Karen Kohlhaas
@karenkohlhaas.bsky.social
Theater director. Tennessee Williams scholar. Documentary filmmaker. Acting, directing and auditioning teacher. Author. Atlantic Theater Co. founding ensemble member. Mississippi Delta resident via NYC.
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Here's what the media narrative around "record sales" this Black Friday is hiding:
1) People actually bought less stuff. They just spent more money because shit is more expensive.
2) People are shifting their money to small businesses.
3) Target + Home Depot stocks have felt the impact of boycotts.
1) People actually bought less stuff. They just spent more money because shit is more expensive.
2) People are shifting their money to small businesses.
3) Target + Home Depot stocks have felt the impact of boycotts.
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Here's what the media narrative around "record sales" this Black Friday is hiding:
1) People actually bought less stuff. They just spent more money because shit is more expensive.
2) People are shifting their money to small businesses.
3) Target + Home Depot stocks have felt the impact of boycotts.
1) People actually bought less stuff. They just spent more money because shit is more expensive.
2) People are shifting their money to small businesses.
3) Target + Home Depot stocks have felt the impact of boycotts.
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The Trump administration is threatening to withhold SNAP payments to blue states over what’s basically a policy disagreement.
The cruelty is just next level. Please spread the word. And call your reps.
Thanks to @apnews.com for the great reporting.
The cruelty is just next level. Please spread the word. And call your reps.
Thanks to @apnews.com for the great reporting.
December 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold SNAP payments to blue states over what’s basically a policy disagreement.
The cruelty is just next level. Please spread the word. And call your reps.
Thanks to @apnews.com for the great reporting.
The cruelty is just next level. Please spread the word. And call your reps.
Thanks to @apnews.com for the great reporting.
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MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Breaking on MS NOW: The Signalgate report contradicts Pete Hegseth's claims he did nothing wrong. It shows he "violated policy by using a non-approved device," a source who read the report says.
Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.
Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
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It's been almost two weeks and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
December 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It's been almost two weeks and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
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Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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Congress is playing politics with people's lives. These are the very people that Congress supposedly works for. Tell your Congresspersons to stop playing games and extend the damn ACA tax credits
#HealthCare #BlueCrew
Congress is playing politics with people's lives. These are the very people that Congress supposedly works for. Tell your Congresspersons to stop playing games and extend the damn ACA tax credits
#HealthCare #BlueCrew
Those Obamacare Subsidies Aren’t Going to Extend Themselves
Unfortunately, lawmakers probably won’t end up extending them, either.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Congress is playing politics with people's lives. These are the very people that Congress supposedly works for. Tell your Congresspersons to stop playing games and extend the damn ACA tax credits
#HealthCare #BlueCrew
Congress is playing politics with people's lives. These are the very people that Congress supposedly works for. Tell your Congresspersons to stop playing games and extend the damn ACA tax credits
#HealthCare #BlueCrew
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
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An astonishing letter published in the Times of London.
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
An astonishing letter published in the Times of London.
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I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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I am bummed for @aftynbehn.bsky.social and yet this is a very big shift in a district Trump won a year ago by 22 points.
A +14 shift to the Dems in a very red district applied nationwide next year means a solidly blue House and a chance to retake the Senate against an extremely unfavorable map.
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I am bummed for @aftynbehn.bsky.social and yet this is a very big shift in a district Trump won a year ago by 22 points.
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@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is launching a weekend of community action from 12/12 to 12/14! Sign up here if you want to host a zine or whistle distribution event or something similar! We keep us safe! www.handsoffnyc.com/community
Community Weekend — Hands Off NYC
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December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is launching a weekend of community action from 12/12 to 12/14! Sign up here if you want to host a zine or whistle distribution event or something similar! We keep us safe! www.handsoffnyc.com/community
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Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:
Jordan Uhl on Instagram: "ICE is reportedly increasing its presence in Minneapolis/St. Paul to target Somali communities."
The Trump administration's plan to increase ICE's presence in Minneapolis and St. Paul has sparked concerns among local leaders and residents. Critics argue it amounts to racial profiling, violating d...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:
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This exposé is breathtaking. Witkoff and Kushner do not just have conflicts of interest - thy are deeply woven into a web of Russian influence peddling by "investments". Money, personal ties and geopolitics have become indistinguishable.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This exposé is breathtaking. Witkoff and Kushner do not just have conflicts of interest - thy are deeply woven into a web of Russian influence peddling by "investments". Money, personal ties and geopolitics have become indistinguishable.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
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Trump is among those he admires.
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Trump is among those he admires.
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This is why this garbage is being pushed on us so hard. They want to kill intellectual curiosity and learning.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
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ANALYSIS | ChatGPT may help you find information faster, but you learn less | CBC Radio
Bob McDonald’s Blog: Recent studies show that using chatbots like ChatGPT may get us information faster than ever before, but we’re not gaining much knowledge by using it.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is why this garbage is being pushed on us so hard. They want to kill intellectual curiosity and learning.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
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'Not acceptable': Red-state Republicans demand answers from Trump on drug policy chaos
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'Not acceptable': Red-state Republicans demand answers from Trump on drug policy chaos
President Donald Trump is facing harsh criticism from Republican senators in solidly red states over his exploding drug policy scandals.According to Semafor's Burgess Everett, several GOP senators are...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
'Not acceptable': Red-state Republicans demand answers from Trump on drug policy chaos
www.rawstory.com/gop-senators...
www.rawstory.com/gop-senators...
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Loser Mike Johnson is pissed that we’re gaining ground in forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits.
So let’s get even louder:
So let’s get even louder:
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Loser Mike Johnson is pissed that we’re gaining ground in forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits.
So let’s get even louder:
So let’s get even louder:
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
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New Yorkers, if you're ready for more canvassing & organizing, @socialists.nyc is launching a "massive field effort to build productive pressure on legislators and the governor to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and fund universal child care." actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
New Yorkers, if you're ready for more canvassing & organizing, @socialists.nyc is launching a "massive field effort to build productive pressure on legislators and the governor to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and fund universal child care." actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
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People are organically shifting to taking care of one another and beginning to rediscover interconnectedness. There’s something growing and it doesn’t matter that it isn’t being harnessed by a political party. At some point it will shift the balance of power.
Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.
When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call 'mutual aid'
Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
People are organically shifting to taking care of one another and beginning to rediscover interconnectedness. There’s something growing and it doesn’t matter that it isn’t being harnessed by a political party. At some point it will shift the balance of power.
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I am old enough to have grown up with health classes that taught us that if we had unprotected sex or were raped, we might die because there was no way to way to manage HIV. It was a death sentence.
I cannot tell people who didn't live through it how much all of this fucks with your head, for life
I cannot tell people who didn't live through it how much all of this fucks with your head, for life
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I am old enough to have grown up with health classes that taught us that if we had unprotected sex or were raped, we might die because there was no way to way to manage HIV. It was a death sentence.
I cannot tell people who didn't live through it how much all of this fucks with your head, for life
I cannot tell people who didn't live through it how much all of this fucks with your head, for life
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Fuck the Trump Administration for refusing to acknowledge World AIDS Day, which commemorates an epidemic that among many others around the world killed many Americans and traumatized everyone they all left behind, especially those of us who had to watch someone as they wasted away
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Fuck the Trump Administration for refusing to acknowledge World AIDS Day, which commemorates an epidemic that among many others around the world killed many Americans and traumatized everyone they all left behind, especially those of us who had to watch someone as they wasted away