so excited she hit me in the face with the business end of a pom-pom but a) that was a statement and b) I hope the racists die mad about it.
February 9, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I’m going to have to re-watch since my smaller child was so excited she hit me in the face with the business end of a pom-pom but a) that was a statement and b) I hope the racists die mad about it.
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be interpreted by Celimar Rivera Cosme into Puerto Rican Sign Language, a unique dialect used on the island that academic researchers and other experts consider endangered.
Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too
Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers.
trib.al
February 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be interpreted by Celimar Rivera Cosme into Puerto Rican Sign Language, a unique dialect used on the island that academic researchers and other experts consider endangered.
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
So, uh, why did federal prosecutors draft a memo about Epstein’s death dated the day *before* he was found dead in his cell?
www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-file...
www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-file...
Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors’ Announcement Dated Before His Death
The file dump includes multiple draft statements from federal prosecutors about the sex trafficker’s death, one of them dated the day before Epstein died.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:09 PM
So, uh, why did federal prosecutors draft a memo about Epstein’s death dated the day *before* he was found dead in his cell?
www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-file...
www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-file...
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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
I had a similar thought after reading MASSterlist today & GOP attacks on Healey.
The way to bring down housing costs is to legalize building by right; put public $ into Big-A affordable; & (IMO) develop state land & loan state $$ to unlock more building.
But for GOP these are all problematic 1/
The way to bring down housing costs is to legalize building by right; put public $ into Big-A affordable; & (IMO) develop state land & loan state $$ to unlock more building.
But for GOP these are all problematic 1/
Our three indistinguishable Republican gubernatorial candidates complain about the MBTA Communities Law while complaining about outmigration.
Housing costs are the #1 cause of outmigration. Please don’t put another pandering hypocrite in office.
2/3
Housing costs are the #1 cause of outmigration. Please don’t put another pandering hypocrite in office.
2/3
February 7, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I had a similar thought after reading MASSterlist today & GOP attacks on Healey.
The way to bring down housing costs is to legalize building by right; put public $ into Big-A affordable; & (IMO) develop state land & loan state $$ to unlock more building.
But for GOP these are all problematic 1/
The way to bring down housing costs is to legalize building by right; put public $ into Big-A affordable; & (IMO) develop state land & loan state $$ to unlock more building.
But for GOP these are all problematic 1/
Something has gone wrong with the Olympics feed on Peacock and I am temporarily hearing the Super Mario theme over some speed skaters…
And ACTUALLY this would be a fun addition! Benny Hill theme during the sprint relays, anyone?
And ACTUALLY this would be a fun addition! Benny Hill theme during the sprint relays, anyone?
February 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Something has gone wrong with the Olympics feed on Peacock and I am temporarily hearing the Super Mario theme over some speed skaters…
And ACTUALLY this would be a fun addition! Benny Hill theme during the sprint relays, anyone?
And ACTUALLY this would be a fun addition! Benny Hill theme during the sprint relays, anyone?
As someone who used to live in the very tip of that blue finger, the bottom map makes me chuckle. Representation for Blacksburg!
trump creating the incentive and permission structure for democrats to do insane 2010-era gerrymandering of their own may turn out to be one of the biggest self-owns of all time. dems are now pretty likely to emerge with an advantage from the 2025-26 redistricting wars
February 7, 2026 at 1:59 PM
As someone who used to live in the very tip of that blue finger, the bottom map makes me chuckle. Representation for Blacksburg!
This is cool: Most of the Team USA Curling Team is from or went to college in Minnesota. Go curling! Fuck ICE.
www.teamusa.com/milano-corti...
www.teamusa.com/milano-corti...
Olympic Curling Milano Cortina 2026
Explore news, results, and updates about the Milano Cortina 2026 Curling Team. Learn more about Team USA's competing athletes and their Olympic Games experience.
www.teamusa.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:53 PM
This is cool: Most of the Team USA Curling Team is from or went to college in Minnesota. Go curling! Fuck ICE.
www.teamusa.com/milano-corti...
www.teamusa.com/milano-corti...
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The silence you hear is the GOP denouncing Tr*mp’s horrifically racist image of the Obamas.
February 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM
The silence you hear is the GOP denouncing Tr*mp’s horrifically racist image of the Obamas.
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Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
The Trump administration is disappearing entire families into a measles-ridden detention camp and denying them their basic rights.
The two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.
February 5, 2026 at 1:31 AM
The Trump administration is disappearing entire families into a measles-ridden detention camp and denying them their basic rights.
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Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
please share!
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
please share!
February 4, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
please share!
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
please share!
gonna start writing fanfic in which Melinda French Gates and Mackenzie Scott and Laurene Powell Jobs start buying up stuff that Billionaire Men have ruined and returning them to their glory.
Mackenzie Scott buy the WaPo from Bezos challenge
February 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM
gonna start writing fanfic in which Melinda French Gates and Mackenzie Scott and Laurene Powell Jobs start buying up stuff that Billionaire Men have ruined and returning them to their glory.