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Katie Skeen, PhD

@skeen.bsky.social

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Cold-eyed warm-hearted editor researcher mother radical optimist. 🩷NYChicagoDublinPhiladelphia🩷 I was on Jeopardy! the week that Alex Trebek shaved off his mustache.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 8d

Puerto Rican activists opened a successful heroin detox clinic at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, and NY assemblyman Chuck Schumer pushed to shut it down (and Ed Koch did).

How a Hospital Takeover Changed How We Treat Addiction in America

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 6h

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.

Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire

Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 15h

My dad, a white South African who's almost 90, was out there today.

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We hold theſe truths to be ſelf-evident.

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 1d

My 14 year old niece came up with this one.
So true.
#NoKings

Poster: A King does not become a king until we bow down.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 1d

My Gritty sign got more nods last time (it's PHILLY); I'm so happy Bluesky nerds are showing up for this one!

Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 1d

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

sign says "I said no kings" in eighteenth-century typeface

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 1d

Please do! This nerd needs company! 😂

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

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Janneken @janneken.org · 1d

Entry to Independence Mall. #nokings Philly overthrew kings before and we will do it again.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

NYC #nokings

Jubilant atmosphere in Times Square - and so many good signs

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! My PhD is in 18C!

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1d

Hand made sign on cardboard “Protesting for free since 1773”

Reverse. NO KINGS. And text from Declaration of Independence

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!!

Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 1d

6ABC has been pretty great actually. Local news is more on the ball than the national news orgs right now.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 1d

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

#MichaelBender & #AlanBlinder at @nytimes.com keep describing Trump’s extortion of universities as “negotiations.” They’ve now become odiously complicit. When you have a gun to your head it’s not negotiations. Their refusal to speak the truth is journalistic malpractice. Do better boys.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

This is how The Boston Globe chooses to frame the kidnapping of a local teenager.

Remarkably swift passage of Everett teen into deportation system showcases ICE reach and efficiency

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 3d

Look for the helpers: Here's how Chicagoans are supporting their neighbors amid ICE raids.

In collaboration w/ @citybureau.bsky.social: blockclubchi.co/3WcaPl8

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 3d

A little something wavy from @larjguy.bsky.social

A colorful vintage tile floor pattern from hexagon tiles.

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Art Martin @gartmartin9.bsky.social · 5d

2013 performance of SOS Band's "Tell me if you still care"--by D'Angelo and Questlove. pretty impossible to top
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIaU...

D’ANGELO & QUESTLOVE - TELL ME IF YOU STILL CARE by SOS BAND - Okayplayer live

YouTube video by Anastasia Fedorova

www.youtube.com

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 5d

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 4d

A colleague was just chased out of the country with death threats for doing scholarship on fascism, and the Ruckers preznit responds with a MAGA-coded piece about "cancel culture"? I didn't have high hopes for him, but was willing to give him a chance. The mofo just wasted it when it mattered most.

Rutgers president: Cancel culture is not an antidote. Universities must keep free speech.

William F. Tate IV: Protecting free speech, as we do at Rutgers, does not mean endorsing every view expressed on campus.

www.nj.com

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KatNish @katnish16.bsky.social · 4d

Way to go Yamamoto! Complete game!

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MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social · 5d

Listening to him for an hour, I genuinely don't think Klein has ever thought about where his bright lines are.

Every job I've ever had, I've figured out in advance what would make me quit. I've made plenty of compromises in my life, but *I know where my lines are.* And I'm not shy abt them!

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Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 5d

Philly is the best city in the United States to be in if you’re a living artist who doesn’t come from generations of family wealth. 🦅

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