Kristin B.
@kristinblanchette.bsky.social
Community Mental Health
Human Rights 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦BLM
Resist!!
Hands Off everywhere!🇺🇸
Let’s go Celtics! ☘️
Human Rights 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦BLM
Resist!!
Hands Off everywhere!🇺🇸
Let’s go Celtics! ☘️
“No empathy. No humanity. Just cruelty, unapologetic and relentless.”
Rep. Becca Balint, VT
Guess who?
Rep. Becca Balint, VT
Guess who?
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
“No empathy. No humanity. Just cruelty, unapologetic and relentless.”
Rep. Becca Balint, VT
Guess who?
Rep. Becca Balint, VT
Guess who?
Do you want to learn how to spot originalist arguments, understand how they work, and respond effectively? Then we’ve got the guide for you: Countering Originalism. It’s written for lawyers, but it can help scholars, teachers, students, journalists, and commentators, too. bit.ly/4iQ1v0B
Countering Originalism
This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation.
www.brennancenter.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Reposted by Kristin B.
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“Neither the king nor parliament nor prime ministers of England at the time of the founding ever had an unqualified removal power. You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government.” —Justice Sonia Sotomayor
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“Neither the king nor parliament nor prime ministers of England at the time of the founding ever had an unqualified removal power. You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government.” —Justice Sonia Sotomayor
This is so dangerous and messed up.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
For the first time, skeptics of mainstream medicine are running the country. What comes next? - The Boston Globe
Experts see two ways forward: a freefall, or the medical establishment correcting itself.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This is so dangerous and messed up.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
Former CDC official Dr. Debra Houry: We know that if you delay the hepatitis B vaccine, babies are gonna get hepatitis and chronic liver disease. By delaying it by 2 months, we expect to see 1,400 additional infections and up to 480 deaths per birth year.
#Vaccines Save Lives
#Vaccines Save Lives
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Former CDC official Dr. Debra Houry: We know that if you delay the hepatitis B vaccine, babies are gonna get hepatitis and chronic liver disease. By delaying it by 2 months, we expect to see 1,400 additional infections and up to 480 deaths per birth year.
#Vaccines Save Lives
#Vaccines Save Lives
Monsters
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"About 243,000 more children under 5 years have died or will die this year than in 2024" due mostly to DOGE's illegal dismantling of USAID
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.
www.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Monsters
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December 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
How many ways is this administration going to kill people? decimating USAID, vaccines, loss of health insuranc, decimating EPA heakth standards.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/h...
Former F.D.A. Commissioners Sound Alarm on Plan to Change Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
How many ways is this administration going to kill people? decimating USAID, vaccines, loss of health insuranc, decimating EPA heakth standards.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/h...
#Healthcareisahumanright
BREAKING: Speaker Jeffries announces only 4 Republicans are needed to join Democrats on the vote to save Healthcare for millions of Americans.
Which four Republicans will stand up for their constituents and extend the ACA subsidies?
BREAKING: Speaker Jeffries announces only 4 Republicans are needed to join Democrats on the vote to save Healthcare for millions of Americans.
Which four Republicans will stand up for their constituents and extend the ACA subsidies?
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#Healthcareisahumanright
BREAKING: Speaker Jeffries announces only 4 Republicans are needed to join Democrats on the vote to save Healthcare for millions of Americans.
Which four Republicans will stand up for their constituents and extend the ACA subsidies?
BREAKING: Speaker Jeffries announces only 4 Republicans are needed to join Democrats on the vote to save Healthcare for millions of Americans.
Which four Republicans will stand up for their constituents and extend the ACA subsidies?
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
You don’t fight drug trafficking by freeing the man who flooded our streets with cocaine.
This pardon is an insult to law enforcement and a gift to the cartels.”
Rep Greg Stanton
This pardon is an insult to law enforcement and a gift to the cartels.”
Rep Greg Stanton
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
You don’t fight drug trafficking by freeing the man who flooded our streets with cocaine.
This pardon is an insult to law enforcement and a gift to the cartels.”
Rep Greg Stanton
This pardon is an insult to law enforcement and a gift to the cartels.”
Rep Greg Stanton
“We blew up people who MIGHT BE trafficking drugs, but pardoned a person who WAS trafficking drugs.” 👿
December 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
“We blew up people who MIGHT BE trafficking drugs, but pardoned a person who WAS trafficking drugs.” 👿
Heather Cox Richardson:
“The Trump administration is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which a network of ruling elites use the institutions of government to steal public assets for their own private gain…
“The Trump administration is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which a network of ruling elites use the institutions of government to steal public assets for their own private gain…
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Heather Cox Richardson:
“The Trump administration is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which a network of ruling elites use the institutions of government to steal public assets for their own private gain…
“The Trump administration is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which a network of ruling elites use the institutions of government to steal public assets for their own private gain…
