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.
As someone who will absolutely certainly be voting in the 2028 Democratic primary for president, I think all of our possible candidates should start putting themselves out there in the attention economy and seeing how people respond to them!
After Brendan Carr and the FCC tried to stop Colbert from hosting James Talarico, he's hosting Jon Ossoff. #GASen
Folks...
Folks...
February 17, 2026 at 8:32 PM
As someone who will absolutely certainly be voting in the 2028 Democratic primary for president, I think all of our possible candidates should start putting themselves out there in the attention economy and seeing how people respond to them!
How to protect democracy in two easy steps:
Step #1: Vote by mail or vote early in person as early as you can in the voting window.
Step #2: Volunteer as an election clerk, poll worker, phone banker, or canvasser in your home area or the nearest competitive jurisdiction to you!
Step #1: Vote by mail or vote early in person as early as you can in the voting window.
Step #2: Volunteer as an election clerk, poll worker, phone banker, or canvasser in your home area or the nearest competitive jurisdiction to you!
Instead of fear-mongering about ICE stealing the election people should be making plans for what they will do this fall—including driving to other states—to get out our vote. /7
February 17, 2026 at 7:33 PM
How to protect democracy in two easy steps:
Step #1: Vote by mail or vote early in person as early as you can in the voting window.
Step #2: Volunteer as an election clerk, poll worker, phone banker, or canvasser in your home area or the nearest competitive jurisdiction to you!
Step #1: Vote by mail or vote early in person as early as you can in the voting window.
Step #2: Volunteer as an election clerk, poll worker, phone banker, or canvasser in your home area or the nearest competitive jurisdiction to you!
We all need to hear it, but most especially the adults who have forgotten that all of our children have inherent worth as human beings.
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM
We all need to hear it, but most especially the adults who have forgotten that all of our children have inherent worth as human beings.
Reposted by Dr. Katherine Haenschen
For the first time since March 2022, more people say they support the Black Lives Matter movement than oppose
- Civiqs poll
civiqs.com/results/blac...
- Civiqs poll
civiqs.com/results/blac...
February 17, 2026 at 2:21 PM
For the first time since March 2022, more people say they support the Black Lives Matter movement than oppose
- Civiqs poll
civiqs.com/results/blac...
- Civiqs poll
civiqs.com/results/blac...
Reposted by Dr. Katherine Haenschen
NEW: The next US Census likely won’t be good for New York. The state is projected to lose two congressional seats, and with them, two electoral votes for president.
One reason why blue states are losing ground: The red states build far more housing than they do.
One reason why blue states are losing ground: The red states build far more housing than they do.
New York Could Lose Seats in Congress Because It Won’t Build Housing
As housing construction booms in red states, blue states are falling behind. That will likely boost Republicans in federal politics.
nysfocus.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:07 PM
NEW: The next US Census likely won’t be good for New York. The state is projected to lose two congressional seats, and with them, two electoral votes for president.
One reason why blue states are losing ground: The red states build far more housing than they do.
One reason why blue states are losing ground: The red states build far more housing than they do.
Netflix just sent me an email suggesting a “documentary” show that I might like
It was America’s Next Top Model
It was America’s Next Top Model
February 17, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Netflix just sent me an email suggesting a “documentary” show that I might like
It was America’s Next Top Model
It was America’s Next Top Model
Reposted by Dr. Katherine Haenschen
This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
February 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
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A Presidents’ Day poem from me, at Michigan City Review of Books. Enjoy. mcrb.neocities.org/timetraveler
February 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
A Presidents’ Day poem from me, at Michigan City Review of Books. Enjoy. mcrb.neocities.org/timetraveler
Gotta say, it’s weird and surreal watching people say awful, untrue stuff about someone running for office whom I’ve known since he was in college.
Online candidate stans are something else.
Online candidate stans are something else.
February 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Gotta say, it’s weird and surreal watching people say awful, untrue stuff about someone running for office whom I’ve known since he was in college.
Online candidate stans are something else.
Online candidate stans are something else.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
This anti-abortion writer gonna force people to give birth so they can die of speculative fiction.
Did other people know this is fiction? It's an incredibly bizarre choice and something I haven't seen magazines do before.
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
This anti-abortion writer gonna force people to give birth so they can die of speculative fiction.
Oof, this Olympics commercial for Figs, a brand of scrubs, about all the people who got Lindsey Vonn back on the slopes for 2026 just, uhh, hits different given everything that happened since it was filmed. Uhh, yikes?
February 14, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Oof, this Olympics commercial for Figs, a brand of scrubs, about all the people who got Lindsey Vonn back on the slopes for 2026 just, uhh, hits different given everything that happened since it was filmed. Uhh, yikes?
Why are liberal publications still platforming this vocally anti-abortion lady?
I was so impressed with this story about measles in the Atlantic -- the depth of reporting it would take to weave in all these details so fluidly.
Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig on her “hypothetical,” heavily reported measles essay
"We were attracted to the idea of providing a play-by-play of the progression of measles in granular detail."
www.niemanlab.org
February 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Why are liberal publications still platforming this vocally anti-abortion lady?
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
Interesting read. IMO, there isn’t a very clear/coherent Progressive-Democratic foreign policy ideology. (Feel free to correct me!)
Chris Murphy is a likely VP contender in 2028 due to his foreign policy experience (plus steadfast work on gun violence).
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
Chris Murphy is a likely VP contender in 2028 due to his foreign policy experience (plus steadfast work on gun violence).
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
Ocasio-Cortez Offers a Working-Class Vision in Munich, With a Few Stumbles
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Interesting read. IMO, there isn’t a very clear/coherent Progressive-Democratic foreign policy ideology. (Feel free to correct me!)
Chris Murphy is a likely VP contender in 2028 due to his foreign policy experience (plus steadfast work on gun violence).
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
Chris Murphy is a likely VP contender in 2028 due to his foreign policy experience (plus steadfast work on gun violence).
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
Reposted by Dr. Katherine Haenschen
Roses are red,
These times are quite trying
These times are quite trying
February 14, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Roses are red,
These times are quite trying
These times are quite trying
10/10, no notes
In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: bacon and eggs, big styrofoam cup of Folgers, then over to the head to snort some cocaine off the toilet seat. But now the woke mob wants to take all of that away.
February 13, 2026 at 11:42 PM
10/10, no notes
a HUGE number of star Women Athletes are rep’ed by Wasserman’s agency. will be interesting to see what happens…
Email exchanges between Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell were released as part of the Epstein files, which sparked an exodus at Wasserman’s talent agency.
Casey Wasserman Will Remain LA Olympics Committee Chair Amid Epstein Files Fallout
Email exchanges between Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell were released as part of the Epstein files, which sparked an exodus at Wasserman’s talent agency.
www.forbes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:46 AM
a HUGE number of star Women Athletes are rep’ed by Wasserman’s agency. will be interesting to see what happens…
Watching Home Alone and there are so many points where the plot could have taken a TURN:
* if he got caught shoplifting the toothbrush (parental neglect!)
* if the Wet Bandits hit him with the van (☠️)
* if Mom got an earlier flight (she thwarts robbers?)
RIP Catherine O’Hara, you a real one.
* if he got caught shoplifting the toothbrush (parental neglect!)
* if the Wet Bandits hit him with the van (☠️)
* if Mom got an earlier flight (she thwarts robbers?)
RIP Catherine O’Hara, you a real one.
February 13, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Watching Home Alone and there are so many points where the plot could have taken a TURN:
* if he got caught shoplifting the toothbrush (parental neglect!)
* if the Wet Bandits hit him with the van (☠️)
* if Mom got an earlier flight (she thwarts robbers?)
RIP Catherine O’Hara, you a real one.
* if he got caught shoplifting the toothbrush (parental neglect!)
* if the Wet Bandits hit him with the van (☠️)
* if Mom got an earlier flight (she thwarts robbers?)
RIP Catherine O’Hara, you a real one.
Hi yeah I am gonna need to read an ENTIRE Pol Comm dissertation on Mamdani's graphic design, please go ahead and put me on your committee, k thx #polcomm
New York City: The time has arrived. Finally, a chance to tell the city EXACTLY what your landlord’s been getting away with. NYC’s first Rental Ripoff Hearings are happening in all five boroughs, and we want to hear from you. Real New Yorkers. Real stories. Real policy changes.
February 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Hi yeah I am gonna need to read an ENTIRE Pol Comm dissertation on Mamdani's graphic design, please go ahead and put me on your committee, k thx #polcomm
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easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:
Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
Reposted by Dr. Katherine Haenschen
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
Reposted by Dr. Katherine Haenschen
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.